Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Dumbfuckery)


ABOVE: Bob Owens

Shorter Bob Owens, Confederate Wanker
Everybody’s A Racist Now

  • The election of a Negro to the White House is definitive proof that there is not a single racist left in the United States and for Obama to say that there are still racists in the United States is definitive proof that he’s a socialist.

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Comments: 667

 
 
 

I refuse to take lessons in what is and what ain’t racism from a Northerner who calls himself a “Confederate”. I mean, really.

 
Junkpuncho the Junk-Punching Alpaca
 

junkpunch!

 
 

Matt T. is playing the region card!

 
 

I doubted, but OMG, the shorter is dead on.

[Socialism] is a non-falsifiable belief system. No socialist policy can possible be wrong, therefore whenever any problem crops up–and they do–it cannot possibly be a fault in the policy.

There is nothing else like that in modern politics.

 
 

Can masturbation be ugly? Because that was the most boring, baffling, messy, jizz-sprayed abomination I’ve ever read.

 
Pupienus channeling Karl Poppet
 

Bobo, if it is a belief system it is by definition not falsifiable. If something is falsifiable it can not be a belief system. I would say “QED you are a dumbfuck” but I can’t bear to associate you with fucking save for you getting skull-fucked by a silverback gorilla. Which I would pay to see, btw.

 
 

I would say (as a former southerner) that anyone who intentionally aligns themselves with the confederacy (by say, referring to themselves as a confederate) is a god damned idiot. After reading this post, I wouldn’t say that he’s even THAT smart. It would actually be an insult to god damned idiots to be associated with this prick.

 
 

FY autocorrect. “Popper” “Bobowens.”

 
 

People got outta the boat for Bobo Wens? Wow.

ATTS™

 
 

What is read cannot be unread.

 
 

Johnny Reb has a pretty good first paragraph.

I have, from time to time, written about the nature of Socialism Movement Conservatism. It is a non-falsifiable belief system. No socialist conservative policy, from tax cuts to deregulation to abstinence only education to invading Iraq, can possible be wrong, therefore whenever any problem crops up–and they do–it cannot possibly be a fault in the policy. Such problems are the result of the existence of conservatives socialists who oppose the self-evidently flawless policies of socialists conservatives (e.g. Bush failed because Bush was a liberal and McCain lost the election because he was a RINO). Therefore the only solution is the elimination of all conservative socialist opposition, or failing that–probably even accompanying that–even more, and more fervent, socialism conservatism (e.g. teabaggers demanding that we solve the Bush Recession with more Bush policies).

Makes more sense than what Johnny Reb wrote, not only because it’s true, but because “socialism” doesn’t exist in the U.S. (or anywhere in the West, really), which means Johnny’s arguing against nothing.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

have, from time to time, written about the nature of Socialism. It is a non-falsifiable belief system. No socialist policy can possible be wrong, therefore whenever any problem crops up–and they do–it cannot possibly be a fault in the policy. Such problems are the result of the existence of conservatives who oppose the self-evidently flawless policies of socialists. Therefore the only solution is the elimination of all conservative opposition, or failing that–probably even accompanying that–even more, and more fervent, socialism.

You could do a search/replace for “socialism” with “the market” in this paragraph and have a remarkably accurate depiction of the views of 90% of the economics profession and probably 80% of the US Senate (both sides).

But never forget that the real problem is the socialists. Especially the black ones.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

And it would have worked, too, if it weren’t for that meddling kid, posting right before me.

 
 

Copy the poop to a word document. Replace “Obama” with “GWBush” and “socialist” with “Dumbfuckery”.
SCARY!!!!

 
 

Oh, and this is a good mango:

[Obama] agreed that there was a ‘subterranean agenda’ in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.”

Well. This is of a piece with standard socialist, class and race warfare doctrine, and is, with a great many other examples–they are legion–additional evidence that Mr. Obama is himself a socialist.

Obama said that he couldn’t do anything against the racially biased Tea Party Movement, and this is evidence that he’s supporting class “warfare”? Wouldn’t he have to actually do, well, I don’t know what, exactly, but doesn’t class warfare, hell, any warfare, involve actually doing something instead of just going “oh look, these people hate me, well, time for another drink”?

And bleargh. Ignorant ass redneck using the word “socialist” three times a sentence like he actually knows what it means. Really starting to annoy.

 
 

Meddling kids!!!

 
Lurking Canadian
 

People carrying signs with pictures of the President of the United States dressed as a tribal witch doctor with a bone through his nose ARE NOT RACIST! Honi soit qui mal y pense!

 
Shorter Feckless Glenn
 

If you liberal wankers think Bob Owens is a racist, than in my beckerheaded fantasyland, that makes you liberals the racists. nyah nyah

 
 

Um, how does Obama agreeing that there is still racism make him a socialist? Is this like how his dad’s anti-British colonialism got passed down to him via DNA?

BTW, I am hive-free today and LOVING IT!

 
 

Um, how does Obama agreeing that there is still racism make him a socialist? Is this like how his dad’s anti-British colonialism got passed down to him via DNA?

To paraphrase something a teabagger once said, the definition of a “socialist” is “anyone winning an argument with a conservative.”

Props on the hive-freeness.

 
 

“I’m sorry, Captain. The stupidium content of this object is so large it cannot be adequately measured with our current level of technology.”

 
 

Bob Owens is so perfectly dumb, and so perfectly dumb-looking that sometimes I wonder if he’s for real.

Then I realize I’m being naive.

 
 

That the very fact of Barack Obama’s election as President of the United States is the most compelling possible evidence of America’s lack of racism matters not to the faithful.

Good call Bob! It also serves as definitive proof that Republicans are imaginary.

 
 

BTW, I am hive-free today and LOVING IT!

Aaaaaahhhh. I’m actually a little broken out around my neck and I cannot figure out why…

 
 

T & U – I’m pretty sure mine was related to some kind of virus. Anyway, that’s what I’m telling myself and I’m sticking to it. Whether they’re gone because it was a virus that’s run its course or because I’ve instructed my body that it was a virus and THEY AREN’T COMING BACK is anyone’s guess.

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty I am free at last from the hives.

 
 

T&U – hope you’re wrong about having a breakout. I wouldn’t wish that misery on anyone but Jonah Goldberg, or Scott Walker, or Glenn Beck, or….

 
 

Silly wingnuts don’t know the rules.

It is Ok for Obama to play the race card, as he is halfbreed and hence gains all bonuses but suffers no penalties of the race card, where as White wingnuts are subject to any penalties of the race card they play.

Seriously, learn the rules.

 
 

T&U – hope you’re wrong about having a breakout. I wouldn’t wish that misery on anyone but Jonah Goldberg, or Scott Walker, or Glenn Beck, or….

It’s just a few little ones. I haven’t had anything as serious as what you had for a couple of years or so. I think I somehow got into some food I wasn’t supposed to ear a few days ago.

 
 

Man, I always break out whenever I ear food.

 
 

Hahahahahahaha. Whoops.

 
 

“Um, how does Obama agreeing that there is still racism make him a socialist?”

Im not sure. Only bob knows.

 
 

““Um, how does Obama agreeing that there is still racism make him a socialist?”

Because STFU, that’s why.

 
 

“Um, how does Obama agreeing that there is still racism make him a socialist?”

C’mon, how many times do you have to have these things explained to you. SHEESH! Because there is no racism in captalism. See, the invisible hand is invisble – no color whatsoever. So if there is any racism it MUST be socialist. Cue Edy!!!!!

 
 

oh man, i’m so relieved that there is no more racism in america. thanks, cw! you really made my day.

 
 

Obama’s racism is non-falsifiable and Treason Loving Patriot can’t possibly be wrong.

 
 

See, the invisible hand is invisble – no color whatsoever.

As a follower of the Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, I take offense at this assertion.

 
 

If you don’t ear your food properly, bad thins can happen.
~

 
Marion in Savannah
 

I’m starting to have trouble keeping them all straight. Is this the one who lost his gree-yull? It’s the other ridge-runner who fucks his truck, right?

 
 

Marion–Yes, he lost his greeeyull. Don Surber is the truck-fucker.

 
 

Marion, I have trouble keeping Amy Alkon, robin of Berkley and Ann Althouse straight. And I only learned of them through this site. Also Megan mccardle.

 
 

If you can ‘ear your food, it’s not ready to eat yet.

 
Marion in Savannah
 

Thanks, T&U.

 
Marion in Savannah
 

If you can ‘ear your food, it’s not ready to eat yet.

Well, except for Rice Krispies, I guess…

 
 

As a follower of the Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, I take offense at this assertion.

Of course, if the hand weren’t invisible, if you could actually see it, it would be whiter than Procol Harum’s shade of pale. However, let me refer you to this video which proves that it’s the white guy who’s the real victim of racism.

 
 

Incidentally, Invisible Pink Unicorn? Not a VPR.

 
 

Incidentally, Invisible Pink Unicorn? Not a VPR.

If your Pink Unicorn is not veiled and it’s still invisible, then it must be really, really tiny. I’m just sayin’

 
 

Doubt me? Google “Obama halos” if you have the stomach for it.

Don’t doubt the mytee Robert of Wanker, he wieldeth da mytee Google sward to smyte ye liberals!

 
 

If you can ‘ear your food, it’s not ready to eat yet.

Unless it’s corn.

 
 

I’m just sayin/

I believe I’ve addressed that ridiculous lie already.

 
 

“If you can ‘ear your food, it’s not ready to eat yet.”

Try telling that to zrm.

 
 

How can you ear any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!
~

 
 

I want Theo’s pager number. That got me a little hot.

 
 

Not a VPR.

If there’s one thing you can guarantee it’s that a bar fulla white male yokels want a black guy to tell them to ride his dick.

 
 

It is totally a coincidence that people like Mike Fuckabee keep talking about how Obama might just be a Kenyan. And also an Indonesian Muslim. And probably anti-colonialist.

Because you know who were anti-colonialist over there? Black Africans. And Africans are black. (No one in that crowd is going to think about contradictions like South African whites or North African Afro-Semitic peoples.

Obsessing over ACORN and the ‘New Black Panther Party’ is also totally unrelated to race.

 
 

T&U, believe it or not I have that song in my liberry. I think it’s safe to call it a guilty pleasure. And, no, there is nothing veiled about it.

Ride it! My pony!

 
Marion in Savannah
 

Substance McGravitas said,
March 4, 2011 at 22:09
Successful trolling demonstrated.

Before it’s taken down, the last comment on that post is just lovely:

You guys are the light of my life, you know that? You really make my day. I have to keep reminding myself that this isn’t a parody site, and you people are all real. Phineas T. Barnum had nothing on Breitbart, that’s for sure.

The best of all is the macho threats, the “over my dead body”, “knife buried in bone”, stuff. If you impotent endomorphs didn’t find it a Hurculean struggle just to get up from the hide-a-bed sofa in the single-wide to your Li’l Rascal scooters for a trip down to the Circle K for more Cheetos and Mr. Pib, and you were actually able to back up even the tiniest fraction of your tough talk with action, then I’d be truly worried for my country.

As it is, I’ll continue to laugh at your expense, and Breitbart will continue to profit from it. Just a helpful hint for you–If you can get your picture of Sarah Palin laminated, you’ll find it wipes clean with a damp sponge. No muss, no fuss!

Okay. Which one of you wrote this?

 
 

It’s hard to make informed choices in a representative democracy when candidates conceal their true nature and deranged beliefs

The stupid is truly dumbfounding. I got nothing to add.

 
 

How can you ear any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!

“I may be blind, but I have acute ‘earing.”
“I don’t care about you jewelry.”

 
 

By the by, that was from the Inflatable Wankers post.

 
 

The stupid is truly dumbfounding. I got nothing to add.

No, he’s right. People did in good faith vote for Governor Walker based on the fact that his platform said nothing about destroying collective bargaining.

 
 

It’s hard to make informed choices in a representative democracy when candidates conceal their true nature and deranged beliefs you rely on Fox News.

Fixipated just to make me feel a tiny bit better.

 
 

The Wankers jealous ’cause he’s on no ones social list.

 
 

My Bob Owens!

 
 

Is it time for Naughty Random Music Friday yet? I always found this song shockingly crude.
I had to listen to it over and over again to make sure I was offended.

 
 

If Bob wants some help discovering where the racism is in this country, he should check out the comments in that Breitbart post about the Statue of Liberty and the burqa. What a bunch of disgusting pigs his brethren are. Between that and the video of those a-holes yelling at the Muslim kids, I keep finding myself wanting to run to the bathroom and vomit.

 
 

HITLER!

The comments don’t bother me. I already have a headache.

 
 

HITLER!

Jesus Christ, Dan Riehl is deeeyoooooemmmm. DUM.

 
 

Coincidentally, the first comment to the HITLER! post is about socialism. Obviously Hitler wanted unions, since was a socialist. The commenter and Bob Owens should get together and talk about how much they don’t know about socialism.

 
 

Oh, I can’t resist…comments from Substance’s link. The projection. Oh, the projection. It’s breathtaking.

LOL, From Hitler’s Volkswagen to Obama’s Volt…. hummm …

See any similarities boyz and gurlz…?

Hes a liberal, therefore allowed to shape history as he sees fit.

Socialists = Unions.
Hitler = Socialist.

Democrats have no choice but to lie about history. Anybody that knows even a sparse amount of history knows that the Democrats have essentially the same ideology as Socialist/Communist/Nazis. Pardon me for comparing Democrats to Nazis but sometimes the facts just hurt.

· 5 hours ago
i love the hitler comparison. you see whenever you are losing the argument, just say hitler agrees with the opposing view. well, at least that is the democrat way, even when facts get in the way of the truth. hitler was a socialist, and as such followed the socialist playbook. people on the left remember hitler, and always seem to forget, nazi was short for national socialist party. so when you need to scare mush minds (moderates), drag out hitler. it does not seem to work these days, but you can’t teach and old liberal new tricks.
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Liberals never let facts get in the way of their narrative, even when the facts are directly the opposite of their claims. I’ve reached the point where their yelling Hitler, or Nazi or Racist has just become so much white noise. Oops, is “white noise” a racist term?
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OH MY!

 
 

If Bob wants some help discovering where the racism is in this country, he should check out the comments in that Breitbart post about the Statue of Liberty and the burqa. What a bunch of disgusting pigs his brethren are. Between that and the video of those a-holes yelling at the Muslim kids, I keep finding myself wanting to run to the bathroom and vomit.

Yep. I liked this one especially:

FULL STOP!

This is the UNITED STATES of AMERICA you moronic, primitive, authoritarian jackasses. Take your damned murderous selves back to your own Islamic lands, the same lands in which the Infidel, Christian, Jew, Buddhists, etc. are not welcome.

Practice your slave-master ideology amongst yourselves or else…Tolerance for this BS has left the building.

Comments like this are a dime a dozen, appear in conservative blogs every day, and are never, ever, objected to, or refuted, by anyone on the blog (whatever said blog is). So I really love it when they do what they did last summer after Obama’s “they have the right to worship” speech and go “OH MY GOD of COURSE we’re not saying they don’t have the RIGHT to, where did you EVER get an idea like THAT?” Um. I don’t know. Maybe listening to you speak for the last ten years.

 
 

people on the left remember hitler, and always seem to forget, nazi was short for national socialist party.

Also, lead paint chips are tasty. Especially dipped in arsenic hummus.

 
 

This is the UNITED STATES of AMERICA you moronic, primitive, authoritarian jackasses.

Ahhh, self-projection isn’t just a river in Egypt.

 
 

people on the left remember hitler, and always seem to forget, nazi was short for national socialist party.

And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, clearly, is democratic, and a republic, and belongs to its people. It’s right there in the name. God, I have seen the light! Take me to North Korea, true land of liberty!

 
 

And because Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)…

Yeah, it’s his fault for not picking a different father.

 
 

And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, clearly, is democratic, and a republic, and belongs to its people. It’s right there in the name. God, I have seen the light! Take me to North Korea, true land of liberty!

I know, right? The stupid burns. But I gotta tell ya, it’s the projection that really galls me.

 
 

And because Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)…

RACISM IS DEAD.

 
 

Yeah, it’s his fault for not picking a different father.

Race is a lifestyle choice, doncha know?

Kinda makes you wonder why all those Republicans don’t just self-declare black or Hispanic, since they’re so sure these guys have it easy and don’t want for anything in our race-welfare society.

 
 

Oh, um. The tornado sirens just went off. If I die, I want all of you to know that Jesus loves you.

 
 

“I may be blind, but I have acute ‘earing.”
“I don’t care about you jewelry.”

I almost hate to brooch the subject, but that doesn’t really ring true.

 
 

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was communist, therefore all socialists are communists. Or Nazis.

Maybe not the Swedes. Or them other white type countries up there.

 
 

Oh, um. The tornado sirens just went off. If I die, I want all of you to know that Jesus loves you.

When you don’t know what those are and have previously noted all the radiation shelters in your walks around town those sirens are kind of distressing.

Turns out some places test ’em a LOT.

 
 

T&U!

Take care! Raptor Jesus loves you.

