Shut Up, Brain, Or I’ll Stab You With A Q-Tip!

kevin_and_homer.pngKevin “Musclehead” McCullough has those horrible bags under his eyes because he stays up late at night thinking of new names to call liberals. And that’s hard work. ‘Cuz anyone can call a liberal a “terrorist” or a “godless atheist.” But Kevin has worked his musclehead extra, extra hard and now has a new insult for liberals: “Why Liberals Make Atrocious Parents.”

This is, of course, a rather surprising claim from Kevin, since he also believes that liberals are too busy aborting babies or having gay sex to actually have any children. But, apparently, when we stop putting our junk in the wrong orifices and allow a pregnancy to go to term, we’re terrible — no, atrocious — parents. Unlike, say, Rudy Giuliani or Jeb Bush.

And why is that? Well apparently because Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, when asked about the gay fairy tale King and King during a recent debate, didn’t declare a jihad against the book’s authors:

Tim Russert asked the three front-runners for the Democratic nomination as to their comfort level of teaching a homosexual story of two boys consummating their lust for each other to children in the second grade. They all agreed they would support the teaching of such behavior.

How can you resist a story about two boys consummating their lust for each other? That sounds really hot. So I rushed out and bought a copy, and let me tell you was I ever disappointed. In fact, I’m going to ask Kevin to pay me back the $14.95 I wasted on this book. All the two boys did was get engaged and kiss once. I don’t know what passes for consummating one’s lust in the McCullough boudoir, but I can tell you the minimum standards for consummating lust, at least in my bedroom, are considerably higher.

Another reason that liberals are atrocious parents, according to Kevin, is because they let their children run wild in department stores:

If you want to see this at work in the real world – take ten minutes to go randomly interview any girl who works in women’s retail today. The hellions that liberal moms bring into their store – and immediately lose track of the moment they begin trying things on are significantly different than the children who have been taught to stand quietly and wait until they are home to run, wrestle, hide, seek, laugh, and play.

Liberal moms, you see, tell department store clerks right before they go into the changing rooms that they support gay sex, abortions and welfare for illegal immigrants, which is how those clerks know so much about liberal moms and their naughty children. D’oh!

 

Comments: 105

 
 
 

The Amazon customer reviews of that book are uniquely hilarious. You’d almost suspect that some wingnuts are learning irony.

 
 

Kevin’s obviously never been to church; he should be forced to keep the nursery for a couple years until his honesty gland starts functioning.

 
 

Yes, those terrible Democrats and their terrible parenting, what with them all being married to the same person for years and years.

Not at all like all the GOP front-runners, and Reagan, and Newt, and….

Oh, what’s the use. Things stopped having to be true years ago.

 
 

The hellions in department stores are the kids of liberals? Didn’t they used to be the spawn of welfare queens? I swear, I can’t keep up with the latest conservative stereotypes. Someone needs to start up a wikipedia for this kinda crap, it would be easier to follow.

 
 

When I take my kids to the department store, I tell them to go find the republicans and kick them in the crotch. It lets the little tykes blow off steam, and I get a hearty chuckle. Everybody wins!

 
 

Interview any “girl” who works in “women’s retail”? WTF?

“Run, wrestle, hide, seek, laugh and play” = “hellion”? WTFF?

No, seriously. WTFFF?

 
 

I want the fairytale “The Princess and the Frog” banned from libraries, public schools etc. as well. It promotes Bestiality!

 
 

a) Welfare queens are liberals

b) you can tell the Liberal Moms by the fact that their children are so badly behaved. The young of God-fearing Republican-voting normal parents are exclusively sweet little Aryan angels.

 
 

a homosexual story of two boys consummating their lust for each other

Still not as bad as stories about homosexual penguins raising an abandoned chick.

No shit, that’s what “the most challenged book of 2006” is about – gay pen-gu-ins.

 
 

Republicans are hating on Republican Jerry Sanders for coming out in favour of gay marriage. Here‘s his moving speech on his changed mind.

 
 

Excuse me.

Yes sir?

Can I ask you a couple questions?

I’m working here. Can you come back on my break?

Tell you what. I’ll buy, um, this. Ok if I ask you a couple questions while you ring it up?

You want to buy a six pack of pink fuzzy ankle socks?

Uh. Sure. I need some. Anyway, as a retail clerk, what is your impression of liberal kids?

