I Never Saw Projection Involve a Sex Change Before

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S.E. Cupp, NY Daily News:
Newt Gingrich, natural woman

It’s been a long time since we’ve given old Sippy Cupp the spotlight here at Sadly, No! For those of you who don’t quite remember, Sippy Cupp is a botched example of the Stepford Conservative, the generically pretty, thin-lipped carbon copy usually put on conservative TV so that Fox News watchers can do their masturbating without feeling “gay”.

Unfortunately, while the Lab technicians were able to give her the slightly alien glass-eyed look, the soulless smile, and the head full of crazy, they failed to make her hair the required shade of blonde, so poor Sippy Cupp has been forced to roam the back alleys of third rate tabloids like the New York Daily News becoming ever more bitter and incoherent as her short lived processors begin to clog with dust.

It is a sad fate indeed, but not one we here at Sadly No Industries are above mocking. So let’s go!

No one in the modern era, save maybe Lorena Bobbitt, has proved the axiom more true than our gal pal Newton Leroy Gingrich, who is now — let’s face it — a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

This was the first paragraph. The premise we are to buy for the crazy that is to follow. Our entry point into the mind of Sippy Cupp. Be very afraid, people.

I don’t like to peddle in sexist stereotypes,

Well, good. Sexist stereotypes are a lazy shorthand in our culture, too often employed at the expense of all women including yourself. I don’t often say this about a conservative, but I am proud of you to make the brave decision to not engage in the easy practice of reciting nothing but sexist stereotypes and instead taking the high road and trying to argue your insane premise through logic and concrete examples!

Wait, that’s a comma at the end of that sentence, isn’t there? Oh, f-

but

Yup, there it is. Welp, let’s just have it.

the poor girl is an emotional wreck, and needs an intervention. As part of the womanfolk clan myself, it’s therefore my duty to give Ms. Gingrich a serious reality check, and save her from herself. Because…I care.

Sippy Cupp, I hate to break this to you, but you are way too female, way too straight, and way too without irony to be trying to pull off the whole “miss thang” thing.

It all started when that no-good prom king Mitt Romney did Newt terribly wrong. Everybody knows you don’t double-cross the most popular girl in school, and Newt was just that, for a little while at least. Mitt should have known who he was up against. Newt didn’t get to where she was by being nice. She knows how to fight dirty — she’s had years of practice.

So when Mitt unexpectedly stole Newt’s thunder, everyone in school could see the writing on the wall. Ms. Gingrich was going to lose it. And lose it she did.

Well, that didn’t take long at all for the sexist stereotypes. Hmm, okay, how about something about how bitches be catty?

There was the catty talk on the campaign trail about Romney’s posse, his Super PAC brat pack. There were the nasty rumors about Mitt’s past as a Bain Capital ne’er-do-well.

Check.

And of course, in wingnut world, being the well documented head of something means it’s just “nasty rumors” that you are connected. Whereas if it’s just a nasty rumor like Obama being a muslin sheet, then it might as well be written in special wingnut ink on the Constitution for all to see. Ah, to be young and so insane that’d make sense.

Hey, for the next sexist stereotype, I’m going to go with PMS.

She’s always taken high school politics personally (remember the time she threatened to shut down the school because she didn’t get a seat at the cool lunch table?) So it’s no surprise to any of us that she’s taking this latest catfight to heart.

Oh, of course, catfight!

I’m sure the next paragraph will be the start of some actual point against Newt Gingrich, maybe pointing out such negatives as his constant arguing that real countries are fictional or his support for the return of child labor. I mean, it’s not like she could keep up a post that was entirely sexist stereotypes, right?

It’s no longer about some silly popularity contest now. She’s out for revenge. She wants him ruined. And if she has to team up with her enemies in Rick Perry and Rick Santorum to do it, she will.

It’s like something out of a country song — to recall the immortal words of Carrie Underwood, she may very well dig her key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive, carve her name into his leather seat, take a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slash a hole in all four tires…and maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.

Damn it. Okay, but she isn’t going to do something stupid like argue that sexist stereotypes are universal to all women, even women created by Sippy Cupp because she’s burning up that Bachmann isn’t doing well enough in the race to use all her sexism up on her? Right?

C’mon, throw me a bone here!

Well we all have those fantasies. Who among us hasn’t wanted to rip the throat out of some guy who betrayed us? But my message to Ms. Gingrich is simple: Snap out of it. Have some dignity, woman, and do what we all do in times like these.

You get yourself in a bubble bath. Inhale a tub of ice cream in the privacy of your own home while watching a “Toddlers and Tiaras” marathon. And when that tub of ice cream is done, you follow it up with a bag of potato chips and a bowl of Cap’n Crunch. Then cut up all his pictures and burn them in the fireplace. But whatever you do, this public psycho trip has got to stop.

Any more of this and I might just start suspecting the point of this post was to throw out a whole bunch of sexism and the gender change of Newt was just the excuse when you couldn’t hold it in anymore.

So to Newt Gingrich and women on the verge everywhere, enough is enough. We are strong, independent women, and we’re better than this.

Whew. Glad to see that you believe women are strong and independent and above all the sexist bullshit thrown at them by…people completely unrelated to you. Sure makes me feel better about the purpose of this post.

We put up with menstruation, childbirth and size zero Hollywood actresses.

La la la la la! Can’t hear your obvious retreading of sexism cause I’m too busy trying to think the best of you! La la la la!

Newt needs to pull herself together and call it a day. Because frankly, she’s making the rest of us look a little unhinged.

Yes, Newt is making women like you look unhinged. What with Newt being too much of a faded high school queen bee struggling to adapt in a world that couldn’t care less about her former shallow accomplishments. What with Newt trying to truck too much with sexist stereotypes and uses of sexism against all women in embarrassing ways to the sex.

How perceptive of you.

 

Comments: 230

 
 
 

For a long time, this S.E. Cupp tried to be P.J. O’Rourke. It seems she has finally discovered she has nothing in common with him but initials-for-a-name, so now she’s trying to be Maureen Dowd.

It’s not uncommon for a young writer to go through phases of identifying with this or that famous, distinctive-style writer before finally finding her own voice (if she ever does). The difference is, hardly any of them get to spend this tedious process on the payroll of the New York Daily News.

 
 

Yeah. Newt’s making “the rest of us look a little unhinged.”

Thanks a lot, bitch, for metaphorically transferring all the conservative crazy to women, the majority of whom are more liberal than conservative. Neat little trick – for a GOP whore.

 
 

Jennifer-

Yeah, I was trying to figure out a graceful way to put it in the post, but she’d have almost had a point if she’d left out the sexism and the sex change and had just pointed out that Gingrich is “making the rest of conservatives look unhinged” instead.

Of course, that would also be wrong seeing as how conservatives were completely nuts before them and all Newt’s given them is an excuse to reveal just how far down the bottom can go.

 
 

You know, Sippy, some of us men would like to have hetero sex again without this image in our heads.

 
 

Also, that may be the most sexist thing the Daily News has ever published, and it has a history of rather remarkable sexism.

 
 

And now that the end is near for Ms. Gingrich, she is getting even more desperate.

Iowa – Winner Rick Santorum
New Hampshire – Winner Mitt Romney
South Carolina – Winner Newt Gingrich

Yes indeed, I believe it’s about desperation, Ms. Cupp.

