A Boomerang Is Not A Bomb Delivery Device
Porter Good, Cingular Wireless store manager by day and pretend pirate blogger by night, is stomping his peg leg on his ship’s deck, because of this news item:
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a prominent bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health–and the brother of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel–will serve as a senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget on health policy, two Democratic officials said Thursday.
Here’s what Porter thinks about that scandalous news item:
Cough*nepotism*cough.
Can you imagine if GWB had brought on a relative in such a manner. The Left’s enmity would have over-flowed, and they would have ramped their seething factor to at least an 8 (remember, a 1 on the seething scale is their normal constant outrage.) Here, eh.
Sadly, no!
- Vice President Dick Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry: Deputy Attorney General.
- Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
- Secretary of State Colin Powell’s son, Michael Powell: Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
- Budget Director Mitchell Daniels’ sister Deborah Daniels: Assistant Attorney General.
- White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s brother Mark McClellan: Member, President’s Council of Economic Advisers and Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration.
- Ken Mehlman’s brother Bruce Mehlman: Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
- Michael Chertoff’s chief of staff’s wife Julie Myers: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.
For bonus giggles, watch the cellphone huckster and faux pirate get all twisted up trying to figure out what a bioethicist is:
BTW, what the hell is a bioethicist? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints? Ready the Wikipedia entry, sounds more like the job of “performance artist.” Someone who has no skills in actual art, so, they fake it.
Pure. Self. Parody. Gold.
Not to mention that someone cough*GWB*cough sorta, oh, just rehired daddy’s adminstration.
wasn’t mark mallen FDA chief too?
McClellen
Porter gives us true pirates a bad name. If WaMu hadn’t foreclosed on our ship, we’d make him walk the plank.
(I’m wearing my pirate t-shirt today)
Ready the Wikipedia entry, FIRE!
Can you imagine if GWB had brought on a relative in such a manner.
If JEB! hadn’t, there would be no GWB administration.
“Can you imagine if GWB had brought on a relative in such a manner.”
“in such a manner”==indignation, bad-writerz style!
(Also, does that mean that Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s relative? Or that Rahm is President? Nobody tells me anything.)
Remember- These are the same people who freak. da. fuk. out. about cloning.
Durrr, what’s bioethics?
Pure. Self. Parody. Gold.
When you find stuff like this I always picture Johnny Depp and Paul Rubens:
“I can’t feel my face… I mean, I can touch it, but I can’t feel it inside…”
Yet another star caliber performance of the ongoing wingnut effort to transform imbecility and profound ignorance into virtues.
BTW, what the hell is a bioethicist? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with
So I guess for this guy, everything he doesn’t like (or understand, which is pretty much synonymous for him, I imagine) is associated with liberals for no real reason.
Here, let me try this approach to reality: What the hell is a child rapist? Is it actually a real job, or is it one of those made up positions that conservatives constantly come up with etc., etc.
Hey, that’s pretty fun. Intellectual honest is for suckers.
Does Porter the accommodating cabin boy not think “ethics” are real? Or just not something about which people should be bothered? Maybe he should be reminded about snowflake babies, one of many things bioethicists concern themselves about.
So I guess for this guy, everything he doesn’t like (or understand, which is pretty much synonymous for him, I imagine) is associated with liberals for no real reason.
Yup. In this case, it’s hard to blame wingnuts for being leery of any concept described with “ethics” in the title, after seeing that the Bush admin’s idea of ethics was to make a bunch of crooks sit through a powerpoint presentation. Liberals forced him to do that, you see.
The fact is, everyone knows that “ethics” is just nothing more than radical left-wing big government agenda. Who knows what it even means.
Cough*nepotism*cough.
Can you imagine if GWB had brought on a relative in such a manner.
This HAS to be satire! No one could be that dense as to posit that an entire administration which was based on a candidate who was the ultimate in nepotic derivations had fewer nepotistic strings than the Emanuel brothers!
No one except maybe an incredibly drone-like prole, like a cell-phone salesman, say.
Oh.
Isn’t this guy considered the smartest of the Emanuel brothers?
Does Porter the accommodating cabin boy not think “ethics” are real?
Of course he doesn’t believe in ethics, he is a wingnut. Everybody knows ethics is a Lie-brul conspiracy to deny wingnuts their rightful place in the sun.
We won’t mention the educational testing and test prep crap software and shit that brother Neil was hawking post NCLB. Oops.
We won’t mention the educational testing and test prep crap software and shit that brother Neil was hawking post NCLB.
BTW, what the hell is education? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
they would have ramped their seething factor to at least an 8 (remember, a 1 on the seething scale is their normal constant outrage
Gee, have a bunch of greedy sociopathic anti-human assholes shit all over your country for eight years and see if you don’t manifest a bit of outrage yourself.
Oh, wait. They did already. CLENIS GOT BLOWJOB OMFG TEH WORLD IZ COLLPASIN
Yep, no wonder he doesn’t recognize the concept of “ethics”.
stomping his peg leg
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
Yeah, that wikipedia entry was pretty vague:
Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine.
I mean, who can understand that sentence?
BTW, what the hell is “scientist”? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
(This is indeed fun.)
This is kinda weird, yeah. “Can you imagine if Bush had done this WHARRGARBL LIBERALS!” is usually reserved for James Lileks.
The fact is, what is biology anyway.
I mean, who can understand that sentence?
Hmm, it does need a translation to wingnutese. Let’s change it to this:
Bioethics is process of claiming that scientists who play God are facing an eternity of torture.
BTW, what the hell is “the military”? Is that actually a real profession, or is it one of those made-up professions that Conservatives constantly come up with so they don’t have to bother with none of that fancy book-learnin’?
Maybe someone can tell me why the fuck I should care what Luke Skywalker in a pirate hat has to say.
Hey, that dude is wearing my signature hat!! Get your own look, Bozo!
munch munch munch
By the way, what the hell is a televangelist? Or a Townhall/Renew America/Corner “writer” (or editor, for Christ’s sake)? Or a wingnut think tank “thinker”? Are any of those actually real jobs, or, are they like those made up positions that wingnuts constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
Hey, isn;t that the guy from the FreeCreditReport.com commercials?
