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ABOVE: Mullah Brent al-Bozell

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Shock and Awful Art

  • I exhort all my Christian brothers and sisters to take an axe to all blasphemous art that they find in art galleries and other public places.

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Some might yawn. Here we go again. But what makes this story different is that Kathleen Folden, bless her heart, entered the gallery, broke into the artwork with a crowbar and ripped it to pieces.

Here we go again.
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Mullah Bozell’s fellow thinkers engage in a larger scale operation.
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Just remember: the omnipotent creator of the universe gets butthurt from art dissing him.

 
 

Here’s hoping that Little N__B grows up in Newsbusters-free world.
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I am sure he can find a statue of Buddha to blow up somewhere in southern California.

 
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Let’s see if I’m following correctly:

Criticizing the Catholic Church for actual crimes = Bad Liberals.

Vandalizing a gallery with a crowbar over ginned-up outrage = Bless her heart.

 
 

Here’s hoping that Little N__B grows up in Newsbusters-free world.

Tenks. Mini__B will be exposed to readings from The Nation whilst still encribbed.

 
 

Just remember folks – it’s the MUSLIMS who get violent when their religion is criticized.

Christians never do these things because shut up, that’s why.

 
 

I feel it’s very appropriate that I went a’mango-picking while on the john. I shall preserve my bodily response to the experience and entitle it, “Meditations on a Newsbuster.”

Expect a MOMA exhibit next week.

 
 

UM, doesn’t “bless her heart” and “didn’t really destroy anything” kind of invalidate Bozoll’s comments about leniency towards Muslins?

Our media easily blame the offended Christian and not the artist. But make the image a Muhammad cartoon, and our media would blame and shame the artist for being needlessly provocative, and not the offended Muslim who would take action in response.

Oh, no, of course, because as I pointed out before if a Christian gets violent over artwork it’s okay because blart blart oppression blart blart just like Roman times blart blart sneaking through the catacombs blart blart SU,TW.

 
 

Those poor, poor Christians. our highly secular society is just SO dedicated to their destruction!

 
 

Those poor, poor Christians. our highly secular society is just SO dedicated to their destruction!

Sadly, true. Just look at how many atheists have been elected to public office and how politicians have to hide their faith to get elected.

 
 

The fact is, Christians are being pursucuted well Muslims can do whatever they want even kill people and get aprroval from Liberals.

 
 

Hmmm. And here I had been led to believe that these folks were all about protecting private property.

I guess like everything else, it depends on whether they agree with the person who owns it.

 
 

Wolverines???. Some conservatives are gonna be mad when they find this!

 
 

The fact is, Christianity and only Bible Believing Christianity KJV1611 is the only true religion in the world and therefore the only one protected and enshriened in the Consitution, and are country is founded on that and anything else is a liberal lie, and biased too. Other religions have been getting too much power and we need to take are country back, especially secular liberals and muslims who will empose Sharia Law at the stroke of a pen when Obama says so.

 
 

You know – he wasn’t asked, but you just know – that he would never defend as “the best art” the depiction of the prophet Mohammed or the Dalai Lama receiving oral sex.

Yes, Mr. Bozell, I too find that your conservative worldview holds up much better when you ignore your actual opponents and spend all your time attacking strawmen instead.

Fuckin’ windbag.

 
 

Oh and Re:Bozell: it’s funny when people who worship money like a second (or first religion) clutch the pearls when something like this happens.

 
 

Wolverines???. Some conservatives are gonna be mad when they find this!

Well, that and the fact that there’s some parallels drawn between the Wolverines’ experience in Colorado and the leftist insurgencies in Latin America…

 
 

With the failure to goad a terrorist attack before the election, Republicans are once again returning to their crosses, helping each other get that last nail in.

 
 

The artistic elites like to pretend that they’re the sophisticates, and their opponents are the uneducated brutes.

It’s not pretending if it’s true.

You know – he wasn’t asked, but you just know – that he would never defend as “the best art” the depiction of the prophet Mohammed or the Dalai Lama receiving oral sex.

How about a little fire, Strawman?

 
 

Wolverines???. Some conservatives are gonna be mad when they find this!

Oh, that was too sweet.

Mind you, also, Red Dawn was made when there were accusations of the Soviets using chemical weapons in Afghanistan. But in the Red Dawn Universe? Why, they totally fucking forgot all that nerve gas they had stored! Oopski!

Ironic that not ten years later the Soviet Union fell, at least partially due to the invasion of Afghanistan. As I’ve said before, they couldn’t pacify a Third-World country on their own damn border, but they were going to somehow invade and occupy America. *coughbullshitcough*

BTW: What To Do When The Russians Come.

