Dude, Matt Drudge Is Pretty Flaming
Posted on June 26th, 2010 by Gavin M.
Veal around the fountain
Michael Walsh, Big Journalism:
David Weigel, the ‘Journolist,’ Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing, and the Death Of Privacy
- If Weigel, even if in jest, could privately call for an informal information boycott of Byron York, then his exposure and destruction [popping of thousands of beer cans] [cheers, braying] [hushing shh! shh! whispering shh!]. . .uh, sad day for privacy [guy belches “woot”] um, Internet with the cyberspace.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
* Title cf.: one of Weigel’s not all that provocative private comments.
Given that sheep don’t wear clothing (pace Woody Allen and Gene Wilder), wouldn’t a wolf in sheep’s clothing be a naked wolf?
I’d write “Keep it on the Furries board”, but I just wrote Ray/Rudy slash in the comments section of the previous post.
Latest offering from the Manufactured Outrage Clearinghouse.
Oooh, it’s a keeper!
I’m in love with a sheep.
Mighty blustery in this teapot.
Aside from everything else, I’m annoyed that this “scandal” reminded me that “Journolist” once existed. Because, “Journolist”??? Really, E$? That’s the best name you could come up with?
This is really Breitbart’s typical MO. Weigel is already on his enemies list for his reporting on the pimpgate scam. Get a mole on the listserv or hack a member’s puter- easier than walking into a Senator’s office dressed like the Village People or taping a lock in the Watergate. Now if only the WaPo had a couple of bright and ambitious young reporters and a fearless editor to go out and get the story. Instead the WaPo ombudsfluffer is apologizing for hurting Matt Drudge’s fee fees.
What if Matt Drudge actually set himself on fire? He might illuminate something, for once.
If Matt Drudge set himself on fire, and spun, he could be the flashing red light above his own article on the subject.
From the comments:
Look at his mug. I can see hate written all over it.
All I can see is acne. Walsh sporting the Drudge look is quite the fashion statement, though.
I’ve long thought that anyone who claims to see someone’s character in a photograph is fooling themselves, or letting their feelings about the person color their perception. People claim to see “evil” in Michelle Malkin, but when I look at her I just see a pretty, sorta-dark-skinned asian woman. At the “Big Journalism” link, Drudge just looks like a guy with an unattractively thin face wearing stupid clothes. Weigel looks like a young man with a sorta intense stare & acne. I guess if you were already afraid of him, for some reason, you might see “hate” in his stare.
FYWP?
The egg man?
Burgundy socks?
T&U, it doesn’t annoy me that Ezra chose a bland, dumbish name for a private listserv thingie (I know nothing of these entities). It’d have been more embarrassing if he’d chosen some flashy clever name that seemed especially clever since nobody but the select couple thousand cool kids knew about it.
BTW, is it weird that I still like Ezra Klein? (And of course, by “like” I do not mean worship, follow religiously, or always agree with.)
Also, good morning.
How many people did burgundy sox need to set up this shot? Because you know he couldn’t untangle his voluptuous limbs and get off that wall all by hisself. He looks so uncomfy.
Burgundy socks?
That’s Weigel, right? A little too much “dress for success” look to convince me he was a good reporter. I know he did some good work, and his being forced out was as much about the Wapo being a bunch of drooling, clueless gits, many of whom should actually set themselves on fire. But.
And the hat. Oy.
S/N ‘Shorter’ convention suggests that the picture is of the author of the original piece, in this case Michael Walsh. Weigel is younger and doesn’t tend to do the fedora and ill-fitting trousers routine. Presumably, his abilities as an actual reporter make cosplay unnecessary.
Caring about what Ezra Klein called his listserv, is that an actual thing?
S/N ‘Shorter’ convention suggests that the picture is of the author of the original piece, in this case Michael Walsh.
Plus the name of the picture is walsh.png.
Tigris is getting all reportery on us.
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I refuse to wear a stupid hat, or burgundy socks with a gray suit and black shoes, so I’m afraid I may not be reporter material.
tigris, if you wanted to go all Mika on us, you could wear lots of make-up and slightly ridiculous sleeveless summer outfits, surrounded by your more traditionally suit-wearin’ male co-workers. Oh wait. Are you blonde? ‘Cause that seems to be kind of important, depending on the venue.
It’s Bad-Genes Kelly!
How do you know they are burgundy socks, and not, as his countenance suggests, burgundy tights suspended by a black garter belt?
Dammit. that comment about the socks was mine.
Mon reminds me of dude from Miami business district, mon.
I would also settle for Matt Drudge drowning himself, possibly after lighting himself on fire. It’s the classic centrist compromise.
(Is it still alliteration when one of the c words is soft?)
If tigris gets to be Mika, can I be Gretchen? I’ve always wanted hair that looks like it came from the pink aisle at Toys R Us.
I believe those are Ron Burgandy socks.
“I believe those are Ron Burgandy socks.”
Alternate Shorter: I hate you, Dave Wiegel! Coming out with stink like that poop, you poop-mouth, there’s poop coming out of your mouth.
This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly….
Sweet boneless Jesus on a stick, keep that guy away from your pets, folks!
I’m already strongly inclined to loathe anyone venal & moronic enough to defend poor helpless Drudge against the ruthless liberal fascist Wiegel … but that fucking picture makes my bitchslapping id lust for a generously-spiked chain-mail glove, so it can use his oleaginous gimlet-eyed mug to applaud with.
He looks a lot more like a pimp than O’Keefe ever could – one who does all his recruiting at elementary schools.
Thank God that clown was gone.
A liberal in “libertarian” clothing reporting on conservatives. Just goes to show the state of MSM “honesty” today.
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
I’m not sure why I think reporting on wingnuts equals “dishonesty”, but it’s probably for the same reason I think masturbating and trolling comedy blogs for lulz/anonymous gay sex equals “running a small business”.
Knock-off the sockpuppetry.
Sock off the knockuppitry.
That was a spoofer. Keep up the sockpuppetry.
Obviously that was Goober who said that. I am the real Common Sense.
