Here Comes A Regular
The way I learned it, you’re supposed to put dirty laundry in the wash, and letters in the post. Then I found out about the letters section in the Washington Post. And now the paper’s full of dirty laundry!
Howie Kurtz, The Washington Post:
White House complains about CBS News blog post saying that possible Supreme Court nominee is gay
Complains? But surely millions of them are! Consider Mo Rocca. This possible Supreme Court nominee is vanishingly unlikely to be nominated to the Supreme Court, yet seems certainly gay to me, at least in terms of studied flamboyance and a snappy, ribald wit reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead, albeit as impersonated by Jerry Lewis.
Consider Ted Allen. Less flambé, but someone whom you’d actually want to introduce to the late Ms. Bankhead, Allen will not be nominated to the Supreme Court in a scheme to float “Fat Tony” Scalia out an emergency exit on a raft of deep-fried bacon, for this would be too rulingly awesome. Yet he is securely confirmed as gay, at least publicly.
Among lesbians, Cynthia Nixon is considered beyond reproach, and this is certainly not an exhaustive list. Also: Howard Cruse, Elana Dykewomon, Rip Torn Taylor. Complaining!
Here’s a story that might put things in perspective. There were three little puppies named Everybody, Nobody, and Somebody.
One day, Somebody got all upset, and Everybody started barking! Now, Nobody knew what the trouble was, but Everybody thought that Somebody had a…
…sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.
Or I could just sit down here in this chair instead.
Ben Domenech, a former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer, wrote that…
Wait, when did, or more to the point, how did Domenech, the serial plagiarist, get hired at CBS News?
Yep, I’ll just take this 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut Berri Açaí1 from the freezer and put these glasses down on the table and sit back down here in this chair, first putting this large bowl of Chex Mix on the table, and then these liter bottles of club soda, tonic water, and Hawaiian Punch Açaí Blast.
[Next: Astronomech Domenech]
Title cf.: Replacements – “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” “Here Comes a Regular” (4:46)
1 We must have missed Absolut Lykopene and Absolut Öt Bran.
va fa un culo, biatches!
Start your horses.
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Oh god this is going to get ugly.
Mo Rocca
If Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas are all so butch, how come they wear those dresses? Couldn’t they at least update the costumes with a little Johnny Weir feather boa flair?
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As Smut pointed out, in his apology Domenech admits he was plagiarizing an unsourced rumor.
By the way, getting off the boat for Rip Taylor was totally worth it. Sweet sweet confetti-filled mangoes.
The Bryan Fischer piece…
It’s like you’re watching a moon-sized softball float toward your bat, and Fischer runs out and catches it, and comes up to you like, “Excuse me, may I put that ball on a tee for you?”
And you’re like, “Uh, sure,” and he hands you a bazooka and says, “Don’t go easy on the ammo.”
The bazooka being Jim Crow.
Rocca’s story about the audience talkers at the Streisand concert is fucking hilarious!
Gavin:
Not to mention Absolut Resveratrol /i> : Live drunk forever! Or at least 30% longer, anyway.
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So the back-of-the-house, grunt-work peons have been cast out long ago, at all the big propaganda houses, so no fact-check, edit-for-continuity,tense,logic,rationality,etc., no quality control at all. The front of the house- vapid, rabid, prevaricating, self-aggrandizing nitwit stumblebums, flush with cash and intoxicants (external and internal), purveying ludicrosity by the page inch with impunity. Prove this “god” to me now, dammit! After the whole sick mess collapses, there should be jobs for all of us rational folks in the media, eh?
Shocking!
P.S.
I’ve herd that Mickey Kaus and Marc Ambinder like to visit goat sex farms for mutual blowing sessions. Who’s behind this?
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And yet they both work for major media outfits. Shows how far we’ve come as a society.
If we elevate an open homosexual to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he (generic use) engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in every state in the Union as recently as 1962 and a felony in the other 49 states until 1972.
Until 1966 it was illegal in every state for a woman who’d been raped to get an abortion, and illegal to get any abortion for almost any reason until 1973, so is any woman who’s had a perfectly legal abortion disqualified? Or what if she’d used birth control, that used to be illegal too? Also, NO WITCHES.
And actually, I bet the anti-sodomy laws to which he refers rarely if ever applied to girl action. It’s the man gay that typically gets the haters hetted up.
