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Inglourious Basturfs
Below is a good argument how things totally ought to be one way and not another, and therefore actually are, once you squint at them properly.
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:
JIM LINDGREN: “The biggest problem with the media’s understanding of the Tea Party movement is that some on the left assume (1) that the Tea Parties are Astroturfed at least as much as some of the left’s own demonstrations and (2) that the educated right hates Obama at least as much as the educated left hates Bush and Cheney. So far, I haven’t seen much evidence of either.”
Ah, you see, the biggest problem with the media’s understanding of the Tea Party movement is that,
- Some on the left assume that,
- BECAUSE some of the left’s demonstrations are:
- ‘Astroturfed,’ i.e., organized by activist groups, esp. with pre-printed signs,
- THEN the Tea Parties in general must to an equal or greater amount be:
- ‘Astroturfed,’ i.e., organized by lobbyists pretending to be grass-roots advocates for the interests of ordinary citizens (e.g., health care reform), while actually playing these citizens like bitch pachinko for their real clients, (e.g., insurance companies).
- BECAUSE some of the left’s demonstrations are:
- THEREFORE, if all on the left both:
- Assumed or were empirically convinced that it is the left that is more Astroturfed, and,
- Ignored the right-wing zealots who are running around mad with hatred for Obama as not relevant to the charge, ‘people hating Obama,’ because educated people in America tend to hate Bush and Cheney more than they do Obama,
- THEN the biggest problem with the media’s understanding would be solved.
We’ll get right on it — as well as on a new, more inclusively they-do-it-too definition for ‘Astroturfed’ basically to mean, ‘to be so Urfed at something as to have the Ass Trots.’
This will be tied to a character, the Astro Turfer, a metallic-skinned alien riding an astronomic Turf Board who is the herald for a great and sinister force. And he’ll do stuff and give short speeches, and it will all be very exciting as it goes along, with all the puns like ‘Turfin’ USA,’ ‘Turf’s Up!’ and who can even say what else.
tensor said,
September 3, 2009 at 9:31
… that the educated right hates…
That which does not exist is incapable of emoting.
/spock
M. Bouffant said,
September 3, 2009 at 10:25
I, too, found “the educated right” to be almost as amusing as “military intelligence.”
Honestly, no one’s worried about the ejjimacated right, because no one w/ an ejjimacation can shoot straight, & there can’t be more than 75 or 80 of them.
owlbear said,
September 3, 2009 at 11:52
“Educated Right” = Trust funders, Think Tankers, and Mechanical Engineers, so maybe.
Lady Doctor Missus Marita said,
September 3, 2009 at 11:57
Early morning OT update: Studie remains in a holding pattern. We might maybe make it through this move… maybe. Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
Even More Pedantic Asshole said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:14
Yet it must be said, giving birth during the move would make for the most charming of anecdotes years from now.
Ya know?
Lady Doctor Missus Marita said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:25
I have no doubt that little Studie will be providing no shortage of charming anecdotes all by himself. We don’t need his birth to be particularly eventful.
kingubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:27
Studie, I know you’ve heard rumors about all the cool stuff like skateboards and birthdays and dinosaur museums and football games and stuff, but, really, you have to weigh all of that against sharing a planet with the likes of Glenn Reynolds.
There, DMM, that ought to get him to stay put ’til he’s old enough to start school. Grad school.
henry lewis said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:46
Educated right: every teabagger’s nightmare. Assuming wingnuts have enough neural function to experience dream activity.
henry lewis said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:54
Next up.
Educated right. Is he talking about the Obama administration? And they’re all hating on the boss?
Palace intrigues. Interesting theory. Where do the tea parties fit in?
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:54
I have no doubt that little Studie will be providing no shortage of charming anecdotes all by himself. We don’t need his birth to be particularly eventful.
I’ll cancel the dirigible flyover.
Just Alison said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:54
LDMM, I’m crossing my legs and thinking clenching thoughts on your behalf. Although, remember, it would give you a great excuse for not helping with the move – you’d get to lie about and, errr, push and scream and…
Second thoughts, I’ll go back to the clenching.
henry lewis said,
September 3, 2009 at 12:59
One more.
Educated right. It deserves a prank postcard, like the jack-a-lope or the 25-foot-long rainbow trout (just caught one today!).
arguingwithsignposts said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:05
The jokes just write themselves.
Between that, Malkin, Bachmann, Buchanan and the other right wing idiocy of recent vintage, I’m wondering if this isn’t some secret federal stimulus plan for the Sadly Naughts to keep the content coming.
Lady Doctor Missus Marita said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:08
LDMM, I’m crossing my legs and thinking clenching thoughts on your behalf. Although, remember, it would give you a great excuse for not helping with the move – you’d get to lie about and, errr, push and scream and…
I’m helping as much as I can, but no one is really expecting me to do much as it is (especially with all the Braxton-Hicksing that I’m doing). Gav has been absolutely amazing with how much of our furniture he already has moved (I hope you guys appreciate the posts he’s putting up, because he’s writing them during time he should really be sleeping).
Anyway, I guess the biggest problem with me going into real labor during the move would be keeping Gav from getting it done, since there’s no way he wouldn’t be at the hospital with me. No one really needs me for this whole moving thing…
he flips said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:20
“So far, I haven’t seen much evidence of either.”
I’m imagining him making the face that OJ made when trying to get the glove to fit.
henry lewis said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:22
Anyway, I guess the biggest problem with me going into real labor during the move would be keeping Gav from getting it done
I feel for you guys. Shirley there’s a SadlySignal you could beam across the brooding urban sky.
Sleep deprivation? Is that what’s giving Gavin’s prose its elusive je ne sais quoi?
The Tragically Flip said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:22
Wasn’t John Cole the educated right? He saw what the right was doing to Graheme Frost over SCHIP and ditched the party.
arguingwithsignposts said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:25
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
And good luck holding things in during the move. I’ve moved while my ex was eight months pregnant. No fun that.
arguingwithsignposts said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:29
I think it was Terry Schiavo episode that pushed him over the edge.
The Tragically Flip said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:35
Ah right, I mixed up which episode of abhorrent inhuman monstrosity sent Cole careening into sanity.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:36
I hope you guys appreciate the posts he’s putting up, because he’s writing them during time he should really be sleeping
Aha! So we find out what’s behind those weird stream-of-unconscousness posts & footnotes!
The Tragically Flip said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:38
Volokh does a fair job playing at “educated right” anyway. See how he hedges with “I haven’t seen much evidence of either…” Classic weaselosity. He visits Drudge every day, and surprisingly hasn’t come across any articles talking about Freedomworks or the prehatched plan to have the CNBC guy freak out on the air.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:39
DAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOUUU MR. LEWIS!
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:41
Would Mount Taylor sunset pictures help?
kingubu said, September 3, 2009 at 12:27
Ixnay on teh inosaurday museums mention, kingubu. Perhaps my earliest memory of really wanting to go somewhere…
Lady Doctor Missus Marita said,
September 3, 2009 at 13:53
Aha! So we find out what’s behind those weird stream-of-unconscousness posts & footnotes!
Nah, that’s just the brilliance shining through.
Ryan said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:09
So in summation: No, U!!!11
javafascist said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:15
Dear un-educated right,
Your betters don’t think much of you but are happy to exploit you for whatever purpose suits them.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Javafascist
PS Yes, they are talking about you. You are not part of their “educated” class. Sorry.
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:19
Dear un-educated right,
They won’t listen if you don’t speak their dialect. It’s “unedumacted.”
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:39
that ought to get him to stay put ’til he’s old enough to start school. Grad school.
I read about a recent study that found a large percentage of fetuses are, for economic reasons, living with their parents.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:39
Personally, I think the mascot should be the dog from the Jetson in Chia….
ChiaStro
Now, has anyone flat out claimed that protests organized by ACORN are “grassroots movements”? Cuz I haven’t seen that, except from the numbnutz on the right.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:40
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
You liberals and your issues of “convenience”…next thing you’ll tell me, you want Studie sucking at her/his mother’s teat, or worse, on the welfare like Ellie Mae’s babies…
The Delivery Guy said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:44
“Yeah, yeah. I read da slip right dis time. I’ll be back next week, say, for the Studie, dat OK?”
El Cid said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:47
Why do people have a problem understanding that everything not organized by the living spirits of the Founding Fathers, aka the Tea Party movement, is in fact an ACORNSEIU conspiracy, including the traffic lights which turn red just when a conservative approaches the intersection?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:48
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I thought there were some engineer/architect types on this. Someone put a post-it note on their shoes, wouldya? If that doesn’t do it we’ll have to consider a pocket protector recall.
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:49
you want Studie sucking at her/his mother’s teat, or worse, on the welfare like Ellie Mae’s babies…
or going into some “labor movement.”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:53
or going into some “labor movement.”
*golf clap*
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:57
including the traffic lights which turn red just when a conservative approaches the intersection?
All conservatives ought to remember the old conservative saw “Better dead than red,” and floor it.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 14:59
or going into some “labor movement.”
Hm. Dr Mrs is a rapacious plutocrat, and Studie is an innocent proletariat, on strike for better working conditions….
The Educated Right said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:06
Galt! Tree of Liberty/Blood of Tyrants! Neville Chamberlin! Islamofascism! Saladin! Abortion Holocaust! Crusades! Nero! Quisling! Thermopylae! Wolverines! Pol Pot! This! Is! SPAAARTAAA!
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:11
Early morning OT update: Studie remains in a holding pattern. We might maybe make it through this move… maybe. Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I keep wheedling and cajoling, but I get the sense he’s impatient. Is there a definite earliest OK date we can give him? I’ve been saying the weekend, but would Friday be workable? Negotiations are all about give and take.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:14
This will be tied to a character, the Astro Turfer, a metallic-skinned alien riding an astronomic Turf Board who is the herald for a great and sinister force.
That force would be UnitedHealthalactus?
fish said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:14
I thought an Astro Turfer was George Jetson’s space dog digging a hole in his “turf.” Which would, of course, lead to him digging through his apartment balcony and falling to his death 500 feet below.
Un-educated Right said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:16
Dear un-educated right,
Your betters don’t think much of you but are happy to exploit you for whatever purpose suits them.
You expect us t’ read that whole entire sentence?!
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:18
the herald for a great and sinister force
I’m Galactus-intolerant.
The Truth said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:26
Could you all shut up for once. Some of us are trying to do work over here at our very successful small business doing honest hardworking american job stuff. Thank you.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:28
Rastro Turfer can fly, fish.
~
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:28
Some of us are trying to do work over here at our very successful small business doing honest hardworking american job stuff.
Yeah, hush you guys!
Those envelopes aren’t going to stuff themselves, after all!
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:29
I’m Galactus-intolerant.
You won’t be, once Disney turns him into a gruff-but-lovable dogfaced character…
Troofie's Vietnamese Boss said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:30
You stop Innertubing, hokay? You stoff mo envlopes! Mo! Must stoff mo!
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:35
Now, has anyone flat out claimed that protests organized by ACORN are “grassroots movements”?
