The End Of An Error
ever get.”
They finally said “buh-bye Bill” to the tirelessly careless William Kristol at the New York Times, ending a little more than a year of his fact-free and error-ridden columnizing at that newspaper. And Bill goes out like he came in — in a malodorous poof of intestinal methane gas:
All good things must come to an end. Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era.
Since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of the important issues of the day: about Communism and jihadism, crime and welfare, education and the family. Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to “work” in the real world.
Would you like fries examples with that? Well, it being a Kristol column, you won’t find any, so don’t waste your time trudging through the column looking for them.
We don’t really know how Barack Obama will govern. What we have so far, mainly, is an Inaugural Address, and it suggests that he may have learned more from Reagan than he has sometimes let on.
Kristol’s column is datelined January 25, so we in fact have quite a bit more than the Inaugural Address, but why should Kristol start worrying about facts at this late date?
Obama’s speech was unabashedly pro-American and implicitly conservative.
You know, this hackneyed equation by Kristol of liberalism and anti-Americanism suggests that Bill might have better luck trolling progressive blogs under the nom de fume “Gary Ruppert” than he’s had being a columnist for the Times.
In a parting shot at the Times, whose editors apparently underlined the cavalcade of errors strewn through a year’s worth of Kristol’s columns when deciding to cut him loose, Kristol purports to find two errors in Obama’s Inaugural Speech. Kristol then takes these errors and waves them around like a poo-flinging monkey with a handful of ammunition.
And he appealed to “the father of our nation,” who, before leading his army across the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776, allegedly “ordered these words be read to the people: ‘Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.’”
For some reason, Obama didn’t identify the author of “these timeless words” — the only words quoted in the entire speech. He’s Thomas Paine, and the passage comes from the first in his series of Revolutionary War tracts, “The Crisis.” Obama chose to cloak his quotation from the sometimes intemperate Paine in the authority of the respectable George Washington.
There’s nothing “alleged” about Washington’s order that Paine’s “The Crisis” be read to the troops on Christmas Day of 1776, at least according to the Library of Congress time line of Washington’s life. And it is, of course, ironic that Kristol would be in high dudgeon that Obama would leave out an attribution that wasn’t germane to his point when Kristol’s own debut column for the Times was marred by attributing quotes to the wrong person. For the person who laughs last to last loudest, he really needs to have something to laugh about in the first place.
But you have to wade through the entire column to reach pay dirt:
This is William Kristol’s last column.
Would that this were so, but, sadly, I believe this simply means that this was Kristol’s last column for the Times and that there remains a distinct possibility that readers of other newspapers might still have Kristol inflicted on them.
UPDATE: The Washington Post, which apparently has become a halfway house for disgraced neocons, has offered Kristol a monthly gig to continue making up columns for them. [h/t Jennifer]
…there remains a distinct possibility that readers of other newspapers might still have Kristol inflicted on them.
Yeah, readers of the Washington Post, to be exact, who will be giving Kristol a monthly space. Because nothing succeeds like failure.
Bye-bye, Billy-boy!
Kristol just needs more time to prepare for his upcoming debate with Jason Bourne as first reported by BigHollywood:
Iraq War Showdown:
“Bill Kristol Agrees to Debate Matt Damon After Actor’s “Idiot” Slam” — by Andrew Breitbart
Conservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of the important issues of the day: about Communism and jihadism, crime and welfare, education and the family. Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to “work” in the real world.
Lemme see…
Communism – Reagan spent hundreds of billions of dollars on unnecessary military crap, including Star Wars, to defeat a philosophy that crumbled under its own weight. Carter would have simply let the shit crumble.
Jihadism – Bill Clinton rolled up sixteen separate terror plots, including plots to bomb London, drop a plane on the Eiffel Tower, kill the pope, and blow up planes over Chinese airspace. Reagan let the Marines dangle in Beirut. George W Bush cleared brush.
Crime and welfare – Poverty and crime do go hand in hand. Crime and welfare didn’t reduce until Bill Clinton’s terms when he actually “spread the wealth” to the poor and middle class, the wealth that Reagan’s “paean to the peon he’d pee on” missed.
