*snerk!*

I suppose it depends on whose face you put on the head, yes?

One of my home-decorating projects here at Maison d’Etre is to construct a papier-mache-&-chickenwire shell around the toilet bowl so it looks like a giant head sitting on the bathroom floor, and you lift up the top of the skull to reveal the scooped-out brain-pan when you want to use it.
The Frau Doktorin has been less than enocuraging about this plan.

I thought I told you to shut up!

Are you talking about Virgin Ben or The Shrub? Other alumni must be weeping bitter tears.

Fight fiercely, Harvard!
Fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will*.

*No they don’t. George Will only taught at Harvard. He’s a Princeton Man.

Mission Accomplished.

Time to kick back with a doob and listen to some Foghat.

I believe that’s how our erstwhile Preznit marked the occasion.

Goddammit I just wanna give that little fuck a wedgie. And this kid got into Harvard? How the hell did that happen?

Dissent is indeed a worthy activity – but slipshod dissent negates its own purpose, distracts both sides from more important issues & degrades debate. Comparing Obama over & over again to Hitler & Stalin, with a formal disclaimer that his administration is so far only showing signs of “incipient tyranny” to cover your tracks? That’s ad hominem nonsense more worthy of a playground or a fraternity-house than a discussion among adults.

If the writer had bothered to address Obama’s REAL failings – like his support for many of Bush’s juridical disasters like State Secrets & the FISA bill, or his kid-gloves approach to the political obscenity of Cheney using state-sanctioned torture to gin up fictional “evidence” connecting Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden – he would be moving the discussion forward. This marathon of rhetorical onanism does nothing but confirm the intellectual penury of the American conservative movement in 2009.

Where’s The Tidy-Bowl Man when you really need him?

I saw Tron the other day. It was very trippy to have the Dude team up with Captain Sheridan to fight 80’s glasses man.

The Big Lebowski is one of my favorite movies, and Jeff Bridges does some of his best work in it, but it seems a bit reductionist to identify one of the best actors of his generation by a single character.

I believe you mean eyebrow, singular.

WF
(signing off and heading for the tub!)

I’m guessing NoQuarter, like Hillaryis44, has about eight full-time posters with a Troofy worth of aliases.

I met the guy who played Zack his security second in command at an airport.

Oh dear. Well he was a really, really bad actor who got way too much screen time.

PUMA HAKAHUAGUHAULAULAHUGHBHUHUHBHGHL

If you support Obama, it automatically disqualifies you from any accurate sense of judgment.

Case closed! They are just a collection of about a dozen people over there, reinforcing their own nutty theories. They’ve created a language of their own, too – I could barely follow some of it, as they’ve descended into some internal dialogue with inside slang and abbreviations.

It’s like they’re a set of feral children that have been locked in an attic for decades.

They wouldn’t be high on MY playlist, but I can think of worse ways to spend a Tuesday morning…

It doesn’t need to make sense, but it’s funnier if you can tie it to one or more of their major obsessions, like “abetter of ACORN atrocities”.

I like how No Quarter’s commenters are still slinging around the Prop 8 lie.

In retrospect, I should have caught the central absurdity of the affair – namely, that the relative implausibility of either Wright or Obama, both pretty firmly in the Christian and economistic camp, having anything to do with Farrakhan, the crown prince of the racialists and the leader of the fucking Nation of Islam.

It’s not even that you have to be fundamentally ignorant about how the internal politics of the civil rights movement work, nor that you’d have to have completely and uncritically absorbed the right-wing memes affiliating Obama simultaneously to Crazy Black Jesus and the hated Moor. It’s that you would have to be totally ignorant about Louis Farrakhan, one of the more infamous men in the country, as anything but a racist bogeyman. I don’t even mean ignorant about his opinions or impact – I mean the most basic facts of the man’s background and notoriety. And you’re doing all that in service of people who spent the last ten years hoping to get someone crazy angry enough to kill your Fuhrerin?

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. I don’t think in the course of human history anyone has fucked up being a bigot that badly. Momma Flowbee must be proud.