The fact is, anything with “ology” or “thics” at the end is a LIEbrul plot to purple monkey banana telephone giggity. America is a center-right country.
When it comes to the Emmanuel Brothers, I still like Harpo the best.
That’s a picture of that goofy guy on that show I always fall asleep during, isn’t it? Randy or Sandy Scambert or something?
The fact is, anything with “ology” or “thics” at the end is a LIEbrul plot…
Yeah! A manly warrior culture such as ours can’t be having with faggy Greek stuff. THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Yeah! And what the hell is the “National Institutes of Health”? Is that actually a real building or thing or whatever, or is it one of those made up places that Liberals constantly make up so they do not really have to go anywhere to work for a living and just run around spreading their diseases and political “bioethics”?
BTW, what the hell is a Lieutenant? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Officers constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints? “Ready” the Wikipedia entry, sounds more like the job of “performance artist.” Someone who has no skills in actual leadership, so, they fake it.
You know, you plug the right job title in this paragraph and it’s a pretty brilliant observation.
Umm, except for the “Ready” part. That’s still stupid…
mikey
Maybe someone can tell me why the fuck I should care what Luke Skywalker in a pirate hat has to say.
Sorry, can’t help. Given the dearth of comments over there, I’d say that a: you’re not alone and b: no one can answer your question.
Thanks for the link, Cliff. I’m stealing the picture, BTW 🙂
I never bothered to stroll thru the cove before. Now I can’t get the scum off my feet.
From his bio:
My B-day is July 10th, 1067
Offered without comment.
am usually the one taking the photos, and have very few of myself, other then in a group setting.
Other than having no friends, I can’t imagine why that would be.
While were at it, what the hell is a BUILDING?
What the hell is a pirate? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that idiots constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
Can you imagine if event happened, and then response to it happened? Stupid liberals!
I don’t think that it’s necessary to give this assbozo any more attention, really. I mean, he has pirate smileys.
BTW, what the hell is education? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
Ask Troofie, he knows!
The fact is, dude, seriously, you’re not funny, interesting, witty, smart, correct, or anything like all that. If you really must be a broken-record troll, at least come up with a freaking catch phrase.
PeeJ said,
stomping his peg leg
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
…and wins the internet
Hey troofie/commander zero, you still owe us the following:
*) denouncing chimpo for not resigning after 911 like the Indian politicians did after the Mumbai massacre
*) apologizing for being wrong 100% of the time
*) apologizing for wasting many peoples’ time (the time they use to set up 3.14159 filters)
*) apologizing for being a douchebag racist
*) apologies for his special brand of stupid being contagious
Cingular became AT&T Wireless a couple of years ago. They didn’t tell Porter, though. He thinks he’s selling the latest smart phones but they’re really just packs of Juicy Fruit wrapped in duct tape.
Maybe someone can tell me why the fuck I should care what Luke Skywalker in a pirate hat has to say.
Jennifer for the win.
Definitely low hanging fruit, that one.
*) apologizing for the cracker racists who gleefully and indiscriminately shot black folks after Katrina: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson
That’s ok with you, right Twoofie?
Hey, isn;t that the guy from the FreeCreditReport.com commercials?
No, this guy looks gayer.
Hey, now. All those relatives hired by the Bush administration were uniquely qualified, not like those nepotistic democrats!
BTW, what the hell is goat-blowing? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Mickey Kaus constantly comes up with so he does not really have to work for a living, but, can spread his lunacy and political viewpoints?
Heckuva job, Porter Good!
And that’s because you know I’ll never been able to answer your questions.
Hey, you got your wish: Barack Hussein Obama will be President and his beautiful, educated wife, Michelle, will be First Lady. I congratulate all of you on your wise and excellent choice. Too bad for me that he will be able to deliver on all of his election promises. Too bad for me also that I have no life but feel compelled to make shit up and post it at a blog where everyone hates my guts. Also, I have been caught lying about the Blago investigation again.
Fun times, DrDick, fun times. (DrDick is what I call my teeny little pee-pee.)
Ding dong dilly, libs! Looks like you’ve gotten hit on your starboard bow by a CANNONBALL of TRUTH by this Pirate Guy up there! Arrrrrrrrr, loony libs! Too bad you never saw the SPREAD coming, just like you don’t see how Rezclown will sing to the feds about how Obummer did illegal activities with Bummer Blago, Maniac Michelle, and Duhmbo! Check it, loony libs: Obummer’s poll numbers keep dropping (and the Cool Coach ain’t singin about the ones from the loony libs over at Grouchy Gallup), and it’s only a matter of time before he’s behind bars!
Badoodle-boo-yeah! You just got served a SPREAD of PIRATE TRUTH! Arrrrrr, Urban out.
Cingular became AT&T Wireless a couple of years ago. They didn’t tell Porter, though. He thinks he’s selling the latest smart phones but they’re really just packs of Juicy Fruit wrapped in duct tape.
Plus they just moved his office again. Now he’s in the storage basement with a can of Raid. Wait til he finds out they fixed the glitch.
Why the fuck can’t I submit comments?
Tim Tebow wears Greg Hardy pajamas
I almost feel sorry for this pirate guy. It looks like he has no commenters of his own, only people who have toddled over from here. He should send S,N! a big thank-you for bazilliontupling his hit count.
Shouldn’t that be “and it’s only a matter of time before he’s behind barrrrrs”? Way to half-ass it, coach; I’m afraid you’re going to have to SPREAD it out on the BENCH.
Stop crashing my site, loony libs!
Stop crashing his site!
What kind of moron posts a 10-year-old picture of himself? He must look really hideous nowadays.
Coach Urban Meyer said,
I like pie!
…boy howdy, yep, central to my point, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.
And that’s because you know you’ve never been able to answer my questions.
Those were questions?
We wondered, cuz, you know, the pudding-coated spoon, the soft slippy-socks and the spork in your hand sort of made us believe you were just fucking nuts.
On the prior Thread the Ironically named “Affirmative Action is Racism” played the tired old Robert Byrd Card…
Looks like the grandmother of Bristol Palin’s illegitimate baby has been busted for drugs.