Education – Reagan tried to dismantle the Department of Education. Even Bush was smart enough to know that education means jobs means our future. Again, Clinton raised education levels nationwide.
The Family – Abortion rates finally fell under Clinton. They rose under Reagan and the two Bushes. Divorce rates fell in the late 90s.
Someone want to clue this jackass in that Republicans are KILLING America?
How the fuck did he get that job in the first place?
In a parting shot at the Times, whose editors no doubt underlined the cavalcade of errors strewn through a year’s worth of Kristol’s columns when deciding to cut him loose
You are more right than you realize, TinTin
[Tintin adds: linky added. Thanks, Actor212!]
How the fuck did he get that job in the first place?
How does any Republican get any job?
Daddy got it for him!
“paean to the peon he’d pee on”–priceless.
That Kristol keeps finding work at major newspapers (not just wingnut welfare sinecures) is the final nail in the coffin of the “liberal media” chestnut. That a modestly-literate nepotism-dependent screed-scrivener like Kristol is even given checks for anything involving typing is proof that meritocracy is mythological.
Kristol is even given checks for anything involving typing is proof that meritocracy is mythological.
William Shakespeare, it has been said, might be duplicated by an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters.
Kristol? One. And it would have to be a drunk monkey.
Bill might have better luck trolling progressive blogs under the nom de fume “Gary Ruppert”…
O. M. G.
Is anyone sure he isn’t Gary?
“Daddy got it for him” — aka affirmative action for republicans.
Also, while we’re talking family, maybe we should investigate the average number of hours worked by a two parent family to make ends meet.
Just ignore me please, will you? Let’s just talk snarkily about the likes of Kristol and Hannity.
Hannity? I’m sorry. That’s beneath us. You want TBogg.
It is a Happy Day.
Or what about that $3 trillion dollar Iraq war? That cost me a bundle, and Kristol cheer-led the thing. You might understand how that makes me upset. Plus, from the Horton piece:
“The problems that emerged were more fundamental. Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it.”
He just racked up correction after correction. It might give one pause to believe that Kristol knows anything (or wants to know anything) about anything.
How fitting: His first column for the Times was Chock-Full-O’-Fail, as is his last.
Kristol as Palpatine is an enormous undeserved compliment. Bitch can’t shoot lightning from his fingers.
Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it.
It’s not like this should have come as any surprise to the Times. WTF were they thinking?
OTOH, I’m impressed that it mattered to them. I guess they just got embarrassed by his dumbassery once too often.
Well if actor212 is going to recycle his comments from Word-O’-crap, then so can I:
Since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy […] Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
How can you argue with a man who has created his own reality, one in which history records 8 years of the Gingrich administration? Someone needs to preserve Kristol as the type specimen of the “Declare victory and evacuate” approach to national and international politics.
[Followed by references to Mythbusters t-shirts].
Because nothing succeeds like failure.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your new tagline for the GOP in 2012.
Wow, actor212 beat me to the punch, I was going to post something identical to his point-by-point breakdown. Curses, you wily Finn!
I would also add to “Jihadism”, the Reagan/Bush1 regime ramped up the funding for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, then completely abandoned the country to its fate, leading to Talibanism. Bush1 ramped up the presence of U.S. military forces in Saudi Arabia, leading to the formation of Al Qaeda.
Well, now I can end my Kristol-inspired boycott of the NYT… twill be a pleasure to brew up a pot of coffee on Sunday morning and kill a few hours with an old friend, recently come back to sanity after a rough patch.
The Washington Post, which apparently has become a halfway house for disgraced neocons,
I don’t understand why Fred Hiatt, the 3rd most influential liberal in the media would hire Billy “Never Been Right” Kristol. Think Progress sez mebbe because “After all, both fervently advocated and continue to support the Iraq war, both defended the Bush administration’s leak of Valerie Plame’s CIA identity, and both seem to have trouble making sure their editorials are 100 percent truthful.”
Or is there something rotten in Denmark?