 
 

sippy cupp is the most egregious kind of woman there is…spouting stereotypical bullshit…making women in general look like…well, like something less than human…we shouldn’t have to fight for the right to be considered sentient, autonamous beings…especially when it’s women promoting this notion…and doubly especially when we have things like this to fight against…

 
 

sippy cupp is the most egregious kind of woman there is…spouting stereotypical bullshit…making women in general look like…well, like something less than human…we shouldn’t have to fight for the right to be considered sentient, autonamous beings…especially when it’s women promoting this notion…and doubly especially when we have things like this to fight against…

 
 

fywp and fysc

 
 

The only woman Sippy makes look less than human is herself, as our benevolent overlord Cerb has said.

 
 

Newt Gingrich is a woman. OOH BURN.

 
 

Somebody’s desperate.

Desperate to stop the Republicans from showing everyone what they’re all about before the primary is even over.
~

 
 

“fysc”
I am sure Mr. Clyde – IF that is his real name – is perfectly capable of fucking himself. Air, what I mean is … Oh nevermind

 
 

Inhale a tub of ice cream in the privacy of your own home while watching a “Toddlers and Tiaras” marathon. And when that tub of ice cream is done, you follow it up with a bag of potato chips and a bowl of Cap’n Crunch.

And then you make yourself vomit. And then you check yourself into the eating-disorders clinic…

 
 

I am sure Mr. Clyde – IF that is his real name – is perfectly capable of fucking himself. Air, what I mean is … Oh nevermind

do you know how long it took me to get this? way too long…maybe i should cut back on the lifetime…

 
 

The Ho and I are out on the town today. Just had a fabulous burger at Violetta – g’head, look it up – and white truffle fries. Saw Girl Dragon last week. Redtails is getting very mixed reviews. Anybody seen it? Hugo? Anything else worth seeing this rainy (yeah, it’s Portland) Sunday poppa momma?

 
 

Who among us hasn’t wanted to rip the throat out of some guy who betrayed us?

wiley raises hand

I babysat for one of my boyfriend’s other girlfriends because as a single mother, she really needed a night out on the town with much music and dancing. Sebastian was adorable.

And I always tell my partners that I won’t go ballistic and all break-uppy if they have sex with someone else, but they must tell me or we’re dealing with deceit. Deceit I won’t tolerate; sex just happens sometimes. But my two monogamous men are, well… monogamous, so I’m monogamous now too. And when you’re fifty or older sex doesn’t just happen, so it’s all good.

 
 

That article made me think of what Newt would look like as a woman.

Turns out it’s no more or less disgusting than what he looks like as a man, so no big deal.

 
 

Pups, that looks great, and the prices are not outta control. Second Restaurant site I’ve been to today and both seemed full of win. The Brunch menu at the Spotted Pig looked particularly good though a bit pricey (by my standards, not Manhattan’s)

Definitely curious about the “10 hour tomatoes” and the white truffle fries. And can see myself quite happy with the Oregon Blue Burger.

I am not even close to hungry and my mouth is watering…

 
 

Not getting out of the boat but that is some really strange and convoluted writing. Just plain weird.

 
 

The hand cut Yukon gold spuds are fried in peanut oil and served with white truffle butter (Oregon truffles, natch). ZOMG they are good. The Oregonzola is astonishing, prize winning Rogue creamery blue, as I recall. The tomatoes are, I think, roasted then marinated. Damn tasty hOwever they are made.

 
 

Man, and I thought Santorum had a Google problem. Check out the first thing that comes up on Image Search for “Newt Gingrich”.

Absolutely gross. The Gingrich campaign is going to have a tough time dealing with the fallout from that.

 
 

This is just gross. There are few things worse than women spouting sexist stereotypes, especially when they think they’re being funny.

 
 

I don’t like to peddle in sexist stereotypes

If there were sexist stereotypes to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?

Hmm, scansion fail.

 
 

“I don’t like to peddle in sexist stereotypes”

Then don’t?

 
 

I’m not a racist, but I’m totally a racist.

 
 

I think she meant she’d rather be a wholesaler.
~

 
 

OT, I’m watching the Bulls-Heat game (Heat 56-51 at the half). If anyone on this board is in the Miami area, could you please go to Stupid Flanders Arena or whatever they call that place and shoot the courtside announcer? He’s one of these uber-annoying assholes who makes an aria out of the name of whichever Heat player just scored (“LeBrrrrrrroooooooooonnnnn JAAAAAAAAAAMES!!!!!!”)

 
 

SippyCup wants Ann Coulter’s job, now Ann’s getting too long-in-the-tooth. But she’ll have to bleach her hair and buy a tight black dress.

 
 

The hand cut Yukon gold spuds are fried in peanut oil and served with white truffle butter

Watch it, Pup. You’re turning into an upscale Paula Deen.

 
 

The hand cut Yukon gold spuds are fried in peanut oil and served with white truffle butter

I really need to finish up that teleportation device!
Eat Brunch in Manhattan, have a Oregon Blue with pup in the afternoon.
.

 
 

Watch it, Pup. You’re turning into an upscale Paula Deen.

It’s a wonder she’s diabetic.
.

 
 

Is that the same soppy cupp that said, repeatedly and in contravention of everything else she said, she was atheist? Maybe she’s not really a she, given all the misogyny on display.

 
 

So Newt is a high school girl and Mitt is… another high school girl in a rival clique and the Florida Republican voters are the jilting boyfriend? Mitt as the jilting boyfriend doesn’t make sense, even just within the story, but that’s how it reads. So who throws the milkshake on who? Aren’t Florida republicans some of the dumbest republicans in America? Do they drive a nice car? Sorry, that’s from ‘Grease’. Is this universe ‘Grease’ operable? Is Ron Paul realy Rizzo?

 
 

Newt is the blonde Kim Novak in “Vertigo” and Mitt is the brunette Kim Novak. Jimmy Stewart is the Florida republican primary electorate, and he can’t climb stairs, just like the real Florida republicans! He’s fascinated by blonde Kim Novak (Newtie) but distrusts brunette Kim Novak (Mittens). And we all can’t take our eyes off of them!

 
 

You know, if you’re looking for something to write and a simile pops into your head, like “What if Newt Gingrich were a jealous woman?” the fact that you can puke out a couple of hundred words pursuing this silliness doesn’t mean you can’t, at the end of the day, toss it in the trash can and start all over with something that makes sense. That’s what intelligent people do.

But what’s even worse, someone is being paid for editing this drivel, someone who could’ve have said to Ms. Cupp, “You know, if you’re looking for something to write etc., etc.” Or if she doesn’t have an editor, the op-ed page editor could’ve decided to forgo this one and run an extra Sudoku puzzle or something.

 
 

Newt is the blonde Kim Novak in “Vertigo” and Mitt is the brunette Kim Novak. Jimmy Stewart is the Florida republican primary electorate, and he can’t climb stairs, just like the real Florida republicans! He’s fascinated by blonde Kim Novak (Newtie) but distrusts brunette Kim Novak (Mittens). And we all can’t take our eyes off of them!

Please to be forwarding your postal address to take delivery of One Intertronz.
.

 
 

Pleh. Who asked for a Maureen Dowd double-down–and a consummately lame one at that?

 
 

Newt is the blonde Kim Novak in “Vertigo” and Mitt is the brunette Kim Novak. Jimmy Stewart is the Florida republican primary electorate, and he can’t climb stairs, just like the real Florida republicans! He’s fascinated by blonde Kim Novak (Newtie) but distrusts brunette Kim Novak (Mittens). And we all can’t take our eyes off of them!
(I forgot the most important part!)
We can’t take our eyes off them, even though we all know that underneath their makeup they exactly the same person!!

 
 

Anything else worth seeing this rainy (yeah, it’s Portland) Sunday poppa momma?
One for the money might be worth a look. It is definitely in the category of mindless entertainment. The book is very funny at least to me.