 
 

Mind you, also, Red Dawn was made when there were accusations of the Soviets using chemical weapons in Afghanistan. But in the Red Dawn Universe? Why, they totally fucking forgot all that nerve gas they had stored! Oopski!

I can also totes see how SDI would have been devastatingly relevant in a war of Red Dawn variety…

 
 

Well, that and the fact that there’s some parallels drawn between the Wolverines’ experience in Colorado and the leftist insurgencies in Latin America…

Sadly, the American public are too ignorant and unaware to see that, so it becomes a rightwing fantasy of revolt against a nonexistent socialist threat to America.

 
 

I can also totes see how SDI would have been devastatingly relevant in a war of Red Dawn variety…

Oh, but obviously the RD President is a weak anti-military liberal who cut all our nuclear weapons and gave the military nothing but bamboo spears to fight with, so the Rooskies didn’t even have to launch any missiles to begin with!

(Maybe they did take out NORAD in the movie. Fuck, it’s been years since I saw it and I ain’t wasting my time watching it again.)

 
 

Someone should ask Chagoya if he’s heard of Molly Norris, who merely proposed (and quickly retracted) “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” and then had to vanish from public view (along with her art) and change her name on the recommendation of the FBI.

Yeah, why can’t we have more like this but with Jesus?

 
 

Now I want to see Red Dawn. Especially after reading the comments section, which took the satirical piece seriously.

Though I doubt it can be better than Iron Eagle, which I saw in the theater with a friend who had right-wing tendencies. I soon commented (in a very hush-hush manner, I didn’t want to disturb the audience from following such an intricate plot) that it beat Russian propaganda, which my friend countered later on when the Lou Gossett character appeared to die (“hey, in a commie movie, the hero doesn’t die!”), only to find out at the very end, that (sadly) no, the insurgent officer had NOT died. Smirk. I told you this!

One other major difference too: Russian propaganda looked good.

 
 

Wait, let me see if I’ve got this right: Bozell complains the NEA guy didn’t call some hypothetical anti-Muslim art the best art in the world just after B admits NEA guy didn’t call the not-federally-funded Jesus Blowjob the best, either, nor even mention it. B also commends the woman who vandalized JesusBJ, but minimizes the intimidation of artists by religious people by championing a woman intimidated for proposing antagonistic art against a different and not commended religious group.

Oh well, I guess it’s as logical and sensible as anything else he’s ever written.

 
 

So we get to destroy things we don’t like now? Is that the new rule? Cool. All those people with McCain/PAlin and confederate flag stickers on their bumpers better fucking watch out.

 
 

See, Brent’s comments get right to the point, mon cherries, because art today is, like, totally barbarian, you know? Because liberals make art that doesn’t show man at his bestest. I mean, who out there is a totally kick-ass artist like all the dead white guys I could name if I can just get this google open.

‘Cause the art which we know from when dead white guys made totally awesome art is the only art the dead white guys made. There wasn’t any bad art from back then, only awesome art not like today.

Fin.

 
 

So we get to destroy things we don’t like now?

No, no, no. We only get to destroy things that conservatives don’t like. Everybody knows that LIEbruls are Mooslim-loving commies who want to destroy AmuriKKKa.

 
 

Everybody knows that LIEbruls are Mooslim-loving commies who want to destroy AmuriKKKa.

Damn! I missed that memo.

 
 

Though I doubt it can be better than Iron Eagle, which I saw in the theater with a friend who had right-wing tendencies. I soon commented (in a very hush-hush manner, I didn’t want to disturb the audience from following such an intricate plot) that it beat Russian propaganda, which my friend countered later on when the Lou Gossett character appeared to die (“hey, in a commie movie, the hero doesn’t die!”), only to find out at the very end, that (sadly) no, the insurgent officer had NOT died. Smirk. I told you this!

I admit, Iron Eagle = ultimate guilty pleasure movie for me. Saw it as a kid, was and still am a huge fighter pilot nerd especially where F-16s are concerned, so that movie will always have a place on my shelf.

(Oddly, the first Iron Eagle was Reagan-era agitprop at its best, but the three sequels all waxed hardcore leftie, with the bad guys being crazed right-wing anticommunist generals).

I finally watched Red Dawn in college cause I thought it would be the same type of guilty pleasure movie. Hooo, was I ever wrong. It’s probably just the effects of age and education but that movie was so fucking bad! Yeah.

 
 

The vast majority of the art community’s shocking … work is aimed at celebrating sin…

America needs more shocking art that celebrates bland stuff.

 
 

Other shorter Bozo’ll:

Artists should just stick to greeting cards.