So no judges who’ve ever had it or put it up the pooper. All current judges need to sign non-pooper pledges or resign. See ya, Scalia. Hey, and didn’t porn used to be illegal? Bye bye, justice Thomas.
And blowjobs. Don’t forget blowjobs, tigris.
After reading Fischer’s exercise in fatuous ignorance, I am left nearly speechless. Yet in my mind’s eye I see Fischer’s gallbladder, possibly the only organ in his carcass that achieved a double-digit IQ, becoming sentient and growing teeth, gnawing its way up the inside of his torso and out the front of his throat, and as Fischer breathes his last surprised breaths, spitting its bile into his eyes.
Is this wrong of me?
“If we elevate an open homosexual to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he (generic use) engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in every state in the Union as recently as 1962 and a felony in the other 49 states until 1972.”
Sort of like miscegination. See Thomas, Clarence.
I’ll admit it, I want to see Kagan nominated just so Republican Senate bigots will squirm uncomfortably during the hearings, just dying to ask her if she’s a dyke, but knowing that it’s completely immaterial. Or even better, one them does ask, and is told by Kagan that it’s none of his fucking business, or even better, asks him “Why do you want to know?”.
Hey, and didn’t porn used to be illegal? Bye bye, justice Thomas.
Sexual harassment used to be illegal, too, but that didn’t stop him either.
I love how Domenech defends his rumor-mongering by claiming that Kagan’s “female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles.”
Has Mr. Domenech ever attended Harvard, or the law school thereof? I submit that he has not. So he attempts to defend one unsourced rumor with…a second unsourced rumor.
That’s journalism, my friends!
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that CBS news hired ol’ Benny. Jesus Christ, even conservatives aren’t trying to say that the plagarism shit wasn’t legit!
At least, they weren’t then, as far as I was paying attention; these days Blartblart is probably all like, “this is a modern day lynching, especially in the way that he’s still alive afterward!!!1!!!!1!!11!!11one”
Prove this “god” to me now, dammit!
Are you bating atheistTroll to come into this thread, too?
And blowjobs. Don’t forget blowjobs, tigris.
I’m not sure how one can forget. It’s hard* to fathom.
Most sodomy laws were not enforced against consensual couples. It was usually added so a convicted rapist would spend more time in jail. The equivalent of mail or wire fraud for sexual assault. Thanks to homophobes and their zeal to legislate their stupid supposed morality, rapists get out of prison earlier.
*VPR
Wow, I never thought I’d see Howard Kurtz mentioned in a post in which he is, comparatively, a vastly more qualified “journalist” than anyone else mentioned.
Couldn’t they at least update the costumes with a little Johnny Weir feather boa flair?
Rehnquist did perk things up with his Iolanthe stripes.
That’s the thing about them gays. They are unable to make a judgement without first asking themselves how fabulous the decision is and whether it will look good in hot pants.
open homosexual
Veiled Vagina Reference.
Howard Kurtz: Most major news organizations have policies against “outing” gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.
Name one.
Here Comes a Regular
Most. Depressing. Song. Ever. Not that I don’t love it.
Astronomech Domenech
Given his output, I expect this to be a much crappier cover than Voivod’s version.
If only Charles Nelson Reilly were still alive, he could be on the Supreme Court.
Then the Supreme Court could be all like Match Game:
“Dumb Dora was sooooo dumb… [how dumb was she?] Dumb Dora was so dumb, she took her Writ of Certiorari and filed it in her ______(blank).”
Scalia’s card could read “Making Whoopie.”
*cough*Clinton*cough*
To a Republican, a Democrat’s sex life is always related to their public duties.
Their own? Not so much.
justme
I think you will find that if someone talks a good game about morality it means they are excused from exercising it themselves.
Ya think?
Apparently, The Lord loves a hypocrite.
WWIII,
Where, oh where is Paul Lynde when we need him?
Michael Wilbon follows this rule with regard to Michael Jordan. No amount of of Jordan’s cheating on his wife with white Lane Bryant models could ever be mentioned in WaPo. Even when his wife kicked him out of the house, started proceedings against him, his shooting slumped in the games, he stayed out late on nights preceeding games, and he made dumbass decisions as manager. The fact that Wilbon’s writing his authorized biography has nothing to do with anything. The New York Times never reported on Gannon’s c*cks*cking of…the whole Cheney/Bush Admin.
justme
Oh I know so. In the UK it’s the Tory party that’s the party of morality. Good thing none of their MP’s ever died doing anything unusual
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Kurtz and Domenech are naught but a couple of cobags.
