So there’s the Strip-Searched Boy at the Salt Lake City airport (which the TSA disputes), the Broken Urostomy Bag at Detroit, the Removed Prosthetic Breast, the— fuck it. It’s an arms race out there for the best TSA Horror Story, and we just can’t keep up.

As cool as the Ghostbusters mural in the South of Market area of Ess Eff is a new mural that was installed by a group of artists at the abandoned Harding Theatre on Divisadero Street, just two blocks away from SF’s iconic Painted Ladies.

Kittenzilla!

Close ups after the jump.

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Longtime inmates will recall that “Morning Sedition” began as an inside joke. We were doing some volunteer geeking at the old website (long story), but nobody had posted at the old website for a few days. Following an outcry among the masses, we asked permission of the Former Overlords and posted a brief item to keep things fresh.

That was Tuesday. But the Overlords remained AWOL, so we posted another item or two Wednesday. Yet the Gaping Void remained unfilled, so Thursday morning we posted a link dump of headlines, called it “Morning Sedition”, and the rest is history. (The Overlords finally returned from their alternate universe Friday night, and decreed that our Accidental Blogging would become permanent. Much to their later chagrin.)

We were so fucking mildly clever — Morning Sedition. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It was funny because it was a play on a well-known radio news program, and we had taken over the website! Now our sharp wit would take over the world!

Until we learned a few weeks later that “Morning Sedition” had also been the name of a popular Air America program.

Oops.

Of course, we had never heard of the program, since, like most Americans, we never listened to Air America. For that matter, the program itself had long since been canceled, if still fondly remembered in certain circles. So, we decided, fuck it: We liked the name, it was original to us, if not to the world, and if somebody called us on it, we’d just claim honest ignorance and fuck you.

And then it happened again.

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My torts professor schools my former governor regarding what is and is not torture. Pataki is dumber than a bag of hammers:

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How lame is this? And love the token black guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxlCF5_z1o

They’re like teabagging zombies. And why was this never aired?  Because the ‘adults’ at the NRSC realized this was ritual seppuku.

The GF points out that the Japanese find our new sexual assault model for airport screening quite amusing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeRD26hDDw

If you’ve ever ventured beyond the dank and musty walls of your university’s medieval manuscripts collection and interacted socially with at least three other people who can’t read Latin, then you probably know a “car guy“. And if you ask this car guy what he’ll be doing tonight at 10:00, chances are he’ll reply with something along the lines of: “Not sure… can’t make my mind up as to whether I should take a chance on the new Top Gear America or spend the evening playing Gran Turismo instead” (other possible answers include: watching Bullit for the 60th time, laying fiberglass, or doing donuts in the mall parking lot). Read more »