I haven’t seen that from anyone on the left but…it wouldn’t be inaccurate to describe protests organized by grassroots citizens’ groups as “grassroots movements” as opposed to, you know, protests organized by Washington lobbyist groups. There is actually quite a large difference in protests organized by groups that exist for the sole purpose of representing and advancing the interests of their actual citizen-members and those organized by people being well-paid by big business to whip the rubes up into a frenzy, usually with the use of false information, to get them to protest against things that will advance their interests.
One of these things is not like the other; one of these things does not belong…
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 15:45
Jennifer, that’s a very good point, but as some on the far right would point out, when an organization has a lobbying arm and it’s own political party, I think you can start to say it’s not so grass-roots.
That said, it sure beats having a corporatocratic source of funding supplied by the AMA and every stinking insurance company that makes gobs of money off our deaths.
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:04
actor212 – you could say that if you wanted to repeat what the right has been claiming for years, which is that there is no difference between an organization made up of and with an agenda driven by citizens rather than one that merely serves as a mask for the corporate interests/political party that funds it and sets its agenda.
In other words, according to the right, there is no difference from groups that are citizen-directed and groups that sheepherd citizens and are corporate or political-party directed. But in actuality, there is a quite a huge difference, which is why they bothered making up the lie that there isn’t one in the first place. Because they know that the honest truth makes them look bad. So they want to pretend that ACORN is of the same bad mold that their groups are.
Example: they started labelling adamently non-partisan groups that had been around for decades as “liberal” back in the mid-90s – groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters. Because, you know, this notion that people should have an idea of what their government is doing and more than that, a say in it – that’s a “liberal” idea. To note the obvious, it used to be a “conservative” idea as well – that was before the Republican party and its financiers decided that they could more easily accomplish their goals if they didn’t have to tell anyone what they were up to. So they inoculate their zombie-minions with the fear that they’ll get teh evul liberul all over themselves if they pay any attention to groups that, for example, publicize how much politicians are being paid to do the bidding of the financiers. And so on.
Same thing here.
cowalker said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:19
LDMM, I’m glad you are not participating in lifting and carrying. I know it’s tough to just stand by while others are working, but you DO NOT want to go into labor with a pulled back muscle. And of course the hormonally relaxed ligaments aren’t providing nearly the stability they usually do.
Studie, if you wait a few days you can share a birthday with me!
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:22
I’m not disagreeing with you, Jennifer. All I’m saying is things grow up beyond their labels, good and bad.
Joe Max said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:23
Ahem.
1) Name a “liberal ” university that does this, Cal. I’m unaware of a university that requires someone to be an atheist, for example.
2) Liberty “University”. Regents “University”. Those are conservative, yes? They supplied over 150 employees to the Bush DoJ, after all. Try telling the professors you’re an atheist and see what happens.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:27
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. Some professors require their students to repeat back to them on test papers and in theses what the professors believe.
Really?
Cuz I went to a Moss League…we weren’t quite Ivy…University, very liberal, and had a strident libertarian polisci professor, so when I submitted a paper on the evils of socialism…yea, it was a stretch…he failed me for that, and then took ten points off my grade for the course for NOT THINKING FOR MYSELF!
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:40
Re: the astroturfers: I was employed by Common Cause back in the day when a group called “Term Limits USA” dumped a shitload of money into our state to encourage the people here to enact term limits (and they did). Term Limits USA was a Republican front-group dedicated to making it easier for wackjob Republicans to get elected by barring from office long-term Democratic officeholders who were long-term because their constituents were happy with them.
Our response was to write and pass a bill stating that any national astroturfing organization was for all intents and purposes an Arkansas PAC or political committee once they reached a threshold of something like $10,000 spent in state, provided that this amount equalled at least 2% or more of the national organization’s annual budget. Applying the rules for Arkansas PACs and political committees meant that they would have to disclose where they got their funding in order to engage in paid advocacy of any large scope within the state – release and publicize a donor list. Et voila, no more DC-based astroturf campaigns here since – it’s been 17 years now.
The Delivery Guy said,
September 3, 2009 at 16:52
but would Friday be workable? Negotiations are all about give and take.
Dis sort of information could be useful to some of us, you know.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:05
Dis sort of information could be useful to some of us, you know.
You know, the USPS, a GOVERNMENT-RUN service, would have gotten it right the first time…
Lunch Lady said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:10
In the old days, we made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to beat the band – once a week, maybe. We had mouths to feed! Sometimes, those little ones, their eyes would roll back into their heads. We didn’t know why. It just happened. Then, four out of five dentists surveyed recommended Dentyne to patients who chewed gum, so we wondered: were the children so eager for pb&j they forgot to spit out their breath freshener? Then, it turned out Wonder didn’t really build strong bodies twelves ways, so we wondered: are we building weak kids? Later, scientists determined sugar rotted baby teeth, so we wondered: were our little charges gumming their food so hard they introduced air into their semi-circular canals and passing out? Finally, too many people developed peanut allergies and went into anaphalactic shock and the program was reluctantly disbanded. Sometimes, it’s the luck of the draw, kid.
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:11
It seems that a belligerant anti-health-care-reform protestor got his finger bitten off by a pro-reform-protestor at an event in California yesterday, after the anti-reformer made the mistake of punching the pro-reformer in the face. If he’d just kept his hands to himself, his finger would still occupy its original location.
Bonus: the anti-reformer was 65 years old; after the pro-reformer bit the finger off and spat it on the ground, the bite-ee picked up the finger and took it with him to the hospital – where presumably it was stitched back on courtesy of socialist healthcare.
The Delivery Guy said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:14
Hey! A guy’s gotsa make a livin’ ya know? Stuffing envelopes for Ngyuen…I mean, my other highly successful business is, er, a little slow right now. That’s it, a little slow.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:16
Bonus: the anti-reformer was 65 years old; after the pro-reformer bit the finger off and spat it on the ground, the bite-ee picked up the finger and took it with him to the hospital – where presumably it was stitched back on courtesy of socialist healthcare.
Not Medicare!
*Gasp*
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:20
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I thought there were some engineer/architect types on this.
I just finished a design for temporarily holding up a collapsing wall. How do you think DLMM would feel about some aircraft cable looped around her spine and attached to an 8×8 in front?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:21
And spitting the finger on the ground? I love that detail.
*Ptui*
“There’s your fucking finger, Grandpa. Now pick it up and fish out your Medicare card and get the damn thing sewn back on. And next time Pops, I’m gonna spit it down the sewer drain.”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:23
I just finished a design for temporarily holding up a collapsing wall. How do you think DLMM would feel about some aircraft cable looped around her spine and attached to an 8×8 in front?
I dunno. What color is the cable?
Xecky Gilchrist said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:26
You won’t be, once Disney turns him into a gruff-but-lovable dogfaced character…
Funny you should mention that.
The Goddamn Batman Prefers That Clark Take Care Of All That Cosmic Crap Because That Shit Is Wack, Yo said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:28
The problem with Glenn Reynolds is that the problem with Jim Lindgren is that “some on the left” is absolutely meaningless. “Some”? How many are we talking about here, a random sampling of trustafarians that at a particular given moment are so stoned that they aren’t sure how many toes they have? And don’t even get me started on who’s “left”; Pat Buchanan could count because he has actually talked to Rachel Maddow.
D.N. Nation said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:31
He’s a disingenuous, quasi-racist, transhumanist, genocide-endorsing, play-libertarian hack? Hehindeedy!
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:31
I dunno. What color is the cable?
Galvanized. Dull silvery gray.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:32
I did see that, Xecky, at my good friend Miss Cellania’s site, which is why I went there…
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:32
I dunno. What color is the cable?
Galvanized. Dull silvery gray.
PERFECT for a gender-unspecific baby.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:34
The problem:
withGlenn Reynolds isthatFixed!
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:35
There’s your fucking finger, Grandpa
You’ll get my cold, dead fingers when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers!
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:37
The problem
withis Glenn Reynoldsis that.Haz fizxed?
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:38
Studie, STAY. STAY. There’s a good boy.
Also, I just made the mistake of reading Buchanan’s latest Heil Hitler! while sitting on the pot. I really do need to pay more attention to our modern technology as I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:38
Me too slow with tags…
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:39
I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
Ok, I laughed at that.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:39
There’s an app for that.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:42
I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
There’s an app for that.
*waterspit*
OK, that there was funnay, Ah don’ care who y’are…
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:46
“iWipe”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:47
There’s an app for that.
iWipe?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:48
Curses!
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:48
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:49
Or, if I could spell or type.
“iGiene”
Xecky Gilchrist said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:50
I did see that, Xecky, at my good friend Miss Cellania’s site, which is why I went there…
Ooh neat! Thx for the link.
Disney / Marvel is less weird, IMO, than the Disney / Squaresoft mashup “Kingdom Hearts” video games – and those were pretty cool. I’m curious to see what happens with all that.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:51
There’s an app for that.
I’d be in trouble with that one – I can’t tell my app from a hole in the ground.
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:51
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
I just snorted my nostrils out my nose.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:54
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
ayLidSex
(anagram it)
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:55
There is actually quite a large difference in protests organized by groups that exist for the sole purpose of representing and advancing the interests of their actual citizen-members and those organized by people being well-paid by big business to whip the rubes up into a frenzy, usually with the use of false information, to get them to protest against things that will advance their interests.
I suppose technically protests organized by MoveOn and various Socialist/Communist parties are, technically, not grassroots…
…but you bring up an important point, there – OUR protests are based on Reality; THEIRS are based on 99 44/100% pure bullshit and lies.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 17:58
BTW, even though I’ve been not commenting on it, I too am (I would say “pushing” but that’s not exactly an appropriate word) cheering for Studie to delay his emergence.
And congrats on the move, LDMM. Been there, done that in the middle of Long Island’s hottest week on record.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:05
anagram it
Daily Sex
Sax Yield
A Sexy Lid
I Sexy Lad
Sadly Ex, I
Ex Lays Id
Lax Id, Yes
Ya Lid Sex
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:06
Extraneous spaces, PeeJ.
Steerpike said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:10
There’s an spp for that
No no, it’s called “iPood”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:12
lysdexia is a niap. As aer citsaps gerfins.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:14
I hvea retsilbs on ma gerfins!
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:16
Apparently, Troofie has been busy trying to kill the Saudi prince using assohol…
Rusty Shackleford said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:17
Pink iWipe
SomeNYGuy said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:17
There’s an app for that.
I downloaded iLeostomy and now I have to tweet into a plastic bag.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:20
Can’t let this thread go on without linking to Blood Devastation Death War and Horror
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:22
They’ll soon have an app to treat butt problems, iSuppose.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:24
Can’t let this thread go on without linking to Blood Devastation Death War and Horror
Veiled penis reference (Python. Get it?)
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:26
They’ll soon have an app to treat butt problems, iSuppose.
Well, there is an app “Hot Buns”…
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:35
I downloaded iLeostomy and now I have to tweet into a plastic bag.
Tee hee!
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:36
Apparently, Troofie has been busy trying to kill the Saudi prince using assohol
ARTHUR Now what happens?
BEDEVERE Well now, Launcelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall and then leap out of the anus and take the Saudis by surprise, not only by surprise but totally unarmed!
ARTHUR Who … Who breaks out?