Liberal kids? I. Uh, I’m not sure. What’s a liberal kid.

You know. Kids whose parents are liberals.

Oh. I guess they’re pretty much like everybody elses kids.

You don’t think there’s a difference between conservatives kids and liberal kids?

Actually, I don’t know how to tell the difference. Most kids I talk to are into video games, cartoons and superheroes. Maybe “High School Musical”. Not really politics.

But the parents…

You know, I’d never thought about it, but the only time I think I know the politics of my customers is with conservatives.

How’s that?

Well, I guess I’m assuming here, but I think they’re probably the ones who criticize the way I dress, my tattoos and piercings as “slutty”…

mikey

 
 

Liberals… believe in lack of restraint, defying of limits, and excess – whether it’s taxes, education, or sexual practice.

So conservative sexual practices involve using lots of restraints? These guys are more interesting than I thought.

 
 

Don’t you see, Snorghagen, the order matters.

Lack of restraint -> taxes. Everyone knows liberals want to make taxes eleventy-gagillion percent.

Defying of limits -> education. Conservates know better, but liberals have this crazy, harmful idea that them wimmin and colored folk shouldn’t be limited from getting education.

Excess -> sexual practice. ‘Cuz pleasure is excess. Sex should only be awkward, clothes-on procreation to make lots of Aryan quiver-fulls.

 
 

The position of “parent” is God granted, yet they shirk with great disdain the desire to give their children the basic wisdom of life.

All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9)

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21: 9)

Libs: soft on the death penalty for chilluns, i.e., shirkers.

But with these ideas liberals have even excused themselves of performing the task God gave them uniquely.

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. (Exodus 21: 7)

Libs: not selling daughters into perpetual slavery for pleasing services*, i.e., God-betrayers.

*Unless, of course, daughters of priests.

 
 

Saying “no” when they reach for a hot pan on the stove, may seem rather harsh, scolding, and even angry – but in the end it has saved them from immense pain!

Liberals, well-known for their refusal to stop their own children from getting serious burns!

 
 

So conservative sexual practices involve using lots of restraints? These guys are more interesting than I thought.

Not really. It just fits into their authoritarian model. National Geographic finally managed to film the elusive conservative-sex, and it was kinda boring…Like, elephant sex or something… There was a brief period of panting, a loud noise, and then some awkward apologies for some reason.

 
 

Saying “no” when they reach for a hot pan on the stove, may seem rather harsh, scolding, and even angry – but in the end it has saved them from immense pain!

it is a well know fact that 100% of the childern in burn wards have liberal parents.

 
 

“The hellions that liberal moms bring into their store -”

Just a fucking minute.
I worked in a restaurant for three years, a year and a half as a server.
I call bullshit.

What, exactly, is the standard being used to classify “liberal” moms to “conservative” moms?
I’m willing to bet it’s, “the ones with mis-behaved children are liberal, the ones with well behaved children are conservative.”

Ugh. To annoyed. Can’t make funny work.

 
 

David Vitter excepted, of course. Now that one does have some ‘interesting’ tastes.

 
 

From Kevin’s page on Amazon, this:

Here are my recent barn-burners:
WHY LIBERALS ARE CRUSHING DISSENT
WHY DID WAL-MART GO GAY?
PATHETIC LIBERAL SISSIES

Do we sense a pattern here? Outrage at the two gay lads “consummating”? Wal-Mart goes gay? Sissies?
Come out of the closet, Tom Cruise!

 
 

They don’t come much dumber than Kevin. Well, depending on which day of the week it is…

 
 

Oh, I get how this works! He calls everything he hates “liberal”, then says liberals are bad. Simple ideas for a simple mind.

 
 

Diaper sex is conservative and godly, as long as it is practiced by Republican Senators in states with a Democratic governor.

 
 

OTOH, cruising for teh male action is beyond the ‘pail’, if you’re a Republican Senator in a state with a Republican governor.

 
 

The hellions that liberal moms bring into their store – and immediately lose track of the moment they begin trying things on are significantly different than the children who have been taught to stand quietly

I swear, Townhall’s archive is chock full of columns where authors pick one one annoying aspect of human behavior, assume that all who commit such transgressions are Liberal, and then use it to symbolize Liberals, Liberalism, and Liberal beliefs as a whole.

