Monday, November 29, 2010

I hate bumper stickers

Why can't we gut fish and houses? Why can't we make love and war? Why can't we make windmills and bombs?

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade makes no sense

Self absorbed and often embarrassingly dressed pop stars lip sync their radio hits on ludicrous floats as children dance around dressed as doctors and cops and taxis. What sort of worldly, hallucinatory fever dream is this?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

TSA: What we need is a little empathy

My solution, or part of it at least, to the controversy over the TSA's latest dehumanization campaign is simple:

1) Make every TSA employee pose for a fancy new x-ray backspatter image.
2) Put the images in a searchable, public database online, along with full names and portraits.

While we're at, we might as well start at the top of DHS...