 
 

Cerb, did you make the sippy cupp photoshop? ‘Cause it is awesome!

I did and glad you liked it.

 
bughunter, who learned in college why black men call women "chicken head"
 
 

Two girls one Cupp?

 
 

Sippy Cup’s article is getting into dinosaur shit territory in terms of smelliness and quantity.
Are even wingnuts finding it amusing? It seems to me to be about as funny as a hernia. I mean one joke, Newty is getting a little bitchy. Ha, so he is! One can then move on to other rib tickling exposition. A whole article on it, really?
Also bath and icecream and watching “tiara” bullshit is not sexist?

 
 

But what’s even worse, someone is being paid for editing this drivel, someone who could’ve have said to Ms. Cupp, “You know, if you’re looking for something to write etc., etc.” Or if she doesn’t have an editor, the op-ed page editor could’ve decided to forgo this one and run an extra Sudoku puzzle or something.

I’m looking for a name to give this phenomenon— you know, when they could have spent just five more minutes working on something and made it a little bit better; but all those involved in publishing and promoting it gave the green light when a person with some pride in their craft would have kept it hidden until it was fully formed or trashed it, as you said, and then started over. A lot of Rod Stewart songs fall into this category for me.

 
 

Dr. BDH seems to have done my work for me, but still I say:

One of the best writers alive might, just might, be able to make this premise take off and fly a few yards. Doing so would be a perverse and pointless display of virtuosity.

In the hands and mouths of musicians like Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, the lousiest pop songs sounded grand. But I assume they knew the good ones from the bad. If S.E. Cupp doesn’t know the shittiest simile when it strikes her, how could she employ a good one to any effect? She should stop writing. There’s more shame in continuing like this than in quitting.

 
 

A lot of Rod Stewart songs fall into this category for me.

Most SNL skits fall into this category for me…

 
 

Whenever I want to determine when something a wingnut writes is really bigoted or not, I substitute “Jew” for whichever group the wingnut writer is talking about. If the result is really really ugly, then it’s bigoted.

S.E. Cupp is a Jew-hater. Clearly. “Woman” is just the code she’s using.

Plus, as a Republican establishment wannabe, she’s trying to help get Romney the nomination by emasculating Gingrich. Because there’s a race on in the conservative media to get Mitt the nomination by any means necessary. If by some fluke Gingrich wins in Florida, I predict mass suicides of loyal Republicans all over America. I’m not joking. They’ve gone so far out on the limb for Romney that if he should lose they’d have nothing left but to do the honorable thing and self-immolate.

 
 

They’ve gone so far out on the limb for Romney that if he should lose they’d have nothing left but to do the honorable thing and self-immolate.

HAH!!!

When was the last time any Republican did anything honorable?

 
 

if I’m not mistaken Cuppy is a one of the token conservative commentators on MSNBC. Must be because she’s not blonde.

 
 

They’ve gone so far out on the limb for Romney that if he should lose they’d have nothing left but to do the honorable thing and self-immolate.

Step riiight up folks! Get’cher gasoline here! 93 octane! I got Ronson lighters! Guaranteed to light first time or your money back! You’ll go up like a cross on a church lawn! Step right up!

 
 

Okay, I admit, when I saw “Newt Gingrich, Natural Woman,” I thought the article was going to contrast him with his current wife. Does that make me a bad person good observer?

 
 

this latest catfight
Evidently Ms Cupp cannot even keep straight in her mind whether Mitt Rmoney is meant to be the unfaithful male or the female rival.

 
 

Callista Gingrich would be the natural woman in that scenario, tensor? Because she doesn’t get her hair done so much as she gets it rasped, filed and polished, to say nothing of her face.

 
 

Rmoney will scratch Newt’s eyes out, S.C.

Because that’s what Reptiloids from outer space do.
~

 
 

This is confusing. Is she saying that Mitt and Newt were like lovers? Tha’s gross.

 
 

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. No one in the modern era, save maybe Lorena Bobbitt, has proved the axiom more true than our gal pal Newton Leroy Gingrich

For Ms Cupp there appears to be no difference between ‘a woman scorned’ (Zara, the Moorish queen in Congreve’s play, whose advances Alphonso has rejected) and ‘a woman two-timed and cheated on’. Nor any difference between ‘an axiom’ and ‘an observation’. It is almost as if she doesn’t much care about the meanings of words.

maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.
Loath though I am to rain on someone else’s sexist stereotypes, but in NZ at least the number of men attacked and/or murdered by jealous ex-wives because they want to be with someone else is far smaller than the number of women attacked and/or murdered by jealous ex-husbands.

 
 

When we first encountered Sippy, I found her obnoxious and annoying, but she sort of made sense and she was only offensive in the way that all wingnuts are offensive.

This, though? This senseless, sexist drivel? It’s not even so-bad-it’s-good bad. It’s I-want-to-throw-up bad.

 
address my envelope, lips!
 

Is this universe ‘Grease’ operable? Is Ron Paul realy Rizzo?

Grease 2. And Sippy is Blanche, the assistant principal.

No, think about it, it totally fits! Mittens is Maxwell Caulfield’s character, wooden, unable to act or sing, but rich/well-known enough to fool some people into thinking he would have box-office pull; Santorum is Eve Arden, the put-upon Principal, trying and utterly failing to keep the kiddies from learning about teh sexx0rs, and Newt thinks he’s cute and adorable Stephanie Zinone, but is actually the Shoggoth that lives in the basement.

 
 

BS nailed it right out of the gate.

Someone lookin to sneak a bit of MoDo’s mojo.

 
 

So Cupp’s idea for “belittling” Newt is to refer to him as a scorned woman. Talk about “Grrl Power!”

 
 

Extending the metaphor.

 
 

The NY Daily News is my favorite brand of toilet tissue.

 
 

What sort of person would sit in a bubble bath watching a “Toddlers and Tiaras” marathon?

I’ve only watched bits and pieces of “Toddlers and Tiaras” during commercial breaks in other programs, but I did catch a segment in which a two year old goes out on stage, and rather than smiling cutely like she is supposed to, she breaks down and cries. Based on that, I think it would be unfair accuse Cupp of being a pedophile. Maybe when she sits in her bubble bath frigging herself to scenes from “Toddlers and Tiaras,” she’s fantasizing about having sex with a two year old. But isn’t it more likely that she’s fantasizing about a world with no child labor laws, where children can be exploited not just as sex objects but as manual laborers? That’s what’s behind her (admittedly pathetic) attempts to be cruel to Gingrich. Gingrich, with his plan to hire 12 year olds as janitors, taps into her innermost passions, but she can’t have him (she’s wed to Romney) so she lashes out at him.

The good news for Cupp is that maybe, after Romney loses to Obama and Cupp no longer has to pretend to support him, she can become Gingrich wife number four. They won’t live happily ever after, but maybe they will live happily until Gingrich decides it’s time to move onto wife number five.

 
 

What sort of person would sit in a bubble bath watching a “Toddlers and Tiaras” marathon?

A masturbating sociopath.

 
address my envelope, lips!
 

What sort of person would sit in a bubble bath watching a “Toddlers and Tiaras” marathon?

A masturbating sociopath.

…who is about to get electrocuted when the TV falls in the bubbly water at the climax.

Of the SHOW. Geez.

 
address my envelope, lips!
 

Oh, Fenwick, I replied in a post to your query two days ago, but I’ll say it here to avoid you the bother: Thank you, I do feel better now, just mad weak. As far as I know, it’s not flu, since I had the shot a couple of months ago, just garden-variety nausea and vomiting (with no 9-month conclusion; I fixxored myself years ago). But absolutely everyone I know is sick with some sort of lurgy. It’s amazing.

