“I smell roses, no, ammonia — agh.”

LOL–Classic!

but when an absolutely adorable gay man wearing nothing more than a pair of board shorts brings you bowls of ice cream and curls up to watch movies with you, you kind of let things slide.

Curse you, Jillian. Curse you to HECK!
[radiates jealousy so hot, it could burn the sun]
Ah, well…we’re only a couple o’ weeks away from IML… yes, precious, yessss…..

People who are genuinely committed to progressive views have very, very little incentive to work with the modern Democratic party. Not only is it a liberal party, but it’s looking more and more like a nineteenth century caricature of a liberal party all the time. I pretty much expect the next Democratic candidate for president to have a name like “Sir Reginald Darnley” and to have a walrus mustache and monocle, and walk around saying things like “Pish tosh! If workhouses were good enough for the poor in my sainted mother’s time, they’re good enough for the poor today, what-what.” Oh, and a top hat. And a watch on a fob. I’ll stop now.

If liberals want progressives to work with them, they need to have *specific goals* that they want progressives to help them with, and they have to not be surprised when the progressives oppose them on just about everything else. It’s not personal; it’s politics.

As far as the circular firing squad goes….it only looks circular, because everybody seems to think they’re on the same side, and they’re not. Daily Kos (for example) is NOT on “my side”. This isn’t to say that they’re evil – there’s lots of good folks there, and there’s lots and lots and lots of opportunity for me to work together with that group of folks on stuff – but we’re just not pursuing the same goals. And I’m not confused or naive enough to think we are.

But with the dumbing down of political discourse in this country in recent years, lots of folks are.

Dammit, JK, I’ve had my new monitor for all of THREE minutes . . .

*humming Bounty quicker-picker-upper song*

Wow. Never thought I’d see the LBRP on here.

I think I’m a little scared now. Especially if you’re calling those as archangels.

Yes, Pinko Punko, I’m aware of that. I assure you however that I am not annie, nor am I in cahoots with her.

I had been simply avoiding any engagement with her, but tonight I had a few glasses of wine and I rose to the bait. I apologize for the hissy fight. I’ll go back to ignoring her. (And if it wasn’t for her attacks on women, she would be a very funny parody troll.)

“Will this retro-rap trance-dance song be adopted by immigrants across America as a theme for their demonstrations? I’ll let you folks decide if it’s a hit or a miss.

The Immigrant
words and music by Dr. BLT & DJ EJ”

I don’t need to hear this song to know that it blows. Retro-rap trance-dance? What the fuck is that? I’ll tell you what it is, it’s shorthand for “Some piece of crap I made with my circa-1992 Alesis SR-16 drum machine, a Korg M1 and my ADATs.” Dude, leave the poor music geeks alone. Do not interrupt us as we discuss which Graham Parker and the Rumour record is their best.

But he wasn’t finished there.

“while you’r at it, here’s another free mp3 that’s gaining momentum. Will it reach the top 30 among mp3 downloads, like Dr. BLT’s Black Santa song did back in December of 2005? I’ll let you decide that as well:

United 93
words and music by Dr. BLT (c)2006″

The suspense is killing me!!! Dude, I have to know, did “United 93″ crack the “top 30 among mp3 downloads” or not? Bro, your song isn’t in the top 30 million, and trolling music geek discussion boards is not going to get it there. See, the site is called “acclaimedmusic.net,” which means the people that go there are trying to talk about GOOD music, not your amateurish bullshit. This is not your target audience, dude. These people actually recognize steaming piles of shit when they hear them.

There was only one short response to his post, which really said it all:

“Please go away.”

THE MUCOUS1111!!

IT’S KILLING MEEEEE!!!!!!!

Atah, malkoot, vigboorah, vigdoolah, liholam, amen! Before us, Pastor Swank. Behind us, Marie Jon’. On our left, Kay Grogan. On our right, Debbie Schussel! [stamp stamp]

I have a theory. The topmost post of the day always has the longest thread. This is clearly because natural selection has evolved us to conserve energy, and scrolling is tiresome. Therefore, I propose that the meatiest post, the one most conducive to humour, the most Swankerific, should be the last one of the day.

Starting the Snot Monster hex now . . . .

Allright, here it goes, “In the name of all that is sensible, just, and cheap, begone Sadly, No! thread that attempts to be civil. It ain’t gonna happen.

cranky, half the people here think you are anniea or in cahoots with her, so they don’t know what to think. namecalling is always out, but the namecalling starts usually when people try to attack double-a on something crazy that comes out of her mouth, or where she’s being provocative. That is rising to the bait. A lot of people don’t rise to the bait, thus they don’t get into crazy hissy fights with her. I would say this, if you don’t already think double-a is a joke, then just don’t talk to her at all. Her calling people skanks is her MO, so what do you expect? The wait to keep threads from going to crap is to not go there.

By the way, Debbie Schlussel gives me the creeps.

When our side is in power, everything’s healthy debate. When we are out of power, most of the above is a circular firing squad.

Eye on the prize and all that.

On the other hand, even when out of power, who the fuck wants to live in a world where you can’t call Kevin Drum the most boring man alive, and Ann Bartow a hypersensitive old bat?

Do they take requests around these parts? Because Debbie Schlussel penned an absolute charmer of an article a couple of days ago that I’d love to see someone have a go at. Here’s a quick taste:

The behavior of the stripper and alleged victim, as initially reported by her father and a fellow stripper, also appears to prove that nothing illicit happened. Ditto for the picture of the stripper smiling upon her return home. Then, there is her past criminal history and the fact that she is the single mother of two kids by different fathers.

Wow. She smiled at some point and she’s a single mom? That’s a woman who serves frozen OJ if I’ve ever seen one.