09 May
The Brits are seriously losing it.
British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus
For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier.
But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its “religious restrictions”.
The airline has instead switched to a […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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08 May
Remember the Great McCain Debate? (Here, here, here, here, and here.) I dropped it because (1) it got boring and (2) there wasn’t much else to say until the Democrats picked their candidate.
Well they’ve picked their candidate, for all intents and purposes, and it is one Mister Barack Obama, He Who Will Fix […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
135 Comments
05 May
Check it out:
Obama asserted in December, “I’ve always been a Christian,” and he has adamantly denied ever having been a Muslim. “The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam.” In February, he claimed: “I have never been a […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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01 May
One of the problematic things about blogging is the weird balancing act between how seriously you take yourself, how seriously your readers take you, how seriously you take your readers taking you seriously, and so on. My last post is a good example. I knocked that stupid thing out in about 10 minutes, […]
Posted in Politics, Blog stuff by: Rachel Lucas
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01 May
John Hawkins is doing a Q&A Thursday, which really is a fantastic idea because I am severely bereft of any ideas and am in fact feeling burned out with work/blog/dogs/jacked-up-jaw/blah blah. Anyway, one of the questions today is:
Suppose you were elected Temporary Supreme Dictator of America.
What are 10 laws you would pass/repeal or government […]
Posted in Awesomeness, Politics by: Rachel Lucas
110 Comments
30 Apr
Am I the only one who imagines this:
every time I hear or read about Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”? I’ve always wondered how many South Park fans read my blog.
Meanwhile, Ace of Spades has a list of things the media has decided about Rev. Wright, including:
Obama’s 20 year political partnership with Wright may raise […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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29 Apr
What was it that Rev. Wright said about chickens coming home to roost? I wonder how Barack Obama feels about all the chickens showing up at his door right now, roosting their asses off, because his “mentor”/pastor categorically refuses to shut his cakehole. What has it been, three speeches in three days now? […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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28 Apr
If you didn’t see Rev. Wright’s speech that CNN showed the other night, or haven’t watched any clips, you’re so missing out. Mostly on the lesson that black people and white people are, in fact, genetically different (apparently the billions of Arabs, Asians, and Indians do not count in this equation). For example, […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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24 Apr
Some HuffPo article goes on about how McCain’s a big meanie who doesn’t want women to make as much money as men, blah blah, but the last paragraph is what really got me:
In recent weeks, McCain has proposed a series of tax breaks for corporations, doubling the dependent child tax exemption, government-backed refinancing for struggling […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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23 Apr
I’ve still got way too much crap to do, and the internet is boring today. Except of course for the shining light of Mark Steyn, who is a very sexy man.
Earlier today I had been trying to think of some way to say shit about the Democrats digging their own hole […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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21 Apr
The article is even titled “White Men.” You know you’re in for a treat:
This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these […]
Posted in Politics, Girl Stuff by: Rachel Lucas
55 Comments
17 Apr
No, I could not let this one pass; I don’t think I’ve ever gotten more emails about an article than this one. Check it out:
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially […]
Posted in WTF?, Politics, Girl Stuff by: Rachel Lucas
57 Comments
17 Apr
Via Hot Air: a college student’s “art project” consisted of putting American flags on the floor for people to walk on. A Marine veteran showed up to say this was bullshit. Here’s the video, which is ruined by the background music (I hate Toby Keith so very, very much) but will definitely […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
110 Comments
17 Apr
Watched most but not all of it - those two clowns become genuinely tedious after a while and besides, American Idol was on! I have to set priorities. (By the way, I can’t figure out a way to write a whole post about the fact that someone who should’ve gotten kicked off about […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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15 Apr
A journalist named Bob Herbert, who is black, wrote a piece everyone’s talking about so I will too. Basically, he said that Obama shouldn’t have called Pennsylvania voters bitter, he should have called them racists, because that’s what they are. That’s not the part I’m really hung up on, but it is interesting […]
Posted in Politics by: Rachel Lucas
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