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OH FABULOUS

from the wapo: U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new...

Oct 31st

Upsurge of West Nile virus linked to...

Oct 31st

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part 1 of ‘he came he saw he conquered’, a bcc documentary on jay-z that’s...

Oct 31st

if the whole world got to vote - Obama is currently crushing...

Oct 31st

a nice chart from yglesias illustrating the gender disparity...

Oct 31st

the onion is smarter than all of us. either that, or life...

Oct 31st

lataco

Oct 31st

i need this jacket. (married to the mob 08 lookbook, via...

Oct 30th

CA election guide

Oct 30th

“In fairness, when Lafferty asserts that “Sarah Palin...”
— lawyersgun&money on...

Oct 30th

this is brilliant - a “god hates signs” protest...

Oct 30th

social unrest is correlated with an increase in zombie...

Oct 30th

Guide to Overcoming Voting Obstacles for...

Oct 30th

i have had a lot of trouble with silly string in the past -...

Oct 30th

“in this passage Obama revealed precisely why he is...”
— the corner is totally spinning...

Oct 30th

homeless families in NYC shelters at...

per the nytimes, NYC has been collecting data on their homeless population for the past 25 years. in...

Oct 30th

i swear, if i didn’t have nate silver to tell me the cold truth about things, i’d have...

Oct 30th

This is how bad it would be if Prop 4 passes

Oct 30th

totesfawkward: Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak...

Oct 30th

several weeks ago, i made a post on my 90210 blog about how two of the lead actresses, shenae grimes...

Oct 30th

tumblr outage

omigod that was AWFUL. let’s never let that happen again.

Oct 29th

the reason we are gathered here today

written for Write to Marry Day, entries collected at mombian. i look at marriage from a position...

Oct 29th

sometimes we really are better than...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a...

Oct 29th

Innocent man killed by Anaheim police

Oct 29th

Woman chains herself to her home

Oct 29th

Anchorage Daily News endorses Obama

Oct 29th

“So he’s describing this to my mother. We’re at...”
— malia obama on obama’s...

Oct 29th

omg i hope i have time to crochet myself a dominatrix outfit...

Oct 29th

another horror list wish list

another parade of horribles from pat buchanan: * Two or three more liberal activists of the Ruth...

Oct 29th

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the obama campaign has been so far ahead of every other campaign ever in terms of internet use. this...

Oct 29th

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poem to a young voter from superkickassawesome guy j smoothe of ill doctrine.

Oct 29th

“The basic way to think about this is that you get...

Oct 28th

blub! look how seriously he’s listening to her!...

Oct 28th

when is it ok to hang someone in effigy?

per the latimes, “Officials from the Secret Service, West Hollywood city code enforcement and...

Oct 28th

First snow of the season!!

efstein: …its snowing at my office. Well I love snow, so this is always a welcome thing for me,...

Oct 28th

*guarantee not applicable in case of wildfire (fire destroys...

Oct 28th

“If Mr. Obama wins we could possibly see any or all of the...”
— steven calabresi of the wsj...

Oct 28th

“15 percent of recently returned female soldiers utilizing...”
— as if these numbers...

Oct 28th

Three battleground Obama posters gradually coalesce,...

Oct 28th

via postbourgie

Oct 28th

“Beyonce is like the feds when it comes to promoting a...”
— excerpt from “If You...

Oct 28th

Immigration officials held U.S. citizen for...

Oct 28th

due to actual life business today, tumbling will be light. thank you for your patience. to pass the...

Oct 28th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26)

Oct 26th

Oct 25th

“Dobson: You may not recall it, but in April, before all of this happened, before you were...

Oct 25th

sadly, no has a great recreation of the logical twists and turns that mccain must have taken to...

Oct 25th

things we learned this week

it takes a lot of cash to make a lady look presentable on the national stage, but less money if...

Oct 25th

this is why mccain will lose. i am both startled and pleased...

Oct 24th

other things you could get for $150,000

37 People With Health Care for One Year OR 180 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR ...

Oct 24th

usually i hate duke basketball and...

One of Jazz All-Star forward Carlos Boozer’s former teammates at Duke University is Barack Obama’s...

Oct 24th

The Case of the 'B'

Oct 24th

“The highest-paid McCain-Palin campaign staffer is Sarah...”
— i argued yesterday that it...

Oct 24th

chuckmore: doree: [Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images] ...

Oct 24th

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this dog is ten times the skateboarder i ever was or will be. (zoomdoggle)

Oct 24th

Reuters/Ajay Verma. Married Hindu women pray during the...