BEDEVERE Er … We … Launcelot, Galahad, and I … Er … leap out of the anus and …
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:36
The network also quoted an expert as saying that the method of concealment aimed the blast away from the target, while blowing the bomber to bits.
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels…
Steerpike said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:39
OT (? is there a “Topic” really? ever?) Name that Toilet!
Classic from The Sneeze .
A few faves:
The Shitoon
H.R. Flushnstuff
Senor Burrito-Completo
Big Hungry Joe
Ol’ Smeller
Loretta
The Six Million Dollar Can
There Will Be Blood
Poopacabra
Crapalodeon
Denny’s
Michael G. said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:41
So the secret to using the buttbomb is to get the other guy to smell your farts? Also, DO NOT PULL THAT FINGER!
It’s a classy day.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:43
Can’t let this thread go on with no Penis.
OneMan said,
September 3, 2009 at 18:59
LDMM: stand close to the TeeVee and turn on Glenn Beck (not that way; you people get your minds out of the gutter!). Turn the volume up loud.
I promise that Toaster, Jr. will be scared straight. He’ll be pulling your cervix closed from the inside.
What, TMI?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:02
LDMM: stand close to the TeeVee and turn on Glenn Beck (not that way; you people get your minds out of the gutter!). Turn the volume up loud.
I’m a-guessin’ she’s gonna opt for the aircraft-cable spinal wrap, muhself.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:03
The Unexcused Finger.
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:05
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels…
BMBM?
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:06
you people get your minds out of the gutter!
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, at least in Euclidean space.
The shortest distancec between two minds is a gutter, at least in PeeJ space.
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:07
you people get your minds out of the gutter!
I can’t. My mind goes where my body goes.
pedestrian said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:08
From NVM’s link:
I’m all for 62 year-olds being able to make love to their wives, and there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort. HOWEVER, having to pee like a woman isn’t exactly a night at Abu Ghraib. I do it any time I’m in the women’s room – it’s just polite.
Also, if you aren’t able to go to the beach, work, or spend time with friends without flashing your penis… so in summary, Also.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:09
Classic from The Sneeze .
Ooooh, The Sneeze!
Recommended reading, especially “Steve, Don’t Eat It!” and the saga of the brain on the tree.
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:10
The Unexcused Finger.
OOOH, Mr. Kotter! I know this one!
It’s Poe, right? It turns out that the finger is hidden on a hand all along.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:11
there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort
You’re a lawyer, then?
N__B said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:12
there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort
You’re a lawyer, then?
No, he frequents pristetoots.
pedestrian said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:16
You’re a lawyer, then?
No… and actually, I should have said that there is nothing I enjoy more than an angry mob sacking the castle after lord whatsisname ran down the miller’s daughter in his carriage and didn’t even bother to flip a gold coin out the window as he sped away.
But torts are as close as we get these days.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:34
This talk of torts is making me hungry.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:34
I should have said that there is nothing I enjoy more than an angry mob sacking the castle after lord whatsisname ran down the miller’s daughter in his carriage and didn’t even bother to flip a gold coin out the window as he sped away.
Tell them to bring their torches & pitchforks, just in case he’s also working on bringing the dead back to life.
Oh, and have fun stormin’ t’ castle!
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:45
This talk of torts is making me hungry.
I just bit off a ladyfinger.
justme said,
September 3, 2009 at 19:49
LDMM,
I don’t know if they come in different sizes, but…
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:01
Attack Of The Arab Assblaster
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:04
I don’t know if they come in different sizes, but…
So THAT’S how that chick in Tijuana was able to claim she was a virgin twelve times!
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:05
OT (? is there a “Topic” really? ever?) Name that Toilet!
Alabama.
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:06
So THAT’S how that chick in Tijuana was able to claim she was a virgin twelve times!
“..to go where no donkey has gone before…”
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:08
Name that Toilet!
NRO Corner.
Seats (#)1.
One cup.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:11
BMBM?
Hmm. Likee. Also: “Bumbum.” Or is that the same thing?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:15
Name that Toilet!
NRO Corner.
Hmmm. I would think the toilet would be on the floor above the Corner’s offices. One holer, straight drop, etc.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:22
The toe sucking discussion also got my stomach rumbling.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:24
Name that Toilet!
Liberal Fascism.
It’s a very serious, thoughtful POOP that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:27
Name that Toilet!
Glenn Blecch OR Loud Obbs OR Teh Pigman OR Stalkin’ Malkin OR Pammycakes.
Your choice, plus soup and salad.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:29
Name that Toilet!
Wal-Mart. Also.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:35
Fingers? Ewww.
I would have spit it out too. After all, you never know where they’ve been.
Willy said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:39
Name that Toilet!
Rush, as in “Be sure to flush the Rush!”
OneMan said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:39
“Fingers? Ewww.”
Wait.
Branes are OK but fingers, ewww?
That’s just messed up.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:44
Fingers are bone-in, OneMan.
OneMan said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:45
“Fingers are bone-in”
Veiled PENIS reference.
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:49
I wonder if the bite-ee got a chance to say “Scuse mah finGAH!!!” before it got bitten off.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:49
Fingers? Ewww.
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:51
Branes are OK but fingers, ewww?
That’s just messed up.
No kidding. Mostly because with the average winger, you do have an idea where the fingers have been (bag of Cheetos, wanking off) … but you don’t even want to know where the brain has been.
Jennifer said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:51
Damn you, Looch.
Steerpike said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:54
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
If we’re talking about the Branes of writers like Glenn Reynolds and other perrenial S,N! faves, I think it’s safe to assume they would be bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless.
OneMan said,
September 3, 2009 at 20:58
OMFG. Glenn Beck is going to receive the keys to the city of Mount Vernon, WA, where he gew up.
This is simultaneously incredibly disturbing since I grew up not many miles from there and wholly unsurprising…because I grew up not many miles from there.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:00
There are a lot of people carrying signs, Change the locks.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:02
OMFG. Glenn Beck is going to receive the keys to the city of Mount Vernon, WA, where he gew up.
Mt Vernon, WA…why does that sound familiar to me…?
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:06
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:12
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. A northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Yep, sounds like the fine rugged pioneer stock you’d expect Teh Glennster to come from.
Hopefully Bleccch will emulate this person and go out and shoot himsefl in the leg, like Real Americans do.
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:19
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
I was wondering how long it would take for that response.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:23
bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless
What would The Lunch Lady say?
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:25
Name that Toilet!
La Porte de l’Enfer
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:27
bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless
What would The Lunch Lady say?
I can’t say (it’s in the contract), but I imagine it would go something like:
“Everybody complains on spaghetti day, kid”
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:28
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
I was wondering how long it would take for that response.
Architects, engineers and now what? Astrophysicists? Or are you guys just quantum mechanics with universal grease all over your hands?
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:32
Or are you guys just quantum mechanics with universal grease all over your hands?
It’s more like bulk fiber.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:36
Architects, engineers and now what? Astrophysicists?
Unfortunately just a physics geek whose mathematics couldn’t keep up with my aspirations.
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:37
Some folks are just insane in the M-Brane.
LittlePig said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:41
Unfortunately just a physics geek whose mathematics couldn’t keep up with my aspirations.
Right there with ya, pal. When I found out Ricci curvature wasn’t about Christina I lost interest.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:41
Hey, I learned something (after scurrying around a bit). Now my brane hurts.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:42
It’s Poe, right? It turns out that the finger is hidden on a hand all along.
It’s under the floorboard. Still cracking its knuckles. Those policemen are pretending not to hear it, toying with me.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:44
all the Braxton-Hicksing that I’m doing
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:45
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
Scuse MAH string-a’s!
justme said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:47
Sounds like string theory.
Or dark matter, depending on how one looks at it.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:50
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. [...] Why is it OK at liberal universities to tell professors what they want to hear, but not OK at conservative ones to do the same?
Sounds like Cal Thomas is trying to help out S,N! by self-shortering himself. We could probably re-write his argument, along the lines of “This is how we behave at conservative universities so therefore liberal universities must have been doing it first”, but the result always ends up as long as the original.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:53
Now you’ve gone and reminded me of the lullaby I used to sing to Doktorling Sonja when she was small:
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown of parity
That’s why black holes have no hair.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 21:54
That’s why black holes have no hair.
Fuzzy wuzzy was a hole
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy wuzzy wuznt fuzzy, was he?
OH YES HE WAS!
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:04
Teh full version, repeated from an earlier thread (to which I shall not link because it was full of bad food-related puns):
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown, of parity,
Johnnie’s so late at the fair.
He promised to write me a Theory of Ev’rything,
He promised to tie it all up with a superstring,
Instead of a closed group he gave me an open ring
That’s why black holes have no hair.
The Delivery Guy said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:06
I gots a delivery heah. To Da Corner. Only it sez here that I have to go up to the floor above and drop it through some hole or sumpin so dat dey get it or sumsuch. It’s deez boxes heah. One’s sumpin called Cluons. De udder is Validons. Up dere? Ok, tanks.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:07
One’s sumpin called Cluons. De udder is Validons. Up dere? Ok, tanks
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:19
Oh, dear, where can the matter be
When it’s converted to energy?
There is a slight loss of parity
Johnny’s so long at the fair.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:21
Where are the Klingons?
They’re determinedly holding on to the package.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:22
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities.
Um, so Mr. Cal is setting up a nice wicke^H^H^H^H^H straw man and preparing to lock someone – *ahem*, to knock it down.
Remind me again why this guy has a national column and I have a shitty blog that never gets updated?
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:24
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
It’s a Hicks Braxton, also known as the “pea in a pod” particle.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:24
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
Circling Uranus.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:28
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days? Also, why do they call it “dialing” the phone? Also.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:33
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days?
I miss my HP TSB…
kg said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:38
scuse his finGAHS
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/09/fingered_protesting_man_bites.html
this story has it all : fingahs, moveon.org, astroturds, etc.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:42
Psst, kg….Been there, bit that
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:43
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days?
Probably not, the little my-lawn-trodding bastiges.
But I don’t know the magic to convince WP to do the strike-through text, so I have to work with the character set I have, not the character set I want.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:47
do kids know what “^H” means these days?
Your emoticon, I do not recognise it.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:50
Your emoticon, I do not recognise it.
It’s a backspace character you young rapscallion! And get offa mah lawn!
tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:53
Pere, it’s just “strike” in the brackets, not “strike-through,” but everybody knows ^H is a baby bird on an i-beam.
Michael G. said,
September 3, 2009 at 22:56
Hey, I still hit ^[ for escape in vim because the key travel is shorter.
Rusty Shackleford said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:01
People who know what ^H means will be first for the death panels
kingubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:04
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown of parity
That’s why black holes have no hair.
This wins four whole fried Internets and a Coke.
kg said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:05
scuse my redundancy, should have finghured you’d covered that.
Candy said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:06
The bitten finger, having been spit, is sewn on.
But not all ye wingnuts, nor all teabaggers and shits
Shall justify its stoopid, not one bit
Nor all thy Dial remove the smell of turd.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:08
People who know what ^H means will be first for the death panels
Oh goody! A game show! What can I win????