 
 

Artists should just stick to greeting cards.

Well, there is also velvet Elvises and dogs playing poker.

 
 

Best Photoshop EVAR, Tin Man.

Do I have to click to find out what happened to the art vandal, bless her heart? Can’t somebody tell me?

 
 

Tom M said,

October 24, 2010 at 16:36

See, Brent’s comments get right to the point, mon cherries, because art today is, like, totally barbarian, you know? Because liberals make art that doesn’t show man at his bestest.

You know who else made art showing man at his bestest? That’s right...
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Norman Rockwell! This is a real artist.

Actually, attacks on the NEA have gone on for decades now, haven’t they? Where’s Jesse Helms now? *goes to google* Oh, he died in 2008.

 
 

Artists should just stick to greeting cards.

Blowjob Jesus would make for a great Easter card!

 
 

@Mr. Wonderful: I tweeted Brent and his butt-boy Tim Graham and suggested that they might want to use this on their site as the picture of Brent.

 
 

Actually, Norman rockwell’s stuff is lovely…but if everyone made art like him, things would get real boring real quick. Listen, there’s art out there I don’t care for but last I heard no one was propping my eyelids open and forcing me to look at it. Damn, how many strands of pearls has this man ruined?

 
 

“officials denied the image was sexual, as if men usually put their face in another man’s lap for other reasons.”

Ima pull a Jonah here and suggest that someone locate some of those Jesus with kids faces in his crotch or the priests in similar situations to go along with the above quotation.

 
 

Pictures of Juses is what I meant. I’m staying in bed.

 
 

The vast majority of the art community’s shocking or “transgressive” work is aimed at celebrating sin and the sexually “liberated.” The NEA recently announced that it would expend $12,500 to translate into English a novel by the Marquis de Sade, the libertine icon whose appetite for sexual violence inspired the word “sadism.” The federally honored translator, John Galbraith Simmons told CNSNews.com that this particular novel (“Aline and Valcour”) is not pornographic, and that “Sade is a figure who belongs with Shakespeare, with the greatest of authors.”

Point the first: Oh my god, an entire $12,500? What profligate spending!
Point the second: This piece of data only helps Bozo’s point if Aline and Valcour is pornographic and transgressive. He quotes the translator saying otherwise, and never rebuts it. (My understanding is that it isn’t.)
Point the third: Bozo seems to be quoting the translator’s opinion on the Marquis de Sade’s significance as if it’s somehow outrageous or unbelievable. I think it’s slightly overstated, but it’s a matter of opinion, certainly. I think Bozo is suggesting that anyone who likes the Marquis’ works is clearly a sicko deve being secretly funneled federal largess to procure aborted fetuses to use as wank-paste.

What a philistine.

 
 

Norman Rockwell did a lot of pro-civil-rights art in the ’60s–don’t dismiss him so quickly. Today’s right-wing bunch would call him a commie.

http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2008/02/norman_rockwell_and_the_civil.html

 
 

Norman Rockwell did a lot of pro-civil-rights art in the ’60s

What gets disappeared in rightwing veneration of Rockwell’s veneration of American traditionalism is that tradition was in his view liberal.

 
 

From the comments:

But I’ll tell you what –the Republican takeover had better de-fund the NEA, NPR, ACORN, the Ed Dept, and every other made-for-junk organization currently receiving my money.

Ah, ACORN. Y’know, the organization that was defunded last year. And subsequently ran out of money and disbanded.

But it’s good to know that the fact that a given conservative bogeyman no longer exists doesn’t stop conservatives from getting riled up about it. If I ever need to slip away from a conservative, I’ll just point and say, “Look, it’s FDR and an army of Communist invaders!”

 
 

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou.”

Reading the contents of the envelope:
“Name three things that have yeast.”

 
 

I didn’t dismiss Norman Rockwell. Just pointing out a figurative artist. Not sure whether today’s right-wing bunch has “The Problem We All Live With” as their first idea of Norman Rockwell’s art.

 
 

The Inconvenient Truth About Art: art’s original heritage isn’t as tepid vistas of dogs playing cards – art originated as TEH P0RNZORZ.

Doubtless this causes the more anally-clenchy tribes of Lower Tightywhiteystan no small chagrin.

Sometimes art goes well out of its way to piss you off & push your buttons: this is an abstract test to see if you are an owner/operator of mental adulthood. Bozell & the heroic lass with her Stark Crowbar Of Removal are not acing this test.

Do I have to click to find out what happened to the art vandal, bless her heart?

Kathleen Folden got her very own criminal mischief charge, hess her bleart. Status upgrade to “HEROIC” at no extra cost. Offer not valid in NY. Add water, makes its own sauce.