Oct 24th

“Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton waded into the...”
— you know what, chief bratton?...

Oct 24th

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the video asks how much jail time women should get for abortion were it to become illegal. nitpick:...

Oct 24th

tattered but true (via lataco)

Oct 24th

yellowhat: robot-heart: chuckmore:abbyjean: michelle...

Oct 23rd

dubai in fog. (via flickr harry lambert)

Oct 23rd

michelle obama’s dress only cost $34.95.

Oct 23rd

yay?

feministing reports that the bureau of prisons made a policy against shackling women prisoners while...

Oct 23rd

in response to mccain characterizing obama as a wealth distributing socialist, an AP article looks...

Oct 23rd

compare and contrast

mccain’s ” Regional Victory Center” in Sterling, VA: obama’s falls...

Oct 23rd

still loving doonsebury this week.

Oct 22nd

twitter election-themed yo momma fight...

thanks to boingboing for the heads up. some awesome ones: yo mama so poor her clothing budget is...

Oct 22nd

happy birthday to snoop dogg - he’s now 259 in dogg...

Oct 22nd

“If Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe had a life of its...”
— commenter at TPM. hahahahaha!

Oct 22nd

No soda, no candy, no birth control

urg: amilniazi: So there’s a pharmacy in Virginia refusing to sell birth control. Oh sorry,...

Oct 22nd

Can a candidate use campaign or party...

Oct 22nd

dude tpain has an iced out chain of a mooninite!!! that is...

Oct 22nd

file under: shut up, i am not totally...

last night on the daily show, jon described a formula for determining if you were a real or fake...

Oct 22nd

never too young to start… (via feministing)

Oct 22nd

i would tile everything - my apartment, my car, my face -...

Oct 22nd

oh good that's taken care of

at a press conference yesterday, LAPD cheif bratton conceeded that the backlog of over 7,000...

Oct 21st

“-8 YEARS OF AN OBAMA-PELOSI-ACORN ADMINISTRATION WOULD GIVE...”
— the corner summarizes, um,...

Oct 21st

from shakesville, with the tagline “The irony, of...

Oct 21st

fantastic use of judicial resources

“A jury was split 10-2 on Monday on whether Britney Spears was guilty of driving without a...

Oct 21st

nick hogan, aka douchey larue, gets a hug from brooke hogan...

Oct 21st

“In reality, the only way to create broadly shared...”
— yglesias, finding fundamental...

Oct 21st

kanye’s promo shoot for upcoming album. via bossip,...

Oct 21st

every year i think about doing this, and every year i...

Oct 21st

California's new citizens get ready to cast...

Oct 21st

wedding ring made with lab cultivated bone tissue from the...

Oct 21st

i am currently compiling a (long) list of music lost in the...

Oct 21st

ugh

the best part of my day was realizing this office, where i moved to about 6 weeks ago, has a...

Oct 21st

brilliant, although perhaps overlimited in its scope of...

Oct 21st

gripe

if i am doing your organization a favor by speaking at your training, i should not have to wait...

Oct 21st

CONGRATULATIONS!!! to my co-worker and her partner of 20+...

Oct 21st

how is los angeles like wasilla, alaska?

neither municipality cares much about your rape kit. currently in the city of LA, there are 7,000...

Oct 21st

for CA people:

today is the last day to register to vote. you can do so here. even if you were registered before,...

Oct 20th

“If Republicans or conservatives or right-wingers were...”
— the corner, whining that...

Oct 20th

“SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California...”
— other allegations: “The...

Oct 20th

this is what happens when we characterize questions about...

Oct 20th

wow, t pain and soulja boy. wow. (via bossip)

Oct 20th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19)

Oct 20th

i wish i could be lil wayne for halloween but it feels like...

Oct 19th

“Sarah Palin had her star turn last night, and I think...”
— via ezra.

Oct 19th

do not front on nate silver

he will call you out on your shit with DATA and GRAPHS. right, ms. palin? recently at a...

Oct 19th

“McCain’s latest: claiming that Obama will turn the IRS...”
— i know i said i wanted the...

Oct 19th

you know who i've lost track of in all...

the somali pirates. i wonder what those scamps are up to? edit: apparently they threatened to blow...

Oct 18th

“So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington,...”
— fivethirtyeight, reporting...

Oct 18th

on a lighter note,

Henry Reid was indicted by a grand jury in May on charges of selling body parts to a businessman who...

Oct 18th

ACORN

first, disclaimer, i work with ACORN here in LA - nothing to do with voter registration, of course,...