Does Kristol write by dipping his fingers in feces and smearing words on a wall?
-GSD
Or is there something rotten in Denmark?
Bill Kristol must have pictures of some very prominent “Masters of the Universe” types sticking vegetables up each other’s butts.
I can’t think of any other reason for his continued employment.
“Bitch can’t shoot lightning from his fingers.”
I don’t know. Kristol’s columns read pretty much like any of the Emperor’s diatribes, i.e.:
“Something something, Darkside. Something something, Reagan.”
Well if actor212 is going to recycle his comments from Word-O’-crap, then so can I
I’m green, what can I say?
It’s not like this should have come as any surprise to the Times. WTF were they thinking?
Hang on a second. Is it plausible that the Times hired him to call attention to the mental deficits that make up conservatism in the first place?
I would also add to “Jihadism”, the Reagan/Bush1 regime ramped up the funding for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, then completely abandoned the country to its fate, leading to Talibanism. Bush1 ramped up the presence of U.S. military forces in Saudi Arabia, leading to the formation of Al Qaeda.
D’Oh!
How’d I forget that????
How the fuck did he get that job in the first place?
Aside from the obvious already supplied answer, consider this, from Media Matters:
Also, while I very much appreciate the new thread, Kristol is an awfully easy target, and the corpus of Kristol bashing is so large it’s a challenge to be clever. S’all been said and done already, y’know.?
Does Kristol write by dipping his fingers in feces and smearing words on a wall?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Since Kristol has been wrong and/or lying about everything else, why should I believe that was really his last column for the NYT?
Bill might have better luck trolling progressive blogs under the nom de fume “Gary Ruppert”
I was thinking about this comparison before. Kristol does not care how specious or tendentious or bad-faith his claims become, so long as they serve their primary goal of pissing off liberals and sparking an outraged response. But somehow I imagine him adopting a nym along the lines of ‘Truth’.
Kristol as Palpatine is an enormous undeserved compliment. Bitch can’t shoot lightning from his fingers.
Palpatine can’t shoot words out of his ass.
Conservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals
From Billy “never right” Kristol, that is a compliment. I hope Krugman got to use the cattle prod to chase Kristol out.
How long until Kristol declares he was fired becuase he wouldn’t toe the liberal Gray Lady line? Or similar. I’m betting on two days.
May I ask the blog’s attention for a moment of silence for the true, real victim of this vicious treatment of Bill Kristol?
I speak, of course, of Maureen Dowd, who will now have to find someone else to help her shop for her Jimmy Choo’s.
TBogg, who reads RedState
because it is no longer possible to visit Bedlam for entertainmentso we don’t have to, informs us that they’re OK about Kristol’ssackingfailure to renew his contractresignation, because he has long ceased to be a true conservative.And those grapes of wrath were probably sour anyway.
Smut, I’m crossposting that comment back at WoC… 🙂
The fact is William Kristol wouldn’t last a minute in the heartland.
The fact is William Kristol wouldn’t last a minute in the heartland.
Why? Cuz he’s Jewish and that makes him a Jesus-killer?
A bit of wisdom from ol’ Daddy
Right. And the Paradox of neocons is that they loudly complain about this while racking up the porno’s rental figures while staying at Mariott.
BBBB: Before you get too comfortable with that coffee and the Times, better wait to see who they replace him with.
Fortunately Kristol is actually not a real Conservative after all.
Wasn’t Bill Kristol instrumental in giving us Sarah Palin?
His first column for the Times was Chock-Full-O’-Fail, as is his last.
A feat made less remarkable by the fact that, y’know, so was everything in between.
Wasn’t Bill Kristol instrumental in giving us Sarah Palin?
That’s why we’ve left the gloves on in mocking him.
All conservatives think that nobody but them is a real conservative.
Wait…
No conservative thinks that anybody but him is a real conservative.
Or something. But it’s true.
