Archive for July, 2006



Art for the masses

I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it’s cheap, it’s art and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with no boundaries and that kind of expansiveness is what I want to come across in my work.
-Steve Keene
And he isn’t kidding. […]

We’ve been tossing the hot potato from Gitmo to Iraq to Lebanon to keep us distracted from how badly we’re performing and/or abusing law in each of these areas. Just as public sentiment starts to boil over about one, bam-whoosh-kapow, we’re transported to another. Today, we’re bounced back to Gitmo via an AP report […]

The Bush Quiz

From the New Yorker. Gotta take it.

Matt from myDD is also tired of the bungled, vapid message of the party. He hates their new slogan ideas and suggests his own:

Republicans support George Bush. Losers.

Some of the commenters do even better, and I’d like to submit:

-Bring freedom and our soldiers back home.

-Energy for tomorrow. [oooh, multiple meanings!]

-Fight back.

According to the NYT, as far as the workplace is concerned, some men are just saying no:
Millions of men like Mr. Beggerow — men in the prime of their lives, between 30 and 55 — have dropped out of regular work. They are turning down jobs they think beneath them or are unable to find […]

By Stephen Dunn
To hold a damaged sparrow
under water until you feel it die
is to know a small something
about the mind; how, for example,
it blames the cat for the original crime,
how it wants praise for its better side.
And yet it’s as human
as pulling the plug on your Dad
whose world has turned
to feces and fog, human as–
Well, […]

.08% of the good life

Panicky House Republicans tried to scam an easy win on all sides by tying estate tax relief to a minimum wage hike:

Critics say the House deal, linking an increase in the minimum wage with a sharp reduction of the estate tax, is aimed at two groups at opposite ends of the economic spectrum. The minimum wage hike will help some 6.6 million beneficiaries with an average dollar benefit of $1,200. The estate tax cut will benefit some 8,200 people with an average dollar benefit of $1.4 million, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) in Washington.

HonestReporting.com pushes no small amount of DisingenuousPropaganda intended to fuel war between the West and the Middle East.
Now, they’ve released a propumentary film called “Obsession,” and it’s available on google video. If you have 80 minutes to devote to Inciting Hate 101, I highly recommend a viewing.
The film is appalling. While it opens […]

Moving day liveblog

Why are we moving a saxophone? No one who lives here plays or has ever played the saxophone.

What a man of god Mel Gibson is:
“F—–g Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Mee’s report quotes him as saying.
“Are you a Jew?” Gibson asked the deputy, according to the report.
The actor also berated the deputy, threatening, “You motherf—-r. I’m going to f— you,” according to Mee’s report.
The actor […]

Samhita at Feministing brings us the sexiest, most confident object a man could have in his shower, the Shower Breasts:

But I’m on the fence about whether to buy. Let’s take a look at the product description from BoysStuff.co.uk…
Squeeze the boob to release the gel… Having a shower has never been so much fun!
Well, I’m […]

At least they stopped pretending the war has anything to do with freedom for the people of Iraq. It’s more like a Raiders football game — just win, baby!
A few days ago, John Podhoretz of the Post (h/t tristero) made a call for Sunni extermination. That’s how far we’ve come. […]




You are currently browsing the PunkAssBlog.com weblog archives for July, 2006.

Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.

Categories

Bad Behavior has blocked 6013 access attempts in the last 7 days.