 
 

Listen, there’s art out there I don’t care for but last I heard no one was propping my eyelids open and forcing me to look at it.

Anarcho-Maoist art squads will soon be appearing in your neighborhood. They’re trained in the use of the Leftist Art Visor, which will greatly enhance your appreciation of such exciting new works as Jesus Buttplug Crisco Frenzy, St. Augustine and the Miracle of the Latex Goat, and Pope Ratzo’s Last Stiffy.

 
 

Just remember: the omnipotent creator of the universe gets butthurt from art dissing him.

I’m betting Bozo God only has a universe with 1 star, 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, and a few million balls of frozen stuff.

Oh and lots of sparkly bits.

 
 

Anarcho-Maoist art squads

I think my head just exploded trying to wrap itself around that particular non sequitur.

 
 

174 moons, also.

 
 

Love the comments – they are all apparently amateur art historians and critics.

And I love this, after a rant about NEA money and government employees:

And speaking of another government employee: “The artist in this case is a Stanford professor named Enrique Chagoya, ….” Enough said.

Stanford, of course, is a private university.

 
 

I love Bozell’s fake folksiness. “Bless her heart”, when said by people who actually say that sort of thing, doesn’t mean “and I think she’s great for doing this”; it means “she is a total retard but I am not a jerk for saying that“. Bozell, bless his heart, is using it wrong — it’s just one of many condescending uses of religious language.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Norman Rockwell did a lot of pro-civil-rights art in the ’60s

Wow, I never knew about that stuff. Thanks for the link.

Interesting that one of the LIBRUL influences on Rockwell in those days was named Erik Erickson.

 
 

Anarcho-Maoist art squads
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I think my head just exploded trying to wrap itself around that particular non sequitur.

How about Anarcho-Maoist Islamo-Atheist Elitist-Hippie Lumpenproletariat art squads? And they’re all driven to a sexual frenzy by the lurid jungle beat of the Internationale.

 
 

And they’re all driven to a sexual frenzy by the lurid jungle beat of the Internationale.

It’s the sexual debauchery of liberals that makes them so drawn to Islam, doncha know.

 
 

Bozo seems to be quoting the translator’s opinion on the Marquis de Sade’s significance as if it’s somehow outrageous or unbelievable. I think it’s slightly overstated, but it’s a matter of opinion, certainly.

“Smooth Operator” is a great song, but “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago” is bad geography.

 
 

I didn’t finish Bozell’s effort, but something caught my eye:

“For good measure, gallery officials denied the image was sexual, as if men usually put their face in another man’s lap for other reasons.”

Usually, they do not. On the Right, however, it’s fashionable to fellate bitter old rich guys who are dead below the waist. (To paraphrase Prince, it’s not about the body, it’s about the mind.) Old Rush Limbaugh, for example, is worn to a nub, and now his get-outta-service-free-hole is rimmed raw; and still a queue of submissives crawls forward from beyond the horizon.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Oh my god, an entire $12,500? What profligate spending!

Yeah, no doubt. Jonah Loadpants makes that much for wiping his nose on a piece of paper and calling it a column.

 
 

I’m betting Bozo God only has a universe with 1 star, 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets

I think it actually has a Snow White star and 7 dwarves.

 
 

Not sure whether today’s right-wing bunch has “The Problem We All Live With” as their first idea of Norman Rockwell’s art.

If they do, they may view the girl as the problem. ZING!

My family would often go to this little house in the Berkshires during the summer and we would typically visit the Norman Rockwell House in Stockbridge MA. I usually sort of hated it, because yeah hey the same paintings again wow, but it’s actually pretty great to visit once.

 
 

Yeah, no doubt. Jonah Loadpants makes that much for wiping his nose on a piece of paper and calling it a column.

That is not actually his nose, but you are excused given the proximity .

 
 

maybe BB could schedule an exhibit of “degenerate art.” I hear that’s been done before….

http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/arts/artdegen.htm

 
 

Artists should just stick to greeting cards.

Well, that’s where that nice Mr. Crumb started, and he’s certainly never done anything that would offend anybody.

 
 

“The wall to the east shows a scene of various creatures crawling, then creeping, up to huge, vaguely squid-like creatures with ten hairy tentacles. In the forefront of this mass self-sacrifice are elves and men, but there are also dwarves, gnolls, orcs, trolls, halflings, ogres, goblins, etc. amongst the crowd. Those near the monsters are being torn apart and the bloody gobbets eaten as dainty morsels…”–Dungeon module D3, Hall of the Fire Giant King, by Gary Gygax.

