Have to admit that Lileks has actually got a decent radio voice — he just needs better material.

That´s the funniest thing I´ve read all week.

Sigh. It’s getting harder and harder for me to read the news, and not just because my IQ is dropping from all the exposure to wingnuttiness. Thank goodness for TPM Muckraker; schadenfreude is the only pleasant thing to be found in politics these days.

Here’s a tidbit that cheered me up a bit, though: a Representative from California (apparently one of the few not being investigated in connection with the Cunningham case and, not coincidentally, a Democrat) is introducing a bill to apply U.S. labor laws to the Mariana Islands. This is the bill that DeLay had been blocking for years; apparently, he was a big fan of sweatshops.

The most disgusting part was when she started lecturing Nick Berg’s father about not being bloodthirsty enough. Cindy Sheehan, the 9/11 wives and Nick Berg’s dad are the new wingnut whipping boys. It doesn’t matter how much you’ve given to the country– if you are not a wingnut, they will stick the shiv right in your back. Of course John Kerry and Max Cleland will tell you the same thing.

Then there’s the bit where she prattles on about how we were “invaded” by people who want to “take over the country.” Bitch, if your country can be “taken over” by 19 thugs with box cutters, it isn’t much of a fucking country, is it?

At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, I have to say that living in this country the last five years has really given me a whole new perspective on how Fascism and the Nazi party came to power. If you patiently, steadily pander to selfish, paranoid creeps, you can create quite a little fascist movement for yourself. Of course it helps if the opposition party is a bunch of pampered, sissy-ass pansies and doesn’t stand up to the fascist bullies. At this point, it’s hard to even get outraged at the ReThugs anymore. We know what they’re all about. It’s like getting mad at a lion for eating a zebra. It’s just what they do. I’m more pissed off at the Democrats now. Stand up to this bullshit, you fucking pussies!

It was *harrrrumph* 25 years ago last week, when he was writing for the Daily and didn’t pretend to have politics of his own.

This right-wing craving for blood, treating human deaths like deaths in a video game, is incredibly disgusting.

It’s funny, too, how the insane, unreadable structure, design and content of her blog is mirrored precisely by her methed-out performance rants on video. I love the part where she babbles incoherently about JFK, stolen elections, how “Puerto Rico wouldn’t be Castro now if not for the Bay of Puerca”*, then winds up her blabbering by shouting out “Algiers Hiss!”

What a bloodthirsty harridan.

*Quadruple “huh?”

Now my high school is 40% immigrant and while the “smoking pit” was abolished in the 1980s, I think the smoking pit hasn’t reconstituted itself off-campus because for the most part, the immigrants are too satisfied just being alive to tempt fate with smoking.

She’s raising a beautiful little fascist. Talk about getting the short straw and having the skanktacular Atlas as your mom. That is a tough break.

….*shudder*

Apparently, Lileks doesn’t know what they call Chinese food in China.

For some reason. It’s called good legislation, you libertarian moron.

mikey

Sometimes, Winston, sometimes two and two are COBAGZ!!!!!!