Bill might have better luck trolling progressive blogs under the nom de fume “Gary Ruppert” than he’s had being a columnist for the Times
This is why I enjoy reading Kristol. He’s a troll and a good one. Dude knows his job, does it well, and doesn’t let distractions like empirical concerns or argumentative consistency get in the way. And I especially enjoy his appearances on the Daily Show because Stewart basically says, “Alright, Bill, troll me. Let’s see what you got. Let’s see what line you are supposed to be pushing today and let’s see how well you push it. And me.”
Take the “23/6” poll: “How will the NYT continue to show how much they loathe you, and themselves, after Kristol is gone.”
Before you get too comfortable with that coffee and the Times, better wait to see who they replace him with.
You’re right, Dave… I hear they’re considering Ed Anger.
Lacking original material myself, I checked in to see how the freepers are taking it:
Perhaps best of all, they
reprintsteal Horton’s Daily Beastarticle in its entirety. And in that column there’s the following:“But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”
Which they get predictably irrational about and write many angry words mostly accusing the NYT of great hypocrisy. Somehow they magically skipped over the preceding sentence:
A senior writer at Time magazine recounted to me a similar experience with Kristol following his stint in 2006-07. […]
Forget the reeducation camps, can’t we at least force them to take “Reading Comprehension for Dummies”?
Wasn’t Bill Kristol instrumental in giving us Sarah Palin?
Kristol and Fred Barnes.
Ed Anger…at least he’d be accurate.
actor212 said,
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Appreciate me yet, bitches?
The “You’re commenting too quickly” Message
Thanks for dropping by. Now return to Big Ho & get your lips back on whoever’s ass they’re supposed to be on.
“Autopsy”?
These assholes cheered when Bill Maher and Phil Donohue had their highly-rated and successful TV shows shit-canned for the crimes of being liberal and failing to support Dear Leader’s War of Terror. Now, Bill Kristol loses his column because he’s failed to be correct about anything and constantly talks shit about his employer, and the same assholes are crying twin waterfalls about the oppressive Liberal Regime that’s working to silence all conservative voices.
Here’s an example from the Daily Beast’s comments:
Obviously, the Times hates disagreement so much that they only ran Kristol for a year! If they truly believed in free speech they’d make him the EiC.
We know that Kristol was sacked solely for ideological reasons and not his failure to get anything at all right, because the Times still employs Krugman, and there was totally this one column where he was a bit off on his math and that’s completely exactly the same thing!
“Autopsy”?
Since I haven’t insulted Actor212 for a while — in his case, surely it would be a necropsy.
BTW, what is it with fright-wingers and their obsession with the Obamascist throwing them into camps? By my reckoning, Obama is the President least likely to imprison his political foes in camps since Carter. Is it simply projection? Are they unable to imagine a black man that wouldn’t want to toss their asses in a work-camp until the rigors finally destroy their Cheetos soaked bodies (after a couple hours, tops)?
A feat made less remarkable by the fact that, y’know, so was everything in between.
Well, yeah. I never said it was remarkable.
Are they unable to imagine a black man that wouldn’t want to toss their asses in a work-camp…
Well I’m certainly guilty of such sentiments. I haven’t been practicing with this single-tail whip for eight years for nothing, damn it!
They call me Mr. Cracker!
Snowwy, wouldn’t that be Mr. Cracker Cracker?
Or Cracker-Cracker.
OK, trying to compose a reply to that broke my brain. Pardon me while I go lie down…
Are they unable to imagine a black man that wouldn’t want to toss their asses in a work-camp…
Somebody needs to reassure these righties that Obama will treat white folks with the same regard the white majority has traditionally shown to black people.
“UPDATE: The Washington Post, which apparently has become a halfway house for disgraced neocons, has offered Kristol a monthly gig to continue making up columns for them. [h/t Jennifer]”
conservatives continue to fail upwards.
And so it goes.
The fact is, left liberal bias is entrencehd at the NYT, the most biased left wing hard left liberal newspaper ever, and here’s the proof. Why does Dowd and Krugman never get called in for the huge liberal errros made every week? Because they are liberals and the MSM is biased. Meanwhile, Jayson Blair and the treason of revealing wiretapping and Valerie Plame, I need say no more. You liberals have won nothing, we here in the heartland are fact checking you and exposing your bias and hate for our values, this will be a short non-mandate for President Affirmative Action.