 
 

It’s right there in the name. God, I have seen the light! Take me to North Korea, true land of liberty!

If it’s really all in the name, then I think Graham Norton may have found the ultimate place to live. At the very least, can I go to Lappland?

 
 

Turns out some places test ‘em a LOT.

Every Friday at 12:00 during tornado season!

 
 

Lappland?

Gawd, the feelthy thoughts in my noggin.

 
 

Okay, it looks like parts of my county are under a warning, but not my city. There are cars on the road and the sky isn’t a disturbing color, so I think I’m okay…

 
 

If I die, I want all of you to know that Jesus loves you.

But if you do die, it’s probably because you pissed Jesus off with something you said at Sadly, No!

 
 

But if you do die, it’s probably because you pissed Jesus off with something you said at Sadly, No!

I thought for sure it was all the furry porn I did.

 
 

Also, it’s nice and cool outside. Why they gotta scare me like that?

 
 

I thought for sure it was all the furry porn I did.

The fact that I’m always covered in cat hair feels like a bittersweet reminder of my past.

 
 

There are cars on the road and the sky isn’t a disturbing color, so I think I’m okay…

I neber been in a tornado but I think if the cars are in the sky I think it would be disturbing.

(I first thought you’d said tomato. Tomato siren? {waves})

 
 

VS is a werekitty!

 
 

I can’t believe they activated the tornado sirens. Fucking Missouri assholes.

 
 

Werekitties are the hardest to find.

 
 

Turns out some places test ‘em a LOT.

Every Friday at 12:00 during tornado season!

They test ours every Wednesday at noon, year-round.

Then again, it’s tornado season here year-round.

 
 

They activated the sirens because there’s a line of squalls, like, 50 miles away. That’s ridiculous.

 
 

Can masturbation be ugly? Because that was the most boring, baffling, messy, jizz-sprayed abomination I’ve ever read.

Okay, that is funny.

 
 

They activated the sirens because there’s a line of squalls, like, 50 miles away. That’s ridiculous.

Sounds a bit like the DC area; the schools I grew up in treated every snowflake like a harbinger of a New Ice Age and closed accordingly. (Not that I minded, of course).

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I was thinking about the whole “racism vs. class warfare” issue this morning. Either conservatives are racist and and poor and working class whites are “collateral damage”, or conservatives are waging war on poor and working class people and minorities are the “canary in the coal mine”. Either way, they suck, and minorities tend to bear the brunt of the fallout from conservative policies.

 
 

In Mordor when it rains almost the entire local newscast is about the weather. “Breaking news from storm team blah, blah, blah”

I’m serious.

 
 

So many conservatives keep trying to prove they aren’t racists, by saying racism doesn’t exist any more.

Besides, you know, statistics and headlines, you’d think it would be hard to “think” a statement like:

“We ain’t racists. It’s them minorities who think racism still exists who are the real racists.”

But somehow they manage to do so. And so they are doomed to wander in a garden full of rakes. That, to continue the metaphor, is crushing and rotting so much of our nation’s mango-future.

 
 

Martin Luther King on Right-to-Work Laws
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. It is supported by Southern segregationists who are trying to keep us from achieving our civil rights and our right of equal job opportunity. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone.Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote.”

King speaking on right-to-work laws in 1961.

 
 

Sounds a bit like the DC area; the schools I grew up in treated every snowflake like a harbinger of a New Ice Age and closed accordingly. (Not that I minded, of course).

They close schools *so much* here. I can only remember a couple of times that school was closed when I was a kid, and while it stays a little warmer here (and more humid in the summer), the climate isn’t all that different from where I grew up. I have friends who grew up here who say that school wasn’t shut down nearly as much when they were kids. Are we all just wimps? We even have nicer cars these days!

 
 

I was thinking about the whole “racism vs. class warfare” issue this morning. Either conservatives are racist and and poor and working class whites are “collateral damage”, or conservatives are waging war on poor and working class people and minorities are the “canary in the coal mine”. Either way, they suck, and minorities tend to bear the brunt of the fallout from conservative policies.

Depends on the Republican. I’d say the elites are waging war on the poor and working class (more exactly promoting their own wealth and power at their expense) and find racism to be a convenient way to do that.

But the rank-and-file teabagger types are waging war on the “unAmericans,” and find the poor and working class who don’t side with them to be either race traitors, or regrettable but necessary collateral damage.

Either way, they suck. That’s a very nice way to put it.

17:31 hours! Eject, eject, eject!

 
 

They test ours every Wednesday at noon, year-round.

Same here in Ohio.
~

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Depends on the Republican. I’d say the elites are waging war on the poor and working class (more exactly promoting their own wealth and power at their expense) and find racism to be a convenient way to do that.

Yeah, classic “divide and conquer” strategy.

 
 

Ironic Internet adverts: SingleMuslim.com at Breitbart’s Big Piss burqa-fest.

They used to test the civil defense sirens in L.A. County once a mo. First time it happened when I was here I was nervous.

 
 

They used to test the civil defense sirens in L.A. County once a mo. First time it happened when I was here I was nervous.

I remember being pretty annoyed that the world was going to end, but that didn’t rouse me from bed.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Racism is not dead! Liberals are the racists, this we all know, but guess who the target is now. G’won … g’head … make a wild guess.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/maggie-gallagher-accuses-maryland-gays-of-racism-against-arora/marriage/2011/03/03/17807

 
 

Time to bring back interment [sic] camps and move these maniacs to them.

Not sure an “interment camp” means what “harley2002” thinks. Or does it?

 
 

They test ours every Wednesday at noon, year-round.

Everyday at noon here, or thereabouts, depending on whether or not the batteries in the wall clock have been replaced and the siren master hasn’t dozed off watching Chiflado reruns.

 
 

Bless it. I just saw some girl go into Party World in a hoodie and no pants. I’ve never seen a walk of shame to get balloons…the joys of living in a college town!

 
 

Props from fish? Happy-making!

 
 

I remember being pretty annoyed that the world was going to end, but that didn’t rouse me from bed.

In those days I couldn’t sleep in like I can now. It was 1100 or noon, & I was uptight & dressed.

 
 

I was upright, too.

 
 

“I remember being pretty annoyed that the world was going to end, but that didn’t rouse me from bed.”

That is quotable. I bet if we could have siggies here, someone would snag that.

Speking of siggies, I’m bummed my adorable ice cream babby pic gravatar is not visible here.

 
 

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/maggie-gallagher-accuses-maryland-gays-of-racism-against-arora/marriage/2011/03/03/17807

I like how liberals “play the race card” (ohhhh how I HATE that term), but Republicans cry racism the moment one of their own is targeted.

 
 

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Esp. irksome as it shows in preview!!!

 
 

Preview is a duplicitous bitch.

 
 

Seriously, can someone please explain to me what could possibly be so urgent that someone wouldn’t take the time to put on pants to go to Party World?

 
 

Gosh, almost forgot, at 6 a.m. as well, except Sunday. I have been told this is a throwback to the days of the Revolution and the Sandinistas now use it to remind everyone what they fought for and who is now in charge.

 
 

Not sure an “interment camp” means what “harley2002? thinks.
New term for cemetery?

 
 

“Seriously, can someone please explain to me what could possibly be so urgent that someone wouldn’t take the time to put on pants to go to Party World?”

She needs some colorful steamers RIGHT NOW.

 
 

“…what could possibly be so urgent..?

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

She’s at that age you know.

 
 

Totally non-racist pony-riding music.

Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)
Good point. He could equally well have chosen to identify as white.

 
 

It’s time to party, Let’s party
Hang out with yourself and have a crazy party
Hey you, let’s party
Have a killer party and Party!

 
 

She needs some colorful steamers RIGHT NOW.

She should have eaten the food dyes 12 hours earlier.

 
 

She’s at that age you know.

I’m hornier now than I was at that age (perhaps because my womb is BARREN), yet I still manage to cover my ass when I go out to get paper tablecloths.

 
 

Good point. He could equally well have chosen to identify as white.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Obama claim to be black *or* white. I think that probably shows more about the attitude of the poster than anything Obama believes.

Oh yeah. Self-projection.

 
 

“She needs some colorful steamers RIGHT NOW.

She should have eaten the food dyes 12 hours earlier.”

Lulz

 
 

In her defense, the word “panties” totally has the word “pant” in it, right?

 
 

I think you’re being very judgmental. Sometimes you just need to party RIGHT AWAY. And putting on pants is just going create wind resistance as you walk to Party World. It’s called being aerodynamic, OK?!

 
 

What is your video, Substance? It’s nOt playing on my mobile devices.

 
 

Those would be Andrew WK lyrics, some of the finest lyrics ever written.

 
 

Funny, that’s what I thought.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

You mean doffing one’s pants is not an entrance requirement at “Party World?” what kind of lame party is that?

 
 

Hmm. Maybe she was actually going to buy something to wear.

 
 

New term for cemetery?

Ah, you saw what I did there.

 
 

Thunder, I’m not watching that. I’m afraid I might end up wishing a child ill. Hope the parental units are proud of raising a little asshole.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Once the pants go on, the party’s over!

 
 

Did somebody say Andrew?

Is that real? I can’t tell anymore what’s real and what isn’t.

It definitely isn’t Union Made though, right?

 
 

Once the pants go on your head, the party’s starting to get good.

 
 

Once the pants are around your ankles, the party’s starting to trip you up.

 
 

How can you have a party in your pants if you aren’t wearing any?

 
 

Once the pants are around your ankles, the party’s probably taking place in an airport bathroom.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I think some guy in Toronto was harassing her with 3AM booty calls.

Totally non-racist pony-riding music.

I always assumed this song was a side project by some big-name producer in NYC or LA- live and learn.

 
 

You mean doffing one’s pants is not an entrance requirement at “Party World?
Also required: Doffing one’s parts before entering “Panty World”.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Pantry world? Keep yer pants on!

 
 

Can masturbation be ugly?

No matter how much you beg, I will not discuss the circumstances that led to my knowledge of hate-self-fucking.

 
 

Well, damn, now I’m horrified intrigued.

 
 

Going out on a limb, but this allegedly drunk Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic priest may be amusing.

Kury, whose blood alcohol content was measured at more than two times the legal limit:
• Asked jailers, “You want me to give you a blowjob? Is that what you want?”
• Remarked, “I’ll give you the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is this: Get these fucking [handcuffs] off me because I’m getting a rash!”
• Noted that he was being treated like Jeffrey Dahmer, the late serial killer.
• Warned that, “Oprah Winfrey is gonna have her fat ass down here.”
• Sang portions of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Direct to videos.

 
 

Ok, tonight I wrapped pig in pig. It’s a new recipe from Cook’s Illustrated–pork loin wrapped in bacon and served with warm potato salad. Gonna serve it on a bed of baby arugula.

Mr. Slayer STILL isnt home. Gonna be late dinner tonight. What is this–fucking Spain?

 
 

“Going out on a limb, but this allegedly drunk Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic priest may be amusing.”

Why should Sheen get all the attention?

 
 

Can masturbation be ugly?

No matter how much you beg, I will not discuss the circumstances that led to my knowledge of hate-self-fucking.

Why, would the begging make it uglier and hatier?

 
 

Sorry I wasn’t around for the NFZ discussion in the last thread.

Nobody had the slightest interest in an update on the military situation on the ground, so I won’t bother with it.

I will point out that–what was it? Six days ago DK-W was convinced it was all pretty much over except for the actual exit of the regime; I said that I was far less sanguine about the rapid collapse of regime. (For what it’s worth–I expect not much–the rebels have stalled at Ran Lanuf and have stopped their advance…about 400 miles from Tripoli.

D-KW’s assertion that the rebels control 90% of Libya is utter nonsense. (Unless, of course, you are measuring by desert acreage, rather than population.) Well over half of the population lives in northwestern Libya, most within about 100 miles of Tripoli.

But don’t worry, there won’t be an NFZ anytime soon. Big sigh of relief. Maybe the problem will Just Go Away.

BTW, I’m no zoomie, but I fully understand the practical difficulty of sustaining an NFZ, and the prelim strikes that must be taken to secure the airspace. Christ, I know this sort of shit better than anyone else at this site.

I see no reason to engage in long, detailed, and contentious dispute, especially with someone who doesn’t have the vaguest fucking idea what is happening on the ground.

I would, however, very much like to hear D-KW’s explanation about WHY the rebels have been unanimously pleading for a NFZ for the last fucking eight days.

What really pisses me off as I type this is NOT the NFZ per se; rather, it is glib, uninformed commentary about it.

Rant over. I’m going to go do something productive now. Sorry to have interrupted the snark, sex jokes, and clever word-plays. As you were.

 
 

uglier and hatier?

Fer Jeebus’s sake: I’m not a republican.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

D-KW’s assertion that the rebels control 90% of Libya is utter nonsense.

He was confused, the rebels control 90% of his mom.

 
 

He was confused, the rebels control 90% of his mom.

There’s still a lot of land to cover, there!

 
 

Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)

Too bad. He could have had a very successful career with an ex-black ministry. Tho I guess most black kids have black parents, so that must drag sales. Also, someone would catch him in a relapse eventually. I suppose he made the right decision.

 
 

‘Ok, tonight I wrapped pig in pig….

I love warm potato salad. Made with Hellmann’s. Lucky Mr. Slayer.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Ok, tonight I wrapped pig in pig.

I would have chosen, “Because your body can take it!” I cooked up a bunch of pork tongues I got at $1.49/lb and I sliced a couple up to add to some chow-fun noodles. Pig tongues really have an intense “pig” flavor (VDKWMR?)- almost gamy compared to a pork chop.

Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)

The fact that he was allowed to make that choice means that progress has been made. The fact that some schmuck thinks it’s a bif deal means that more progress needs to be made.

 
 

Christ, I know this sort of shit better than anyone else at this site.

As one of the most militant members of this blog, I must question the sincerity of a NFZ that doesn’t signify Nuclear Fusillade of Zombies.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I love warm potato salad. Made with Hellmann’s bacon. Lucky Mr. Slayer.

Fixx0red for more porky goodness.

 
 

I would have chosen, “Because your body can take it!”

That’s a long fucking overdue move. If I wanted chicken, I would eat freaking chicken.

Also, it’s a brilliant idea given the apparent hipster status bacon is getting.

 
 

Also, it’s a brilliant idea given the apparent hipster status bacon is getting.

I’m trying to bring back beef liver.

 
 

Fixx0red for more porky goodness.

I thought it was a given that it had bacon in it? No?

 
 

• Remarked, “I’ll give you the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is this: Get these fucking [handcuffs] off me because I’m getting a rash!”

Had he been arrested in Canada, he could have given the Sermon on the Mountie.

Nuclear Fusillade of Zombies.
If life gives you fusils, make SHUT UP SMUT

 
 

I’m trying to bring back beef liver.

I actually like a lot of offal, but beef liver smells like…I don’t know what, but it’s disgusting.

 
 

Mr. Obama is black (by self-identified choice)

Oh, please. You know what they call a half- black, Harvard- educated Constitutional lawyer/ POTUS in Confederateland?

Yeah. That’s right.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“I’m trying to bring back beef liver.”

just the liver or the entire animal?

 
 

just the liver or the entire animal?

Are you trying to tell me that steak and hamburger come from the same wonderful, magical animal?

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Still settling in and haven’t got the kitchen completely set up yet so tonight will be simple grilled veal loin chops. They have been rubbed with salt, pepper, fine olive oyl and wrapped up with some Rosemary sprigs. Roasted sun chokes. Savoy cabbage sauteed with bacon and cider vinegar. I found some Malbec from my favorite vineyard in Mendoza at the store.

(I had the great fortune to travel to Mendoza Argentina a number of times on business some years back. My contacts there took me on several vineyard tours – best business trips ever.)

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I’m trying to bring back beef liver.

And get the prices jacked up? D00d, I think I single-handedly convinced the local Stop and Shop to jack the price of beef heart from $1.29 to $1.99/lb. Either that, or a bunch of anticuchos scarfing Peruvians moved to the neighborhood.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

While I prefer calf liver beef liver is fine. You’ll think I’m nutz but try it with a lemon tarragon sauce.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

If life gives you fusils, make

an attempt on the Autarch’s payroll?

 
 

Are you trying to tell me that steak and hamburger come from the same wonderful, magical animal?

This reminds me of when someone asked Rick Bayless on Twitter what part of the cow beef cheeks came from…he was like, “Um…the cheek…?”

Also, beef cheeks. Yum!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

You’ll think I’m nutz but try it with a lemon tarragon sauce.

You gots a recipe? I’m going to start a batch of limoncello next week, so I’ll have a dozen and a half lemons on hand.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

This reminds me of when someone asked Rick Bayless on Twitter what part of the cow beef cheeks came from…he was like, “Um…the cheek…?”

Bringing us back to the original topic… the ass or the face?

 
 

While I prefer calf liver beef liver is fine. You’ll think I’m nutz but try it with a lemon tarragon sauce.

Honestly, I haven’t had it since childhood and the last time I smelled it cooking, I was a vegetarian, so I may change my mind someday. Or not.