No, I am Fartacus!
I’m the real Common Sense
Yes the real Common Sense
All you other Common Senses are just imitenses
So won’t the real Common Sense please stand up
Please stand up
Please stand up
Please stand up
Now with 20% less sense
The fact is, I am not normally a fan of the rap-hop, but for some reason I can’t put my finger on, I very much enjoyed Common Sense’s mad rhymez. Heartland freedom USA, also.
Heartland freedom USA, yo.
That hat just screams “Male Pattern Baldness”.
Caring about what Ezra Klein called his listserv, is that an actual thing?
I dunno. Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Dur hurr derp a derpa derpy derp libs
How do you know they are burgundy socks, and not, as his countenance suggests, burgundy tights suspended by a black garter belt?
And a dark gray striped summer-weight wool thong. Plus a mini fedora for l’il Mike.
you could wear lots of make-up and slightly ridiculous sleeveless summer outfits, surrounded by your more traditionally suit-wearin’ male co-workers
Not doing the make-up, but wearing sleeveless tops all all year is called LAYERING, pal, and I am ALL OVER IT.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
– Albert Einstein
There’s a lot more merriment in the thought of that fucking hat ending up in that water fountain, say if it were slapped off his head with alacrity and elan. Or how about using it to pick up a dog turd–from a big dog, collie sized or up–and put back on his noggin? A most amusing jape, indeed!
“Hey, Einstein, you ass-pie retard, how’s that faggoty ‘nucular’ shit workin’ out for you? Bookmark it, Jewboy.”
-Troofie of the ’40s
Burgundy socks make me feel purty.
Senator McCarthy is a patriotic American, unlike you commie-loving liberals. Real America will elect him president, bookmark it.
Hey, Kennedy! Stop wasting taxpayer money on that “get to the moon” bullshit! And where’s you birth certificate, you papist faggot?
You libs have NOTHING! Nixon’s gonna be in office as long as he feels like, and then it’s eight glorious years of Ford! I bet that pisses you off sooooo bad.
Wake me up before you go-go
Don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don’t want to miss it when you hit that high
Gingrich is going impeach that dumb hick Clinton, then he’s going to install himself as president and put America back on track. I can taste your salty tears from here.
[Is born.]
[Doctor slaps mother.]
“Troofie of the ’90s…”
Dick Morris?
That tyrant Andrew Jackson doesn’t stand a chance, and neither does the new “Democrat Party”. That faggot thinks he can extend voting to farmers, workers, and other parasites….
You fagotty rebel scum don’t stand a chance against our good Christian King and his glorious Army.
No take stick. Is my stick. You is parasite.
Humanity is going DOWN, libs! Hopey Connor is a commie loser and real America is waking up to it! SKYNET 4EVA!!!one!
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
The Magnae Cartae? Verrily, what is thys bullshyte? Thou elityst libbes should be happey wyth serfdome, and notte bother our Kinge in suche a fassionn.
I declare Troofie… to be a DOUCHEBAGGGGGGGGGG!
Suck it, “christians!” Your religion will never be anything more than a cult and the true gods of Rome shall live forever!
Nothing pisses of a lib like feeding a Christian to a lion!
“Suck it, ‘christians!'”
Do you, um, have a newsletter?
The Roman government is full of socialists and wealth re-destributors. We need to Visigoths to invade to remind us to run a society. And you dumb libs will be the first to go!
Notre glorieux empereur Napoléon est sur le point de la victoire sur toutes les grandes puissances de la Terre, une victoire qui sera gagné sur les plaines de la Belgique! Nous avons la Coalition à l’endroit où nous voulons eux!
Napoléon est gagnant, et une nouvelle dynastie née.
Vas te faire encule, les libéraux!
.Vas te faire encule, les libéraux!
It must be extra tough to be a French conservative, you have to hate yourself even more than usual.
Loving Troofus Through the Ages.
New “horrors of Hallmark” now available for your reading pleasure.
Aussi, vous obliez “marque-pages la!”
Stupid liberals are trying to tell us the plague is caused by fleas on rats. We know it is from having insufficient bile and spleen! More bleeding for everyone, and we’ll have this thing licked.
Zuerst die die Reichsregierung wird der Belgier in ermöglicht es uns, überqueren ihrem Gebiet ohne Kampf zu zwingen. Sie werden enttäuscht sein, aber “keine große Sache, Sieg kann nicht über Nacht” wird Ihre Antwort sein.
Als Nächstes werden wir die bei einem entscheidenden Sieg an der Marne, und ein wenig nervös, als der Krieg hinzieht in. kriechen, all den östlichen Provinzen von Frankreich, ganz Russland, und (viel zu Ihrem Entsetzen in Paris) wird den deutschen Herbst Waffen!
Sie täten gut daran, sich daran zu erinnern, die Liberalen, werden Sie aufwachen, um einen deutschen Sieg und den großen Alliierten freakout wird sein!
Galileo is just another member of the liberal biased academic elite chasing after grant money with their kooky theories about the earth moving in space and revolving around the sun! Such foolishness. The Pope was wise to lock him up, and I’m glad Cardinal Inhofe ran such a fair and balanced trial so the libs can see how a real justice system works.
The Homo sapiens currently trying to leave the African continent will soon be killed by wild animals and the harsh envirinment and the superiority of Homo erectus. Homo erectus will reign supreme for millions of years!
Bookmark it, Homo sapiens!
Troofie 50,000 B.C.E. had a little stiffie when he typed that.
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You saying he had a little homo erectus?
I picture each of the Troofus through the ages posts being read by Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers.
Ghana wins, baby!
So much for your dreams of having Americans like a Third World sport, liberals!
Ow, my dreams. I got lucky, though. If you’d aimed a few inches lower you’d have hit me right in my
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Fuck tipping the hat into the fountain. I’d throw him in and offer a hand to help him out, then slice him with a fine knife, ala my favorite hero, Alex.
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPXXPPPPPPPPPPPZPZPPPPPZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!
Needs more “LLLLLLLL”, CV.
