He is not a savior to our city. He is a asshole chauvinist and a classist, land-sucking, new money idiot.
Seriously, he is on his way to proving that prejudicial notion that Black men are only successful when they play sports or rap. And once they are, they screw only white women and build tacky homes that bona fide (read: old money) wealthy people would never live in. I can't wait for the horrifying MTV Cribs special.
Friday, March 30, 2007
If I had a million dollars....
Slate directed me to an op-ed piece in today's NYT that features a great chart detailing line items in our glorious House and Senate's proposed budget. Some excerpts:
Senate:
$100 million for GOP and Donkey national conventions
compared to
$25 million for Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
$2 million for Ugandan peace process
compared to
$3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol
compared to
$214 million for Kosovo assistance
House:
$74 million for peanut storage
compared to
$4 million for the Office of Women's Health
compared to
$5 million for the breeding, feeding and transporting of live fish
$500 million for emergency wildfire suppression
compared to
$400 million for rural schools
And don't worry, Milk Contact Loss Program, you're getting $283 million dollars if the House gets its way!
Besides the troop withdrawal deadline debate, I suspect there will some filibustering around this little diddy: "Allow transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop", which is a line item all by itself.
For more taxpayer money wasting, see this awesome post by Sir Timothy.
Senate:
$100 million for GOP and Donkey national conventions
compared to
$25 million for Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
$2 million for Ugandan peace process
compared to
$3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol
compared to
$214 million for Kosovo assistance
House:
$74 million for peanut storage
compared to
$4 million for the Office of Women's Health
compared to
$5 million for the breeding, feeding and transporting of live fish
$500 million for emergency wildfire suppression
compared to
$400 million for rural schools
And don't worry, Milk Contact Loss Program, you're getting $283 million dollars if the House gets its way!
Besides the troop withdrawal deadline debate, I suspect there will some filibustering around this little diddy: "Allow transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop", which is a line item all by itself.
For more taxpayer money wasting, see this awesome post by Sir Timothy.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Fashion Victim
In a face-off between feminists and fashionistas, NOW's recent e-newsletter patted itself on the back for their work in getting D&G to pull this ad. They called it "stylized gang-rape".
Spain and members of the Italian parliment agreed. Actually if you go here, you can see all kinds of ads that have been labeled offensive to women. D&G designers said the ad reflected "an erotic dream, or a sexual game." I think NOW is asking, if it is a sexual game, who is making the rules in this pic, and if it is a fantasy, in who's head is it playing?
I have to admit that sexism in ads is ever-present, but I also have to admit that the advert is hot. The Moxster wishes she had erotic dreams like this because sleep would be all the more pleasureable.
How can we find a safe line between sexy and sexist?
Players' nonchalance a sign of progress
Female ump to work MLB exhibition game
By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Tue Mar 27, 5:11 PM ET
A rookie fresh from the minors is about to change the face of baseball: A female umpire is set to work a major league exhibition game for the first time in almost 20 years.
Ria Cortesio, ready to start the season in Double-A, will be on the bases Thursday for a game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs in Mesa, Ariz.
"I'm looking forward to it," she said Monday night. "There will be a lot more people in the stands than I'm used to."
No female umpire has ever worked in the majors during the regular season. Pam Postema was the last woman ump to call big league exhibitions, back in 1989 — she was in spring training for two years before getting released.
Cortesio is the only female umpire in professional baseball. At 30, she is starting her ninth year overall and fifth in Double-A.
Slender and athletic, she cut her ponytail a few years ago so she wouldn't stand out on the field. She also uses a low grunt to call strikes.
"It's awesome," Cubs star Derrek Lee said. "I think it's about time. Female eyes are as good as male eyes. Why can't they be umpires? Good for her."
Triple-A and Double-A umpires routinely join major league crews in spring training, especially when extra games fill the schedule.
"I was kind of expecting it," Cortesio said. "Umpires with my seniority usually get picked."
