Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Politics King County Democrats Endorsements
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:03 PM
A two-thirds majority is required for the King County Democrats to endorse in a race. Here's how they voted tonight:
Mayor: No endorsement
My Take: That says it all about this year's mayoral crop, don't it?
City Attorney: Peter Holmes
My Take: Nobody likes Tom Carr.
State Initiative 1033: No.
My Take: Tim Eyman is a swollen douchebag and liberals in King County know it.
Seattle School Board, District 5: Mary Bass
My take: Mary Bass is lovely, even though she can sit on the lonely side of school-board votes.
City Council, Position 2 (held by Richard Conlin): Richard Conlin and David Ginsberg
My Take: Conlin's a slam dunk.
City Council, Position 4 (being vacated by Jan Drago): David Bloom and Dorsol Plants
My Take: Sally Bagshaw will cream both of these guys.
City Council, Position 6: Nick Licata, incumbent
My Take: Burn on Kaplan, the business candidate.
City Council, Position 8 (being vacated by Richard McIver): David Miller and Bobby Forch
My Take: Anyone's game.
County Executive: Larry Phillips and Dow Constantine
My Take: Really, King County Dems? I mean, Jesus, pick one of them, get behind him, and kick Susan Hutchison's ass already.
Politics New Poll in County Exec. Race
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:52 PM
County Council Member Dow Constantine's edgy strategy to pull forward in the race for King County Executive—by repeatedly pointing out that frontrunner Susan Hutchison is a conservative Republican—seems to be paying off, a poll conducted by KING 5 News and released on its 5:00 p.m. tonight broadcast shows. Constantine has gained five points, jumping to second place from third place, which he held in KING's last poll on June 5. The other leading Democrat, County Council Member Larry Phillips, has lost two points since that poll, slipping from second to third. Under new rules, county candidates aren't required to disclose party affiliation. These are the numbers:
• Hutchison — 41%
• Constantine — 12%
• Phillips — 7%
• Hunter — 6%
• Jarrett — 4%
• Goodspaceguy — 3%
• Lippman — 2%
• Lobdell — 2%
• Undecided — 23%
If Constantine can hold second place through the August 18 top-two primary, he will proceed to the November ballot. That would be good: He could maintain his attack on Hutchison into the general election.
"I think we are seeing a sign that it is turning into a two-person race: Dow versus Susan," says Sandeep Kaushik, a spokesman for Constantine's campaign, who forwarded these poll results to The Stranger. (More on Constantine's strategy in an article this week.) "Dow Constantine has been the only Democrat in the race willing to point out that stealth conservative candidate Susan Hutchison’s right-wing beliefs and affiliations," he says.
In a game based largely on name recognition—a game that gives former news anchor Hutchison an advantage—Constantine's efforts to get his name into the press could be earning him name identification and allowing him to shoulder past Phillips. But talking about her in the press could also be helping bolster name recognition for Hutchison, who gained more than any other candidate—seven points since the last poll. However, if Constantine keeps up his attack, Democrats who blindly supported Hutchison based on name recognition could get wise and shift their support to another candidate.
News "The 37th president would have aborted the 44th."
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Will we ever not have Nixon to kick around anymore?
Crime Re: Did You Ever Hear the One About...
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM
We can all agree that prison-rape jokes aren't funny... although I'm afraid to delve into the comments thread on Dom's post. Surely some of our fans have unearthed examples of prison-rape jokes that appeared on Slog or in our pages. But I would like to carve out one exception to the prison-rape-jokes-aren't-funny rule: the fate of homicidal gay bashers who go to prison for life is still funny.
Right, Dom?
I realize that there are a whole lot of syllables in "situational homosexuality"—you could even call it a mouthful (GET IT?!?!?!)—but familiarizing potential gay bashers with the concept might cut down on anti-gay violence.
In other crime-and-punishment news... apparently you can beat up a cop in Seattle—beat him so badly he's left with permanent brain damage—and be sentenced to time-served and a little community service.
UPDATE: Says "Do You Get That, Dan?" in comments...
"situational homosexuality"—another way of saying that homosexuality is something people choose to do and not what they are.
I engaged in a great deal of "situational heterosexuality" in high school—I participated in heterosexual sex acts under duress, in an effort to pass myself off as straight. Which just goes to show you that heterosexuality is something people can choose to do, DYGTD, even when it's not who they are.