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:09
” works in preview (your tricksy, lying friend) but if you want the real deal, the literal inside the brackets should be ‘strike’
Candy said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:09
My weak desecration of Omar Kayyahm is humbled by Smut Clyde’s genius. I stand in awe.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:10
I can hz “Mute Inglorious Melt-down” joke about Beck?
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:10
awfuk
imagine there’s matched (L+R) angly brackets with the literal ‘s’ between them just up there.
kthxbai
Candy said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:10
And I misspelled Khayyam. I’m goin’ back to bed.
Chico Marx said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:11
PeeJ
“” and “” is your friend
Chico Marx said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:12
AW FUCK! It worked in preview!!!!!
PeeJ, you need to spell out strike inside the angly bracket thingies.
actor212 said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:12
And I forgot to put away my fake ID. I had to buy beer.
Smut Clyde said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:13
everybody knows ^H is a baby bird on an i-beam.
It looked to me like a nose over a mouth with sideways-closing mandibles.
Perhaps I am revealing too much about my home planet.
OneMan said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:17
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>tigrismus said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:18
Tell us of your homeworld, Usul. Wait, just let me grab this DEET first…
CapMidnight said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:23
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>But look what it got the air-trafffic controllers under Reagan.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:24
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>Yeah, yeah. That’s what I thot I sed.
PeeJ said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:25
I liked the intertronz better when it was all lower case.
Michael G. said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:32
Smut Clyde said,
I can hz “Mute Inglorious Melt-down” joke about Beck?
Only if you make it. But you have my attention. I like Beck jokes, especially when they involve the beck-neck.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:52
Glenn BleccchLet’s see if that works.
Michael G. said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:54
Also:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/03-8
You stay classy, Michael Steele.
Pere Ubu said,
September 3, 2009 at 23:56
Huzzah! Now I needz not bother children who haz no idea what teh ^H means.
BTW, I knew Blecccch was a piss-poor piece of work along about March 2002, when he was pissing and fretting about nobody commemorating the 6-month anniversary of TEH BESTEST AWFUL DAY EVAH by, oh say, invading Iraq or something.
Back then he was just a cut-rate K-mart knockoff of Limbaugh with hipper style. It’s so
nice pitiful that he’s found his own niche of crazy to inhabit.Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:02
FYWP
Wordpress said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:03
Yeah, yeah, you closed that tag. Of course you did.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:10
When the RNC chair took a written question on health care, he blasted the public option, saying that “every time the government gets involved in something it doesn’t work.”
Yeah, except for the Post Office, the VA, the GI Bill, the TVA and CCC, the National Highway system, the creation of the InterToobz, the phone system (until 1982 or so), the Pentagon, the rebuilding of Europe after WWII, Social Security, Medicare, Tricare…
OTHER THAN THAT, the government can’t do ANYTHING right. Yup.
Wordpress said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:11
The Emperor has no close.
Tag.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:12
Yeah, yeah, you closed that tag. Of course you did.
I did so, you fink.
Oh and the Public Broadcasting system.
pedestrian said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:15
The way to do this is like
thisBaby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..
OneMan said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:20
“Baby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..”
Suddenly I have the feeling I’ve wandered into a strip club.
Is it hot in here or is it just me?
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:25
Baby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..
Nice Barry White there, ped.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:31
Nice Barry White there, ped.
I prefer the Evil Barry White who uses his subsonic hypnotic powers to make birds fly into windows.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:33
Ima striking this hole thread.
~
Jennifer said,
September 4, 2009 at 0:45
LittlePig – if you’re around, check out Joke Line’s horror at the stupid in our hometown. And add a comment explaining to him why it’s the way it is, like I did.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:14
Oh, and also too the National Parks system.
Yup d’ gummint done fucked that one up, shurenuff.
At least in Steele’s feverish imagination.
Lurking Canadian said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:30
Well, he probably does think the government fucked up the National Parks system. That’s millions of acres of land where nobody’s building anything, nobody’s drilling for anything, nobody’s emitting any pollutants… It’s a waste, is what it is. I’m sure I remember reading that Ayn Rand was literally pro-pollution; not just opposed to regulation, or downplaying the severity of the problem, or whatever, but actually in favour of the presence of poison in air and water because it was a sign that capitalism was working. National Parks Are Theft!
One of the many things I wish somebody would ask these “You can’t trust the government to do anything right” people is, “Why, then, are you in favour of letting them torture people who have not been charged with a crime? Or spy on people who haven’t been charged with a crime? Or, you know, bomb the shit out of foreign countries? Do they suddenly become infallible if you put a gun in their hands? What?”
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:44
Well, he probably does think the government fucked up the National Parks system. That’s millions of acres of land where nobody’s building anything, nobody’s drilling for anything, nobody’s emitting any pollutants… It’s a waste, is what it is.
Well do I have some great news for him!
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:46
Better link
pedestrian said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:48
Filthy trash-shitting Mexicans.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 1:53
So a veiled mierda reference?
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:17
Why do I get the feeling DMM dropped her litter tonight?
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:18
I dunno, AMY.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:19
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels
Now why didn’t anyone propose Hindrocket? You’re slipping, peeps!
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:25
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:30
Do not mess with my National Rosy Parks.
I’ll get all rosy-fingered Dawn on yurasses.
~
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:40
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
I’m sure someone will let us know when The Kid makes his appearance.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:51
I’m sure someone will let us know when The Kid makes his appearance.
If it ain’t on Drudge, it didn’t happen.
The Delivery Guy said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:51
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
I don’t know no nothin about no Klingons. And I get all da way up to hole above der offices and dey tell me dey don’t want the damn Cluons or the Validons. No! Instead, dey tell me dey ordered a bunch of Bogons, whadevah dey are. And a pallet of Cretons. I asked da people down stairs if dey tought deese Corner guys would want any Morons, cause I got a truck full a dem, and dey said dem Corner people had more than their share. Go figure.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:04
rosy-fingered Dawn
Interest, newsletter, subscription, it’s for a friend. Who only reads the articles.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:07
it’s for a friend. Who only reads the articles.
Your “friend” isn’t going to start singing “Delta Dawn” is he?
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:15
Rosy fingered Dawn?
Bad news for Dawn. She’s taking a fall.
pedestrian said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:19
rosy-fingered Dawn
One thing that I enjoy about swinging on the swings at the playground is overhearing what the kids are talking about these days. The downside is that you kind of look like a pedophile. Some choice quotes from a group of 7-10 year olds at around 9 PM in Dolores Park:
“I am not a lesbian, so don’t even think that way”
“You can’t get a girl pregnant with your finger”
“Don’t watch porn, you’ll get addicted!”
“Girl, I know it’s true, I saw it on YouTube!”
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:22
“I am not a lesbian, so don’t even think that way”
Megan Fox fan.
“You can’t get a girl pregnant with your finger
Future tentacle-porn addict.
“Don’t watch porn, you’ll get addicted!”
Current tentacle-porn addict.
“Girl, I know it’s true, I saw it on YouTube!”
Future Senator John Blutarsky.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:24
Your “friend” isn’t going to start singing “Delta Dawn” is he?
So I ask The Tart who sang “Delta Dawn” and she has gone and looked up the lyrics on the Intraweb and is now singing them with her less-than-Dulcet- toned-pipes and curse you, my friend, curse you!
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:27
curse you, my friend, curse you!
“Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan.”
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:33
Here’s a little song I’d like to dedicate to Pat Buchanan, Glenn Bleccch, Malkin, Pammycakes, and the whole nauseating gang.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:55
I don’t know but I think Pat Buchanan may be trying to corner the market on HITLER. Just a heads-up, people.
jim said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:57
I really ought to be beyond astonishment when it comes to these people being utter filth-in-human’s-clothing … but I saw this today & now have bruises & lacerations on my thighs from how fast & far my jaw dropped. Good thing MY country will pick up the tab for the medicine from that wingnut-related injury.
Verbally hocking a loogy on a girl whose Mom just died of cancer? Par for the course from the crowd that spawned gems of warmth & empathy like Jeanne “Those Fucking Nuns Got What They Had Coming” Kirkpatrick or Pat “Mein Kulturkampf” Buchanan.
But justifying said lung-gerbil by comparing her valid outrage over the needless premature demise of a beloved parent to the gun-wielding ultra-right shitheels being egged on to a marathon of idiocy by his own party?
Put down the horse-syringe & back slowly away from the eight ball, Mr. Steele – methinks someone needs a visit to DetoxLand.
M. Bouffant said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:58
HITLER is a renewable resource. Not even P. B. can get all of it.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 4:01
What about P. B. & J.?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 4:03
HITLER is a renewable resource.
More like kudzu. Or flies. There’s always plenty no matter what you do.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 4:10
So, stand down on that Buchanan cornering the market alert, ‘K?
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 4:11
HITLER is a renewable resource.
It’s our responsibility to manage it properly and cull the herd when it gets to large, lest they eat each other.
On second thought, let ‘em eat each other. More fun to watch.
Lady Doctor Missus Marita said,
September 4, 2009 at 5:09
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
Yes, move. Very, very exhausting. No Studie yet. Hopefully have all boxes moved tomorrow.
Ugh.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 5:16
Stay, Studie! Stay!
Or I’ll send you Ann Coulter’s latest column!
pedestrian said,
September 4, 2009 at 7:04
Or I’ll send you Ann Coulter’s latest column!
Of course I had to look.
Ah, the “Whole Point of Getting Medical Treatment is Seeing Others Suffer and Die Because They Can’t Have Any” argument. I wish more people would use this.
Actually, I wonder why someone hasn’t opened a swanky, $1000/entree restaurant in NYC with glass cages full of starving brown people at each table? I’ll bet it would be a big hit with a certain set.
OneMan said,
September 4, 2009 at 8:12
“No Studie yet.”
So…the Beck treatment worked then.
pedestrian said,
September 4, 2009 at 8:22
So…the Beck treatment worked then.
I would like to sell you an elephant whistle.
justme said,
September 4, 2009 at 8:31
pedestrian,
These are people who would be vehemently against a breakthrough that would allow everybody to live happy and healthy into their 120s unless there was some way for them to go to 130. The very idea of equality in anything is anathema to them. They think so little of themselves that they must always and constantly have some banal reassurance that they are “better” than everyone else. Sad and kinda gross for them. Boring and irksome for the rest of us.
The zero sum philosophy certainly has its place. Making all else secondary to it is simply absurd.
Your restaurant, of course, would serve only endangered species, because where’s the fun otherwise?
justme said,
September 4, 2009 at 8:32
Or the cork.
M. Bouffant said,
September 4, 2009 at 9:51
Not, apparently, parody, nor is it a lampoon, nor satire:
More Friday Morning Web Log Pimpin’ right here, you betcha.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 10:39
zero sum
I blame Notation Polish Reverse for the popularity of this term.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 11:02
Your restaurant, of course, would serve only endangered species, because where’s the fun otherwise?
If it is called “Bastards”, or if Alan Pellay is one of the waiters, then you have lost my custom already.
Just Alison said,
September 4, 2009 at 11:36
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:22
I love you and wish to bear your children.
Okay, maybe not the children part.