Can you imagine if she were black? The Right’s racism would have over-flowed, and they would have ramped their bigotry factor [sic] to at least an 8 (remember, a 1 on the bigotry scale is their normal constant hatred of the dark-skinned.)
Vice President Dick Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry, held three jobs in the Bush adminstration: Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Perry. See Bill Maher’s comment on Perry: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/philip-perry-treasonous-_b_42377.html
Shiver me timbers.
That’s a picture of that goofy guy on that show I always fall asleep during, isn’t it?
Cripes, I feel drowsy just looking at that picture.
Package that and you could put the makers of Ambien out of business.
Did everyone here go to the “Cove” at once & knock the elephant off the treadmill? Poor feller’s site is MIA.
Those were questions?
Nope. Troofie just suffers from copralalia.
“We wondered, cuz, you know, the pudding-coated spoon, the soft slippy-socks and the spork in your hand sort of made us believe you were just fucking nuts.”
That guy who used to shuffle up and down Mulberry Street is Twoofie?!
Wait, that was M. Bouffant who asked that at 23:42 (1341 real time) for those of you too lazy to investigate.
BTW, what the hell is a bioethicist? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions
If knucklehead has never heard of it, it must be made up.
I thought “Bookmark this, liberals!” was the catch phrase of the yr., & am frankly surprised the Naughts haven’t been all over it, unless I missed it.
BTW, what the hell is a bioethicist? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions
This is actually pretty funny coming from the folks who obsess over abortion and stem cell research.
That guy who used to shuffle up and down Mulberry Street is Twoofie?!
The Chin wore a bathrobe. This guy isn’t that kind.
Looks like the grandmother of Bristol Palin’s illegitimate baby has been busted for drugs.
somewhere, some screenwriter is quietly dying inside.
The Chin wore a bathrobe. This guy isn’t that kind.
Kind of sad when you are constantly flashing everybody and nobody notices anything.
Looks like the grandmother of Bristol Palin’s illegitimate baby has been busted for drugs.
So when can we expect the press and all the rightard bloggers to begin howling for Little Sarah (im)Palin to explain in grotesque detail the nature, depth, extent, and duration of her involvement with the Wasilla Drug Cartel?
*crickets*
Thought so.
Something else Troofie needs to apologize for and explain.
Looks like the grandmother of Bristol Palin’s illegitimate baby has been busted for drugs.
It’s craven politics, just like the troopergate thing. Those ACORN/ACLU/DFH/leftists will do anythingto put an ineligible Muslim terrorist into power.
Say what? Oh. Never mind.
Also, WordPress is “The Truth”
And when is the blessed event, anyway? Has the happy couple married?
Rod Blagojevich is The Truth!!! Or at least The Truth’s best buddy:
Now I know there are some powerful forces arrayed against me. It’s kind of lonely right now. But I have on my side the most powerful ally there is, and it’s the truth. And besides, I have the personal knowledge that I have not done anything wrong.
Portor Good, with a little more seasoning and exposure on Sadly, No!, will be ready for the Bigs. I’m thinking he’ll be asked to share his wisdom on ClownHall or that really shitty website.
I don’t think pirate guy wrote this, uh, whatever it is. It’s posted on about fiddy wingnut blogs. I think it may have originated with “Stop the ACLU.”
The poor boy has aparently blocked us from his website! Either that or we broke his server.
Looks like the grandmother of Bristol Palin’s illegitimate baby has been busted for drugs.
somewhere, some screenwriter is quietly dying inside.
“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” would have had a field day.
We grow good people in small towns.
We also cook meth.
Considering the headlines are “Bristol Palin’s boyfriend’s mother,” rather than “Bristol Palin’s Mother-in-Law,” I assume they’re still beginng the RNC to let her keep the dress.
We grow good people in small towns.
We also cook meth.
We call it “fertilizer.”
Mark McClellan was actually very qualified for his job, as is Rahm Emanuel’s brother. So need to put those details into to the relative Nepotism scale-o-meter.
The rejected official White House portrait of Laura Bush can be found here
http://highof70.com/images/laura.jpg
The rejected official White House portrait of Laura Bush can be found here
Heath Ledger looked better in that role, I thought.
The rejected official White House portrait of Laura Bush can be found here
Too much life and vitality. Doesn’t quite capture the drugged out comatose look we have all come to know and love.
Now this is much more realisitic:
http://beetstro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/joker.jpg
I share the sense that Greenwald went off on that one time that we’re far too accepting of nepotism as a society, and hiring someone qualified for the position on the basis of having a famous relative is still nepotism – and is particularly awful within the Beltway.
On the other hand, we’re leaving an administration whose hiring criteria was primarily why Republican Jesus had called you to serve our leader. The cancer is gone. A little second-order nepotism here and there is about as harmful as that thing where it looks like a donkey kicked you in the face if you have rosacea.
actor212: Did they reject it ‘cuz its painterly qualities betray its painter’s Jewish relativism, or am I thinking about a slightly different government again?
The portrait of Laura doesn’t capture that crooked pinky finger thing has has going on, too.
The rejected official White House portrait of Laura Bush can be found here
How many baths of virgin’s blood did THAT look take?
And subtle, I just noticed the the scène she’s mise-en
How does anyone know about this pirate’s cove thing? It’s almost like a UFO… no, wait, it’s more like somebody in a Sasquatch costume filming a hoax in a Burger King parking lot in Newark, because as all wingnuts know Newark is full of Sasquatch(es?).
Hidden within P-Loc-G’s words is the code that will unlock the God of Ultimate Stupidity, and then wingnuts everywhere will eat their own boogers, even when Kleenex is available.
Here, lemme help you with that:
We grow good people in small towns.
We also cook shitty meth.
mikey
The rejected official White House portrait of Laura Bush can be found here
Can still be used for cover of Lynne Cheney lesbo-novel.
Holy shit, I just noticed that. That’s brilliant.
I can’t tell if it’s a troll or the real thing. The Real Thing has precedent: my guess is whoever did it was taking a cue from the official portraits of Elizabeth I portraying the wreck of the Spanish Armada. The difference being that Lizzie was regnant and as such she was capable of more than fiddling while Rome burned.