When it comes to who Obama should put on the Supreme Court, I defer to (Oh No, There Goes Tokyo) Glennzilla!!!
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Where, oh where is Paul Lynde when we need him?
He’s up in that Secret Square in the sky.
[A] gay judge’s sexual preference will, without any question whatsoever, “interfere with their job.” It’s not possible for it to be otherwise.
Yeah, how can a d00d rule from the bench if he has a bottom hidden under that voluminous robe?
Heh- “rule from the bench” sounds like a veiled BDSM reference.
Here Comes a Regular
Most. Depressing. Song. Ever. Not that I don’t love it.
I dunno… I’ve always found Down in the Tube Station at Midnight to be really heartrending.
So, are The Replacements among the Top Ten Best Bands of All Time, or what? Not that Hootenanny isn’t a hunk of shit, but it’s still better than 95% of music EVAR.
Here Comes a Regular
Most. Depressing. Song. Ever. Not that I don’t love it.
I dunno… I’ve always found Down in the Tube Station at Midnight to be really heartrending.
Those are bad, but I find Twilight by Elliott Smith to be the most tear-jerking and depressing song EVER. Especially now that he’s dead. I only listen to that song when people die, and I never, ever watch video of him performing it live.
So, are The Replacements among the Top Ten Best Bands of All Time, or what?
Most definitely!
I’ve herd that Mickey Kaus and Marc Ambinder like to visit goat sex farms for mutual blowing sessions. Who’s behind this?
Funny you should ask!
So, are The Replacements among the Top Ten Best Bands of All Time, or what?
Most definitely!
Paul Westerberg is a goddamn motherfucking genius. I think there are about three other people in the world who can write a song as well as he.
I think there are about three other people in the world who can write a song as well as he.
Names?
Oh, and thanks, I thought I was the only one out there for a while.
Oddly enough, 20 years after I first read Elana Dykewomon’s writing, her wife became my tax preparer. Small world and all that. She’d look better in that long dark robe than Scalia does, and she’s a whole lot more eloquent.
I dunno, Replacements albums got worse pretty quickly after Tim.
Small world and all that.
As Stephen Wright said, “I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.”
OT, and apologies if this has already been linked:
MooseaMeataTeabaggin
Gold.
Whenever someone refers to “The Replacements,” the signal my brain receives is “The Residents.” I don’t know that I’ve ever actually heard anything by the Replacements.
I think there are about three other people in the world who can write a song as well as he.
Names?
Oh, and thanks, I thought I was the only one out there for a while.
I should refine this statement and say “rock songwriters,” as my taste is rather narrow, and, well, white…
Some of them might be collaborative efforts because I don’t know the dynamics of the bands, but:
Billy Bragg
The Constantines (I think Bryan Webb does most of their songwriting)
John K. Samson from The Weakerthans (they aren’t the most awesome band ever, but his lyrics are so vivid and awesome)
John Darnielle (OMFG I am listening to Psalms 40:2 right now and it’s pretty much one of the best songs ever).
Honorable mentions/good but inconsistent songwriters:
Neil Young (Harvest and After the Gold Rush? Fuck, yeah)
John Vanderslice
Blake Schwarzenbach (mostly in Jets to Brazil, to be honest–Orange Rhyming Dictionary has some amazing songs, though the album’s a little weak overall. Jawbreaker was a little too juvenile/emo [the real emo, not whatever the kids think it is today] for me)
Ben Gibbard (early DCFC is uuuuugh, but Narrow Stairs is a nearly perfect album, and The Postal Service project is awesome)
Carl/AC Newman
Jeff Tweedy/Wilco
Nina Nastasia (I cannot emphasize how fucking awesome she is)
Oh, and I think Colin Meloy is pretty great, though he’s a bit of a one-trick pony (that’s what she said).
You’re welcome. I have to get back to work on my stuff in a moment…I think I might be up all night. That’s what I get for changing my topic last-minute. And writing long lists of my favorite songwriters.
Oh, snap. That was long. Sorry.
I dunno, Replacements albums got worse pretty quickly after Tim.
I agree, but I don’t think it matters, given how awesome Let it Be and Tim are.