OK, trying to compose a reply to that broke my brain. Pardon me while I go lie down…
Is Mr. Cracker a slacker?
The fact is, we can’t afford the unfunded mandate of global warming hysteria foisted on us by Obama, or the threat of terrorists walking our streets. In less than a week, he has destroyed the USA. We need a recount NOW.
Kristol as Palpatine is an enormous undeserved compliment. Bitch can’t shoot lightning from his fingers.
Or tell shit from Shinola, hit the broad side of a barn, score in a brothel with hundred dollar bills tied around his dick, organise a piss-up in a brewery, etc etc
Once a month at WaPo isn’t an improvement over every Monday a. m. at The NYT.
Of course, justice would involve his being sent to a reëducation through physical labor camp, fed two bowls of rice a day, & a quarter-pound of diseased dog-meat once a wk., & worked until he drops as dead as his mind already is.
In less than a week, he has destroyed the USA.
That’s progress right there. Took Bush yrs. to do it. “Faster, Please.”
What was that phrase conservatives sneered at us for years after the 2000 election debacle? Oh yeah…
Hey Gary, we won. Get over it. Whiny little bitch.
That’s progress right there. Took Bush yrs. to do it. “Faster, Please.”
You see, that’s what you get when you choose a workaholic for the top job, rather than a brain-dead slacker who arses around for most of his time cutting scrub and choking on pretzels.
In less than a week, he has destroyed the USA.
Really? David Lloy– I mean, Gary?
Do you still have police protection? Are the trains still running? Did we declare martial law?
He no more destroyed America this past week than you did.
Since I haven’t insulted Actor212 for a while — in his case, surely it would be a necropsy.
I’m lactose intolerant.
Do you still have police protection? Are the trains still running? Did we declare martial law?
He no more destroyed America this past week than you did.
But he’s BLAAAAAAACK!!
You just know that’s what the Ruppert means.
Apparently not. The real reason they haven’t wanted minorities to have power; they know full well they’ve been treated badly, largely by them.
Reminds me of those Boer memoirs, where the children would describe sleeping in a tower, with several mastiffs standing guard below, out of the fear of a native uprising.
Whilst trawling the NYT site, I encountered this
piece of shit video, featuring Jonah the Whale wearing a Santa hat, & whining about identity politics.
No jury would convict anyone who tortured either of these fucks to a painful death, if they were shown this recording.
Preview may be another story. It won’t show me anything past the start of the link.
OK, it worked, except for the early line break.
Hey, is there a general wingnut equivalent of Poe’s Law?
I can’t tell real Gary from fake Gary, and have never been able to tell if he’s “for real” or not.
I know Gary Ruppert. Gary Ruppert is a friend of mine. Mr. Kristol, you are no Gary Ruppert.
Cracker²
Honky Honky.
This is one of those Kristol columns where the “shorter Bill Kristol” really works much better as a one-panel cartoon, showing little Billy Kristol digging through a huge pile of manure labelled “Republican record” and saying, “there’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!”
Jennifer:
And then when there isn’t, he incompetently crafts a pony out of the manure, and then, with shit-stained hands, proudly presents his new pony for all of us to be jealous of.
Our holding our noses and telling him to at least scrub his hands in bleach before eating afterward is taken as signs of our liberal unhingement.
In the neocon version of ‘Happy Days’, the huge pile of horse manure is heaped up around Kristol — burying him up to his neck — but he continues to burble happily about its value as a demonstration of the triumph of conservatism. “Another heavenly day!”
I call that “Election Day, 2008”.
And I continue to hope for Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012, because that would be the bomb.
And then when there isn’t, he incompetently crafts a pony out of the manure, and then, with shit-stained hands, proudly presents his new pony for all of us to be jealous of.
Our holding our noses and telling him to at least scrub his hands in bleach before eating afterward is taken as signs of our liberal unhingement.
