News from around the web: 2009-12-24
- Sir Alex Ferguson accuses Manchester City of ‘unacceptable’ Hughes sacking | Football | guardian.co.uk
- Defense Bill Raids Personnel Funds to Pay For Weapons – Matt Taibbi – Taibblog – True/Slant
- Onward Christian Warriors! – Matt Taibbi – Taibblog – True/Slant
- Colbert Dishes On Bush, Glenn Beck, and MSNBC – James Warren
- Balloon Boy Parents Richard Heene, Mayumi Heene Get Jail Time, Probation – ABC News
- Exclusive: Nexus One full specs detailed, invite-only retail sales starting January 5th? — Engadget
- Phone running Windows XP goes online (Video)
- Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus – Malware – Lifehacker
- How Can I Protect My Home’s Plumbing While I Travel? – Travel – Lifehacker
- Droid vs. iPhone: Smartphone GPS Shootout – PC World (TomTom’s $100 iPhone software or Google’s free GPS on Droid. Who wins?)
- Blackberry, and Why Single Points of Failure Suck
Distraction of the Day: Here comes Santa Claus (Ho, Ho, Ho)
Some reason you’d want to showcase Taibbi’s filthy language, Ed? I mean, really, this:
“I’m always afraid to write about David Brooks, because I worry that my attitude toward this guy is colored by certain strong feelings I have about his appearance — he just looks like a professional groveler/ass-kisser, and every time I see him in public I have to fight off visions of him home at night in his Versace jammies, feverishly jacking off with one hand while caressing in the other an official invitation to, say, a White House event, or a Harvard Club luncheon.”
Or this:
“Brooks is the kind of character who has thrived everywhere he’s lived throughout human history; it’s incredibly easy to imagine the nebbishy, hairy-kneed Gaius Domitus Brooksius strolling through Rome and swelling with pride over his new appointment to the post of Senior Licker of the Caligulan butt crack.”
While there is no abiding affection for David Brooks in this corner, particularly, you can’t manage something better than this?
He does have a way with words. It’s obviously for shock value. But, he is delivering a wake up call.