Go With Dog, F-Squaders

Dear Fuck Squad readers:
Our sincerest apologies for not having announced this sooner, it was totally fucked up of us: The Fuck Squad, Gen Y’s alternative source for really interesting shit, has closed.
The summer was fun, but we know, and now you know, that it was just a seasonal fling. So please don’t call us asking [...]

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Let Me off the Klein Bandwagon

Ryan’s post below illustrates, more perfectly than all the prose and rhetoric this world has to offer, just how successful Naomi Klein has been at selling some of the poorest political and economic research academia has to offer.

more about “Johan Norberg discusses Klein’s take …“, posted with vodpod

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Kwame the Krook

I am convinced that every big city in America is rotten to the core. And of course, Detroit’s the worst of them all:
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada and [...]

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‘One man’s TMI is another man’s JEI–just enough information’

New Tim and Eric is out. Oh my sweet god is it strange.

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To All the Dicks Who Called Me ‘Tugboat’

There is a blog out there for people who are (or at least want to be) okay with being fat:
Weight itself is not a health problem, except in the most extreme cases (i.e., being underweight or so fat you’re immobilized). In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive [...]

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Like Gawker Has Room to Talk

VH1’s blog Scandalist posted a tacky/darkly funny photoshopped pic of Jon Benet Ramsey wearing a birthday hat, to commemorate what would today be her 18th b-day. (She would also be, as one of my meatspace colleagues pointed out to me, a hottie.)
Gawker, among other places, threw a goddamn hissy fit. Which is ironic, considering Gawker [...]

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Louisiana, up Close and Personal

Google’s Lat Long Blog announced today that it has expanded the number of places you can see using Street View to include New Orleans. This is very good news, as I have noticed a recent decline in depressing NOLA images.
No New Orleans post would be complete without a Kanye refer:

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“Just smoke two of these and call me in the morning”

After a chance encounter with an affluent man from Spanish Harlem, my personal perspective on the drug community is forever changed.  Growing up in suburbia I am exposed to pharmacies and drug stores like Walgreens or CVS that sell cold remedies and doctor prescribed medications.  This is my norm. 
 
However for this man, in his [...]

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Boy or Girl? You Decide!

From those freedom lovin’ folks at American Apparel, this deliciously androgynous ad:

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Dance, Cindy, Dance!

BarbinMD at the Daily Kos posted this delightful snippet from Sturgis:
“I was looking at the Sturgis schedule and noticed that you have a beauty pageant and so I encouraged Cindy to compete. I told her, with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the First Lady and Miss [...]

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Behold, Woodpunk

Courtesy of WIRED:
Sculptor Michael Rea has a knack for building. But unlike most architects, he draws on an encyclopedic knowledge of geek culture and an eccentric sense of humor for his unique sculptures.
Rea’s movie-influenced menagerie includes electronic consoles, time machines and holy artifacts — all fashioned from wood. He even built an eight-foot-tall prosthetic suit, [...]

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A Simpler Time

Hey Folks,
After spending the summer reading all of the engaging material that passed over this blog, I had to set aside my personal feelings toward blogging and join the fun.  For my first post, I’ve decided to step back from the political debates and masturbatory music talk and take everyone back to a simpler time.  [...]

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The SDS Strikes Back

The newest incarnation of Students for a Democratic Society (socialists) attacked the Cato Institute (capitalists) on Monday. The SDS not only justified its attack on a group of non-violent thinkers, but then complained when the cops stepped in to protect the wonks inside. What gives, SDS? Cato opposes the war in Iraq (and did so [...]

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Consume

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“McCain don’t belong in ANY chair unless he’s paralyzed”

Ludacris’ prObama hit is out! (And features this post’s headline in its lyrics).
Other notable lines include:

Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
if you said it then you meant it how you want it have a gut!
so get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!
paint the White House [...]

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