America wins, baby!
So much for your dreams having some poor oppressed country show up the bourgeois American empire!
I refuse to wear a stupid hat, or burgundy socks with a gray suit and black shoes, so I’m afraid I may not be reporter material.
If you wear a stupid hat and burgundy socks and NOTHING ELSE you’re ready for foxnews.xxx.
Nothing like watching Ghana’s win in my favorite London pub. You SA You SA…me jane…or something.
There were supposed to be close italics tags in there somewhere but I’m chock full of Bombardier bitter.
You SA You SA…me jane…or something.
Meesa Jar Jar Binks!
Plus a mini fedora for l’il Mike.
This is the Internet so an artist’s impression is available.
Meesa Jar Jar Binks!
Don’t harsh my mellow, dude.
#Common Dunce, If America Had Beaten Ghana said,
We will be joining you soon America. England out tomorrow!
The current joke doing the rounds in England is that the World Cup is just like WWII. The Americans turned up late, the French surrendered early and the English have to fight the Germans again.
So, is it me, or did Troofie give more of a shit about the World Cup than anybody else here? I hate to disappoint you, lad, but I only knew we lost because you told me so.
but I only knew we lost because you told me so.
Really? Because I felt millions of people cry out “What? They call soccer football?” and then die.
The current joke doing the rounds in England is that the World Cup is just like WWII. The Americans turned up late, the French surrendered early and the English have to fight the Germans again.
And the black Africans totally transported the US team in reeking hulk ships chained foot to foot for 6 months before using them to prop up their corrupt and ultimately unsustainable agrarian feudal system.
Maybe that’s pushing the joke too far.
I’m chock full of Bombardier bitter
BASTARD.
Fuller’s ESB, also.
zebbidie
Perhaps just best to leave it to the World War hey?
The main thing is that the joke has a dig at the French. Isn’t that always the main thing?
Perhaps just best to leave it to the World War hey?
Since the US is out, the Italians out even before the US got to them and the Germans thrashed the Australians, I’m not so sure the analogy holds. And how do we explain the Boys From Brazil…wasn’t that supposed to be after the War?
I fear I may be over-analyzing this joke and killing the humour. Try the veal and tip the waitress!
It’s made from baby cows and she requires gratuities as she is unable to make a living wage simply by working.
Oh fuck…I’ve done it again.
zebbidie
Just keep it simple. The joke needs to fulfil 3 essential themes
1) The French like to surrender
2) When us Brits really, really needed help from the U.S. it wasn’t there so onto the next point
3) We stood alone against the Germans and didn’t lose. For us that’s a win.
So, is it me, or did Troofie give more of a shit about the World Cup than anybody else here?
Actually, I cared about the Cup, and I still do. It’s just that I know that the US men’s team isn’t ready to win it all, yet. They may never be ready in my lifetime. Still I cheer them because it’s my nation’s team, and I am looking forward to following the rest of the Cup to see if Brazil can run the board. They’re always a good team and I have much respect for them.
I don’t think Troofie gave a shit about the World Cup at all; it was just another excuse for the troll to try and needle us into some sort of “your mother” response. And it failed, as does so much of Troofie’s online life.
“I’m chock full of Bombardier bitter.”
Oh, criminy, that’s what is wrong with me. I haven’t started drinking yet.
Tigris, layering is of the good. It’s far more civilized than wearing a suit with a shirt and a nasty collar and tie. Maybe Mika shouldn’t wear a suit. Maybe Joe Scarmoron should show up sleeveless. Poor wickle man is deprived of the many benefits of layering.
As those of us non-men get older, we really truly understand the layering imperative. I am working on a line of clothing that not only involves layering, but genuinely break-awayable components.
As those of us non-men get older, we really truly understand the layering imperative. I am working on a line of clothing that not only involves layering, but genuinely break-awayable components.
Speaking as a not-not-man, you had my attention at “break-awayable.”
Aha! That crazy British humour! Always with the self-deprecation and the hatred of the French for having decent food! We Australians likewise mock the pommies for their lack of personal hygiene and miserable disposition but let me try….
Why is the World Cup like the G20? Because it is a corporation celebration for the super-rich that purports to be concerned for the poor but is in reality preferring to keep the poor no nearer than a kilometre from the action! And Obama showed up late and Sarkozy is a bought and paid for corporate shill! Also, Andrea Merkel is more on the side of right that David Cameron.
Hmmm…..I don’t think that worked. It has irony, France hatred and British self-deprecation, but the whole package just fails to gel.
I think I’ll head back over to Lenin’s Tomb. They love me over there.
Speaking as a not-not-man, you had my attention at “break-awayable.”
If they are “break-awayable” are they also “strap-onnable”? I have a friend who wishes to know.
AMERICA LOST! WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE I LOVE AMERICA! SO SUCK IT, AMERICA!
Well, it made sense when an obese drug addict said it on the radio…
Please to remember: in my demographic, a garment’s break-awayableness is deployed solely by the wearer. It cannot be broken away remotely, or in response to urgent and sincere wishing on the part of the beholder. It is owner-operated, and is a magnificent thing to see, but anyone who tries to hijack the wearer’s break-awayable option is in grave danger of being burned down to a smoking cinder within seconds. The awesome power that inspired the breakaway option is the same power that might obliterate you. Sometimes, of course, it is the same power that can heat your pool in just a few minutes, even if it’s February.
Also, strap-onables are in a different department. Some things are unmixy.
In Russia, vuvuzela blows you.
The fact is, you liberals are ….. Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
The fact is, I attended the sessions today on AmericaSpeaks, which as you may have heard is a fair and balanced forum on the real problems facing USA, which is the deficit. If we cut all the welfare and make all those lazy blacks and mexicans work, and stop attacking success, America might pull through. And socialism.
Who are you Liberals calling a fag, Matt Druge?shut up!your the fags
Shorter John Hinderaker:
I Lol’d at the Al Franken banner ad in the Hindy piece. I can only hope that convinced poor wingnut to the LIBERALS HAVE TAKEN OVER POWERLINE!!1!! and launch an extensive smear campaign against it.