Mrs. Bush is flushed with Sapphic awakening
Mrs. Bush is flushed with Sapphic awakening
I am sorry, but I am just not ready for a remake of Sirens starring Laura Bush.
Looks like drdick is running from the truth again. When will Fancy Professor Reads-A-Lot admit that Laura Bush is, as President-Woman, rightful chief of all white rug-munchers??
Mrs. Bush is flushed with Sapphic awakening
EW EW EW EW EW DO NOT WANT
However, the twins’ sapphic awakening…
Now that’s a whole ‘nother ballgame.
g:
Next generation of Palin-Johnstons due tomorrow (Sat.).
Please, no Sapphites sur-named Bush, it’s just too…
Next generation of Palin-Johnstons due tomorrow (Sat.).
So the baby will be born a bastard? Excellent!!!
Oh, I know, Your Malignancy, it was just too good to let pass.
So the baby will be born a bastard? Excellent!!!
And by all accounts, from a long line of bastards.
Hey, isn;t that the guy from the FreeCreditReport.com commercials?
Damn, it sure looks like that dork. Maybe it’s just a matter of any dork dressing up in a pirate suit automatically looks like him.
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Racism is Racism said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:42
Did everyone here go to the “Cove” at once & knock the elephant off the treadmill? Poor feller’s site is MIA.
I wish. F’ing server they moved me and a bunch of other folks to sucks worse then the crap ass server we were on before. Just when I get a nice link from Sadly, No!. Which, believe it or not, I read quite a bit. It’s amusing. And y’all who comment here are not unhinged like those at Kos and some others.
Cheers!
Well, WordPress my old friend, we meet again.
Taken once again to eating posts with naughty language in them I see.
Someday, wordpress, and I mean this with a deep and abiding sincerity that I want you to understand on the level below perception, that place where seething hatred meets violent action, someday I’m going get my hands around your scrawny, sanctimonious, smarmy, pearl-clutching, better-than-thou neck and I’m gonna squeeze it for a very long time.
Carry on…
mikey
And why haven’t we discussed this guy’s name? What is that, a pr0n moniker?
Someday, wordpress, and I mean this with a deep and abiding sincerity that I want you to understand on the level below perception, that place where seething hatred meets violent action, someday I’m going get my hands around your scrawny, sanctimonious, smarmy, pearl-clutching, better-than-thou neck and I’m gonna squeeze it for a very long time.
Seconded.
Wait, I though his name was Porter Good, not William Teach.
Oh well, you gotta give it to the guy, he has a sense of humor.
Do ya think “Teach” means any of that? Teach, let your elephant go, we can negotiate after he’s free.
And yes, wasn’t Bristol herself a lady bastard? Bastardess? Is it sexist to think about a female version for bastard?
Porter Good? I hardly liquored her!
And again, technically, just sayin’ & all, that was M. B. left that @2342!
A female bastard is a bastard. The main reason we think of ‘bastard’ that way is because the literature of bastardy is primarily concerned with inheritance, which has only been a going concern for women since recent years in which illegitimacy was largely meaningless as anything besides a stigma and an insult.
In fact, because non-will inheritance has traditionally been semi-Salic, in a way all women are bastards. Write your burgess &c.
I wanna be evil, I wanna spit tacks
I wanna be evil, and cheat at jacks
I wanna be wicked, I wanna go binged
I wanna be mean, and be unhinged
“Binge”. The spirit of Eartha Kitt is not with me today.
funny. I read is a ‘I wanna be binged’, which I thought was an apt description.
Oh, damn, lookit the time!
I’ve gotta get over to Righteous Bubba’s place right away!
And I kinda like the pirate smilies. Very FSM.
I’d like some donkey smilies for my blog, but that’s another story…
Okay, so I know Palin and her whole carnival of hypocrisy and white-trash stupidity will be fair game for derision for decades to come. But c’mon, lay off the kids. That’s just disgusting. Speculating about, even gloating over, the bastardy of an 18-year-old’s baby? One that’s due days after the mother of the baby’s father is arrested on drug charges? Hasn’t Bristol suffered enough just having an exhibitionistic idiot for a mother? Sounds like the sort of thing wingers do.
A female bastard is a bastard.
Shit. I’ve been saying “bastardina” all these years.
Curse these wingnut welfare mommas squirting out illegitimate young’uns anyway. Is Amy Alkon outraged or what?
On the subject of bioethics, if you haven’t seen Gattaca, I’d recommend it. Good film (with Gore Vidal as a bonus, if you like that sort of thing), and it deals with issues of genetics that will be very real in the near future.
Bioethics is a vitally important consideration when making public policy for health care, insurance, employment nondiscrimination, etc. Even if we ignore the religious nutjobs and free marketeers, a lot of it isn’t black and white.
MzN, were it not for all the gawd-squaddin’ & morality & “defense of traditional biblical marriage” ad nauseum coming out of those people I wouldn’t say one word.
M. Bouffant: Agreed, the “grownups” deserve it. That’s why I prefaced my comment as I did.
Probably hanging with those Englishmen again. Slowpokes. So to speak.
MzNicky – I don’t think anyone here is directly attacking the kinds (in contrast to the MalKKKintents), so much as wingnut Xtianist hypocrisy.
As a Coom-buy-ah Liberal (Haw-haw!) I believe that all children, while irritating little hoodlums & a drain on the planet & society, are “legitimate.”
On a more pleasant note, I see that the late Paul Weyrich received at least some of his karmic reward on this mortal coil.
That’s one of those deals where no one ever explains the context they meant it in, n’est-ce pas, Troofless?
Conservatism cut off from its foundations, har har.
Weyrich had faced a number of medical crises over the last dozen years, including diabetes and the amputation of both legs in 2005
The liberal in me says “eeyurgh, now there’s something I wouldn’t wish on someone”.
The libertarian in me says “FUCKIN’ A! Can’t think of a more worthy person!”
The bastard in me now wants to refer to him as “Stumpy” Weyrich from now on.
Conflicted on the subject, I am.
I’ve had to gently steer the missus away from it myself, so my guess is that it’s at least partially one of those train-wreck / American Idol audition deals.