Just Alison said,
September 4, 2009 at 11:37
And water torture! The sink in my kitchen and the shower head next to my bedroom has dripped repeatly every few seconds for the past 2 years! In sterio, drip, drip drip! I should be in a mental hospital!
Why yes. Yes you should.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 12:47
I love you and wish to bear your children.
Okay, maybe not the children part.
It’s just as well. I’m unbearable.
But not inscrutable.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 13:29
Not, apparently, parody, nor is it a lampoon, nor satire:
But it does look familiar. Li’l Missy has herself a Mini-Palin kind of deal going on, complete with fanboys (like “Bazookaman” — now there’s some rough trade) and a bunch of commentary that spins around the event horizon of stupidity before disappearing into a black hole of pure lunacy. Secession? Sure? Why not?
DAS said,
September 4, 2009 at 13:42
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. Some professors require their students to repeat back to them on test papers and in theses what the professors believe. Unless students hate Republicans, revile George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, renounce God, support abortion and gay rights, they can sometimes expect a lower, even a failing grade – “Unfortunately not Silent” Cal Thomas
You got me there. For example, consider the following test problem:
I mix 17.5 g. of oxygen gas with 2.0 g. of hydrogen gas and allow the hydrogen and oxygen to react. How many moles of what compound forms? What is the limiting reagent?
Many of my general chemistry students get lower grades or even fail because they write responses like “1.0 moles of water form” and “hydrogen is the limiting reagent” when, in order to get full credit, they should be writing things like “I hate Republicans and revile George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan”.
*
Alternative snark:
You got me there. For example, consider the following test problem:
I mix 17.5 g. of oxygen gas with 2.0 g. of hydrogen gas and allow the hydrogen and oxygen to react. How many moles of what compound forms? What is the limiting reagent?
I will give (general chemistry) students lower grades or even fail them for not correctly identifying water as the product, etc. And it is well known that to say “hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water”, etc., is tantamount to saying “I revile Ronald Reagan” as facts have a well known liberal bias and empirical observations even more so.
I confess, when I require students to solve limiting reagent problems, I’m really indoctrinating them into liberal ideology!
LittlePig said,
September 4, 2009 at 13:59
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:14
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
Yeah. I feel so neutered.
Ted the Slacker said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:31
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
It’s like the teabaggers shut down our town hall.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:42
I just read the next post (sans comment window) and I am increasingly thinking that peak wingnut is an illusion. It’s not gonna happen. When someone’s whole world view and emotional framework incorporates a constant doubling down on their unshakable beliefs (in the face of ever-mounting evidence wrongitude) how can one assume that a “peak” will ever be reached? There’s always one more summit over the next one. I am sure there is some well-considered theory that postulates that will be a collective collapse of wingnuttery into itself in the 11th dimension or whatever (and would love some pointers to such discussions if for no other reason than to inspire a little hope) but damn, these people are off the deep end.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:44
“ever mounting evidence of wrongitude”
Moar kofFiE
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:45
I had a comment box, but when I tried to post I got the message that comments were closed. When I refreshed there was no comment box. It’s a shame too, as what I was trying to post was the all-time wittiest and bestest reply the intertubes haz evah seen!!11!1!!!
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:53
was trying to post was the all-time wittiest and bestest reply the intertubes haz evah seen!!11!1!!!
No, no. See my post above.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:55
Looch, I said that many comment threads ago. it’s an ever expanding alternative universe.
Quite a controversial theory at the time, too.
Now, it just seems all too obvious, doesn’t it?
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:59
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
Yeah, but fuck it, I’ll make my comment here.
Schilling for senate?
No. Al Nipper for senate!
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 4, 2009 at 14:59
Yeah sure.
A zombie WOULD say that.
henry lewis said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:04
Woop! Woop! Woop!!!
Brad thread inoperative! System failure!
One of the hamsters must have slipped in the wood chips and knocked the rubber band off the drive wheel.
Or is it gerbils?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:17
A zombie WOULD say that.
Well of course he would. Stupid, slow-moving brains housed in bodies with similar characteristics? That’s kinda like a Kodiak bear astride an Alaskan stream during the salmon run, isn’t it?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:20
(And for ZRM’s sake, with Sarah Youbetcha out of the state and not poised a hundred yards away with her quad 50. cal anti-aircraft battery ready to smoke the poor critter.)
Test said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:29
Test
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:43
pretty early to be hatin on the zombies, isn’t it?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:44
Test
Veiled scrotal reference.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:46
pretty early to be hatin on the zombies, isn’t it?
No hatin here. Just thinking that enlightened self-interest is a good example for all of us.
g said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:46
What’s wrong with the comment section in the next post?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:48
What’s wrong with the comment section in the next post?
Teabagged.
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 15:55
Why do keep hearing this on the next thread?
zzx said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:11
Here’s how wack it’s getting out there:
“JERICHO, Ark. – It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn’t hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.
“The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_us/us_shot_in_court
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:19
Michael Bay=HITLER.
LittlePig said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:20
Whew. Jericho is over by Mississippi, in flatland country. Those people are crazy.
(/native of Western aka Hillbilly Arkansas)
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:21
it’s an ever expanding alternative universe.
Ever seen the book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds?” It was written in the late 1700′s IIRC, (I can’t lay my hands on my fecking copy–Spagdamnit– I hate moving) and covered all sorts of speculative bubbles like the tulip mania and the South Seas swindle. I came across the book during the Internet insanity of the 1990s (I was covering it out of San Francisco at the time) and it helped explain to me why Yahoo! (which had no real revenue stream at the time) had a market cap bigger than Ford or GM (or both, can’t remember). The point I got out of the book was something like: “People go insane en masse but come to their senses one-by-one.” Mebbe we will see something like this occur here, but I think the combination of fear, uncertainty, racism and flat-out ignorance among many of our fellow citizens may retard that process to the point that the numbers of people coming to their senses will simply be overwhelmed by the numbers going batshit insane.
I would be happy, nay, thrilled, to be completely and categorically wrong about this, BTW.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:26
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:27
“The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.”
My favorite part of the story, discussing how the new police force had been over-zealous in enforcing speed limits was some geezer saying they tagged him for doing 58 mph in his driveway.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:29
Looch,
Go read Krugman’s blog from 9/2/09 (I linked to it on my blog today, item #8).
Marvelous story.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:31
tagged him for doing 58 mph in his driveway.
He must have lived at Tara!
I’m imagining Scarlett O’Hara’s modern counterpart…Paris Hilton?…speeding down her driveway in a Porsche.
“Fiddle me, Dee”…
WordPress said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:36
Fuck me? No, fuck you! Always blamin’ my ass ’cause you can’t close a markup tag… Let’s see how you like no comment box, motherfuckers.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:43
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
No. Thing. To. Fix.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:48
Must. Not. Fix.
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
LittlePig said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:48
Inscrotable.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:50
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
I find it inconceivable.
MzNicky said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:52
Hey! Who turned off the comments on the upstairs thread? I had something really important to say about the latest wingnutbagger poutrage, but now I forgot.
Wordpress said,
September 4, 2009 at 16:57
Dear WordPress,
Dear, sweet, gentle, kind WordPress:
I think the problem is that parents are given no opportunity to review these Obama Satanic communist Nazi-inspired comment boxes before they’re left out on the naked Internets where the children may be exposed to them. Around eight o’clock. On a school night.
If only we might persuade a leading American intellectual to provide a Republican response to the comment box, I’m sure we could resolve this.
Bipartisanally yours,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Cap
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:04
Gosh, y’know, I would so totally leave a relevant comment on the new thread, if only I, you know, could.
JUST SAYIN’.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:06
Did someone forget to put another quarter in the commenting meter?
Or did Little Studie put up a picket line across it?
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:07
I can’t lay my hands on my fecking copy–Spagdamnit– I hate moving
If you don’t mind reading on teh ‘lectric compooter, I’m sure Project Gutenberg has a copy.
(Which has nothing to do with Steve Gutenberg, thank the Goddess.)
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:07
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
No. Thing. To. Fix.
I take that as a challenge….
But not inscrew
utableFIXED!
Wordpress said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:08
Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?
This is a bit off-topic, but central to my point:
It’s nice you have spare Ritalin, but when it’s my turn to bring snacks, I make a special effort to find something more cookie-like.
wapsie said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:08
@Looch
Chas. Mackay’s _Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds_ was first published in 1841. It’s in the revolutionary liberal (in the 19th-c. sense) and laic spirit of the 1840s. Religion as an idea fairs badly in its accounts of the Crusades and the Witch Craze of 1400-1650, as do the pre-modern sciences of alchemy and the art of divination. (And if you’re apt to regard any of the latter things as absolute retardants of human progress, you can credit the major influence of this book on the English-speaking world.)
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:09
FIXED!
Way to kill a pun.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:10
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
If I can explain, I was channeling Brando in On The Waterfront, you know, that famous scene in the back of the car where he says “I wanted ta be someone,” where, you know, most actors would have done the whole “I wanted to be someone.”
As Lee Strasberg once said to me after a scene study class, “Less is more, more or less.”
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:10
Late to the party but man, some of youse guys are really fucken^H^H^H^H^H^H old. [0x0D 0X0A]
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:11
I propose “Studly” as the nickname for Young Studebaker, (assuming he is of the X-Y chromosomal persuasion), rather than “Studie”. It’s more, well, more studly, frankly. Also, when the little tyke misbehaves in the future, his ancestors can admonish him with a gentle, “Studly, No!”
So let it be written; so let it be blogged.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:11
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:09
FIXED!
Way to kill a pun.
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:17
Studly would be short for Studlebaker, and that would just be WRONG.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:19
4:15 minutes…Sadly,No! Commenters Held Hostage By Rabid Right Wing Censors….
DEVELOPING
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:20
I’ve just finished sending E-mails to my local school board members who took it upun themselves to secede my county from the union and ban the president of said union from speechifying to the tender young ears of our students. If only W were still around to inspire our youth. I still remember his rousing speech on how all you needed was a C average and you could grow up to be presnut!
jim said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:20
Gosh, y’know, I would so totally leave a relevant comment on the new thread, if only I, you know, could.
Thanks be to Boognish! I was worried that someone dosed my browser.
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:21
It’s OK–no hostage crisis. Everyone is just sitting, mouths agape, stunned at the brilliance of my suggestion.
Studly, No!
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:22
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
WTF?
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:28
I’d like to hear more about these magical seduction horns.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:29
Since the WordPress hamsters seem to be out on strike, may I suggest replacing them with long-legged Mack Daddies from the Holiday Inn.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:29
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:22
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
WTF?
teehee!
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:30
I’d like to hear more about these magical seduction horns.
It’s a Viking thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Ok, they’re more like pillaging horns, anyway.
Q: How do you seduce a Viking?
A: Move.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:32
NVM,
it’s not that WordPress is on strike, it’s that other thread is the VIP section and there’s the red velvet rope to prove it.
Elitist-ists!
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:36
Wapsie: Thanks for the correction, my memory is shit. Among a number of us back in the day (think mid-late 1990s) we kept asking ourselves and each other questions like: “How does Netscape have a market cap of billions when they have not had a single quarter with profits?” Or, the aforementioned Yahoo! example. The guy who gave me the book actually worked for MS (he left soon after) with the admonition, “READ this.”