I agree; we could add several panels to the cartoon for this particular shorter Billy Kristol.
Hell, I’d love to see Bill Kristol’s NYT column spot filled by a column rotating between Chuck Norris and Not-Joe the Not-Plumber.
Hopefully Not-Joe could duplicate on the pages of the NYT his firm relief that, as reporting from Gaza, the damn media oughtn’t be allowed to report no damn way.
The way they keep going on about Reagan I think the entire wingnutosphere is caught in some kind of time warp circa 1980 or so.
Liberals Love the Littlest Things said
The Actor Outer said
Helen Suzman’s Ghost said
Boy, don’t make me pull out the whoopin’ stick.
After one last edition of Neocon History Imagineering, William Kristol moves on to stink up another media institution … & that pleases me greatly.
The Prince Of Duh is one of the best things that ever happened to American liberalism. When he pimped off Palin on the GOP as a running-mate for McCain, he pounded the terminal nail into the coffin containing the neocons’ hope for a “Permanent Majority” – & he may just have unintentionally saved America. It was by far the best thing he ever did for his country … & as usual, it was a total weapons-grade fuckup.
No Kristol = no Sarah Palin = McCain looks a lot more sane & moderate, quite likely also toning down the Rovian attack-dog angle & focusing on reform instead = Barack Who?
Uh oh. Looks like picking on poor Kristol Jr. got Troofie all het up in a snit!
Perhaps the wingnut’s problem is that they don’t know FAIL from SHINOLA.
Here’s Kristol, doing everything except pouring maple syrup over his head and breaking an ant farm over it, leaving a columnist’s position from one major paper for massively screwing up… and then getting another.
So no wonder they have trouble.
But here’s a tip for ya’ll–you notice the people who get away with this are all the children or spouses of the already rich, don’t you?
I mean, you wingnuts do understand that simple principle, don’t you?
El Cid said,
January 27, 2009 at 3:54
Uh oh. Looks like picking on poor Kristol Jr. got Troofie all het up in a snit!
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Major Surprise to Ground Control...
Oh yeah? Well what about George W. Bush then huh? Typical liberal stoopid.
PWND!
Palpatine can’t
shoot wordspull facts out of his ass.Fized.
I call it the School of Recto-Extractive Analysis. No undue emphasis is placed on any two syllables of the word “analysis” because that would be overplaying it.
Butt, butt, butt…
Well, damn, that looks sorta dorky, I’ll have to complete it like:
Butt, butt, butt… if they can’t pull facts out of their behinds, where will they get them?
Poop!
There it is…
comment over at the beast
Kristol wouldn’t bring the harvest properly. He’d drag in weeds and mole poop all the while grinning and giggling like a fool.
Mole poop.
Very specific. Would one have to dig for it, or do the little fellows leave their holes & poop above ground?
Couldn’t find anything in Wind in the Willows about this. Or even about Badger poop.
Richard Cohen welcomes Kristol to the editorial page with his ode to torture and torturers: (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/ IBD…317864020713672)
Shorter Cohen: We were weak, cowardly, gullible, sadistic, ignorant, racist and blood-thirsty – so we should all be excused.
They can report to me then. I wasn’t scared of anyone but my own countrymen at the time, so I think I’m perfectly objective to accept the findings.
M. Bouffant, dispose of the fiction and get with Mole Mayhem.
This is William Kristol’s last column.
Given Kristol’s penchant for factual inaccuracy, this is probably going to turn out to be untrue as well.
OMG, I just suddenly realized…
“Gary Ruppert” = “The Truth” = BILL FUCKING KRISTOL!
Now it all makes sense! (Well, as much sense as that assclown could make, anyway..)
Hey, after Ben Domenech we decided that the best way to keep our neocons from plagiarizing was to bring in some who just make sh*t up. It might be sloppy and virtually unreadable, but at least nobody’s gonna accuse ’em of stealing it from, like, an actual writer.
Damn Lesley, you are always having the good links!
One question: Is
a guy whose farm in in the city, county, whatever of Mold there in Cymru, or is there a mold dairy industry I am unaware of? (And probably wanted to remain unaware of.)
