Useful word

PETAmania: Supporting a good cause by saying something stupid and hateful about a different oppressed group. Example, from Gawker

Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies.

Cross-posted to spellfecker

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Don't buy at Whole Foods

Thanx to necturus

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Jesse Taylor suggests we sell National Health like soap.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Graffiti old and new

A Henry Jenkins post on Jokerizing pictures of one's political enemies reminded me of one of the intellectual ancestors of that practice: drawing boy and girl bits on subway ads. Which in turn inspired me to look up Edward Field's poem on the subject. (Scroll down; warning: uses Language.)

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Even The New York Times suspects that the Death Panel craziness was not spontaneously generated or brought by the stork, but rather is the bastard offspring of Big Insurance.

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It is apparently careless and negligent to trust a Marriott hotel.

Thanx to Jezebel.