Yes, it’s the actual title of the article. And nothing sums it up better than the last lines:
Manger also points to the tuna industry, which under consumer pressure has gone to great lengths to prevent dolphins from being caught and killed by accident in nets.
“If they were really intelligent, they would just jump over the net because it doesn’t come out of the water,” he said.
It’s always nice when politicians have military experience. And John McCain should be applauded for his–though there is some controversy over whether or not he was a little too cooperative with the guards in the Vietnamese prison camp. But, more to the point, politicians should not be judged solely on whether or not they’ve had military experience. What their positions are on issues and who influences them matter a great deal more and despite media portrayal, John McCain totally blows on the issues.
John McCain wants to outlaw abortions, he doesn’t want the minimum wage increase, he’s a staunch supporter of the death penalty, John McCain wants the Ten Commandments on display at public schools, He’ll only fund the abstinence only sex education that study after study has shown doesn’t work, He wants to privatize social security, He’s supports redirecting public education funds to voucher programs, His support for sound fiscal policy has taken a back seat to securing tax cuts for the rich, He supports the Patriot Act provisions that abridge constitutional civil liberties, he voted no on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025, and he supports allowing religious facilities run state welfare programs.
So while McCain has been painted by the media as a moderate and while he’s certainly not the most conservative paleo-republican ever–He’s still a Republican. He’s still irresponsible. And he would still make a bad President.
Chinese people, I like you, but you’re crazy. For instance, in China, ping pong players are celebrities. There is two things wrong with this: it’s ping pong. So paragraphs like this can actually exist in the Wall Street Journal:
In China, ping-pong players are major celebrities whose off-court antics are watched as closely as their on-court smash serves. The military-like discipline the national team’s coaches try to enforce — housing players in dormitories and prohibiting them from dating teammates — hasn’t stopped Mr. Chen and his teammates from living life on the edge. In February, one team member was suspended for a year for a bout of late-night drinking. In late July, another teammate was forced to pay a fine and publicly apologize after crashing his Porsche Boxster into a taxi while driving drunk.
Actually, I remember the second thing wrong about this — there’s a RAP VIDEO for the CHINESE PING PONG TEAM. Also, China is taking all of our oil.
From Nerve.com, BODY WORK:
A month later, after I spent a day in Queens filing in the nude, my sister requested that if I was going to sell myself, I do it someplace where she wouldn’t worry I’d be raped or killed. So I answered a Craigslist ad for “artists” — full-time pay, part-time hours, no sex — and there I was, sitting with Robin in an Upper East Side diner at three in the afternoon, picking at my pancakes and talking about handjobs.
Via the good people at Gawker, an article by Rabbi Gellman at Newsweek:
And for this we dumped Joe? It just makes no sense to me and it ought to be a huge embarrassment to all card-carrying Jews whether they agreed with Joe or not…
I learned this distinction from the men of the Western Shvitz. One day a tribal Jewish friend took me to a shvitz on Western Avenue in Chicago. A shvitz (there are hardly any of them left) is a place where heterosexual Jewish men used to go to sit in a searingly hot steam room, get hit with soapy oak-leaf clusters called pleitzas, eat herring and black bread with red pop, play cards and tell jokes. I was really beaten down that day. I had been unsuccessfully trying to raise money for Israel from an assortment of cosmopolitan university Jews, each of whom had some phony but articulate reason why they would be intellectually compromised if they gave me a dollar for Israel.
True fact: if you stab a Jewish person in the heart, I hear spiders come out (or at least from Rabbi Gellman’s mouth).