Yah ,well libs the STIMULIS only fattend up socialist goverment jobs,did nothihg fronthe free market and the real economy and freedom.
Hindy: Earlier today Joe Biden was in Wisconsin, trying to help Russ Feingold salvage his Senate run, and he stopped at a frozen custard stand. When he asked the proprietor how much the custard cost, the proprietor answered, “Nothing, just lower our taxes.” Here is the exchange:
Biden, of course, had no response.
My response would’ve been “arrest that bribe-attempting mother-fucker,” but then I’m kind of a smartass.
nothihg fronthe
Any German speakers here?
No? Well, can anyone translate from one-handed typing?
Uh, wow. Can I just say, what y’all did to that troll from about 18:30 to 24:00 was a thing of beauty, and, like restored my faith in the internet ‘n shit?
Feingold? In need of salvaging? Not only does the only non-Ras source I can find (seriously, why do they put out so many fucking polls? It’s like air pollution) has Feingold up by double digits. And there’s the little fact that he has about $4.2 million cash on hand, and his opponent has $2,288.
Sometimes, I forget just how wrong all the wrongness is. Then I get out of the boat and wish I’d never remembered.
Biden, of course, had no response.
Hopefully he didn’t make eye contact with the raving crazy person, either.
Grammar fail, but I’m pretty sure you elitist libs can figure it out.
You mean Biden didn’t respond with “we already did; what are you, fucking RETARDED?”
I so wish he had said that.
Jennifer said,
June 27, 2010 at 4:06
STOP MAKING FUN OF SARAH!!!!
Prohibition has fueled the permanent boomtime economy that will have us all flying jet-cars & living on the moon by 1950 … next up will be to smash the Speakeasy culture where innocent Americans are race-mixing, injecting marihuana & becoming jazz-loving degenerate Bolshies!
Bookmark it, Wobblies!
The awesome power that inspired the breakaway option is the same power that might obliterate you.
I did not know that Velcro was that dangerous. thank you for the warning.
WOBBLIES-INES!!!!!
So here’s the video of S’error Palin’s speech at CSU Stanislaus. She made a hand teleprompter joke, said shitty things about President Obama, called the media “lamestream” (oh, hah hah hah hah!) and talked a lot about herself and Todd. So apparently, she doesn’t have any new material.
Oh, and while she was making that speech at a fundraiser to get money for student scholarships, she also deliberately insulted students (the protestors outside and the students who managed to find her contract in the shredder and expose it) and also said that “common sense” was better than a university education.
Seriously, listen to it if you can stand it. The first six minutes are all “Thank you for paying me that $100,000 fee, and isn’t your shitty little farm town pretty!”
What a dumbshit.
Somebody needs to compile that wingnuts through the ages and make a pdf of it. I’d do it, but I’m a lazy liberal hippie and am conscientiously opposed to lists.
What a dumbshit.
I don’t know–who’s the dumbshit? The one cashing the 100large or the one who wrote the check? I’d act like a 3rd grader on acid of it paid 100K per appearance. I do it with a big fat smile on my face. Hell, I’d even pretend I was from somewhere like Texas.
Oh, my teleprompter is busticated. Pretend of = if. Thank you for your cooperation.
mark f, I hate you. I didn’t need to read that Hinderaker piece. So much wrong and the fucking video embed is broken to boot.
Jesus christ on a broken dog biskit, government employees are the…wait, let me go back and get the exact, perfect crazy from the source:
“We have an oppressive ruling class–the government and its foot-soldiers, members of AFSCME–and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid.”
Holy crap, that is amazing! “It’s okay that you are paid so little, what sucks is that other people are decently paid! And it’s even worse that it’s because of a union, which you don’t have, thank god.”
The picture above just doesn’t seem right without the cop, the construction worker, the native guy and the leatherman.
and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid
Out of totally unrelated curiosity, any word as to what Hindy’s making?
An ice cream stand netting over $ 250K a year? I gotta get me one o’ them!
Time for mushrooms and hot tub! W00t!
“We have an oppressive ruling class–the government and its foot-soldiers, members of AFSCME–and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid.”
Probably because government agencies still treat their employees as people and not as subhuman serfs like the private sector has since the eighties.
Teabagging, Cuba style; “The Westerners are freer than you. The Westerners are richer than you. The Westerners live better than you. This vindicates Comrade Castro’s teachings, for how dare those decadent Westerners be freer, richer and better-living than you! Rally around Comrade Castro, for a shittier and anti-elitist existence!”
Ahh, good times.
And a big thank you to everyone who did the Troofus through the ages thing.
Drudge is a homo.
Pass it on.
And everyone stop being precious about it, por favor.
tsam – I’ve had the idea of re-writing the New Testament from a Troofus POV. Kind of like how the Faux News of c. 30 AD would have covered the Prince of Peace (which would be said, no doubt, with a sarcastic sneer). Or perhaps they would have just called him “The One.”
mushrooms and hot tub. That just sounds awesome.
So, Jennifer, would “Jesus wept” be knocked out of the Shortest Verse slot by “Suck it”?
Yes, Matt Drudge gets fucked up; the ass. Deal with it America, And then shut the fuck up about it. Cause it’s just a fact. No more, no less.
There’s a lot more merriment in the thought of that fucking hat ending up in that water fountain, say if it were slapped off his head with alacrity and elan. Or how about using it to pick up a dog turd–from a big dog, collie sized or up–and put back on his noggin? A most amusing jape, indeed!
Goddamn Batman, have you been reading a lot of Jack Vance lately?
Kid from Kounty Meath – no, more what I had in mind was how Jesus the DFH would be mocked and slandered by Faux & Friends. We’d get into the weeds about how overturning the tables of the money-changers in the Temple was a “Nazareth-style shakedown”, the ridicule about how Jesus walked on water because he can’t swim, how the loaves and fishes were merely fostering sloth among the “welfare queens” and so forth.
I have to confess that this made me, as the kids say, LOL:
Ghana wins, baby!