It bears noting that the Cult of Elemental Evil is just a front for darker forces. All very Leo Straussian.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

That is not actually his nose, but you are excused given the proximity .

Hee hee

I was thinking he gets $25K for the butt wipe ones.

 
 

Troll dismemberment: the sacrifice that keeps on giving.

 
 

Maybe instead of funding artists through the NEA, the government could create a special tax-exempt status for artists, exactly the same as anyone who claims to be running a church. Not practical maybe, but think of the exploding heads, Bacon-style or otherwise.

 
 

Oh my god, an entire $12,500? What profligate spending!

Brent Bozell is just saying that this money would have been better spent on translations of books with ideas that he believes could be usefully applied in present-day America, like the Directorium Inquisitorum or La dottrina del fascismo.

 
 

The Fatwa Envy is strong in the Bozell.

 
 

The Fatwa Envy is strong in the Bozell.

Indeed. This is rather a flatuent fatwa fit, isn’t it?

 
 

I think someone should gin up the De Sade angle. Specifically, his fart fetish. I want conservatives coast-to-coast to work themselves into a righteous lather over a man hiring prostitutes to fart in his face, then writing unashamedly about it. The possibilities for mockery are tantalizing. I could even mock De Sade, not that the Right would give credit for that. I mean, if we pay to translate something, we approve of it, right?

(De Sade’s allegedly sublime French prose style is lost on monolingual me, and I doubt his translatable insights are irreplaceable, so no comment here on the merit of his works.)

 
 

I want conservatives coast-to-coast to work themselves into a righteous lather over a man hiring prostitutes to fart in his face

Hey now! Everybody knows that Breitbart’s personal life is completely off limits.

 
 

And they’re all driven to a sexual frenzy by the lurid jungle beat of the Internationale.

Who isn’t?

 
 

For good measure, gallery officials denied the image was sexual, as if men usually put their face in another man’s lap for other reasons.

This tells me Bozell didn’t even bother to look it up, he is taking the accusations on faith. The fact that there’s tongue visible is a lot stronger argument for the sexuality of the image than “the first thing I think of when I hear heads on laps is gay fellatio.” Dude, take a cold shower.

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery? His art offends me.

 
Charlie's Enormous Mouth
 

I followed the link to the Youtube video of the destruction of the Buddhist statues. Discouraging in and of itself, the comments associated with the link are the usual cesspool of ignorance.

How people can rail against “Islamic intolerance” without evincing the slightest awareness of intolerance as a phenomenon which spans cultures and religions is beyond me.

are the bottom 23% (i.e., the same people who supported Bush through the end of his presidency) just more vocal than everyone else, or is this kind of ignorance just a lot more widespread than one would hope, I wonder.

 
 

“…art’s original heritage isn’t as tepid vistas of dogs playing cards…”

Don’t let the poker faces fool you, those games are torrid.

 
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Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery factory outlet?

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are the bottom 23% (i.e., the same people who supported Bush through the end of his presidency) just more vocal than everyone else, or is this kind of ignorance just a lot more widespread than one would hope, I wonder.

I think actor’s “you can fool some of the people all of the time, and the rest don’t give a shit” is pretty much on the mark.

Question is what the deal is with the somewhat-less-than-half of people who don’t vote is, and how to get them out on our side…

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery?

While I am not sure art is the word to describe his ouevre, I applaud your efforts here.

 
 

Blowjob Jesus is an allegory for the Second Coming. Duh!

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery? His art offends me.

But his Christmas Cottage with Hot Strap-on Nuns and Winter Woodland Jesus Bondage Nocturne have brought joy to the hearts of millions.

 
The Kid from Kounty Meath
 

I assume the picture is what “I Want You” posters look like under Shania Law.

 
 

Thumbs its nose at gravity

You! You stop messing around with the fundamental forces of nature, there!

Jesus didn’t create gravity so you can go around defying it!

 
 

BTW, VS, excellent artwork!

 
The Kid from Kounty Meath
 

Also, Snorg, not to second-guess you, but you totally missed the boat re: references to “Christmas Frottage”.

 
 

Also. I remember reading somewhere (probably in a rebo pamphlet) that the splitting of the atom is the wrath of God, literally, ’cause he binds the protons and neutrons together and gets pissy if you mess with Him.

Yes, God = the weak nuclear force.

 
 

work themselves into a righteous lather

I don’t think that’s soap.

 
 

maybe BB could schedule an exhibit of “degenerate art.” I hear that’s been done before….

Ich kann haben Entartete Kunst?

 
 

Athankee, Pere! And come to think of it, Bozo and his ilk would prolly approve of my denying gravity…

 
 

Just remember folks – it’s the MUSLIMS who get violent when their religion is criticized.