 
 

the ass or the face?

Mmmm…cow ass…

 
 

Fenwick, okay.

1. It’s pretty much over except the exit of the regime. They tried counterattacking retaking Brega. Dawn surprise attack with air support. They worked at it all day. And then they went home – defeated by not rebel forces nor foreign military – but by the residents of Brega. They got schooled by civilians. It’s pretty much over except the exit of the regime.

2. My 90% number I got from the guy a defer to on Middle East stuff. I ain’t in Libya, so I can’t verify that 90% number – but even if i were in Libya right now, I’d still trust Juan Cole over my own lying eyes. I have no understanding of North Africa or its culture.

3. Maybe the Problem Will Just Go Away? Who the FUCK do you think you are? It’s not your “problem”, it’s THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY. What the hell is wrong with letting the Libyans sort out Libya? FFS, that this is happening now – after the US had finally begun to make peace with Cuckoo-Daffy – might be a good sign that the West should STAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT.

4. Glib uniformed commentary? Fuck You. Every time I’ve spoken about it I’ve openly declared that I not an expert on either military matters or the region. That I am giving my opinion on it – my take on what’s going on – my view on how planes with missiles on them are best left on the ground. I am entitled to that opinion. IT IS YOU WHO ARE SPEAKING FOR THE REBELS. YOU ARE THE ONE PRESENTING YOUR VIEWS AS THE UNANIMOUS WISHES OF THE REBELS. Jackass.

5. And I hate to pull this one on you Fenwick but here it is. Even in your deluded world, where EVERYTHING is exactly as you say. Where there is not a single anti-Quaalude-Huffy rebel who has bears any animosity towards the West. Where each and every one of them is dying to see American planes flying overhead that they will greet as liberators. Even granted ALL OF THAT. SO FUCKING WHAT? How does that justify military intervention? Siding with the rebels in spirit is one thing, but lending them Air Power is a whole other ball of wax – and unless you are absolutely dead certain that the new regime will be a success – despite having gotten there on the laser-guided bombs of foreigners – doing anything about it is stupid as fuck.

Glib and uninformed? Buddy, you’re the one painting it as some sort of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys Hollywood blockbuster.

 
 

Incidentally Fenwick, you may know moar about military shit than me – but that’s a pretty low fucking bar. I’ll happily concede that you have a better grip on the stratageries of killing foreigners than I do. But claiming that you know moar about it than anyone else at this site? Immediately following a can’t be arsed to say jack shit about this area of your expertise? That’s trollery.

 
 

B^4, do you eat anything that’s not offal?

BTW, the roast and potatoes were delicious. Since trying CI’s recipes, I’ve had a100% success rate. Lemme repeat that: 100%. I’d say thats roughly a 60% improvement. Pretty remarkable IMO.

 
 

You know who else had no understanding of North Africa and its culture, right?

 
 

PM, your kitchen must be a thing of beauty.

And my dad used to fry us whitefish livers way back when, they’re actually pretty good if you fry ’em crispy in bacon grease.

 
 

You know who else had no understanding of North Africa and its culture, right?

My mom?

 
 

My mom?

Depends on what you mean by “culture.”

 
 

I had jerked beef* for dinner tonight. One of the chain restos at the nearby big box mall has lost their franchise and we went to check it out after the regime change. None of the decor has changed whatsoever. The only way you could tell it was a “different” restaurant was by looking at the slap-dash menu. And while it’s still essentially a beer joint with burgers, steak and ribs – it is much bettar than before. Example, by the time I was halfway through my jerk beef, my ears were ringing from the heat.

*Not a VPR. I is totes heterosexual.

 
 

I don’t think I have ever had jerk anything. I must look uP some recipes and remedy this right away.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

B^4, do you eat anything that’s not offal?

Yeah, I eat stinging nettles in the spring!

I take my omnivory really seriously, and I can find the “grisly bits” in the supermarket at low, low cost. Why spring for chuck “stew meat” when heart is half the price, and just as good. If I’m not comatose tomorrow (working til 8AM), I’ll make a steak-and-kidney pie.

 
 

So far (1000-1840): Four cups coffee (still tired/bored); 16 fl. oz. low acid orange juice; two strips bacon; one lb. (454 gr.) of Trader Joe’s allegedly spicy chicken wings, w/ “garlic” sauce. Nice non-greasy breading.

And two aspirin tablets.

More foodie filth:

The five most suggestive quotations from the piece:
“Inside me is a very naughty girl. I like to eat in the privacy of my own room—sticking my spoon deep into the jar of Mrs. Richardson’s caramel sauce so it sticks straight up, maybe sprinkling a little salt on it—and not telling anyone.”

“I made a caramel pie that was just about the best thing you ever put your lips around.”

“You ever walked down the street and seen a pretty girl and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’? Well, I looked at the menu and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’ ”

“My wife swallows food, like a snake.”

“I want that flavor to go right down to the bone. Down to the bone!”

Deeply disturbed & disturbing. I’ll be in my bunk. Throwing up.

 
 

I don’t think I have ever had jerk anything.

Chicken is pretty classic. If you like the spicy stuff, you are in for a treat.

 
 

Jerk chicken is pretty damned tasty.

 
 

BTW, have you guys seen this?

I am amused.

 
 

That’s pretty hardcore. It’s more of a chalk stripe than a pin stripe – which makes it even moar badass. It’s a damn shame he’s such an odious piece of filth.

 
 

Glib and uninformed? Buddy, you’re the one painting it as some sort of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys Hollywood blockbuster.

I think of it more as an Ingmar Bergman ten-hours-of-slow-talking-and-I-don’t-understand-anything blockbuster.

 
 

I think of it more as an Ingmar Bergman ten-hours-of-slow-talking-and-I-don’t-understand-anything blockbuster.

If anyone tries to talk to me about Libya I just roll my eyes and say that I got over my Kierkegaard phase like six years ago.

 
 

I got over my Kierkegaard phase like six years ago.

I’m still rereading the Critique of Pure As If.

 
 

Teh burqa on The statchew of Libertarianism story is super. And they just went for it, afterall it is on BIG ANDY’S site. Having just listened to Bluegal and Driftglass on their latest podcast, one can conclude that D is absolutely correct. These people are stupid and proud of it, and programmed to BELIEVE!!!

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

My dear bastard, i rarely make liver anymore (fucking cardiologists, what do they know?) and the few times I do I go for foie. My memory tells me that Jaques Pepin was the original source for the liver with lemon tarragon …. Yes, a quick search reveals it was from _Jaques Penin’s Table_. Aaaand … Yes, I still have the book. I will gladly transcribe the recipe but please search for it first to save me the trouble. If you can’t find it, let me know.

 
 

HOLEE SHIT !!!!
I like the food and beer parts ’round here

This is my favorite jerk recipe
http://www.kitchendaily.com/recipe/jamaican-jerk-pork-74201/

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

AK, this comment almost made me get all teary-eyed:

I heard about the Shariah march supposed to take place on Thursday. I wondered how that guy could get on a plane to come here. I worked Thursday and when I got home, I didn’t see any info on that march at all. Did it take place? Was it cancelled? I don’t know why I can’t find anything on this. I do think that anyone who is a naturalized citizen who participates in such a march should have his citizenship revoked. You have to promise to defend the Constitution and laws of the US, and if they are trying to replace it, then they should have their Citizenship revoked. Can someone tell me if the march happened or not?

Bless her heart, she’s trying to live a reality-based life deep in the heart of Wingnutistan.

 
 

Watching Jacques and Julia interact was a somewhat awkward yet beautiful thing.

 
 

#

Another Kiwi said,

March 5, 2011 at 4:38

Teh burqa on The statchew of Libertarianism story is super. And they just went for it, afterall it is on BIG ANDY’S site. Having just listened to Bluegal and Driftglass on their latest podcast, one can conclude that D is absolutely correct. These people are stupid and proud of it, and programmed to BELIEVE!!!

Teh comments are to die for.
~

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“I don’t think I have ever had jerk anything.”

Well, you are not a PENISed person so it is not surprising. FWIW, Cooks Ill. is one of those things that I love to hate. Yeah, they teach a lot of great stuff but it’s like the Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson version of science – it’s accessible but so much of the essentialness is lost. Get Saint Julia’s The Way to Cook and you will learn much more about the HOW of cooking than one can learn in a lifetime of sops tossed out by Cooks Ill. Also, Kimballwhoeverthat guy is is a twat.

 
 

Kimballwhoeverthat guy is is a twat.

I fucking HATE that guy.

 
 

I’m going to third the kimball hate.

Harold McGee taught me a lot on food and cooking.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“Watching Jacques and Julia interact was a somewhat awkward yet beautiful thing.”

The book Jacques and Julia is a very good manual for beginner cooks. I never refer to it but it holds a position of pride on my kitchen bookshelf. I can’t imagine that too many people have a copy autographed by both Julia And Jacques. Their autographs came a couple years apart. I am such a clever boy!

 
 

I’ve always liked The Victory Garden Cookbook…I also like The Joy of Cooking, although I think the baking part is the strongest and I don’t really do that anymore, so…

 
 

No idea who “Kimball” is, but I’ll hate him if everyone else does.

Fucking douche. He really should die in a fire.

 
 

maybe not quite diaf hate but I’d sure like to see that bow tie burn

 
 

That would be funny. Don Knotts-looking motherfucker.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

The bow tie would be best crammed into his creepy maw. I will go out on a limb here and venture that I am not the only one who would nominate Kimball for Most Likely to be the next Jeffery Dahmer.

 
 

Bow tie? Okay, I hate him too.
Unless it’s an IRONIC bow tie…..
Then I REALLY hate him.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Jerk chicken is pretty damned tasty.

As kg noted, Jerk Pork is even better.

Oh, fuck, I just learned that this place closed.

Now I want to break some shit.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

JR, you got any Youtube videos? I would like to include your band in my annual run-up to the solemn Feast of St. Patrick.

 
 

Now I want to break some shit.

Breaking shit is fun.

 
 

What is this you-tube of which you speak?

Actually this would be a really good idea. I’ve got all this footage that I’ve
never got around to doing anything with and with the wife’s new computin’
machine I could pretty much edit it by myself. My online presence other than the website is practically nil.

 
 

What is this you-tube of which you speak?

It’s for the olds who haven’t yet discovered you-chip.

 
 

Breaking shit is fun.

Stay away from that damn bicycle.

 
 

Often appears as “You Tub” in my browser tabs.

Not as good as “The Ass”(ociated Press), of course

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Actually this would be a really good idea. I’ve got all this footage that I’ve
never got around to doing anything with and with the wife’s new computin’
machine I could pretty much edit it by myself. My online presence other than the website is practically nil.

Make it happen, and while you’re at it, drag Chris and Fenwick into the blogosphere- those boys are past due.

 
 

Stay away from that damn bicycle.

Let me re-phrase that. “Breaking shit that is not attached to my body or valuable to me in any other way is fun.”

I’ve decided to trade in Francine, btw, and get something that doesn’t weigh FIFTY FUCKING POUNDS.

 
 

I really don’t like liver. My neighbor grills it like steak and stinks up the whole block. It’s so bad we have to leave the house. We’re thinking about a petition.

 
 

Liver? I don’t even know her!

Ahahahahahaha! I slay me!

 
 

Finally going for the fixie, huh?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I’ve decided to trade in Francine, btw, and get something that doesn’t weigh FIFTY FUCKING POUNDS.

How the hell old was Francine?

 
 

Girls who name their cars & bicycles are CUTE!!

 
 

How the hell old was Francine?

Not totally sure. Probably early 70s. Steel frame, steel fenders. She was in perfect shape when I got her. It’s a pretty bike, but a vintage cruiser isn’t the best street bike evar. I had a hard time loading her on the bus bike rack.

I also have a big-ass metal basket on it, which doesn’t help.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

It’s a pretty bike, but a vintage cruiser isn’t the best street bike evar.

Yeah, get something you can pick up and carry over your shoulder in case you break down in the middle of a sixty-mile fundraising ride.

 
 

Girls who name their cars & bicycles are CUTE!!

*bats eyelashes* Who, me?

My current car (a little black Ford Focus hatchback) is named Cricket.

 
 

in case you break down in the middle of a sixty-mile fundraising ride.

You’re a funny guy.

I want to get a ladies’ bike, but unless I want to plunk down a lot of money for a custom one, that is not going to happen.

 
 

Es tarde! Buenas noches, que duerman con los angelitos buenos.

 
 

B^4, your post the other day about traffic lights in Manhattan brought me back a few years……..I used to be really good at that. Coming home from the Bronx at 3 or 4
in the morning when there’s not as much traffic, you can indeed time the lights going down 2nd Avenue and make it all the way from 128th St, where you get off the bridge, clear down to Houston St., although I only managed that a couple of times. It gets much harder once you get south of 14th Street, where there’s more
late night traffic.

Now, for extra points, try it on a bicycle! Start at the top of the hill at 88th and see if you can make the light at 72nd. Or, better yet, start at 40th and Madison and try to make 57th, riding down the white stripe that divides the bus lanes from the regular traffic. I never made it past 55th. Fun though!
Christ…………..I musta been nuts.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Christ…………..I musta been nuts.

Especially since you could have ridden on the East River Esplanade.

I used to cycle-commute from Yonkers to Tarrytown three or four days a week during Daylight Savings Time. It was great, I think it pissed the boss off, and I didn’t have to get my ass home in a hurry so I could work in a bike ride. There are really good paths along the Bronx River and Saw Mill River parkways (the SMR path is along the old Putnam freight line, and you can ride all the way to Putnam County).

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Buenas noches, que duerman con los angelitos buenos.

O las mujeres malas!

 
 

Leaving my response here because I suspect it may be an endangered species over at Cornfed HQ:

Pretty sure the Secret Service would be shocked to know how “post-racist” America is now, given that they’ve never had a POTUS who’s faced even half the serious death-threats that Obama does every day.

“Non-falsifiable belief system” is a redundancy … & socialists who bail out banks & kill a public option for Health Insurance – let alone a single-payer public system – get to have their Red Star Klub Kard revoked. If Obama is a socialist then so is Mitt Romney.

PROTIP: stop seeking the socialism you want to see (because you will find “evidence” for ANYTHING you want to find) & actually just look at what Obama DOES – he’s well to the right of Reagan (who RAISED taxes seven times, pulled the Marines out of Beirut after a single attack, & passed a law against torture – while Obama ignored the many calls for nationalization so he could bail out the big banks Reagan would’ve likely left to fail, cut taxes, ramped up AfPak, & gave the Bush torture crew a free pass).

“Actually, Mr. Obama hasn’t worked with the GOP to do much of anything” because either (A) the GOP steadfastly refuses to support ANY move he makes, right down to mundane appointments, or (B) he’s been so eager to co-opt GOP policies wholesale that they don’t need to lift a finger. Patriot Act? RomneyCare? TARP? Offshore drilling? Increasing a Pentagon budget that’s already hypertrophied beyond any sane rationale?

Too bad he’s already nationalized everything, proclaimed martial law, taken away all your guns & put conservatives into his infamous FEMA death-camps, just as so many brave voices on the right warned in 2008.
Posted by jim at March 5, 2011 12:02 AM

Now I have to go to work back under my bridge. Cheers!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Jamesy, that was fuckin’ beautiful, and posting it after cornfed is all tucked in, wearing his “Dukes of Hazzard” footie pajamas is a great bit of strategery.

 
 

I believe jim’s Cornfed comment is in the dictionary to illustrate the phrase “Pearls before swine.”

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Yeah, but it’s still nice to see the comment up there, and to know that it’ll be a few hours before the TiDoS bowl man gets around to deleting it.

 
 

This is why the present day blogger needs minions.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

MB, are you starting a cult?

 
 

No, no, we’re staying w/ the “loner w/ problems” schtick.

 
 

But if you could outsource overnight comment “moderating” to India or NZ, say, you’d be safe from trolls 24/7.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

But if you could outsource overnight comment “moderating” to India or NZ, say, you’d be safe from trolls 24/7.

I can’t see cornfed trusting any “furriners”.

 
 

I have lost the “nice nature” to just listen. That, and I type four words a minute. But, nevertheless, (did I do my commas right?) I am part of the movement to tell stupid people to shut the fuck up. (should that have been in quotations?) Is there a teacher in the house?

 
 

Note to the kids: Lawnguylander finds that I’m squatting on the comments over here (and apparently elsewhere). This irritated me so much — I’ve had it to the gills with snide twats — I’m going to fuck off for a while. Don’t want to drown out the convo or nothin. Apologies if I created a din.

This by way of dispelling any exaggerated rumors of my death in advance.

As you were, privates.*

 
 

I don’t think I have ever had jerk anything.

A pregnant virgin.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I have lost the “nice nature” to just listen. That, and I type four words a minute. But, nevertheless, (did I do my commas right?) I am part of the movement to tell stupid people to shut the fuck up.

Four words a minute, but how many punches can you throw in the same minute, my love? Rather than telling them to shut the fuck up, why not just stick your foot in their mouths?

This by way of dispelling any exaggerated rumors of my death in advance.