Since it seems to be Morbid Saturday around here.
Ladies and Gentlemen! For your consideration! For the “We Don’t Know Why The Artist Didn’t Garrote Himself With A Guitar String Right In The Studio After Recording This Song” category. John Prine’s “Sam Stone”
*cue: “wild applause”*
Hey,lolfinally checkd in on the liberal hate machione i hearbout here,what is it with america and freedom,why hate so much,why defend the Kenyan at everytun when he is ruining it for all of us with socialism?We are the real americans youdon’teven live here,in germany or something so dont tell us here how to run our country were takin it back!
Try getting a majority of the votes next time; it worked for us!
I tried to “connect with Facebbok” so I could comment on Brian Fischer’s lack of outrage over a known miscegenationist serving on the Supreme Court, but I got the following error message: “Invalid Argument.” Facebook is the Goebbels of Liberal Fascism.
We are the real americans youdon’teven live here,in germany or something so dont tell us here how to run our country were takin it back!
That’s nice, dearie. Of course you want to take it back. Perhaps a century or two, no?
Nominate Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. That should turn the trick (yes, I said that).
Is this guy a fake, I vaguely remember the name but not whether he was a parody.
I’ve herd that Mickey Kaus and Marc Ambinder like to visit goat sex farms for mutual blowing sessions
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Folks in a town that was quite remote heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd’s throat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
O ho lay dee odl lee o, o ho lay dee odl ay
O ho lay dee odl lee o, lay dee odl lee o lay
Dope Smokin’ Moron DON’T MAKE ME YAWN!
You know, it’s more likely that Obama was born in Canada then in Kenya (his mom actually visited Canada), but wingnuts like to call him Kenyan. Hmmm, I wonder if racism is involved.
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Why does WordPress eat anything with the word “Viagra” in it?
Except that, of course.
Pfft.
I will not defend every Kenyan tuna, but I will defend to the death every Kenyan tuna’s right to choose whether it is canned with oil or with spring water.
YOU cant argeu with facts and truth,the Ursurper is a hard Marxists and was brought forward by the powers of NWO to desrtoy USA snd birng forth a One World Goverment. you liberals are stupid,worshiop the ONE and support spreading wealth around,thats the beginnong of the end for our feedom.
He’s using a lot buzzwords which makes me think he’s a parody. Still not a particularly good one
Dyslexic spelling is not enough to make a troll funny. High standards, we have them.
It’s the beginningorb of the end for our freedumb.
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Yeah,well laugh if you like but you libdems r going DOWN in November,especially if you keep shoving gay and socialism down our throats. Why gays and blacks need special rights most regular folks dont understand, we just work hard and pay taxes and dont like iot beign spent on lazy people and immorals.
brought forward by the powers of NWO to desrtoy USA
What’s he got against Wrestling?
you libdems r going DOWN in November,especially if you keep shoving gay and socialism down our throats
Um,,, actually if we’re shoving something down your throat, it’s not US that’s going down……
why defend the Kenyan at everytun
A mash AND a lauter? Indeed we do not, good sir! May I also add that your understanding of brewing is close to the worts I’ve seen.
Yup!
It’s the beginningorb of the end for our freedumb.
Fear the orbs!
Bay of Arizona, I object to your comment “it’s hard* to fathom” as a veiled six-foot penis reference.
Having a six-foot penis is no laughing matter, I’ll have you know.
OMG. That AFA post almost reads like a parody. They really are in a meta-universe, aren’t they?
is this where we’re having the weekly meeting of the Homosexual Agenda To Destroy Society’s Morals?
i brought cookies
Cookies! Ooh, and so provocatively shaped!
Cookies! Ooh, and so provocatively shaped!
Oooh! What’s that one?
Well, let’s just say you won’t have to shove that cookie down anyone’s throat, they’ll swallow it gladly. Bite it carefully, though: it squirts!
this one is supposed to be an ulna, this is shaped like a glottis, and these over here with the red sugar sprinkles look like ctenophores and coelecanths!
Fear the orbs!
Indeed.
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Goin’ to the party that we weren’t invited.
Apropos of nothing, Astronomy Domine still sends shivers up my spine. As does Warszawa and In Every Dream Home a Heartache (thanks, Smut, for reminding me about that one!).
