Why do I completely know that this will be linked to by Glenn Reynolds?

Well, I just looked. Sure enough.

Heh, indeed.

M-I-C
K-E-Y

K-A-U-S (wet farting noise)

That’s our favorite picture of Mick. Mouth open, eyes closed, look of pleasure/pain on his face. Yeah, very familiar.

KausPlay sez, “One thing we learn is it’s just sausage.”

So what’s the difference if it’s attached to a goat. Take it in your mouth. Slurp, slurp.

You just had to post that picture of Kaus, didn’t you? Now I’m gonna have nightmares for a week, not to mention the milk production in my small goat dairy is gonna be way down.

Next time it occurs to you to post a photo of Mickey Kaus, can you please warn us in advance or at least put it behind a link?

From when I first wandered on to teh internets, one of the things that I have never understood is: Mickey Kaus – what’s the deal with that guy?

THERE IS NO LEFTISH EMAIL CABAL!

But I think the headline-writers’ worry was that an “echo chamber” is what the outside world tends to get from members of JournoList once they’ve vigorously hashed out their disagreements in secret.

So, not only does Mickey not know who is and is not on the list, but he’s certainly concerned about the co-ordinated response and united front presented by the Left-biased media.

I mean it’s so obvious, that connection that lazy journos have with online entities. The evidence of political manipulation of media is blatant.

Perhaps a wingnut forensic tubologist can trace word patterns and reverse parse different blogs to prove the conspiracy. Or you can just throw your kaka at a wall and see what sticks….

Y’know what really irks me about all this? Ezra is getting tons of free press taking him several thousand times more seriously than he deserves. He’s a careerist hack, end of story.

Aside from the weirdness of claiming that there’s a secret evil J-list thingee or that Ezra Klein is a purveyor of far-left groupthink…

…did Kaus actually say that having a private conversation is undemocratic and elitist? Am I reading that correctly?

There’s a second, less uncertain, concern (aside from my primary beef, which is that they didn’t invite me). […] False modesty? Check. Suck up to the organizer? Check. Underlying, self-satisfied exclusionary impulse? Check.

Apparently, the internets is a place where some people like to type up their insecurities and share them with the rest of the world.

Man, he looks like he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Those poor goats.

Also: people email each other privately to talk about stuff! FILM AT ELEVEN!

Congrats, Gav, on being able to not only understand but also summarize that orthographical goatspooge. Lemme tellya, I couldn’t figure out WTF he was going on about. Except for the WAAAAH they won’t let me in the club part. That came through pretty clearly.

I still say impugning the good name of well-meaning caprids with that horrible man is completely unfair.

Also, why can’t Mickey Kaus understand that, while these hypothetical listservs for liberal elitists might exclude him now, it’s simply part of the American dream to support them in the hope that some day you will be George Soros?

Kaus:

But I always thought one of the big ideas of the Web was that, to the maximum extent possible, these deliberations and revisions and improvements could now take place in public, where everyone could follow along and maybe contribute.

If you blog or read blogs, you must abandon email. It is the only way.

No seriously: What is that thing that appears to be growing out of his ear and heading toward his mouth?

Man, he looks like he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Those poor goats.

Sitting here laughing shamelessly over that one.

Kaus has already expressed more concern over a listserv than he ever expressed over torture as official US policy. Fucking scumbag shitheel jerkoff dickface fuckwad.

He’s a microphone fiend.

“What is that thing that appears to be growing out of his ear and heading toward his mouth?”

Tapeworm. It came out of his ass, located conveniently close to his ears.

aside from my primary beef
No, really! I prefer cows!

No, really! I prefer cows!

I think he’ll die happy if he convinces the public he’s worked his way up to Carnivora.

So that’s what the president of NAMGLA looks like.

I demand that the secret thoughts of all leftists be written down and posted on the internet. All of them. All the time. Constant, non-stop posting of everyone’s private thoughts. It’s the only way that true transparency can be…

Ah, fuck it. This is such unimportant bullshit. Figures that both Mickey Kaus and Eric son of Eric are both on the case.

Fucking scumbag shitheel jerkoff dickface fuckwad.

Kaus should arrange to have that inscribed on his tombstone. It’s best to plan ahead for such things.

“I demand that the secret thoughts of all leftists be written down and posted on the internet. All of them.”

Allright, here goes: Capitalism isn’t so bad, sometimes. Atrios’ comments section sucks and I never read it. I’d like to bang teenaged girls, but what would we talk about afterwards? Michael Moore; kinda fat. Michelle Malkin; kinda hot.

I demand that the secret thoughts of all leftists be written down and posted on the internet. All of them. All the time. Constant, non-stop posting of everyone’s private thoughts.

I thought that that was what we were doing.

This is such unimportant bullshit.

What other type of bullshit is there?

Fucking scumbag shitheel jerkoff dickface fuckwad.

Sometimes you feel like a writer, and other times the tourettes takes over and there ya go.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Kaus were caught performing the rusty trombone on rabid goats.