Cortesio has been working minor league exhibition games in Arizona this month. This week, she'll move over to HoHoKam Park when a Diamondbacks split squad plays Chicago.
Cubs reliever Scott Eyre liked the idea.
"She's doing our game? Oh, cool," he said. "How do I feel about it? I could care less. If she can call a game, she can call a game."
"If she rings somebody up for me, I don't care. You know what I mean? I wouldn't have a problem with it," he said.
Cortesio was on a big league field last season for All-Star festivities at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. She called the Futures Game for minor league prospects, then worked the Home Run Derby the next night.
Cortesio started her umpiring career in the Pioneer League, yet doesn't trumpet herself as a pioneer in a profession dominated by men.
"I don't do this job to get on TV," she said last July. "But I hope it will raise the awareness a little."
She later worked in the Florida State League. There, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner once criticized her strike zone after she worked a game that Roger Clemens pitched while recuperating from an injury.
For several years, she's been an instructor at the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring.
This year, Cortesio hopes to move to Triple-A — she's on deck for promotion when the next vacancy occurs. Once umpires reach Triple-A, they are evaluated by major league supervisors, rather than minor league staff.
Life in Double-A isn't luxurious. Last year, she made about $2,600 a month for the six-month season and her per diem was $25, with her hotel room paid for; big league umps can earn well over $100,000 and get $357 daily to pay for their meals and hotel.
Plus, there's the travel. Major league umpires jet around the country, a three-person crew in the Southern League drives itself 24,000 miles over a full season.
All that, and no guarantee they'll ever make the majors because jobs rarely open up. Fact is, a player in Double-A has a much better chance of reaching the big leagues than an umpire.
Mike Winters will lead Cortesio's crew Thursday. It'll mark the first time she's worked a game with a major league umpire.
"I think I'm as excited about that as anything," she said.
___
AP Sports Writer Rick Gano in Tempe, Ariz., contributed to this report
By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Tue Mar 27, 5:11 PM ET
A rookie fresh from the minors is about to change the face of baseball: A female umpire is set to work a major league exhibition game for the first time in almost 20 years.
Ria Cortesio, ready to start the season in Double-A, will be on the bases Thursday for a game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs in Mesa, Ariz.
"I'm looking forward to it," she said Monday night. "There will be a lot more people in the stands than I'm used to."
No female umpire has ever worked in the majors during the regular season. Pam Postema was the last woman ump to call big league exhibitions, back in 1989 — she was in spring training for two years before getting released.
Cortesio is the only female umpire in professional baseball. At 30, she is starting her ninth year overall and fifth in Double-A.
Slender and athletic, she cut her ponytail a few years ago so she wouldn't stand out on the field. She also uses a low grunt to call strikes.
"It's awesome," Cubs star Derrek Lee said. "I think it's about time. Female eyes are as good as male eyes. Why can't they be umpires? Good for her."
Triple-A and Double-A umpires routinely join major league crews in spring training, especially when extra games fill the schedule.
"I was kind of expecting it," Cortesio said. "Umpires with my seniority usually get picked."
Cortesio has been working minor league exhibition games in Arizona this month. This week, she'll move over to HoHoKam Park when a Diamondbacks split squad plays Chicago.
Cubs reliever Scott Eyre liked the idea.
"She's doing our game? Oh, cool," he said. "How do I feel about it? I could care less. If she can call a game, she can call a game."
"If she rings somebody up for me, I don't care. You know what I mean? I wouldn't have a problem with it," he said.
Cortesio was on a big league field last season for All-Star festivities at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. She called the Futures Game for minor league prospects, then worked the Home Run Derby the next night.
Cortesio started her umpiring career in the Pioneer League, yet doesn't trumpet herself as a pioneer in a profession dominated by men.
"I don't do this job to get on TV," she said last July. "But I hope it will raise the awareness a little."
She later worked in the Florida State League. There, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner once criticized her strike zone after she worked a game that Roger Clemens pitched while recuperating from an injury.
