I know I’m kind of a sucker for Barack Obama these days. I know there’s a tag on my blog that exists because I keep posting about cool shit that he does. I know I’m supposed to use this blog to call out the bullshit obfuscation that is so prevalent in politics instead of cheerleading [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 12, 2008
Signs of the Endtimes: Vol. 1
Look, I need to do something to justify my creeping sense of impending doom, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to walk around telling everyone the sky is falling like Chicken Little with a goatee and glasses.
So to help relieve the gloom, I figured … fuck it, if the ship really is going down, [...]
June 11, 2008
The Crazy Primaries: In 10 Minutes
If you missed all the weirdness, or even some of it, MSNBC has put together a wonderful 10-minute recap of the past six months of American politics … it’s really all you need to see to come to the same conclusion as Stan Marsh.
“Dude … this is fucked up right here.”
June 10, 2008
Aging Gracefully
Sports, and sports fandom, exist partly to mark the passage of time.
You can see it in the names we give to some of the events (the October classic, March Madness, etc.), by the way a diehard fans of certain sports use championships and other events as a way to remember dates (ask a Maple Leaf [...]
June 5, 2008
Your Stanley Cup Champions … the Detroit Red Wings
I’ve watched the Detroit Red Wings win three Stanley Cups. This is the sweetest. These guys are an incredible team. Maybe the best I’ve ever seen in Wings uniforms. And that, people, is saying something.
Words sort of fail right now … but this Cup … this Cup is …
for Dan Cleary, a proud Newfoundlander, who [...]
June 3, 2008
Typical American Racism
Hey! Check it out everybody! this comes from the file of Shit-I-Probably-Shouldn’t-Have-Needed-Maps-To-Realize…
First, a map of how Barack Obama stacks up against John McCain in current electoral college votes as of this week (Obama is blue, obviously):
Next, we have this map:
But to play the race card in this election would be just another example of Obama’s [...]
June 2, 2008
Finish. Them.
I have nothing else to say until both the Stanley Cup Finals and the Democratic Party nomination process are over.
Both results are so close I can taste them.
But they’re not over yet.
So this seemed right:
