germans really shouldn’t try to do satire

Actual cover of German newspaper Die Tageszeitung:

Translation: “Uncle Barack’s Cabin”.

From (the English language version of) Der Spiegel:

The Berlin-based daily Die Tageszeitung is normally considered a bastion of political correctness. The paper, which was founded in 1978, has always seen itself as a left-leaning alternative to the mainstream press and is known for its outspoken positions on issues such as globalization, the environment and xenophobia in Germany.

I shudder to think what the more conservative German newspapers are putting on their covers.

cindy mccain now has some stolen dessert recipes for when you’re done eating her stolen main course recipes

The Beer Baronness is at it again!

To sum up: A few months ago there was a kerfluffle involving recipes on the official McCain website that Cindy McCain claimed were “old family favorites”. They turned out to have been cribbed from the Food Network website, a scapegoat intern was fired, and the world moved on to the more horrifying aspects of McCain’s campaign–such as his endorsement by a guy who thinks Hitler was kind of cool.

But now Cindy has given a recipe for oatmeal-butterscotch cookies to Parents magazine that eagle-eyed home cooks think looks suspiciously like a recipe on the Hershey website. Ruh roh!

In her defense, there are only so many ways you can make oatmeal-butterscotch cookies. And her personal touch–substituting Valium pills for the butterscotch chips–probably wouldn’t have gone over too well with Parents.

Hey-o!

did civilization come crashing down in massachusetts when they legalized same-sex marriage in 2004? i think there would have been something on CNN if that had happened.

30 days after California’s Supreme Court ruled against the law that forbid same-sex marriages, the state is bracing for wedding ceremonies to begin this week. And unlike Massachusetts, California doesn’t have a residency law, meaning gay couples are going to be coming from all over the country to get married here. It’s going to be great for our economy; especially the Bay Area’s, because you know a lot of them are going to want to get married in San Francisco.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presided over the first such ceremony yesterday evening at 5:01, just past the deadline, of a lesbian couple in their 80s who had been together for 55 years. Monogamous couples in extremely long-term relationships allowed to make their union legal?! This country is certainly going to hell in a handbasket!! *eyeroll*

(Tell me again how gay marriage threatens heterosexual marriage? That’s what I always hear the bigots bleating, but none of them are ever really able to explain how that works.)

Not everyone is welcoming the marriages: the country clerks of Kern and Butte counties have suspended all weddings that were scheduled to take place at their offices, and won’t be holding any more for the forseeable future, meaning no one, gay or straight, can get married there. Petty cunts. I hope all their kids and spouses turn out to be gay.

KTVU reports that 3 members of the Westboro Baptist Church are in Contra Costa County–the county immediately to the east of mine. It’s a good thing I don’t drive anymore, or I’d be sorely tempted to go over there and “accidentally” run them over on the courthouse lawn.