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From the search logs:
Yes, a whole eight people have found this site searching for “I Hate Barbaro.” It is probably the first time someone has searched, found my site, and found exactly what they wanted.
Also, I’d like to introduce you to my new favorite editorial cartoonist, Scott Stantis of the Birmingham News.
Editorial Cartoon by Scott Stantis, Birmingham News [Editorial Cartoonists]
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dmac | 11:00 AM | 1 Comment
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The Daily News released a poll today about the 2007 Mayoral Election, one that puts Tom Knox within the margin of error of front-runner Chaka Fattah. This is, assumedly, due to his incessant ads on every TV show. (I think I saw one during WWE Smackdown!)
If you haven’t seen the ads, you’re missing out. They feature Tom Knox depressing the shit out of everyone. I’d be willing to wager that people are thinking about voting for Knox just to make him stop showing those damn depressing ads. “Oh, dammit, I’ll vote for you, just stop telling us about your crying mother and dead brother!” Knox should probably run ads saying “If I don’t win the mayoral election, I’m going to keep running these ads just to piss you off.” Who with a TV wouldn’t vote for him?
Oh, and if you’re wondering, Tom Knox has a Flickr account.
THE SECOND POLL: KNOX MAKES BIG GAINS [The Next Mayor]
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dmac | 10:37 AM | 0 Comments
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John Baer: Holy shit! Tom Knox’s depressing ads are working!
Jill Porter: Blah blah blah Peco bad I save the day again blah blah blah.
Phil Goldsmith: I don’t read gimmick columns unless they’re funny. I didn’t read this column.
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dmac | 9:40 AM | 0 Comments
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Every once in a while I like to peruse the conservative blogosphere — and dammit, do I hate that word (”blogosphere,” not “conservative”) — to try and learn something. Unfortunately, the popular conservative blogs tend to be run by, shall we say, idiots, and I don’t really learn anything. (We’ll leave the liberal blogs alone for now.)
One popular conservative blogger is Michelle Malkin, whose syndicated column used to run in the Daily News. It doesn’t anymore, and that’s probably the best decision the Daily News has made in the past 15 years. Need an example? Sure.
Malkin recently wrote about some anti-war protester who spit at the feet of a soldier doing a counter protest. Here is how she feels about the protester:
Shame on the spitter. May you rot in hell.
It’s amazing that people like this exist, really. I wonder what it’s like to damn people to eternal suffering because you disagree with their world view. It must really be depressing. But thank God the Daily News stopped running her column so we don’t have to read her pointless drivel. Seriously. Compared to Michelle Malkin, I love Christine Flowers.
Spitting at a war hero [Michelle Malkin]
Image Credit: Wonkette
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dmac | 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
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Stu - I had a version of that dream. It was about a press conference, a totally different press conference from yesterday’s, the one I have dreamed of for the entire 8 months of Barbaro’s treatment - Dr. Richardson and the Jacksons are there - and then someone leads in a completely healed Barbaro to a standing ovation!
If you haven’t read Philadelphia Will Do’s Field Guide to Barbaro Messageboard Factions, you may want to take a look. I’ve been told that “[n]o one will remember your name or this column, and you are clearly destined to bounce from job to job. But Barbaro will be remembered forever,” so you know it’s good.
Also, the comments on 14th Windiest State are particularly good.
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dmac | 4:22 PM | 0 Comments
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• Some students in New Jersey will have to undergo random alcohol testing, as school officials just like invading privacy. (Fortunately, all positive testers have to do is go to counseling and get yelled at by their parents.) Quote: “School officials acknowledge false positive readings can be the result of products containing ethanol, including hand sanitizers, mouthwash and Balsamic vinegar.” So try not to drink too much Balsamic vinegar, Jersey high schoolers! [AP/CBS 3]
• Police in South Philly raided a suspected meth lab in South Philly, thereby ending the meth supply in Philadelphia. Oh, wait. [NBC 10]
• Kerri-Lee Halkett — don’t think we forgot about her! — writes about her experience at the Academy Ball with Prince Charles. Photo gallery here. [myfoxphilly]
• Oh, fuck. Not you too, Kerri-Lee, with the Barbaro and such! Fuck. If you’re an anchor in Philadelphia and you hate Barbaro, can you please email me? Seriously. I’ll keep you anonymous, I just want to know that you’re out there. [myfoxphilly]
• Radnor Township, which started charing people from out of the township who got into accidents, may not be able to enforce those fines. So, basically, they probably lost money on this. Nice. [NBC 10]
• There’s another Barbaro messageboard. Oh, I don’t know if I have to say it, but don’t go over there and start posting stupid shit. I mean, I have no power to stop you but it’s lame. [Delphi Forums]
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dmac | 4:00 PM | 2 Comments
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It wasn’t just Philadelphians who were honored to have a meaningless figurehead come visit and clog up traffic for a few days. No, people in Bucks County were excited about Charles and Camilla’s visit as well, especially one woman who got to serve the Prince tea.
Yes, Cynthia Wahl served tea to the Prince during his visit to Philadelphia, as well as serving 18 gallons in all of her brews to guests. Wahl said the Prince was a gentleman — what did she expect, him to punch her in the face? — and that serving tea to the prince was an honor. (After all, he is British. Also: “The only person higher in the tea world is the queen,” said Wahl, “[although] I wouldn’t mind serving Oprah.” I’m sure the queen is thrilled to be #1.)
But it wasn’t just the prince. Camilla, the Prince’s wife, was also served some tea in a room with 11 other women:
“I’m lucky to have the teapot Camilla drank from,” said Wahl, who has placed it back in her china cabinet. “Now it can really tell a story.”
That story: I was transported down I-95 to Center City Philadelphia and was poured into cups. Wow!
Fit for a prince [Bucks County Courier Times]
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dmac | 2:32 PM | 0 Comments
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Used to be, avoiding being annoyed by Curt Schilling was pretty easy. All you had to do was not watch post-game Red Sox interviews and don’t play the PC game Everquest. But, no, Schilling wasn’t content with that. No, he has to go and try to make sure that every American is annoyed by him no matter how much they try to avoid him.
Now there’s a possibility of Curt Schilling running for John Kerry’s Senate seat. A group of Massachusetts residents are starting a drive to draft Schilling to run in the 2008 election, in the hopes of finding out just who the American people are annoyed by more. (It should be pretty close. Remember, Curt Schilling is “a horse’s ass the other four days” but John Kerry did lose to President Bush — President Bush! — in an election.)
Anyway, let’s hope this election does take place. It might open up a black hold of annoyance over all of New England, saving us from having to hear about Schilling, Kerry and the New England Patriots ever again.
Editor’s Note: Apparently, Curt Schilling saying he might vote for Barack Obama is “patronizing,” according to Will Bunch. Curt Schilling doesn’t care about black people!
UPDATED: The Next Kerry Swift Boater…Curt Schilling? [Attytood]
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dmac | 1:52 PM | 1 Comment
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