Thursday, October 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
David Rees: What Would D. Boon Do?
zlatan!!!
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
YouTube - Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis
Monday, September 29, 2008
Barney Frank is the cat: the republicans are the mouse
Sunday, September 28, 2008
the only funny thing about this clip are sarah palin's actual words
b) because sarah palin and unintentional (yet mordant, let's remember the job she's up for) hilarity go hand in hand.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
McCain and the Keating 5--a refesher course
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
1. jill owns the images of mccain. the atlantic had a (very) short embargo, and only for the purposes of selling said images.
2. jill's photo is on the cover of the atlantic magazine. i know this. i'm looking at it. she was asked to do a shot. she delivered on time and on budget. as always.
3. amy frickin' dresser IS NOT JILL'S PHOTOSHOP PERSON!!!!!!!!! she worked for jill YEARS ago, and learned her style from jill. ferfuxsake. the next person who guesses that amy is the "real talent" gets a slapping with some kind of wet noodle.
4. john mccain is a very powerful man who may soon become even more powerful. he can send people to war where they die, he can change tax law, he can press nuclear buttons. jill greenberg is a citizen of this country and can't do any of that stuff. and while notionally john mccain works for her in that regard, in fact we seem to be slipping ever more towards fascism here where Dear Leader Must Not Be Questioned. taking the side of the powerful against the less powerful is the character trait of the sycophant. (also, LEAVE JOHN MCCAIN ALONE WAAAAAAAHHHHHH)
5. jill has taken a significant chance of hurting her career in order to express her political beliefs. this used to be called courage. on strobist it is called "an opportunity for me to get a job that jill would have done." if there has ever been a bigger group of whiny opportunist yuppie-wanna-be bitches in history than non-working-photographers, please let me know where to find them. that i might kick them. nice solidarity, guys, but then you all underbid each other on a daily basis. stay classy.
6. i understand that part of being on strobist or such forums requires that you say "of course her lighting/photography/imagery sucks". i get it. it's the law. but, um, it makes you look like a bunch of jealous children.
7. the right wing in this country, or at least that portion of it that sends out e-mails en masse, simply cannot spell to save its life. it really is depressing. though oddly those e-mailers seem quite aware of how to spell "cunt" and "bitch". sexism is pretty much where they start: vitriol and death threats is where they end.
8. if michelle malkin, ann althouse, WND, Little Green Footballs, gerard "aware of all internet traditions" van den leun and strobist's publisher david hobby all hate you, you are obviously a good person.
9. any of those said right wingers who say "now i will vote for mccain, i was on the fence" are liars. like mccain and palin, lying seems to the main character trait of the far right.
10. if jill loses work because of this, so be it. it's a chance she's willing to take because she loves her country (she's an american citizen, she left canada when she was 2) and doesn't want to see it slide further into the abyss of neo-con stupidity. i support her in this, in all of this, 100%.
this post is necessarily not about the atlantic and the statements of their publisher, per the advice of counsel.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
I know much of what follows may seem hard to believe, but links provided are all genuine.
SARAH PALIN IS NOT QUALIFIED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY. She consorts with far right fringe groups. She lies about her public life. She lies about her personal life. This combination is far too risky for our country in these uncertain times.
There are dangerous forces at work trying to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. There are groups actively working to break up the United States, fringe groups that make it their mission to infiltrate major parties and break this great country into pieces.
And the Republican candidate for vice president supports these groups. The specific group is the ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY.
As GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, she stated that she was “proud of the contributions they made” to state politics. Their platform includes the hope that they create an independent Alaska, one that could hold the rest of the US hostage to their oil hegemony. http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php
SARAH PALIN, who didn’t even follow the war in Iraq until 2006 - and didn’t even have an OPINION about a cause our SOLDIERS FIGHT AND DIE FOR – is not qualified to lead our country. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-surge-wha.html
SHE LIED about opposing the “Bridge to Nowhere,” and took the pork barrel money anyway. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-31-palin-bridge_N.htm?csp=34
SHE LIED about being a tax cutter as mayor of her hometown, as she raised the sales tax often. http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html
SHE THINKS NOTHING OF CALLING OTHER WOMEN IN POLITICS “BITCH” and was party to making fun of another women’s breast cancer (LINK CONTAINS THE AUDIO, AND IT IS UGLY)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-laughs-as-opponent_n_122776.html
SHE LIED about using her political office to exact revenge on her former brother-in-law. http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8933043
Do not succumb to the temptation to think that criticism of Governor Palin is anti-feminist. To choose such a manifestly unprepared and unworthy candidate for the possibility of serving in the highest office in the land shows John McCain understands nothing about women’s rights, or the struggles many of our own mothers went through to overcome every obstacle put in their way. Instead, he insults women with a move born of tokenism and desperation.