And Actor: I read (all 8 pages!) of Krugman’s piece. It would seem to be that even extremely intelligent, well-educated people (in this case, economists of the highest order) can be swept along in mass delusion as easily as the saps who would trade an entire household of goods for a single tulip bulb. Not that this comes as a suprise, but it’s nice PK lays this out so clearly.
And, note Brad Delong, mentioned in Kurgman’s article. For those of you not acquainted with him, he has hisself a blog and he is so damn smart that I learn stuff from him even when I don’t have a clue (Often? No, very often) as to what he is talking about.
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:37
IOKIYAR
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:42
IOKIYAR
Every time I see a clip of GHWB talking I think of Anne Richards:
“Poor George. He can’t help himself. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:42
Well, since I CAN’T COMMENT *<—hint<—hint* on the new thread, I guess I'll have to do it here:
Tintin adds: And, of course, these are the same fuckwits who want to put prayer back in the schools. Indoctrination (even if that were what Obama was up to) is okay as long as it’s indoctrination that they like.
And Creationism and Bible-based abstinence, as well.
What ARE these morans afraid of? The President speaking to kids – his he going to use his subsonic mind control powers to hypnotize them?
Or are they just worried about them seeing a black man in a position of authority?
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:45
No, really, it’s okay. I didn’t want to say anything anyway. No, no, no, it’s FINE. Really, it is.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:48
Further IOKIYAR.
St. Ronny did the same thing.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:50
Not that this comes as a suprise, but it’s nice PK lays this out so clearly.
What should not have been a surprise, after I thought about it for a moment, was that stupid money forces out smart money.
Why should the financial markets be any different than any other endeavour that mixes intelligent people with idiots?
Look at our news. Look at movies. Look at TV. Look at practically anything.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:52
man, if the comment box doesn’t come back soon, I might end up doing some WORK yet today….
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:57
What a day! Whay a day! What a day for an auto da fe!
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:00
Oh, freakin’ lover-ly. I wroted a commet but WordPress eated it.
Anyway, it was about the new thread (the one WE’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH to comment on) and made the point that the same hypocrite idjits objecting to the President speaking to schoolkidz didn’t object to crestionism and Bible-based abstinence, too also.
You think mayyyyybe it’s something to do with them being exposed to a vaugely Centrist/barely Left black man in a position of authority (or even just a black man in a position of authority, period)?
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:02
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:03
Maybe we should just cut and pasta the next post into this comment section and get on with it. But seeing as it’s not my house and all…
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:04
The Dirty Half-Dozen?
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:04
crestionism n., the belief that one’s plumage determines one’s cosmological importance. Mine’s bigger neener neener neener is a common crestionist assertion.
g said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:04
I think Obama might as well go for broke, then, and while talking to the kiddies he should just swing a pendulum in front of their eyes, hypnotize them, and command them to finish their homework. And then get gay-married.
I mean, it doesn’t matter what he does – the right’s going to demonize it. So go for it.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:07
mean, it doesn’t matter what he does – the right’s going to demonize it. So go for it.
I disagree.
The more outlandish their whining, and the more reasonable he looks, the more liberal he can get once the country scopes their agenda out and says “Ewwwwwwwwwwww!”
It’ll be like the boy who cried “wolf”…
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:08
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
N__B…how COULD you????
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:11
Well fuck it, I’ll say something: “Look, as much as Schilling is beloved in this state for bringing the Sawx two championships” BELOVED MY ASS. I used to listen to ‘EEI every afternoon and got the impression Schilling was fairly widely viewed as a self-congratulatory asshole and all-around douche.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:12
Why should the financial markets be any different than any other endeavor that mixes intelligent people with idiots?
I liked the part where Krugman tells of how Larry Summers (feh, eh, whatever) starts a position paper with “THERE ARE IDIOTS-Just look around you.”
And of course, this line of thought bodes poorly for the whole “peak wingnut–will people come to their senses?” discussion. Idiocy overwhelms intelligence, if only by force of sheer numbers.
Hmm. Maybe we should secede.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:12
There’s an opportunity to cost-effectively improve teacher-student ratios by spreading word Obama will deliver a brief video message every school day.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:14
There’s an opportunity to cost-effectively improve teacher-student ratios by spreading word Obama will deliver a brief video message every school day.
AND lift the mean IQ in every classroom at the same time!
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:16
I think Obama should do some kind of Clockwork Orange-y thing and force the schoolchildren’s eyes open while he shows them increasingly fast subliminal clips of Noam Chomsky, Soylent Green, Triumph of the Will, Warren Beatty’s Reds, the assisted suicide scene from Million Dollar Baby, and Will and Grace.
Major Kong said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:18
Not exactly sure how I ended up on a list of “the elite”.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:21
Obama should … force the schoolchildren’s eyes open while he shows them increasingly fast subliminal clips
In my school, you got to do that if accepted into the Audio-Visual Club.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:23
Not exactly sure how I ended up on a list of “the elite”.
Don’t play “faux patrician populist” with us! We are NOT Republicans!
g said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:24
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:26
Nobody else is either, but now we have to read your shitty editorials at the Washington Post.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:26
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
She should be along any minute now…
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:26
Lunch Lady, are we gonna have arugula?
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:26
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
But will the Lunch Ladys across America support a Honduras-style coup?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:29
But will the Lunch Ladys across America support a Honduras-style
csoup?Fizored
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:31
Is any else not getting a comment pane for the latest posting?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:35
Is any else not getting a comment pane for the latest posting?
Nope. Just you.
(And the entire known universe, but whateve)
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:35
Join the proletarian masses.
Ted the Slacker said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:35
now we have to read your shitty editorials at the Washington Post.
Oh, that’s good.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:36
We’ve been roped off, owlbear.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:37
I dunno if anyone’s noticed yet, but it seems like
there’s vegetables on that sammichthe next thread isn’t accepting new comments.owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:39
k, cuz I was like totally freaking that Obama had completely surrendered to Republicans and banned all discussion of what terrified little bigots they are.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:39
We’ve been roped off, owlbear.
Owlbear, do you know anyone inside? We could just come in with you.
g said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:41
I’m not dressed hot enough to be able to comment on that thread, I guess.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:41
Owlbear, do you know anyone inside? We could just come in with you.
Heck with that! If I could find the bouncer, I could slip him a fifty.
Ted the Slacker said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:41
the next thread isn’t accepting new comments.
Yeah, we’d noticed – I blame InstaBrad.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:41
I’m not dressed hot enough to be able to comment on that thread, I guess.
See? If you chose a nym that was anagrammable…
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:43
Well look, I AM dressed hot enough, but the bouncer TOTALLY LIED TO ME.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:46
See? If you chose a nym that was anagrammable…
g: go like this: 6
They’ll let you right in.
And can you come out and get us?
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:46
A plaid wool coat, pack boots and a hunting cap with ear flaps doesn’t count as being dressed “hot”. Just dressed “warm”
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:47
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:47
Is any else not getting a comment
Fortunately, my Mom helps me sound out the big words and explain the more difficult concepts.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:47
You think you’re pissed? I haven’t had to wait this long since Steve left my name off the VIP list at Studio back in ’77!!!!!!
Ted the Slacker said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:49
I guess this is what it’s like to be told to head over to the free-speech zone.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:49
A plaid wool coat, pack boots and a hunting cap with ear flaps doesn’t count as being dressed “hot”. Just dressed “warm”
Ah, the “Red Green” collection. Very nice. Very nice indeed.
Tommmcatt said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:49
I didn’t want to comment anyway, so there.
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:53
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:54
You know, when they pull that rope back there’s gonna be a rush to get in. I don’t know if I want to be that close to the door. I think I’ll move———————->over here.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:54
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Perhaps Obama could put this whole school controversy behind him by rewriting his speech in consonants only.
Related: I suggest American business look to Wheel of Fortune: they’re still charging a mere $250 to buy a vowel (1970s prices!), and are thriving!
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 18:59
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Well, ya know, that whole disemvoweling episode kind of tipped their hand, and the S/N vowel demographic is weakening as a result.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:04
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Oi! Y U “AIEEEE!!!!”?
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:04
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
BITE YOUR TONGUE!
It’s the home of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
And in the daytime, an Arbees.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:06
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
That’s because we’re always being facetious with them.
Nom de Plume said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:06
it seems like the next thread isn’t accepting new comments.
I think it’s because of Brad’s update where he swallows Tom Brady’s dick in one gulp. He usually gets abused in the comments for his Brady fellating, so maybe he’s just trying to avoid that.
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:07
“BITE YOUR TONGUE”
mks thit thard tth tipe tho…
Tommmcatt said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:11
While we wait, entertain yourselves with this link whut I stole from the Wonkette:
!The Legendary Campaign of the Stealth Goldberg!!!
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:14
Maybe Brad is longing for the days S,N! got comments in the single digits.
Or maybe they’re trying to tell us something.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:16
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:07
“BITE YOUR TONGUE”
mks thit thard tth tipe tho…
Website, newsletter, subscribe…
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:18
While we wait, entertain yourselves with this link whut I stole from the Wonkette:
Ok, I watched. When I got there the polling question (are you laughing, bored, angry, etc.) in response to the Stealth Goldberg’s campaign pitch had 56 percent at “laughing.” My vote pushed it up to 57 percent. Fifty-seven percent in not a passing grade, people.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:19
!The Legendary Campaign of the Stealth Goldberg!!!
He’s….rather purplish.
actor212 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:20
Fifty-seven percent in not a passing grade, people.
61%, now.
Tommmcatt said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:25
He’s….rather purplish.
He’s a purplamerican.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:26
and “s” and “n” are right next to each other on the keyboard. My keyboard, anyway.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:26
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
BITE YOUR TONGUE!
It’s the home of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
And in the daytime, an Arbees.
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:02
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:03
I think TinTin’s added update about school prayer has brought the wrath of the lord down upon Sadly, No! and particularly that thread. There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:04
I’m wearing shoes!
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:06
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
N__B…how COULD you????
It was unexpected. Major Kong was sitting there, in his flight suit and cowboy hat, reading off the contents of the emergency ration kit, and when he described the gold rubles I knew I had to have him right then and there.
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:06
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
As a kid, I took this advice to heart. I thought it would get me out of going to church on Sundays.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:07
I’m wearing shoes!
Board of Health says, for it to count, you must wear them on your feet.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:08
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
What? You want to get Out in a time of public emergency? Next thing we know you’ll be taking off your shoes!
Wait, you said “get in? Nevahmind.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:08
Further than usual off topic, I’ll be MIA shortly. I’m off to Berlin with Mrs. __B in search of some tasty fried SebRolls – a delicate mixture of politics and soft-core lingerie ads.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:09
I’m wearing shoes!
While googling the phrase “no shirt, no shoes, no service” I discovered that Cory Lee is an exception to the rule. If she wants to run around shirtless, I’m pretty sure she’ll still get all kinds of service <wink> <wink> <nudge> <nudge> </say more>
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:10
Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria.