Didn’t Dennis Prager once write a whole column about how eating an ice cream cone in the street showed how bad liberals are?

It could be anything – letting your kids run around in a store, bumper stickers, girls playing soccer, watching too much TV.

 
 

Coming as I do from a small town in the reddest part of Kansas, I think I can speak to the “discipline” of conservative-raised kids. Now, I could talk about my (liberal) defense attorney father and all the times he got stuck defending one of my classmates after the little dear shoplifted or drove drunk or spray painted a swastika on someone’s house or put some other kid in the hospital or tortured and killed some cows just for the fun of it.

However, Good Sir Musclehead seems to be talking about small children rather than adolescents. I do remember being in elementary school and, about once a week, getting surrounded by five or six good, wholesome conservative-raised youths who decided to knock me around while the WASPy aides looked the other way. They probably singled me out because I was pretty much the smallest boy in the class at the time. It always turned out all right though, because as soon as I threw a punch (or even just indicated that I would throw a punch), they’d scatter and run like scared rabbits. So I guess you could say that I’ve been exposed to the full spectrum of conservative values: greed, cowardice, bigotry, self-importance, entitlement, malice, and a general contempt toward anything that falls outside their narrow self-interest.

 
 

Didn’t Dennis Prager once write a whole column about how eating an ice cream cone in the street showed how bad liberals are?

I think that was Harvey Mansfield.

But, yeah, the trick here seems to be to equate “liberal” and “permissive,” then say that all kinds of permissiveness are the outgrowth of liberal political ideas. Which would be kind of like saying that the naughty children who go around grabbing at everything within reach show the true failure of conservatism, because “conservative” at heart means self-interested and grasping.

 
 

You gotta love McCullough – arguing for restraint and moderation while he’s busy flinging every chunk of shit within reach.

I especially like the bit about the left being opposed to “delayed gratification.” Kevin is moving into dangerous territory with that line of argument. It’s not liberalism but modern capitalism that encourages citizens to think of themselves as consumers who must continually gratify their needs with purchases of new shiny stuff. It sounds to me like Kev is trying to subvert the very foundations of the market economy.

Kevin McCullough, agent of the Fifth International.

 
 

the “discipline” of conservative-raised kids.

I don’t want to commit the same sin McCullough does. There are shitty parents on both ends of the political spectrum. There are great parents on both ends of the political spectrum. I don’t much like this whole tendency to assign shitty personal behavior to political groups.

Hypocrisy is fair game. If someone is loudly proclaiming that he possesses a particular virtue that other people lack, then he sure as shit better not be in habit of doing exactly the things he condemns other people for.

Which makes me curious. Does Kevin have kids?

 
 

If you want to see this at work in the real world – take ten minutes to go randomly interview any girl who works in women’s retail today.

Back soon.

 
 

still watching the liberal he stopped watching altogether

Many years ago I thought David Letterman was the funniest thing on television. The more liberal he became over time the harder it became for me to watch him and eventually I stopped all together…

This clip from last night’s show however – may be the funniest thing put on television in a very, very, very, long time.

It is awe-inspiring, yet completely discomforting all at the same time.

Maybe Letterman’s greatest single interview ever…

some loves a man just can’t get over.

 
 

thunder, “beyond the ‘pail’”? Is that where the broom and dustpan are?

Sorry, just being a prick

More on topic … The wife&I raise our 10 yo boy and 2 yo girl in a somewhat reddish area of the state, a place where Dale Earnhardt is apparently still mourned as a kind of latter day Jesus, only without all the hippy-dippy, love-your-neighbor crap and more of the drive-the-sonofabitch-into-the-wall kind of thing. Seriously, we have no end of pickups driving around with little #3 memorials on the back …

I see plenty of parents, both conservative and liberal, and I can tell you that kids are the way they are. It has nothing to do with political beliefs or even parenting styles, except in the most extreme cases. Kids just are.

Does this McCullough guy even have kids? Or is he, like, “unattached”?

 
 

If screaming kids annoy Kevin, I frankly see no reason to discipline our little hellions at all. Annoying Kevin strikes me as an unqualified good.

 
 

I was wondering if he has any experience raising kids at all, or if he does have kids, whether he just leaves the hard work for the wife.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

FYI, g and zsa, from McCullough’s Amazon profile:

Interests
Mostly my biggest interest is my family – especially The Lovely Bride. I like golf, movies, books, and more. But I really, really, really enjoy long walks, and long talks with my one and only!