Been researching on the intertubes, and it looks like the seizure might have been a result of either the drugs I’m on or the drugs I came off last year. Thank you, drug companies, for making my life so much more interesting.
Cookies! Ooh, and so provocatively shaped!
IT’S A ROCKETSHIP! IT’S A ROCKETSHIP!
Been researching on the intertubes, and it looks like the seizure might have been a result of either the drugs I’m on or the drugs I came off last year. Thank you, drug companies, for making my life so much more interesting.
Fun! At least it’s all worked out okay…
Totally not the same thing, but on New Year’s Eve a couple of years ago, I drank a couple of greyhounds and became really, really sick. If I wasn’t at a friend’s house with my husband, I would have thought that I’d been roofied. I probably should have gone to the hospital. Anyway, it turned out that my allergy meds interacted with grapefruit juice. I felt like a total moron.
Cookies! Ooh, and so provocatively shaped!
IT’S A ROCKETSHIP! IT’S A ROCKETSHIP!
Yay! I referenced that movie here about a month ago and nobody got it.
I do wonder how the troll thinks that we are the lazy people when he can’t be bothered to learn to spell. Or maybe he worked really, really hard at it but was just too stupid to get it right. Stupid, lazy and rightwing is no way to go thru life, sonny boy.
dont like iot beign spent on lazy people and immorals
my granpa was a immoral imgrant, but he gotted papers and lerned where to sqat on tham
hey demns you lazy trustfund marxist bureacrat tax and fingers why dont choo move to swedin where everybody worshps marx you can spurt everthing obammer comes out of his veiled cunningly shaped cookie reference
T&U, it’s the icing on the cake of annoyance when it happened with grapefruit juice. I mean, how sober and boring is that stuff?
And having a big laugh with the Amerkin Freedumb comments (once I’ve deciphered them). I always get a big hoot from anyone who thinks Obama is at all left of centre, and am often tempted to rub their noses in the political compass.
Honestly, if they saw a real leftist, they’d have a conniption fit and keel over.
the political compass
that’s a pretty interesting chart, but it contains information about the actual progressive views of things which would be dangerous for right wingers to know – they need to see progressives as the straw men of their own imagination or else their entire worldview would capsize
I love how Kurtz recaps the plagiarism bit “some evidence of plagiarism was found” as if “some evidence of murder was found, including a murder weapon, motive, video of the crime, and confession, but I’ll state it like it is just an allegation of whatever”
The picture Kurtz chose to run of Kagan looks kind of like Mike Myers.
I imagine they’d just deride it as soshullist propaganda (or perhaps propergayunder) if they looked at it at all, TV. What I found most interesting, aside from the centre-right and mildly authoritarian of the Muslim Marxist, was the comment to the effect that American politics is confined to a very restricted area compared to other nations (look at the UK 2010 for an amazing spread*), and that consequently, in order to show some differences, the scales used for each graph are not constant (and so the graphs cannot be mapped onto each other to directly compare countries).
Worth mentioning that I’ve just re-done the test, and while last time I was floating in the middle of the lower left quadrant, in the esteemed company of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, this time I’m hard up against the left boundary of it. I wonder what’s made the difference today?
So to sum up my ramblings, those who shriek that Obama is a Muslim Marxist fail to appreciate that he’s about a gnat’s whisker to the left of the Republicans. And not a fat gnat, at that.
*veiled vagina reference
Also Al Gore was taken to the hospital where they found a banana up his bum and then HE TOTALLY ATE THE BANANA!!!
I imagine they’d just deride it as soshullist propaganda (or perhaps propergayunder) if they looked at it at all, TV
well, i posted it at the right wing blog that i have frequented for years as myself, the annoying left wing troll. (it is the only right wing blog that won’t instantly ban anybody who posts something faintly non-wingnut)
so, we will see if we draw anything resembling an organised thought. however, it seems astonishingly difficult for my correspondants there to assimilate even the smallest iota of real information, so i don’t expect much…
Did they?
The AFA’s streaming video here definitely makes for some mighty provocative juxtapositions.
I’m still trying to grasp the vital link between the sexual orientation of a potential Supreme Court nominee & a recipe for cinnamon buns. No, wait – now the video link is about using “nuclear strength apologetics” to 110% PROVE & CONFIRM Intelligent Design creationism.
Discussion Topic: How do cinnamon buns prove & confirm creationism in regards to potentially-lesbian Supreme Court nominees?
