In case you were curious, this Charlotte Gainsbourg/Beck collaboration is nice, but not a step off of what you’d expect if Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck made an album together.
Doc Anthrax
So the thing they told us in college when everyone was freaking the fuck out about anthrax-filled letters popping up all over D.C. was that, really, the chance of being targeted was near-zero because a) the supply of anthrax is almost nil, b) its difficult to make and c) the number of people with access to it can be counted on your first five fingers.
That’s all fine, unless one of those fingers is an obsessive, depressed sexual deviant who also happened to be a cross-dresser (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Here’s a short list — culled from his FBI file published by The Smoking Gun — of reasons Dr. Bruce Ivins probably shouldn’t have been allowed to hang around labs with Bacillus anthracis inside. Read More
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In a moment of weakness…
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for stupid criminal stories, so while I’d normally avoid recommending in earnest anything TruTV comes up with, I submit for your approval Dumb as a Blog: A Daily Digest of the Dumbest Stuff People Do.
Full disclosure: TruTV has NOT paid for this promotion, because I’m not famous enough for that.
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Did Bob Beckel Swear On Hannity Last Night?
No. He didn’t. And pretty clearly, too. But some are still running with it (with the same headline we’ve got.. rule 471 of new media journalism: If you haven’t an answer, run it anyway, but as a question.).
Here’s the video. Its pretty clear he says “yet” not “shit”.
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Never read it.
Foer leans back and smiles, just a little smug. “That’s the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don’t have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores” – he points a fork in my direction – “have to be neurotic. Personally, I don’t have time for all that; I don’t want to get into it.”
Then why’d you write a fucking book about it, you self-involved, un-nuanced prick?
[via the Financial Times]
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Can’t get much worse, so…
Why not shut the fucker down and see what happens? From The Awl, a little nugget that first made the rounds last week:
Don’t say the Republicans aren’t doing anything; they’re on pace to surpass a historic benchmark! “The frequency of filibusters — plus threats to use them — are measured by the number of times the upper chamber votes on cloture. Such votes test the majority’s ability to hold together 60 members to break a filibuster. Last year, the first of the 111th Congress, there were a record 112 cloture votes. In the first two months of 2010, the number already exceeds 40. That means, with 10 months left to run in the 111th Congress, Republicans have turned to the filibuster or threatened its use at a pace that will more than triple the old record.”
Why not just let the Republicans actually filibuster? Given that the main (perennial) criticism of Congress is that they “don’t get enough done” doesn’t it stand to reason that people aren’t going to be thrilled about an electoral minority stopping legislation entirely?
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Sidney Crosby: If it weren’t for all the hockey. And the acne.
No offense to the author of this post (we like your blog!), but Sidney Crosby just wasn’t cut out to be a sex symbol. Airbrushing and the presence/absence of a shirt doesn’t change much for me.
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The Hangover
Part 1 of a series. We’ll choose one site that had a particularly good weekend (or a particularly good run since the last time we caught up) and run some links. I read somewhere that you can increase traffic and still be lazy by doing regular columns and the like, so thank the people who make a living grokking search algorithms for this.
Florida Shrink a “Text”-Book Case
“In another text, Lerom noted, ‘wish uwere here in the shower with me to warm me up!!! Your RHL!!!’ RHL, according to the state report, was short for ‘red hot lover.’”
The Tantrum Girl Chronicles
“…which included the six-year-old striking the school’s principal, who is eight months pregnant, in the stomach.”
Man Busted in TV Smash Rampage
“Meet Westley Strellis. For unknown reasons, the Georgia man yesterday afternoon smashed 29 flat-screen televisions during a rampage at a Walmart in suburban Atlanta.”
Harold Ford Superstar
“Ford demands that when his limo driver picks him up, the chauffeur must be carrying a sign reading ‘H.F..”
[via The Smoking Gun]
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Charlie Crist FTW
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) broke from his party and defended his “pragmatic” stance on accepting stimulus money in his state of the state address yesterday. He managed to work in a few “back to reality” jabs at fellow Republicans as well. The joys of lame-duckedness (duckhood?):
(emphasis mine)
[via Hotline on Call]