cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
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Hmmm. Let's see how the candidates respond to THIS survey: fewer than 10% of women polled last month feel that either Bush or Kerry understands them well.
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Reading list for people like me.
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Garrison Keillor on the transformation of the Republican party:

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous.

We're not in Lake Wobegon anymore.
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Susan Douglas describes reality TV shows you WON'T be seeing on television this fall:

The Policy Swan
Contestants: All of the recent contestants from MTV’s “The Real World,” “Fraternity Life” and “Room Raiders.”

Premise: Who can be transformed from self-absorbed ignoramus to the Policy Swan? Contestants who previously were totally preoccupied with how much beer they could drink in four minutes, or who was really hot, are forced to read newspapers and nonfiction books about politics and the economy, work in homeless shelters and intern with Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, Charlie Rangel or Carl Levin. In the grand finale, they are grilled by Victor Navasky, Paul Krugman and Barbara Ehrenreich, and the winner actually gets a million bucks for being knowledgeable and smart.

Female Eye for Any Guy
Contestants: Any man who thinks feminism is unnecessary, outdated or irrelevant.

Premise: Using some of the surgical and makeup techniques pioneered in Extreme Makeover and The Swan, men are temporarily turned into women, complete with breasts and a uterus. Their challenges include: walking past a construction site, working for Wal-Mart and asking about their promotion plan, nursing a baby while holding down a job, trying to find decent, affordable daycare, living with an abusive and unemployed husband and moving to a homeless shelter with two kids because their welfare benefits have run out. The man who meets these challenges while smiling all the time, getting into Size 4 pants and insisting “I’m not a feminist, but…” wins.

More here.
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Two down, one to go: A second federal judge has found the so-called "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act" unconstitutional.
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The Republican platform planners today voted to make support of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage the official party line. They can kiss the Log Cabin Republicans goodbye.
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Heh. Some midwestern farmers have found a way to discourage thieving meth cooks from stealing their fertilizer: they've begun adding GloTell to their tanks of anhydrous ammonia. Anyone who touches the stuff - or shoots/smokes the end product - ends up with telltale bright pink nose or hands.

link via Writing Fly
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The fine line between being normal and being insane: The Matrix Defense.
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cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
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Sometimes (well, most of the time, actually), I'm really glad that I'm oblivious to fashion trends. I can't imagine wearing these shoes to work.

In a recent conversation about fashion trends with a friend (a man who dresses considerably more stylishly than I do), I made a comment about my dressing like I'm ignorant about current fashion. He said, "No, you don't dress like you're ignorant of fashion. You dress like you just don't care." I'm not sure exactly how he meant that remark, but I considered it a high compliment.

link via Reecie
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Via Emily's Furl archive, I found the "blooper reel" from The Passion of the Christ. Yeah, I know - I'm going straight to hell for finding it hilarious.
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