For several years, she's been an instructor at the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring.
This year, Cortesio hopes to move to Triple-A — she's on deck for promotion when the next vacancy occurs. Once umpires reach Triple-A, they are evaluated by major league supervisors, rather than minor league staff.
Life in Double-A isn't luxurious. Last year, she made about $2,600 a month for the six-month season and her per diem was $25, with her hotel room paid for; big league umps can earn well over $100,000 and get $357 daily to pay for their meals and hotel.
Plus, there's the travel. Major league umpires jet around the country, a three-person crew in the Southern League drives itself 24,000 miles over a full season.
All that, and no guarantee they'll ever make the majors because jobs rarely open up. Fact is, a player in Double-A has a much better chance of reaching the big leagues than an umpire.
Mike Winters will lead Cortesio's crew Thursday. It'll mark the first time she's worked a game with a major league umpire.
"I think I'm as excited about that as anything," she said.
___
AP Sports Writer Rick Gano in Tempe, Ariz., contributed to this report
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Stuff I think about #5
Lady bosses are crazy.
One liked to do donuts in parking lots while driving her '86 Oldsmobile.
One raises chickens in her backyard.
One was caught taking a big poop in a Rocknes' restaurant bathroom.
One is dating my ex's ex.
One is buying a red motorcycle to match her nails.
One liked to do donuts in parking lots while driving her '86 Oldsmobile.
One raises chickens in her backyard.
One was caught taking a big poop in a Rocknes' restaurant bathroom.
One is dating my ex's ex.
One is buying a red motorcycle to match her nails.
Stuff I think about #4
First Elizabeth Edwards, now Tony Snow. The irony is not lost on me who thinks this is some highly calculated campaign move orchestrated by the Republicans....(maybe even Hillary) to take the spotlight off of John Edwards and his campaign.
Feel better Mr. Snow, but I will be watching you.
Feel better Mr. Snow, but I will be watching you.
My new blogger crush
So I was seeking advice on office politics from the archives of the Brazen Careerist, when I came across this blog. He is officially my new crush. How can you not love a man who has this quote as his header: "You are members of a cult, is the thing. And the cult is called 'the United States of America.'"
*sigh*
*eyelash batting*
*sigh*
*eyelash batting*
Racial preference is a matter of taste
For some strange reason, I'm a little proud. Hmph.
(Excerpt from What is the Flavor of Human Flesh? by Gary Allen)
Anthropologist Jeremy MacClancy described the taste of human flesh -- based not upon his own experience, mind you, but upon the testimony of some of the natives of the New Hebrides islands of the South Pacific:
"From all accounts, human meat is very sweet, in Vanuatu, they say that the flesh of a black man is sweet, whereas the flesh of a white man is really quite salty and stringy, they say it's not so nice."[2]
(Excerpt from What is the Flavor of Human Flesh? by Gary Allen)
Anthropologist Jeremy MacClancy described the taste of human flesh -- based not upon his own experience, mind you, but upon the testimony of some of the natives of the New Hebrides islands of the South Pacific:
"From all accounts, human meat is very sweet, in Vanuatu, they say that the flesh of a black man is sweet, whereas the flesh of a white man is really quite salty and stringy, they say it's not so nice."[2]
Monday, March 26, 2007
New Loves of My Life
"Bring It" from the Snakes on a Plane motion picture soundtrack. Featuring the lead singers from: Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, The Sounds and The Academy is.... Haven't seen the movie, but doesn't the title pretty much cover it?
Friday, March 23, 2007
beggars can't be choosers
From Women's eNews: Vienna, Austria, has launched a campaign to place signs in all city buildings that reflect changing gender roles, the Christian Science Monitor reported March 14. Signage will include pictures of men changing diapers and women riding elevators; stickers for reserved seating on public transit will feature elderly women and women with disabilities; and building exit signs feature a woman in a skirt with wind-blown hair.
I'll take whatever progress I can get.
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