Still don’t know whether he has kids. I’d wager not. What we do know is that he has plenty of utterly insufferable vapidity.

 
 

Didn’t Dennis Prager once write a whole column about how eating an ice cream cone in the street showed how bad liberals are?

I think that was Harvey Mansfield.

Actually, it was Leon Kass. That’s University of Chicago Addie Clark Harding Professor of Social Thought Leon Kass, former Chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Excuse me while I weep the death of intellectual thought in academia.

 
 

But I really, really, really enjoy long walks, and long talks with my one and only!

Uh oh. I smell a divorce pie baking in the oven…

mikey

 
 

Wal-Mart’s gay?

Cripes, I KNEW something was up with that blue color they use for everything.

oh, wait, that’s supposed to be purple, right?

Nemmind.

 
 

GadgetGadget info
How’d that get in, yo?
Gadgets on the web
Readability begins to ebb

Who are these people who do these things?
What do they want, do they attach strings?
Their links show up, but they make no sense
Or do they just want traffic? Let the whoring commence…

mikey

 
 

Tim Russert asked the three front-runners for the Democratic nomination as to their comfort level of teaching a homosexual story of two boys consummating their lust for each other to children in the second grade. They all agreed they would support the teaching of such behavior.

Oh, there it is again. I’ll just refer y’all to this wise comment.

Isn’t it usually “conservative” parents who let their hellions run loose, then screech at the “retail girl:” “How dare you speak to me that way, call your supervisor immediately, who do you think you are, do you know who I am blah,blah blah” privileged Peggy Noonan-style?

as to their comfort level of
“Musclehead” is a perfect nickname for this bozo. And maybe “Pindick.”

 
 

Isn’t teaching “The Sleeping Beauty” a heterosexual story of a prince and a princess consummating their lust for each other?

Ew, that kiss – necrophilia! disgusting!

 
 

His hair loss is from tearing it out every time he has to think of the anarchistic perfidy of decadent liberals. Or just everytime he has to think.

 
 

I used to be a conservative, and now I am a liberal.

My kids are STILL as rotten as they’ve ever been. Like any parent, I’m always straddling that fine line between teaching the little bastards how to behave and frightening them into it. All of us who have kids know it’s a mix of both, and not all kids are created equal so some have more compliant kids than others, those lucky fuckers.

 
 

Have to say that I suspect that getting engaged and kissing once is further than McCullough ever got. I mean would you kiss that face? As to liberal moms in the department stores, I take it he has never been to Wal-Mart where the vast majority of the customers are registered Republicans.

 
 

My intent was not to smear every conservative parent in the United States. I don’t KNOW every conservative parent in the United States. I’m just saying that I’m personally aware of many exceptions to McCullough’s goofy little stereotype.

 
 

As to liberal moms in the department stores, I take it he has never been to Wal-Mart where the vast majority of the customers are registered Republicans.

Maybe there are liberal department stores and then there are conservative department stores. Would Nordstrom be considered liberal or conservative? How about Neiman Marcus? Saks?

But you’d have to talk to a lot of retail “girls” to get a fair sample. I don’t know of one department store that hires “girls” – they mostly hire women who are over the age of 18.

In my experience, I don’t see too many unruly kids in the changing area of the department stores I go to. When my son was little, the womens’ clothing stores in my neighborhood – not department stores, but still – had little baskets of toys so that toddlers could amuse themselves while mom tried on clothes.

 
 

Does this McCullough guy even have kids? Or is he, like, “unattached”?

Well, unattached to reality anyway.

 
 

zsa said,

October 1, 2007 at 1:16

thunder, beyond the pail? Is that where the broom and dustpan are?

The broom and dustpan are next to the dirty diaper pail.

Sorry, just being a dirty diaper.

 
 

If you watch the Letterman interview that Lesley links to, you realize how deeply sick Kevin is. His sniggering, gloating intro to it leads you to expect a total Paris Hilton cringefest. Instead, you get Dave being Dave, and Paris holding her own until she openly refuses to answer any more questions about jail. (After answering them for five minutes.)