Will you be liveblogging your return as a zombie?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Uh, anybody here?

If nobody’s around, I’m-a take off my clothes and streak through the thread.

 
 

FWIW, Cooks Ill. is one of those things that I love to hate.

I haven’t actually tried their recipes, but they’re a good go-to magazine for product reviews– kind of the Consumer Reports of kitchen gadgets/appliances.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I located the Pepin lemon-tarragon sauce recipe:

Tarragon-Lemon Sauce:
1/2 cup coarsely chopped red onion
2 scallions, trimmed and finely minced (1/4 cup
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon drained capers
2 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon

For The Tarragon-Lemon Sauce: Add the onion and scallions to the drippings in the skillet(s). SautÈ for about 20 seconds, then add the lemon juice, and stir until all the solidified juices have melted. If you are using two skillets, at this point, combine their contents in one, and boil the mixture for another 20 seconds, until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add the water, the capers, and the tarragon, mix well, and bring to a boil.

 
 

From the files of “Who Woulda Thunk It”
http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/58759/radio-daze/

But what exactly was the work? The question popped up during the audition and was explained, the actor said, clearly and simply: If he passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.

“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”

Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

$40/hour? Guarantee of at least one hour a day? Sheesh!

 
 

If I die, I want all of you to know that Jesus loves you.

There’s a whole squad of folks on Bourbon Street tonight that are insistent that, in fact, no, Jesus does not love me. However, there’s a whole helluva lot more folks on Bourbon being loud and drunken and raising hell, and those are my people, anyway.

 
 

Donald Douglas and SEK, the love that dare not speak its name.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/03/this-isnt-the-least-bit-disturbing

 
 

Matt, keep yourself safe from all the drunken goobers & liquored tourist ninnies.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

There’s a whole squad of folks on Bourbon Street tonight that are insistent that, in fact, no, Jesus does not love me.

Well, Jesus loves those who love themselves.

Donald Douglas and SEK, the love that dare not speak its name.

It’s a shame he didn’t drop by here last thread.

 
 

Well, Jesus loves those who love themselves.

This is true.

Also, “Love your neighbor as your self.”

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Also, “Love your neighbor as your self.”

But not, alas, in front of a playground.

 
 

But not, alas, in front of a playground.

This is very good advice.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

P.Z. took Bobo to the Applebee’s salad bar to the woodshed.

 
 

But not, alas, in front of a playground.

Well, that depends now if it’s a school night or not.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Well, that depends now if it’s a school night or not.

Why is that van always parked outside the A212 School for Wayward Girls?

How you holding up, old chum?

 
 

Hey, now, I have birth certificates on those seniors!

Work sucks, especially since they classified S,N! as a forum or message board. I was wondering when they’d find the loophole for this place.

On the upside, the stress of the daily nagging call from my mom has mysteriously disappeared.

Think they’ll notice that the wire to the iron lung was cut, not frayed?

How you doing, buddy?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

How you doing, buddy?

Been a rough week, I’m on the tail end of a 16-hour endurance tour, with a possibility that I may have to be back this afternoon. I brought up the reason in the poorly-received “Steve Jobs” thread… like I said, rough week.

 
 

I’ll have to scroll thru that and bite back the urge to leap into the fray.

Sucks to work, right?

 
 

Found it, man. My condolences. I take it he was close. I’m sad to hear this.

 
Oregon Beer Snob
 

OT: I’m currently sitting at PDX waiting for a plane to DC. I’ll have lots of free time on my hands before two frantic days of meetings with a gubmit agency later in the week. Which is the long way of saying — can anybody from the area recommend a spot with good beer? Preferably in the Penn Quarter area…?

kthx.

 
 

Isn’t Capitol City Brewing Co. in the Penn Quarter? I know it’s on NY Ave, NW….

 
Oregon Beer Snob
 

Thanks actor — I just looked it up, it’s over by Penn Station, not too far from my hotel.

 
 

P.Z. took Bobo to the woodshed.

Christ, I didn’t think anything could be worse than I Am Charlotte Simmons. Moving up the revolution, indeed.

 
 

Hey, actor, good to see you. My condolences etc.
I usually only lurk here because these commenters scare me.

 
 

Every Friday at 12:00 during tornado season!

Pish posh on your “during tornado season”, T&U. As Jennifer can attest, every Wednesday at noon. EVERY Wednesday.

 
 

And Jennifer already attested to that yesterday.

That’s what I get for not reading the whole thread first.

 
bughunter, now with adrenaline withdrawal!
 

Sadly, No! after dark
Reminds me of an account related by my nephew, who served as a jarhead at Camp Baharia in Iraq. Mon, Wed and Fri nights were “family nights,” in which XXX DVDs were played in the TV lounge after its official close.

Rules: Bring your own lube, towel, and a large blanket, and choose one of the overstuffed chairs. Get there early before the doors lock. No sharing. Stay under the blanket. Eyes forward.

I didn’t ask him how the room smelled.

 
 

Note to the kids: Lawnguylander finds that I’m squatting on the comments over here (and apparently elsewhere). This irritated me so much — I’ve had it to the gills with snide twats — I’m going to fuck off for a while. Don’t want to drown out the convo or nothin. Apologies if I created a din.

He gets cranky. I’m sure he has a response to my post on the other thread, but I can’t be arsed.

I like your comments. Aside from the ones about my gigantic, hairy hands.

 
 

I didn’t ask him how the room smelled.

Probably a lot like DKW’s mom’s booth.

 
Lucy The Wonder Dog
 

I am going to ask that you put a double lock on the hatch to get out of the boat. I accidentally fell out and now I have to go take another shower!

 
 

There’s a whole squad of folks on Bourbon Street tonight that are insistent that, in fact, no, Jesus does not love me.

Saw a bumper sticker once that read “Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.”

 
 

Awesome.

Since I am a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I biddy biddy bum.
Because I am wealthy man.
I shouldn’t have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
Because I’m a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen,
Right in the middle of nowhere.
If moochers ever try to take a cent from me.
There would be one long staircase just going up,
And one even longer coming down,
And a shitter that needs no cleaning, just for show.

 
 

Well, you are not a PENISed person so it is not surprising. FWIW, Cooks Ill. is one of those things that I love to hate. Yeah, they teach a lot of great stuff but it’s like the Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson version of science – it’s accessible but so much of the essentialness is lost. Get Saint Julia’s The Way to Cook and you will learn much more about the HOW of cooking than one can learn in a lifetime of sops tossed out by Cooks Ill. Also, Kimballwhoeverthat guy is is a twat.

Aww, I like Christopher Kimball. He’s just a prissy food snob, but for some reason he’s more endearing than insufferable, to me at least.

I guess we get different things from CI. I can see where someone might mistake its scientific approach to cooking as joyless, but what I see in their desire to get things just right and pass on handy techniques to others is a deep and abiding passion for great food. And here’s the thing: if I’m making something like chicken pot pie– which can be a bit of an undertaking–I’d like for it to be edible. Delicious even. And their anal-retentive instruction ensures that it will be. I also think that any time you can bring what I see as one of the great joys of being human–enjoying food–to as many people as possible, you are doing the world a great service.

Same goes for deGrasse Tyson. Aside from his being just incredibly bright and charming and likable, I’m all for making science accessible and enjoying to as broad a range of people as possible. I think that’s a GREAT thing.

 
 

That should be “SUCH a prissy food snob.”

BTW, I’m making pasta tonight with an arugula-walnut pesto. I got one of those big old cartons of it and I don’t want it to go to waste so I’m putting it in the wood chipper food processor tonight.

 
 

BTW, I have decided I’m officially against skinny jeans. I think they look awful on everyone. Men, women, skinny, fat, short, tall. YOU LOOK AWFUL IN THEM.

I tried to make peace with them last summer, but I never really felt like they were “me.” And I ended up falling in love with cropped French cuff jeans.

 
 

And I ended up falling in love with cropped French cuff jeans.

I doubt that the dude will be any better at dancing in those gold stilettos.

 
 

Ha! Still, he’d prolly look better.

 
 

they’re actually pretty good if you fry ‘em crispy in bacon grease.

um, what isn’t????

 
 

BTW, I have decided I’m officially against skinny jeans. I think they look awful on everyone.

Yeah, they can DIAF. I think skinny girls can pull them off if they’re doing a gamine-type look, but most people look like shit in them. Especially people like me. And Jesus Christ, don’t get me started on JEGGINGS.

Formal shorts can DIAF, too. I still refuse to wear shorts, even if it’s now acceptable to wear tights under them.

Wide-legged pants are coming back, though. I’m looking for some like these, but not as expensive and not from Anthropologie.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

I missed that, B^4. My mother’s death was painful for me but she _was_ ninety fucking three. A 12 year old, that’s a tragedy.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

they’re actually pretty good if you fry ‘em crispy in bacon grease.

um, what isn’t????

French cuff jeans.

 
 

This is where a food pedant comes in and says, well actually if you marinate French cuff jeans in huckleberry vinaigrette and season with fennel pollen and viking smoked sea salt, they aren’t too bad.

 
 

BTW, I have decided I’m officially against skinny jeans. I think they look awful on everyone. Men, women, skinny, fat, short, tall. YOU LOOK AWFUL IN THEM.

I tried to make peace with them last summer, but I never really felt like they were “me.” And I ended up falling in love with cropped French cuff jeans.
so totally agree! and i love, love, love cropped french cuffs! and, omg, never this

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Needs MOAR arugula.

(autocorrect suggested “stubble”)

 
 

Wide-legged pants are coming back, though. I’m looking for some like these, but not as expensive and not from Anthropologie.

good news…this is pretty much how i roll when it comes to my dress up job…

 
 

also, i DID have the intestinal fortitude to google ‘obama halos…’ wtf? all you get is some stories about 3 pictures of obama and ONE OF DUBYA with a halo effect because of some weird camera angle…

now that i re-read that ZOMFG!!! i have to go vomit now…that IS pretty damning evidence that people DO worship the evil obama!!!

 
 

(autocorrect suggested “stubble”)

heh…i originally read this as ‘autoerotic’

 
 

oh, really?!?! i finally have to chance to stop by and everybody fucking leaves?!?!?

 
 

*sobs*

 
 

seriously…i do not want to have to vacuum up the eight pounds of dog hair that have accumulated on my carpet throughout the week, but you are leaving me no choice!

 
 

Well, Jesus loves those who love themselves.

This is true.

Also, “Love your neighbor as your self.”

I need new neighbors.

 
 

Same goes for deGrasse Tyson. Aside from his being just incredibly bright and charming and likable, I’m all for making science accessible and enjoying to as broad a range of people as possible. I think that’s a GREAT thing.

Absolutely true and we need more like him. The rampant anti-science ideology that has infected so many Americans needs to be cured and scientists need to do a better job of communication in order to do this.

 
 

Geez, it’s been a rough time for some Sadlynaughts. Condolences guys.

 
 

On the topic of changing the subject, something random.

 
 

On the topic of changing the subject, something random.

oh, that was awesome…

 
 

I usually only lurk here because these commenters scare me.

*filing teeth*

Why’s that?

 
 

Geez, it’s been a rough time for some Sadlynaughts. Condolences guys.

It’s OK. Your mom was there for us.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Hi bbkf! You know, you could probably gather up that eight pounds of dog hair, spin it into yarn, then weave it into a very fine pair of wide-legged trousers. Oh, wait. Then you’d probably have all sorts of dogs sniffing you and peeing on you. Still, gathering and storing the dog hair would be useful in case of an oil spill in your front yard. I am not being helpful, am I?

BTW, I finally got it that Lawn-guy and Spengler were using live ammo. Whenever stuff like happens, I generally find an elsewhere to be. Simple country spinster, etc.

 
 

Whenever stuff like happens, I generally find an elsewhere to be.

Ditto, though I expect to be notified for the make-up sex.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

PENIS. HAHAHAHAHAHA

 
 

I was thinking that with eight pounds of dog hair you could just make yourself another dog. It wouldn’t be as much fun as your old dog, but it’d give him something to think about.

 
 

heh, larkspur…over the winter i have sometimes contemplated stuffing pillows…but i do like the idea of homespun wide legged trousers…i could probably even get a good french cuff on them.

i have no idea how my dogs even have any hair left on them…sigh…

 
 

ut it’d give him something to think about.

actually, lucy has new babies to think about…not real ones, tho…one is a zhu zhu pet and the other is a snowman squeak toy…she is convinced they are her babies and she is totally neurotic…

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Oh dear lord, I love dogs. And cats. I love love love them, even when they make messes or fart or don’t poop on a long walk, then poop as soon as you get home. I hate ticks, and don’t love picking them off critters, but I love that the critters let me do it, and count on me to do it. Dogs and cats are so wonderfully innocent, even when they are plotting to overthrow humankind. ‘Cause, like, they believe they can.

Also, that P.Z. Meyers review of David Brooks’s attempt to destroy fiction is great.

 
 

Re: Christian Dating Site

I’m relieved that it is 110% totes heterosexual, but surprised that they have a “woman seeking man” option. Shouldn’t it be, “woman waiting meekly for a man to pay her father the bride-price”? I mean, since we’re being all Biblical.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

“zhu zhu pet” – I do not know what this is exactly, but I read it as a zhuzh pet, and that made me recollect the phenomenon of “zhuzhing” from “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy”, and that reminded me that I kind of adored those guys.

 
 

It is Ok for Obama to play the race card, as he is halfbreed and hence gains all bonuses but suffers no penalties of the race card

He has all of our strengths but none of our weaknesses. Some call him ‘The Daywalker’.

 
 

PENIS. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Now I understand. He was cursed with an organ too small to please woman or man, so he made it his life’s work to ban abortion and scream at pride parades. It’s almost Shakespearean, no homo hero.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Pedestrian, an older friend of mine, who has long since passed, had a daughter who, while in her 20s, decided that being a fundamentalist Christian was the exact perfect lifestyle for her, her husband, and their kids. This young woman was smart and strong-willed, and determined to make her Christianistic, traditional family work. That meant she had to use her husband like a puppet, because he was neither strong-willed not in any way ambitious. But he was the man of the house, and he wore the pants in the family, and OMG, she made him make all the right decisions, and have all the right opinions. It was so insane, because clearly she was the dominant one. He’d have been fine staying home with the children while she conquered the suburbs or whatever, but no no no. What a lot of wasted energy. Also, the kids turned out illiterate. Yes, I know not all or even most home-schooled kids do, but this happens to be a fact, and one which cause the grandparents much sadness.

So I guess looking for a husband would, in the end, amount to locating a suitable man, and then enlisting the community or its proxies to make that man be manly and vie for her hand in marriage.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

“Ditto, though I expect to be notified for the make-up sex.” Tigris, this is simply beautiful.

 
 

I do not know what this is exactly

they are these little hamster things that make goofy noises and can move around…they are apparently as crack-cocainish to munchkins as beanie babies used to be. we got one for the daughter for christmas, and the dog pretty much nabbed it…

 
 

zhu zhu toy

Much better than zsa zsa toys, which throw

and have bitter divorces.

 
 

Damn you preview!

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

And no legs, after a while. God I hate myself.

 
 

And no legs

this was also my first thought…but i am comfortable with my terribleness…

 
 

P.Z. took Bobo to the Applebee’s salad bar to the woodshed.

PZ Myers excerpts a passage, beginning with this revealing sentence:
As the scientist went on to talk about the rush he got from riding his motorcycle in the mountains, Harold was gripped by the thought that, during his lifetime, the competition to succeed—to get into the right schools and land the right jobs—had grown stiffer.

Evidently Harold is one of those tossers who ignores whatever the other person is saying, losing the chance to be stimulated by the other person’s experiences and ideas and perspective, because he is preoccupied with his own solipsistic, self-involved trains of thought.

I suppose Brooks was advised to write about what he knows.

 
 

Wide-legged pants are coming back, though. I’m looking for some like these, but not as expensive and not from Anthropologie.

Join the British navy, in the nineteenth century.

 
 

“kiki said,
March 5, 2011 at 21:18

It is Ok for Obama to play the race card, as he is halfbreed and hence gains all bonuses but suffers no penalties of the race card

He has all of our strengths but none of our weaknesses. Some call him ‘The Daywalker’.”

I guffawed….LOUDLY.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

The “gripped” and the “stiffer” part are typically Bobo-esque inelegantisms. He has a tin ear. But he prides himself on his mellifluous erudition. It’s okay, I can say this ’cause I didn’t get in to any of the right schools or jobs, so no criticism can hurt me. I don’t matter, see.

 
 

Somewhere a fetus grumbles and pulls the covers over his head.

 
 

“i do not want to have to vacuum up the eight pounds of dog hair that have accumulated”

Uuuuuuummmmm, what have yOu been doing at my house?

 
 

I suppose Brooks was advised to write about what he knows.

I love that he slapped “Chicana-Asian” on his hawt leading lady, but otherwise wrote her as your standard-model Megan McArdle. I understand that there are non-white upper-middle-class women who do a pretty good job at unexamined privilege, but race is still going to come on occasion. Ooh I’ll bet she hates affirmative action too.