I pitty anyone naive enough to fall for an invitation to Kaus’ place for “free” ANYTHING.

I demand that the secret thoughts of all leftists be written down and posted on the internet. All of them. All the time. Constant, non-stop posting of everyone’s private thoughts.

Ooh, and we can tell what we dreamed last night and braid each other’s hair!

Free goat milk at my place everybody! Later we’ll make goat cheese.

Wuh-woh, loony libs! When even liberals like Mickey Kaus and Dick Morris are showing your agenda to be freaky fraudulent, and that you are exchanging e-mails with each other in privacy, and a conspiracy to take over AIG, a big Obummer donor, then the cat’s out of the bag and you’re toast! Hear that SPREAD of OUTRAGE? It’s gonna get even bigger and bigger, until the point when the Obummer gets depantsed by Super Sarah, the Power Palin! Urban out.

It’s pretty funny that there’s now a full-on Right Wing Echo Chamber bouncing this story about, eh?

Constant, non-stop posting of everyone’s private thoughts.

re*: Kaus’ post title
Arielle Kebbel is pretty hot, but way too young.

*In actuality, my thought processes are sometimes as ridiculously formed as this.

In summation, PENIS.

It’s pretty funny that there’s now a full-on Right Wing Echo Chamber bouncing this story about, eh?

You don’t think there was some sort of private collaboration that made this story suddenly spring up, two years after Ezra announced the list, do you?

I demand that the secret thoughts of all leftists be written down and posted on the internet. All of them. All the time. Constant, non-stop posting of everyone’s private thoughts. It’s the only way that true transparency can be…

“Dear Penthouse,

Well, you’ll never believe what happened to me at the car wash today!…”

From when I first wandered on to teh internets, one of the things that I have never understood is: Mickey Kaus – what’s the deal with that guy?

.
I think that about sums up G.B.Kaus.
I think that Mr Kaus has some explaining to do re the emergence of fainting goats

Say, maybe we on that list can Go Galt?

What other type of bullshit is there?

this kind:

A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs.

Borsteinas, a Canadian citizen, said he’s been in business for 15 years, acting as a middleman between U.S. and Canadian suppliers of western wear and equestrian products and Canadian retailers who want to stock the products.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/03/16/bc-borderprotectionism.html

Now, that’s the kind of important bullshit we need.

It’s pretty funny that there’s now a full-on Right Wing Echo Chamber bouncing this story about, eh?

Well, if there are unconfirmed rumors that mundane left-centrist Ezra Klein might be privately communicating with other mundane centrists and possibly even secretly discussing mundane centrist issues, then America needs to know about it.

“there are unconfirmed rumors that mundane left-centrist Ezra Klein might be privately communicating with other mundane centrists”

But you don’t get it! It’s TOTALLY confirmed. The lid has been blown off this story! Journalists and writers are talking to each other!!!!11!1!twelve!

Well, if there are unconfirmed rumors that mundane left-centrist Ezra Klein might be privately communicating with other mundane centrists and possibly even secretly discussing mundane centrist issues…

And sometimes having mild disagreements, even. AMERICA DEMANDS TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Shorter Mickey Kaus:

“I denounce this list that I never heard of because it’s contents, which I have never seen, may indicate something that I have no proof of.”

And sometimes having mild disagreements, even. AMERICA DEMANDS TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

I’ll bet sometimes, the farmer’s wife even chases them up the clock before it strikes one…

Damn, posted this on the wrong thread.

Here’s some more really important bullshit (h/t Pandagon):

Mr President, would you share your thoughts on two subjects.

First, what are your thoughts regarding Islam’s belief that government and religion are inextricably tied to one another, as well as all other aspects of a Muslim’s life, and would you contrast that with the opposite view in American life where religion is purposely left out of government.

Secondly, what are your beliefs on whether Mohammad and Jesus Christ are actual prophets of God or mere urban legends?

thank you.
http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=300&pageNo=1

There’s currenytly 824 equally pertinent questions there, for them that’s interested.

We’re supposed cc the right on all our emails now?

A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs.

Now, if only that selfsame Border Patrol dude had sealed up the border so that President Bush couldn’t get back in, we’d all be the better for it.

Sometimes I wonder if Lord Saletan frets about Kaus blowing goats and believes he could prevent it through moralizing lectures to the goats about personal responsibility.

Wait, wait, Kaus is citing L’Affaire Beauchamp as an example of dangerous groupthink on the left? What about the right, who we haven’t heard from since Michael Leahy, a sergeant in Beachamp’s unit, was convicted of murder of an Iraqi man? Guess Kaus didn’t check the emails on his listserv telling him not to mention Beauchamp again.

Here’s a good one:

Repent and Resign!
Posted by David Ben-Ariel on Jan 20, 2009 15:42

President Usurper Obama,
REPENT and resign, and return to Africa where you belong or be driven from office in God’s good time with a plague upon your house.

Congrats, Gav, on being able to not only understand but also summarize that orthographical goatspooge.

