Murderous Mexico Mortifies Migrants! @12:40 PM
"There was a donkey painted like a zebra, hitched to a cart full of sombreros, a Tijuana photo opportunity. But no smiling tourists stepped into the picture frame." Ha ha. Wait, really? 18,000 murders in three years and now Tijuana is empty? But… but… but the U.S. had 17,000 murders in 2006 alone! The murder rate per population in Mexico isn't even double ours. But. WHY was the donkey painted like a zebra though??? I don't get it. 16
50 Years Ago Today: 'Time' Mag's "Population Explosion"! @4:10 PM
Pretty amazing, right? Inside the issue: an excellent dishy gossip report from Hollywood headlined Moses and the Money Changers (yikes) and this actually very spectacular report on Ray Ryan's Mount Kenya Safari Club. (Ray Ryan, you will remember, blew up in a pretty spectacular unsolved car-bombing in 1977.) Simpler times! Sort of! 24
Real America with Abe Sauer: New York is Also Racist @4:25 PM
During a recent visit to New York City to, amongst other things, check out this Manhattan JC Penney location everyone is talking about (more on that next week!), I did a little Halloween costume shopping at the New York Costumes superstore on 11th street and Broadway. And keeping with the recent theme of Halloween costumes for racists and bigots (and their dogs), I found the perfect costume: Chief Culturally Insensitive. READ MORE 46
Very Recent History: The French Dip @4:00 PM
In March 2003 France stated that it would not support a U.N. resolution to invade Iraq. And with that, a nation constipated with 9/11 rage found the perfect place onto which to crap. Heretofore dopey, jocular anti-France sentiment was exchanged for vitriolic, publicly expressed hatred. And yet, six years later, a hamburger demonstrates why the very fervent wrath the right has produced is nothing to worry about. READ MORE 43
Craigslist's Most Notable Male Slaves of August @3:50 PM
Formerly renowned author Dennis Cooper—and do I need to tell you this link isn't really safe for work?—rounds up "August 2009's notable international male slaves under 30 in their own words and, perhaps, pictures," from, we're just guessing here, Craigslist. It is disturbing in like 22 ways, if you can still be disturbed. The most amusing (OR IS IT?) one follows. (What language do you use here: "my favorite"? Ew.) READ MORE 14