 
 

“Somewhere a fetus grumbles and pulls the covers over his head.”

Well, I just eated a muffin, so right now he’s in “Attica, attica!” mode. He always gets kicky after fewd.

 
 

Uuuuuuummmmm, what have yOu been doing at my house?

well, i have to put all this displaced dog hair SOMEplace! would you care to join me in a new business venture whereby we make pillows for dogs made out of dog hair? i think it would be a hit…

 
 

I love that he slapped “Chicana-Asian”

I lived on the Upper West Side during the Chino-Latino food craze of the late 80s.

 
 

bobo’s line about the family’s favorite gelato shop cracked me up for no odd reason (as my daughter would say)

 
 

Where’s the bobo link?

 
 

As the scientist went on to talk about the rush he got from riding… Harold was gripped … and … had grown stiffer.

Tee hee!

 
 

Here’s a fresh one.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

BBBB at 11:49.

PZ Meyers on Brooks

 
 

bobo’s line about the family’s favorite gelato shop cracked me up for no odd reason (as my daughter would say)

Wasn’t that weird? As if the whole of history led up to his triumphantly choosing to purchase a fucking berry-flavored ice cream. Jesus.

 
 

Harold was gripped … and … had grown stiffer.

“Writing about What you Know” Part II.

 
 

Thanks very much, pedestrian. Wow. All that to get to cloudberry. Bless that dude’s heart for having to read the whole book.

And now for something completely different (and hilarious): Scott “Hope An Anvil Falls on Him and He Gets Raped by a Capybara” Walker can’t get his Twitter account verified. LULZ.

 
 

Surprise 12-hour graveyard shift! W000000T.

Please don’t let it happen again toinght … going home in broad daylight is a mite too trippy, plus I hear the villagers are stocking up on garlic & wooden stakes.

we’re staying w/ the “loner w/ problems” schtick

SOLIDARITY SIMILARITY!

I usually only lurk here because these commenters scare me.

I may be kind of chompy, but I’ve had my shots, honest!

This thread is so sweet, I wish I could marry it & raise a flebble glerble plubble flump ploont. Blart?

*forehead crashes into keyboard, dislodging toothpicks from underneath eyelids & terminating comment*

 
 

Some awesome comments from the Wonkette link:

Shouldn’t that sign read: “My Ass is Open for Business?”

Teabaggers haven’t figured out Twitter yet. They’re still too busy forwarding their birther email screeds in pure, unadulterated COMIC SANS, baby!

He does,however, have plenty of accounts verified on child porn sites.

Say what you like about Walker, but at least we now know where the Asshole of Wisconsin is.

 
 

I guess we get different things from CI. I can see where someone might mistake its scientific approach to cooking as joyless, but what I see in their desire to get things just right and pass on handy techniques to others is a deep and abiding passion for great food. And here’s the thing: if I’m making something like chicken pot pie– which can be a bit of an undertaking–I’d like for it to be edible. Delicious even. And their anal-retentive instruction ensures that it will be. I also think that any time you can bring what I see as one of the great joys of being human–enjoying food–to as many people as possible, you are doing the world a great service.

Same goes for deGrasse Tyson. Aside from his being just incredibly bright and charming and likable, I’m all for making science accessible and enjoying to as broad a range of people as possible. I think that’s a GREAT thing.

I probably didn’t need to quote this much, but I couldn’t think of a bit of it to leave out since I agree with all of it.

Oh, and Pupenius: what is your opinion (if any) on science-oriented cooks like Alton Brown or Shirley Corriher (who, BTW, has an awesome Reuben loaf recipe in her book Cookwise)?

 
 

A www, thanks, Anonymous.

And “enjoying” should be “enjoyable.” *facepalm*

 
Shell Goddamnit
 

I’m too broken to prettify the link, but note the Derb acknowledges PZed’s poison pen on that thread:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/salon_made_me_read_david_brook.php#comment-3424763

Also, wide legs are fine but those high waists can fuck right off. Never Again will I willingly cut myself in half whenever I sit or bend.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

I have programmed my television such that it does not tune to a channel if Alton Brown is on. Anal retentive, juvenile, schtick makes me want to throw objects and it’s a quite large plasma TV that I would like to keep functional. If I could watch edited versions of his show that included only the 18 seconds of admittedly great info but without the incredibly annoying other 99% I would do so.

Surely who? Nebber hoid uvver.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Shirley Corriher: Members of the genus brassica (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, kale, mustard, rutabagas, collards, turnips, etc.) become stronger and more unpleasant the longer you cook them.

Can’t trust anyone who says Brussel sprouts get “more unpleasant.”

HERESY!

 
 

Can’t trust anyone who says Brussel sprouts get “more unpleasant.”

This site has really turned me on to Brussels sprouts and I deeply appreciate it. I know, some people have a mutation or deformity or something that keeps them from appreciating how delicious they are. Has anyone started a charity or a scholarship or awareness day for you people? I would gladly wear a chartreuse ribbon for you.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Apparently The Fucksaw has no appropriate pedagogical application.

http://www.nowingaychicago.com/2011/03/controversial-nu-sex-researcher-back-in.html

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

PENIS. And such as.

 
 

I like Alton’s show – it’s kitschy and cheesy and science-y in the right proportions for me. Although his recent change towards healthy eating doesn’t connect with me so well.

His cookbook is a definite recommend. It’s a cookbook, not a recipe book. Chapters are broken down not by course or meat, but by cooking technique. Recipes are more like examples of how to use the techniques – which he describes quite well.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“This site has really turned me on to Brussels sprouts and I deeply appreciate it. ”

You did your best to return the favor. I doubt anyone would thank you or S,N! for getting turned on to buttseks. And that’s a damn shame.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

DK-W, Saint Julia did it (probably more thoroughly and, i suspect better) twenty years ago with The Way to Cook. Go read the amazon reviews. I was a pretty fair cook already when it came out – that book changed my life.

 
 

Apparently The Fucksaw has no appropriate pedagogical application.

His 2003 book “The Man Who Would be Queen” angered many in the transgender community as it asserted a theory that transsexualism was either an extreme manifestation of homosexuality or autogynephelia, arousal by the thought of oneself as a woman. The book did not contain footnotes, references or a bibliography.

Oh yeah. THAT guy.

“My argument here is in no way anti-homosexual but rather pro-parental liberty”

Oh, I don’t oppose the rights of women, I support the rights of the unborn!
I’m not anti-black, I’m pro-state’s rights!
Choke on a fucksaw and die.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Meanwhile, the god of the gaps gets smaller and smaller.

http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

Far. Fucking. Out. (As we oldsters used to say)

 
 

I’m Just Here For The Food is a different kind of book. It’s a more sceince and engineering approach to the kitchen and while he does describe technique, there’s a definite implication that you can come up with your own – based on the scientific principles described.

I’m not saying that it’s as good The Way to Cook – it’s different. Maybe less comprehensive, less detailed, less about ingredients. It’s a different approach. Example – Alton’s book has 90 recipes in 324 pages. Those recipes average somewherre around a page in length.

It’s kinda like a science textbook, but for cooking.

 
 

It’s kinda like a science textbook, but for cooking.

On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee is another remarkable book in that vein. 900 pages and no recipes at all, but he does an amazing job of breaking down the science of cooking for a lay audience. It will make you damn near insufferable to have in the kitchen.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“It will make you damn near insufferable to have in the kitchen.”

It will ruin my sex life, how?

 
 

The McGee is new to me. I’m going to do a bit of digging into it.

 
 

This site has really turned me on to Brussels sprouts and I deeply appreciate it.

NO WAY! Really? Yay! I’m sure your digestive system appreciates it, too.

 
 

It will ruin my sex life, how?

Oh, it’s great for your sex life. What man can resist a tale of proteins uncoiling or electric charges breaking down the permeability of lipid walls?

 
 

Apparently The Fucksaw has no appropriate pedagogical application.

Okay, um……

Sorry, I was distracted by an ad for a second.

Anyway, I am decidedly “pro-sex” (I hate this term, but there’s not really a better one that I can come up with off the top of my head) and I think there is value in all sorts of shit that more conservative people might not see, including (but not limited to) pr0n. (As long as students are aware that it’s going to be shown in class and it’s used as a springboard for discussion, not something, you know, fucking creepy).

I also think discussions of BDSM and other non-normative sexual practices are appropriate in context.

But godDAMN, there is something deeply, deeply creepy about the live demonstration of a “fucksaw” (by a fairly young woman and a substantially older man, incidentally) in front of a group of students, whether the students’ participation was voluntary or not.

I wasn’t aware of d00d’s past anti-trans, anti-gay behavior, but I think it’s appropriate here to say that this guy is a creepy piece of shit and has probably carried out inappropriate and exploitive relationships with students before.

I’m not even going to get into the disturbing subtext of using a reciprocating saw as a sex toy; the fact that he referred to it as a “fucksaw” as opposed to something else that at least erased its origin in some way is pretty fucking telling.

Yuck. Now I need a shower.

 
 

I like Alton Brown, although I was kinda meh about his show the last time I saw it (I think the older stuff is better).

Apparently his meat advisor (heh) isn’t very good, though.

 
 

Brussels sprouts

Fucking mutant miniature cabbages.

 
 

Brussels sprouts

Fucking mutant miniature cabbages. They are the Windows ME of vegetables.

 
 

PROTIP: If you are just getting over a tummy bug, don’t eat 2/3s of a bag of dark chocolate Cadbury Mini Eggs. You *will* wish you were never born.

 
 

I note the whole bag has not been ruled out.

 
 

I’ll probably eat the rest of it later.

 
 

The last 1/3 settles the first 2/3.

 
 

That’s my thought, too.

 
 

The last 1/3 settles the first 2/3.

And dump a bag of Jordan Almonds on top.

Then you’re all good.

 
 

Sounds like an excuse for perverts to imagine Girl Scouts in sexual scenarios. There’s just no way in hell thats real.

 
 

There’s just no way in hell thats real.

I just bought, like, 23 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. For each ten boxes you get a dozen condoms and a bottle of Astroglide.

Marketing.

 
 

Sounds like an excuse for perverts to imagine Girl Scouts in sexual scenarios. There’s just no way in hell thats real.

Yeah. So far, I’ve seen from their own bullshit that this supposedly happened in 2010, which makes me doubly suspicious because GOD KNOWS conservatives like to have things to shit their pants about.

I think they’re trying to get the Mormon church to take over the Girl Scouts like they did the Boy Scouts. The thing is, the Girl Scouts have always had a more social justice-oriented bent because they represent a group of people who tend to be oppressed worldwide.

 
 

I’m trying to find a list of sessions from that year.

At MOST, I’ll bet that shit was at a back table during a session. It’s actually not inappropriate for older girls; I think people tend to forget that there are girls in high school who are still in the Girl Scouts.

 
 

I think they’re trying to get the Mormon church to take over the Girl Scouts like they did the Boy Scouts.

Yeah, the Mormons won the bidding war with the Vatican.

Phew.

 
 

I did not know the Mormon church was involved with the Boy Scouts! Damn…creepy.

Looch–heh.

 
 

VS–Yeah, it’s bad. It wasn’t that way before, but it’s becoming increasingly conservative. I’d avoid putting Dudeskull in Boy Scouts if you were considering it. Campfire Kids is fucking awesome, though, and *gasp* not sex-segregated!

 
 

There’s just no way in hell thats real.

Definitely not. The real brochure describes the joys of selling yourself to the Arab slave market, and details the sexual techniques that sheiks like best from their harem girls.

 
 

I mean, forgive me for being skeptical, but the nutters have proven time and time again that if they can’t find dirt on a person or organization they will just straight-up make stuff up.

 
 

The real brochure describes the joys of selling yourself to the Arab slave market, and details the sexual techniques that sheiks like best from their harem girls.

Hahahahaha!

They probably had a live demo of the fucksaw on that panel, too.

 
 

It’s funny you should bring up Boy Scouts…hubby was discussing them today…and seems to think it’s lame.

pedatrian—so wrong, so funny.

 
 

Dude, I’m completely skeptical. I’ve already seen two differing accounts–one says it happened last week and the other says it happened last year.

They’ll bully any and all organizations into adapting to their vision of what’s “appropriate” because they know as well as we do that letting kids think is dangerous for the conservative movement.

 
 

the nutters have proven time and time again that if they can’t find dirt on a person or organization they will just straight-up make stuff up.

Right, and this involves the UN, Girl Scouts, female sexuality, and AIDS activists. It’s like when that guy claimed to have communist gay sex with Obama and smoke crack in the back of his limo.

 
 

Also, it’s fucking stupid, because that brochure is specifically targeted toward young people with HIV.

 
 

I finally broke down and googled “fucksaw.” hmmm.

Re: that professor…I consider myself a fairly sex-positive person…but hosting live sex demos at a college seems pretty damn inappropriate to me.

 
 

It’s funny you should bring up Boy Scouts…hubby was discussing them today…and seems to think it’s lame.

Making the scouts’ uniforms out of gold lamé would still leave the org as terminally uncool.

 
 

All of this shit is being reported as fact, but all I can find are wingnut sites referring to other wingnut sites. It’s like a creepy pedopheliac wingnut Mobius strip.

 
 

I call not Shenanigans on Sexy Girl Scouts, although I have no problems with Sexy Girl Scouts getting into whatever consensual Shenanigans they want.

The terror-making pamphlet? Not the same as a live fucksaw demonstration. CSW54? Had an event for sexual and reproductive rights. And as well they should – teenage girls around the world need to have access to comprehensive sex education. Also, their mothers should have access to comprehensive sex.

 
 

“They’ll bully any and all organizations into adapting to their vision of what’s “appropriate” because they know as well as we do that letting kids think is dangerous for the conservative movement.”

Yeah, and I think they’re really feeling their oats now since the ACORN travesty. I just hope that Lila Rose twat gets pwned in the end. PP is not ACORN.

 
 

creepy pedopheliac wingnut

The Department of Redundancy Department has been notified.

 
 

Had an event for sexual and reproductive rights.

Thanks. I was looking for that, but all I was finding was wingnut bullshit.

 
 

“Making the scouts’ uniforms out of gold lamé would still leave the org as terminally uncool.”

Uncool but FABULOUS!

 
 

Okay, I see that this did get a little traction last year.

Robert Stacy McCain is dredging it back up and acting as if it just happened, as are some other fuckers.

 
 

Ugh.

Too bad the administration is losing one of the preeminent scholars on and advocate of quality and access in health care.

Of course, that’s some hippie shit.

 
 

I think it’s the Republicans’ mission to make sure that anybody who is competent and passionate enough to work in government positions can’t or won’t. I hate them.

 
 

OK, I’m not familiar with Berwick. He’s controversial why?

 
 

I just saw Van Jones talkin’ on the tv machine the other day. He seems like a pretty frank and passionate advocate for middle class wOrkers…so I can understand why he had to bye-bye.

 
 

Re: that professor…I consider myself a fairly sex-positive person…but hosting live sex demos at a college seems pretty damn inappropriate to me.

As with the scouts, I would have to know all of the relevant facts. These things are notoriously easy to spin in media accounts. Still, I don’t understand the teaching value. I’m all for “how-to” classes that teach adults proper sex toy techniques and safety, but an undergraduate human sexuality course fulfills a very different role. If you are picking one thing to demonstrate, I don’t know how you do that without either shaming it or giving it normative value. And why can’t you teach the same material in a way that won’t make many people feel uncomfortable, and therefore marginalized, or even assaulted?

THE founding principle of sex-positivity is consent, and that becomes tricky when authority figures are involved. This reminds me of that American Apparel prick claiming that his workplace wasn’t a harassing environment because his young female employees “wanted” to walk around naked and have sex with him. Sure, students don’t have to take this professor’s class, and maybe they don’t have to attend the lecture – but he is using his position of power to push the boundaries and maybe pressure them to do things they don’t really want to do. Considering his past behavior, it smells pretty rotten.

 
 

OK, I’m not familiar with Berwick. He’s controversial why?

He said nice things about the NHS. Sort of. And he said “the decision is not whether or not we will ration care; the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open”.

He’s the founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which is the preeminent organization that advocates patient-centered care and safety. I know a lot of people and have worked with a lot of people who work in health care improvement (my boss is a major figure in the movement) and if I can say anything with certainty, it’s that these people are only ideological to the extent that they want to DO SHIT THAT WORKS.

You’d think a guy who thinks that patients should be the primary determiners of how their health care is administered would be something conservatives find appealing, but they are stupid fucking assholes.

 
 

BTW, that quote about rationing care was what I was trying to get at a couple of weeks ago with regard to our health care system.

 
 

I am totes amused by the idea that the people who work in healthcare improvement are rabble rousing radicals, by the way. Socialists are usually nicer to the help.

 
 

“You’d think a guy who thinks that patients should be the primary determiners of how their health care is administered would be something conservatives find appealing”

They’re always going on about being in favor of that very thing…but those are just words with no meaning.

It’s like saying you’re pro-life but cutting nutrition programs for women and infants. It’s just a couple of words with no meaning.