Also, Oregon Beer Snob: Thank you, too. The laff was much appreciated.

 
Pupienus and I mean Maximus
 

Leftover duck => duck fried rice. OM NOM NOM

 
 

A mediocre hack (Ann Coulter, say) would devote, at most, a paragraph comparing the GOP candidates to stereotypical catty women; a slightly better writer (like MoDo) might give a passing “Heathers” or “Stepford” reference somewhere in the middle of a snarky paragraph. A writer with a shred of self-respect would ball that page up and toss it in the circular file and never look back.

 
 

Wow. We’ve reached a point in our cultural decline where Ann Coulter is merely a mediocre hack.

 
 

For a long time, this S.E. Cupp tried to be P.J. O’Rourke.

Oh sweet Cthulhu, THIS.

There’s trying very hard to be witty while saying something, & then there’s trying very hard to seem witty while saying nothing.

I got off the boat. That is a thing that needs to unhappen.

 
 

TBogg has found something that makes me burn with fury. I almost signed up there to express my anger with this shithead he found. Fucking bastard.

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/29/those-strapping-young-bucks-and-their-drying-machines/

 
 

S. cerevisiae – But, Mitt is a JOB CREATOR! He told me so himself. If we were to demand accountability, he might GO GALT and we’d be left without the fruit of his genius.

 
 

It’s so quiet here tonight that I have no excuse not to make a boring master grocery list.

Ick.

Sigh.

kicks floor.

drops shoulders.

gives up.

goes off to make lists and straighten the kitchen.

 
 

I wish I could be genius enough to earn 20 mil just sitting on my ass. God these people make me so fucking pissed. They’ve never had to screen phone calls just to weed out the bill collectors. Fuck them with a rusty chainsaw.

 
 

“It’s so quiet here tonight that I have no excuse not to make a boring master grocery list.”

What is this Master grocery list? A list of core foods to buy every time? One list to rule them all, one list to bind them?

I know a thing or two about lists, but grocery lists are a weak point. Sure, I’ve made em, but mastery, I tell ya I’m not so much bored as intimidated.

 
 

Callista Gingrich would be the natural woman in that scenario, tensor?

I’d meant that if Newt & Callista were a female couple, Newt would be the natural one, for the reasons you gave:

Because she doesn’t get her hair done so much as she gets it rasped, filed and polished, to say nothing of her face.

It’s the hair being the same color as the face which gets me.

 
 

What is this Master grocery list? […] One list to rule them all, one list to bind them?

Three things in the open-air markets to buy,
Seven for the mall lords in their halls of chrome;
Nine for credit cards doomed to fry,
And One for the Dark Lady in Her Dark Home,
In the Land of Wiley where the boredom lies

 
 

Nicely done, Tensor.

If I master grocery list is as mundane as I suspect it is, my only problem is that staple foods run out at different rates. In that case, the master list would just suggest and remind — you’d be nuts to buy it all every time.

My domestic problem here is that we had a plumbing emergency, and now it’s late and I’m dog-tired, but I still have forty minutes of guitar practice to go. It’s just my personal commitment (I’ve done an hour a day since my birthday on June 20, and 2 hours a day since Jan. 1st). Doing the two hours right requires an earlier start. Bleh, here I go.

 
 

No. The master list is for making labels for all the containers and for checking to see if any staple is running out or already has. It’s a reminder for what to buy from which store (butcher, farmers’ market, chinese store, grocery outlet, winco, co-op down the street from us, and soon Costco).

It’s also a way to help make a quarterly budget and to help find the best prices— especially for stocking up when something is on sale. Since the butcher’s and farmer’s market are WYSIWYG, it’s best not to make a menu and shop for that, so it helps to be on top of what we got and what we don’t and to make the menu as we shop.

I’m not afraid to worship Kali, especially when it comes to kitchen management; but it’s kind of tedious sometimes. Once the boring part is done, however, taking stock, rotating stock, and making shopping lists gets really easy.

 
 

It’s so quiet here tonight that I have no excuse not to make a boring master grocery list.

I’m just drinking a cup of coffee before I head to the airport to fly to Winnipeg.

 
 

Spearhafoc, who loves ya baby, said,
January 29, 2012 at 23:32

Check out the first thing that comes up on Image Search for “Newt Gingrich”.

Can’t sleep……………..clown will eat me………………..
Can’t sleep……………..clown will eat me………………..
Can’t sleep……………..clown will eat me………………..

 
 

…to recall the immortal words of Carrie Underwood…

This alone had me in stitches.

 
 

I like Carrie Underwood.

 
 

Disregard previous transmission.

I had her mixed up with Carrie Newcomer, who is an indy country/folk singer and actually has, you know, talent.

 
 

I’m home sick and dying of curiosity: did the clown eat Revolta?

 
 

“…to recall the immortal words of Carrie Underwood…”

This alone had me in stitches.

i know, right? actually i thought she was going to cite ‘jesus take the wheel’ which title just cracks me up…or isn’t it hairy underwear that sings that one?

Once the boring part is done, however, taking stock, rotating stock, and making shopping lists gets really easy.

oy, my youngest sister makes her grocery list on her computer…sorted by aisle and then alphabetically…

 
 

I’m home sick and dying of curiosity: did the clown eat Revolta?

hmmmm…well i guess i won’t tell you about my turkey meatloaf mishap…

 
 

Threddie’s dead.

 
 

DERP!

 
 

In fairness to Sippy, Newt’s got bigger tits.

 
 

Ah, Sippy Cupp, the fake atheist with the fake eyeglasses

 
 

I wish I could be genius enough to earn 20 mil just sitting on my ass.

Live goatse show.

I’ll take ten percent as your agent, now. I’d prefer that up front, please.

And start strecthing. Those cars aren’t lined up for nothing…

 
 

I’m looking for a name to give this phenomenon— you know, when they could have spent just five more minutes working on something and made it a little bit better; but all those involved in publishing and promoting it gave the green light when a person with some pride in their craft would have kept it hidden until it was fully formed or trashed it, as you said, and then started over

I can be of no assistance, but have been looking for a similar term, because what you describe paints a perfect picture of the contents of the landfill stuffed with the fruits of my creativity. Granted a few things have made it into the wild, but for the most part, that which has been deemed only decent or mediocre has been consigned to the dustbin.

That said, I can take pride in the fact that 95% of the shite (written) in the landfill is better than anything penned by most wingers with a sinecure.
.

 
 

But absolutely everyone I know is sick with some sort of lurgy.

All lurgied up m’self. Bleahh.

Goon ref = +1

 
 

…token conservative commentators on MSNBC.

Token???!!!???

please!

The stench of Pat Robertson never leaves that green room.
.

 
 

It’s so quiet here tonight that I have no excuse not to make a boring master grocery list.

Ick.

Sigh.

kicks floor.

drops shoulders.

gives up.

goes off to make lists and straighten the kitchen.

Interesting, but I would have thought to see milk or butter on there somewhere.

Where does one buy Ick, anyhow?

 
 

…sorted by aisle and then alphabetically…

gasp. hmmm. nah. but…yeah…no…hmmm…maybe…I’ll just note what aisle things are on on my list at Grocery Outlet and Winco and maybe…hmmm…yeah…i like…can send clouds to aisle by number with specific instructions…i really like…

 
 

Just in case this has not already been referenced, and you need to know more about Mitt and the Cult of Mormonism:

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/

 
 

Disregard previous transmission.

I had her mixed up with Carrie Newcomer, who is an indy country/folk singer and actually has, you know, talent.

I have had the pleasure to meet her. She happens to live here in my home town, or did, in any event it has been a number of years…
.

