everybody knows that smoking ain’t allowed in school

Andrew “The King of Self-Righteousness” Klavan could scare the time off a clock. Not that he gets any sympathy for being frightening looking.

And no excuses about everybody in junior school laughing at him or whatever, I don’t care how much the human children picked on him, there’s no excuse for being that big a stupid jerk.

You know, I remember when St. Ronnie died, conservatives were shocked — shocked! — if anyone mentioned anything bad about him at all. He was the bestest presimadent evah, and mentioning things like Iran-Contra was totally beyond the pale.

Now, I actually don’t think it’s wrong for the wingnuts to hate Teddy in death the way they did in life — indeed, I think that’s a sign of respect. I just need to remember that when Dick Cheney dies, the rule is that all of us get to say he was a douchebag’s colostomy bag. And when the Broderites get the vapors, I’ll point them back to this column. Oh, they’ll ignore it. But I’ll feel better.

His concern is touching isn’t it?

(He had to google her name, heh)

We can’t condemn liberalism itself on the strength of Kennedy’s character.

Can someone photoshop a urethral orifice on the man’s pate?

It’s only a coincidence that the man who left Miss Kopechne to tap, tap, tap against the Oldsmobile window…

Cliff, uh, I mean, Andrew Klavan is obviously a huge Joyce Carol Oates fan, as she’s kind of obsessed with both Chappaquiddick and Edgar Allan Poe.

I wonder if he’s read Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart?

Fifty years in office – or 47 plus, I think it was – but in any case, longer than the longest-serving tyrant-for-life in the worst third world dirt puddle you can think of. Whose fault is that?

OK, South Carolina isn’t the best place on earth, and they do allow lecherous fools to stay in office for far too long, but really, they deserve better than this, Mr. Kloven.

His concern is inappropriate touching isn’t it?
Fixled for you.

Forty years after Chappaquiddick, and they’re all up in arms, but any mention of a DoJ investigation into the Bush administration, and they clutch their pearls and carry on about how the past is the past.

Klavan – asshole and asshat. Sez gerrymandering is a reason some senators spend so long in office.

Also. Tbogg does a drive-by on a braindead libertarian.

I’m really impressed with the management at S,N! industries for making the staff work double and triple time in this moment of uncountable pan-galactic gargle blarters from the wingnutosphere.

I’m picturing sleeping bags on the office floor, and rations of amphetamines broken out from behind specialty glass for just such a contigency, to keep the troops going in a time of crisis. A teletype set to print off RSS feeds with titles like “just crazy” and “sheer evil” is clacking away incessantly except when it manages to run its paper supply dry, every other hour or so.

This is a crisis long planned for, and yet the sheer volume of bugfuckery threatens to overwhelm even so. Fight on, brave ‘nauts.

I know Shorters are meant to be… well, shorter, but isn’t this a little excessive?

Okay, anyone got a line on a good online database of media contact info? Some of these media outlets really do everything they can to hide e-mail addresses.

I wanna send out a note to a bunch of media types telling them we know the Repubs are gonna say Kennedy’s funeral is too political, and there’s no reason they can’t tell ’em to stuff it…

I know Shorters are meant to be… well, shorter, but isn’t this a little excessive?

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
~

Handsome man about town Breitbart is twitting with his usual class. Also.

Marco says at 11:37 pm, August 26th, 2009

I love big Andy. It takes talent to run a site all about Hollywood that’s really the least entertaining site on the net.

Really, he just seems like that neighbor you had at some point who thinks he’s cool enough to hang with you and your friends. He comes out on his back porch wearing board shorts when you have girls over out on yours and tries making small talk, all the while you can hear Creed coming from his kitchen and he looks like he’s sweating scotch.

~

Of the next generation of Kennedys, only Patrick seems to have the desire for rough and tumble politics, and he has his own problems.

Of the next generation of Kennedys, only Patrick seems to have the desire for rough and tumble politics, and he has his own problems.

I don’t wish to disparage the family’s tradition of public service, but I’m not really comfortable with the idea of political dynasties. Thankfully, the Kennedy dynasty outlived the Bush dynasty *snerk* politically, but I’m pretty much done with the “great families” model of oligarchy. It’s just not appropriate for this nation.