So much for your dreams of having Americans like a Third World sport, liberals!
Gadzooks, this is funny. Oh, yes, my dreams for having Americans like a Third World sport which was invented by the English, and played by millions of American schoolkids for decades, have been dashed forever!
How will I go on?
That outfit definitely puts Walsh into the ‘hisses at his own reflection’ brand of conservative.
For a member of the ruling class, my mother sure doesn’t seem to have a very strong pension.
How would Walsh know?
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tigris said,
June 27, 2010 at 3:52
Hindy: Earlier today Joe Biden was in Wisconsin, trying to help Russ Feingold salvage his Senate run, and he stopped at a frozen custard stand. When he asked the proprietor how much the custard cost, the proprietor answered, “Nothing, just lower our taxes.” Here is the exchange:
Biden, of course, had no response.
My response would’ve been “arrest that bribe-attempting mother-fucker,” but then I’m kind of a smartass.
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My reply would likely have been something along the lines
“goverment taxes are calculated in trillions, so even 1% reduction would equal tens of billions. Unless your custard is invisible in radar and can carry nuclear missiles I don’t think it is a good deal. Or would you wan’t your goverment to spend billions of dollars on custard?”
And Biden response should have been:
“Would love to but Dubya stiffed us with two wars and left us in a Bankster’s Paradise. Remember? You should charge Republicans more to buy your custard.”
I thought the weirdest thing Hind the rocket said was this:
The Democratic Party needs to be torn, root and branch, from our public life.
Uh, just what is he suggesting? When did he become an internet tough guy?
Gee, democrats must make him “so mad”.
First they came for the custard vendors, and I didn’t speak up for I wasn’t a custard vendor.
Next they came for the frozen yogurt vendors, and I didn’t speak up for I wasn’t a frozen yogurt vendor.
Then they came for the ice cream vendors, and I didn’t speak up for I wasn’t an ice cream vendor.
Then they came for the sherbet vendors, and I didn’t speak up for I wasn’t a sherbet vendor.
Now, it’s summer, and it’s fucking hot, and I have no cold, sweet treats to NOM! NOM! NOM!
Jeff Goldstein’s father died unexpectedly.
Guess not. Would you wait around if you knew Jeff was coming?
smudge reference
And remember, folks, if we should show good sportsmanship and congratulate Ghana on defeating the American team, it proves we hate America and support foreign nations. But just being a worthless shit to everyone is evidence of a long-standing love for America.
One is tempted to shove the Veal in the fountain.
Would you wait around if you knew Jeff was coming?
Dude, if I knew he was fapping, I wouldn’t even ring his bell!
One is tempted to shove the Veal in the fountain.
Just slap him on the patio.
Just slap him on the patio.
I missed the caption until just now. The only thing more delightful than The Smiths and puns are the two together forever!
Seriously, listen to it if you can stand it. The first six minutes are all “Thank you for paying me that $100,000 fee, and isn’t your shitty little farm town pretty!”
I actually tried to watch it, but my video card or Flash download or something is all fucked up. Maybe I do believe in God after all.
Paglia channels Poha:
“Everything you are doing is bad. I want you to know this.”
The only thing more delightful than The Smiths and puns are the two together forever!
I hope nothing marr’s your enjoyment of Smiths puns.
Paglia channels Poha:
You know, I forget her for months at a time, which really is a blessing.
I’m not even sure what the hell she’s saying, but she really needs to stop making sweeping statements about the sexual needs of women who fuck men. I don’t do that, and I’m one of them.
I hope nothing marr’s your enjoyment of Smiths puns.
I may eventually say “that joke isn’t funny anymore,” but I doubt it.
Paglia’s just bizarre:
Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts.
Funny, why would those breasts need to be “amplified” if voluptuousness were devalued? More importantly, why the hell did I get out of the boat for those amplified “mangos”?
I may eventually say “that joke isn’t funny anymore,” but I doubt it.
Well, I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible!
Matt and Amy’s lovechild: Howie Makem, the quality cat.
Returning to the football gag way up there – a friend had pre-warned me that this joke was doing the rounds, and suggested that the best response would be ‘yes, if you mean that our only chance of victory is if the Germans suicidally open up a second game with Russia after half time’
Which made me laugh, anyway.
Well, I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible
That’s hardly a pun, but that’s okay. I’d hate for you to go through the strain and the pain all over again.
Late but: Bombardier bitter
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Is that the same as the snowmobile company?
*waves from charleston*
Last night at the party I hugged two lesbians. Well I have egg on my face now because I’d always made of people who were afraid of “catching teh ghey”, but they were right. I have gay cooties now and I’m a big ol lesbo. My bad, wingnuts.
I’m not even sure what the hell she’s saying, but she really needs to stop making sweeping statements about the sexual needs of women who fuck men.
A close reading indicates she is pinin’ for de antebellum South.
I’m amazed that Matt Drudge and his stupid hat still have this much clout in 2010. But this kerfuffle is a perfect example of why I never chose a career in mainstream journalism. I would not have been nearly as restrained as Weigel.
Maybe I do believe in God after all.
God is what protects me every time I’m tempted to get out of the boat. Though he is clearly not an omnipotent god, since I still read YouTube comments.
The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.
This? Coming from Paglia?
The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.
You heard her ladies, revealing that you actually poop has ruined the mystery.
One could call Paglia the sexual equivalent of a chickenhawk if that didn’t already have certain other connotations…
tsam – I’ve had the idea of re-writing the New Testament from a Troofus POV. Kind of like how the Faux News of c. 30 AD would have covered the Prince of Peace (which would be said, no doubt, with a sarcastic sneer). Or perhaps they would have just called him “The One.”
I think you would do a fantastic job at something like that!
OT, but my wife’s friend in Pensacola tells us that there’s a rumor floating around out there that the gulf oil spill was actually caused by…wait for it…a North Korean submarine attack! That’s right, not the irresponsible greed of BP, not the criminal negligence fueled by the previous administration giving the oil companies everything they wanted, no no no, it’s obviously those dastardly North Koreans! What else could it be? Drill, baby, drill!