That’s the moled dairy industry. Subtle difference but important.
For the inside poop on mole poop read The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his business
Hmmm…how many mad cows were from Mold during the BSE epidemic in Britain?
Ah, another Kiwi, here’s the scoop about the poop in “the little story of the mole…”
It’s true: flies know their shit.
It’s true: flies know their shit.
Next paper that wants to employ Bill Kristol should have flies do the screening.
Next paper that wants to employ Bill Kristol should have flies do the screening.
Haven’t you heard the buzz? Apparently someone left the screen door between NY and DC propped open.
here’s the scoop about the poop in “the little story of the mole…”
Great book, by the way.
I don’t know if this is still the case, but for a while the cartoon mole in question became the mascot of the Berlin underground system. Any signs at the stations announcing timetable changes or line closures were illustrated with a diagram of the mole, carrying tools or wearing a hard-hat or generally looking excavation-oriented.
Knowing the mole’s previous career in poop identification, this did reinforce the stereotype of Germans as being rather fecally-obsessed, and left me with a sense of disappointment that I never encountered a notice about delays on line U7 due to elephant doody on the tracks.
how many mad cows were from Mold
Second-worst tongue-twister EVAH.
I think that most of the moldy cows would be merely cross, or irritated rather than mad.
Speaking of elephant doody, it is time for the classics:
George and Lester, Sam and Rudi,
Sitting knitting a baby bootie
Got shat upon by elephant doody.
Said George and Lester, Sam and Rudi,
“Hmm, tastes to me like Tutti Frutti!”
And before I wander away to refresh my beer, I demand a chocolate-sauce ‘Mole Mayhem’ recipe from RB.
try this ten times fast
Bob Loblaws
– the name of the son of the guy who owns the Loblaws grocery chain.
Shenanigans. Ted Loblaw had no children, and the current board of directors has no Loblaws on it. The real Bob Loblaw is, as everyone knows, Scott Baio.
(As for how I found that out, the comment thread went like this:
“The founder of Loblaws was named Theodore Pringe Loblaw. Do Canadians substitute ‘Bob’ for ‘Ted’?”
“You’ll have to ask Carol and Alice.”)
Yes, Virginia, there really is a Bob Loblaw Law-Blog
No discussion of the US pundit class would be complete without a reference (courtesy of a Pharyngula thread) to large flightless parrots with a penchant for skull-fucking.
Thanks, Smut Clyde.
Yet another bit of trivia that will remain stuck in my mind, yet never come in handy on Jeopardy.
Re bayville: Pollsters would like to know: after 9/11, who was the bigger bed wetter…Richard Cohen or Thomas Friedman?
who was the bigger bed wetter…Richard Cohen or Thomas Friedman?
They might need to expand and update the search. After Obama’s announcements, bedwetting is all the rage again with conservative pundits.
You really want to start outing people, pal? Ain’t that a good way to get banned?
Are you admitting it, Troofie?
Over $1 trillion has gone missing into the TARP program.
Under Bush’s watch, you should add, Troofie.
What’s all this about a gay pig sex orgy?
What’s all this about a gay pig sex orgy?
There was one in Minneapolis last August, I think.
Canceled due to chiggers outbreak.
You can be a conservative architect or a conservative Catholic or even a conservative Marxist, but you can’t be a conservative of conservatism.
The ideology which Kristol wishes to define as “conservatism” is correctly defined as “liberalism”.
We Americans and Europeans are almost all of us liberals. some are progressive liberals and some are conservative liberals, and then there are the theocrats and fascists who really aren’t liberals because they reject the liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. But there aren’t actually all that many of those.
Kristol: “the sometimes intemperate Paine ”
Sometimes?!!!!! Only sometimes?
I thought Paine was intemperate all the time
Shenanigans.
re Bob Loblaw. You’re right. I heard this, believe or not, back in the early 80s but it seems it’s an urban myth. too bad, cuz what a great tongue twister and terrible name.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000043;p=2
scroll down a little