J-Tron is at it again. Hard to believe, I know, but true. From the man who famously said "economics is something I don't understand as well as I should" we get yet another bad idea (are we just supposed to forget that he actually said that? I mean if I said "high profile political robots are something that I don't understand as well as I should" would you continue to read this blog?)
Hey, everyone, its a Summer Gas Tax Holiday! Like its predessors "pro-life", "death tax" and, my favorite, the teaching of creationism as "educational freedom", the gas tax holiday is packaged in the most appealing of terms.
Turns out, the gas tax holiday, actually will be quite similar to the real holiday season as conjured images of snow-covered evergreens and happy families fade to reality ( so and so is gay/smokes too much pot/ married a goy/got a divorce/doesn't have a job/moved to Micronesia to avoid paying taxes/etc....)
To explain why this gas tax holiday will suck so much, I refer you to a man much smarter than I. I don't understand economics as well as a should, but at least I have enough good sense to refer to my betters.
Tom Friedman does a great job in his column, "Dumb As We Wanna Be" and I urge you to take a look.
Oh, and by the way, guess which Democratic candidate running for president supports this initiative? Let your imagination run wild....
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
John McCain Hungry
Warning: This post mentions Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus
McCain and Obama both did a little schtick at the CMT awards, poking fun at the insane cultural phenomenon that is Miley Cyrus (ew).
While Obama is actually funny and tells Montana that his young daughters love her, McCain (whose kiddies are all growed up) is just plain OLD creepy.
J-tron will eat your children (see post below), and preserve them in a Hannah Montana lunch-box.
McCain and Obama both did a little schtick at the CMT awards, poking fun at the insane cultural phenomenon that is Miley Cyrus (ew).
While Obama is actually funny and tells Montana that his young daughters love her, McCain (whose kiddies are all growed up) is just plain OLD creepy.
J-tron will eat your children (see post below), and preserve them in a Hannah Montana lunch-box.
Robots and Retards Unite!: Part 3
Its been a long time Robot and Retards Unite! fans, but we're back and better than ever.Governor Charlie Crist (R-FL-Melanoma) partied like it was 1999 (before sun exposure was linked to skin cancer) with McCain-ical and Cindy at a fundraiser in America's very own vestigal apendage. You may remember Crist from earlier in this primary season when he endorsed The Robot, helping him to finally best Rudy ("9/11") Guiliani.
Way to go Charlie, next time though, use at least S.P.F 30.
P.S: I hate Florida
Monday, April 28, 2008
Beyond Canada III
Since the dollar isn't getting stronger any time soon, it's time to move to London.
Your first exchange from dollars to pounds will leave you heartbroken...but then you'll get a job earning pounds and you'll feel loads better.
Once you change your name to Nigel or Margaret and start rocking out to The Kinks on your iPod (you're foolish if you don't already) you'll feel right at home.
After you get used to tea time and minding the gap you can hang at the boisterous but fabulous British Library. There's flirting! even giggling! and people named Lady Antonia Fraser frequent the place where Marx, Yeats and Woolf used to muse over the rotten state of affairs.
Continue the Modern tradition by writing your own manifesto about how fucked the U.S. is under the tutelage of J-tron.
You'll thank us later.
4 More Years of Suck
According to the most recent Gallup poll, President Bush has the highest disapproval rating in over 70 years of polling (hmm, what was happening 70 years ago? oh right, 25% of the country was unemployed).
This fact alone should, in a thinking society, ensure a Democratic victory in November, but according to yet another Gallup poll, however, Mr. McCain ties or beats both of the Democratic candidates running for president.
There are probably a lot of reasons to explain why roughly 20-25% of Americans who think our country is on the wrong path want to elect a man who will ensure that it stays that way for at least the next 4 years. Ok, well, maybe not a lot....I can come up with 2.
1) People in this country are profoundly stupid (there seems to be no light at the end of that tunnel, by the way, as our public education system is completely screwed).
and
2) The media seems to revel in their love affair with J-tron. He is the Ingrid Bergman to their Humphrey, the Ellen Page to their Michael Cera. They drop phrases like "maverick" and "straight-talker" as if that alone is enough to separate him from the dying gasps of the Bush administration and their failed policies. The man is a pandering buffoon now people, and the sooner journalists get off the "Straight-Talk Express" and onto the "Reality Railway" the better we will all be.
Read this article by Paul Krugman.
This fact alone should, in a thinking society, ensure a Democratic victory in November, but according to yet another Gallup poll, however, Mr. McCain ties or beats both of the Democratic candidates running for president.
There are probably a lot of reasons to explain why roughly 20-25% of Americans who think our country is on the wrong path want to elect a man who will ensure that it stays that way for at least the next 4 years. Ok, well, maybe not a lot....I can come up with 2.
1) People in this country are profoundly stupid (there seems to be no light at the end of that tunnel, by the way, as our public education system is completely screwed).
and
2) The media seems to revel in their love affair with J-tron. He is the Ingrid Bergman to their Humphrey, the Ellen Page to their Michael Cera. They drop phrases like "maverick" and "straight-talker" as if that alone is enough to separate him from the dying gasps of the Bush administration and their failed policies. The man is a pandering buffoon now people, and the sooner journalists get off the "Straight-Talk Express" and onto the "Reality Railway" the better we will all be.
Read this article by Paul Krugman.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
John McCain, Now Featuring Sexism!
So this woman working at Goodyear realized that she had been getting paid a lot less than her male counterparts. Read all about it here, it's compelling stuff.
Anyway, she brought a legit suit against the company but there was a statute of limitations of 180 days for her to file suit since her first unfair paycheck and she sued way later then that....again, details here.
She was awarded damages but the Supreme Court overturned the ruling due to the statute of limitations thing (hey fellas! sexist pay practices are now only illegal for 6 months and then you're scot free to screw over that lucky gal!)
A bill passed in the House claiming that the 180 days should start with every new discriminatory paycheck but it was rejected in the Senate by 42 senators (Obama and Clinton both voted for the bill).
So now we get to McCain and how he plays into this whole thing...
J-tron didn't vote for the bill even though he says he's familiar with the pay disparity. Instead of suing unfair employers, J-t says women "need education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else."
So even though women are getting paid less than men despite performing the same jobs, they will benefit from more education instead of stopping discrimination in the workplace?
As Slate pointed out yesterday:
Anyway, she brought a legit suit against the company but there was a statute of limitations of 180 days for her to file suit since her first unfair paycheck and she sued way later then that....again, details here.
She was awarded damages but the Supreme Court overturned the ruling due to the statute of limitations thing (hey fellas! sexist pay practices are now only illegal for 6 months and then you're scot free to screw over that lucky gal!)
A bill passed in the House claiming that the 180 days should start with every new discriminatory paycheck but it was rejected in the Senate by 42 senators (Obama and Clinton both voted for the bill).
So now we get to McCain and how he plays into this whole thing...
J-tron didn't vote for the bill even though he says he's familiar with the pay disparity. Instead of suing unfair employers, J-t says women "need education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else."
So even though women are getting paid less than men despite performing the same jobs, they will benefit from more education instead of stopping discrimination in the workplace?
As Slate pointed out yesterday:
Wow. Hey! We [women] should develop the superpowers of heat vision and flight, as well.I wonder if McCain-ical shares this with Meghan, she'll pull a Jenna Bush and vote for a Dem. One can only dream.
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