Don’t be surprised if this meme starts to spread like wildfire through the usual channels and you end up having to argue about this inane theory with your co-workers and relatives over and over in the coming moths. After all, we certainly can’t let our good red state Americans fall prey to socialism and doubt the wisdom of offshore drilling, can we?
thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones
Bone skinny is now called efficient? I’m still trying to get my mind around the idea of it being sexy. It’s not working for me.
Last night at the party I hugged two lesbians.
Interest! Website? Newsletter?
Biden response should have been:
Taxes are the price you pay for civilization. Try selling your damn custard without it, see what happens.
Actually, I think the North Korean thing came up weeks ago. Mind, if a North Korean submarine somehow made it all the way across the Pacific, around South America, up the Atlantic and into the Gulf of Mexico just to blow up one fucking oil rig…. well, either American defense is absolutely fucking worthless, or the North Koreans have put all the money you would normally spend in creating a viable, non-starving country into making their submarines elite fucking hax.
I’d always made of people who were afraid of “catching teh ghey”, but they were right. I have gay cooties now and I’m a big ol lesbo.
Pleast post video. kthx
Still, I hadn’t seen him in over a year, and for that I’ll be forever sad. We had plans to travel back to Baltimore at the end of July to visit him. Turns out he didn’t feel like waiting around those last few weeks, I guess.
Yeah, because your father dying suddenly is ALL ABOUT YOU. It’s also his fault you never visited.
Yeah, because your father dying suddenly is ALL ABOUT YOU. It’s also his fault you never visited.
I wondered who was going to be the first one to comment on that. Even when his dad dies, he’s still kind of a dick about it.
Obviously the North Koreans didn’t do it alone. It was Osama!!!!
Taxes are the price you pay for civilization. Try selling your damn custard without it, see what happens.
I would have said: “Oh, well I’ll lower YOUR taxes by the cost of this custard. How does that sound, douche?”
Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts.
Nothing says boyish like having big boobs.
Obviously the North Koreans didn’t do it alone. It was Osama!!!!
My god! The North Koreans have developed a suitcase submarine!
Pray for bad times.
Obviously the North Koreans didn’t do it alone. It was Osama!!!!
Of course the Kenyan man child usurper was the mastermind of the whole operation. Now he’s got 20bil of poor, innocent BP’s hard earned money to finance more FEMA camps and stuff.
Nothing says boyish like having big boobs
Damn straight!
Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts.
This sounds a like a 9th grader’s debate argument. Uninformed, generalizing, and generally stupid.
I agree that the bony model look sucks, but athletically toned bodies are not boyish until the boy drugs get involved…Think Jim Carey, In Living Color…
This sounds a like a 9th grader’s debate argument.
Also: sour grapes. In every possible way.
Bone skinny is now called efficient?
Right? I mean, maybe at some things, but not in general. I have a bone-skinny friend, who has the standard fashion model build, who couldn’t get pregnant. Her doctor told her to put on 10-15 pounds. Voila! Baby on the way.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being bone skinny, if that’s who you are.
The Deepwater Horizon is in 5000ft of water. The crush depth for Seawolf class submarines is 2400ft. The titanium hulled Soviet submarine, the K-278 Komsomolet, has a crush depth of 4265ft. Still not enough. The North Koreans don’t have no damn Seawolf class subs. If they have anything at all it’s just a couple of tin cans welded together.
If they have anything at all it’s just a
couple of tin cans welded togethergold plated yacht filled with an elite squad of fellatio technicians and a short little guy with big glasses.Right? I mean, maybe at some things, but not in general. I have a bone-skinny friend, who has the standard fashion model build, who couldn’t get pregnant. Her doctor told her to put on 10-15 pounds. Voila! Baby on the way.
Wow–I knew women with eating disorders would damage their reproductive systems, but I didn’t realize just being that thin would be a problem for conception.
I know different people like different things, and sometimes those models look great too. But I have to say that woman with curves–a pronounced feminine shape is, to me, the sexiest thing about a woman. The biggest bonerkiller is hearing girls with that perfect figure complain about being fat. It makes me sad.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being bone skinny, if that’s who you are.
Right–some people really can’t do anything about it. I knew a girl who was painfully thin, and would almost outeat the Army. I know there was some undiagnosed (or perhaps diagnosed–I never bring up the subject of weight with women, especially those within kicking distance) medical condition. She seemed healthy enough…
Fellatio technician.
There’s your job opportunity right there you lazy unemployed parasites. Now get off yer butt and find yourself a sweet sweet sugar daddy. Those cocks won’t fellate themselves ya know.
Whooooo-Hooooo! I’m comment No. 200!
Yay, me!
Also: sour grapes. In every possible way.
Yes–no kidding. Leave it to a dim-bulb male to bemoan the yoga/pilates toned body. Leave it to a dim-bulb male to whine about how women look–instead of embracing and enjoying it and seeing the beauty in most of them.
(Those Walmart pork-rind junkies are beyond my charity. Sorry)
There’s your job opportunity right there you lazy unemployed parasites. Now get off yer butt and find yourself a sweet sweet sugar daddy. Those cocks won’t fellate themselves ya know.
Hm….what does this sort of job pay?
FUCK–No–nevermind. Shit.
Oh, I left a cake in the oven–gotta run!
Congratulations!
Jocular Aside: I’ve been an honorary lesbian since 1996, when I was the guitarist in a lesbo-garage-goth band. Crappy benefits, but the overall cultural aesthetic is da bomb.
“These tits go to ELEVEN!”
Jennifer said,
tsam – I’ve had the idea of re-writing the New Testament from a Troofus POV. Kind of like how the Faux News of c. 30 AD would have covered the Prince of Peace …
Live From Golgotha!
I was the guitarist in a lesbo-garage-goth band. Crappy benefits,
Not a very good band name, IMHO.
amplified breasts. NSFA</b.
Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts.
Nothing says boyish like having big boobs.
Never mind the newsletter, do you have a youtube channel?