I don’t wish to disparage the family’s tradition of public service, but I’m not really comfortable with the idea of political dynasties.

I’m only interested in the ideas. If someone wants to run with Teddy’s beliefs and positions, it’s okay with me if they claim to be a Teddyite. His genes interest me less.

Can someone photoshop a urethral orifice on the man’s pate?

He DOES have an enticingly large forehead, doesn’t he?

hey. I thought troofy et al were going to be vicious when Kennedy died.

They’re just being funny. I’m disappointed, and want my money back.

I see your point, but I would be concerned that, as a family becomes entrenched and a political position becomes a fiefdom, the tradition of public service takes a backseat to the pursuit of power for its own sake.

Hell, just the fact that, for too long a time, one could speak of the Bush “family atomics” is enough to scare me off of any entrenched political dynasties. Of course, the Bush family was always a bunch of evil cobags, but anything that smacks of feudalism, no matter how benevolent-seeming, gives me the willies.

Andrew does realize that “we” don’t have “the term limits” because the Supreme Court said we can’t have them for federal officials, and that “gerrymandering” has nothing to do with anything because entire states elect senators — unless he meant the “gerrymandering” a couple of centuries ago when they pried Maine loose from Massachusetts.
Oy.

>>>I’m pretty much done with the “great families” model of oligarchy. It’s just not appropriate for this nation

What if the existence of ‘great families’ in the American oligarchy is an indication of what kind of society America really is?

B^4 – agreed. My post abve was more theory than practical.

The Dane pictured is really good at No Limit Texas Holdem. At least from what I’ve seen on the Travel Channel.

Stop disemvowelling yourself. [slap] Stop disemvowelling yourself. [slap] Stop disemvowelling yourself. [slap] Stop disemvowelling yourself. [slap]…

OT – I await with baited breath the outrage of gLibertarians at the revelation of government control over the news media:

Moreover, the documents — recent confidential profiles of the work of individual reporters prepared by a Pentagon contractor — indicate that the ratings are intended to help Pentagon image-makers manipulate the types of stories that reporters produce while they are embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

One reporter on the staff of one of America’s pre-eminent newspapers is rated in a Pentagon report as “neutral to positive” in his coverage of the U.S. military. Any negative stories he writes “could possibly be neutralized” by feeding him mitigating quotes from military officials.

linky: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=64401

Of course, given we no longer have a WAR PREZNIT but a horrible Commie liberal Muslin who hates the troops, the wingnuts may actually take a short break from seeing starbursts over Sen. Kennedy’s death to comment on this.

Best headline ever.

When Reagan died, and I expressed my loathing for him by declaring that I would gladly shit in his dead mouth, I was treated to a certain degree of opprobrium on LIBERAL sites.

Who gnu?

>>>I’m pretty much done with the “great families” model of oligarchy. It’s just not appropriate for this nation

i’d bet a bunny that there’s gonna be another Bush running, at least, if not elected…

Great headline and shorter.

It’s a good thing that thing is circumcised; otherwise he wouldn’t be able to hear a thing.

Sez gerrymandering is a reason some senators spend so long in office.

Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just going to savor that for a bit.

Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just going to savor that for a bit.

No kidding, huh? Unless maybe he has an issue with that whole Virginia/West Virginia split, and doesn’t have a very good sense of chronology.

Wes Craven called. He said he’s horrified that you linked that hideous thing with his movie.

I say to you gentlemen, in the words of the Big Bald Bastard, “The fact that Combos “cheese your hunger away” is central to my point.”

Some bald bastards are bigger.

Let us now observe a moment of silence.

Any luck with the apartment hunt, DMM?
~

We’re signing a lease on a place tomorrow, ITTDGY, so unless something goes catastrophically wrong, we should be all set.

Of course, now we have to get all our stuff packed and get moved in the next week (we’re getting a truck for next Thursday, I think), and I can’t lift a damned thing, and Studie is full term (I’m 37.5 weeks), so keep your fingers crossed that we can get this done and not have me go into labor like, the day of the move.