Mmmmmmmmmm, cinnamon buns!
so, we will see if we draw anything resembling an organised thought. however, it seems astonishingly difficult for my correspondants there to assimilate even the smallest iota of real information, so i don’t expect much…
I await news of their admissions of defeat with eager, although slightly doubting, anticipation…
Why does WordPress eat anything with the word “Viagra” in it?
Munchies.
And, on another topic, I spent nearly two years with excruciating deep muscle pain that ultimately turned out to be interaction between medication and grapefruit juice. My doctor’s summary: don’t drink grapefruit juice with any medicine, including aspirin.
*veiled vagina reference
I long to see the Dance of the Seven References before I die.
N__B, just to be on the safe side, I plan to not drink grapefruit juice ever, under any circumstances,
I long to see the Dance of the Seven References before I die.
How else do you think Salome got the head of John the Baptist (if you know what I mean, and I think you do)?
There. There’s one reference. We’ve made us a start.
I think if you examine that sentence closely, you’ll realize there are two.
Dance of the Seven References
heh
I think if you examine that sentence closely, you’ll realize there are two.
Or three, if you’re a bit loose in your pronunciation. You know, not much of a stickler.
Now look what I’ve done.
Or three, if you’re a bit loose in your pronunciation.
The mispronunciation was my second, so I must have missed hidden one in there. Uh oh…
You know, there just aren’t enough Mo Rocca references on the internet.
It’s good to have Alison back (raises glass of grapefruit juice for toast).
Speaking of trolling, I find Dave Weigel’s blog to be quite a lot of fun, and see that a few others from these parts are joining in (actor, MBouffant).
I’ve been going back and forth for a few days with a teatard who insists that all kinds of bad and hateful things go on at leftist rallies, but that we never see them because the evil liberal media won’t cover it. Which, duh, much to his chagrin CNN doesn’t roll out the satellite trucks for a PETA demonstration in Portland with 10 activists, no matter HOW awful their signs may be. Of course, PETA also doesn’t claim to speak for a majority of US citizens who feel the crush of the boot upon their necks, nor does PETA have any elected officials showing up to egg them on, or a news network devoted to pimping their cause. Perhaps the teabaggers have been hoist upon their own retard and have become victims of their own successful propaganda campaign – which is fitting, because in one way or another these folks are ALWAYS victims. In this case, they’ve been victimized by a media that has given them the attention they crave and invited, and in doing so, failed to whitewash the reality of their “movement” to the liking of the teabaggers. Cleaning up their act before hitting primetime might have averted this outcome; unfortunately, had they done that, the “movement” would have already dispersed itself. Take away the racism, delusions, and extremist language, and there’s no “there” there.
Cleaning up their act before hitting primetime might have averted this outcome; unfortunately, had they done that, the “movement” would have already dispersed itself.
One has to wonder if this is the reason that the rallies have shrunk- anyone not totally in thrall to rightwing madness has decided to stay home lest they get tarred with the same brush.
A vague yearning for consequence-free hate rallies doesn’t count as a “there?”
. Perhaps the teabaggers have been hoist upon their own retard
I’d marry you for this phrase, Jennifer.
Once again to derail the train of thought: my sister and her husband are currently stuck in the UK, having expected to travel to Yurp yester-eve to continue their jolly world tour. I’ve chided her telephonically for having some malign influence: last time they left the country, it was to go to Bali (a regular spot of theirs), which was promptly bombed.
I’ve got a touch of the same gift: a few years ago I was agog for months in anticipation of travelling to Melbourne (Oz) to see the one and only Andy Lau Australian concert (Lau is a Cantopop megastar/actor who makes me swoon). Sadly, Lau had been in Canada for some awards or summat, and the bugger was stuck there because, a few days before, some complete Noggins flew a some planes into buildings.
So my advice to you is this: if you want to have a jolly holiday, make sure that I and my fambly don’t have any plans.
.. dirty laundry in the wash, and letters in the post…
That’s a literate phrasing the old Nazirite proverb, yes. The NY Post is still epistolary and WaPo has a more, um, narrative style. That kind of toss away focus on grammatical form is useful to the lay reader.
I have no idea how CBS news hires their staff. I’m sure someone there does.