Christians never do these things because shut up, that’s why.

Of course, that is precisely what they come away with from this.

Also, too. New candidate for wingnut of the week.

 
 

Of course, that is precisely what they come away with from this.

Oh, how fucking cute. I’d leave a comment but:

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Yet another milito-wanker wingnut blog that’s JUST SO dedicated to free speech.

 
 

You KNOW… call me crackers for this but I came to the realization the other day that the wingnuts who love love love the military SO MUCH… are idolizing one of the most collectivist aspects of culture.

Really. Is the military a democracy? Are you allowed freedom of movement, of speech, of thought? Is there any room for those who decide that they’re aggressively individualist? Isn’t it all about the group? What the fuck? And people who call carpooling a socialist plot will neverthless SUPPORT this?

Fucking militarist Libertarians, how do they work?

 
 

You know who else hated Degenerate Art?
Ayn Rand.

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery?

While I am not sure art is the word to describe his ouevre, I applaud your efforts here.

Oy, if u think just his ‘art’ is offensive, u should see the movie…

Also, I thought this was interesting, and I apologize for not knowing how to make the linky thing:

The Los Angeles Times has reported that some of Kinkade’s former colleagues, employees, and even collectors of his work say that he has a long history of cursing and heckling other artists and performers. The Times further reported that he openly groped a woman’s breasts at a South Bend, Indiana, sales event, and mentioned his proclivity for ritual territory marking through urination, once relieving himself on a Winnie the Pooh figure at a Disney site while saying “This one’s for you, Walt.”[24][25] Kinkade has denied some of the allegations, and accepted and apologized for others.[25]
In 2006 John Dandois, Media Arts Group executive, recounted a story that on one occasion (“about six years ago”) Kinkade became drunk at a Siegfried & Roy magic show in Las Vegas and began shouting “Codpiece! Codpiece!” at the performers. Eventually he was calmed by his mother.[24] Dandois also said of Kinkade, “Thom would be fine, he would be drinking, and then all of a sudden, you couldn’t tell where the boundary was, and then he became very incoherent, and he would start cussing and doing a lot of weird stuff.”[24] On 11 June 2010, Kinkade was arrested in Carmel, CA on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol.[26]

 
The Weak Nuclear Force
 

Yeah, well, I do what I can

 
 

Well, you’re not allowed to kill brown people when you’re carpooling.

Usually.

 
 

Oh, Lordy. The Raiders are treating Denver like an orphan altar boy. Ouch.

 
 

Which is almost making up for how badly the Niners suck.

 
 

are idolizing one of the most collectivist aspects of culture.
Shirley you mean “fetishising”.

 
 

I apologize for not knowing how to make the linky thing

Just paste the link and don’t worry about fancy stuff. It’ll work.

 
 

Thomas Kincaide is the Jew is liberal art criticism.

 
 

of, of, dammit.

 
 

“Well, you’re not allowed to kill brown people when you’re carpooling.”

Except in Iraq. Which is why Blackwater is teh awesomist Americans evar!

 
 

Shirley you mean “fetishising”.

Idolizing, fetishizing, whatever, just don’t call me Shirley.

 
 

My fave Kinkade. It’s been cropped a little, ‘cuz I’ve no memory of where I found the original.

 
 

Pardon excess apostrophes. It’s early!

 
 

Just paste the link and don’t worry about fancy stuff. It’ll work.

Oh, duh! Thank you!

 
 

Good shit: Note Kinkade-Chthulhu on page two.

 
 

And the one with the AT-AT is teh awesome

 
Till Eulenspiegel
 

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou

I like the cut of Omar’s proverbial jib. He has his priorities straight: entertainment, alcohol, food, and then the girl.

 
 

No, the reading booze & food are to attract the woman.

 
 

I WANT that Kincaide. In my house. Now.

 
 

So, per Bozell, it would be perfectly OK to piss on any of Kinkade’s product?

 
 

No, the reading booze & food are to attract the woman.

Ah. Bait.

 
 

And there’s this, by a guy who calls himself the “Painter of Dark” — Kindcadesque paintings of haunted houses.

 
 

So, per Bozell, it would be perfectly OK to piss on any of Kinkade’s product?

That has always been their preferred use.

 
 

Some Brent Bozell Fun Facts…

L. Brent Bozell III’s grandfather, Leo Brent Bozell, was cofounder of the Bozell Worldwide advertising agency. Among its other accomplishments, the Bozell agency created the Ricardo Montalbon “rich Corinthian leather” marketing campaign.