No fuckin’ shit. I didn’t understand a damn word of it. Hence the “shorter”. That’ll teach me to doubt.

Their mundanity is key. It’s like the deep-sea anglerfish’s light. It lures you in. Slowly but surely, you get closer and closer, and then they’ve got you!

Do you consider yourself greater than Nimrod?

This is a trick question.

And more…

America for Americans!
Posted by Spartan_Fury on Mar 18, 2009 06:50

Fellow brothers and sisters! Americans! we must now more than ever be prepared to stand firm and stand tall! Americans now is the time for us to break the choke hold of government. either work through the system or break the system! our earned rights of freedom and liberty sometimes call for the Blood of Tyrants and
Patriots to be spilled! be ready Americans! if this Faux government continues to attack us be ready to raise your voice in revolution. Send Teabags to the whitehouse and flood the halls of congress with letters! for to long the giant of America has slept! arise now patriots and americans. our time is now and we must take back our country! God Bless America!

President Usurper Obama,
Have you no fear of God? Do you consider yourself greater than Nimrod?

Don’t want no preznit who considers himself greater than Nimrod. No sir.

How about a president greater than A-Rod?

Go Nimrods!

Dear Mr. President, that is if you are actually our president and not the usurper most believe you to be…

Isn’t it charming that they still politely include the endearment?

President Usurper Obama,
REPENT and resign, and return to Africa where you belong or be driven from office in God’s good time with a plague upon your house.

Who knew Joe Biden had so many supporters?

Even Bush was greater than Pay-Rod.

let us for a moment look at the handbooks of Stalin and Hitler. the best way to control a population is through it;s food and children.

Wait a minute. Food and children? Are they the same thing? Is food like children or are children like food? That is to say, should we pour ketchup on our kids or should we send our cheeseburgers to college? Where can I get the handbooks?

bread and circuses, food and children. Meh.

Can someone better versed in Biblical Wingnuttery than I explain what the fuck they are talking about by accusing Obama of thinking his britches are bigger than Nimrod’s? And what is the Tower of Babel analogous to in their fever dream here? Is Obama building a giant tower of pagan linguistics on the banks of the Potomac?

I think Kaus is just mad that he wasn’t invited to the big listserv. I mean, he’s a prominent Democratic writer for a prestigious online magazine, why doesn’t he get to be in the club? Obviously, if they didn’t invite a fair-minded writer from the moderate left like Mick Kaus, they clearly have something to hide! And he didn’t wanna be in your stupid club anyway.

I can’t wait for the WND White House Correspondent (if they really have one) to start asking these questions at presidential press conferences.

Just remember we’re only 2 months into the Failed Obama Presidency. My friends, it appears we are still a long ways away from peak wingnut.

Raising the top marginal rate by 3% is an act of hubris that can only be compared with building a tower straight up to G-d’s throne.

I particularly enjoyed this one:

Mr “President”
Although I vehemently opposed you during the elections, you still ended up as the Commander in Chief (albeit without any executive experience whatsoever), but I digress. That said, I’ve repeatedly watched you backtrack (but it’s ok, cause you’re a politician) on everything you promised the suckers of this nation I spent 27 years defending (yea, in the countries you finally “visited with the troops”). But now you’re proposing (is that like commanding?) that those same brothers I served with PAY for the right to take a bullet??? You’re priceless (or is that useless…), but again, I digress. I’ve ordered the Rosetta Stone series to learn Arabic, maybe you’ll respond if I post in Al-Jazeera?? Regardless, I don’t just spend my time posting to the internet (practically a useless exercise, but it’s cleansing somehow). I attend and support the “tea-parties” and any other constitutionally protected right I still have to protest your rape of my rights and selling my country to your left-wing, socialist supporters who can’t wait to roll over the American-Idol watching sheep who aren’t paying attention…… OK, I feel better…

Maj S – Retired USAF

Where does one begin? President in quotes, multiple notifications of digression although previously noted by use of parentheses, the belief that he has to learn Arabic although he could comment on Al Jazeera’s English language website, his support of “tea-parties” (the use of quotes makes me think these tea-parties are either imaginary or some sexual thing). It’s all so wonderful.

President Usurper Obama,
REPENT and resign, and return to Africa where you belong or be driven from office in God’s good time with a plague upon your house.

House plagues are the worst plagues of all. My house has boils on its underparts.

OK, I feel better..

Sweet!

Nimrod is associated with the construction of the Tower of Babel. What is Obama doing that is analogous with the Tower? Who knows—energy independence, health care reform, economic recovery. One or all of the above plus items on his agenda that exist in their minds only. They decided months ago he was presumptuous and dangerous and incompetent.

If memory serves, the Kaus-Goat association goes back to the Townhouse furore of 2006 when Kaus was complaining about not being on a TSU left-wing mailing list.
My house is bleeding from its orifices and stridulating, but that is normal.

But now you’re proposing (is that like commanding?) that those same brothers I served with PAY for the right to take a bullet???