I’ve glanced at the Box Turtle’s clips and I can’t think of anyone else working in public with that quantity and quality of plagiarism. I think Ben made a good case for being the worst plagiarist around with “…every other alleged instance of plagiarism that I’ve seen comes from a single semester…” That semester is his masterpiece of plagiarism. Nearly everything he published for half a school year was copied. Not everyone, even a Young Republican writing for a college newspaper, can get away with that. That takes big plagiarism balls because it’s a career ender if you get caught. But he did get away with it and so he plagiarized that much again outside of William and Mary, another semester’s worth of stole articles spread over only a few years of semi-professional work.
Poor guy, all of the important reference links to his plagiarism on his wikipedia page save one very pedestrian incidence mentioned in a Kos comment are down. Based on Ben’s current wiki page, his plagiarism is no big deal, just some overreacting in a few lefty blog comments. The links to his college paper go to the current home page and a search there doesn’t turn up much. There are a few tepid denunciations but most of the links are dead, empty, or incorrect. The Internets must be broken or something.
a teatard who insists that all kinds of bad and hateful things go on at leftist rallies, but that we never see them because the evil liberal media won’t cover it.
So your interlocutor is complaining that the MSM is not giving the attention to left-leaning demonstrations (immigration reform, etc.) that they deserve? Sounds like there is enough common ground to make it worth continuing the argument.
Nearly everything he published for half a school year was copied.
To be charitable, we all copy ideas and insights to an extent; we hear them, forget about them at the time, and then when they come back to mind a few months or years later, we think they are our own original creations. But at least we come up with new wordings for these ideas. Then when we are caught out we call it “anamnesis”. Domenech, however, stands out for lacking not only his own ideas and insights, but his own words for expressing them.
OT, but to my shame I’ve only just discovered Tacitus Voltaire’s blog, and discovered that it is full of all the weirdness that I would be writing about if I had a blog.
To be charitable, we all copy ideas and insights to an extent; we hear them, forget about them at the time, and then when they come back to mind a few months or years later, we think they are our own original creations. But at least we come up with new wordings for these ideas.
Living in the Age of Teh T00bz, I typically do a search on any phrase that I think I’ve coined to make sure it’s original. You can bet your sweet bippie I googled A Tramp Stamp for Leibowitz before I ever typed it in a comment thread on some political comedy blog.
Since I sort of camped the last thread, let me mention my favorite was
Astromech Artoo-detoo.
Why am I the first to say this?
Ted Allen: Less flambé
“Hey! Phillipe! Zat faggeet ees undaircooked! Put heem back on zee grill!”
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Gavin, on its worse day…you know, when TinTin’s puppy dies and DA’s got to write his Dan Riehl columns first and you’re off with the spud…SadlyNo is funnier than Fanatical Apathy on its BEST day, when Mo Rocca has a dick up his ass and Adam Felber is hallucinating and Chris Regan’s tie comes off in a drunken stupor.
In other words, they’re jealous.
I say to them, BE JEALOUS, my friends, be jealous!
“Hey! Phillipe! Zat faggeet ees undaircooked! Put heem back on zee grill!”
Ah, le Yanque Confederique!
Ah, le Yanque Confederique!
Aka jerk rubber chicken.
What the fuck are you two doing up at this ungodly hour on a Sunday????
Insomnia.
Graveyard shift.
Sleep is much over-rated.
Sleep is much over-rated.
I thought the whole point of NZ was that there were more sheep than people.
Oh, wait…
And why are you both here together? Where are your wiv–
Oh.
And why are you both here together? Where are your wiv–
Uh… you’re “here” too… are you the middleman in this tawdry little scenario you paint?
Me? Why, um….shhhhhhh, Mrs B^4….why my cat was sick and needed tending to.
Why, look at the time! I must go complete my sermon about the wages of sin and then go feed the elderly and find housing for a couple of families put out by their landlords…a sain’t work is never done, I tell you!
the wages of sin
Make sure to mention sin-COLA increases.
Make sure to mention sin-COLA increases.
And the allocated tips. One can never have too many tips¹ in sinning.
¹NVPR
Now, now, we know you’re just fattening up those elderly folks for the soylent processing plant.
We prefer tender fetuses to chewy old meat.
Those folks we turn into dog toys.
Those folks we turn into dog toys.
You could always diversify, and turn some of them into fine Corinthian leather.
You could always diversify, and turn some of them into fine Corinthian leather.