 
 

The stench of Pat Robertson never leaves that green room.

I take it you meant Pat Buchanan.

 
 

Something for Spear and Jeffraham

FSM have mercy!!!

First of all, where did you find that?

Second of all What does it signify?

And a previous comment was truncated due to tag related program activities:

Token???!!!???

(insert tribal identifier) please!
.

 
 

I take it you meant Pat Buchanan.

Yes, I did! Thank you for the correction.

I’ll be the one standing in the corner with the conic section atop my head if anyone needs me.
.

 
 

I love when things go kablooey:

Tickles the funny bone it does. Was it only a couple of months ago the the Freepers had their anti Romney purge? I always thought that it was likely to bite them in the ass.

… Doesn’t matter if it’s federal or state, it’s still SOCIALISM!! And a state forcing its government approved and controlled top-down socialist program on its citizens against their will, or else, especially with federal backing is FASCISM!! TYRANNY!! It is unwanted, unnecessary, un-American and UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!

Words…meaning…How do they fucking work?
.

 
 

Something I had not seen before and wish dearly that I had thought it up myself. From the DU thread posted by Pryme above:

Because Obama is only three-fifths of a President

Strictly speaking however if you factor in his White side it add up to 4 fifths, which when measured is still found wanting.
.

 
 

First of all, where did you find that?

Second of all What does it signify?

I’ve seen that picture before.

Supposedly that was the Ottoman Empire’s punishment for adultery. The woman was sewn into a large sack with a bunch of cats and the whole assembly was thrown into the river to drown.

 
 

I’ve seen that picture before.

Thanks for the info Major, I knew it had to be something in the realm of sickness outside the boundaries of my personal venn diagram of sickness, which, believe me, covers a substantial amount of territory.
.

 
Consumer Unit 5012
 

As my spiritual guru, Rev Stang, once put it, the GOP’s internal monologue can pretty much be summed up like this:

“We’re SMART and MANLY. And they’re WEAK and WOMANLY.”

—-

It’s a horrible thing to even contemplate, but I’m actually thinking about donating a few dollars to Newt Gingrich’s campaign.

Not because I like him, of course. Because I hate _ALL_ Republicans.

 
 

Whenever I want to determine when something a wingnut writes is really bigoted or not, I substitute “Jew” for whichever group the wingnut writer is talking about. If the result is really really ugly, then it’s bigoted. – Pope Ratzo

I do the same thing, but maybe that’s just because I am a Jew who grew up around a lot of evangelical Christian types, so I know the code and am a bit paranoid besides. Ironically, when you do this trick with just about anything Pammycakes writes, you get some pretty standard issue anti-Semitism. Which makes me wonder whether conservatives are doing the same thing we’re doing (in reverse): they take anti-Semitic screeds and just substitute other words for “Jew”. For instance, does Pammycakes, when she’s at a loss for another blogpost, just copy articles from old issues of Der Stuermer and change all mentions of “Jews” to “Muslims”?

So today’s right-wingers are not just bigots, they are lazy bigots?

 
 

Mr. Kong, I presume you have made it safely to parts Canadian?

Made it Winnipeg without incident. It’s actually pretty warm for Winnipeg this time of year – 21F/-6C.

 
 

Well, since this is a slow thread, I have no hesitation about doing a little pimping of the blerg variety. If you’re in of laughs, I’ve got cat funnies and pony funnies.

 
 

So today’s right-wingers are not just bigots, they are lazy bigots?

I think copy-pasta trolls are a good illustration of this being true.

 
 

If you’re in of laughs

Many years in the future people will read my “English” and be baffled.

Anyway, I meant “if you’re need of laughs.” Need. NEED.

 
 

Newt, btw … well not Newt, the PAC that has absolutely nothing to do with Newt, is busy attacking Romney from the left and then saying that Romney can’t win because the Democrats will attack him thusly. An interesting strategy because it makes some left-wing critiques that have traction come off as Newt’s ideas as well as steals some thunder from the Dems …

Even more interesting is that while Newt is running as the great social conservative hope, said PAC gets gobs of money from Sheldon Adelson who is many things — an asshole, a supporter of forces who would tar and feather good, religiously observant Jews as self-hating because we dare take positions to the left of Likud’s right fringe — but socially conservative he is NOT.

I wonder if anybody (is Rick Santorum up for this) can start pointing out the sources of Newt L. Gingrich’s money. I’d say I wouldn’t like anybody spewing forth coded anti-Semitism and poisoning our national political debates further, but given how the right talks, I think our national political conversation is already pretty much poisoned by anti-Semitism even if some of the spewers of such filth happen to be Jewish (and happen to call Jews like me “self-hating”) and just change the word “Jew” for whomever they feel comfortable hating.

 
 

Made it Winnipeg without incident

Excellent!

That is some balmy weather. At 55F it is freakishly warm here in b-town IN.
.

 
 

Putting up pet pics for another site and I just have to share one of my faves with you.

http://imgur.com/a/JWuMf#5

 
 

Speaking of things going kablooey.

 
 

Something for Spear and Jeffraham

Cat smuggling!

 
 

from the last thread:

But, there were cases of people who had visited Africa dying of mysterious AIDS-like illnesses all the way back into the 1950?s. There was one case of a British merchant marine who apparently transmitted the disease to his wife, who passed it on to their child in utero – they all died, just no one knew from what. The stories about AIDS being spread through polio vaccine have been pretty discredited. From the genetic analysis done on the virus, it seems to have jumped the species barrier about 75 – 100 years before “patient zero” was ever identified – meaning that it had been spreading in the human population in Africa for quite some time. That merchant marine was probably infected by a prostitute in Africa. – Jennifer

My parents saw Elvis Presley in Vegas toward the end of his life. When AIDS first achieved national prominence, my dad started to wonder (given how Elvis looked at the time and the signs and symptoms of the various diseases one gets when one has low helper T-cell counts) whether Elvis actually died of AIDS.

 
 

When AIDS first achieved national prominence, my dad started to wonder (given how Elvis looked at the time and the signs and symptoms of the various diseases one gets when one has low helper T-cell counts) whether Elvis actually died of AIDS.

That seems a little unlikely, if you ask me. I mean, the guy was declared dead of heart disease and the dude was obese and died on the can with a deep-fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich in his hands.

 
 

Slow thread blog pimping: I’ve got up the answer to the “class warfare” charge.

 
 

and the dude was obese

i was going to pipe up with this, but was trying to frame it a bit more delicately…i know, that’s odd for me, but this is elvis we’re talking about here…but anyhoo, yeah, he seemed a bit hefty to have aids…but i’m not an expert…

 
 

Speaking of things going kablooey.

Anyone else expect this clown’s next media event to be him trying to explain a meth-fueled rest stop bathroom encounter gone awry?

 
 

Putting up pet pics for another site and I just have to share one of my faves with you.

LOL

That is one crazy eyed beasty an I mean that in the absolute best of ways, not the Michele Bachmann way!
.

 
 

From Pup’s Kablooey link:

An unfazed Campfield told BuzzFeed in a brief telephone interview that “I went in there and the lady started calling me names and wouldn’t serve me.” The hostess told him he was a homophobe and that he hates homosexuals, he said.

Campfield said that on the contrary, he has no problem with gays. “In my business I do rental properties and I’ve rented to homosexuals, mixed-race couples, black couples,” he said. “And about every single group you can think of has been in my office.”

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/01/campfieldbistro.html#ixzz1kyK9rMOc

“…Every single group” = I don’t care where the money comes from as long as it’s green.

.

 
 

I meant “if you’re need of laughs.”