Books You Might Want to Go to the Library Tomorrow
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:32 PM
In this week's book section, I talk about some proposed new Seattle Public Library policies that could affect the poor, immigrants, and people in need of ESL and other literacy materials. It's caused a mini-shitstorm in the comments about personal responsibility and whether it's the library's responsibility to carry DVDs and other materials.
In the story, there's a quote by Most Famous Librarian Ever/SPL alumnus Nancy Pearl. Space constraints meant I couldn't run the whole statement in full, so I'd like to run it here:
The library's in an impossible position, and learning and literacy will suffer for it. Adding new fees will of course reduce reading — it always does. Raising money on the backs of children and immigrants as these proposed fees do will hurt people with no voice in the political process. And when the recession is over, nobody's going to go back and reduce these fees.
But what's SPL supposed to do? We have a situation in Seattle where our libraries compete for funds with police, fire, road repairs, public health and everything else on the City budget. The most effective library finances are in those communities with a separate library district, like King County, or where library funding comes off the top, like San Francisco. Seattle needs to move out of the municipal budget fight. That work should begin now and the library board should start it.
Personally, if the library has to take cuts now I would prefer to see the cuts not be directed at children and immigrants. Let's take the cuts where they are politically painful. That way we stand a better chance of seeing the funding restored when the economy gets better."
If you have the afternoon free tomorrow and you'd like to make your voice heard on the issue, the Library Board will be meeting tomorrow at 4:30 pm on level 4 of the Central Library. Representatives from the Library have sent me an agenda for the meeting and the new policies are the first item to be discussed. Whether you're for or against the policies, I hope to see you there.
??!! Closure
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Remember the girl who said she fell asleep in the tattoo parlor and the artist somehow tattooed 56 stars on her face?
She said she lied because her father was "furious".Vlaeminck only made her admission after being caught on a hidden camera by Belgium TV show De Jakhalzen.
(Via Geekologie.)
Sports Banned
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Eventually, they came for the soccer players who wore green wrist-bands:
Their gesture attracted worldwide comment and drew the attention of football fans to Iran's political turmoil. Now the [Iranian] authorities have taken revenge by imposing life bans on players who sported green wristbands in a recent World Cup match in protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.According to the pro-government newspaper Iran, four players — Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein Ka'abi, 24 and Vahid Hashemian, 32 — have been "retired" from the sport after their gesture in last Wednesday's match against South Korea in Seoul.
Also: How smart is this?
Books On Rotten
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Local movie reviewer Robert Horton is co-writing a new comic book called Rotten for Moonstone Comics. You can read the first few pages of the comic here.
The premise is, basically, cowboys vs. zombies. Sure, there are a couple of secret agents and prostitutes thrown in, and some suggestions that Rutherford B. Hayes was the George W. Bush of his day ("...that fuck, Ruther-Fraud B. Hayes ain't my president!" a cowboy says, as if to underline the point), but it's basically 52 pages of full-color zombie slaughtering. Personally, in part due to this book, I'm getting really tired of zombies. Everyone keeps saying that zombies are played out and then zombies keep coming back like...well, zombies.
But this is a well-put together comic book. Part of the saving grace is the art, by Dan Dougherty, who also colored the comic. His linework is clean and clear, and he's got kind of an early Dave Gibbons vibe, which is, to me, a really fine goal for any genre comics artist. But the writing, too, is solid and entertaining. You can't just zip through the issue the way you can with most modern comics. It's a pretty dense read for a four-color floppy book. and if you like horror or western comics, this is definitely worth your time.
Chow This Week in the Chow Section: E.N.D. and Captain Blacks
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM
You may be interested to learn of the existence of the wine bar/awesome bistro Elemental Next Door, a place for people who like Elemental@Gasworks but don't want to spend as much and don't want to deal with E@G's overbearing owner/server/sommelier Phred. (E.N.D. is reviewed over here.) Our own Jen Graves loves Phred's style of service—it is she to whom I referred at the end of this piece*:
Then there are those who like being dominated at the table, who actively want it, who can't get enough. A woman I know (a very opinionated woman, a champion of critical thinking, of argument, of choice in all areas of life) loves it. She's happy to be released from decision-making at dinner, and the attendant helplessness—the idea that someone is going to anticipate and provide for her needs without her even having to select a seat or look at a menu—is a balm, an ecstasy. Elemental@Gasworks—where owner/waitperson/sommelier Phred Westfall has made domineering an art form—is her all-time favorite restaurant. "I want to be told what to do," she said.