Kevin thinks this is ultra-devastating and that you’ll “guffaw loudly.” It isn’t. You won’t. This is one extremely fucked-up individual. A slightly peeved Paris Hilton, chiding Letterman but showing reasonable poise, touches some deep nerve of sexual repression in our Kev, and makes him gleeful. Yikes isn’t the word.

 
 

“In my experience, I don’t see too many unruly kids in the changing area of the department stores I go to.”

You have a point. In my experience it is primarily in the grocery and toy sections that I see them go berserk.
My point about Wal-Mart was not meant to be construed to mean that there are conservative or liberal department stores (I think their only politics is making money), but rather that unruly kids and pathetic parents are bipartisan issues affecting society as a whole. I do not even see any significant class based differences in this regard.

 
 

Well the Bush girls turned out great so this guy must really be onto something.

 
 

What’s he talking about? While I find Letterman pretty damn funny, I’ve heard he was pretty damn conservative/libertarian (probably doesn’t like taxes or speed limits, lives in Montana with the militia types, gave money to Republican candidates) & that sort of bugged me, but Dave is still funnier than Leno, even if Jay’s wife is some sort of feminazi who doesn’t like the Taliban, so I watch Dave rather than Leno (depending on guests). How Musclebrain thinks Letterman became “more liberal” probably has something to do w/ the object of ridicule occupying the White House. “Many years ago” Letterman was all over Clinton, & that must have been the funniest thing in the world to Muscles, but now that Bush is making a fool of himself, & causing the deaths of thousands upon thousands, as opposed to Clinton & some icky secks, well, Dave’s “gone left.” I s’pose it’ll be OK to watch Dave again when Hillary or whoever is in the WH & s/he’s the target of jokes.

(Ignorance + Stupdity)Illogic = Wingnuttia.

 
 

Well, in solidarity with the Iranian people, I am making Ghormeh-sabzi for dinner tonight.

 
 

If you recall, it was on Letterman’s show that candidate George Bush was caught on film, during a station break, using the sweater of a production assistant to clean his glass, unbeknownst to her.

Although it was not shown during the actual appearance, Letterman showed the footage the following evening, to much hilarity.

I don’t think he likes George Bush or his administration.

 
 

yes, mr. wonderful, and his title is amusing. “like” have you ever seen a car squirm? and what sane person laughs at a car crash?

knucklehead’s blog titles tell me everything i need to know about the man who is still a virgin because no woman will have him, including prostitutes

Why Liberals Make Atrocious Parents
When Evil Desecrates the Sacred
Liberals Lie, Children Die
Liberals: Funding Our Destruction
Why Senator Craig is right
Why Liberals Always Protect Perverts
Radical Gay Activist: ‘We Lose’
Why Not Another 9/11?
Why Parents MUST MySpace
Why Liberals Lie About Sex
Democrats: Pandering to Perverts 101
[see “Why Senator Craig is right”…who panders to perverts?]
Calling a ‘Spade’ a ‘Muslim’
When Liberals, Nutroots, and Terrorists Conspire
Topless Bikinis for Battered Women
Why Liberals Loathe ‘The People’
Why Feminists Fear Fathers
Why ‘THEY’ fear Fred
Why Liberals Spread Poverty
Hell’s Candidates
Bears, Beatings, PORNStar Galactica
Why Feminist Mommies are like Pimps
Why Liberals Embrace Violent Massacres
Why Feminists Fear Men
“Why Liberals Revile the Risen Christ”
Why liberals get it wrong (on nearly everything!
Why do Democrats crave defeat?
Why real men confuse and anger Liberals
Why Christians Embrace ‘Gay’ Porn Stars
Why Hillary bullies her House slaves
“Why Imams Be Playin’ Us”
“Why America was nuked!”
Why Liberals Hate Christians
Why the ‘Christian Left’ is not

 
 

Off topic-
Radiohead are about to release their next album. Radiohead.com has the details. Online downloads in 10 days.

 
 

Wow, I can’t tell which is my favorite. They sound like porno film titles.

“Bears, Beatings and PornStar Galactica?”

Or

“Why Feminist Mommies are like Pimps.”

 
 

But wait, Lesley. You’ve constructed a McCullough-o-Matic. Just mix and match from the above list to create your own blog entries:

Why Liberals Crave Nuked Porn Stars
Why Real Christians Hate the Risen Bullies
Why Feminists Confuse Topless Parents
Why Democrats Loathe Battered Pimps
When Evil Fred is Pandering to Atrocious Imams

Try it yourself!