Did I miss that memo?

Also, Nimrod was a hunter, which means Obama something or other, obviously.

Nimrod is associated with the construction of the Tower of Babel.

Was he the construction manager?
Did he bond it?
Site safety manager?
Not…the guy who makes concrete cylinders?

They decided months ago he was presumptuous and dangerous and incompetent.

You forgot uppity.

Not knowing his place = worse than Nimrod.

Wasn’t Nimrod a Marvel Comics villian?

My basement does have a plague of rats. But that’s country living for you.

You forgot uppity.

Yes, you’re right. The subtext of all of this is that Obama is black and hence by racial definition, out of place.

“Tower of Babel” would be a good name for a multi-lingual tow-truck operator.
I should also point out that my “Topless Towers of Ilium” company is doing quite well. People are too distracted to notice that their cars are being towed away.

Dear President Usurper Overlord Grand Poobah Dickface,

We’ll take the niggers and the chinks, but NO IRISH!

Wasn’t Nimrod a Marvel Comics villian?

Project Nimrod!!!!

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Nimrod_(Sentinel)_(Earth-811)

Kaus has already expressed more concern over a listserv than he ever expressed over torture as official US policy.

Indeed. This guy has some of the weirdest obsessions. How did he get that bug up his ass about Cark Check and labor union elections? Has he ever paid attention to the war, the economy, or anything else important?

Was he the construction manager?
Did he bond it?
Site safety manager?
Not…the guy who makes concrete cylinders?

He was the decider, among other things.

Cush also begot Nimrod, who was the first man of might on earth. He was a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord; hence the sayin, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord.” The mainstays of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:8-10 (Babylon is Babel).

(Babylon is Babel)

See, this is where the bible confuses me. I was on an express on the Long Island Railroad yesterday and we passed Babylon and I didn’t see any sign of the tower or any Nimords.

I was on an express on the Long Island Railroad yesterday and we passed Babylon and I didn’t see any sign of the tower or any Nimords.

If you didn’t see any nimrods on the Long Island Railroad, you just weren’t looking.

If you didn’t see any nimrods on the Long Island Railroad, you just weren’t looking.

I saw plenty of green-beer puke.

But now you’re proposing (is that like commanding?) that those same brothers I served with PAY for the right to take a bullet???

I’ll take TWO, please.

Can I write you a check?

mikey

If I remember correctly, Nimrod the comic character was rather bad ass.

And I wouldn’t show my ugly mug if I was a world renowned goat blower, but that’s just me.

I’ve always loved ex-military (or purported ex-military) wingnuts. They spend years in the closest social setting America’s ever had to meritocratic socialism, and then they go home and spend their taxpayer pensions to whine about limitations on Steve Forbes’s will.

Never even mind the right’s ridiculously adversarial relationship with the actual military rather than the vague militarist idea at neoconservatism’s heart or their eager chumminess with the rogues’ gallery of military industry. I think spending twenty years in a society governed by each-according-ability-each-according-need plus the occasional state-sanctioned murder pretty much recuses you from saying jack shit about anyone or anything vis a vis Stalin.

More gems from the WND comments section:

Your a coward, a thief and a phony we will NEVER respect a Socialist. REAL AMERICANS want you EMPEACHED!
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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party ?
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Why have you and your fellow leaders across the globe decided to engineer the collapse of the global economy to bring about a Global Government and Currency? Who will be the global dictator of this new Tower of Babel and how will you convince the citizens of the globe to accept this Satanic plot?
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I know you cant wait each week til wednesday rolls around so you can summonds all your commie buddies and throw back some fine wine and dine like royalty at taxpayer expense.
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Do we citizens have stupid written on our face?

My house has shingles AND shakes.

Do we citizens have stupid written on our face?

Perhaps, if you look like Mickey Kaus.

Also, the earlier ranting-raving-crazy who ordered the awful mick Obama to go back to Hibernafrica is probably either a World Church of the Creator loon or a more simple British Israelite maniac. Either kinds of crazy are worth looking at somewhere objective (religioustolerance.org – probably worth looking at first; also probably SPLC).

I’ve got a dark but unevidenced suspicion that a lot of people the SPLC are currently worrying about were quietly bankrolled by recipients of Bush’s faith-based programme funding – checks against batshit insanity were only done with any seriousness when the religious body wasn’t some species of evangelical. That and the links between zealous fundamentalists and right-wing militants with fundamentalist leanings aren’t taken particularly seriously – the ease with which people like Huckabee can move between neopentecostalists and sunday evangelicals is unmatched anywhere in America which isn’t so completely dominated by one particular sect that murderous crazies are part of everyday life (largely Catholics and some Hasidic burghs on the east coast).

Unfortunately, the fundie militants have a much easier time raking in money from sane people than do wingnut credentials mills and welfare bodies, so the end of the Bush pork machine won’t prune them anything like as bad as the Pajamas Massacre. But they’re gonna get mean and desperate.

