I have a seemingly unanswerable question that’s been giving me brain aches, so I thought I’d throw it out there on this fine Saturday afternoon. Why would an ordinary, if imperfect, citizen have a file with CSIS? The rundown: A friend of mine — and no, I’m not using “friend”
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OWS gives Luntz The Fear
Scary Occupy Wall Street has given infamous GOP strategist Frank Luntz The Fear: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a
Continue readingIs nothing safe from the incredible pepper-spraying cop meme?
Mark Twain’s birthday is celebrated today on Google’s home page: And it was only a matter of time before… (from Kosso K)
Continue readingBlack Friday “Competitive Shopping”: a savage sport
Stories chronicling the unspeakable violence of Black Friday competitive shopping continue to light up the internets and terrify the world. The Walmart shopper who cleared a path to the Half-Price X-Boxes by forcing shoppers to cop a lungful of pepper spray has turned herself in to Teh Authorities. (No word
Continue readingBad Form
I understand it’s considered bad form for rank and file progressives to criticize the Canadian Occupy protests in any way, even while being supportive of the American ones. But if anyone is in a position to do so, it would be the malcontent responsible for setting off the entire movement
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…pepper sprayed??: Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a “competitive shopping” incident. […] Juan Castro, who was at the scene and took cell phone video of the aftermath, told
Continue readingOccupy Toronto clears out, makes plans
On Twitter this morning I found a live stream and chat from Occupy Toronto. I wandered into it right about the point where the protesters were in the process of decamping. At around 9am local time the cops made an appearance and officially requested that the protesters leave, after which
Continue readingOWS is growing up (OV: not so much)
Last week was a busy one for Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Protesters were viciously “de-camped” early on before rallying to mark the protest’s 2-month anniversary with a “day of action” on Thursday that culminated in a pretty amazing march of 10,000 or so (and some awesome guerrilla projection art).
Continue readingBanksters fight back?
Are the vast, scum-ridden septic tanks of sleaze, avarice and mendacity that make up the US banking system a little rattled by Occupy Wall Street? Chris Hayes seems to have the proof on this morning’s “Up With Chris Hayes” show: This is exactly what is wrong with the whole system,
Continue readingOWS Guerilla Art Awesomeness
From last night’s Rachel Maddow Show, a guerilla art project that accompanied Occupy Wall Street’s 10,000-strong 2-month anniversary march to the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday night: Unlike most OWS protests, which I support but which thus far haven’t been particularly impressive to someone who lived through the tumultuous 60s, this
Continue readingWho is Lulu Lemon?
Premium yoga-and-activewear manufacturer Lululemon has a new shopping bag design that’s proving not to be everyone’s cup (bag?) of tea: In late October, the company began using shopping bags with the words “Who is John Galt?” a catchphrase from the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, which rails against government and advocates
Continue readingPaging Nancy Ruth
It’s okay, Nancy Ruth! All is forgiven!! Indeed… My eyes! My eyes! During times of eyeball-popping stress and frustration, I suspect just about everyone has uttered the word “fuck”, or at least had it appear in a little thought-cloud above their head. Even our Politicians. Especially them. Why not? We
Continue readingFrom the “Jokes that write themselves” file
A newspaper headline goes horribly wrong: Unless it’s a story about Tubesock-Or-Bust at long last meeting his idol Sarah Palin? (Image swiped shamelessly from Preliator pro Causa)
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The nominations are in and first round voting is underway. I’d like to endorse my homegrrlz at DammitJanet, who’ve been nominated in several categories including Best Feminist Blog. Show ‘em some love! (You know you want to.)
Continue readingDonald Trump still on TV, Contemplations of the Apocalypse
Arrgh. I had planned on writing about something else, but this is bugging me. Short form: Donald Trump, still on TV, why? I wonder if anyone else is as tired as I am of Donald Trump incessantly braying at them from their TV sets. Even as I type this, he’s
Continue readingVicious Catholic Child Molesters becoming parody of selves
Presumably, the title “Catholic Church Child Safety Co-ordintor” is meant to be reassuring, to inspire confidence in parents and everyone else who’s been watching aghast as the Catholic Church disintegrates into a cesspool of perversi…
Continue readingHoward Beale: Spiritual Leader of #OWS?
Yesterday I was experimenting with posting video in the comments section of an earlier entry, and for no particular reason chose the “Mad As Hell” scene from classic movie “Network”. It was just the first thing that randomly cam…
Continue readingRick Perry’s brain fart at CNBC debate
“Dumber than Dubya” Rick Perry continued to fortify his reputation as the goofiest candidate on the GOP primary slate last night at the CNBC debate, when he was unable to remember the name of the third of three agencies he planned to cut as…
Continue readingTrick or Fet(us)
Ewwwwwww: Some adults are appalled that children in Loganville got dolls of 12-week-old fetuses with their Halloween candy, Channel 2 Action News reports. […] Joshua Edmonds, who told Channel 2 Action News he is a senior minister of the Christian soc…
Continue readingLeadership!
Occupy Denver picks a leader: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock insisted that his city’s occupation name a leader in order “to deal with City and State officials.” And he got his wish! Occupy Denver has elected Shelby, a border collie, as …
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