 
 

You’d think a guy who thinks that patients should be the primary determiners of how their health care is administered would be something conservatives find appealing, but they are stupid fucking assholes.

Yeah, sure, they are SFAs. But this, and the sex-positive stuff all fit under the simple worldview of conservatives, i.e., it’s a hierarchy, from with authority comes from above. More specifically, it’s a patriarchy, and authority comes from the white males above. All the way up to Bearded Old Dude In The Sky.

No thinking. No ambiguity. External rules and order. Follow without question.

I did not Odwin-Gay this thread.

No, I did not.

 
 

And he said “the decision is not whether or not we will ration care; the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open”.

Well, that IS political suicide. I mean, for fucks sake, how can we possibly have outlandish executive salaries, bloated overhead, blank checks to all the pharmaceutical companies, and all of the most expensive procedures in every circumstance, whether or not the patient needs them?

Right now our “rationing” is that millions don’t get care at all, while everyone else has the luxury of 40% rate hikes per annum and bankruptcy if they ever get sick. It’s either ration care or ration availability – or some mix of both. But to pretend that there are no choices to be made is just willfully ignorant.

 
 

“THE founding principle of sex-positivity is consent, and that becomes tricky when authority figures are involved.”

Yes, plus, you know time and place and all that. I have no problem at all with frank discussion…or consenting adults attending live sex demos…preferably not on a campus where TEENAGERS reside.

 
 

Sorry if I sound pearl-clutchy or Church Ladyesque at all.

 
 

Well, that IS political suicide.

Oh, yeah, I forgot that being honest and treating the American public like they’re adults is fucking verboten in this fucking country.

 
 

News flash for mom-to-be, college aged teenagers have attended live sex demos. Often as participants.

I totally agree that the professor/teacher – student relationship is loaded with all sorts of power dynamics issues. Also that group dynamics and peer pressure play a part when given the opportunity to publicly walk away from the LIVE SEX SHOW the other hundred odd folks in your class are staying for. Also, recip saw? Really? Did he put on some sort of governor or something, because those things go back and forth way too fast for that sort of thing.

 
 

I know, DK-W…but consensual sexual activity with another young person sounds a lot less skeevy to me than a college-hosted sex show.

 
 

Also, recip saw? Really?

That’s what really gets me. This wasn’t a “Oh, hey, here’s a demo on how people get off!” It was a demo of something that’s basically a subset of BDSM culture or a fetish. Which, you know, it’s fine to talk about, but the average person isn’t going to get off on that sort of thing, so I don’t really see the value in demonstrating it?

 
 

Yeah, I do agree with that. There are complications associated with what he did. Sure lots of college-aged kids that would be bored by that type of demonstration. Sure he was probably right in that the majority of the class were adults about it and took it in stride and in context.

The problem is that there may have been some who were very offended. Also, shamed into not talking about it. Note that this group overlaps signifcantly with folks who would feeled pressured to stay through the demonstration.

That’s not a small problem.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

All of this shit is being reported as fact, but all I can find are wingnut sites referring to other wingnut sites. It’s like a creepy pedopheliac wingnut Mobius strip.

Reverse Ouroboros- a snake pooping its own head out of its ass.

 
 

Maybe the extreme variance from normative was what he was getting at. Live sex shows for educational purposes (not conducted by your mom) have a tendency to be clinical, dry and boring – or so I’ve been told. So here he goes with the crazy gonzo powertool dildo thing and it comes off as sexy as,,, meh.

Sort of an attempt to get people to understand that BDSM kinks, while strange seeming, aren’t really all that bizarre.

 
 

Or maybe he’s just a skeezy old creep. That’s totally possible.

 
 

That’s not a small problem.

Yeah, as I said, I am not a prude in the least, but this would bother me. Not even that it was a live demonstration of a sex act, but because of the context. And as I said, I find the act itself disturbing and problematic, and I’m someone who is pretty unfazed by stuff like this.

 
 

Sort of an attempt to get people to understand that BDSM kinks, while strange seeming, aren’t really all that bizarre.

I think that could’ve been done in a variety of ways, you know? And without referring to something as a “fucksaw.”

I’m going with the creepy hypothesis.

I think there’s some merit in talking about BDSM for a variety of reasons, and I think that discussions of BDSM subcultures and acts can be useful. But why not just have a practitioner come in and discuss it?

I’m actually curious as to what members of the BDSM community think about it. *off to investigate the blogs*

What? IT’S FOR RESEARCH.

 
 

Okay, so it’s totally a thing and you can custom-order one, but the dude’s still fucking creepy as shit.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I think that could’ve been done in a variety of ways, you know? And without referring to something as a “fucksaw.”

I’m going with the creepy hypothesis.

Yeah, I’m not into the whole BDSM thing (got a public spanking once, which I found hilarious, much to “Mistress Bianca’s” dismay), but I imagine that people who are into it have to take it seriously. It’s kinda like shime waza– the last thing you want to do is be anywhere near somebody who doesn’t take approach it with a serious attitude and a dedication to the safety of their partner.

This guy seems to have handled it in a trivial fashion, and he didn’t give his students enough information to consent to be present for the demonstration.

 
 

Thanks, LP. (“Molly:” Substance’s legal name?)

Totally on topic, more college sex.

 
 

Okay, so it’s totally a thing and you can custom-order one

So is there some sort of fancy gearbox gizmo-doodad that changes it from high-speed/low-torque to low-speed/sexy-torque? AFAF.

 
 

I think there’s some merit in talking about BDSM for a variety of reasons, and I think that discussions of BDSM subcultures and acts can be useful. But why not just have a practitioner come in and discuss it?

Exactly. I don’t think that watching a live show would do much to help kids understand it. In fact, (in addition to the other issues) it might lend a sense of false familiarity and leave students feeling less open-minded and more repulsed. I also wouldn’t want teenagers to learn about sexuality by watching live gay sex or gender issues by watching a live sex-change operation.

Even for people who are into BDSM, it’s a process of self-discovery that takes time. It’s not something people should be plunged into if they aren’t ready. You could end up with a circus freak show, not a discussion.

 
 

So is there some sort of fancy gearbox gizmo-doodad that changes it from high-speed/low-torque to low-speed/sexy-torque? AFAF.

No. The whole point is that it’s supposed to be, um, uncomfortable.

You could end up with a circus freak show, not a discussion.

I know! Which is not only bad for accepting BDSMers in general, but I’m thinking about discussions in class alienating/shaming students who are into BDSM or are BDSM-curious.

 
 

In creepy d00ds defense – there is a huge difference between observing a live sex act in order to get some sort of voyeuristic kick out of it, and watching it as a clinical documentary type demonstration, or so I’ve been told. The students generally speaking were detached observers and weren’t plunged into anything. That’s what he meant by those students being able to handle it like adults (which they legally are).

For the hypothetical students that didn’t see it in that obective light, different story.

 
 

We did, in fact, hear murmurs from Yalies expressing suspicion that the News is drumming up and sensationalizing what was not in actuality that egregious a series of events; that, yes, some were sent to the hospital, but the stuff about sexual misdeeds was overstated by the paper.

Ok, NOT to downplay rape, but this is another great example of the weird American “OMG anything but sex!” mindset. This paper is suggesting that while many people were hospitalized with forced alcohol poisoning – which actually KILLS many people every year – that’s not so bad, because they may not have gotten naked.

 
 

pedestrian, your last post is so well-said and ICAM with every word of it.

 
 

I mean the one about the sex demonstration.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Creepy dOOd is creepy, because the whole point of the event was to make people uncomfortable. It was a gotcha thing, and you’d be damned however you reacted. Look at how we’ve had to preface our remarks here, at S,N! with qualifications about being sex-positive and un-prudey. OMG, here! Among friends and/or co-conspirators and Spengler (hey dude). Imagine being a teen or young adult in that class. Goddamn. Figuring out how to experience one’s sexuality is already fraught with weirdness. There’s no need to add this bullshit to the mix.

This whole scenario reminds me of that lame-ass ancient so-called comedian, Andrew Dice Clay. He’d be spewing out the nastiest, most hateful crap imaginable, and you’d see the audience – mostly young adults – and there’d be young women laughing and applauding. And you know what? I used to be a young woman, and I found myself in similar situations, and yep, I laughed too. Because it was not as scary as saying what I really felt, because I was a young woman and I really was that vulnerable.

So Imma go kill him, mk?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Creepy dOOd is creepy, because the whole point of the event was to make people uncomfortable. It was a gotcha thing, and you’d be damned however you reacted.

Yeah, he could have discussed this beforehand, and given those with qualms an out.

So Imma go kill him, mk?

Just warn his class beforehand.

 
 

Figuring out how to experience one’s sexuality is already fraught with weirdness.

There is nothing weird about clog dancing to a magic lantern show.

 
 

I mean the one about the sex demonstration.

Thanks! And thank you for clarifying, I wouldn’t want to get a big head in the wrong places.

 
 

This paper is suggesting that while many people were hospitalized with forced alcohol poisoning – which actually KILLS many people every year – that’s not so bad, because they may not have gotten naked.

Furthermore, all that really means in a lot of cases is that the rapes just weren’t successful.

Unless I’m overlooking another reason for forced alcohol poisoning.

 
 

Because it was not as scary as saying what I really felt, because I was a young woman and I really was that vulnerable.

Yup. Or even *knowing* what you felt.

Which I think also links back to what pedestrian said…for people who are just becoming familiar with their sexualities and exploring what their boundaries are, that’s some fucked up shit to be a part of. Young women have a hard enough time figuring out what gives them pleasure, much less *communicating* that. They don’t need this kind of shit.

 
 

He should have taken them to a live yiffing.

 
 

Okay, looked at it a bit more. Only 20% of the class attended the after-class events. Clearly if one might have had a problem with the explicit sex show, one could reasonably have avoided it without much effort. Students who did attend were repeatedly warned about the “intense” nature of the demonstration. Creepy dude’s statement seems believable. As an optimist who likes to see the best in people, I’m giving him a pass. Still don’t think it was a great idea in that there is the possibility that some students may have felt obligated to attend for any of a variety of reasons.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

He should have taken them to a live yiffing.

MONSTER!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I just want to take a moment to remark on the awesome ability of the commentariat here to turn on a dime, to go from intense, serious discussion to full-on lunatic hilarity.

Thanks, people!

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

There is nothing weird about clog dancing to a magic lantern show. Oh, of course not! But you wouldn’t send kids out for recess and then have them come back to class and YIKES there are the clogs and lanterns, would you? Wouldn’t you prepare them with a Short History of Clogs, and afterward let them analyze the implications and decide for themselves whether or not they’d prefer going barefoot, and you would be totally supportive if they did. Or didn’t. And if someone had a panic attack about the lantern on account of how he or she barely escaped an orphanage fire once upon a time, you’d feel big-time remorse, yes? Even though you could hardly have been expected to anticipate that? Having said that, I must reassure you that it sounds like a really fabulous time.

 
 

The forced naked alcohol poisoning thing though? Yeah, I gots nothing in terms of potential mitigating points – forced oral sex or no. That’s just plain wrong.

 
 

I just want to know how the woman could ejaculate in front of a room full of people. That fast. I’m kind of impressed.

 
 

See, already educational.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

“OMG, I can do it THAT FAST!” she ejaculated.

 
 

I dunno, I’m still not stoked about the whole thing. It seems exploitive to me. Obviously, I can’t know how everyone involved felt. I also feel like it didn’t reflect well on kinky people in general. I realize that it’s not as if BDSMers have a great reputation to begin with, but still.

 
 

I’m also wondering how much lube they needed for that. It had to be a lot. Probably one of those pump bottles.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I also feel like it didn’t reflect well on kinky people in general. I realize that it’s not as if BDSMers have a great reputation to begin with, but still.

Maybe a pro-kink rally in Washington is needed… fuck it, GOP congressmen would be crashing that in a heartbeat.

 
 

One advantage to the fucksaw is that it probably makes enough noise for T&U to run her dehumidifier without worrying about the neighbours hearing it.

 
 

Creepy dude said his student feedback was positive. The sex act was 5-10 minutes of an hour long session and creepy dude said the most positive thing cited by students was the opportunity to talk to the kink-meister driving the fucksaw.

Based on the evidence available, it looks like it was actually an educational experience that wasn’t disrespectful of kink. So maybe for people who didn’t experience the after-class session, disrespectful and exploitative of people with non-normative sexuality. But it appears that was not the case for folks who were actually there. Again, that’s based on creepy dude’s statement, so grain of salt.

Myself? Still think it was a bad idea because of the potential for harm, but it really doesn’t look like it was that bad a thing. Also, that fucksaw sounds like bad design.

 
 

There is nothing weird about clog dancing to a magic lantern show.
An everyday saga in the life of clog dancing folk.

 
 

The air in here is dry, but I’ve built a lot of bookcases!

 
 

I basically disapprove of repurposing power tools as sex tools, on principle. It would be terrible if my relationship with my band saw became tawdry and sexualised.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

driving the fucksaw

A new meme is born…

An everyday saga in the life of clog dancing folk.

fuckin’ ferrets!

There were also unorthodox activities involving the use of ferrets.

 
 

Maybe a pro-kink rally in Washington is needed… fuck it, GOP congressmen would be crashing that in a heartbeat.

As furries, no doubt.

 
 

the awesome ability of the commentariat here to turn on a dime, to go from intense, serious discussion to full-on lunatic hilarity.

There is intense, serious discussion here? Why was I not warned!?

 
 

Myself? Still think it was a bad idea because of the potential for harm, but it really doesn’t look like it was that bad a thing. Also, that fucksaw sounds like bad design.

It looks like they somehow remove the blade and attach some sort of rod that is vacuum-sealed to the dildo.

So, not the safest thing EVAR, but not completely dangerous, either.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

“…but it really doesn’t look like it was that bad a thing….” I am glad about that, and would not wish my disgust to imply that I think damage was done that may not have been. I do not need evidence of actual damage to justify my disgust. I prefer everything to be mostly sort of okay and often quite spectacular. I have this plush toy, a pig, named Mr. Gordo in honor of Mr. Gordo. He and I are going to snuggle up and fall asleep now.

 
 

Also, a tool that screws you over continually and remorselessly? If you could get enough fucksaws running at the same time, you wouldn’t need Congress.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

There is intense, serious discussion here? Why was I not warned!?

I shant be back!

 
 

So, not the safest thing EVAR, but not completely dangerous, either.

I meant potential for harm to the audience. I’m pretty certain that the participants knew exactly what they were doing and were acting in a physically safe manner.

It’s that whole power-dynamic, peer-pressure thing. Live sex show? With a squirter? Imagine the excuse a college-aged dude would have to come up with to take a pass on that And the keener who just wants to please all their professors (not like that, get your minds out of the gutter) but isn’t ready yet to see an explicit sex act live. And also people who might have fucksaw-fetishes that now have their personal kink cheapened by having watched it as part of school. Not to mention all the folks who would be offended by the disconnect between the form and function of the fucksaw. Recip saws oscillate way too fast to be teh sexay. That’s just dumb.

 
 

Gotcha. Yeah, I think we’re all in agreement that even if this didn’t result in any actual harm, it was still creepy and inappropriate.

 
 

Also, as a side point, I don’t fucking understand why the existence of the g-spot and female ejaculation are still “controversial.” I realize that anecdotes aren’t evidence, but when you have a plurality of them, shouldn’t you at least say, “Well, there’s no physical evidence for the gspot or the mechanism for female ejaculation [which isn’t quite true, but wev], but based on women’s reports, we know that they exist, at least in some segment of the population.”

Also, as far as I know, there hasn’t been a serious study yet of the gspot or female ejaculation. I realize the mechanism for this would be difficult, but it’d be nice for people not to dismiss their existence out-of-hand.

 
 

Gotcha. Yeah, I think we’re all in agreement that even if this didn’t result in any actual harm, it was still creepy and inappropriate.

This. But recip saws aren’t all that easy to handle. Not knowing the particulars of the demonstration at hand or the duration of the fucksaw usage, I can only say that one’s control of the thing diminishes pretty quickly as the vibrations start to numb your hands and arms.

Trained driver, closed track, etc.

 
 

Well just to be certain, I’m charging up the battery pack on my recip saw right now. Pleased tell your mom I’ll be over tomorrow morning at 10. We’re going for brunch afterwards if you want a full report.

 
 

Also, your mom and I will work on getting that physical evidence of the G-spot and female ejaculation. For SCIENCE! of course.

 
 

Oh, of course not! But you wouldn’t send kids out for recess and then have them come back to class and YIKES there are the clogs and lanterns, would you?

Now I’m reliving third grade. Whatever happened to trigger warnings?

 
 

Looch, yeah, my hope is that the professor had a responsible top/dom/fucksaw operator who made it clear that safe practices are important. I’d assume he was, since it sounds like he’s a pretty prominent figure in the scene and, from what I understand, the BDSM community tries to be self-regulating in terms of responsibility, safety, risks of abuse, etc etc.

 
 

It looks like they somehow remove the blade and attach some sort of rod that is vacuum-sealed to the dildo.

