Economy, Society & World
7 January 2009 | 5 Comments
Larry Flynt (publisher of Hustler) and Joe Francis (CEO of Girls Gone Wild, general waste of oxygen) are planning to ask Congress for $5 billion bailout for the porn industry*. Which would be ludicrous enough if the story stopped there. But then Flynt and Francis admitted freely that their industry isn’t in any actual financial danger, [...]
Tagged in adult entertainment, Joe Francis, Larry Flynt, porn
General Politics, Politics
7 January 2009 | 5 Comments
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka “Joe the Plumber”) has been hired by PJTV to serve as a war correspondent in Israel. To reiterate, Pajama Media hired a man that’s not even licensed at the occupation in his name and decided to embed him and let him wing it. Levi Johnston is unemployed now. They should have [...]
Tagged in Joe the Plumber, Levi Johnston, Pajama Media, PJTV
Politics
7 January 2009 | 5 Comments
Loyal Reader Mike gets the hat tip for pointing us towards Dana Milbank’s absolutely hysterical WaPo story on the race for RNC chair, during which incumbent chair Mike Duncan discussed how to connect to the young folk of today:
“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people [...]
Tagged in comedy gold, Facebook, Ken Blackwell, Mike Duncan, rnc, Twitter
News, World
7 January 2009 | 0 Comments
It’s that time of year again. Via Reuters:
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia shut down all gas flows to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday, sharpening a dispute that has left industries and homes in southeast Europe without power and disrupted supplies to major economies.
On the face of it, the dispute is over Ukraine supposedly siphoning off natural [...]
Tagged in Financial Times, Gazprom, natural gas, Putin, Russia, Russia-Ukraine dispute, Ukraine
Indie Retailers, Jewelry
7 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Particularly as we move into an increasingly digital age, some folks get further enmeshed in the nostalgia of lo-fi and I’m not ashamed to be one of them. So take a second and check out these different jewelery pieces using obsolete train tokens.
NYC subway pendant, $20 by sweet kathleen
Tagged in indie jewelery, kroylty, sweet kathleen, valdo, zukerj
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