 
 

The fact is, Liberals Make Atrocious Parents, Desecrates the Sacred. Lie, Children Die, Fund Our Destruction, Harrass Senator Craig, Always Protect Perverts and Radical Gay Activists, spit on the memory of 9/11,
allow MySpace, Lie About Sex, Pandering to Perverts Conspire with Terrorists, Demand Topless Bikinis for Battered Women, Loathe ‘The People and The Heartland and Freedom, Fear Fathers and Fred, Spread Poverty, support Bears, Beatings, PORNStar Galactica
Are Pimps Who Embrace Violent Massacres, Fear Men, Revile the Risen Christ, get it wrong (on nearly everything, crave defeat, Embrace ‘Gay’ Porn Stars, Hate Christians and America. It’s axiomatic. And self evident.

 
 

I call fake Gary! He would never say “axiomatic”

 
 

Yes I would. It is often used by George F. Will and it pays to enrich my word power. Howefver, liberals who went to public schools and learned economics and politics from comic books like you, are dumb.

 
 

comic books like you

I am a comic book? Who knew?

What kind, I wonder? I’d like to be one like Wally Wood

 
 

Come on, Fake Gary. Real Gary knows the title is “It Pays to INCREASE Your Word Power.”

Nice try, though.

 
 

“Demand Topless Bikinis for Battered Women”

Fake Gary has gone over the final frontier into parody.

 
 

Bearbaiting Bananafish Manpads?

 
 

Calling a spade a muslim?

Honestly?

That’s it. I’m breakin out some weapons.

When it all goes to hell in a bucket, quite frankly, I’m gonna enjoy shooting some of these fucks….

mikey

 
 

“Bears, Beatings and PornStar Galactica” sounds like a porn title I might be interested in watching.

I used to work in a retail photo lab, so I got to know (superficially) quite a few families with small children, because I developed their film and chatted with them about their vacations while ringing them up. Can’t say I noticed any difference between young kids of conservative parents vs. liberals. Teenagers of liberal parents tended to be either geeks or cool kids, while teenagers of conservatives were more outwardly conformist and seemed kind of boring — but threw better wilder parties while their parents were away.

 
 

His mouth is perfect, penis-insertionwise.

 
 

Undoubtedly, some of those ‘HELLIONS” are future U.S. Military Personnel.

When is Congress going to condemn Kevin for attacking them?

 
 

Real Gary never would have used a comma after “The fact is”. I call Fake Gary.

 
 

John T said,

“Bears, Beatings and PornStar Galactica” sounds like a porn title I might be interested in watching.

So is “Topless Bikinis for Battered Women.” Yowzaa!

 
Smiling Mortician
 

penis-insertionwise

And the Adverb of the Week Award goes to RubDMC.

 
 

Ghormeh Sabzi and Saffron Rice is done. Who wants some???

 
 

yes I see. combine several nutroot flavours into one maniacally crazy cone:

Topless Bikinis for Radical Gay Activist Feminist Mommies Who Hate Men and Fear Fathers

 
 

His mouth is perfect, penis-insertionwise.

That’s just Kev working on his new post, Why Townhall Contributors Give Superior Blow-Jobs.

 
 

Wally Wood. My favorite. Though Steranko did a good job of being Wally Wood in the ’60s.

I’m not having any Ghormeh Sabzi till you detail the ingredients though. Some of that “furrin” food is almost as icky as some American food.

And wait ’till The Daily Show starts taking on the Dem. pres. & Congress: “Oh, I like that Jon Stewart now. He finally wised up that conservatism is the only way to go. Why don’t you dirty hippies follow his example?”

 
 

Ghormeh Sabzi is a Persian stew that I learned how to make when we lived in Norway back in the early ’90’s. We were at the University of Oslo, and living in graduate student housing. The Norwegians are very welcoming of foreigners in general, only they don’t want to live with them closely. So they pack all the foreigners together.

Our dorm suite held a Ghanain guy; a Bengali guy, a Danish student and his wife and baby; a Norwegian-American student; two Persian students, and us – an American lecturer and his wife and toddler.

We became good friends with all, but particularly with the 2 Persian guys, Ramin and Kambiz. They were students who were political refugees. They had been pressed into the Iranian Army as teenagers during the Iran-Iraq war. Ramin taught me how to make Ghormeh Sabzi from his mom’s recipe.