I maintain that the children’s ridiculous naming conventions are fair game, if only because they’re a microcosm of the simultaneous degeneration of America and permanent rebuke of every ebonics joke at work every day. I’ve yet to figure whether naming her (?) child a shortening of ‘trigger’ is legitimately shitty name choice or simply part of the Palin country-fry routine (which was on slow-boil when she was an Alaska GOP front, but briefly became a national industry when she tried to smoosh half-remembered Fargo and Deliverance into a single real American package) – a part which has left needless permanent scars on a poor young man with a debilitating congenital disease.
On the other hand, it’s worth remembering that aristocracy is Trig Palin plus time. Hunter Ruger Mustang-Colt, KBE, Hammer of the Jews.
How about “Wheels” Weyrich?
But why do we never learn these things until it’s too late? It’s the conservative bias Joe Six-Pack non-elite media, covering everything up, that’s why!
He wished it on himself anyway, so don’t get any of that liberal guilt on you.
M. Bouffant: Of course, no sneering liberal elitist will admit that diabetes is a secret Jew.
I like to think I’m responsible for this resurgence in the use of “&c.” around these here parts. Even if I’m not.
maybe this
Alledgedly, “Trig” has some Norse roots. It’s no “Adolf Hitler Campbell,” but there may be a bit of scared whitey in there.
“this” being this
Isn’t “Diabetes” a Jooooish name? Or at least Eastern Euro & therefore suspect?
Same here, although less ‘irritating little hoodlums’ than ‘horrible little fascists whose vile natural behavior is actively worshipped by an entire segment of Americana’.
Our embracing illegitimate children is, obviously, responsible for the racial inferiority of the coloreds, who have been tumbling (aher-hmm-hmm) into single-parenthood owing to our intolerably permissive attitude towards our subjects.
Obviously.
Yes, is obviously that other thing you said and not…
RB: Children are little Nazi demonds whether or not they’re locked into wed. It is our willingness to accept children as ‘normal’ whether or not they’re the product of the sacred union of a man and woman of the same race and religion that is responsible for Barack Hussein Obama, Welfare-King Of Islam.
alec: blah blah blah. The kids aren’t responsible for their names, either. I’m not sure what the American idol/train wreck reference is. I guess it means, Palin and everything/everyone around her is “fair game.” I disagree. To me, ridiculing the children of politicians — or any children, for that matter — is shameful.
Never implied they were. The names themselves are ridiculous, not the poor bastards bearing them.
People are jumping onto Palin’s family because it’s a case of ridiculous misfortune happening to other people. It doesn’t appeal to me, but neither does comedians bombing on their ass, and Lord knows there’s ten million videos of that on Youtube.
I also disagree. I’m not suggesting any children are ‘fair game’ for anything; I’m suggesting a grown woman – let alone a fucking governor – naming her own child ‘Trig’ deserves to be called every name in the book.
My daughter’s school has string ensembles for grades four five and six, and each one delivers two numbers at the Christmas concert. That’s six heaping bags full of angry cats yowling one after the other, all in a row. I laughed a lot, at them for their predicament, at the audience for ours, and at their teacher’s stony indifference to that one kid who was obviously faking it because she thought she was in an ensemble big enough to hide in.
I did try to keep it discreet however.
…and yet, you know, one day when your daughter is playing on stage (for real – no cats), you’ll be happy that her school maintained a music program. (speaking from a wealth of personal experience)
Righteous Bubba –
Our children are our karmic punishment for everything we ever did as children.
And all children are legitimate, except those holograms and androids.
Oh, I’m all for music programs, but I think fretless stringed instruments aren’t the best for creating music that’s immediately satisfying to bunches of clutzy kids. Or their parents. The recorder group was pretty listenable.
I own a bunch of instruments myself so music is a part of my kid’s life anyway.
frets are just a plot to confine your intonation
(but I DO know what you mean about the cats – it takes a lot of tooth enamel to endure 5 or 6 years of beginner violin)
(but I DO know what you mean about the cats – it takes a lot of tooth enamel to endure 5 or 6 years of beginner violin)
Brings back none too pleasant memories of my younger sister practicing when we were kids.
It is not going to happen, liberals. Your echo chamber is reverberating now with your shouts of victory before you’ve won a single state. I almost feel badly for you, because when McCain wins, your astonishment will be overwhelming. I say “almost” because your ideology is nasty, anti-free speech, and absolutist, and every decent person will sigh in relief when it goes down to defeat once more.
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
And I’m still wondering why DrDick doesn’t call me in turn. Please…? Call me, DrDick?
Oh, but think of twin fiddles (both of them your kids) on a lonesome country tune… or the Bach Double Concerto. It’s worth it!
..or (to tie the nepotism to the pirate theme), a nice hornpipe
Or the Dixie Chix.
That would be something to aspire to.
In many ways!
mikey
I always think of Les Nessman at about 6:10.
Obama’s early stumbles
Governing!
Or the Dixie Chix.
That would be something to aspire to.
In many ways!
I aspire to Natalie Maines in ways I’d probably get slapped for.
it takes a lot of tooth enamel to endure 5 or 6 years of beginner violin
The fiddle must have the worst learning curve of all the instruments. The payoff is amazing, if you do pull it off, but damn.
The French horn and trombone have to be up there, too.
Governing!
yeah, well – telling time, knowing what day it is, calendars, etc – these are all difficult technologies.
I’m a bioethicist, actually. And I’m perfectly fine with this knucklehead not knowing what I do.
Is moi the only “heterosexual” (Not that there’s anything wrong w/ it!) around here who isn’t breeder scum? (We’ll leave the gay — not there’s anything wrong w/ that neither — breeder scum out of this.)
And includes deafness in one ear in the truly committed.
Governing!
Whaterning?
BTW, what the hell is governing? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
yeah, well – telling time, knowing what day it is, calendars, etc – these are all difficult technologies.
Made far more difficult by having your head firmly lodged between your buttocks.
And includes deafness in one ear in the truly committed.
I was thinking more of the payoff to the audience, but yes.
Is moi the only “heterosexual” (Not that there’s anything wrong w/ it!) around here who isn’t breeder scum?
Nope. Golden Snip here.
Is moi the only “heterosexual” (Not that there’s anything wrong w/ it!) around here who isn’t breeder scum?