But if you want the same food, less attitude, Elemental Next Door (featuring the marvelous cooking of Allyss Dillon, pictured) is there for you.
Also, I saw our own Larry Mizell kicking it on the back deck at Captain Blacks. (Lots more info on Captain Blacks is over here.) He and I corresponded about the chicken and waffles, and we're in agreement:
BJC: i didn't think the chicken and waffles was all that—what's up with no bones?—but the deck's nice.LM: seriously. no dark meat @ a chicken & waffle spot? is it opposite day?
* And, by the way, my prediction in it has come somewhat true: Poppy has added several different thali options to its menu at various price points, and the Corson Building has begun a non-prix-fixe service on Wednesdays that costs around the same as Sitka & Spruce.
Photo by Kelly O.
City / Sex / Life If You Can Think of a Better Way to Celebrate Father's Day and Summer Solstice Simultaneously, I'd Like to Hear It
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM
This just in from Last Days' Hot Tipper Spenser:
This may be too late of a tip for this week's Stranger but I am compelled to share. On Sunday June 21 (Father's Day AND Summer Solstice) I was driving eastbound on Mercer towards I-5 to go to a wedding with my girlfriend. We got slowed up in traffic in front of one of those newish office buildings. Though the windows are mirrored, the light was hitting the glass in such a way that we could see through the window pane and spotted a guy on the first floor of the building wildly masturbating into a potted plant. He had his shirt pulled up to prevent sperm blotching, his shorts were pulled to his knees, and he was staring out at traffic while crouched over the potted plant. Bam! The shock of that sight resulted in instant tabula rasa and provided a juicy story to share with everybody at the wedding. I told the groom it was a good omen but he seemed a bit skeptical.Cheers!
Money This Will Not End Well
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM
PayPal is launching a new service called Do Stuff For Money. It's basically an eBay for dares.
Your dare will appear via e-mail or Facebook, and also on the website for everyone to see. It's not much of a site—just a form to fill out—but it probably won't be long before it turns into a big prostitution-off.
Crime Did You Ever Hear the One About...
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Isn't prisoner rape funny? Man, it's so funny. Ask movie and television writers; they'll tell ya. So these Debbie Downers at the New York Times ought to start rolling with the punchlines:
A Congressional commission plans to issue recommendations on Tuesday for standards to reduce sexual assaults in the nation’s jails and prisons.The commission cited an estimate by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that 60,500 state and federal prisoners were sexually assaulted in 2007. ...
The commission said it was particularly concerned about sexual assaults among the rising numbers of juveniles confined in adult institutions and among immigrant detainees, many of whom avoid reporting crimes for fear of deportation.
Wait, why is prisoner rape so hilarious again?
PS — No subject should be completely banned from the universe of humor. The problem with prison rape is that, as Americans, our primary exposure to talk about it is as the butt—ha!—of a joke. It's widespread, largely unnoticed, and generally not taken seriously by society or the media. So good on Congress for addressing the problem in earnest.
Savage Love Savage Love Letter of the Day
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:15 PM
I am terrified and possibly scarred for life. Last night I was in the throws of passion with a new man I am seeing. Everything was going great. We were well on our way to third base when I reached down his pants and felt something large and hard. Ordinarily this would delight me, until upon further investigation I realized that his penis was still flaccid. The hard thing I was feeling was actually his scrotum/balls. It was as hard as an apple and similar in size. I am still unsure whether it was one enlarged testicle, two enlarged testicles or a tumor. I was so freaked out by this, that I mumbled something about not being ready yet and I went home. I didn't even bother to put my panties back on. I just grabbed them and put them in my purse.Dan, I have never experienced anything like this and all my Googling has yielded no answers. Can you tell me more about this condition? I have no idea whether he was in any pain but he told me it takes him a little while to become fully erect, which I found a little strange because he is in his mid twenties. Was it wrong of me to bolt? I still haven't decided whether this is really a deal breaker. I need to know more about this condition. Do you think it would have been acceptable to gently ask him what is going on down there? Time is of the essence, please help.