Do we citizens have stupid written on our face?

Not so much written as engraved.

REAL AMERICANS want you EMPEACHED!

Obama is the pits.

Who will be the global dictator of this new Tower of Babel and how will you convince the citizens of the globe to accept this Satanic plot?

I love the phrasing of this question. “Well, Mr. Wingnut, I plan on convincing the citizens to follow my Satanic plot through my mind-control ray. If you would adjust your fillings to the CIA channel, I would happily begin transmitting my interpretation of Das Kapital to your teeth. Then I will reveal to you the dictator of my Tower of Babel. Hint: it rhymes with Gill Stayers.”

The sad thing is that you would never know. People would say “Hey stupid” and you’d say “stop calling me that” but it’d be written on your face but since you can’t read backwards writing you’d never be able to read it in the mirror.
It would be a never-ending nightmare.

My house has piles. From sitting on a concrete slab, I suppose.

Dear Mr. President, that is if you are actually our president and not the usurper most believe you to be…

Yeah, that question’s so gonna get considered.

And: “most”? You and what gaggle of goobers? “Most” voted for Obama. That’s like why he’s president now and stuff.

“Tower of Babel” also is a metaphor for speaking in tongues,* i.e., lots of different languages being spoken simultaneously, i.e., multiculturalism, i.e., socialism!, i.e., B. Hussein X is the Antichrist and is so going to raise your marginal tax rate and install Islam as the national religion, i.e. HE’S BLAAAAACCCKKKK!!!!!1!!!!!1!!!!a bazillion run away!!1!!

_______________
*as explained in in the postmodern novel “Snow Crash.”

Gaggle of goobers FTW

But the whole point of the Tower of Babel was to have ONE tongue and a testament to the power of a unified human civilization. So god got pissed and ‘scattered’ the Babylonians and forced them to speak in many different tongues. So god is the reason for multiculturalism, no?

Genesis 11: “7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

I don’t expect completely coherence from ’em, but I’d at least like to understand what they think Obama is doing to challenge god and unify the human race. I know I shouldn’t be surprised to see a wingnut scramble together a whole bunch of memes, metaphors, poor Biblical exegesis, impotent rage, pants-shitting-fear and grain alcohol and say something stupid …

building a tower straight up to G-d’s throne.

Honestly, I thought it was the new bidet…

America for Americans!
Posted by Spartan_Fury

WTF is up with these idiots and their quasi-martial nyms?

Mickey Kaus – what’s the deal with that guy?

Illicit love child of Walter Lippman and a goat.

Some say
Fetid is to incisive reasoning
As Feta is to breathing

Yet the flecks on flocks don’t equal the flogs on , in amorous ampertudeity

We non-elite writers learn something just from watching the sausage get made. One thing we learn is it’s just sausage. Ezra Klein has taken a lot of what could be highly informative back and forth on the World Wide Web and privatized it, much as rich people in gated communities reclaim green space from the public sphere and wall it off behind guards and fences. It’s not an egalitarian or democratic impulse.

From this excerpt, we can paraphrase his closing graf:

Petulant sense of injury? Check. Idiotic conclusion? Check. Code words to ensure a link from InstaDoofus? Check.

So let me see if I understand: Mickey — how many grown men call themselves Mickey who aren’t a Disney property or someone who could conceivably kick your ass? I digress. Mickey — “Goats? What goats?” — Kaus thinks that rather than trade ideas on a mailing list with like-minded folks, to better refine those ideas and have smart people look for weaknesses in the arguments, Ezra Klein should send email to everyone on the internets, in the interest of democracy and egalitarianism.

So from there, do we open up story meetings at Slate and the NYTimes? Does Rupert Murdoch broadcast the talking points briefings, sorry, the news meetings at Fox? Do we get to examine John Mellon Scaife’s checkbook?

I guess this is what happens when you never get invited to the cool parties and never have ideas worth sharing.

Ok, I’m like totally out of the loop and all that, but what exactly would a “spartan furry” look like? I mean, sure, I know what a “cigar skunk” looks like, and I’ve learned a great deal more about this odd animal-suit fetish (if Mickey Kaus dressed up like a goat, would he hurt himself?) than I’d prefer to know, but I do wonder what kind of suit spartan furry would wear.

Hey, I wonder if Leonidas was a furry too?

There is much history lost in time…

mikey

Damnit! You linked to Kaus!! I had not read that asshole since 2004, and here I just clicked your link without really noticing that it was directly linking to that jerk! You ruined my 5 year boycott!!

Damn you, Gavin!

Having never seen a live goat in Los Angeles (County Fair, Zoo & petting zoos excepted) I can only conclude that not only does Mr. Kaus blow goats, but he probably (may prefer to, even) blows dead goats.

A thankless task, like demonizing hordes of swarthy immigrants & hordes of union workers.

My house once had a bad case of urinary incontinence, but the priest of plumbing came over and ran a new water line to the stop box and the plague was driven off. Amen.