It’s a stew, made with beef or lamb (I’m using beef tonight), onions, chopped greens like spinach, and red kidney beans. The distinctive flavor comes from fenugreek, turmeric, and allowing the the broth to soak up 2 dried limes which give sort of an interesting sour-bitter taste.

You serve it over saffron-garnished rice.

M Bouffant – you know you can get wonderful Persian food in Westwood. Check out the Attari sandwich shop on the sidestreet just south of the Borders bookstore on Westwood south of Wilshire.

 
 

Why Feminist mommies embrace the risen Christ to confuse and anger pimps and terrorists while bullying Hilary’s pornstar perverts.

 
 

Now porn blogs have picked up on the posts. We are some sexy stuff!

 
 

g, I worked in that very Borders from ’98-’02, but they didn’t pay enough to allow eating anywhere but the All American Burger. And I worked graveyard most of that time.
Ghormeh Sabzi sounds good. Had a suspicion there might be lamb in it.

 
 

Everyone knows the whiny, annoying kid at the store will likely grow up to be a Republican.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/20/study-whiny-insecure-ki_n_17588.html

 
 

I think the porn blogs are my fault for saying “putting our junk in the wrong orifices.” Just a thought.

 
 

Brittney Spears is not a liberal!

 
 

“the Adverb of the Week Award…”

I guess if it’s one of those “of the week” awards, a certificate or something should arrive in the mail eventually?

 
Qetesh the Abyssinian
 

The position of “parent” is God granted, yet they shirk with great disdain the desire to give their children the basic wisdom of life.

How do you shirk something with great disdain? Why isn’t the Meaningful Sentence Fairy nailing this guy’s fingers to the table?

 
 

How can you resist a story about two boys consummating their lust for each other?

Well–!
I know that I certainly can’t!
I have my schtick to live up to, after all.

 
Qetesh the Abyssinian
 

M. Bouffant, thanks for the pointer to your comment. I read it yesterday and thought it erudite and insightful, so I’m glad to be reminded of it.

The idea that some of these bubloons have, that children will soak things up like a sponge, is easily disproven. I mean, lots of children are taught about Jeebus. Lots of children are taught about laws. Lots of children are taught about good behaviour. And yet we still have adults who become atheists. Adults who commit crimes. Adults whe behave like arseholes. How is this?

Being somewhat old and crumbly, I recall the days of compulsory sex education evenings at my primary school. They showed films made in England in the 60s, terribly twee and terribly prim, and the only illustration of any working parts was a sectional diagram. I recall wondering, for quite some time afterwards, how the two bits were brought together: I had some vague notion of two hospital gurneys being slowly wheeled into conjuction.

I must say that, screaming sex aside, it’s a wonderful idea to be teaching kids that families come in different shapes. Kids tend to think this anyway: no-one is born with prejudice, it’s instilled in them. Kids, at least primary school kids, don’t section their class into Us and Them, at least not by parental combinations or race or whatever else. A friend of mine recently had his son ask what Aboriginal meant: Nick replied “You know your friend Peter? He’s aboriginal”.

And as for being hellions, well, this man sounds like a purse-lipped, disapproving, Victorian-era killjoy who has no experience of kids. Fergodssakes, they’re young and healthy and full of energy: of course they run about and play. Jeebus. Does he want them standing mute and owlish while their mother drags them around shopping? Does he want them all dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy?

Pah, enough wingnuts. I’m off for a nap.

 
Qetesh the Abyssinian
 

Oh, and I think Knobhead would be a much better name for him. He doesn’t look too muscly anywheres, but he’s quite a knob.

 
 

I’m baaaaaack!!
—–but—-

[ baby. steps. ]

I’ll attain my customary level of annoyingness in no time at all, I’m sure.
It’s like riding a bike.

 
 

How do you shirk something with great disdain?

Isn’t that the way Atlas shrugged?

 
 

Does he want them standing mute and owlish while their mother drags them around shopping?

Well, of course all kids can be a challenge at times. My kid, who is now 19, was – all told – a good kid. But I do recall one shopping trip while he was going thru his potty-training stages……

I was shopping for furniture – I forget actually for what, but I went into this giant warehouse-like furniture store in Southgate in Seattle. And as I was wandering around, my kid was in the couch section, checking out the couches; sitting on each of them, singing to himself….

