Um: Now What?

Loyal Readers:
The editorial staff here at Um finds itself stymied.
Here’s the thing: For the past few months, we’ve been able to revel in the pressure of a busy semester; taking our time to post about only the best of what’s grabbed our attention. Now unburdened, we find ourselves missing the luxury of not having to [...]

STFU ABOUT MELISSA BLOCK ALREADY

Okay. So times are tough in the news industry. And the business folks who run that show are doing their best to promote their outlets as being the best at what they do cause, fuck, lots of people are loosing their jobs and no one wants that to happen to them.
That’s all totally fair.
BUT. [...]

Martin Luther King Jr., Still Too Confrontational For the U.S. Gov’t

Recently, we here at Um have been solidly focused on our schoolwork. This is why you, our loyal readers have been so cruelly deprived of the wit and insight that you come to expect from our editorial staff.
Admit it: When we don’t write, you miss our abuse of the royal first person.
Schoolwork this semester has, [...]

wrong Wrong WRONG WRONG WRONG

This past week saw a new kind of brilliance in the history of our American Democracy: First there was Wednesday’s totally-entertaining-if-depressingly-pathetic Capitol Hill douchebag fest. Then, yesterday, came this clear attempt on the part of our President to remind people that his reign hasn’t just been about dead folks, underhanded authoritarianism, and making his Dick [...]

Reminder

Come to this. It’s gonna rule.

Here Come the Denials!

Courtesy of I Want Media, via Romenesko: Says Google content honcho David Eun, “frankly, the New York Times is a fantastic partner of ours. And that’s one message that is important for folks to understand. We have thousands of partnerships. The New York Times, for example, is a partner in the Google AdSense program. We [...]

Bunk for President

Billary? Barak?  McCain? Ugh.

Weirdness in Seattle

Cliche has it that it rains a lot in the northwest. And though that’s a probable truth, my memories of Seattle mostly feature the sun and a pretty neat-o vista that included a fine peek at Mt. Rainer.
What you’ve just read? That constitutes the entirety of what I know about the Emerald City. (Really? The [...]

Porn Update!

Remember me? I was–as would any entity with a sense of what’s amazing about life–discussing this with some friends last night. And, according to a bro in the kno, it doesn’t really take much to wrack up, say, 200 porn hits in a business day. Turns out, he says, whenever a file is requested from [...]

And then there’s this

I’m procrastinating.
From the New York Times: “A Swedish bomb squad called out to disarm a suspicious package on Wednesday did not find a ticking bomb. But they did find a vibrating sex toy.“