First, stating the obvious to get it out of the way, Andrew Klavan is an ignorant, offensive, pompous and blindly partisan moran. But perhaps he can be a useful ignorant, offensive, pompous and blindly partisan moran. (Summary of long-winded humourless dildonics at end)

Blame Massachusetts alone if you want to, but we, all of us, have failed to demand the term limits and the end to gerrymandering that would keep our representatives from devolving into entrenched toadies of special interests and unscrupulous slaves of their own ideologies.

Personally, I think term limits are pretty dumb. All they’ll do is shift the balance of power from the figurehead elected officials to the unaccountable campaign committee and private interests that finance them. Handing more power to the unelected kingmakers with ties to massive petro-bucks and other industry funds seems like a bad idea.

That said, a public movement supporting term limits for US Senators might be enough to get the attention of those assholes in their polite gentleman’s club. Perhaps stir them enough to start taking action and increase their visibility. Generally speaking Republican’ts do this (make a lot of noise so their constituents think they are effective) much better than Lazycrats – so reinvigorating that ossified institute really means “lighting a fire under Senate Dems (and some Moderates).”

An end to gerrymandering? It’s almost impossible to overestimate the shameless temerity of elevted officials, but it would be almost as impossible to redistrict in a manner less representative than already exists. An end to gerrymandering is pretty much an end to the GOP. Especially with populations trending towards urban centres. An end to gerrymandering essentially means that all those expulsionist and secessionist jack-a-ninnies who cluster themselves in rural pockets and shun the outsiders – well they’ll stop having their votes count double what everyone else’s does.

It’s that funny projection issue the right has – the epithet of coastal “enclaves” – meaning regions where dissenting views aren’t allowed. those coastal “enclaves” are the most populous part of the country. Angry teabaggers living in some Georgian exurb or in some hidden rural community in Nebraska think that New York City is homogenous. Regardless, moving to a representational system that more accurately reflects the population is good for the progressives.

TL:DR version: Andrew Klavan is a complete jerkhole, but there’s this one bit that’s kinda like a stopped clock.

Whups, sorry for the blah-blah-blah immediately after your newsflash DMM. Congrats on the lease and good luck on fending the drooling hordes of baby-hungering cannibals at the same time that you’re relocating all your stuff.

Anyone know what this means, for pols to become “unscrupulous slaves of their own ideologies”?

Reads like a Friedmanesque brainfart, unless I have missed how the imagery holds together.

TtS,

Presumably Klavan means that elected official should suppress their own desires and morality in order to better toe the party line represent their constituents. IPU forbid that any member of congress vote their conscience. That would be the end of representative government as we know it.

No worries, D-KW. You were actually, y’know, on topic, unlike myself. 🙂

You were actually, y’know, on topic…

I shall endeavour to correct this heinously topical behaviour.

PENIS.

Y’all may not know this, but Glavin’s comments at Pajamas are unmoderated. (That is, your comment appears immediately.) Just sayin

Used to be, anyway.

Attention fastidious zombies

The tone of the comments on Mary Jo Kopechne attached to this PJ column are disgusting. Numerous commenters evoke the image of poor little helpless Mary Jo cowering for hours in the car, breathing the last of the air while waiting for rescue by her boyfriend. (The air pocket theory seems highly unlikely unless Kennedy were able to roll up the window behind him after he escaped from the car.)

Ms. Kopechne was almost 29 years-old. She apparently was seriously devoted to the political process, and had worked for several other politicians, including Bobby Kennedy. She did not have a reputation for drinking too much or for philandering with married men. If she were conscious it seems likely that she would have tried to effect her own rescue. Probably she was asleep in the back and never knew what hit her.

Kennedy’s behavior after the accident was criminally negligent. It seems impossible to me to know whether it was completely deliberate or the result of his own trauma. More likely it fell somewhere in between. He probably should have been punished more harshly by the judicial system, but I didn’t hear the testimony or see the evidence. There is no need to infantilize Ms. Kopechne in an attempt to make the tragedy more tragic.

A man, a tran, a panel van — Klavan, A.

A jerk, a smirk, a shirt, you mean…

Andrew “The King of Self-Righteousness” Klavan could scare the time off a clock.