Oct 18th

“i sure do love our new home in a school...

Oct 18th

“oh look, honey, it’s everything we...

Oct 18th

Rita Lythgoe takes a break from sifting through the rubble...

Oct 18th

“I’m astounded that this issue is being trotted out...”
— david iglesias, one of the...

Oct 17th

“The power line believed to have sparked the Sesnon fire was...”
— the sesnon fire burned over...

Oct 17th

i haven’t blogged about this because frankly it makes...

Oct 17th

this is scary

i’ve got a pile of data on foreclosures in los angeles county that i’m messing around...

Oct 17th

every time a song from this album comes up in shuffle,...

Oct 17th

Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue, sits in the...

Oct 17th

Real Life: Why I Chose Abortion

Oct 17th

“I wasn’t given the opportunity to make a choice on...”
— “concerned parent”...

Oct 17th

a still of mccain dismissing women’s...

Oct 17th

My "Health" story

Oct 16th

Villaraigosa vetoes contract for legal help...

Oct 16th

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joe the plumber speaks!! i liked him better as an abstract talking point.

Oct 16th

“McCain said that Sarah Palin knows about having a child with...”
— Think Progress. (via...

Oct 16th

um, i think obama may have just spoken to the comprehensive nature of reproductive rights, including...

Oct 16th

LILY LEDBETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Oct 16th

Joe the Plumber

Oct 16th

mr. interrupty! please save your noises and harumphs until it is your time to speak!

Oct 16th

“even fox news disputes [mccain’s claim that obama wanted to raise taxes for people...

Oct 16th

am i prescient or what? joe the plumber gets a shoutout in the very first question.

Oct 16th

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watch this instead of the debate. it’s obama spending 5 minutes answering a question from...

Oct 16th

there are few things in life more satisfying than getting a computer to finally do what you want....

Oct 16th

wishlist

so the last debate is tonight. if i got to make up the agenda, here’s some things we would...

Oct 16th

szymon: Anatomy of a LEGO Minifig by Jason Freeny amazing....

Oct 16th

SoCal wildfires as seen from space. no wonder everything...

Oct 15th

She would rather lose her life than lose...

wanda dunn, 53, of pasadena was going to be evicted on monday. rather than leave the home that had...

Oct 15th

today is NOW’s love your body day. as someone who...

Oct 15th

via woostercollective

Oct 15th

um. (via LAFD flickr stream)

Oct 15th

The Libertarian (non) Plan for...

trainwrecks: natface: I really like this take on pro-bono work, seeing as how it’s all...

Oct 15th

god will sort it out?

i am hard pressed to figure out the principle behind the supreme court’s denial of the appeal...

Oct 15th

halloween costumes i am considering

cindy mccain. this one is easy - suit, pearls, perscription pill habit. downside: having to say...

Oct 15th

yeswecarve.com

Oct 15th

flocks of floating street jellyfish (via woostercollective)

Oct 14th

you guys.

maura: STOP IT. SHE JUST WANTS THE ATTENTION. SHE’S YOUNG AND STUPID AND SHE DOESN’T GET THAT NOT...

Oct 14th

fyi, homeless people are not animals to...

a fact apparently unfamiliar to the multiple youths who doused an LA homeless man with gasoline and...

Oct 14th

OMFG SHOPPING NIRVANA

trainwrecks: pocketnovel: As a general rule I avoid shopping the sales section. One part is my...

Oct 14th

ask an apocalypse specialist

news you can use! from lawyersguns&money: Dear Dr. Farley, With the impending financial...

Oct 14th

what a clever tattoo. (via cuteoverload)

Oct 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-12)

Oct 12th

illustrator tests the british mail system. (via zoomdoggle)

Oct 10th

bob zoell street art.

Oct 10th

this is nobel prizewinning art (drawn with fluorescent...

Oct 10th

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chuckmore: Whites are the New Blacks Combine this sucknut with the Sarah Palin Parking Lot crowd...

Oct 10th

“My husband was talking about getting into politics and...”
— a commenter on the shakesville...

Oct 10th

“The next time you hear some dude arguing it’s not...”
— let’s repeat part of...

Oct 10th

who are those people who sleep on the...

well here’s an interview with emily, 26, explaining why she’s homeless. part of an...

Oct 9th

“Dear Tim, Thank you for requesting a proclamation...”
— the entire response to a...

Oct 9th

a piece in banksy’s new exhibit in NYC - the village...