And, from the temporarily beer-free sanctuary of my home: Bombardier Bitter
Wow–I knew women with eating disorders would damage their reproductive systems, but I didn’t realize just being that thin would be a problem for conception.
Also happens to elite female athletes pretty frequently.
THIS MUST NOT STAND!
When I joined, we called ourselves “Beast Piston” … by the time we dissolved, we’d become “The Continuous Soft Hit” … so nyah.
n. The biggest bonerkiller is hearing girls with that perfect figure complain about being fat. It makes me sad.
Most women (including me) have really, really fucked up body images. I think most of us wish we didn’t, but it’s something that’s pretty hard to overcome–though I’m having an easier time with it as I get older. For a lot of women, it goes much deeper than just feeling attractive or not…you get so warped that your body is a reflection of your femininity, and, ultimately, your character and worth as a human being.
A large portion of the time, the way I feel about my body isn’t contigent on how it looks at the time, but on how I *feel*.
Sorry if this is TMI/boring territory. I guess I’m just saying that, for some of us, it’s not actually about how we actually look.
Why didn’t I see that “n.”? FYDroid.
Looch not pay attensh.
Stay out of me brain, womon!
Wow–I knew women with eating disorders would damage their reproductive systems, but I didn’t realize just being that thin would be a problem for conception.
I think there was probably an eating disorder involved at some point.
A large portion of the time, the way I feel about my body isn’t contigent on how it looks at the time, but on how I *feel*.
That’s it exactly! I know those feelings come and go, I get that. But I think that the absolute sexiest thing a girl can be is comfortable in her own skin. Way too much emphasis is placed on that first impression, and women spend and inordinate amount of time and money on that alone, seemingly not realizing that a very pretty girl becomes very ugly when proves herself to be a shallow bitch with a princess complex. The worst ones, in my opinion, dress down all the other women and make fun of their clothes, hair, makeup, choice of companions, etc… Any date-worthy man or woman sees beyond all of that stuff, despite that initial “oh god, I must fuck that” reaction we display toward traditionally attractive women.
I’m pretty sure I know what created that innate dysmorphia that way too many women endure. It’s sad and I wish I could change it. I think for most women, T&U, it is about how they feel.
I’ll see your TMI/boring and raise you TMI/boring/sanctimonious.
Also happens to elite female athletes pretty frequently.
Yes, that reminds me that I’ve seen medical documentaries about fertility that mentioned that phenomenon. Seems sort of counterintuitive, you’d think the elite athletes would have bullet proof reproductive systems.
A certain threshold body fat seems to be helpful to reproduction, and it’s not too difficult to get below. Elite female athletes have body fat percentages well above that of elite men, (in the range of average men), but it can still be too low to menstruate.
Oh, Camille.
I don’t think Paglia’s brain ever left the ’90s.
Industrial society has expanded both ends of the spectrum. Our athletes are specialized to a level of physical performance far beyond that which earlier societies could produce. And we also have people who are fatter and weaker in greater numbers than could have been sustained.
Only now do we have the surpluses necessary to feed a man as much as four other men so he can swim faster than everyone else.
Only a day after first lady Michelle Obama launched the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, her husband joined Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for a lunch of burgers and fries at a popular Virginia eatery.
The new council, formerly known as the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, now includes a focus on healthy eating as well as active lifestyles.
The first lady, who has actively been promoting healthy eating, marked the occasion at an event where she jumped rope with D.C. schoolchildren on Wednesday.
“This year we’re expanding the work of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition to include not just a focus on active lifestyles, but on healthy eating, too,” Mrs. Obama said.
The president, however, hasn’t always stuck to his wife’s message.
His indulgences in junk food have been well-documented, whether it’s a burger at Ray’s Hell Burger, buffalo wings at Duff’s Famous Wings or Five Guys’ famous greasy and oversized burgers.
President Obamas does maintain a regular exercise routine. He loves to work out, even going while on vacation. He reportedly exercises every day at the White House and is a regular golfer and basketball player.
A Five Guys cheeseburger, by the way, has 840 calories–it would take over an hour of jump roping to burn those off.
You make a compelling point, Troofie, but that copypasta can’t be good for you. Talk about mixed messages. Maybe you should balance it out with a tall glass of
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
So his example shows us that a slender person can occasionally eat junk food and not be a complete fat ass, plus being fit doesn’t mean totally stripping every item of food you enjoy from your diet. Yeah, the Missus has to be FURIOUS with him.
Also, that campaigns against childhood obesity apparently extend to people in their late forties. I guess when you call him “boy” you start to take it literally after a while.
Great Liberal Freakout
and
Amplified Breasts
Tonight
Doors open at 8
I’m only interested if Stryx is going to open with their hit “Crome Srail Aray”.
Also, that campaigns against childhood obesity apparently extend to people in their late forties.
Since MMoHE? is over forty and still trying to graduate from middle school, he does think that campaigns directed towards schoolchildren extend to people in their late forties.
Amplified Brests can cure low BMI scores.
“We have an oppressive ruling class–the government and its foot-soldiers, members of AFSCME–and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid.”
So these guys are paid twice, TWICE, as much as me, which is why I should hate them and be really buddy buddy and hope my CEO, which is paid 300 times as much as me, gets all the corporate welfare he wants from the government. Because shut up, that’swhy.
Ironic, but not as ironic as Laura Bush being a spokesperson for reading.
Yes, that reminds me that I’ve seen medical documentaries about fertility that mentioned that phenomenon. Seems sort of counterintuitive, you’d think the elite athletes would have bullet proof reproductive systems.
Mother Nature does not care about your silly cultural standards for beauty. It takes energy to reproduce and that energy is stored as FAT. As much as possible too because you never know where your next meal will come from. Oh and baby always comes first. If there’s not enough calcium in mom’s diet, baby will take the teeth right out of her head. Mother Nature’s a real bitch like that.
Leave it to a dim-bulb male to whine about how women look–instead of embracing and enjoying it and seeing the beauty in most of them.
(Those Walmart pork-rind junkies are beyond my charity. Sorry).