With these people, more like Naugahyde.
aravind: http://afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147493455
Oh god this is going to get ugly.
Hey, wow, that was a real interesting article! Who’d have thought a self-described Christian conservative would be so angrily opposed to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is widely considered one of the more conservative members of the Court?
For those of you who may be curious but don’t want to click through (better look out, I think that page has a virus on it), I have excerpted Bryan Fischer’s thoughtful article below, and I quote:
Bryan Fischer-Focal Point
Miscegenist Supreme Court Justice? Not under any circumstances
Date: 4/15/2010 9:03:36 AM
Sen. John Cornyn has regrettably opened the door to the possibility of an openly miscegenist Supreme Court justice, saying he’d “have to think about” it, and adding, “As long as it doesn’t interfere with their job, it’s not a particular issue.”
The problem with Cornyn’s position is that a miscegenist judge’s sexual preference will, without any question whatsoever, “interfere with their job.” It’s not possible for it to be otherwise.
If we elevate an open race-mixer to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he (generic use) engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in seventeen states in the Union as recently as 1967.
Further, miscegenation was prohibited in the State Constitution of South Carolina until 1998, and in the State Constitution of Alabama until 2000. The Loving vs. Virginia decision of 1967, an egregious act of judicial activism, prohibited enforcement of these laws, but the fact remains that for decades after this ruling, states in the Union still regarded it as criminal behavior.
We simply should not elevate to the highest court in the land people who are known for engaging in sexually abnormal behavior which would have, only recently, technically made them felons in states over which they will have jurisdiction.
A fundamental requirement of a judge is impartiality. He is to be as impartial as an umpire or a referee. His responsibility is to take rules written by others (including and above all the Constitution) and faithfully and neutrally apply them without bias or favoritism, and without changing the rules in the middle of the game to give the advantage to the team he happens to like best…
Cases involving different-race marriage are sure to arrive before the Court. Cases involving domestic partnerships and cross-race adoptions are sure to arrive before the Court. Cases involving special rights for miscegenists in the workplace are sure to arrive before the Court. Cases involving race-mixing service in the military are sure to arrive before the Court.
Only an utter fool could convince himself that an active miscegenist judge could be impartial in rendering judgment on such cases. The scales of “justice” would be tipped irrevocably toward the race-mixing agenda and it would be moronic to think otherwise.
With an active miscegenist on the bench, Lady Justice will no longer even pretend to be blind. She will be peeking out from under her blindfold to determine the skin color of the married couple standing before her, then will let the fold slip back into place before ruling in every case to legitimize sexual deviancy.
Bottom line: the American ideal of absolute equality before the law will inevitably be shredded by a miscegenist judge. Neither the Constitution nor the American people should be subjected to that kind of judicial malpractice. We can and should expect more from those who occupy seats on the highest bench in the land.
I had to go out half a day ago and returned to find this thread (barely) still alive. I am quite surprised no one gave us this one:
Ahem
IOKIYAR?
“Any medicine” is taking it a bit too far, I believe. Grapefruit juice is a CYP3A4 inhibitor and will only cause problems when the drug interacts with this enzyme. This is extensively researched before the drug is approved and can easily be looked up. If your doc is telling you to never drink gj when on ANY medication then he’s either lazy or stupid.
rarely if ever applied to girl action
It happens more than rarely. It depends solely on looks, which I think is even worse than just a sweeping hatred. Two discriminations in one.
And…OT. Top of the HuffPo has a cool graphic showing the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano. It’s spreading all over Yurp.
Spreading ash in Yurp.
I kill myself sometimes.
How is Kagan any gayer than, say, former Supremo David Souter who, if he were dressed more like Mr. Slave from South Park, would remind me of the nice feller walking his dogs who helped me figure out where I was going when I was lost in the Village once?
don’t drink grapefruit juice with any medicine, including aspirin.
To be on the safe side, I have always washed my medications down with akvavit.
If your doc is telling you to never drink gj when on ANY medication then he’s either lazy or stupid.
There’s a list of something like 50 drugs that grapefruit juice can cause overdoses with. It’s not horrible advice.
If your doc is telling you to never drink gj when on ANY medication then he’s either lazy or stupid.
There’s a list of something like 50 drugs that grapefruit juice can cause overdoses with. It’s not horrible advice.
Some mushrooms are poisonous so I therefore will avoid all mushrooms.