LOL

 
 

And about every single group you can think of has been in my office.

Every single group? Since some groups have > 100 people in them, he must have a very big office.

Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

 
 

I know you posted it before but I like this one
http://imgur.com/a/JWuMf#8

 
 

anyhoo, yeah, he seemed a bit hefty to have aids…but i’m not an expert… – bbkf

My dad’s claim was that Elvis didn’t actually look all that heavy — he looked more bloated than obese.

 
East Tn aka East Crackerstan
 

Stacey Campfield is representative of what passes for the status quo here. My county went two to one for McCain. Former rep Lincoln Davis (The bluest dog you can who imagine lost badly in 2010) had a townhall in 2009 and I damn near had two fistfights arguing with teaparty nuts in the lobby. Knoxville is better than the country counties because of UT but not by much. Every Obama sign I placed in my yard was stolen except the one I put 30 feet up in a tree. This county is so white I notice EVERY person of color I see.

 
 

Now that I think about it, Sippy Cupp is probably in this video, and if not, the song was written with people like her in mind.

 
 

I do rental properties

you don’t DO rental properties…you either own them or you rent properties…possibly my biggest pet peeve..’do’ while a useful verb should not be the only fucking verb you use…

/end rant

 
 

My dad’s claim was that Elvis didn’t actually look all that heavy — he looked more bloated than obese.

he was indeed quite bloated…which could disguise any weight he may have been losing…i wouldn’t be surprised if an aids diagnosis was made…

 
 

Stacey Campfield is representative of what passes for the status quo here. My county went two to one for McCain.

if your county goes for stacey mccain, get the eff out of there as fast as you can…

 
 

Well, if Elvis had died of AIDS, it was a full 3 years before the disease showed up in the media. Since he wasn’t gay or an IV drug user, I think it’s doubtful. He was popping way more than enough pills to explain his demise.

 
 

you don’t DO rental properties

Speak for yourself.

 
 

you don’t DO rental properties…you either own them or you rent properties…possibly my biggest pet peeve..’do’ while a useful verb should not be the only fucking verb you use…

What if the property comes on to you and says “…I yes I said yes I will Yes. ”

What do you suggest I do then? Hide my forbidden real estate love?

 
 

What do you suggest I do then? Hide my forbidden real estate love?

Remove a doorknob. It will be safer.

 
 

Well, if Elvis had died of AIDS, it was a full 3 years before the disease showed up in the media. Since he wasn’t gay or an IV drug user, I think it’s doubtful. He was popping way more than enough pills to explain his demise.

all true…but he was also rather promiscuous…and i guess with his drug addiction and need for instant gratification, i wouldn’t rule out iv drug use…if only once or twice…

 
 

actor and n_b…are we just begging to be junkpunched?

 
 

What do you suggest I do then? Hide my forbidden real estate love?

Be sure to wear a condominium.

 
 

There’s nothing you could do that would make me feel worse than I do right now.

 
 

There’s nothing you could do that would make me feel worse than I do right now.

If you get evicted, it’s coitus interruptus.

 
 

“What do you suggest I do then? Hide my forbidden real estate love?”

You may get lucky and get cherry cabinets.

 
 

You may get lucky and get cherry cabinets

With really nice knobs.

 
 

Find one with a nice rear entrance.

 
 

Yeah, no. Sorry but I gotta call BS on the Elvis-died-of-AIDS theory. Just because there’s nothing to suggest he did. No Kaposi’s sarcoma. No pneumocystitis cariini. No wasting away – to the contrary, he was bloating up. By the time AIDS kills someone, they’ve been very ill for some time – Elvis was continuing to perform live concerts, which a person really sick with AIDS wouldn’t be able to do.

There’s just nothing to suggest that Elvis died of AIDS. It’s possible he was HIV-positive, but he didn’t die of AIDS.

 
 

There’s nothing you could do that would make me feel worse than I do right now.

ehhh…that’s right you are sick boy…junk punching can wait…

 
 

With really nice knobs.

there is a shop in dublin called ‘knobs and knockers’…guess what they sell…

 
 

There’s just nothing to suggest that Elvis died of AIDS. It’s possible he was HIV-positive, but he didn’t die of AIDS.

yeah, you’re right…as always…i’m still just sad elvis died so young…i know, i know, i’m a huge dork…and i’m fine with that…

 
 

there is a shop in dublin called ‘knobs and knockers’…guess what they sell…

Ann Summer remainders?

 
 

Ann Summer remainders?

heh…i had to google that…

 
 

@ actor,

How would you rate the accuracy of this (scale of 1-to-10)?

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-awful-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-actor/

Just curious.

 
 

bbkf – “as always”? I wish.

I hate to admit this, but my best friend and I tortured another friend of ours when Elvis died because we thought he was just a fat, gross old man. Our friend’s mom was a huge fan because of course she remembered him from when he was young and hot, and that Elvis-worship had passed on to our friend. My best friend and I went through this whole thing in the 80s where we would buy The Weekly World News, or any other tabloid, whenever they ran an “Elvis is Alive!” story, and clip and mail them to each other. The ones I remember best: one WWN cover story about an “Elvis Tribe Found in Amazon Jungle…they wear Elvis wigs and sing ‘Hound Dog’ – just like the King!”, which was accompanied by a really bad photoshop of dusky-hued natives in grass skirts wearing p-shopped Elvis wigs. There was another one exploring the “links” between Egyptian Pharoh Amenhotep I and Elvis, where they showed a statue of Amenhotep side-by-side with a photo of Elvis, to illustrate the “startling resemblance.”

It wasn’t until I got older that I developed an appreciation for Elvis’ early music. Until then, whenever I heard “Elvis” I thought – LAME.

 
 

What do you suggest I do then? Hide my forbidden real estate love?

Do NOT make me upload the “Condo Bondage” episodes from “Rock Opera” (in the June and July 1982 issues of Heavy Metal, if memory serves).

 
 

How would you rate the accuracy of this (scale of 1-to-10)?

I give it a ten, with some points off for not getting to ten things nobody tells you about being an actor.

All of those are truer, truer than even they let on. For example, 98% of people who will call themselves actors (right down to getting the headshots and resumes) will never earn a dime acting. Never.

And the number of acting jobs that actually involve acting is probably about the same proportion– 2%– of all *paid* acting gigs.

The thing about SAG is something that used to be truer, but is still true. For example, you can join SAG now as an extra performer. That wasn’t always the case, you actually had to get speaking roles, which usually meant one of the “talent” had to get sick on set, and you had to resemble them, at least superficially. That was about the only way to get a SAG card, because, you know, you can’t get a card without working a SAG job but you can’t get a SAG job without a card.

 
 

That was about the only way to get a SAG card, because, you know, you can’t get a card without working a SAG job but you can’t get a SAG job without a card.

…and now I’m cross-eyed. But seriously, yeah, that’s crazy. I guess acting is similar to teaching in that you really have to love your craft.

On the bright side, maybe now I can call myself a “writer!”

 
 

There was another one exploring the “links” between Egyptian Pharoh Amenhotep I and Elvis

Relevant

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

 
 

I guess acting is similar to teaching in that you really have to love your craft.

The trouble is, in this country, we don’t. Which is why acting becomes this stifled and mechanical crap that you see on the TeeVee.

 
 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

I don’t even have to click to know it’s Bubba Ho Tep

 
 

OT for Major Kong and Fenwick (and anybody else that likes planes and rockets): I went to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, this weekend. Excellent museum, almost as good as the Smithsonian believe it or not. Their big “claim to fame” is that they have the Spruce Goose — it’s fucking HUGE!! — but I enjoyed the smaller exhibits better. Most of the docents are veterans, and I got to take a great tour of the inside of a B-17G after chatting with a very nice guy that piloted one on 30 missions in WWII. If you’re ever out West, it’s worth a visit.