I only did it once and I promise never to do it again. Really I do. Way too embarrassing to have children younger than your grandchildren. 😎
BTW, what the hell is governing? Is that actually a real job, or, is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living, but, can spread their lunacy and political viewpoints?
It’s like decisioning, apparently.
Oooh, there’s some committment.
I just go out w/ women so unhealthy they couldn’t get pregnant if they wanted to.
Ah, women. If only they could open jars.
An elephant in a pirate hat, holding an American flag near a Christmas tree on a tropical beach with a chest holding a skull and gold coins is the most bizarre blog banner I’ve yet seen.
…breeder scum well, maybe you should talk to Charles (scumwise)
Trombone isn’t too bad, comparatively, and horn is pretty difficult, but the worst two in terms of difficulty are probably oboe and bassoon. They both use weird, finicky double-reeds, and the keys are apparently designed for aliens with a multitude of thumbs and pinkies.
Who’s this “Charles?”
Other than one of my legal names, which is both confusing me & making me nervous.
I have to agree with this guy on one thing: What the hell is a bioethicist?
To me, they’re the jerkoffs who come up with reasons why stem cell research is Teh Eeeeevil.
Is moi the only “heterosexual” (Not that there’s anything wrong w/ it!) around here who isn’t breeder scum?
Dodging that bullet for 18 years as of last Monday.
…one of my legal names…
moi aussi
Or, conversely, Teh Gooooooood.
(but I was hinting at Mr. Darwin))
Hey! Lookit little Darwin! Lookitim go!
Legalize: That Nation story is sickening. Ending on a high note, too. The guy who was shot reacts to the cocky attitude the shooters are putting on: they shot people (and some of them killed people, probably) and know they got away with it. This won’t end well. You know those fuckers’ll be back.
But racism is OVAH now. Ask any wingnut & they’ll tell you so.
And on a completely unrelated note because I am too lazy to post twicet, I think this is actual fact here: “The Truth Is In DrDick’s Head.” Like in Fight Night, ya know?
To me, they’re the jerkoffs who come up with reasons why stem cell research is Teh Eeeeevil.
Bioethicists talk about a lot more than stem cell research and actually do a lot of good work on hospital ethics boards and institutional review boards for research on human subjects. There are a good chunk of wingnut Catholic and Bushite bioethicists who come up with reasons that stem cell research and its cousins are Teh Eeeeevil. But within the academy we are pretty left-wing and are more concerned with just and equitable treatment of people within the medical and biomedical research systems.
I think this is actual fact here: “The Truth Is In DrDick’s Head.” Like in Fight Night, ya know?
Why thank you. Being of the scientific bent, I will settle for “a working approximation of some of the truth (small “t”, please) is in DrDick’s head.
Loneoak –
Speaking as an anthropologist who rarely has to deal with your profession, but who also has to deal with issues dealing with research with human subjects, I would like to say you do good and valuable work on the whole. I thank you and you colleagues.
Don’t click unless you want a recipe, but it seemed worth quoting.
tapioca is the ugly stepchild of desserts
Why thank you, Dr. Dick. I happen to have many anthropologist friends and I find your people fascinating.
..or maybe rice pudding
Ah. I know him as Chuck D.
Arrr! Any scurvy dog who makes fun of bioethicists deserves to be keelhauled and brought to a medical practitioner who disapproves of fake pirates and won’t treat him.
They are best observed in mid-eclipse as they ululate wildly.
…in mid-eclipse as they ululate wildly
…so that’s why I have all these bruises!
Geez.
From over here in MarCom, we find your little bitty arguments, well quaint.
And if legal won’t sign off on our content, you win!
Um.
But guess what….
mikey
A little late to the party, but we’re adopting, about a third each because she finds the idea of childbirth repellant, we don’t want to put another mouth on this world to feed when there are already people without parents, and our genetics are horrible.
ckc (not kc) said,
December 20, 2008 at 4:22
tapioca is the ugly stepchild of desserts
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Jell-O™. But it can be good, if you put your elbow into it.
~
I find your people fascinating
We do tend to be rather strange and exotic. 😎
I actually have a couple of friends here who work on bioethics issues (the reason I know as much as I do about your profession), Anne Cook and Helena Hoas.
Fuck I am a dolt. Fight *Club* goddamnit. Gah.
..or maybe rice pudding
Definitely blanc mange.
Jell-O™. But it can be good, if you put your elbow into it
…or vodka (mmm…shooters!)
Blanc mange is not the ugly stepchild of desserts, it’s le beau-fils laid de desserts, which is altogether different.
…my dog had the mange once – he sure was ugly at that point..
Bread pudding is the identity crisis of desserts.
DrDick said,
December 20, 2008 at 4:34
..or maybe rice pudding
Definitely blanc mange.
Mandatory Youtube.
Legalize: Good lord. Yeah, how much you want to bet a black neighborhood would have been nuked and paved for that shit?
…spotted dick, anyone?
…spotted dick, anyone?
I hope not, I am undercover here.
He’s equally blunt in Welcome to New Orleans, an hourlong documentary produced by the Danish video team, who captured Janak, beer in hand, gloating about hunting humans. Surrounded by a crowd of sunburned white Algiers Point locals at a barbeque held not long after the hurricane, he smiles and tells the camera, “It was great! It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it.” A native of Chicago, Janak also boasts of becoming a true Southerner, saying, “I am no longer a Yankee. I earned my wings.” A white woman standing next to him adds, “He understands the N-word now.” In this neighborhood, she continues, “we take care of our own.”
Janak, who says he’d been armed with two .38s and a shotgun, brags about keeping the bloody shirt worn by a shooting victim as a trophy. When “looters” showed up in the neighborhood, “they left full of buckshot,” he brags, adding, “You know what? Algiers Point is not a pussy community.”
but the worst two in terms of difficulty are probably oboe and bassoon.
Friend of mine plays oboe in the local volunteer orchestra and she says the same thing. After she showed me how it was done, I’m inclined to agree with her. Then again, I play bass – and not even double-bass or upright bass, just boring ol’ electric Jazz bass – so what do I know.