You mistake mockery for fear. That clock is just laughing too loudly.

If, when reading the comments at PJM,you substitute the name Cthulhu for Ted Kennedy it kinda makes sense.

No, I’ve never seen a square fish, kid, and, yes, the bun is round.

I <3 the Lunch Lady.

I’m pretty much done with the “great families” model of oligarchy. It’s just not appropriate for this nation.

The Adams, Harrisons, Roosevelts and Cabots thank you for your opinion.

“We can’t condemn liberalism itself on the strength of Kennedy’s character.”

–but, god damn it, we can try.

When Reagan died, and I expressed my loathing for him by declaring that I would gladly shit in his dead mouth, I was treated to a certain degree of opprobrium on LIBERAL sites.

I’m guessing DKos, right? It always cracks me up to watch Kossacks compete to be the most caring and “classy” when some rightwing douchebag dies. When Robert Novak kicked it, they were practically lighting candles.

“Andrew Klavan” always sounds to me like a character in a Chick tract that later turns out to be the devil. Haw Haw!

When Robert Novak kicked it, they were practically lighting candles.

I was away last week on a tropical island. When did this happen and from what?

When did this happen and from what?

Apparently it’s Brain Cancer week. Dunno if that means it’s a good or bad time for zombies.

Just for actor, I’ll reprise my version of the obituary:

A malignant brain tumor died August 18th after a long and courageous struggle against traitor Robert Novak, a close friend of Satan.

It always cracks me up to watch Kossacks compete to be the most caring and “classy” when some rightwing douchebag dies.

My go-to site for when contard doobags die is Balloon Juice – Cole’s in our tent these days, but he gets adorably pissed off when one of his commenters badmouths the decedent. Serious “I’m gonna turn this car around and drive us straight home!!!” sorta vibe.

American Zen‘s Mike Flannigan weighs in heavily on Republican hypocrisy and moral relativism after Sen. Kennedy’s death.

Thank you, D K-W, and nice one NYGuy…LOL!

The comparison implicit in the photos is grossly unfair. By all accounts, Michael Berryman is quite a nice fellow.

Kinky Sex (Makes The World Go Around)

As I said in a previous thread, if Mary Jo lived, the right would be calling her a whore.

They have so much respect for her they continually insinuate she was boinking Ted.

Christ. Dude looks like a cross between Mike Chertoff and one of the Gentlemen from Buffy.

…one could speak of the Bush “family atomics”….

Now THAT was awesome. I salute you.

if Mary Jo lived, the right would be calling her a whore.
Have they driven by her resting place to see whether her tombstone is granite-top yet?

There is no need to infantilize Ms. Kopechne in an attempt to make the tragedy more tragic.

You forget that, to wingnuts, all women are, by definition, more or less infants.

Complaining that Ted Kennedy’s funeral is in danger of being “politicized” is like worrying that Leonard Bernstein’s funerla would have too much music. Those are the oceans in which these men swam like leviathans. It would be wierd to try to make a memorial without the single most defining characteristic of such a man’s life.

Whose fault is that? Ours, of course. We the people allowed the courts to give his homicide a pass – he got a two month suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident.

In a true democracy, an angry mob would have lynched the judge.

Blame Massachusetts alone if you want to, but we, all of us, have failed to demand the term limits and the end to gerrymandering

I blame the Founding Fathers for the lack of term limits and the British for gerrymandering Massachusetts on behalf of Ted Kennedy.

that would keep our representatives from devolving into entrenched toadies of special interests and unscrupulous slaves of their own ideologies.

Fucking politicians. If they aren’t voting on behalf of their supporters, they are voting their conscience. It’s as if the free market were never discovered.

Isn’t it amazing how “term limits” only comes up as an important concept along abuut the time as the GOP is out of power?

Huh. Almost as if they were suggesting that it should only apply to Democrats…

I blame…the British for gerrymandering Massachusetts on behalf of Ted Kennedy.

Oh, don’t fob this off on the British. Massachesetts originally included the territory that eventually became Maine. If we had just stuck to that plan, maybe those drawling Down East Republicans would have served as a check on all those Islamofascistcommienazi gay abortionists.