Hey, I wonder if Leonidas was a furry too?

Didn’t all those guys walk around w/ a dead lion or whatever’s skin, head, you name it hanging off them? That’s some serious Spartan Furry there.

Didn’t all those guys walk around w/ a dead lion or whatever’s skin, head, you name it hanging off them? That’s some serious Spartan Furry there.

I think you’re on to something, M.!

Ok, I’m like totally out of the loop and all that, but what exactly would a “spartan furry” look like?

This

Big Ten Pets?

Seriously?

Y’know, a lot of the time I’ve got a little bit of an inferiority complex about never going to college. But then I see something like this and I think “fuckers spent a couple hundred grand to get stupider”….

mikey

Caleb of Red State talked with Ed Morrissey and Jim Geraghty about this listserv thing.

Jim and Ed and I disagreed a bit about the significance of the story in light of the fact that the vast blogging world spends a lot of their time trading emails and stories behind the scenes, be it by direct email or list. Jim and Ed, and you can watch the debate here, I think are essentially suggesting that the list is what it is and that what it is isn’t that big of a thing. As disagreements go I consider this mild. If indeed there is nothing to see here, then there will be nothing to see here.

A small disagreement. For them, it’s no big deal. For him, it’s a clarion call to become Investigative Citizen Journalist!

My position is that we ought to press such a thing. We on the right don’t do a lot of investigation.

He is serious about this. In response to a commenter (emphasis in original):

Really, Kowalski, do you mind if I do battle with the left just once, rather than with you?

Investigative Citizen Journalist Warrior!

Whoever finds a picture of a goat wearing MSU Spartan gear wins the thread.

Okay, so I decided to gazoogle “goat wearing MSU Spartan gear” and found a listing for a company called Goat Wear, Inc.

I also noodled around a little and found lots of listings for goat tattooing.

alas, no Spartan wearing goats. Or goats wearing Spartans.

REAL AMERICANS want you EMPEACHED!

That is just so one of my favourite Obama fantasies.

What?

Do we citizens have stupid written on our face?

In dayglo.

We should take up a collection and get Mickey this gift

The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is here to help.

Caleb of Red State talked with Ed Morrissey and Jim Geraghty about this listserv thing.

OH NOES!! SEKRIT RIGHT WING EMALES!

lots of listings for goat tattooing.
So what tattoos do goats prefer these days?

Kaus, Goat, PENIS.

There, I said it.

Of course, the wingnuts never for a second take a moment to understand that for the Spartans, man-love was the highest and purest form of love. Women were just for making more Spartans.

Wait a minute, after reading what I wrote, of course they know this!! it’s their self-hatred of knowing they are truly what they despise what causes them to angrily chase their tails until they catch them. And when they do, they will keep chewing as far as they can go. I’m betting they make it to their ears.

So what tattoos do goats prefer these days?

I think I’ve got a general idea:

http://www.box.net/shared/164skypclk

mikey

I didn’t examine it too closely. I’ve heard a tattoo of wreath of roses surrounding the word Maaamaaaa! is popular with seafaring goats

seafaring goats

Yo-ho-ho and a log of chevre!

This is a non-story, & Kaus is a non-journalist – so it’s a perfect fit.

“Underknown leftish email cabal” – WTF?

There are underknown unknowns, overknown unknowns, underknown knowns, & overknown knowns …

Kaus writes like I lay eggs.

Right now the Wingnut Lockheed Strawclutcher Engine has a badly burned-out clutch, yet they’re doing their damnedest to get it up to Warp 9 … they’ll stop at nothing to distract Teh Faithful from this. Limbaugh & his ilk don’t just want Obama to fail – they need him to fail … what’s left of their careers may very well depend on it.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go pay my respects at the Tomb Of The Underknown Soldier.

REAL AMERICANS want you EMPEACHED!

I think this guy’s empeared.

“fuckers spent a couple hundred grand to get stupider”….

(and, apparently, are proud of it!!)

I have underknown underwear.

I’m not sure where it is. It is underwhere.

Billy dared me to wear it on my head. But it was an underdare.

I did it. It really wasn’t that scary. It was an underscare.

Excuse me, I’m going to go eat an underripe pear.

And spend the rest of my evening with my undermare…

mikey

“underknown”

This is a useful construction. George W. Bush: Undersmart. Michelle Malkin: Undermedicated. Mickey Kaus: Undergoats.

They want Obama EMPEACHED because he’s the SOCIALEST!

under schoenen Blauen Donau

Such problems as irrational fears, unexplained twitching, and insomnia could all have origin in a goat trauma.

Emphasis mine, but we may have the origin of wing-nuttery right here. You’ve probably already noted that they they like to call Islamo-Nazis goat-herding illiterates, & so on.

Goatblower!
He’s the man,
The man with a taste for goats…
And he deep-throats!

Goat-blower!
He’s the man,
The man with a taste for goats…
And he deep-throats!

He loves GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAATS!!!!!!

