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A post by Joshua Skaroff

Quote of the Day: Bill O’

“I just want mayonnaise. I don’t want guys kissing.”
– Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor

Context here if you’re into that sort of thing.

A post by Peter Slutsky

The Girl Effect

H/T to Jake SG for sending this along.

Check out this great video. Very powerful stuff.

A post by Joshua Skaroff

A Liberal Twitter

Just a quick correction regarding Peter’s appearance on MSNBC yesterday afternoon. At 3:12 in the clip, the host quotes a “liberal website” saying “Feeling for Scott McLellan [sic]. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true anyway.”

The so-called liberal website is actually a twitter post from Mike Turk, the Bush-Cheney 2004 eCampaign Director. Damn that liberal media!

A post by Peter Slutsky

F%$@ It! We’ll Do It Live!

Classic!

A post by Joshua Skaroff

Absurd Quote Of The Day

From Hotline

“I’m not of the Washington world. ”
James Carville, “AC 360,” CNN, 3/24.

What world is Carville from?

A post by Matthew Slutsky

CBS Morning Show! GoogleGangers!?

I don’t have the video yet but I was featured on this morning’s CBS Early Show. The show did a piece on GoogleGangers (or “GoogleMe” as I prefer) and they interviewed me about the one and only Matthew Slutsky who I have befriended.

I will post the video as soon as it’s available but since there were so many great screenshots of DoubleSpeak- I thought i’d post and say hi.

Update: Here’s the video!

A post by Peter Slutsky

What Would Ronald McDonald Do?

EWG Site
Why hasn’t Ronald McDonald had a massive heart attack yet? If Ronald McDonald’s shoes weren’t so damn large and awkward, what kind of car would he drive? (I’m sure at this point - with his celebrity status and all, he has a driver)

My guess is; he eats salads from Cosi(sans fatty dressing, of course) and he likely drives a domestic hybrid.

Environmental Working Group (EWG) launched this really cool site today where patrons can tell McDonald’s what THEY think about the new marketing ploy to fatten up the kiddies and get them hooked on BIG gas-guzzlin’ Hummers.

The site is called, Ronald McHummer. Here is their charge:

This month McDonald’s is giving away toy Hummers — 42 million of them, in eight models and colors — with every Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal. That’s right: The fast-food chain that helped make our kids the fattest on Earth is now selling future car buyers on the fun of driving a supersized, smog-spewing, gas-guzzling SUV originally built for the military. Use the Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic™ to tell us what you think of this misguided marriage of two icons of American excess.

Here is my message to McDonald’s! Check out EWG’s site and send your message loud and clear.

Ronald McHummer

A post by Matthew Slutsky

Pooty-Poo Quote of the Day

We should really start doing a daily quote by Vladimir Putin because he’s been saying some off the wall stuff lately. So, in part one of our series, here’s your Pooty-Poo quote of the day:

“I think the statements of your vice president [Cheney] of this sort are the same as an unsuccessful hunting shot.”

A post by Joshua Skaroff

What Atrios Said

He’s right. Just click the Salon ad to read.

Tom Tomorrow

A post by Peter Slutsky

This Modern World

Click the image to go to Salon and read the whole thing.

This Modern World