Try…not….to….make…..any….sudden…..moves…….
The government’s spy blimp is visible from The Malcontent’s office window, which is very cool.
The Washington Post has video of this cutting edge dirigible technology here.
Next up for Homeland Security? Carrier Pigeons!
….but I’m not sure John Kerry should listen to you on this one. I mean, you didn’t exactly knock Bush out four years ago, did you, Captain Lockbox?
It’s not merely the Stepford yuppie collectivist mindset that is revolting, the suburbs themselves are bad for your health.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is letting a suit go forward over e-voting standards and procedures in Florida. This is a very good thing.
Given the public concerns about e-voting, the doubts expressed by computer professionals, the need for more knowledge and research on the systems, and the events of 2000, what everyone could use is more challenges, more transparency, more accountability for election processes.
Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.
Every so often, there comes a film that you want to tell everyone you know to go see. So, I’ll just say it.
Hilarious, scary, a little gory, and brilliantly funny–plays with the language of film, with the genres, with all the cliches, and because they are Brits, they use the f-word with the sort of moderated restraint that might even satisfy Jason R. Sanders.
Even Tony Danza knows Dr. Phil is a complete moron.
Good call, Mr. Danza. You’re the boss.
Salon’s Fix and Romenesko, among others, are noting the story in E&P about Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks getting pulled this week by major newspapers, including the cravenly Washington Post.
McGruder’s pointed, angry satire is one of the last such voices on the comics page and one of the few reasons The Malcontent has to read the comics. Sure, he’ll offend people, but he’ll also make them think. And which is more offensive: savage parody, or silencing the voice of one of the few African-American cartoonists in the country with national syndication (even for just a week)?
Note to the editors of the papers: Get stuffed. Insipid dreck like Garfield, Family Circus and the like overrun the comics page. You should be ashamed of these puke factories.
The banned strips are available on uComics.
Slate’s Jack Shafer suggests you can beat Bill O’Reilly with a strategy of essentially being nice–overwhelming him with the love.
This is why Shafer gets the big bucks, because The Malcontent would have suggested you could beat Bill O’Reilly with this.