Not So Fast: The Justice Department is considering a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law.
Friends in Low Places: The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing was likely working with the Taliban movement in Pakistan, President Obama’s top terrorism adviser announced this morning.
Happy Mother’s Day: Casey Anthony, accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, is back in court this week for crucial hearings that could determine whether she will face the death penalty.
Happy Un-Mother’s Day! Today is not only Mother’s Day — it is also the 50th anniversary of The Pill, the oral contraceptive birth control. Happy birthday and thank you for a well-spent 50 years!
Seattle Slash Attack: A man’s neck was slashed in an attack at Third and Bell Friday night; the assault “appears to be drug related.”
An Oily Past: Despite repeated promises to reform, BP continues to lag other oil companies when it comes to safety.
Stop Drawing Parallels: Listen to NPR discuss why the Gulf oil spill can’t be compared to Katrina here.
Progressive: Givenchy’s new add features a transsexual model!
Will the Internet Kill Traditional Car Radio? Listen to the debate here. On the Internet.
Oops: A man who was driving the wrong way on Interstate 405 Wednesday evening caused two accidents, including one that resulted in injuries to a trooper.
Fast Food Vigilantes: Bremerton Police say McDonald’s employees thwarted a robbery attempt by tackling a man who demanded money and threatened to shoot employees. Police were “pleased the suspect was apprehended quickly, but cautioned against people taking such matters into their own hands.”
Leave it to Obama to fly in the face of popular laws created by the People:
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stori…
“A national poll shows 59 percent of Americans support Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.:
Well, having 59% of the people against it didn’t stop him from shoving health care down everyone’s throat either, so we shouldn’t be surprised.
Ooooowww… Da hataz are out in force dis morn!
Happy Mom’s day 2 any Mother’s out there!
If we had waited for popular opinion to make policy, we’d all still be living in Ye Olde Colonial Times, paying our tributes to the British royalty, and generally not living past the age of forty.
Times change, dears – and the enlightened always have to drag the morons along, kicking and screaming. Once they find out that the world didn’t actually end, the morons decide they like it the way it is, and that don’t want any more change, and we repeat the process all over again.
Just so long as Obama keeps the government’s hands off medicare and doesn’t let it go socialist, we’ll be OK.
Oh, wait, waitaminute…
Oh, I’m all for change, Catalina. For starters, how’s about we start enforcing the laws that are already on the books? That would be a refreshing change.
HERP DE DERP DERF DERF DERRRRRR
RE: Lea T, the tranny model. I’d totally hit that.
Damn, that model is hot.
@8:
“tranny model” my arse. Try “the model who happens to be transsexual” or just “the [new Givenchy] model”.
Quick:
Comedian Wyatt Cenac: black comedian or comedian who happens to be black? Comedian Margaret Cho: Korean-American comedian or American comedian of Korean parents? Satirist David Sedaris: gay satirist, or satirist who happens to be gay?
Oh yeah, one more: gay columnist Dan Savage: gay columnist or columnist of the gay?
“The Crown rests.”
@10 – I agree w/you that labelling Lea T. that way out of hand is rude, but disagree with your premise.
I never heard of Wyatt Cenac before, but I would definitely call Margaret Cho a Korean-American comedian and David Sedaris a gay satirist, in that they both use that aspect of themselves as an integral part of their material.
Lea T. could decide to market herself as a Tranny Model, if she wants to. Unless you’re objecting to the term “tranny” (not clear from your post), in which case I hereby shut up.
“Tranny model” is only appropriate if she’s modeling the latest Allison Rugged Duty, but auto modeling is the last stop before dishing out little plastic cups of food samples at the mall.
Oh, but on the realz, I must say this really really quickly: HIGH FASHION MODELS, PLEASE REINTRODUCE YOURSELF TO YOUR EYEBROWS.
Thank you.
@11: I dunno. I think of David Sedaris as just a satirist. I probably listened to him on TAL for about three years before I really ever gave it much thought that, oh right, he’s gay. He’s just funny — funny enough to pay for seats to see him sit on a stage stool and tell stories. On Margaret, maybe you’ve a point. Original case stands: “tranny” is reserved for three things: MIADs (men in a dress, transgenders, and so on), photographic film positives, and vehicles.
“Tranny” has sand and ripple to do with transsexual people.
@12: Christ pickle, you persistently crack me up. Like not ‘lol”, but “vlol” — vocally so.
@13: My gripe was less on her brows (which yeah, thickish, plz 2 see waxer) and more on her throat: “Deer Lea: ur doin it wrong.” She could get that dealt with for comfortably less than a grand.
Christ, if we can afford a few million for the Aurora Suicide Fence, how about we put Severe Tire Damage spikes on all the freeway entrances, so that if you try to drive the wrong way down them, all four tires instantly deflate? At least the Aurora jumpers kill only themselves.
@15: Maybe they should replace all the red/white “WRONG WAY” signs with photos of a stuck cat with block “UR DOIN IT RONG” letter treatment (yes, I’m on a repetitive roll tonight).
Then have spikes another 200m ahead where the ramp is about to begin — or for them, end wrong.
@14: She’s just going to end up with a gravelly voice after 10 model years (3 human months) of consuming her weight in the standard slight-is-flattering model diet of whiskey, bread crumbs and cucumber stems (piquant with a hint of dirt). Don’t be fooled, every model gets that voice; it takes a lot of tea and hundreds of takes to get them on film without it.
Heidi Klum actually sounds like some turned on a washing machine full of tin cans and bricks. Thank god for Autotune and on-the-spot larynx injections.
“MAKE UP! SPARKLES! SASSY SARDONIC WITTICISM FROM GAY COHORT! LARYNX EXFOLIATION! Chop chop, Alexandre, I have 3 lunch meetings with Tyra, Perez and a bird.”
@17: Oh, I wasn’t even thinking about vox. And that which I mentioned above doesn’t do a thing for vox. The things models do though knows no bounds. And yes, I’ve done runway modelling. Not my idea of a good time.
And no, Autotune is genuinely the Bernie Madoff of pop music (yes, I’m aware of the “x is the y of z” meme, so kiss it). I eternally resent Cher for popularizing its scourge upon the aural universe.