And the last time I went to one of the local volunteer orchestra’s concerts, the featured guest musician played a bassoon. Stoned as I was – which is the only way to see classical music, stoned and waaaay in the back – I thought to myself it was surprising the basson did not catch on in the ’60s, since it sounds like a saxophone and looks like a giant fucking bong. I mean, you had theramins and sitars and all sorts of shit white people should be hugely ashamed of for introducing into pop music, but the bassoon was given a miss. And then I wondered who was considered “the Jimi Hendrix of bassoon”, ’cause you know someone somewhere’s been described as thus.
And blanc manges are from the galaxy Andromeda and are here to win Wimbledon.
“this is true”- Angus Podgorny
MzNicky, I appreciate the appreciation of pie, but why does that man who claims to love pie & seasonality not know when strawberries and peaches are in season?
“Pie is in tune with the seasons. This means apple pie in the fall, strawberry-rhubarb in late summer, peach in June.”
And in continuation of the double-duty postings:
“Ah, women. If only they could open jars.”
Hahahahaha! I have a whole roll of that cheap-ass dollar store weird rubbery shelf liner to cut into bits and use to open jars and I don’t need a man to do it any more! Take that, you! I haven’t needed a man for years! I have one anyway, but he’s pure-dee luxury.
the worst two in terms of difficulty are probably oboe and bassoon.
I should have thought of that – I played the bassoon for a semester back in high school. Well, I tried, anyway. That thing was a major pain to deal with – not just in playing, but the finicky reed maintenance.
It was so worth it, though. The only other bassoonist was a young lady I had teh huge crush on, and playing that horn allowed me to be sequestered with her in a practice room a few times a week.
Goddamnit. Not MzNicky. M.Bouffant.
Dolt out. I blame the vodka of course.
I have always felt profound respect and admiration for tapioca.
tapioca is the ugly stepchild of desserts
I have always felt profound respect and admiration for tapioca.
Of course, these two sentiments are not contradictory, as one may feel deeply for those that are not conventionally beautiful.
Nevertheless… tapioca – yuck!
You know what go surprisingly well together? Tapioca and toasted bagels.
You wouldn’t think, but the two round each other out remarkably well.
I have always felt profound respect and admiration for tapioca.
As have I and all right thinking Americans. It at least has something resembling texture, unlike the wretched blanc mange which is nothing more than sweetened library paste.
something resembling texture
ball-bearings in grease?
“Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a prominent bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health–and the brother of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel–will serve as a senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget on health policy,”
So, someone who appears to be fully qualified to do the job is being named to do the job. Yeah, I can see why that’s a cause for outrage.
“is it one of those made up positions that Liberals constantly come up with so they do not really have to work for a living”
Is that anything like the straw men conservatives constantly come up with so they don’t have to actually face reality?
Dessert is creme brulee or chocolate mousse. All else is food.
Okay, I’m not a dessert person really, so maybe there’s some stuff I don’t know about.
Vodka out!
Shoot him, then cut out his tongue and then shoot his tongue. And trim that straggly beard.
Don’t say bad stuff about tapioca. It might get annoyed and wreak terrible vengeance.
…mind you, I’ve never claimed to be right-thinking (or American)
Don’t say bad stuff about tapioca. It might get annoyed and wreak terrible vengeance.
Empirical proof that my reverence for tapioca is well founded.
You DFH lie-brul morans!
Don’t you know that “bioethics” is determining that 16-cell embryos and Terri Schiavo and so on have a Right to Life™?
On the other hand, actual living human beings with functioning brains, or animals, or the Earth’s biosphere, gimme a break! If the Free Market™ has a use for them, well and good. Otherwise: Let ’em eat cake! [/sarcasm]
Let ‘em eat cake!
(or tapioca)
Tapioca, pie, whatever. If it’s not chocolate, it’s not dessert.
Tapioca, pie, whatever. If it’s not chocolate, it’s not dessert.
Chocolate tapioca pie?
I like pie!
Maybe all dessert is chocolate, or maybe not. But not all chocolate is dessert.
…this just confirms my point – can you imagine a tapioca Jesus?
I’ve never been completely clear on the value of bioethics as a field. On the one hand, there should be a field of study of experimental ethics as it deals with living beings. On the other hand, “bioethics” seems like little more than moralists and nervous nellies trying to attach themselves to a field they’re envious of.
…this just confirms my point – can you imagine a tapioca Jesus?>/em>
Well, if the Catholics can imagine a wine and crackers Jesus ….
According to legend, once there was written a bioethics article whose conclusion was not “More research needs to be done on this issue.” But no one has been able to confirm its existence.
…let’s talk about geoethics, or maybe chemoethics
…wait, I’ve got it!! omphaloethics!!
‘Moralists’ has taken on a specific meaning since America was hijacked by these fucking loons, but I should like in opposition to present a sort of disciplinary type-site for bioethics: the medical science of hypothermia is unusually well-bolstered by experimental data – to which almost everything about that specific subfield can be traced. This experimental data – and, to some degree, everything dependent on it, including a lot of tangentially but critically related medical and engineering understanding, and almost completely encompassing, say, lifeguarding – is the direct result of Nazi human experimentation on strapping Jewish youths and Allied prisoners of war.
The case can be made that having the data is good however it was acquired, but ‘nervous nelly’ may perhaps be overstating it.
I can imagine a gooey, slimy, shapeless, oozing, alien life-form Tapioca Jesus.
The problem would be that Tapioca Jesus would be impossible to crucify – he’d just dribble down off the cross. On the other hand, communion would be a lot more interesting.
How about meta-ethics? Is it ethical to have ethics? Or have the ethicists gone too far? Just how slippery ought a slippery slope be?
no, no, no!! you’re focussing on the jesus – the crucial point is the inappropriateness of the tapioca!!!
You could torture Tapioca Jesus by inserting one of those big bubble-tea straws into his side.
I don’t think it’s right to have ethics!
Bioethics also deals extensively with how medical trials are run, how much and what kinds of information are given to experimental subjects, what are acceptible levels of risk to subjects, etc. You might not think that this needed much thought or study, but then you would not know much about doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
Is teh tapioke really appropriate for anything?
Even scum?
