Posts Tagged ‘Pink Bits’

Quick Hits: Final Judgment, Armageddon, End of Days edition

• Today in the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet to decide the fate of the hundreds of billions of voters in Florida and Michigan who don’t watch TV, or read newspapers, and didn’t get the memo that their votes weren’t supposed to be counted. Unfortunately the committee can’t do anything about the estimated [...]

Giant vulva bike taxi, anyone?

Step one: Get thee to Helsinki. Step two: Get inside Finnish performance artist Mimosa Pale’s giant disembodied vagina mounted to her bike. Step three: Enjoy. (Thanks to Elicia for the find! Also her NAME is Mimosa how fabulous is that?)

Well shit, I guess I have plantar warts.

This article in the Times yesterday totally depressed me. Basically since I’m a big closeted ex-hippie and I used to go to Phish concerts (Great Went ‘98 woot woot! Or something!) I love to walk around barefoot during the Spring and Summer, but according to the article New York City and it’s parks may be [...]

Why is the popular vote so unpopular?

Hillary Clinton wants you to know that she has won the popular vote. She has even gone as fas as to evoke Al Gore by saying that we Democrats should not allow an election to be snatched away from the candidate who has won the popular vote. This would be a provocative argument if it [...]

Vegetarians in Greenwich Village (What? I Know!)

Don’t you hate it when vegetarians run around like “Hey! I’m a vegetarian! Look at me!”?
No? You love that? Me too! Have I got an event for you!
The First Veggie Pride Parade in America will take place in Greenwich Village Tomorrow (Sunday, May 18th). The procession will begin at Noon and go from the intersection [...]

Today was NYC Bike To Work Day.

And the heavens rained down. 

i went …

… to Dunkin Donuts for Free Iced Coffee Day, and they were out of ice. Dunkin Donuts actually uses fair trade organic Green Mountain Coffee Roasters coffee in all of their espresso drink, which is good. But running out of ice on Free Iced Coffee Day? That is not good.

Edwards, Hitler, blah blah blah.

I was psyched to see John Edwards endorse Barack Obama, largely because he is so lithe and sinewy committed to ending poverty, and because John Edwards is someone who can pull him to the left policy-wise and might make a killer Attorney General. But I was struck by the wording of his speech:

“There is one [...]

Lieberman: ‘I Personally Checked John McCain’s Bearings’

Read the full story here.

The Aftermath…

The pundits predicted Hillary would win Indiana and Obama would win North Carolina. They weren’t wrong. Obama did win N.C., and decisively, but the margin of victory in Indiana was so small that CNN refused to announce a winner until well after midnight. The final numbers have Hillary winning by less than 2%.