R Green, you AND your wife are crazy people for diving headfirst into this shit with your livelihood in hand. That photo of McCain is pure dee gold. Hope you come out the other end okay.

And the same to us all…

Uh HUH … “it’s likely” that Clinton wouldn’t energize the GOP who’ve loathed her for years & years – & know her every weakness inside-out? “Advantages that Obama had” like a killer staff & brilliant tactics magically “don’t exist now” because of what? You want to root for somebody that fucked up her shot at what everyone said was “a sure thing” by listening to wackjobs like Penn? Go for it, Sunshine.

The GOP is energized against ANY DEMOCRAT. What energy they didn’t have, they reclaimed by choosing Sarah Palin.

The “killer staff” and “brilliant tactics” were optimized very specifically to use latent antipathies within the party towards Clinton against Clinton. It was all inside baseball. It turns out that those antipathies don’t exist in the general public towards John McCain AND a sufficient part of the Democratic vote was…insufficiently energized by those forms of tactics to avoid McCain/Palin.

So no, I think it’s a staff that got lucky, not brilliant tactics.

Now, if they want to be even more lucky, they have to figure out what in the party they lost when they won the nomination.

OKAY, WE GET YOUR FUCKING POINT ALREADY. You’re just helping the GOP ratfuck operation now.

*shrug* Why does everyone feel the need to dredge it up then?

Which, if true, tells you why America will (as it has somewhat already) become a laughing stock among other western industrialized nations. Seriously, if McCain/Palin gets elected your country may as well slap up a sign that says “Trailer Park”, foreign owned.

Ignorant dumbasses who don’t care, don’t think, don’t read.

I do believe you are a fellow Canuck? As a Canuck, I note that we are on the very brink of electing someone more dangerous than an incompetent Republican to a majority government: a chillingly competent neocon.

And entirely out of ennui.

Left polite snark at the photo site, & rather less dainty snark at Vanderlooegen’s Amerika Uber Alles site – the twit can of course delete it, but he can’t unsee it now, can he?

Speaking of unfunny …

it turns out that the primary is not the general, and the advantages that Obama had during the primary don’t exist now (and that it’s likely that the disadvantages that Clinton had during the primary wouldn’t exist now).

Uh HUH … “it’s likely” that Clinton wouldn’t energize the GOP who’ve loathed her for years & years – & know her every weakness inside-out? “Advantages that Obama had” like a killer staff & brilliant tactics magically “don’t exist now” because of what? You want to root for somebody that fucked up her shot at what everyone said was “a sure thing” by listening to wackjobs like Penn? Go for it, Sunshine.

Remind me not to ever, EVER take you to the racetrack unless my bulging wallet is giving me lower lumbar pain.

Why is it sacrilege to admit that this might have been a big risk, based on misinformation?

If by “sacrilege” you mean “butthurt crybaby bullshit” you may have a point there. Oh, & Herr Rove thanks you for your vital spiritual aid in this his darkest hour of need.

Even Chris Wallace had some good and tough questions about Palin to the Republican surrogate this morning…unheard of on Faux News…maybe the narrative is shifting, no matter how subtly…

I agree nothing is funny anymore, but the Dems always seem to be engaged in arguing against Republican talking points, which only reinforces them in the reptile American brain.

Rudy must be kicking himself. If he only went with wearing his 27 dresses instead of hiding them from the Christian Right, he could be the no. 2.

Yes, that would be him.

So, let’s see. We have his time as editor of Penthouse [fap fap] Forum, his 1000 14 image homage to NYC (“Blockade”? Really?), his awareness of internet traditions, his cheap shot at Jane Hamsher — I think he’s a candidate for the He Man Woman Hater’s Club.

If Armando stopped beating up people who are even less significant than himself, he’d be out of an internet gig.

In addition to being a humorless moron, BTD is one of the biggest and crudest online bullies.

Starring Tina Fey.

It’s time to get punk rock bill hicks on the republicans’ asses.

I couldn’t agree more.

I think most people still have not confronted the incredible depths of asinine cruelty that a major political party is perpetrating upon the nation. Gentleness does not break though denial. Harsh reality is usually the only thing that can.

I went over and made a comment in support.

Our chief weapons are… outrage, mockery, and a fanatical devotion to reality!

New York Life: 1,000 Pictures of New York City

[eleventy paragraphs of sentiment about NYC…)

…Beginning in early October of 2001 and ending at around ten in the evening of November 9, 2002, I kept a detailed photographic record of what we were like and how we lived in New York in that shaky first year of our unsought new era. During those months I took over 23,000 photographs in all the areas and neighborhoods and places in which I found myself, night and day. Of these I destroyed most. In the end, I kept about 5,000 that struck me as worth preserving for one reason or another.

To show you, to make you see, what I saw during my walks around New York City in those months, would take a thousand images and an iron constitution. And so I selected them and over the coming few weeks I’ll put them HERE . I’ve selected them because they seem, in aggregate, to give a reasonable impression of my last days in New York, the city I had lived in and loved for the better part of 30 years.

It is said that “There are eight million stories in the naked city,” but that’s another lie. There are, if you could read the secret hearts of New Yorkers, eight million stories squared in that city. Here’s a thousand of them.

He’s got 14 nothing particularly special photos up. One of them – of a woman’s wide ass – is titled “the blockade.” Am I missing something?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000photosofnewyorkcity/sets/1807964/

Instantly I am reminded of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I.

Really? No fucking way.