You’d be horrified to know the real experimental basis for our knowledge of the effects of slippery slopes. Neither the slope nor what made it so slippery can stand up to ethical scrutiny. Fortunately, these days, testing the slippery slope can only be done with informed consent, or perhaps an advance directive.
Bioethics also deals extensively with…
…Ethics – no one but us poor naked apes cares about it anyway, so why pretend that it’s not all about us!
Hoo boy.
I can’t speak for the pharmaceutical companies, but I can say that American medicine is what happens when you force scientists to live their grad-school sleep and work schedule until they retire or die.
Think about what you’d do to get a ten-page research paper done at 3 AM the day of, and then replace that paper with a human being.
Bioethics is important.
FYW: The slope ain’t exactly slippery, sir. When everything you know about being tortured to death comes from a single scientific period in which torturing certain people to death was regarded as a good thing by a certain society, any fields that deal extensively with people being tortured to death are gonna have informed consent issues.
The slope ain’t exactly slippery, sir
Indeed.
I wasn’t actually being polemical there; I just like picturing an actual “slippery slope” rogue medical experiment.
Also, “slippery slope” is fun to say. Just purely sonically.
Never mind me, I’m punchy.
Think about what you’d do to get a ten-page research paper done at 3 AM the day of, and then replace that paper with a human being.
I’m in the humanities, so all I can picture is reading and typing.
You’re doing a human being at 3 am. No? Sorry, perhaps you need to clarify what you’re doing at 3 am and why (and what it has to do with ethics).
Bioethicists talk about a lot more than stem cell research and actually do a lot of good work on hospital ethics boards and institutional review boards for research on human subjects.
Aren’t we all bioethicists? For a lot of the questions here — what forms of reproductive technology are acceptable, xenotransplants, what constitutes informed consent, etc. — your opinion is as good as mine (possibly better, since I am a profoundly unserious individual, prone to ill-considered actions and spouting gibberish). Well, I prefer opinions to be informed, and I tend to ignore anyone who rants about genetic engineering if they don’t realise how much horizontal cross-species transfer of DNA goes on in nature, but you know what I mean.
So I don’t understand how some people can be called Bioethicist with a capital B, and be invited onto panels to advise governments about “What is acceptable to Society”. Bugger that for a game of soldiers, say I. The only thing that could possibly be more offensive than giving special weight to the bioethical views of people because they happen to be academics, would be giving special weight to the views of people who happen to be priests or rabbis, and inviting them onto panels to advise…
What?
They do?
Well bugger that for a game of soldiers too.
Here at Bimler Research Laboratories we have been conducting slippery slope experiments with human subjects for many years. You might call it ‘skiing’.
..we have been conducting slippery slope experiments with human subjects for many years.
well, I hope you’ve filled out the appropriate forms and received informed consent.
Having tried various experiments where we put frogs in pots of water and brought them slowly to the boil, we have concluded that it is equally ethical to do the same thing to humans.
Admittedly we were on a mountaintop at the time of the experiments (in order to have access to slippery slopes), and this might have affected the boiling point of the water, so more research needs to be done.
Result #2: Frogs can’t ski.
Result #3: Taking frogs down into mineshafts is a waste of time.
Result #4: Canaries don’t like pots of water of any temperature.
can you imagine a tapioca Jesus?
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Is that what you kids
are calling it these days? …and
wins the internet.
In other internet traditions, it would be a Very Good Thing if the various people who have been owning up as musos got together to play music (possibly in some sort of bassoon / oboe-influenced klezmer style). They could call themselves “Bandname of the Thread”.
‘Muso’? Is that some manner of crude pseudo-ethnic slur?
I was a terrible violist for six years, and heartily recommend it for children learning music for learning’s sake – it’s a pretty little instrument that has a fairly shallow learning curve (very few people learn how to play it well, but it’s never ear-splittingly bad), and it’s completely tangential to our culture’s aggressive pursuit of individual prowess, something that bands and orchestras with their ranking systems tend to reinforce pretty heavily. We are a society that needs to learn to play well instead of obsessing over playing better than the other guy.
The Left’s enmity would have over-flowed, and they would have ramped their seething factor to at least an 8
Shame on you, Mr Good. Everyone knows that our seething factor goes up to 11.
(CBS) It’s been 17 years since Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist introduced his daughter at his confirmation hearings as Chief Justice.
Now, Janet Rehnquist is herself a powerful – and controversial – figure. In her brief tenure as Inspector General of Health and Human Services she’s been accused of influencing investigations for political reasons, using her office for personal gain and leading a bloodletting of senior staffers who disagreed with her methods. She’s now the target of three federal investigations.
Janet Rehnquist Under The Microscope
Fuck all you tapioca haters. Tapioca is the real Ambrosia not that sour cream based bullshit that people trot out like, “ooh look what I made, you’re just going to love my ambrosia salad. It’s always been a favorite in my family.” Assholes.
…this just confirms my point – can you imagine a tapioca Jesus?
Glory be and praised be His name. My higher power, at long last I have found You.
So I don’t understand how some people can be called Bioethicist with a capital B, and be invited onto panels to advise governments about “What is acceptable to Society”. Bugger that for a game of soldiers, say I. The only thing that could possibly be more offensive than giving special weight to the bioethical views of people because they happen to be academics, would be giving special weight to the views of people who happen to be priests or rabbis, and inviting them onto panels to advise…
What?
They do?
Don’t worry, Smut Clyde, here at Sadly, No! you’ll always be our designated bioethicist for Teh Buttocks.
something resembling texture
ball-bearings in grease?
Fish eyes in slime.
I played oboe in middle school band, and it was kind of a bear. Unlike other woodwinds, the double-reed players had to find places to exhale as well as inhale, and there were way too many solos for a shy person. We also always looked like we were taking a particularly difficult dump – very sexy.
These may not be the Hendrixes of hte bassoon, but this is nonetheless hypnotic:
If they weren’t so white, the meth-cookin’ lady would be “Bristol’s baby-daddy-momma.”
…seems as if Sadly, No folks are in to personal insults like the Kos folks…
Oh, man, we were having such fun until Williams came along and got serious. What a downer.
And one suspects a black governor naming her child ‘Trig “Bullet-Wound” Palin’ wouldn’t get off quite so easy.