Barack Obama has a posse…and Larry Lessig’s in it. Click here or the image below to go to Larry Lessig’s blog, where he’s posted a video titled 20 Minutes or So On Why I am 4Barack.
“Posse” image courtesy of OBEY.
Category Archives: America
Super Tuesday Post #2
February 5, 2008 – 10:45 am
Super Tuesday Post #1
February 5, 2008 – 10:27 am
Courtesy of Boing Boing and photographed by Sean Bonner in Los Angeles, here’s what’s quite possibly the most plain-and-simple political poster you’ll see:
Click the photo to see the original on its Flickr page.
My Favourite Political T-Shirt: “Bros Before Hoes”
January 28, 2008 – 12:35 pm
T-Shirt Hell makes some outrageously offensive (but sometimes funny) t-shirts, and this one’s my current favourite:
Click the photo to see the order page.
Perhaps We Shouldn’t Have Welcomed Them as Liberators
January 14, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Over at the blog Cathartic Relief, there’s an interesting alternate-future-history story that takes place 8 years after the Chinese invaded America in the summer of 2008. I’m sure it’ll get readers riled up in all sorts of different ways; feel free to sound off in the comments!
Some excerpts:
It’s been eight years now. Eight long years. [...]
Ru Paul in 2008!
January 11, 2008 – 9:58 am
Given that the average public bathroom has more gay Republicans than clean hand towels these days, perhaps it’s time for them to put this candidate in the ring:
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
“Wait for it…Wait for it…”
January 10, 2008 – 7:48 pm
Here are two very different photos with the same theme. Cue the theme from Jaws!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Photo from Corbis, via Miss Fipi Lele.
You are the 9th Most Loathsome Person in America
December 26, 2007 – 12:56 pm
…well, according to The Beast’s list of the 50 most loathsome people in America for 2007, anyway. (And yes, we’ve got loathsome types of this sort in Canada as well.)
You
Charges
You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system [...]
The Trouble with Hillary
December 18, 2007 – 1:45 pm
The lines in the last panel of the comic below sum up everything wrong with Hillary Clinton’s campaign:
Democrat 1: We need to choose a nominee who fills voters with a sense of profound ambivalence!
Democrat 2: Yes — preferably one with high negatives and excessive baggage!
Democrat 1: White House, here we come!
