if you want it. here it is. come and get it…my opinions, my politics, my music, my randomness…my more risqué nonsense can be found at brooklyn smut peter joseph wade can be bothered and or annoyed here:ask me formspring.me email me im me on aim - brooklynmuttblog send me a tweet friend me on facebook check out my pics listen to my tunes var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11937460-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @brooklynmutt)http://www.brooklynmutt.com/http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/447139612http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/447139612Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:55:47 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz9dyuEfF81qz80pso1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>WOW! This puts Katherine Bigelow win in perspective big time.</p> <p><a id="aptureLink_hKHVQTGhHc" href="http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/03/08/underrepresentation-of-women-in-hollywood/" target="_blank">via</a>  </p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/447091060http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/447091060Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:28:00 -0500movie industrywomen in the work place<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz98srDWvj1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Oh The Irony – 1984</em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446877977http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446877977Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:36:27 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz98kjJ3HO1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446868473http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446868473Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:31:31 -0500e-cardslost<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz98du7zyP1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446860649http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446860649Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:27:30 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aMICD3aMZpw&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aMICD3aMZpw&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://nomosshere.tumblr.com/post/446776545/yeahyouoverhere-suicideblonde-bow-wow-wow" target="_blank">nomosshere</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://yeahyouoverhere.tumblr.com/post/446757269/suicideblonde-bow-wow-wow-i-want-candy-lead" target="_blank">yeahyouoverhere</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://suicideblonde.tumblr.com/post/445880134/bow-wow-wow-i-want-candy-lead-singer-annabella" target="_blank">suicideblonde</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy</strong></p> <p>Lead singer Annabella Lwin is only 14 years old here.  Oh, pop music, you always have your Lolita’s.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>I saw this band at the Chance in Poughkeepsie. The glory days of early 80s pop.</p> </blockquote>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446784805http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446784805Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:48:32 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8yulf6oq1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Uh Oh! Ria is in troooouble</p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446472012http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446472012Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:01:29 -0500“On Friday a special US court, the “vaccine court” charged with adjudicating claims against...http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446441890http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446441890Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:44:00 -0500autismcourt rulinghealthvaccines<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8wy6dR4y1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446400381http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446400381Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:20:30 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8wcmRZne1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Keith Olbemann’s father passed away this afternoon. Read his tribute post to his father at <a id="aptureLink_cRIOvaYt7x" href="http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/theodore_c_olbermann_1929-2010.html" target="_blank">Baseball Nerd</a>.</p> <p><em>RIP Theodore C. Olbermann</em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446378030http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446378030Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:07:34 -0500Keith Olbermann<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8vejoXR41qz80pso1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446342402http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446342402Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:47:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8uai97AC1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Bueno Aires’s Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid in downtown Buenos Aires is a spectacular bookstore </strong></p> <p>…used to be a beautiful movie palace. Saved from the wrecker’s ball, it is now one of the most majestic bookstores I’ve ever clapped eyes upon, a veritable temple to books.</p> <p><em>continue reading… <a id="aptureLink_UGkqEgGR7i" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/13/most-beautiful-books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">boingboing</a>  </em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446301442http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446301442Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:23:00 -0500book store<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8sunpyrR1qz80pso1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span> </span></p> <h2 class="entry-title"><strong>Employers Rapidly Shifting Health Care Costs to Workers</strong></h2> <p><span> </span></p> <p>…a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031100740.html" target="_blank">new survey of large employers</a> found that 56% will hold workers responsible for a greater share of health care costs next year. Coming on the heels of studies showing companies dropping workplace coverage altogether, the data reveal a system of <a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001618.htm" target="_blank">employer-provided health insurance</a> teetering on the brink of collapse.</p> <p>As the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031100740.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> reported, the study National Business Group on Health of 507 companies with over 1,000 employees found that:</p> <blockquote> <em>Many say they may charge more to cover spouses, tighten eligibility standards for their health plans and dispense financial rewards or penalties based on the results of certain lab tests. At some companies, overweight employees could be excluded from the most desirable plans.</em> <p><em>Meanwhile, employees at many companies can expect significantly higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments.</em></p> </blockquote> <p><em>continue reading… <a id="aptureLink_cfLUboc6Le" href="http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/employers-shift-health-care-costs-to-workers" target="_blank">crooksandlars</a> </em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446248787http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446248787Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:51:00 -0500health careemployersinsurancecoveragepolitics<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z4PKhwhzcVk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z4PKhwhzcVk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Bill Maher battles republican pundit and Climate Change denier Amy Holmes</strong></p> <p>Bill Maher: <strong>I’m sorry I’m getting too emotional about this issue. I just want to live</strong>…. people are just looking for an excuse not to have to worry about this. But that’s just sticking your head in the sand. That’s having a problem with reality…</p> <p>Amy Holmes:..<strong>But I don’t agree that the science is settled</strong>. I do think that there is still a raging debate. And when we are talking about the consequence of following this policy being something like trillions of dollars, you know as well as I do that China and India and developing nations are not gonna sign on to this…</p> <p>Bill Maher: Yeah they did. No, this week they said we are on board with Copenhagen, yeah they did.</p> <p>Amy Holmes: Copenhagen was a failure for this president because everyone is kicking it down the road.</p> <p>Bill Maher: You know, you need a time machine to make that argument. That China is the one dragging their feet. That was a good argument three years ago. It’s not true anymore. </p> <p>Amy Holmes: I don’t see it happening.</p> <p>Bill Maher: <strong>Well you don’t read.</strong></p> <p><em>complete segment above. <span><a id="aptureLink_5pgqwDQl1t" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKhwhzcVk#t=333" target="_blank">skip to this part of the exchange here (5:33).</a> </span></em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446186461http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446186461Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:14:23 -0500Amy HolmesBill Maherclimate changepolitics<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8omxj5FH1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446097847http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446097847Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:20:00 -0500Glenn Beckpolitical cartoonsEric Massa<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8oj2hNCy1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446094254http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446094254Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:18:38 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PE9HUtYwW1Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PE9HUtYwW1Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Dave Chappelle on Dr. Katz</p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446035194http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/446035194Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:43:00 -0500Dr. Katzdave chappellefunny<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8l6uDfgK1qz80pso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Big-titted babes love nerds</em></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445973126http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445973126Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:06:30 -0500nerdsfunnycartoon<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8j8bWYkU1qz80pso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Statue Behaving Badly</p> <p><a>foundshit</a></p>http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445902836http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445902836Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:24:11 -0500baseballstatue““U.S. officials described President Barack Obama as ‘livid’” about...http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445894305http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/445894305Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:19:12 -0500IsraelJoe Bidenhillary clintonPresident Obamaforeign policy