 
 

I had the chance to be an extra in Air Force One, parts of which were filmed at Rickenbacker. They were filming at night, so I would have had to work my normal shift and then spend the night working as an extra, so I declined. Several people from the unit were in fact in the movie.

They did use an actual 747 for some of the scenes. They leased one from Kalitta and painted it up to look like Air Force One. The first time they cranked the engines up it blew over and destroyed a very expensive camera.

 
 

O.K. sadlynaughts, though my domain is not yet organized exactly the way I want it to be, cloudtech— as we speak— is clicking the box that will connect wileywitch dot com with the search engines. I am forewarning you that I am pimping ya’ll out. Already, I have put some of you on the mean streets of the internet, but I promise I will not pimp out the babbies; because babbies are all sacred and shit.

I especially totes like stealing your images.

Don’t know what kind of traffic I’ll be getting, but I do have a lot of categories and will start entering tags shortly…for a long time…until I puke.

Will finish the master grocery list first.

 
 

I’ll have to check out that museum if I ever get a Portland trip.

My anniversary present last year was a 40-minute ride in a B-17. It was very cool.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1283553138168.2034685.1510303919&type=3

 
 

I especially totes like stealing your images.

Oh, you can steal all of mine. Heh heh.

 
 

the poor girl is an emotional wreck, and needs an intervention. As part of the womanfolk clan myself, it’s therefore my duty to give Ms. Gingrich a serious reality check, and save her from herself. Because…I care.

How very altruistic and selfless of you, SE.

 
 

Oh, wiley, on grocery lists, if you guys have iphones(or I think they do droid now, too, not sure) grocery gadgets is a pretty decent web and phone app with a free version, with customizable back end product lists with aisle info. You can use the web and phone interfaces at the same time, so like if clouds went shopping and you stayed home you could add stuff to the list while he was at the store, or see what he’d already gotten, etc. The pay version is only useful if you want to do more than groceries.

 
 

wiley said,

January 31, 2012 at 0:06 (kill)

O.K. sadlynaughts, [snip]

Wow, lots of good content over there wiley. Nice!

 
 

I’ll have to check out that museum if I ever get a Portland trip.

It’s about an hour’s drive outside of Portland, but it’s worth it. A good chunk of that hour is spent driving through some of Oregon’s best wine country too, so that’s a plus.

 
 

OK, Wiley I popped by. I like the layout – very clear and crisp. Real orderly.And JP’s cat is always worth pimping. But I couldn’t say Break a Leg or anything because there is no commenting space.Chicken?

 
 

Major Kong – I’m something like 100% certain that the WWN feature I mentioned was the genesis of Bubba Ho Tep. For one thing, it pre-dated BHT by at least 10 years.

 
 

DAS said,

January 30, 2012 at 20:50 (kill)

[snip]

Even more interesting is that while Newt is running as the great social conservative hope, said PAC gets gobs of money from Sheldon Adelson who is many things — an asshole, a supporter of forces who would tar and feather good, religiously observant Jews as self-hating because we dare take positions to the left of Likud’s right fringe — but socially conservative he is NOT.

Related (blogwhore)

 
 

bbkf – “as always”? I wish.

i typed that with the utmost reverance…you are truly one of the smartest people i have ever come across…

It wasn’t until I got older that I developed an appreciation for Elvis’ early music. Until then, whenever I heard “Elvis” I thought – LAME.

you may be excused for this since you weren’t reared in an OMG!!! ELVIS!!! household…

 
 

O.K. sadlynaughts, though my domain

way to be mistress of your domain, wiley…

 
 

you may be excused for this since you weren’t reared in an OMG!!! ELVIS!!! household…

I find that the original songs are nearly always better than Elvis’ version.

 
 

a recap:

My adorable 24/7 tech guy– clouds— is working on making “a social network in a box” (buddypress) that I’ll call “the dream of a common language”. It is by invitation only and youse guyses are t-totally invited and ya’lls can submit friends’ names for invites.

I’ll have no truck with the random shits. It’s my house and I haven’t finished building it yet, but “my life in order” is not open to comments and will not be. I’ve just started putting up a decade worth of material and am making more now.

and now for an update:

wiley: howzit goin’ with the dream, clouds?

clouds: it’s going. i stopped yesterday before i drove myself insane with something, but it’s going. I tried to understand adrienne rich’s “dream of a common language”—that’s the name of a book of her poems, right?— and the idea of what she was going for so I could understand the theme to it— what she meant by “a common language.”

Chicken? The woman who heckled her commander in the field? Nah. Not chicken, just too busy and not interested in getting comments on my work and my history.

Now, a social network is worth the time it takes cloudtech to study the whole wordpress widget for making it. He’s fully engaged, I can tell by the cussing. Is good sign.

 
 

So when Mitt unexpectedly stole Newt’s thunder, everyone in school could see the writing on the wall. Ms. Gingrich was going to lose it. And lose it she did.

Whoa, I thought the conventional wisdom was that Newt had no thunder and was just going through the motions, fleecing the rubes on a glorified book tour until Romney’s PAC shit all over him, causing him to go all “HULK SMASH” on the GOP primary.

 
 

OBS, that sounds cool – I didn’t know about that museum. I did drive through the town once last summer when grass fires closed down I-5 near Salem and I had to find an alternate route to Corvallis from the gorge. Thank god for KPOJ and their traffic reports (also for great liberal talk radio).

 
 

Oregon Beer Snob said,

January 31, 2012 at 0:01 (kill)

It’s neat and weird looking at a DC-3 and it looks like a toy plane parked under the Goose’s wing. You can go up into the thing – it’s just mind boggling. We stopped there very briefly last summer to look at the water park. The slide begins in a 747 on the roof.

There’s also the Tillamook Air Museum about 90 minutes west of Portland. ALL their planes fly regularly. I made a special trip out there (although it was also a great “reason” to ride the motorpickle to the coast) the day they were flying the P-38. Suuhhhhweeeet. It’s almost worth it just to look at the former blimp hanger, the largest wooden structure in the world.

 
 

Just to be thorough, the flight museum in Hood River is fun. They have a bunch of antique autos and WWII era military vehicles. Definitely worth a visit if you’re in the gorge but it’s hardly a destination in and of itself.

 
 

There’s a teensy museum in Vancouver, um … Pearson Field. Formerly of the Army Air Corps and now a part of the Ft. Vancouver historical sight. Not much of a museum. Not much of anything.

Boeing’s museum in Seattle is well worth a visit.

No, The Ho and I aint your typical fags.

 
 

Major Kong – I’m something like 100% certain that the WWN feature I mentioned was the genesis of Bubba Ho Tep. For one thing, it pre-dated BHT by at least 10 years.

Wiki says the novella (yes, there is one) was published in 1994.

Irrelevant.

I’m beginning to suspect that you were prematurely weaned!

 
 

Major Kong – I’m something like 100% certain that the WWN feature I mentioned was the genesis of Bubba Ho Tep. For one thing, it pre-dated BHT by at least 10 years.

Supposedly one of the motivations was to give Elvis a better death than the one in real life.

I actually liked the movie, especially Ossie Davis.

 
 

There’s a teensy museum in Vancouver, um … Pearson Field.

Hamilton Ontario has a very nice museum. They were nice enough to let me crawl through their Lancaster (one of only two that still fly).

 
 

I actually liked the movie, especially Ossie Davis.

Yeah, it starts off as a cheesy horror/comedy, and ends up an elegaic portrayal of the plight of the aged.

