Christie’s just sold this photo at auction for a record setting $4.3 million. No, really. They did. No offense to Mr. Gursky (the “artist”), who no doubt worked long and hard to surgically remove any element of even passing interest from the picture, but WTF? Look, I’m all for “different” approaches to landscape photography and…
Category: Random Rants
Across the United States, common sense is being replaced by ignorant, institutionalized paranoia, and as a consequence, professional grade morons with guns are empowered (and paid for by the tax payers) to impersonate law enforcement personnel and arrest random people merely for taking pictures in public.Which. Is. Not. Illegal. Now, it would be one thing…
Oakland has lots of reason to regret their choice of Attila the Quan as mayor. After sending her paramilitary police in to clear out the Occupy Wall Street protesters using any means necessary, Jean Quan is now all, “Oh, hey, I’m totally for what you’re doing; let’s have a friendly conversation about this”: We have…
It’s pretty hard to lower the bar further for the Washington Post, really. Largely irrelevant as a source of genuine news, so thoroughly and willingly corrupted has it become by its position as the beltway’s primary propaganda outlet, that it is little more than a relic of a time where print mattered and journalists were…
Okay, if I hear or see another ad hyping some random pink-i-fied product I may just have to scream. Seriously. The ridiculous pinkwashing campaign spearheaded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation is now more than ever a meaningless marketing gimmick undertaken with cynical profit-hungry companies, foisted on gullible consumers eager to “make a difference” while …
I was going to snark away at the economics of this — I mean, how can you not? After all, here’s a solid Red State, supposedly home of fiscally conservative tea-bagging patriot who are all for free market economy (albeit with an old-school southern D at the helm — which I guess is basically a…
So, even flush with untold billions of dollars and zero oversight, the Pentagon still sucks like a turbo-charged vacuum. Their latest billion dollar toy, the unmaned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) built by our very dear friends at Lockheed Martin (“bringing death to untold millions while milking US tax payers for billions”) failed DARPA…
Drew Westen’s op ed in the NYT (“What Happened to Obama?”) is interesting, especially for the New York Times — it’s about as close as they have come to finally considering the obvious: it’s not that Sir Change-a-Lot is bad a negotiating or overwhelmed by the Republicans; it’s not that he doesn’t know what he…
Says Sir Change-a-Lot: This is the United States of America and no matter what some agency may says we always have been and always will be a triple A country. Despite all our challenges we still have the best universities, some of the most productive workers, the most innovative companies, the most adventurous entrepreneurs on…
Ah, the Hartford Police are at it again: winning the hearts and minds of their victims customers one swift whack with a night stick at a time. This time some random and apparently very benign traffic incident leads to yet another ridiculous round of abuse of power and authority. As the police work hard to…