I believe there was a news item a few months ago about a Darwin Award winner who didn’t remove the blade.

 
 

I don’t want to look but are they talking about a sawzall? Because OUCH!

 
 

from intense, serious discussion to full-on lunatic hilarity.

There are usually a one-&-a-half to two threads happening. It’s like changing lanes.

 
 

I don’t want to look but are they talking about a sawzall?

Yup. With a dildo instead of a blade.

 
 

One might say that the PENIS mightier than the sword.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Also, as far as I know, there hasn’t been a serious study yet of the gspot or female ejaculation. I realize the mechanism for this would be difficult, but it’d be nice for people not to dismiss their existence out-of-hand.

It’s not whether or not they exist, it’s the quest that’s important, you spend enough time and care with your pokings and strokings down there, you’ll get results. It’s kind like El Dildo Dorado.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Uh, I hope nobody’s gonna write any “Gurgi” erotica.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

“I basically disapprove of repurposing power tools as sex tools, on principle.”

Does the Kitchen Aid stand mixer qualify as a power tool?
AFAF

 
 

I am not even going to look up “Gurgi.” I know better.

 
 

Does the Kitchen Aid stand mixer qualify as a power tool?

This is very wrong and if Megan McArdle writes a column explaining that the current range of sex tools to be found in the American house are all inventions of the last decade or two, it will all be PM’s fault.

 
 

Fuckcame, fucksaw, fuckconquered.

The original Latin is left as an exercise for the reader.

 
The Original Latin
 

Soy primiero!

 
 

Exercising the reader.

 
 

#500, bitches.

 
 

Missed it by that much. Probably because it seems longer.

 
 

Missed it by that much. Probably because it seems longer.

That’s what she said!

 
 

what the hell are you people still up!?!?

 
 

Big time Sat. night/Sun. morn. excitement here on the Left Coast! What’s your excuse?

 
 

At work.

In theory, I should be awake all night.

 
 

Yup. With a dildo instead of a blade.

Yep. We could call it a “Ballsall.” Battery life and/or corded power sources would influence the accuracy of such a claim.

What’s next, though? Ingersoll-Rand construction site air compressors and jack hammers?

Actually, don’t answer that. And I shan’t be looking at any links that might be provided on that subject.

 
 

safety first is what kenny always says/

 
 

Good news! According to Rush Limbaugh, Obama is not black therefore all the idiocy that sounds like racism isn’t racism!

 
 

The ongoing McArdle kitchen saga made me, MADE me I tells ya, visit her blog again.

Maybe someday there will be the infrastructure to support these vehicles, but as it was pointed out to me the other day, gas prices have been much, much higher in Europe for decades, and they’re not driving electric cars even though they’ve been theoretically possible for that whole time (indeed, some of the first cars were electrics; ultimately, the internal combustion engine won out.)

This is the intellectual equivalent of, “If God had meant us to fly, He would have given us wings.” 1890s Megan would have pointed out that while kerosene is more expensive in Europe, they don’t all use incandescent lights (which have been around since 1802 dontcha know) so I guess it will never happen. Actually, I think that what she meant to write was, “I know virtually nothing about electric cars. Can someone suggest a book?”

 
 

Good news! According to Rush Limbaugh, Obama is not black therefore all the idiocy that sounds like racism isn’t racism!
Someone should tell Rush Limbaugh

 
 

Someone should tell Rush Limbaugh

Rush doesn’t listen to radio blow-hards.

 
 

I’m only halfway thru my coffee. Do I have think about that fat fuck so early in the day?

Ugh. You know I’m going to get off the boat. There’s a little place in my shriveled black heart that’s reserved for just hating Rush. No, seriously: I HATE that guy.

 
 

I’m sorry, I can’t keep up with the mental gymnastics.

So he’s no longer “Barack the Magic Negro”?

 
 

Magic fades…apparently, all the way to white.

 
 

Pussy-licking vs. cigars… CIGARS WIN.

 
Overton's Lawyer
 

The machine-assisted dildo is not new technology, and is perfectly safe as long as it is operated by an experienced expert.

 
 

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2011/03/05/reform-school-girls/

What’s with Kathryn Lopez? She was in jail?

 
 

Maybe someday there will be the infrastructure to support these vehicles, but as it was pointed out to me the other day, gas prices have been much, much higher in Europe for decades, and they’re not driving electric cars even though they’ve been theoretically possible for that whole time

Besides the fact that Europe also doesn’t have an electric car charging infrastructure, when gas prices get higher in Europe they can often stop driving and use mass transit, when they get higher here we for the most part still have to use cars, so the situations really aren’t all that comparable.

 
 

Pussy-licking vs. cigars… CIGARS WIN.

Hah! Sounds to me like sour grapes. If I were his hot Italian wife I wouldn’t go down on him either.

 
 

Pussy-licking vs. cigars… CIGARS WIN.

I hope the woman looked at Mrs. Giles and said, “honey, I am so sorry.”

 
 

Pussy-licking vs. cigars… CIGARS WIN.

Wow! His obvious misanthropy is not charming and adorable like mine.

BTW, Dougie, if you prefer sucking on a penis-replacement more than licking pussy, well…

 
 

I do know that a million “women-behind-bars” fantasies just died in a most horrifying fashion…

I assume he speaks for all of you male breeders here.

 
 

I assume he speaks for all of you male breeders here.

I have no caged-women fantasies. My Ilsa-The-She-Wolf fantasies beat the crap out of them and they crawled off, never to be heard from again.

 
 

Ugh.

It’s like when Andrew Carnegie massacred steel workers and forced them to take a12 hour day at starvation wages, but then made up for it by giving them a free public library that was only open while they were in the mills.

 
 

There’s a little place in my shriveled black heart that’s reserved for just hating Rush. No, seriously: I HATE that guy.

i know, right? when i first started in radio, i was *lucky* enough to have to work the shift that aired rush’s show…so, i had to make sure to record him every day on the reel to reel recorder, listen in periodically to make sure it was still recording and then play back the entire 3 fucking hours…oh my god…it was horrific…

also, rush apparently doesn’t get how making a baby works, does he? but now i understand how he thinks people are turned gay…wow, i wish i would have been raised by italians, or greeks…cuz those women are superhot…instead i’m just plain old german/irish…

 
 

rush apparently doesn’t get how making a baby works, does he?

How could he? His adult-human-female sex has been limited to necrophilia and no babies ever resulted. His teen-human-male sex also failed to result in babies. Don’t get me started on the other combos…

 
 

true, n_b, so very true…also, i am now thanking my lucky fucking stars that doug giles’s didn’t raise me…what a fucking twat…

 
 

i’m just plain old german/irish…

Ilsa?

 
 

close, no i in my name though…

 
 

totally OT but just fucking great! i’m watching this american life and this iraqi guy has a booth emblazoned with ‘talk to an iraqi’ that he travels around with…an eleven year old girl just plopped herself down in front of him and apologized for the u.s. just coming in and taking over their country like we owned the place…he teared up and shook her hand…he asked her what she wants to be when she grows up…she said psychologist and then president…she grinned and said president…2032! i. love. her!

 
 

Giles SO wants to be PJ O’Rourke. He’s got the annoying part down, now to work on the wit. Needs work.

 
 

when gas prices get higher in Europe they can often stop driving and use mass transit, when they get higher here we for the most part still have to use cars, so the situations really aren’t all that comparable.

this is immediately what i think of…also the fact that europeans generally have shorter driving distances…one of the twin cities’ radio hosts was spouting off the other day about how progressive push public transportation, not because it makes sense in so many ways (which he truly believes in never makes sense) but because they are pushing their agenda to get people to conform, become sheeple and lose all their freedoms! apparently their is not greater freedom than to be able to drive a hummer in a metropolis just because you can…

 
 

“she grinned and said president…2032! i. love. her!”

She has my vote.

Btw, re: listenin to Rush every say…omfg…bless your heart.

also, I am German, too…and everything but Irish. It’s weird. Welsh! But no irish!

 
 

Obama is not black therefore all the idiocy that sounds like racism isn’t racism!

But according to Limbaugh Obama is a racist! So he must be a white racist.

So there IS racism in America.

 
 

Not to take a spin on the serious dime, but here is what I think the problem is for racist conservatives: in their view black people cannot, by definition, play a meaningful role in public affairs. They can’t understand their own best interests, let alone those of the Republic. That was the rationale behind slaveholder paternalism, that was the humor behind the stump speech portion of minstrel shows, and that is why to this day black leaders are represented as charlatans and grifters.

Racist conservatives think of black people as easily pliable. One interpretation of civil rights movements is that white liberals have stirred up otherwise content and docile people. Out of necessity, some will try to employ black conservatives because they are presumed to make good puppet figures. So then the question is, what is Barack Obama? For some he is a grifter, after our money. To others he is utterly incompetent, but a useful puppet for the white liberals around him. Rush Limbaugh is positing a third view, that he is not black at all, but is in fact a white liberal who is manipulating the ignorant black masses.

Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is actually conducting an elaborate social science experiment, like Milgram’s shock treatment, or the Stanford prison study.

 
 

“no irish!”

Ain’t that always the way?

 
 

also, I am German, too…and everything but Irish. It’s weird. Welsh! But no irish!

s’okay…you can still make dog-hair pillows with me if you want…

 
 

So there IS racism in America.

gasp!

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Eeww. I don’t think I ever read Giles before. If I did, I surely put it out of my mind. What. A. Putz.

 
 

“Obama is not black therefore all the idiocy that sounds like racism isn’t racism!

But according to Limbaugh Obama is a racist! So he must be a white racist.

So there IS racism in America.”

Is anybody else confoosed?

 
 

“s’okay…you can still make dog-hair pillows with me if you want…”

LOL. Lady, I could open up my own Etsy shop…

 
 

Is anybody else confoosed?

I’ve got it!

Democrats are the real racists.

Democrats are un-American.

 
 

“Democrats are the real racists.”

That must be it.

 
 

There’s a little place in my shriveled black heart that’s reserved for just hating Rush. No, seriously: I HATE that guy.

Having no interest in originality, he’s boosted (& watered down) Morton Downey Jr.’s schtick – presumably because he’s too lazy to mirror the spastic, stagecraft-gnawing, goby-eyed frenzy that Mort acted out in the process of methodically baptizing the first three rows of the studio audience in a mist of sweat, spit & spite.

All his self-worship is whitewash for an inconvenient reality: just like Lord Hee-Haw, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Bull Conner or Father Coughlin, Rush is a footnote waiting to happen.

Speaking of evil fucks: I await with forlorn sighs & tappy fingers the impending lulz-gasm of phantasmagorical retcon horseshit that will erupt around the globe when Margaret Thatcher finally snuffs it. How exactly are they going to reimage thin gruel laced with cyanide as delicious chocolate-coated treacle?

 
 

“Obama is not black therefore all the idiocy that sounds like racism isn’t racism!

But according to Limbaugh Obama is a racist! So he must be a white racist.

So there IS racism in America.”

rush: ‘hey! i want my cake and to eat it too! mmmmmmm….caaaake…mmm…vicodin….’

 
 

Morton Downey Jr…a mist of sweat, spit & spite.

i totally forgot all about him…

 
 

God, Doug Giles is stupid.

Lesbians have a lower rate of STIs than the population as a whole, including HPV. When researchers are talking about “oral sex,” they’re mostly referring to cocksucking.

Also, this did not happen, and on the teeeeeny tiny chance it did, fucker is lucky to still have his teeth.

 
 

when Margaret Thatcher finally snuffs it

I know how I will celebrate.

 
 

I should say that when they’re talking about oral sex in this particular context, they’re mostly talking about cocksucking. Hence the language about vaccinating boys as well as girls against HPV. Something that motherfucker probably opposes.

 
 

Something that motherfucker probably opposes.

well, to be fair to dougie, god opposed it first…

 
 

Hence the language about vaccinating boys as well as girls against HPV. Something that motherfucker probably opposes.

Bbbbut if we do that, we are conceding that the little boys might be gheeeeey. And that gay people don’t deserve to die!

 
 

i totally forgot all about him

His echoes live to this very day. Every time a crowd fist-pumps & yelps “OOK! OOK! OOK!” they’re playing Mort’s song.

NEVAR FORG3T.

 
 

also, too what pissed me off about doug’s psuedo-lesbo encounter—god he is a smug prick! and really? do anchovies *have* crotches? anyhoo…his whole fuck you i can smoke my smelly cigar any where i fucking want, bitch attitude. as a minnesotan, i am highly resentful of the fact that i can’t fucking smoke wherever i want. and i bet doug thinks that our smoking ban is just fine…but don’t mess with his cigars, sodium, red meat, happy meals…

 
 

But according to Limbaugh Obama is a racist! So he must be a white racist.

Congrats: you’ve just invented your own Repub meme.

do anchovies *have* crotches?

Rule 34 strikes again.

 
 

do anchovies *have* crotches?
Happy to help.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Nobody lights up a cigar anywhere except in his or her own house (and possibly only in a specifically designated room) without fully understanding that the fragrance/odor/stink will disperse and be enjoyed or endured by persons other than them what is smokin’ it. So little Doug Giles lights up, surveys his fellow earthlings with sparkly-eyed contempt, says “Fuck you all very much” and commences to belch smoke. The lesbians look up and say “Eww” and Mr. Giles exclaims, “Oh, you think this habit is filthy? Well, you freaks are gonna die sooner than I am – ” And then two tables over, someone jumps up wielding an unreconstructed fuck-free saw, and says, “Oh, you think muff-diving is weird? Wait’ll you see my saw-that-doubles-as-a-cigar-cutter in action!” but then on the way over, he slips on a wedge of lime, and at last, Mrs. Giles is free.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

did you like my story?

 
 

did you like my story?

It needed a rapping baby. Either animatronic or CGI, I’m not picky.

 
 

did you like my story?

larkspur, i ADORED your story!

 
 

on the way over, he slips on a wedge of lime, and at last, Mrs. Giles is free.

one of these, perhaps?

 
 

Happy to help.

That meme’s gonna have legs.

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Yay!

By the way, pedestrian, those shoes are not only Lime Wedges, they are also anti-Semitic!

 
Larkspur, Terrible Person
 

Also, did you see? Today’s google graphic celebrates Will Eisner’s 94th birthday.

 
 

Did Holder say “Yo! Fershishle my nizzle. My homies aint down with that.” Maybe the real racist was Moses when he said “Let my people go!”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/testifying_before_a_house_appr.html

Faster than you can say “anchor baby”, Malkin gets her panties in a twist.
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/03/04/hey-eric-holder-meet-my-people/

 
Xecky Gilchrist
 

I know how I will celebrate.

I’ll have yet another listen to “Stand Down Margaret,” I think.

 
 

I believe that Beck called him out as a racist, then upon realizing that Holder was talking about his own family, decided that “my people” is ok for relatives – but to identify yourself as black is still racist.

 
 

but to identify yourself as black is still racist.

Like Stephen Colbert, I am so color-blind that I do not know what color I am.

 
 

This is the actual context in which Holder used the term “my people”:

“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate….to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” said Holder, who is black.
“To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history,” Holder said with evident exasperation.

 
 

did you like my story?

I liked your story. But then, I’m a cigar smoker. In fact, that is one of the main reasons why I live where I do. There must be twenty five cigar factories here, well know factories: Oliva, Perdomo, Cubanica (Padron), Drew Estate, Fernandez, Rivera Garcia, Pepin Garcia, Nicasa, the list goes on and on. And there are many small, three and four person shops scattered around town that roll for the known brands and for their private customers on the isthmus as well as for export. A Churchill, 48 x 7, sold by maso (25 unidades), cost one dollar each. This same cigar is $8 in the U.S. I make a phone call and the next day the cigars are delivered to my door, absolutely fresh. The larger factories produce 150,000 or more cigars a day. A good bonchero can put 800 puros in the press in a days work. U.S. customs allows travelers through customs with fifty cigars, but I have entered with as many as two hundred. If you are a cigar smoker, need a perfect climate (85 day/65night, year round), inexpensive housing, excellent fresh food, super friendly people, and an exciting political environment, then you might consider moving to this tropical paradise.

 
 

If you are a cigar smoker, need a perfect climate (85 day/65night, year round), inexpensive housing, excellent fresh food, super friendly people, and an exciting political environment, then you might consider moving to this tropical paradise.

directions, please?

 
 

a perfect climate (85 day/65night, year round)

That’s my idea of hell.

 
 

We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.

why is it so hard for people like malkin to understand basic fucking humanity? how hard is it to understand that when a group or a people believe it’s okay to own, beat, rape, kill another group of people, that leaves a pretty fucking big dent in your psyche and bonds you together on a pretty fucking deep level. how hard is it to understand that like in the case of native americans, when it was government policy to completely annihilate an entire race of human beings, that takes a bit to get over…especially when there are still people to this day…people i know, people you know, people in my own family for god’s sake that really believe blacks and natives are inferior…so, i guess what i am saying is fuck you malkin…

 
 

That’s my idea of hell.

it is snowing here AGAIN

 
 

it is snowing here AGAIN

I wish we had snow: I’d be rolling around on my back. The cold rain we’re having does little for me…it’s better than heat, but not really fun.