Meanwhile.. Stalkin’ Malkin, who is like for sure totally pissed about AIG, worries that Dems are insufficiently worried that AIG execs could be stalked if their names are revealed.

Brad 21:54,

Amen, brother, amen. Of all the careerists in Liberalistan, Lil’ Ezra has to be among the most loathsome.

Scrolling downward through this page’s extant threads, I am once again struck by how hideously monkey-eared, snarly-faced, butt-tongued, corndog-mouthed, TweetyBird-headed, face-mulleted, neck-bearded, smarmy-back-combed, greasy/dishelveled-haired, hick-roboty, spooky-evil, smugly slack-jawed, fuck-ignorant, and goat-blowingly ugly wingtards are. Not to be lookist or anything, but holy fucking cow.

underattractive

Between being butt-ugly/slack-jawed/just-plain-weird & the goat trauma, It’s a wonder more of them haven’t gone the wet suit route.

Lemme tellya, I couldn’t figure out WTF he was going on about.

Thank God I’m not the only one.

Not to be lookist or anything, but holy fucking cow.

or…holy flippin’ funhouse mirror reflections!

btw, what’s the connection between Kaus and goats? or is this something I really don’t want to know.

Wow, that Goat Trauma page just has to be a parody. Fucking hell. Did you guys roll over the goat logo? It turns into a devil face.

With the number of goat traumas increasing every year, it has become necessary to take measures to protect yourself. With this in mind, the Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation has put together this list of advice.

* Never, under any circumstances, turn your back on a goat. This is Rule Number One of Goat Trauma Avoidance.
* Avoid petting zoos. The majority of goat traumas occurring each year take place at petting zoos.
* Stay alert. Goats are deceitful and can hide just about anywhere.
* Stay in civilized areas. While there have been reports of roaming urban goats, most attacks by loose goats take place in less populated areas.
* Be suspicious of all farm animals. While other animals such as sheep, cows and horses are not by any means the violent creatures that goats are, goats frequently lurk within a herd, waiting to take advantage of peoples’ trust in such animals. There have been some reports of goats avoiding the presence of certain breeds of dogs, but the Foundation has yet to test this theory.
* If you must be in an area where goats are present, stay away from the younger goats. Older goats can be slower, allowing you more time to escape.
* Wearing earth tones in goat-infested areas may offer some protection from goat attack, due their camoflaging abilities.
* Goats have learned to climb trees and drop down onto unsuspecting people. Please see the evidence. Be especially aware in any treed, goat-infested areas.

I will be sure to avoid those treed, goat-infested areas in the future!

And hopefully they finish that ‘research’ about dog breeds known to scare goats. Maybe we can put a leash on Kaus and parade him in front of a bunch of goats. But then again, he would probably be into it.

Chele Stanton at the Big Hollywood is not happy. No word on whether or not she likes the sculpture.

Lesley, it’s all speculation (Which Mickey soooo enjoys!) that, since he’s never firmly denied it, he might just be blowing in the goat wind. (And of course, if he denies it, that’s central to the point as well.)

There’s bound to a thread or five on the subject here.

Like the barnyard allegations an item back.

The fact is, the ongoing calls for the firing or taking back bonuses of AIG execs is classwar. Contracts must be honored and hard work rewarded, or we are socialist.

hard work rewarded

Gary certainly works hard. What’s his reward?

Gary certainly works hard. What’s his reward?

Younger, prettier goats.

Gary probably just wants Mickey’s sloppy seconds.

alas, no Spartan wearing goats. Or goats wearing Spartans.

But plenty of goats wearing Trojans. Because if you’re gonna have goatsex, better it should be safe goatsex.

Ya know, I appreciate how this thread never really went off topic. It’s goats all the way down.

When we got there all of the cool goats had gone. It was undergoated.

Mickey Kaus! There I brought it back.

Beware of Spartans wearing goats.

J-, I knew it would end in tears, but I went there. Holy leaping Christ! Those folks have clearly dropped in from Planet Retard, judging by some of the comments. I mean, this one:

If you look at the politicial cartoons of the 1800’s and early 1900’s you will find even more disgusting personal attacks and other unsavory accusations and mocking. The reason I think it seems worse now is that we live in a time where with few exceptions, everyone has access to the same amount of information and we have a more politically interested citizenry (discounting the turnout numbers).

is just plain igg’rant, given that folks used to attend political talks that went for 6-8 hours, and everyone and their goat used to discuss (in an informed fashion) the issues, in depth and at length.

But some of these others, well, they’re pretty clearly from people who wouldn’t recognise reality if it slapped with with a week-old trout. I mean, this:

You cannot expect anything meaningful to be accomplished if the only discourse is full-on leftist smear mockery. Now, Anne Coulter style mockery where the barbs come accompanied by facts and a point does leave one room to make a good counter point.

just leaves me gobsmacked. This, on the other hand:

If there were any possibility that liberals could learn to fight clean, use civilized discourse, and avoid vicious attacks, I might agree with this “can’t we just all get along” nonsense. But liberals are like mad dogs. They can smell fear, and they can smell weakness.

makes me wonder whether the writer can actually read what he wrote. Or perhaps the writer considers likening an entire group of strangers to mad dogs to be an entirely benign comment, unlike making a urinal that looks like GW.