Socks can eat anywhere they wish.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:11
tasty fried SebRolls
I’d comment on the BradRolls (the ones with the spicy elitist mustard and arugula) BUT I’M NOT ALLLOWED TO.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:12
What level of hell was that? It’s been decades since I read Inferno. Just so I can get my bearings.
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:14
There are only 10 kinds of hell. 1 for those who understand binary and 1 for those who don’t.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:20
“I think it’s disturbing that people don’t want to hear the president, but we live in a diverse society.”
That’s kind an odd way of putting it. I suppose saying, “but some of the parents are fucking ignorant jagoffs” wouldn’t make it into the paper.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:23
N__B, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:26
There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
What level of hell was that? It’s been decades since I read Inferno. Just so I can get my bearings.
It’s actually Limbo, where the inveterate shoeless and shirtless are sent.
N__B, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
It’s built of LEGO bricks, so it should come down pretty easily.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:32
so, N__B is going to Berlin to rebuild the wall with Legos? Legos are from Switzerland, aren’t they?
Suddenly, things are falling into place. Stacking up, as it were.
g said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:33
I’m wearing shoes!
The Tragically Flipflops?
Sirius Lunacy said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:36
The Tragically Hip Waders?
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:40
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
“Very Funny, Scotty, now beam down my pants, please.”
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:41
So now with unemployment at 9.7%, it is pretty clear that what happened over the summer was a dead-cat bounce and the economy is setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen. Can Hopey and the Democrat Party weather the storm? I think not.
Anonymous said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:43
There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
I’m commenting too fast.
kenga said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:44
And so’m I.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:47
And…cue the trool (not a typee).
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:48
26 years, you say?
Tell me, who was President again in ’83? For two full years? Starts with an R…. liked jellybeans and monkeys.
Oh, but I’m sure two years in back then, the unemployment rate was actually the fault of the previous Democrat. Meanwhile, half a year in now, and it’s totally on Obama.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:52
Fer gawds sake Truthy, just use your real nym. With badgermatic it’s easy enough to just add the new name anyway so you might as well bite the bullet.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:52
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession to wring inflation out of the economy. It was sharp and painful, but short. This, in the other hand, is a prolonged depression. Like I said, it will be a hammering the likes of which has not been seen, ever.
St. Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:53
So now with unemployment at 9.7%, it is pretty clear that what happened over the summer was a dead-cat bounce and the economy is setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen.
Gawrsh, maybe if we started to invalidate the corporate charters of companies that decide to outsource their labor, we’d get al lot of those jobs back.
But *GASP* that might mean INTERFERING with the sacred holy blameless free market!
And is “Hopey” supposed to be an insult? ‘Cause it’s a really, really lame one (but what’d you expect from wingnuts?).
kingubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:55
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession
Parody troll, gotta be. Not even Troofy is that stupid and credulous.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:58
Read about that recession. It was caused on purpose by raising interest rates to ridiculous levels, kngubu. They knew it would crash the economy but they needed to get rid of inflation, and fast.
Compare that to now. Rates are at zero and the economy is STILL tanking! Your side is fucked.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 20:59
Oh you libs, you still don’t understand how this works?
All BAD NEWS is attributable to the democrats, whether in power or not; all GOOD NEWS is attributable to Republicans , whether in power or not.
And this WILL be good for John McCain and/or Sarah Palin. Say, isn’t she known as the Power Palin?
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:00
setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen.
Ah, the prediction bidness. Tricksy, I’d say. Ya never know how badly you could miscalculate (i.e., be marinated in FAIL). Wasn’t there something about a Mr. McCain taking this state and then that one and here and there and people would wake up and some sort of freak-out would begin? Sentient beings learn, especially from mistakes. Others, not so much.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:01
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Who knew Pee Wee Herman was a Republican. Although we should have guessed, what with the whacking off in a movie theater thing.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:03
So, you’re saying that Reagan intentionally put people out of work? Put the lives of hundreds of thousands of American citizens at risk for an agenda which was not actually accomplished and instead took Bill Clinton eight long years fighting against Republican obstructionism to rebuild our nation’s surplus because of the no-tax-and-still spend policies of Reagan and his cronies?
Further, you’re saying that two years, of which I’m betting was only the prelude to a much longer recession (or do you not remember the numerous market fuck-ups of the 80s?), was [i]not[/i] a prolonged depression, while half a year [i]is[/i]?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:04
Not even Troofy is that stupid and credulous.
what, you haven’t been paying attention?
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:04
The first ’80s recession was the Carter Recession, Trotsky. And yes, Reagan intnetionally caused the economy to sharply contract for a short period in order to kill inflation. It was the lesser of two evils (hyperinflation vs. recession).
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:06
And Reagan ended it easily enough. When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again, he cut interest rates and the economy boomed thanks to that and his tax cuts. Hope has tried massive government spending, and it has failed. He can’t cut interest rates, because they are already at zero. He can’t cut taxes, because the Democrat Party won’t let him. So he’s fucked.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:06
So, you’re saying that Obama is now dealing with the Bush Recession, since he’s not even fully out of his first year, which was apparently long enough to get Bush off for all those dead American citizens on his watch.
Good to know.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:07
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Added bonus, Reagan didn’t increase interest rates, he merely stayed the course at the previous administration’s levels. Thus, the Reagan “intentional plan to lower inflation” was actually stolen from Jimmy Carter.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:07
This is the Barney Frank/Chris Dodd recession, Trotsky. Or the Fannie and Freddie Recession if you want to call it that.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:08
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Of course!
Besides the recession thing, Reagan also deliberately contracted Alzheimer’s.
He was then better able to focus on the country’s problems without the distractions of a functioning hippocampus.
kingubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:08
Republicans on the economy: like a dude standing in the crowd at house fire with a book of matches and a hard-on, laughing at the firefighters from not working fast enough.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:09
No, no, we insist on the President being responsible just as Carter was. So clearly this is Bush’s problem that we’ve inherited.
St. Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:09
The first ’80s recession…
Wheeee!! Recessions are only bad when you can blame a Democrat for them, otherwise it’s wise fiscal stewardshipmanship.
St. Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:09
BTW, Mr. Economic Geeenyous, even the ultra-conservative WSJ is conceding that the stimulus – Obama’s stimulus is working.
Stick that in your “Hopey” and smoke it, sunshine.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:09
So here’s our political strategy for 2012:
Find someone who is young and was against TARP, the auto bailouts, and the “stimulus” from the beginning, nominate him and run on a platform of “change”.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:09
Wait. Wait. We are having an argument about the seriousness and gravitas of the Reagan economic team? Erm, two words: Laffer Curve.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:10
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:11
I will NOT be ignored, missing comments section from the first thread! I WILL NOT be IGNORED!!!
[begins to boil the missing comments section's pet bunny]
St. Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:11
When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again, he cut interest rates and the economy boomed thanks to that and his tax cuts.
Gawrsh again, that doesn’t explain the shitty economy under G.H.W. Bush.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:11
Also, Joe Scarborough. Because we just won’t be satisfied until a young woman mysteriously winds up dead in his office again.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:13
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment.
But obviously you’re saying Reagan’s plan, which was the last time unemployment was this high, was a sign that his plan was working.
So clearly, Obama’s plan is working, since unemployment is this high.
St. Dragon-King Wangchuck, newest member of the Ronald Reagan Fan Club said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:13
Fuck you, libs! Reagan also intentionally defeated the USSR and Godzilla (the evil Godzilla, not hte good one) and the 50′ Welfare Mom in a Cadillac. And a pony. And he solved world peace and cured cancer and when he farted, rainbows of jelly beams shot out his ass and it smelled like Jesus. So FUCK YOU libbies.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:15
Bush 41 bended over for the Democrat Congress and raised taxes. Bush 41 was the worst Republican President in modern history for that reason. That, and not going all the way into Baghdad like he should have.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:15
And, and. There was this little thingy called the Reagan defense build-up. That was (gasp) government spending (albeit narrow-spectrum).
Shorter Troolie: You make your points with the history you wish you had, not the history you had.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:16
Except for the fact that Obama says he wants to STIMULATE the economy, while Reagan wanted to SLOW it to kill inflation.
St. Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:17
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
Ah, so we’re reduced to calling the WSJ “dipshits”. Nice.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:17
When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again
By Paul Volcker, Carter appointee. THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER!
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:18
If Reagan’s plan to kill inflation had “worked” like Hopey’s stimulus, inflation would have skyrocketed to 50%.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:19
And what of it? Clearly Obama’s plan has been a great success. Unemployment has matched that of Reagan, which means only good things, correct? After all, nothing Reagan did was terrible, so if the statistics emulate his results, then we’ve succeeded.
I’m glad you’re on board with this, troll. It’ll make things much easier once you just sit back, relax, and accept that Obama’s plan has worked.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:19
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
Correlation, causation. Also: subjunctive, learn it, moe-run.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:21
You know, if Troolie thought the Kewl Kids were the conservatives, he’d be over at Freeperville making the Librul case for things. Just a’ sayin’.
Unemployment at 26-Year High; Obama Approval Rating Dropping said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:21
I’m going to put it slowly to you, retard:
Reagan said his plan would get inflation under control. It did.
Obama said if his stimulus plan DIDN’T pass, unemployment would be at 9.5% right now. By HIS OWN PROJECTIONS if it didn’t pass. It passed and unemployment is HIGHER than he projected if a STIMULUS HADN’T BEEN PASSED!
Hopey is an incompetent FAILURE. Deal with it.
St. Dragon-King Wangchuck, newest member of the Ronald Reagan Fan Club said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:22
When Ronald Reagan delivered a roundhouse kick to those nuns in Nicaragua, Central America shook with such violence that Saddam Hussein acquired chemical weapons. Beat that Chuck Norris!
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:23
I think we can all agree the stimulus didn’t work as well as it might have, though: needed more spending, and the stupid tax cuts neutered it.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:23
@ Substance McGravitas:
You should envy g his unanagrammable nym. Your anagram is: Canvasser’s Magic Butt.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:23
I’m sure he is, Looch. He’s exhibited plenty of characteristics to show he finds no meaning in anything he does, so flipping sides like that is very probable. He holds nothing sacred, because as a troll, he’s just after reaction. He has no real politics, just things he believes will annoy his current targets.
Or, to summarize, there isn’t just only one troll on Sadly, No!, there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:26
Canvasser’s Magic Butt.
Too bad it’s not “Canvasser’s Magic 8 Butt”; if it were we could turn him over and KNOW THE FUTURE.
No-Visible-Means said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:26
RFNC or FAIL.
Reagan complained bitterly about Volker’s rate policy.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926514,00.html
St. Ronny wrung inflation my ass. More revisionism.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:27
Also, no. Obama’s plan has succeeded. You see, similar to you, I don’t give a shit. 9.5, 9.7 whoopity frig. What’s important is that I say Obama’s plan has succeeded, because I make truth through my words and actions. While you try to keep up with me with your quaint notions of reality, I’m blazing forward, making a new world.
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:27
Also, as per Reagan, Obama plans to use that speech to the nation’s schoolchildren to announce that ketchup is now a vegetable.