Scared In The City
Call him up. Say, "I'm sorry I acted like such a fucking freak... but, um, what's up with your sack?"
He may know what's up, he may not know what's up. Maybe he hoped that you wouldn't notice his freaky applesack or maybe he doesn't even realize that his sack is so radically different from all other sacks that 1. it could freak a lady out and 2. a doctor needs to take a look. People can be shockingly ignorant about their own bodies.
Finally, SITC, calm the fuck down. His his sack wasn't wearing a hockey mask and coming at you with a machete, was it? Then you really don't have anything to be "terrified" of and it's hard to imagine that you were really scarred for life by the experience. Sheesh.
Questionland Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Film Today in DVD Releases
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM
You guys, Confessions of a Shopaholic is out today! I don't know why you'd need to know about any other new DVD releases, but I'll go over them just the same.
Lindy West was unmoved by Inkheart:
I understand that Brendan Fraser used to have a beautiful boday, and so we put him in the movies. But at this point, isn't he just a semiawkward actor with a regular boday and perma-terrible bangs? Must his great big eyeballs be all up in my juvenile-fiction magical business?Well, THEY ARE.
But she loved Waltz With Bashir:
Attempting to excavate his suppressed memories, Folman recorded interviews with fellow soldiers, journalists, friends, and his therapist; he then animated their accounts in a series of dark, disjointed, somnambular episodes. The finished product is stunning: weird, angular dreams of snarling dogs, bodies wrapped up in shining bundles, yellow skies, silent swimming, sudden death, gigantic women, boys walking out of the sea, and people being swallowed up by shadows. Somehow all of it feels more accurate than any film documentary—certainly one based on painful and foggy recollection—ever could.
There are several classics out today. Charles Mudede calls Last Year at Marienbad "one of the greatest movies ever made." And My Dinner With Andre is out on DVD, too.
Some other notables include Dragon Hunters, a French animated movie about con men (voiced in the American version by Forrest Whitaker and Rob Paulsen) who have to, er, hunt dragons; Simon Says, a horror movie starring Crispin Glover as evil twins; the Morgan Freeman/Antonio Banderas/Robert Forster heist drama The Code; and a documentary titled TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball.
TV series releases include Reba: Season 6, The Girls Next Door: Season 5, and the complete Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoons.
A complete list of releases can be found here.
Homo / News DADT Letter: Jay Inslee Signs On
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:12 PM
This morning I wrote that 77 members of Congress signed a letter sent to President Obama on Monday asking him to use his executive authority to immediately suspend enforcement of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the ban on gays in the military. (Obama can get tips from Janet Napolitano on exercising executive authority.) "It's 76. 76, 76, 76 lawmakers," Slog commenter Shelby corrected me, "77 seems to be a Slog-borne error."
Shelby's right: the original number was 76. But we can up the number of signatories to 77 now. Yesterday I put calls into the offices of the members of the Washington state Congressional delegation who didn't sign on to the letter—our entire congressional delegation save Jim McDermott—and a short time later I got this email back from the office of Rep. Jay Inslee:
Dear Dan,Thanks for the voicemail. It appears that we were unaware of the letter, so I’m glad you called. (Usually, there are many, many letters circulating here on Capitol Hill and constituent feedback helps alert us as to which would be important to the 1st Congressional District and Washington state. We didn’t hear about this letter until after it was sent.)
Jay supports the repeal of the DADT policy. He is an original co-sponsor of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act.Jay supports stopping the investigations immediately, as he believes this policy will eventually be repealed. He believes this is an simple and necessary step that President Obama could do now to show his commitment to this issue, while Congress is currently tied up in health care and energy reform.
Jay will be signing the Hastings letter and sending it to President Obama separately, to show his support.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Torie Brazitis
Press Secretary, Rep. Inslee
So that's 77. And the number could rise to 78 if someone lets Adam Smith know that it's not too late to sign the Hastings letter. Here's the note I got back from Adam's office:
Hey Dan,I checked into your question and essentially the reason we did not sign on to the letter is that the deadline passed, NOT because of the content of the letter. Congressman Smith fully supports the content of the letter and was an original co-sponsored of legislation earlier this year to repeal "don't ask don't tell" all together.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Michael Amato
Director of Communications
Office of Congressman Adam Smith
Asked if Rep. Smith would sign the letter now, Amato responded: "No, unfortunately, once the letter is sent it is sent."