OT, of no interest to anyone, and three days late. And because I miss scroll-troll copypasta – here’s a million word rambling:
ME-gan says:

Without the pretty buildings…One of my friends who lived in Toronto, and is a raging europhile and a liberal…Toronto is a lovely, liveable city…But its architecture is mostly pretty dreary, and it rarely captures the heart of American tourists…

Firstly, I have to say “Fuck You McArdle.” Canooks that hate-on Toronto are cool because when they travel they have to deal with the inevitable “are you from Toronto or Montreal?” Torontonians that hate Toronto are completely non-existent because the psychoactive additives the R.C. Harris Filtration plant puts in our drinking water makes us incapable of disliking anything about the Centre Of The Universe.

B. Toronto is not like Eurpoean cities because it’s like a tenth the age, if not less, than “London, Paris, Rome [or] Amsterdam.” The city grew up in the twentieth century, and that shows. There’s a eighteen-lane highway running through the north end of her. The downtown core is separated from its waterfront by a six-lane elevated expressway that sits on top of a six-lane arterial road. We don’t have Renaissance or Baroque architecture because the city is less than two hundred years old.

iii. Every city has ugly eyesores of buildings. I blame people who became architects because of their love of The Fountainhead. Toronto is no exception to the ugly building rule, but we’ve got some nice things too. Old City Hall for example isn’t painful to look at. City Hall, on the other hand – dates from just before the “70’s building boom” that her “liberal” “europhile” “former Toronto resident” friend referred to. It’s about as nice a building can be for the seat of municpal government. No really, it’s actually a good-looking building, tornado-like vorticies and all. There are some other not-ugly larger buildings like some of the older colleges on St. George campus or big-ass churches. There’s also some pretty audacious stuff like the giant crystal humping our museum and the pencil crayon box in the sky. But if all you do is look at factories and warehouses – yeah Toronto can be a dump. Also, you’ll notice that your hypothetical friend’s associations with Toronto architecture are of her childhood in the Soviet Union (i.e. most likely of Europe). Sure some of the buildings are drab and dreary, but try and name one city outside of Budapest (incidentally, once a part of the Soviet Union) where that ain’t true.

Basically, ME-gan has said that Toronto’s “architecture is mostly pretty dreary” based on some off-hand comment given by an imgainary friend. Well fuck you McArdle. Fuck you with the TD-Canada Trust Tower and that stupid little weather indicator light on top of it.

IOW, LEAFS SUCK!

Is that a picture of James Taylor?

A malignant brain tumor died August 18th after a long and courageous struggle against traitor Robert Novak, a close friend of Satan.

Heh.

but we, all of us, have failed to demand the term limits and the end to gerrymandering

Gerrymandering affects a Senatorial election? who knew!

“You forget that, to wingnuts, all women are, by definition, more or less infants.”

Except the whores. Unless daddy wants ’em to be, that is.

i’d bet a bunny that there’s gonna be another Bush running, at least, if not elected…

JEB!/McCain (Meghan) 2012 !!11111

(Who else they got?)

Glavin’s comments at Pajamas are unmoderated.
Is this a liberty in the defense of vice, or the other way around? I always mix them up.

Whoa, it’s like a continuum, from the original to the shittiest Rich Little impression ever:

1. 47 himself (almost, but not quite, makes the M1911-Z9 cool again)
2. the bizarrely personable actor who does 47’s voice (dead ringer)
3. this butthole (…BTW, be fair, “Lewinsky” is dead easy to spell once you memorize the final vowel)
4. the lead singer for Midnight Oil
5. the hyperthalamic meathead who shat all over the character of “47” in that flaccid wanker of a movie
6. Tom Cruise in the remake, his entire head mopped hourly with Nair, radiating cool mastery and freedom from invisible clinging soul-parasites, and not at all gay
7. James Earl Jones shooting people in the head and saying “This… is CNN” with a heavy frown

There may be a little room between 6 and 7, there. I’m not totally sure they’re in the right order.

The Adams, Harrisons, Roosevelts and Cabots thank you for your opinion.

On the other hand, the Bilirakises suck ass.

LOL! That scary looking actor guy actually went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with my parents. Mom said he was real nice guy.