Category Archives: People Not Like Us

  How to Live Without Irony By CHRISTY WAMPOLE (from the Opionon Pages of the New York Times, originally posted here)  Leif Parsons If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living. The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several … Continue reading this post →

In a recent PPP poll in NC, 15% of Republicans thought Mitt Romney deserved more credit for killing Osama Bin Laden, while another 56% said they weren’t sure whether Romney or Obama was more responsible.  That makes a whopping 71% of NC Republicans who either think Romney had more to do with Bin Laden’s death, or they’re just not sure. A similar result was found in an Ohio poll.    

No joke…Tea Party nutbag Chuck Noriss and his wife warn of a 1000 years of darkness if Obama is reelected.  You tell me how a President is supposed to get things done when this crap represents a sizeable and intransigent part of the Republican base…