 
 

We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.

Shorter: tribalism sucks, everyone knows the American Tribe’s the only good one.

 
 

Directions

AA 969 MIA-MGA, taxi a la terminal (de buses) Mayoreo, desde alli bus expreso a Esteli, taxi a Hotel Sacuanjoche, tarifa $5 la noche.

 
 

why is it so hard for people like malkin to understand basic fucking humanity? how hard is it to understand that when a group or a people believe it’s okay to own, beat, rape, kill another group of people, that leaves a pretty fucking big dent in your psyche and bonds you together on a pretty fucking deep level. how hard is it to understand that like in the case of native americans, when it was government policy to completely annihilate an entire race of human beings, that takes a bit to get over…

More to the point, when you’re the one condemning entire cultures and ethnicities based on their group identity (Michelle Malkin remains a cheerleader for the internment of Japanese Americans, wants Mexicans removed if they were born to illegal parents, and let’s just not get started on her view of the Muslim American community), it’s hard for us not to see your high-minded “we’re all individuals!” rhetoric as anything other than the bullshit it is.

Even harder if you’re Japanese, Mexican, Muslim, or another one of the various groups whose people have been proclaimed eebil based on the way they look, the place their grandparents came from, or where they go to church.

 
 

Ann Althouse offers the Tea Party advice:

I’m from the Tea Party and I’m here to help isn’t exactly terrifying. But it doesn’t make me feel great. The general rule is: Don’t help unless you know what you are doing! The default position should be: Do nothing. First, do no harm. This is an essential conservative principle. It’s especially obnoxious to help for the purpose of looking good — and making other people look bad.

Also shut the hell up Ann Althouse.

 
 

We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals that white d00ds RULE, tradition of oppression, enslavement, and genocide of people of color, history of racial apartheid that living people can remember and that still exists to some extent and faith in the individual as long as he has money and/or isn’t one of those swarthy types and/or and doesn’t have the temerity to have a vadge.

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXED!

 
 

a perfect climate (85 day/65night, year round)

That’s my idea of hell.

It would make for pretty poor cross country skiing.

We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.

Says the lady who wrote a book championing the internment of American citizens based only on their ethnicity.

 
 

We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.

It’s just ridiculous on so many levels. As with so much of this shit, the same tactic was used against Catholic immigrants in the last two centuries, but of course today it is perfectly fine and patriotic to identify as Irish, Italian, etc.

Also, it would be pretty damn fascist to expect people to erase all other ties – familial, cultural, religious, etc. – to the nation state.

But most importantly, she doesn’t really mean America, she means white America. It isn’t like white Americans don’t have a culture, many of them just think that their culture is the only one. People who expect black kids to pull up their baggy pants and Latino kids to speak “English only please” aren’t patriotically abstaining from any ethnic identity – they are demanding the elimination of every culture and ethnicity but their own.

 
 

it’s hard for us not to see your high-minded “we’re all individuals!” rhetoric as anything other than the bullshit it is.

I was just going to say that.

She’s against ethnic differentiation unless it’s used to oppress people.

 
 

DAMMIT CHRIS.

 
 

DAMMIT CHRIS.

It’s ok, I read the new comments from bottom to top, so I saw yours first.

 
 

DAMMIT CHRIS.

My evil work is done here.

 
 

That’s my idea of hell.

We rarely got snow in the South, so I don’t miss it but I do like it. Every other year I go to western Penn to visit the Bylers for a week or so during winter. We hike through the country side enjoying the quiet and the snowy fields. Sometimes we’ll have a snow ball fight with the kids. To experience the awful heat of the South I only have to travel an hour or so out of the Segovias, towards Lago Xolotlán.

 
 

If these fucking assholes had to spend a DAY under the conditions that black Americans experienced during Jim Crow, they’d have to wear a diaper.

Assholes.

 
 

I’m from the Tea Party and I’m here to help isn’t exactly terrifying.

Poke your amygdala, it’s stopped.

 
 

I’m from the Tea Party and I’m here to help isn’t exactly terrifying.

No, it’s hilarious.

 
 

In the comments Ann elaborates:

I want it to be done professionally and paid for so that the bill can be sent to the unions and whoever else was part of the conspiracy to tape papers to the wall.

That’s more like our Ann. The $7.5 million estimate is an absurd political fabrication, just like the story about Clintonistas trashing the White House before the Bushes moved in.

 
 

I’ll venture into this, but just a little. What is so puzzling to me about Michelle Malkin is that she is a person of color who has taken sides with the same people who would most discriminate against people like herself. From Wiki:

“Malkin was born in October 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first of two children to Philippine citizens Rafaela (née Perez) (born 1945), a homemaker and teacher, and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang (born 1942), a physician-in-training.[4] Earlier in 1970, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa.”

“When Malkin was in kindergarten, she was called a racist name, and her mother comforted by telling her that “everyone has prejudice”.[8] Malkin has said that she is “eternally grateful” for that lesson.”

I doubt that when Mrs Maglalang was explaining to Michelle that “everyone has prejudice” she was trying to recommend it as a goal.

 
 

somebody could slip and fall on the water you get on the floor or the junk you put down where someone might walk.

omg!!!

 
 

What is so puzzling to me about Michelle Malkin is that she is a person of color who has taken sides with the same people who would most discriminate against people like herself.

No more puzzling than Alex Knepper, a gay atheist, rooting for the GOP. Or Bill Whittle, an atheist, making fawning speeches about how America’s Christian nation-ness is what makes us all free. Or Ann Coulter and all these women rooting for a party that demands their “submission” and thinks they never should have left the kitchen. Or Allen West, a black man, running as a Republican and hopping onto the ultra racially charged “clash-of-civilizations” bandwagon. Or Charles Coughlin, a Catholic, joining forces with traditional nativists (which at the time meant WASP supremacists) to celebrate common Jew-hating values.

I always watch with a morbid fascination when members of hated “unAmerican” groups crusade for conservatism. The fact that they themselves are prejudiced is probably a huge part of it (e.g. gay Republicans who hate Muslims and Muslim Republicans who hate gays), but I don’t think that’s the whole story. Don’t really know what is.

 
 

also this…this is extremely valuable old marble that needs to be cleaned according to the protocols of historical restoration. Don’t come in here with buckets of water and scrub brushes or whatever you think will make you look good on camera. Don’t you realize you could cause more damage? You can’t have every well-meaning do-gooder slopping around in there with water!

recently, bbca had a series on about people who loved objects…i think althouse’s crush on the wisc. capitol would qualify…

 
 

“I always watch with a morbid fascination when members of hated “unAmerican” groups crusade for conservatism. The fact that they themselves are prejudiced is probably a huge part of it (e.g. gay Republicans who hate Muslims and Muslim Republicans who hate gays), but I don’t think that’s the whole story. Don’t really know what is.”

I think it’s a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. These people are DESPERATE to win the affections of their oppressors.

 
 

i think althouse’s crush on the wisc. capitol would qualify

She can rest a little easier. Although, that’s before the Tea Partiers have gotten to it.

I always watch with a morbid fascination when members of hated “unAmerican” groups crusade for conservatism. The fact that they themselves are prejudiced is probably a huge part of it (e.g. gay Republicans who hate Muslims and Muslim Republicans who hate gays), but I don’t think that’s the whole story. Don’t really know what is.

I don’t either. Stockholm Syndrome, perhaps? It always seems to be accompanied by desperation. Please, please if I hate enough people will you accept me as one of the supermen?

 
 

You haven’t seen the last of me, vacuumslayer! *flounces cape and storms off*

 
 

I think it’s a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. These people are DESPERATE to win the affections of their oppressors.

I was going to say “need to belong.” If you’re the kind of person to whom tribal identity really matters, you can throw yourself into your subgroup identity (Filipino, black, atheist, whatever), but you’ll always be an outcast in society, whereas if you throw yourself into your “American” identity and join the GOP, you’ll be a respected member of the mainstream, or at least you’ll tell yourself that.

Kind of like hanging out with the cool kids at every opportunity because you want to be cool by association.

 
 

She can rest a little easier.

whew! probably will celebrate with an extra large box o wine…

I think it’s a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. These people are DESPERATE to win the affections of their oppressors.

it is true that lapdogs tend to be the loudest yappers…

 
 

this is extremely valuable old marble that needs to be cleaned according to the protocols of historical restoration. Don’t come in here with buckets of water and scrub brushes or whatever you think will make you look good on camera.

It’s a feckin’ public building with cleaning staff who drive little zambonis around. If AA wants the cleaners to use the protocols of historical restoration they’ll need a pay increase rather than a cut.

 
 

“You haven’t seen the last of me, vacuumslayer! *flounces cape and storms off*”

Oh…I laughed.

Chris, exactly.

 
 

“recently, bbca had a series on about people who loved objects”

Oh, please. She doesn’t love anything but her Franzia.

 
 

Oh, please. She doesn’t love anything but her Franzia.

Yes, it helps choke down the bile.

 
 

the conspiracy to tape papers to the wall.

A conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man!

 
 

the conspiracy to tape papers to the wall.

Title of my next surrealist novel.

 
 

The Protocols of Historical Restorations are well known as a fake.

 
 

I would recommend the Nixon Tapes: Wall to fuckin’ Wall, if you which to examine taping conspiracies

 
 

Title of my next surrealist novel.

I hope there’s an evil rock band in it.

 
 

In the comments Ann elaborates:

I want it to be done professionally and paid for so that the bill can be sent to the unions and whoever else was part of the conspiracy to tape papers to the wall.

I am neither a preservationist nor do I play one on TV, but I work alongside them all the time and unless the protesters were graffiting the walls with spray paint* there’s no way that professional cleaning takes more than $100,000.

*This will be claimed soon, I’m sure.

 
 

exciting political environment

I don’t know, we have enough of that here. I would rather have a nice dull political environment.

 
 

I’m sorry…OT…but ROFL!!!!

My father-in-law was upset about the early (skinny) pictures of Mini__B. He wanted to know why his cheeks weren’t plump enough to be visible from behind the way Mrs.__B’s were 40 years ago.

 
 

I’m sorry…OT…but ROFL!!!!

That baby looks like Patton Oswalt.

 
 

My father-in-law was upset about the early (skinny) pictures of Mini__B. He wanted to know why his cheeks weren’t plump enough to be visible from behind the way Mrs.__B’s were 40 years ago.

I like the way your FIL thinks. FAT BABIES ARE THE BESTEST!!

 
 

That baby looks like Patton Oswalt.

I think it may be that Patton Oswalt resembles all babies a little.

 
 

I think it may be that Patton Oswalt resembles all babies a little.

HERETIC! Everyone knows that all babies resemble either Churchill or Khrushchev.

 
 

I’m sorry…OT…but ROFL!!!!

Here is my favorite take on that meme.

Although angry babies never get old.

I have got to spend less time on the internet.

 
 

Image on left is the biggest thumb puppet I have seen.

HERETIC! Everyone knows that all babies resemble either Churchill or Khrushchev.

Let the record show that Doktorling Sonja resembled Mussolini.

 
 

Let the record show that Doktorling Sonja resembled Mussolini.

Dare I ask: forceps delivery?

 
 

“Here is my favorite take on that meme”

That made me lol most unattractively.

Yes, Jim gaffigan definitely does look like a big baby. Love the guy, though. Anyone who can do that long of a riff on bacon and Hot Pockets is ok in my book.

 
 

Let the record show that Doktorling Sonja resembled Mussolini.

I hope you didn’t carry her around by the ankles ALL the time.

 
 

Anyone who can do that long of a riff on bacon and Hot Pockets is ok in my book.

he is one of the best…and i nearly pee myself a bit each and every time i watch him…

 
 

STRAIGHT TO HELL tigris.

 
 

Mussolini butt-plug.

Hah! do they have one for Alfred Hitchcock?

 
 

George Will makes some sense. I know.

“[T]he [Republican] nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404613.html

This guy has an interesting take on Will’s column.

“Much of what Will routinely serves are merely crockpot-fulls of warmed-over McKinleyism with lids of polysyllabic respectability, yet today he actually sees and is thereby deeply worried about the future. Of his party. Which is, let’s face it — as Will finally has — a laughingstock.”
http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2011/03/wills-take-and-anothers.html

 
 

As always, avoid the Post’s comments.

 
 

The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee

ha, ha…he called huckabee a vibrator!

 
low sodium hunchback
 

Hi gang. Miss me?

Bobo has revived his blog. Moderated .
My Shorter:

Buy my book.
has not yet appeared.

http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/hello/

 
 

Huh. I just see the same old song and ass.

sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.

For George Will, “sensible Americans” here and always means the set of inbred plutocrats who are bored by social conservatism and alarmed by anything grassroots, even on the right. They appreciate it when the riff-raff give them tax cuts, but don’t want to risk losing control of their own party in all the excitement.

There are at most five plausible Republican presidents on the horizon – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Utah governor and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Massachusetts governor Romney and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.

How on earth Jon Huntsman or Haley Barbour is a plausible candidate is a mystery. The only person on this list with a chance of the nomination is Mitt Romney. Anyone else who could make it past the primary would divide wealthy donors, and that is what has Will pissing his gabardine trousers.

 
 

this is extremely valuable old marble that needs to be cleaned according to the protocols of historical restoration. Don’t come in here with buckets of water and scrub brushes or whatever you think will make you look good on camera.

Having experience with historic preservation and National Park Service standards, scrub brushes and soapy water are the PREFERRED method of cleaning marble.

This is such an annoying line of attack to me. Fuck them all. And not with the fucksaw, but, as I mentioned at my place recently, a concrete settlement vibrator.

Don’t Goofle that.

 
 

Gee, imagining that nobody has ever affixed tape to marble in a big building fulla people takes some doing.

 
 

The Protocols of Historical Restorations

You thought I was tiresome when I was talking about iPads? Settle in, this will get duller.

The proper term is National Park Service Standards for Historic Preservation.

They are on line, even a cobag like Meade could have looked them up. In fact, the Wisconsin Historic Society is just at the other end of State Street, he could have walked down there and asked one of the Preservation Architects.

In fact, I could give him the folks’ direct line and email.

Ignant Pigfucking rightwing crybabies.

 
 

Miss me?

We’d never forget that hump.

 
 

Settling the concrete.

 
 

Gee, imagining that nobody has ever affixed tape to marble in a big building fulla people takes some doing.

It’s unfortunate that people insist on covering buildings with a material as fragile as marble.

 
 

Covering the spread.

 
 

It’s unfortunate that people insist on covering buildings with a material as fragile as marble.

Every time I try to store gunpowder at the state capitol building some wise guy reminds me about the Parthenon. I know, dude. I promise I’ll be super careful.

 
 

How on earth Jon Huntsman or Haley Barbour is a plausible candidate is a mystery.

Haley Barbour established his right-wing cred during Katrina, when he stepped in and rescued Mississippi’s coastline a la Rudy after 9/11 whined about black people.

 
 

Buffing the doric

 
 

Quarrying the granite

 
 

ha, ha…he called huckabee a vibrator!

If Mussolini can be a buttplug, there’s no reason that Huckabee can’t be a perfectly serviceable dildo.

 
 

Hah heh,

“They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe”

Nescafe is hallucinatory. You drink it, you think it’s coffee.

 
 

Photoshopping the toilets.

 
 

Sinking the piles

 
 

Piling the sinks

 
 

Dusting my pumice.

 
 

Defacing the marble.

 
 

Delving the quarry.

 
 

Scrubbing the Column

 
 

Taping the marble.

 
kate is bored again
 

“a concrete settlement vibrator.”

Being a contractor by trade I will tell you that the proper term for a concrete vibrator is a “donkey dick”.

As in, “Get the donkey dick over here put it in there, that crete ain’t gonna settle by itself dammit.”

Then the super went back to the other side of the building where the laborer’s worked hard at rubbing the marble. “Jesus H. Christ!” he said, “Lean into that brush like you mean it! When we polish out stones we put our backs into it!”

 
 

Washing the rotunda.

 
kate is bored again
 

rubbing the phallus of the patriarchy

 
 

tearing down the master’s house with the master’s tool.

 
 

remembering the hump

 
 

OT…spengler’s book is fecking awesome…

 
 

I’m as confused as Tbogg and Anon above. What is up with K-Lo? I’m confused. What was she in jail for? I hope it didn’t involve a Mussolini butt plug and/or Jonah. Regardless, jail must have been tough on her. Maybe we’ve been to hard on K-Lo. Maybe she’s basically doing okay for ex-felon, ex-addict, ex-child porn pusher, or what have you.

If she tries to distract from her record by chanting “Michael Moore Is A Union!” this photo might come in handy:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zroberts/3810350254/

Also, WTF: http://twitter.com/kathrynlopez/status/43129522001940480

 
 

Like Stephen Colbert, I am so color-blind that I do not know what color I am.

Well on first glance, anyone who utters this statement must be white. However,,,

Polar bears have transparent hairs, so their fur is actually colourless. Their skin is black.

 
 

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