Oct 9th

music recommendations for mccain

yglesias takes note of the foo fighter’s recent request that mccain stop playing their song...

Oct 9th

lil wayne and the briefcase full of $1 million in cash that...

Oct 9th

“I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some...”
— obama on the mccain...

Oct 9th

colorado aspens, via my dad.

Oct 9th

somethingchanged: “But what exactly would turn psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft...

Oct 9th

helpful artwork to clear up john mccain on the alleged $3...

Oct 9th

“It turns out that that “overhead projector” John...”
— god damn obama and his...

Oct 9th

commacommachameleon: Whatever, it’s still pretty hot. ...

Oct 8th

sigh. i guess being a woman means showing your bra and not...

Oct 8th

notemily:apsies:(source) i cannot wait to read about this...

Oct 8th

Plunge in markets brings another kind of...

Oct 8th

“It wasn’t a debate — there was no...”
— again, agreeing with the...

Oct 8th

um, i thought the difference between obama and clinton’s health plans were that obama...

Oct 8th

SAY MY FRIENDS ONE MORE TIME I DARE YOU.

Oct 8th

squashed: marco: Wait, we’re supposed to endure a “spending freeze”, but also go around buying...

Oct 8th

yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of matthew sheppard’s murder. instead of talking about...

Oct 8th

“[T]his little bitch needs to stand up for himself. Sorry, I...”
— that’s totally the right...

Oct 8th

(via hodad:yimmyayo) you bet your ass i am.

Oct 8th

Great minds...

urg: meredithnyc: carolinek: Sometimes I wonder what Tumblr will be like on November 5. Ok,...

Oct 8th

Woman charged with stalking Lakers' Luke...

Oct 8th

a scary halloween approaches. (via LAhomelessblog)

Oct 7th

“Ashlee Simpson-Wentz traded her stylish maternity wardrobe...”
— why are white trash themed...

Oct 7th

WANT. (david buckingham studios)

Oct 7th

graffiti in downtown la. via laist.

Oct 7th

Note: Factors colored in red can generally be thought to...

Oct 7th

“I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they...”
— john mccain in the first...

Oct 7th

via feministing.

Oct 7th

the international sign for “oh no the market is...

Oct 7th

brooklyngirl: Just Because. this is essentially the same...

Oct 7th

losangelous.

Oct 7th

do you think there is a transgender porn...

ericasavestheday:baitandswitch: there are many ways to block out thoughts of the woes on wall...

Oct 7th

I tried it.. try it, too! (via notemily: fletter)

Oct 6th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-5)

Oct 5th

the future is NOW, you guys. this is Wojtek Czyz, a...

Oct 3rd

“9:42 - Ive been on the campaign trail for a while now, and I...”
— pseudo todd palin liveblogs...

Oct 3rd

why you should be watching top design

“[his previous design was] riddled with panache and insouciance.” “i just...

Oct 3rd

fuck you, cute overload. without you, i wouldn’t have...

Oct 3rd

“My favorite moment was Biden talking about how he came to...”
— Scott Lemieux at...

Oct 3rd

amazing masthead for woostercollective.

Oct 3rd

“The next person that winks at me, I don’t know if I’m going...”
— Rachel Maddow (via...

Oct 3rd

i absolutely adore these two. (via notemily)

Oct 3rd

another speaking tip

when presenting to a large group of administrators and mental health providers, most of whom appear...

Oct 2nd

news you can use

I am listening to a man give a presentation on selection of indicators of mental health risk. he...

Oct 2nd

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let’s get on this you guys - the obama hustle. everyone start learning it and next time...

Oct 2nd

“If an auto mechanic accidentally breaks your windshield...”
— (via NYTimes.com) (via...

Oct 2nd

(via urg:thedailywhat

Oct 2nd

Watch

start at 0:57 for some seriously hilarious shit - attempting various sobering up techniques in slow...

Oct 2nd

good news you guys! that bastard who outbid me on the neutra...

Oct 2nd

Twitter / michael_bay

Oct 2nd

trainwrecks: soupsoup: youngmanhattanite: <Choire is...

Oct 1st

as the stock market goes down, campells soup and the people...

Oct 1st

“Hair and makeup is killing female hip-hop. The grooming cost...”
— can this possibly be true? an...

Oct 1st

PIRATE UPDATE

ooh, ooh, pirate developments. first, there appears to be infighting among the pirates about what to...

Oct 1st

via cute overload, the story of a deer delivered by...

Oct 1st

“When it comes to Palin, there’s an intersection of...”
— interesting comment on the...

Oct 1st