The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:00:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Tabloid Unveils Handy 9/11 Body Part Map! (And We Improved It) http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/tabloid-unveils-handy-911-body-part-map-and-we-improved-it http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/tabloid-unveils-handy-911-body-part-map-and-we-improved-it#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:00:07 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/tabloid-unveils-handy-911-body-part-map-and-we-improved-it DOWWWWNTOOOWWNNNNThe New York Post goes big on 9/10 glory with this map that explains where all the human remains were found downtown on 9/11. This isn't just a public service-it's also an argument about the appropriateness of having religious and community centers located downtown. Well we made their map better. Human remains: YOU'RE SHOPPING IN IT. You're BOXING IN IT. You're DRINKING IN IT and ATTENDING CUNY IN IT and you're GOLDMAN SACHSING IN IT.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

23 comments

]]> DOWWWWNTOOOWWNNNNThe New York Post goes big on 9/10 glory with this map that explains where all the human remains were found downtown on 9/11. This isn't just a public service-it's also an argument about the appropriateness of having religious and community centers located downtown. Well we made their map better. Human remains: YOU'RE SHOPPING IN IT. You're BOXING IN IT. You're DRINKING IN IT and ATTENDING CUNY IN IT and you're GOLDMAN SACHSING IN IT.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

23 comments

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/tabloid-unveils-handy-911-body-part-map-and-we-improved-it/feed 23 Local Woman Values Human Life, Writes Blog Comment http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/local-woman-values-human-life-writes-blog-comment http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/local-woman-values-human-life-writes-blog-comment#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:25 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/local-woman-values-human-life-writes-blog-comment ....In this morning's thoroughly believable news, our Dodge Charger-owning friend from New Jersey, whose ride received an efficient totaling from a young misguided would-be suicide, "put the brakes on her pity party writing on the paper's website, 'I have not slept since this has happened. My heart and prayers go out to the family.' The Post denies that it misrepresented the woman's words saying she 'dron[ed] on about her car to a reporter in three conversations.'" To be fair to our newly car-less neighbor, this is not the first time someone has felt misrepresented in the Post.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

4 comments

]]> ....In this morning's thoroughly believable news, our Dodge Charger-owning friend from New Jersey, whose ride received an efficient totaling from a young misguided would-be suicide, "put the brakes on her pity party writing on the paper's website, 'I have not slept since this has happened. My heart and prayers go out to the family.' The Post denies that it misrepresented the woman's words saying she 'dron[ed] on about her car to a reporter in three conversations.'" To be fair to our newly car-less neighbor, this is not the first time someone has felt misrepresented in the Post.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

4 comments

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/local-woman-values-human-life-writes-blog-comment/feed 4 "Successful New Yorkers" To Be Screwed By Obama, Say 'Post'! http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/successful-new-yorkers-to-be-screwed-by-obama-say-post http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/successful-new-yorkers-to-be-screwed-by-obama-say-post#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:30:09 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/successful-new-yorkers-to-be-screwed-by-obama-say-post KILLING JOKEI saw this morning's New York Post and it raised in me a great interest! "Successful New Yorkers" will pay 57% tax under Obama, says the front page of the paper! (Their alleged "front page" online says something different than on newsstands; in that universe, only New York's "risk takers" will pay 57% tax.) Well, I am a highly successful New Yorker! I am concerned! What does this mean for me?

Oh my God, a handy graph. I am also a filing-as-single worker without my own health insurance! Gasp!

IS THIS YOU?

And yet, these figures so little resemble my tax bill. If you're making $80,000 a year, and the feds are getting 16 grand, YOU ARE DOING YOUR TAXES WRONG. Your home office is NOT BIG ENOUGH, for starters.

But what if you are a white person who likes to wear sweaters around his neck?

MMM SWEATERS
Okay so, if you are making $1.5 million a year, as their "rich people graph" shows, and you are paying half a million in federal taxes alone, then it is time for you to start a foundation to churn out some of that cash and also to fire your tax attorney. NO ONE who makes $1.5 pays out half a mil to the feds. This is what we call "lies."

Here is the extra-hilarious part:

The [healthcare] legislation is especially onerous for business owners, in part because it penalizes employers with a payroll bigger than $400,000 some 8 percent of wages if they don't offer health care.
Ha, yes, HOW ONEROUS that they should pay a small 8% tax, because they refuse to care for their workers and want them to clog our emergency rooms and you know, die. I'm sorry, perhaps I was French in a number of my past lives, but this is absurd.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

33 comments

]]> KILLING JOKEI saw this morning's New York Post and it raised in me a great interest! "Successful New Yorkers" will pay 57% tax under Obama, says the front page of the paper! (Their alleged "front page" online says something different than on newsstands; in that universe, only New York's "risk takers" will pay 57% tax.) Well, I am a highly successful New Yorker! I am concerned! What does this mean for me?

Oh my God, a handy graph. I am also a filing-as-single worker without my own health insurance! Gasp!

IS THIS YOU?

And yet, these figures so little resemble my tax bill. If you're making $80,000 a year, and the feds are getting 16 grand, YOU ARE DOING YOUR TAXES WRONG. Your home office is NOT BIG ENOUGH, for starters.

But what if you are a white person who likes to wear sweaters around his neck?

MMM SWEATERS
Okay so, if you are making $1.5 million a year, as their "rich people graph" shows, and you are paying half a million in federal taxes alone, then it is time for you to start a foundation to churn out some of that cash and also to fire your tax attorney. NO ONE who makes $1.5 pays out half a mil to the feds. This is what we call "lies."

Here is the extra-hilarious part:

The [healthcare] legislation is especially onerous for business owners, in part because it penalizes employers with a payroll bigger than $400,000 some 8 percent of wages if they don't offer health care.
Ha, yes, HOW ONEROUS that they should pay a small 8% tax, because they refuse to care for their workers and want them to clog our emergency rooms and you know, die. I'm sorry, perhaps I was French in a number of my past lives, but this is absurd.

---

See more posts by Choire Sicha

33 comments

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/successful-new-yorkers-to-be-screwed-by-obama-say-post/feed 33