Passacosa Archives
July | 2015
Three’s A Crowd
Tuesday 7 July 2015
Is it progress that the South Carolina Senate voted 37-3 to remove the Confederate battle flag, or an embarrassment to classify such an act as progress in the year 2015? As consolation, at least we know who the three biggest assholes are in the South Carolina Senate: Lee Bright, Danny Verdin, and Harvey Peeler
May | 2015
It’s Wafer Thin
Sunday 24 May 2015
Marco Arment on the new Retina MacBook: Instead, we have major compromises on previous invariants. Until now, since I started buying Macs 11 years ago, Apple had never shipped a laptop with a keyboard or trackpad that was less than great. They recognized that a laptop without a good keyboard wasn’t a good laptop, even […]
That’s Not My Job
Earlier this week, the Huffington Post reported that, when searching Google Maps for a certain racial epithet, the White House is displayed (this behavior has since been rectified). Disappointment and disgust aside, I think the more important question to ask is: why the hell is someone at the Huffington Post searching Google Maps with racially […]
April | 2015
Aww
Friday 3 April 2015
It’s cute that Sen. Feinstein still thinks things can be deleted from the Internet.
March | 2015
Saved By The Well
Tuesday 31 March 2015
In June of 2014, the EPA drafted new regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Environmentalists complained the EPA didn’t go far enough, while the fossil fuel industry derided the rules as a “war on coal.” As a show of bipartisanship, both sides agree that these new proposals are the most ambitious steps […]
He’s The Devil
Saturday 28 March 2015
In light of the reprehensible SB101: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act that Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law on Thursday, I’m calling on the Church of Pastafarianism, more commonly known as The Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, to adopt one Mike Pence as its anthropomorphized version of the Anti-Pirate ((Pastafarianism teaches that Pirates […]
Missed It By That Much
Monday 23 March 2015
I’ve noticed that some journalism bios contain the phrase “finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.” That reminds me of “Academy Award nominated actor…” Since when have people started bragging about awards they didn’t win? I can extend this same logic and say that I’ve been the finalist for over 100 jobs in the environmental sector. Or […]
February | 2015
Due You Feel Like We Due?
Saturday 28 February 2015
H+R Block is back on the airwaves with their “Get Your Billions Back America” ad campaign. If you’re lucky enough to not know what I’m talking about, let me fill you in: a stereotypically looking ((I’ll let you decide what that looks like– hint: it rhymes with cold and bite)) accountant claims that H+R Block […]
Just When I Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse
Wednesday 25 February 2015
First there was the “too many people have said ‘I don’t know you’ and now you can’t connect with them unless you provide their date of birth or mother’s maiden name” LinkedIn fiasco and now this: Turns out, “commercial” (aka “bitch”) LinkedIn users have a finite number of searches they can perform every month. Really? […]
Since When Is Wasting Paper In Vogue?
Monday 23 February 2015
After canceling my New Yorker subscription, (Condé Nast: it’s me, not you. Honest.) I’ve found myself on the receiving end of Vogue magazine every month. I don’t know how it happened, but I’m sure as hell not paying for them. This month’s issue proved resoundingly ludicrous: it’s over 600 pages long and the table of […]
A 14-Letter-Word For Bernice Gordon
Tuesday 3 February 2015
This past Friday, the Times published a wonderfully creative obituary for one Bernice Gordon, a 101-year-old cruciverbalist. Quite a remarkable woman, considering: [i]n the 1960s, she caused a small sensation by introducing the rebus puzzle. Such a puzzle might require solvers to replace the sequence “a-n-d” with an ampersand, for instance, as in SC&INAVIA and […]