L. Brent Bozell III’s daddy, the Francisco Franco-loving L. Brent Bozell Jr, was godfather to the late novelist Tristan Egolf. In 2004, Egolf and some friends protested Abu Ghraib by “stripping down to thong underwear and piling on top of one another alongside a road being traveled by U.S. President George W. Bush”.

– – – – – – – – – – – –

Good shit: Note Kinkade-Chthulhu on page two.

Excellent stuff. Thank you.

 
 

Also good: Currency, w/ fishing line. Reels ’em right in!

 
 

The SomethingAwful Goons unleash on Kinkade.

Top of p.6 = win

 
 

innocuous, assembly-line images of peaceful cottages, Jesuses, and snow scenes have made him the nation’s self-described “most collected artist,” which is sort of like Velveeta bragging that it’s “America’s most sought-after cheese.”

This Velveeta® hate is beginning to anger me.

Also (As I said, it’s early, & I should’ve done it myself earlier, when WP was fucking w/ me.) try http://bit.ly/ to shorten them things.

 
 

Top of p.6 = win

Saw that, & doubted that the cow would even notice the pin-dick.

 
 

Uh-oh…iPad tag fail…

 
 

Another move Brent Bozo 3 will doubtless approve:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has imposed new restrictions on 12 university social sciences deemed to be based on Western schools of thought and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings, state radio reported Sunday.

The list includes law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science and the two subjects that appear to cause the most concern among Iran’s conservative leadership — women’s studies and human rights.

“The content of the current courses in the 12 subjects is not in harmony with religious fundamentals and they are based on Western schools of thought,” senior education official Abolfazl Hassani told state radio.

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

Go Chthulh U! Beat Chthulh State!

 
 

Uh oh.

 
guitarist manqué
 

Jeez, last night he had to sweep up after the copy-pasta explosion and now it’s another episode of “When Italics Attack”. We’re going to be in trouble when Tintin gets home.

 
 

Go Chthulh U! Beat Chthulh State!

OK, that’s some wordplay, P. E. Nick!

 
 

Ooooooh, I feel awful, now! But I am glad to get my first (but most probably not last) eff-up on here…

 
 

Over with I mean…epic sentence finish fail also…

 
 

Another move Brent Bozo 3 will doubtless approve:

You missed the money quote; apparently, these measures were taken because Supreme Leader Khamenei was concerned that these sciences would lead people to “question religion.” God forbid!

In academics, at least, these guys and our fundies are like peas in a pod.

 
 

Fucking tags, how do they work?

 
 

Fucking tags, how do they work?

Apparently not for me…

 
Blinking Emoticon
 

I blame Steve Jobs.

 
Blinking Emoticon
 

Just wait ’til Tintin gets home.

 
 

It wasn’t me, ma!

 
 

Fucking tags, how do they work?

Carter/Clinton socialism deregualted tagging so they could hand out tags to blacks and Mexicans for free and that’s why this current crisis is happening…

 
 

Sooner or later you always succumb to me. Shh, Shh….don’t fight it…just let my soothing slantiness wash over you.

 
 

“Carter/Clinton socialism deregualted tagging so they could hand out tags to blacks and Mexicans for free and that’s why this current crisis is happening…”

Yeah, well, what about Bush’s pro-wealthy tag policies?

 
 

“Yeah, well, what about Bush’s pro-wealthy tag policies?”

They allow wealthy tags to trickle down to the less wealthy. Your tags would be just fine if only Bush had done more of that.

 
 

Mortals, these foolish arguments mean nothing. It is I who controls the tags of destiny.

 
 

Wordpess dares defy me? FUCK YOU, WordPress! Feel my leaning wrath!!

 
 

They allow wealthy tags to trickle down to the less wealthy.

But tags are a common good, belonging to all the commenters!

 
 

But tags are a common good, belonging to all the commenters!

A commentist manifesto should be written to that effect, eh comrade?

 
 

ahh..ehhh…

Shoes for industry, compadre! You holding?

 
 

Damn. I tried anyway.

 
 

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 
 

Protip:

Never, ever Google the word “Illuminati”.

And if you do, never, ever, EVER click on any of the resulting links.

Did you know Lady Gaga is a Illuminati mind-controlled puppet?

mah head hurts.

 
 

I have to admire the Sadly, No!sians for the way they’ve fixxxxed the bold and strikethrough html failures.
~

 
 

I knew they should have hung El Greco instead of approving of his art. Now look at what we’ve got.

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery? His art offends me.

Where do I sign up to help?

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

This is proof positive that America is a right-leaning nation.

 
 

Pere Ubu said,

October 25, 2010 at 1:16

ahh..ehhh…
Shoes for industry, compadre! You holding?