 
 

The Pima Air Museum in Tucson is pretty cool too. Lots of Cold War era craft there.

 
 

bbkf – well, that was a nice thing to say, but seriously, sites like Sadly, alicublog, and tbogg are a little intimidating, because the commenters are so sharp. Megan McArdle comes from “a family of academics who are actually intellectually intimidating” she says, which given that’s she’s dumb as a box of rocks is probably BS, but I am familiar with the sentiment from my travels on the internons. I feel like I’m doing good if I’m just keeping up.

 
 

Thread needs more Falconry Fail images.

 
 

boring master grocery list.

1) Insipid handcuffs
2) Vacuous Cat-O-Nine-Tails
3) Rope that can’t be bothered to make knots
4)…

 
 

clouds: it’s going. i stopped yesterday before i drove myself insane with something, but it’s going. I tried to understand adrienne rich’s “dream of a common language”—that’s the name of a book of her poems, right?— and the idea of what she was going for so I could understand the theme to it— what she meant by “a common language.”

Chicken?

I actually had to read this twice before I realized you weren’t referring to this. (NOTE: you may have to cut and paste the link– the Parking Lot is Full archive can be obnoxious about linkage.)

 
 

I’m beginning to suspect that you were prematurely weaned!

I have a type. So sue me.

 
 

Friends, the Bible says there is no heaven:

Many on the religious left criticize capitalism because all do not end up monetarily equal—or, as Churchill quipped, “all equally miserable.” But the Bible’s prescription of equality means equality under the law, as in Deuteronomy’s saying that “Judges and officers . . . shall judge the people with a just judgment: Do not . . . favor one over the other.” Nowhere does the Bible refer to a utopian equality that is contrary to human nature and has never been achieved.

 
 

I’m beginning to suspect that you were prematurely weaned!

or he’s desperately trying to tell us something! no, spear…you do NOT want to have big boobies…they are not as much fun as you think they are…

 
 

Nowhere does the Bible refer to a utopian equality that is contrary to human nature and has never been achieved.

so…j.c. was pretty much calling bullshit on the word of dad?!?!

 
 

You know what kids are like “My dad’s got a more equitable universe than your dad”

 
 

You know what kids are like “My dad’s got a more equitable universe than your dad”

oh, yeah? can your dad lift a rock THIS big?

 
 

Many on the religious left criticize capitalism because all do not end up monetarily equal

SO. MUCH. STRAW.

 
 

SO. MUCH. STRAW.

Seriously. We’ve gone beyond straw-men and we’re into haystacks here.

 
 

Unlike socialism, mired as it is in the static reproduction of things already invented

“I don’t know what socialism means!”

Also funny that the top sidebar article is on MF Global. Praise Mammon!

 
 

“class warfare”

Class warfare sounds like the sort of thing that the richer, more powerful side would win. How about some class terrorism instead?

(Is there a whole spectrum of class conflict? You know, class cyberbullying? Class assault? Class libel? Class class action suits?)

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

It’d be gauche to suggest the “equality under the law” is the equality wherein bum and millionaire are both forbidden to sleep under the overpass, right?

 
 

mired as it is in the static reproduction of things already invented

The automobile industry is socialanist? Well if you say so, Mister. Burn the fuckers down, then.

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Also, the money-printing industry, notoriously socialist. Real men of capitalism use the barter system! Every transaction a new thing for a new thing!

 
 

Yeah, that is such a bullshit, starry-eyed, pie-in-the-sky vision of capitalism. Entrepreneurship! Inventing new things! Progress! I guarandamntee you we’d have a fraction of the technology, medicines, whatever without the government having funded the research and development. What capitalists want is to make as much money as possible with as little risk as possible, and there’s no surer way to do that than to sell what you already know people will buy because they’re already buying it. Socialism is the internet, capitalism is Friday the 13th Part Infinity.

 
 

And now I’m using “socialism” the way they do, as if government paying for stuff were the definition. Dammit.

 
 

you do NOT want to have big boobies…they are not as much fun as you think they are…

I beg to differ. But I don’t have to carry them and one woman I knew had back problems because of them.

but – BOOBIES!

 
 

Nowhere does the Bible refer to a utopian equality that is contrary to human nature and has never been achieved.

First thought: “Has this clown even read the New Testament?”

Second thought: Ah. Probly not so much.

 
 

In the mid-1990s he founded a conservative think-tank of Black and Jewish political conservatives, with Herman Cain
Now this is a CLASSY guy. 9-9-9 BABY!!

 
 

Has this clown even read the New Testament?

Yeah, but he skipped everything except the “wives be submissive” parts and Revelation.

 
 

Speaking of bubble baths…

The “How Thick Is Your Bubble?” quiz is making the rounds on the mailing lists and chain emails of the conservative base… and I find it very funny that few of my randroid republican friends score more than a 6 out of 20, even though it’s clearly designed to promote flyover country culture and socioeconomics as the one true “American Culture.” (If you took a red crayon and used it to color a map of the US with the states that scored high on this test, and a blue crayon to color the low-scoring states blue, you’d have a pretty accurate Electoral College map for the 2008 presidential election.)

Even better, I scored a 14, and I’m a progressive, college educated professional… you know, the kind of person who is supposed to be living in the bubble.

It’s based on a quiz in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, you know the dude who wrote “What’s the Matter With Nigg^H^H^H^HKansas?” (I scored 67/100 on the book’s version.)

Roy and TBogg have already taken it apart, and I thought for sure I’d find that you all had exhausted its snark potential, too… but sadly, no.

 
 

Oops – brain fart “What’s the Matter With Nigg^H^H^H^HKansas?” should have been a reference to The Bell Curve. Poor fact checking on my part.

 
 

New post. It’s Chunky Reese Witherspoon flavored.

 
 

Yeah, but he skipped everything except the “wives be submissive” parts and Revelation.

Well, I was thinking that, being a Rabbi and all, he doesn’t really get to speak with the authority of faith when it comes to the NT. Not, apparently, that he lets that stop him from spouting ass-geysers of ideological revisionism.

 
 

Jenn, I’m with bbkf on this. You are one of the smart people who keep inarticulate people like me lurking rather than posting through sheer diffidence.I have resolved to comment regardless of feeling like an inferior outsider but I still am deeply respectful of those, like you, who seem to be able to say something that is on topic, smart and snarky all at the same time.RESPECT.

 
 

I was six years old when Elvis died. My parents started talking about it on the way over to my grandparents’ house. I thought they were saying that grandpa died on the toilet that morning. It sounded plausible. They didn’t seem very upset, though, so I kept quiet until we got there. I was surprised to see grandpa alive and unwell. Everyone got a good laugh outta that, especially Elvis, smiling down from heaven.

 
 

Has this clown even read the New Testament?

Well, the OT also has an awful lot of stuff about what rich folks are required to do, too, like letting people eat whatever they want from the fields without paying as long as they don’t take a doggy bag and always leaving some of the harvest behind for the poor to eat, pay fair wages, not charge interest to fellow countrymen, not to take vital items as collateral, and complete debt forgiveness at regular intervals. Whatever reading he’s done has been mighty selective.

 
 

Prom queen?
As they say on the Stephanie Miller show, “Thanks for playing Really Bad Analogy!”

 
address my envelope, lips!
 

@bughunter:

Wow. I took that quiz (14, too), and I’m progressive, leftist, reasonably well-off… and English. I think that excuses me from the “how white is your NASCAR?” questions.

I’d be generous and say that maybe they didn’t realize they were being incredibly racist, but I’m not feeling generous, and they are being really obviously racist.

 
 

(c);

 
 

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