Um... Jay? Would you ask Adam to add his name to the version of the Hastings letter that you're sending the president separately?
Arts / Teh Internets Pugilism
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM
"An animated short that explores the unbelievably cruel but really adorable world of underground pug fighting," courtesy of MetaFilter.
Film Mad Wind Skillz
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I've written about the weird whitewash casting of The Last Airbender, the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan adaptation of the manga/anime of the same name. Well, the first trailer is out:
And it at least looks impressive in a summer-movie kind of way, especially for an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Although the soundtrack, specifically that flute-ish instrument that always plays in kung fu movie trailers, suggests that The Last Airbender is going to have a weird cultural goulash kind of feel. I'm really interested to see what's going to happen with this movie; in a lot of ways, Hollywood has been okay with being subtly racist toward Asian-Americans for a long time now. I've figured that at some point it would reach a tipping point of not-okay-ness. Perhaps The Last Airbender is that point.
Games / International Iran: For the Horde
Posted by Sam Machkovech on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Just got finished reading this analysis of Iran's government-run firewall. Based on his measurements of inbound/outbound traffic types, the author came to a conclusion:
While the rapidly evolving Iranian firewall has blocked web, video and most forms of interactive communication, not all Internet applications appear impacted. Interestingly, game protocols like xbox and World of Warcraft show little evidence of government manipulation.
Good to know some people are hiding out from the madness with their level 80 shamans. Are World of Warcraft or Xbox Live already being employed as the next great means of covert communication, with Iranians telling their stories through crowded chat-logs full of gold-farming requests? Or are these measurements moot, merely proving that Iran's gamers have consistently hidden in their homes, plugged into the addictive ignorance of self-entertainment both before and after the election?
Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie
Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM
A Lunchtime Quickie Double Feature! Two reasons I'm too terrified to ever have any kids...
#1 - Kids Like Ice Cream.
#2 - Kids Like World of Warcraft.
Visual Art Dreaming of Duchamp
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM
This is Joseph Cornell's handwritten account of a dream he had about Marcel Duchamp, from 1968. In the dream, Cornell told Duchamp that Delacroix was visiting New York City, but Duchamp didn't believe him. Cornell then said that Delacroix was putting up at a Parisian hotel, and at that point, Duchamp believed—and decided he wanted to get one of Delacroix's handkerchiefs from him.
Cornell's diary entry is part of a surprisingly rich temporary exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery called Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture. It's up until August 2 and includes more than 100 portraits of the infamous chess player, cross-dresser, and readymade-maker, both by the artist and by other artists, from the early American modernist painter Florine Stettheimer to Warhol, who made a Screen Test of Duchamp shown here on video. Most of Warhol's test subjects were still, or uncomfortable, but Duchamp winks, smokes, smiles, drinks a glass of water, and seems to relate to people offscreen. He owns the joint.
The old favorites are all here (Rrose Selavy, the Monte Carlo soap horns, Baroness Elsa's feather sculpture of Marcel, Duchamp's Wanted posters, the Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz portraits, the double exposures, Jean Crotti's wire cartoon, Brian O'Doherty's actual cardiogram of Duchamp's heartbeat).
Two new favorites: David Hammons's The Holy Bible: Old Testament, from 2002, a finely bound readymade holy book: a reprinting of Arturo Schwarz's catalog raisonné of Duchamp's works. And Frederick Kiesler's 1947 eight-part pencil drawing of Duchamp from life. The artist is wearing a tie but no shirt. His head is huge, his feet small. Each body part is drawn on its own paper, and together, they are all mounted in a large wooden frame about the dimensions of Duchamp's Large Glass. (I wish MoMA, which owns it, had an image up.)
Film Goat Glands and a Bad Night at the Movies
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Last night's showing of The Godless Girl at the Paramount was a bad night at the silent movies. Before the show, several people were protesting Seattle Theater Group, the nonprofit group that produces shows at the Paramount and the Moore, for not contracting "the legendary" Dennis James to play the Paramount's Wurlitzer organ during this silent movie program. The protesters handed out pamphlets that read "without Dennis James, it's not Silent Movie Monday."