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:28
Oh, Jayzus. First we’re stuck with a stale 2-day-old threadbare thread thanks to WordPress awesomeness, and now we’re infested with some infantile troll. Yuck. Fuggit, I’m going to try to get some actual work done. Thanks a pantload.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:28
g is one of those muscle-bound troglodytes, so he can have his hell with the beer and the football and monster trucks and so forth.
Also.
Looch who has way too much time on his hands these days said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:29
there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
Busy troll.
“You stoff mo envelopes!”
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:31
I haven’t bought a John Barth book since that one with fortune-telling via assfuck, so [insert some excuse to have mentioned fortune-telling via assfuck].
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:33
re: anagrammatica
I’ve just discovered why I can’t resist responding to the troll. Compare this embarassing bit of shame to this awesome bit of pwnzoritude.
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:33
Monotrollism, as opposed to Polytrollism.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:36
Now I’m curious what an atrollist is.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:37
Oh, so I’m only a week behind the times? I’m really getting hipper! Or is it hepper? Unfortunately it chokes on my nym—too long, I guess.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:37
Now I’m curious what an atrollist is.
One with functioning pie-script?
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:40
I think that’s an agtrollstic, D-K. Someone who doesn’t know if there is or isn’t a troll, because they haven’t seen enough evidence of either case.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:41
My old nym, Lurkbot==Blurt OK. Is that close enough to a “Blart” joke to fit in here?
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:42
Perhaps someone from the Bikini Atroll?
No, really, I’m not sure, but we must be careful not to confuse “trollism” with “troilism” (though, come to think of it…)
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:43
I’m a Trinitrollist: The Truth, The Fool, Gary Ruppert, three trolls, of one substance, now and forever, amen.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:45
Reagan and his Fed chief
JIMMY CARTER’s Fed chief, I think you meant to say. It’s not like you to try to take credit from a WINNER and give it to a LOSER like some sort of dirty socialist would do, so I’m guessing it was an honest mistake. I shall bookmark it.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:46
Also, who brings you candy? I bring you candy.
Dragon-King Wangchuck, theotrolligian said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:46
Can Trool spew hatred so toxic that even He is disgusted?
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:47
I haven’t bought a John Barth book since that one with fortune-telling via assfuck
Hol up now: how can you see the little floating fortune with a PENIS all up in teh BUTTOCKS?
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:47
I’m a Trinitrollitarian: The Truth, The Fool, Gary Ruppert. One troll in three bodies, now and forever, amen.
I will begin burning Unitrollitarians at the stake immediately. “Michael Servetus, your pyre is ready!”
Dragon-King Wangchuck, theotrolligian said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:49
If Trool is so spiteful and ignorant, why is there so much pointing and laughing?
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:50
In the Beginning there was Darkness on the Face of the Void. And Then Trollfie said Something Racist About It.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:50
It sticks to the tip.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:51
(painfully obvious penis reference)
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:53
What happens when an incontrovertible fact meets an incontinent troll?
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:53
As I recall a character was something like the whoracle of Delphi: insert offering, receive fortune.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:54
Wow. I think he’s gone.
Thank god.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:54
the Zombie’s Wager:
Endeavour then to convince yourself, not by abatement of responses to Trool, but by the increase of your ridicules. You would like to attain reason, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of asshats, and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their internets. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, bless yourself with St. Prefixes, have Badgers scripts at ready , and such as; by a simple and natural process this will make you control the conversation, and will sharpen you—will enhance your proudly critical mockery…
Now, what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble, grateful, generous, a sincere poster, truthful if argumentative. Certainly you will not have those concerny pleasures; but will you not have others? I will tell you that you will thereby gain in this thread, and that, at each comment you make in sarcasm, or at each citation you post, you will see so great certainty of LULZ, so much nothingness in what Trool blathers, that you will at last recognize that you have wagered for something certain and infinite and humoeous, for which you have given nothing.
Wyatt Watts III said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:55
Verily, there is much weeing.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:57
humorous.
WordPress made me misspell that.
And N__B.
and Gavin’s move.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 21:58
I leave to pack and you all start drinking? Fuck, I need a beer.
With badgermatic
It slices, it dices, it gnaws your face off.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:00
Start drinking?
I’m not sure you know us that well….
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:02
Also, having checked out that anagram thing, I think I’ve recognized why this nym works so well against the troll.
PROVOKING NASTY NEPOTIST
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:03
I think he’s gone.
Doubtless pondering with many a chaste sigh and glance toward Heaven the GLORY that was Jimmy Carter’s Fed chief and his mighty success in the war on inflation.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:05
I liked the nym “A Rag Man,” but I can’t imagine what its anagram might be.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:07
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
That’s because we’re always being facetious with them.
Srly u mean ‘facetiously’.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:13
I leave to pack and you all start drinking? Fuck, I need a beer.
You probably don’t need any beer-drinking suggestions but I invariably wind up at Marcus-Bräu on Münzstraße 1-3, Berlin. And there’s the Lemkes brewpub (which now has a second branch — they took over the Luisenbräu brewpub over in Charlottenburg).
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:17
I just want you all to know that after Word Press ate my one comment, the second one was even more cleverer.
Now, when they eventually both show up, I’ma look like a maroon.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:18
You probably don’t need any beer-drinking suggestions
No, but beer-buying suggestions are welcome.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:23
Now, when they eventually both show up, I’ma look like a maroon.
Yes, but it’s a lovely color and will really add some spice to the otherwise drab color scheme here. There, I said it: DRAB.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:27
Anagram name BRAD.
O
M
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PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:30
I just ran out to one of the incredibly numerous and fantastic food carts so I missed some of the above. But,
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession
You mean Paul Volcker? Carter’s fed chief? Who was forced into drastiuc measures to fight the Nixon/Ford inflationary fiasco? Who had things pretty much in control by the end of Carter’s term and then had to *try* to deal with Reagan’s insane monetary policies? You mean that guy?
Oh, Tandoori chiecken, rice, some wonderfully complex veggie sides and excellent naan. $6. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:37
No, but beer-buying suggestions are welcome.
If you’re in the neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg, there’s a little bottle-store tucked in between Prenzlauerallee and Kastanienallee specialising in Bavarian beers.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:39
As I recall a character was something like the whoracle of Delphi: insert offering, receive fortune.
Are you sure you aren’t confusing this with one of the sub-plots in Creatures of Light and Darkness?
Steerpike said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:40
If you’re in the neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg, there’s a little bottle-store tucked in between Prenzlauerallee and Kastanienallee specialising in Bavarian beers.
Or you could just spend the evening shotgunning PBR tall-boys and crushing the cans on your forehead. Either way, really.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:44
Doubtless pondering with many a chaste sigh and glance toward Heaven the GLORY that was Jimmy Carter’s Fed chief and his mighty success in the war on inflation.
but but but Ford had little buttons! People wearing little buttons!
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 22:51
Tandoori chiecken, rice, some wonderfully complex veggie sides and excellent naan. $6. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
And where are you that such food miracles are provided to thee?
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:04
Never read that. What I’m thinking of was in this one I think.
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:08
Pere, Portland (no, silly, there’s only one that matters) is on the bleeding edge of an emerging trend: gourmet food carts. So many food folk – chefs and foodies and restaurauteurs – have invaded Portland that we’re very deep in talent. Add in the economy which makes it really really hard to open new restaurants and you get something wonderful happening.
foodcartsportland.com has some links to the national attention we’ve been getting. They’re springing up just everyfuckingwhere. And I LOVE IT.
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:11
If I hadn’t been on my motorcycle, thus unable to transport it, I would have gotten mango lassis. Dang.
kingubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:11
Not to get the in the way of any high-quality snarking or anything but has anyone actually emailed one or all of our Sadly Overlords regarding the missing comment box next door?
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:15
EVERYONE EMAIL GAVIN.
He has nothing on his plate lately.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:16
So many food folk – chefs and foodies and restaurauteurs – have invaded Portland that we’re very deep in talent. Add in the economy which makes it really really hard to open new restaurants and you get something wonderful happening.
Damn, that’s a great idea.
Shame we’ll never see it in South Carolina.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:17
no, I think we’d all rather whine about it.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:18
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist, my comment makes more sense.
tigrismus said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:22
Eat their branes! EAT! THEIR! BRANES!
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:25
of course, since I was originally replying to a comment from Subbstance, if he didn’t exist, my comment would be just as senseless.
Hmm. Maybe I should just blame WordPress.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:28
To be fair, in my circle wishing for my non-existence is quite normal.
PeeJ said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:32
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist…
Who?
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:35
Zombie Rotten McDonald==Morbid, Malcontent Doze. Just Sayin’.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:39
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist…
Who?
Oh, they exist; they just got sent to the 5th dimension by anagramming Mister Mxyzptlk.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:39
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist
I think, therefore I NOM NOM.
And don’t eat our branes, you’ll let the universe next door leak into ours.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:40
Of course, “Doze, Morbid Malcontent!” seems to make better sense….
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:41
KLTPZYXM!
aw, shoot, nothing happened.
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:44
From the Forbidden Zone:
Readers from other countries often get upset when I tell them that the American right is louder and crazier than any right-wing movement in the developed world. “But we have wingnuts too!” they’ll insist as they’ll link to something crazy a Tory backbencher said eight years ago.
Don’t we wish our wingnuts only spouted off every eight years or so, instead of nanoseconds between idjit rants.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:45
The universe next door holds noisy parties and fills its front section with old cars jacked up on blocks. It is dragging down the value of this universe. Bastards.
CapMidnight said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:45
aw, shoot, nothing happened
?erus uoy erA
kingubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:46
EVERYONE EMAIL GAVIN.
Um, yeah, I didn’t think I had to mention that would be a dick move.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:49
And the maroon paint on the universe next door’s window trim — it clashes with the rest of the street. Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
Pere Ubu said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:54
Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
I think the council is over in NGC 7413 if you want to call them.
The long-distance charges are going to be a bitch, though.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:59
It’s always the reverse racism against carbon-based bipeds.
CapMidnight said,
September 5, 2009 at 0:06
The long-distance charges are going to be a bitch, though.
I always reverse the charges.
But try getting the proton stains out of your amber cat fur.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 5, 2009 at 0:23
That was a joke which, in its conception, represented me of me being stupid, which apparently didn’t play, as I am stupid.
Substance McGravitas said,
September 5, 2009 at 0:24
Proof!
Snorghagen said,
September 5, 2009 at 0:30
What’s all this then?
M. Bouffant said,
September 5, 2009 at 0:44
Comments available an item over.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
September 5, 2009 at 1:19
#
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:35 (kill)
Zombie Rotten McDonald==Morbid, Malcontent Doze. Just Sayin’.
Yeah, I found that out back when the anagram maker was a new toy.
I whined about it then too.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 5, 2009 at 1:59
there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
Grand Unified Trool Theory.
~
tigrismus said,
September 5, 2009 at 2:12
Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
If you got complaints, pal, YOU can deliver the nasty-gram.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 5, 2009 at 2:51
Since my whole nym is too long, I just tried putting my title in separately. I got: “Heed Nervy Revert Weakened Text Goofball.” There’s just all sorts of cosmic significance in there somewhere, I think.