And this:

That’s why even people who are disgusted by it feel compelled to defend it instead of calling it what it is – a filthy insult to a former president of our country, who has done NOTHING to deserve such disrespect and ugliness.

makes it quite clear that the writer has absolutely no conception of why some people objected so strongly to the Bush regime. Torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’, and imprisonment without trial and solely on the word of paid informers? Fine and dandy. A toilet with Dubya’s face? Unspeakably vile!

This. Is the funniest thing out of fReichtardistan, ever.

btw, what’s the connection between Kaus and goats?

Er… where do they connect? … Well, how can I put this?

or is this something I really don’t want to know.

Yes! You don’t want to know. We’ll talk about it when you’re older. Much, much, older.

Lesley, it’s all speculation (Which Mickey soooo enjoys!) that, since he’s never firmly denied it, he might just be blowing in the goat wind.

This is similar to why I always like to refer to Rush Limbaugh as, categorically, a pedophile – because, as he said of his utterly-disproved-by-medical-experts diagnosis of Michael J Fox, “it is what I believe”.

“my basement does have a plague of rats”
You need to git you a couple of big black snakes down there, g.

“my basement does have a plague of rats”

I read that in the same meter as “My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard”.

My basement does have a plague of rats
And they’re like, “Where the females at”

Or something.

Lesley said,

btw, what’s the connection between Kaus and goats? or is this something I really don’t want to know.

It would be wrong not to speculate.

If you attend a party at Kaus’, does he offer to take your hat and goat when you arrive?

Here’s your goat, what’s your hurry?

UPDATE: Mickey responds to criticism of his call to ban private conversations!

He still can’t say that there’s anything actually wrong with teh J-List, except that it might lead to

a weakness for smug rationalization

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAH – new contender for Least Self-Aware Statement EVAH! Although in his defense, (lookism alert) with a face like his, no wonder he can’t stand to look in a mirror.

Commentsland at Big Hollywood is a gravy train of crazy, Just Alison. I looked at the first few responses on the Pee Drinking Porcelain W and stopped. If you want more with a heavy dose of sycophancy, skim through the comments to Breitbart’s “I boldly ventured into Bill Maher’s liberal hellhole and emerged victorious” post.

Whippersnappers Go on Offense!

And concern troll Kaus goes on and on and won’t turn off.

Here’s a thought for Kaus and all the others making a big stink because they didn’t get invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley’s sleepover party: Maybe, just maybe, it’s boring.

Similarly, private backyards are a good thing. But if the private backyards and common areas of rich people in gated communities come to use up the bulk of attractive potentially public parkland, there’s a legitimate social issue.

Give him credit: when Mickey brings teh stoopid, he buys premium-grade stoopid.

Right, because you know, that e-mail list must be hogging up all the public bandwidth, which is why his goat-porn photos take just forevah to load…

So, the Leftist Listserv is the New Whitey Tape?

Wasn’t Nimrod a Marvel Comics villian?

I bet they were making fun of his boner.

zombie rotten mcdonald said,

March 19, 2009 at 16:30

Well played sir!

*polite golf applause*

Martini?

“Full On Leftist Smear Mockery” is a pretty good description of this joint, though.

Martini?

Two, please. I’ve got a middle school band concert to go to tonight.

Douthat:

Either way, though, isn’t the real story here not the list itself, but the man behind it? I mean, email chains come and go, but the ability to bring your elders together for a common purpose is a rare thing indeed in media-intellectual circles. Isn’t it possible that we’re seeing the emergence of Ezra Klein as the William F. Buckley of movement liberalism – the wunderkind around whom older thinkers orbit, with JournoList as the equivalent of National Review in the Fifties, and with your Paul Krugmans, Jeffrey Toobins and Joe Kleins playing Willmoore Kendall or James Burnham to his WFB?

Isn’t it unimaginable that the New York Times would hire this guy?

“Full On Leftist Smear Mockery” is a pretty good description of this joint, though.

I think I’d like to open a line of clothing called “Leftist Smockery”.

Douthat

Is it pronounced Doubt Hat or Do That?

Either way, it seems appropriate.

That would be “Douche – hat”

False modesty? Check. Suck up to the organizer? Check. Underlying, self-satisfied exclusionary impulse? Check.

Kaus beside himself with envy that he wasn’t invited to participate? Check.

I’ve got a middle school band concert to go to tonight.

Oh my GOD, you poor thing.

Not pictured : one agonized billy goat.

From the author blurb at the bottom of the page:

About Mickey Kaus
Mickey Kaus is the author of The End of EqQuality.

Fixed.

Obviously, the “Eq” was supposed be strikthrough.

FYWP.