Respect Authority

“I’ve had a lot of fun with women, and I’m not ashamed of it. The problem is that I also love a well-endowed man. But just because I enjoy women doesn’t mean I’m allowed to have affairs in my relationship. I learned through talking with my therapist that it is still cheating even if it’s with girls, so there’s a rule there.”

-Fergie, on her husband’s alleged affair with a stripper

“Thinking about how many people I want to kill today, including myself….I hate these people. I want to kick the shit out of them. They’re idiots. …They revere me as God. Even though I hate them, they still love me….I can’t wait until it rains again so I can splash more people.”

-Facebook posts from NYC bus driver Jeremy Philhower, who hit and killed a college student last week

“These universities are saying, ‘Our policy is nondiscrimination, so we’re not going to adopt a technology we know for sure discriminates against blind students.’”

-A National Federation for the Blind spokesman on schools that have stopped buying Amazon Kindles because they cannot be used by blind students

Washington responsibilities “were incompatible with running a full-fledged, full-throated Weiner-style campaign.”

-New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, on why he dropped out of the NYC mayor’s race

Obama's probably going to win

See that graph? That’s what a near certain victory looks like. Unless Obama wears a turban for Halloween, he’s got the keys to the White House. So it’s time to think about who he’s taking with him.

Well, it’s time for us to start wondering who’s going with him. Clearly everyone else has already covered this gimmick. And, well I’ve already typed far too many characters to stop now. Deal with it.

Here goes, RA’s own Obama Cabinet Staff Prediction 2009. Read More ›

Just a few hours before community groups were to air ads decrying NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s plan to run for a third term, the Times ran a big-ass article today detailing Rep. Anthony Weiner’s plans to publicly lambaste the proposal, while simultaneously and unsurprisingly putting together his own mayoral run.

The article’s lead-in about the notoriously dogged representative (who is clearly making up for a lot of childhood insecurities) describes Weiner as “sitting in a back corner of a Starbucks in Lower Manhattan, a cell phone headset tethered to his ear, a set of talking points in front of him and 15 bloggers on the line waiting for his latest attack on the mayor’s plan.”

There is so much about this picture that I find un-mayoral. Why doesn’t Weiner have coffee delivered to him, in an office? Why does he wear a cell phone headset? In fact, why does he deign to speak to anyone over the phone directly at all? Granted, my perception of New York’s mayor is in part formed with Bloomberg in mind. But this election won’t be about term limits, or experience, or approval ratings. Weiner couldn’t, or at least shouldn’t, ever win, even if Bloomberg were to personally detonate a nuclear bomb in the Empire State Building. First, because he looks a little like Paulie Shore with AIDS, and second because no one could ever take this city seriously if we had a Mayor Weiner.

[NY Times]