Comments on: The Beast is Red, Chapter 12: Show Us Your Twits

By: Redleg

Redleg — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:25:52 +0000

Cheap motherfuckers drinking off-brand scotch.

By: wagonjak

wagonjak — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:43:05 +0000

Hi Leonard-
I see you didn’t post my comment about your drug in system/Joker connection with the death of Heath Ledger. If you didn’t realize it I guess it was just a classic case of Synchronicity…

Apparently, the strain of playing an evil genius like the Joker didn’t help his drug problem.

I HAVE read your whole CPAC series, and can’t remember getting such laughs since the post about the phony progressive “retread” who toured the opening of the Creationist Museum, or of course the old Rolling Stone articles by Hunter Thompson and his drugged tour of Las Vegas.

Thanks!

By: jerkvision.com » The Real Reagan

jerkvision.com » The Real Reagan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:51:07 +0000

[...] Sadly, No! » The Beast is Red, Chapter 12: Show Us Your Twits …the Reagan around which this conservative circle is jerking is a myth, a fabrication, a fiction. The real Reagan raised taxes (or rather engaged in “revenue enhancements”), presided over a massive recession, cut and ran when faced with bloody terror attacks, talked constantly about a balanced budget and a line-item veto but did nothing about them, and “won” the Cold War by spending nonexistent money that would be handed down to his heirs, never to be paid off, as if this were somehow more fiscally conservative than the tax-and-spend model with which he vilified Democrats. Reagan’s strength as a paragon of conservativism is identical to Christopher Reeve’s strength as Superman, a pleasant fiction propped up with special effects and made believable by the empty shell upon which it was impressed. This is, by no means incidentally, the reason the CPAC crowd loves Romney so much: he is their new Ulrich, their man without qualities, upon whom they can press the rubber mask of Reagan. [...]

By: g

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:01:13 +0000

Leonard, I heard Sam Seder announce your appearance and I was very worried you’d be outed! Did anyone blow your cover?

By: Arky the Blasphemer

Arky the Blasphemer — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:24:47 +0000

Jennifer:

Depends.

[Snicker, snort, chortle!]

By: OneMan

OneMan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:19:01 +0000

I always liked my personal joke:

“Reagan got alzheimers but nobody noticed!”

By: allium

allium — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:57:37 +0000

Don’t be dissing Lawsonomy now. The man invented the airliner, for Pete’s sake!

Zig-Zag and Swirl ftw!

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:18:15 +0000

Apropos of nothing, I’m amused and surprised that you used the spelling “buncombe” rather than the more popular “bunkum.”

By: atheist

atheist — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:59:52 +0000

Jennifer:

Not really, but don’t worry because the joke was not really horrible, it was more wiseass.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:50:13 +0000

I’m curious. Does a truly horrid and hateful joke become more excusable when the person making it acknowledges, upfront, that it is horrid and hateful? Because sometimes I just can’t stop myself, but I don’t want people thinking I don’t know better or that my parents didn’t teach me better.

By: zsa

zsa — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:45:47 +0000

By all means, let the conservatives tie themselves to the boat anchor of “intelligent design”.

It’s the modern-day equivalent of the flat earth theory.

By: (Lex) Skink Tyree (Azagthoth)

(Lex) Skink Tyree (Azagthoth) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:37:57 +0000

You’re rocking the PAC Mr. Pierce.

Virtual hugs & kisses to all from the sickly one, I hope everyone’s having fun!! (Even if not at CPAC)

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:24:48 +0000

…when Reagan died, I lost a favorite joke, which went like this…

“Reagan thought ketchup was a vegetable, and now he is one.”

Like I said, bad.

Take heart – you can always say that now he’s contributing to global warming by fertilizing the trees.

By: NutellaonToast

NutellaonToast — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:24:15 +0000

Dear lord, I hope n =2 and only 2, or you’re in for a longer stay down there than you bargained for ;)

By: mikey

mikey — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:22:32 +0000

Don’t listen to these pansies, Mr. Pierce. You stay in the field until the op’s completed, because the only other way out is to get dusted off. Keep all your partsnpieces attached, and walk off the field when the battles over. We will accept nothing less than utter defeat with survival.

That’s my inspirational wisdom for today…

mikey

By: tom

tom — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:10:50 +0000

When Ronnie was Prez, didn’t he dedicate a new postage stamp @ Notre Dame by saying “Win one for the Gibbet?

By: noen

noen — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:05:57 +0000

Yeah Jennifer, bad. Reagan was fully senile while he was president but his people kept that from the public. He should have been removed for mental incompetence (he had Alzheimers) but I guess that goes to show how much of a sock puppet he and most GOP presidents are.

By: Robert Musil

Robert Musil — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:05:33 +0000

he is their new ~~eunuch~~ Ulrich, their man without qualities,
Ignore gbear and keep the original.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:01:49 +0000

Just got back from an errand & saw my new favorite bumper sticker:
BUSH: LIKE A ROCK
(only dumber)

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:01:46 +0000

Will subscripts work in our sandbox? Testing:
by soaking my every cell in CnH2n+1OH.
Lay off the isopropanol, MLP — it really is best saved for cleaning your DVDs.