Comments on: More Quality Writing from Renew America

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:24:55 +0000

We Won’t Have Andrew Longman to Kick Around Anymore

Being banned by Renew America for being too crazy is sort of like building a working perpetual motion machine: in other words, it should be physically impossible. But it looks like our old friend Andrew Longman has defied the laws…

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:23:26 +0000

We Won’t Have Andrew Longman to Kick Around Anymore

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:55:11 +0000

Bring the Pain

Andrew Longman, the Renew America pundit who wrote about the apocalyptic perils of nuclear-armed Islamist gay cowboys, is back with a public safety feature on how to prepare for nuclear war (WARNING: this piece contains dangerously strong levels of win…

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:07:24 +0000

Oh, beard. as in beard? Yeah, I knew that, Bill. Actually, no, I did not. You must be shocked to learn that I, a man who seems so worldly-wise, could not have heard of that word. Yeah, so am I.
Of course I knew you were joking about Jane West. This whole thing has been my feeble attempt at humor, Bill. But I do own a Johnny West action figure, along with a couple other members of the set. I’m still searching for Jane.

Actually, I received my first Johnny West action figure for Christmas at the age of 8. My brothers and I all got the same thing. However, my mom, being the good mennonite mother that she was, tried to burn the accompanying guns
and pass it off as “guns not included.”

Our real Christmas came in the springtime, when we discovered the guns, wholly intact, in the burning barrel that was to become their nemesis. I guess if one is speaking figuratively, one could say that my mom tried to castrate Johnny West, but to no avail.

By: Bill S

Bill S — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:06:29 +0000

You’ve NEVER heard the term “beard” before? A “beard” is a woman who dates/marries a gay man in order to give him the appearance of being straight-sometimes they do it knowingly and sometimes they don’t. The term for a man who does this for a lesbian is “merkin”(I may have spelled this incorrectly.) And I’m sure you realize I was joking about Jane West, but I’m not sure how you could confirm that Johnny West was 100% hetereosexual.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0000

OK, Bill, I’m revealing my ignorance here, but is a “beard” some sort of cowgirl drag queen or something? What other secrets has the world been keeping from me as it concerns Johnny and Jane West action figures, or any of the other action figures in this quaint, cowboy collection?

By: Bill S

Bill S — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:17:40 +0000

Jane West is what we call a “beard”, Doc.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:52:46 +0000

That’s the answer I was most afraid of.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:25:57 +0000

The short answer:
Yes… yes you are.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:27:51 +0000

Am I the only straight guy out there who still owns an original Johnny West action figure? I don’t care about any of the ridiculous Village People comparisons, Johnny West was 100% heterosexual. Why do you think they came out with Jane West?

By: punkinsmom

punkinsmom — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:02:36 +0000

Sodomize the Marlboro Man to great music and call this heroism?
I’m almost positive they did this in the documentary “Stonewall.”

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:51:36 +0000

See, I disagree, Gay cowboys obviously can fight Islamim.

In the figurative sense, a commitmemt to civil rights for all groups seprates us from the worst Islamic groups, and makes us less likely to accept their rhetoric. On the other hand, if Islam and mainstream Christianity get too close, people might start to convert. Once theocracy is celebrated, wingnuts might switch over to the hard stuff, where they could really subjugate women, minorities, and heathens.

And literally, gay cowboys are buff, hardworking people who have spent their life working against adversity and prejudice, and who probably already know how to shoot a gun. They’d be perfect military candidates.

By: Taube

Taube — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:59:20 +0000

I too, want to live and vacation solely in a land that raises so called semi-professional writers who use phrases like “wonderfully awesome.” The mind boggles. Why stop there? America is a land of plenty: nondescript, redundant 8th grade reading level adjectives for all! God bless the USA (and screw the rest of the world, as is so often implied!)!!!

Also, I really would like to know where the wingnuts get the idea that liberalism=Islam. Socially, if not also politically, the average Muslim has more in common with the average American conservative than liberal, in my opinion.

Lastly, today I learned that the root of American culture, in direct opposition to and thus contrary to Islamic culture, is based on having babies? WTF?

Now, I’m going to go assualt my institutions*, if you know what I mean and I think you do. *wink*

*I mean finish writing my soc paper, hopefully in enough time that I can sleep for a few hours before catching the bus. Yay new semester!

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:40:07 +0000

Because she could kick their collective asses without breaking a sweat, then have hot, steamy lesbian sex with her sidekick?

By: LA Confidential Pantload

LA Confidential Pantload — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:40:37 +0000

I don’t get the “xenophobic.” Why are these people afraid of Xena?

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:39:24 +0000

Heh heh he.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:21:19 +0000

That’s awesome- it’s the bolo tie that does it for me, heh heh.

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:51:15 +0000

Here's The Harpie all gussied up for the Calgary Stampede: Yee haw!

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:48:16 +0000

I don’t doubt many of his candidates are nuts, but of Harper himself, nothing I’ve seen or read indicates he’s in American-standard crazy territory (Canadian standards may be differant, though).
As you’ve so noted, the Cons have to keep themselves muzzled if they want to get elected- and they’ve have to stay muzzled if they want to get re-elected.
The Liberals need to get their shit together- once they do, they should be able to recover nicely. This move hardly means Canadian voters are moving Right, it means that they are punishing the corrupt Liberals (just like back during the Republican sweeps of Congress a decade ago- the Dems were just as bad. Now, 10 years later, the Republicans have managed to be worse than the Dems got in 30 years).

By: Chris Moorehead

Chris Moorehead — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:39:25 +0000

Speaking of Stephen Harper and gay cowboys, does anyone have a link to that photo taken of him at the last Calgary Stampede, in the leather vest and cowboy hat? He looked like an understudy for the cowboy character in the Village People.

If Paul Martin had been thinking clearly, he would have ensured that this particular photo ran in every major Canadian newspaper at least once per week. Nothing else would have been necessary…