Instead, STG flew San Francisco organist Jim Riggs up to Seattle yesterday to play the organ during The Godless Girl. Last time I went to Silent Movie Mondays, I called James "probably the best silent movie organist I've ever heard," but I lamented the fact that he read the Wikipedia entry for the movie before the show as an introduction.
Riggs did James one better in annoying pre-show infotainment by reading comments on IMDB posts praising The Godless Girl. He also told us the entire plot of the movie we were ten minutes away from watching, sharing major plot points and interesting lines of dialogue rather than just allowing us to enjoy them. What's more, Riggs' soundtrack for the movie was bland and uninteresting. But after the movie, he gave a very good reason for his poor showing: Riggs informed us that due to his sudden replacement of James, he had never seen The Godless Girl before one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Worse than all that, the Paramount seems to have shown the wrong cut of the movie. Cecil B. DeMille madeThe Godless Girl at the very end of the silent movie era, and the film did very poorly on its release. The panicky studio reassembled the cast and had an actor reshot the ending with sound equipment, pasting a talkie scene onto the end of the movie. In the business, this was known as a "goat gland scene". This website describes the derivation of goat gland:
Goat gland took its name from a surgical procedure developed around 1920 by quack doctor J.R. Brinkley, who implanted goat testes into humans as a way to cure maladies such as impotence, arteriosclerosis, and dementia.
Before the film began, Riggs informed the audience that there was a talkie cut of the film out there, but he assured us that we were witnessing the original cut of the film, "as DeMille intended." But the print of The Godless Girl that ran at the Paramount last night had title cards all through the film until the last five minutes. In the final scene, characters made long monologues, but this particular print of The Godless Girl apparently didn't have the talkie soundtrack attached, so Riggs just played over it and we watched the actors talk mutely with no explanation before the screen went abruptly black. Seemed like a goat gland to me.
I have a call out to Jason Ferguson, the Director of Programming at STG, to ask about the Wurlitzer situation at the Paramount and about the cut of The Godless Girl that they showed last night, and I'll let you know if he gets back to me.
(Photo still from Godless Girl from Teleport City.)
News "I don't even like to think of it as a murder."
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Ann Coulter on the murder of Dr. George Tiller:
What trimester is Ann in anyway?
International Lost in the Supermarket
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM
The "sea of green" will be going undercover, en masse, for a bazaar strike. Mousavi to Twitterland (via persiankiwi via Sullivan):
Mousavi - We will not expend any more energy talking to the Gov in the streets - we must change course #Iranelection breaking news RT RT RTMousavi - From Today every morning at 9am WE ALL travel to Tehran Bazaar - whatever reaction from Gov - Bazaar will close
Mousavi - stop all work and travel with friends & family toward Tehran Bazaar every day at 9am
Mousavi - do NOT wear green - dress normally - bring your children - if stopped u are ONLY going shopping
Mousavi - the objective is to bring Tehran to standstill - millions of people go shopping but NOBODY SHOPPING
Mousavi - There is nothing to fear - if asked - YOU ARE ONLY GOING SHOPPING
Mousavi - no matter what the reaction of the Gov - the Bazaar will close or be at standstill
Further instructions on this Facebook page:
Take everyone with you. Bring the children, too —without any slogans-without green signs-without sit-ins; pretending to go shopping but not buying anything. We will only think of shutting down the bazaar, but do not leave any traces, not even a victory sign by our hands. NOT AT ALL.We will only think of victory. Bring the children, all the towns of Iran, without slogans, without slogans, without slogans, quietly, quietly, quietly, without greens, without sit-ins, without fighting. If anyone starts quarrels or shouts, we will not join because we pretend to be going shopping. There is no need to fear, and everyone will come.
No fights, no bloodshed, no slogans, no sit-ins. If they prevent us, we simply return because we mean to shut down the bazaar, not to assemble. If they shoot tear gas, the bazaar will close. We will act smartly and will not engage in any sort of fights although if any fighting happens the bazaar will close due to insecurity. But we will not engage in any fights, and calmly and solely think of victory.
Questionland Burning Question
Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM
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