And a saleman came up to me and asked me if I needed help, and I said, no, thank you, I’m look for (whatever it was) and that I would call upon him when I needed more help. And, jolly, he turned to my kid and said, heartily, “Hey, little fella! How’s it going?”

And my kid sat there nestled in the cushions of a big ole sectional couch, and smiled up at him and said, conversationally, “I’m sitting here in my po-o-o-op!”

The salesman blanched. I choked off a laugh and grabbed Kid by the hand and hustled him out of the store for a diaper change.

 
 

g, I worked in that very Borders from ‘98-’02, but they didn’t pay enough to allow eating anywhere but the All American Burger.

M. Bouffant, when you venture out again, you should hie yourself back there and go have a kuku sandwich at the Attari Sandwich shop. It’s on the side street just south of your Borders, just inside the courtyard.

Kuku is like a Persian omelette, supercharged with herbs, and it’s delicious. I think it’s about $4. They also have the most incredible soup there, a golden, spicy thick soup of several types of legumes, garnished with sour cream and crispy-fried onions.

 
InsaneInTheCheneyBrain
 

GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU DAMN KIDS!

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

The Risen Christ embraces Gay Pron Stars. Just thought you should know. FWIW, Imam’s be playin’ us, yo.

 
 

“Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?”

– Homer Simpson, but hereby nominated as the new wingnut motto.

 
Qetesh the Abyssinian
 

And, jolly, he turned to my kid and said, heartily, “Hey, little fella! How’s it going?”

And my kid sat there nestled in the cushions of a big ole sectional couch, and smiled up at him and said, conversationally, “I’m sitting here in my po-o-o-op!”

The salesman blanched.

Let’s hope that taught him to stop patronising kids, g.

 
 

Marq!

Where ya been?

mikey

 
 

“Liberal moms”?

When did department store employees start investigating the political beliefs of patrons with unruly kids?

 
 

Actually, it was Leon Kass. That’s University of Chicago Addie Clark Harding Professor of Social Thought Leon Kass, former Chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Excuse me while I weep the death of intellectual thought in academia. – qubit

I dunno. I think Leon “Ickiness is the Measure of Immorality” Kass has a point here, about the inappropriateness of “eating in public”. How come is it that you are not supposed to go to the bathroom on the corner, nor have sex on the corner, but eating food in the middle of a crowded public square is ok?

I’ve always thought that it would make a good Star Trek episode (maybe one like this already exists) where they visit a planet where eating in public is viewed with the same revulsion with which we view public sex or public defecation — nu ? after all, they’re all natural bodily functions …

 
 

I’ve always thought that it would make a good Star Trek episode (maybe one like this already exists) where they visit a planet where eating in public is viewed with the same revulsion with which we view public sex or public defecation

linky!

 
 

What is this fool doing in women’s clothing stores/departments anyway?

 
 

Liberal parents dump their hellions in WalMart while they shop at swanky elite stores like Payless and Dress Barn.

But I really, really, really enjoy long walks, and long talks with my one and only!

And what’s wrong with calling my penis my “one and only”?

 
 

I have conversations with my 4 and 5 year old daughters about how Bush is the worst President this nation has ever seen and try to explain why there are people that still like him.

Just what do I say to my children when video of US soldiers breaking into citizens homes in Iraq? I tell them that they were ordered to invade their homes by the President, because he’s a bad man.

EVERYONE always comments on how well behaved my children are. (Unless they are fed any sugar!)

McCullough is simply writing lies for internal conusumption for unthinking Republicans to whip them into a fervor where Nazi-esque slaughter of fellow Americans becomes commonplace. The GOP regime has but one goal, total global domination. In America they are drestroying the midle class and preparing the military and their followers for police-state fascism and mass murder of the 70% of citizens that don’t want thier domination.

 
 

What is this fool doing in women’s clothing stores/departments anyway?

Word.

Why Senator Craig is right

Oy. We need a word for these Bear-Baiting Republicans.

 
 

Mikey, your story about the retail clerk explains whey I never took up the name ‘conservative’ that my parents stand behind. Though to be honest, they’re reluctant to take up the name themselves, they just voted GOP for so long and for so many seats it kinda became the thing in the house.

 
 

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