Meh. Having seen both sides of it, people who have healthier bodies are, you know, healthier. And usually happier because of it. Its not just self image, its more energy to do stuff, better sleeping, fewer pains from ergonomics design for healthy people, less indigestion, etc. I felt much better when I dropped weight, as has everyone else I’ve known. Yeah it can go to far, but that is a separate problem to address, not a reason to tell people its ok to be complacent.
I think there is a really difficult line to walk between encouraging people to not judge worth based on appearance and encouraging people to not be gluttonous couch potatoes.
A certain threshold body fat seems to be helpful to reproduction, and it’s not too difficult to get below. Elite female athletes have body fat percentages well above that of elite men, (in the range of average men), but it can still be too low to menstruate.
It is easy to see the evolutionary advantage in that mechanism. When women are having to work very hard to survive and/or not getting enough calories, you would not want them to become pregnant. Pregnancy is a stress on the system and requires more calories, so it is better to have no chance of becoming pregnant now if it allowed them to survive until a better time when there is more food and less strain.
Mother Nature’s a real bitch like that.
Not to mention how the feet of a twelve-month-old, when he’s being carried around, are perfectly placed to kick you in the nuts.
So typical of rightwingers to get bent over someone pointing out the obvious: most Americans eat a daily ration of shit and many of them rarely if ever eat anything that could legitimately be called “food”.
The problem isn’t with the occasional burger. The problem is with the kids who get up every morning and eat a bowl of sugar smacks washed down with a quart of Sunny D, then head off to school where lunch consists of chicken nuggets and french fries or pizza complemented by sugar milk artificially flavored to taste like chocolate or strawberry. The after school snack is a Happy Meal from Mickey D’s drive-thru and dinner is the KFC that mom or dad, both too tired to cook after working long hours at low-paying jobs, pick up on the way home.
This is the way at least half of the kids in the country eat EVERY DAY. The bulk of their caloric intake comes from fat and sugar; what’s missing is actual bulk in the form of fiber, vitamins, and pretty much every other nutritional benefit that humans used to get from consuming actual food, up until the past 30 – 40 years.
Leave it to a rightwinger to believe that a human body that evolved over 200,000 years to eat certain things can just be re-programmed in less than a generation to eat heavily processed food-like substances from which all nutritional value save calories has been removed.
Guess it’s time to head down to Hardees and get a Thickburger, large fries, and wash it down with an ice cold coke.
MMM…mmmm…mmmm!
The first lady, who has actively been promoting healthy eating, marked the occasion at an event where she jumped rope with D.C. schoolchildren on Wednesday.
“This year we’re expanding the work of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition to include not just a focus on active lifestyles, but on healthy eating, too,” Mrs. Obama said.
The president, of course, has always stuck to his wife’s message.
His abstinence from junk food has been well-documented, denying himself a burger at Ray’s Hell Burger, buffalo wings at Duff’s Famous Wings or Five Guys’ famous greasy and oversized burgers.
If Obamas cannot stand up to his own wife, how can he stand up to Amadingdong or Kim Jong the Second?
Common Sense – don’t stop with one – have 5!!! And then repeat every day for what will be the short term of the remainder of your life.
Do us all a solid.
Jennifer said,
June 27, 2010 at 21:22 (kill)
Why would people who don’t care about polluting the environment and thereby polluting their innards indirectly care about polluting their innards directly?
current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips
I had no idea that Pilates could resculpt the bones of the pelvis. In fact I had no idea that Pilates (a kind of Swiss version of Tai Chi) was about “honing” or athletic prowess at all.
It’s almost as if Paglia were saying “pilates” as a empty symbol — a place-holder for “brandname exercise program” — without knowing or caring for the meanings of words.
Perhaps the troll could apply for her gig at Slate. He’d fill it just as well and reach a larger audience.
Paglia’s writing is a tale told by a Trig, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Guess it’s time to head down to Hardees and get a Thickburger,
Get a Wendy’s Triple Layer Burger of Death w/ BACON!, large fries and large frosty(see the mom @ 24sec.). Includes free bypass surgery.
It’s almost as if Paglia were saying “pilates” as a empty symbol — a place-holder for “brandname exercise program” — without knowing or caring for the meanings of words.
That’s the entire Right-Wing media’s approach to everything. Take issue X as a empty symbol, insert your own confabulated meaning, crank the outrage to eleventy billion and collect those sweet wingnut welfare bucks.
It helps if you don’t know what you’re talking about. Understanding things just complicates the process.
Leave it to a rightwinger to believe that a human body that evolved over 200,000 years to eat certain things
Right wingers do not believe this. God made people 6000 years ago, and McDonalds to feed the Jews as they crossed the desert.
Take issue X as a empty symbol, insert your own confabulated meaning
To be fair, in Paglia’s case it is more that she is stuck with a literary style from late-1980s / early-1990s. SHe’s following Brett Easton Ellis’ use of brandnames everywhere — not just ‘exercise’ but ‘pilates’ — as a lazy way to (a) give the text a spurious sense of precision, and (b) create a narrator who’s a status-obsessed yuppie arse.
Her discovery of “a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones” is straight out of American Psycho but two decades too late.
Guess it’s time to head down to Hardees and get a Thickburger,
Whatever you do, don’t eat all that with the garage door closed and your Hummer running, that would REALLY piss us libs off.
Mm, I’m going to go to a chain restaurant and get a burger cooked rare. And also I’m not going to eat the lettuce or tomato because they are vegetables, but I am going to order extra lettuce and tomato because that way I can waste them. Then I’m going to get really drunk on unregulated bathtub gin and ride around on my AMERICAN MADE motorcycle with no helmet, because all of those things probably piss off you libs.
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from REDCHI and SOVWAR will come in, and they’ll be declared for Kodos. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. INDPAK will go green, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, LYBSYR and (much to your horror) AMNAT will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a Kodos presidency and the Great Human Freakout will be on.
Mark this in your books, people of Earth, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be saying “Holy flurking schnit, how was he able to call this?”