Comments on: Diggin In The Dirt

By: Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:45:55 +0000

I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:45:49 +0000

“It was designed to bring the Minutemen out of their closet with their guns going, proverbially, they don’t have guns.”

So, let me get this right. They’ve only proverbially got their guns going, but they really are coming out of the closet. That should be interesting to see.

By: lharris

lharris — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:46:41 +0000

“… but this is a country where Abraham Lincoln suspended habeus corpus. Andrew Johnson did it in the entire state of Tennessee.”

Congress impeached Johnson. They almost got him removed from office as well.

By: Lady Dedlock

Lady Dedlock — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:59:40 +0000

“If you keep in mind the ‘Ole!’ comes from the Andalusian expression ‘Allah!’ then you can see a new unified theory of wingnuttery aborning…”

Ah, yes, I see it now: how else to explain the lurch leftwards during Spain’s last election? Because as we all know, the global Left is in league with the new Caliphate.

And now, sir, because of you, I must quit Chesney Wold…

By: Tulkinghorn

Tulkinghorn — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:55:43 +0000

[I]Mexicans are Communists.

They are Commucans. Or Mexicanists. Or something.

In my neighborhood alone, there are six mariachi bands roaming the streets, playing The Red Flag and The Internationale and shouting ole! after every chorus.[/I]

Ohshitscrewthehtmltags.

If you keep in mind the “Ole!” comes from the Andalusian expression “Allah!” then you can see a new unified theory of wingnuttery aborning…

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:59:07 +0000

Ole ShitSteyn seems to be popping up everywhere these days. Since his patron Conrad Black got sent up and he lost all of his gigs at Black’s papers, I guess he’s flogging it on every streetcorner and back alley these days.

What. A. Whore.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:17:26 +0000

Yes.

Mexicans are Communists.

They are Commucans. Or Mexicanists. Or something.

In my neighborhood alone, there are six mariachi bands roaming the streets, playing The Red Flag and The Internationale and shouting ole! after every chorus.

By: windy

windy — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:04:34 +0000

But you know why they [flew a Mexican flag above an upside-down American flag]? They were waiving a red flag in front of the Republicans.

Is the new Mexican flag red?

By: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:26:49 +0000

Well, Bush hasn’t rounded up millions of people and gassed them yet, either. So I guess, according to Hansonological thinking, ANYTHING LESS is perfectly peachy-keen okay.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:09:32 +0000

i sawthe flag as more of a “neener neener” than a “fuck you”.

By: Ianua Ditis

Ianua Ditis — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:50:28 +0000

the ‘over the edge political behavior’ that marked the end of the Roman Republic was militaristic opportunism and imperial conquests of overseas territories rich in resources.

In the acquisition of these territories, certain politicians committed crimes that they would have been required to answer for once their terms of service ended (prosecution of a rival had been a common feature of Roman politics since the beginning, hardly over the edge.)

In order to avoid these prosecutions, these politicians had to resort to extra-constitutional measures to shield themselves (magistrates were not allowed to be prosecuted, but also could not serve consecutive terms in the same office.)

So which side is going over the edge on this NSA thing? Or was Hugh just trying to sound smart in front of the ‘historian’?

By: ortho_bob

ortho_bob — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:23:13 +0000

You can have hours of fun supplying your own favorite Simpsons voices to these conversations. In my head Hootin’ Hugh sounds like Millhouse, Mark Stein is Nelson and Lileks is Martin. Or maybe I’m being too kind and they all three sound like Ralph.

By: John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:40:48 +0000

It’s true. The Empire fell because we couldn’t wiretap the Goths.

What? What are you looking at me like that for?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:24:40 +0000

I think that’s the first time I’ve agreed with Lileks on anything other than Macs in several years:

…the bombed-out window of a car. That was the image of three years of accomplishment right there.

Exactly, Jimmy. Three years of trumped up war being run by ideologically blinded incompetents. . Now go back to hiding under your bed.

I must remember the Bizzarro World press from four years ago, where the war was all “Hooray America! Fuck Yeah!”. Lileks obviously was reading something else.

By: Demogenes Aristophanes

Demogenes Aristophanes — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:46:15 +0000

Sadly for them, the hour of the broken clock of wingnuttery being right passed long ago. Which is assuming there was ever a 13 o’clock in the first place.

By: dAVE

dAVE — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:40:53 +0000

I’m glad you guys mine this stuff so I don’t have to.

Greg at The Talent Show had an observation that some of the same people who have a problem with the display of the Mexican flag defended the display of the Confederate flag as heritage.

Iran: Wouldn’t it be more apt to say that this is continued blowback from the overthrow of the elected government and the installation of the Shah by the US? Or would that be going back too far in history to be relevant?