Heck, no! The means of production are held by all the people!

 
 

I’ll bet Pupienus Maximus could make the tag problem EVEN WORSER.

 
 

Completely O/T: A feminist s/f convention bans author Elizabeth Moon, their former guest of honor, for having written an anti-Muslim screed, then deleted hundreds of comments in response to it. Now why is this an S,N! concern? Because Perfesser Heh, Indeed and other liberturds are screaming about it.

You can read a summary of the original kerfluffle here, and an update here. Note that the convention’s blogpost on the matter has been overrun with Cheeto-snarfing basement dwellers, courtesy of Insty and, if I understand correct, Vox Day.

 
 

Correction to above: Liberturds, wingnuts, and similar lower forms of life.

 
 

Holy. crap.

I feel that I personally (and many others) lean over backwards to put up with these things, to let Muslims believe stuff that unfits them for citizenship, on the grounds of their personal freedom.

So she wants – what? Loyalty oaths? Enforcement of “good citizenship”? How about we all get some torches and do some marching, that’s always a good way to inspire Volkishness.

 
 

Correction to above: Liberturds, wingnuts, and similar lower forms of life.

Nice to know we’ve finally found something that’ll make them care about women’s rights! Or pretend to, at any rate.

 
 

More on the Moon-troversy here, though like all of humanoid discourse (Do you fucking cretins ever shut up?) it’s becoming a circle jerk. Or circular firing squad.

 
 

Oh, lawd, W1ll Sh3tt3rly. Don’t give him any attention. He’s… special.

 
 

Apropos of nothing in particular, Orson Scott Card uses the word “politically correct extremists” alongside “socialists” to describe Clinton and Obama. The choice of words amuses me. Political correctness is supposed to be the fainthearted pansyness that makes you amputate, distort and soften every sentence because you’re afraid to hurt other people’s feelings. What, pray tell, is a “politically correct extremist?” Someone who doesn’t believe in hurting ANYONE’s feelings AT ALL? Someone who doesn’t believe in hurting people’s feelings AND IS REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT?

I get that he was trying to stuff as many ephithets and adjectives together as he could, but the result, as so often from his ilk, was an entertaining contradiction in terms.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Nice to know we’ve finally found something that’ll make them care about women’s rights! Or pretend to, at any rate.

They do that from time to time, but only when it allows them to cudgel strawman liberals for not caring about them.

 
 

What the fuck is it with some science fiction writers – and SF is supposed to be speculative! – that they’re so fucking limited in their imagination that they can’t get beyond milito-wanker Libertarianism? Christ, at least pretend every now and then you can think beyond a hack-writing Tom Clancy jerkoff novel.

 
 

What the fuck is it with some science fiction writers – and SF is supposed to be speculative! – that they’re so fucking limited in their imagination that they can’t get beyond milito-wanker Libertarianism?

Well, for some people (H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, just about all of the good ones), it is about speculative fiction.

However, it can also be a nice way to reproduce your dream world into a universe with no liberals and bigger guns, bigger explosions, and weapons that can destroy planets instead of cities. Which seems to be OSC’s niche.

 
 

Yeah, Mormon Scott Card, there’s a piece of work.

 
 

Oh, while I’m at it, have a few more links. According to the well-named Jersey Nut, Moontroversy + the NPR/Juan Williams flap = KRISTALLNACHT!!!!!

Also, Moon’s getting copious ink and sympathy from a wingnut S/F writer and buddy of Moon’s who also edits a birdcage liner in Tex-ass. For some reason I can’t put the URL to his one-sided story in an anchor tag, so…
http://www.newsok.com/texas-author-un-invited-as-convention-guest-of-honor-over-remarks-on-islam/article/feed/204951

 
 

Political correctness is supposed to be… fainthearted pansyness… What, pray tell, is a “politically correct extremist?”

That would be one of those vicious, ruthless, fanatic fainthearted pansies who stop at nothing to further the cause of faintheartedness.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

one of those vicious, ruthless, fanatic fainthearted pansies who stop at nothing to further the cause of faintheartedness.

Like those pacifists who will kill everyone between them and a world without violence? Didn’t that one Baron Whatever wingnut go on about that?

 
 

According to the well-named Jersey Nut, Moontroversy + the NPR/Juan Williams flap = KRISTALLNACHT!!!!!

As I pointed out over there, I think the “dumbass Nazi analogy” (my words) he’s going for is the Night Of The Long Knives, which is something totally different. But WE’RE the Nazis, y’know, letting a private entity like a SF convention decide who they’re going to accept as a guest. They should have been forced at gunpoint to let her speak, ’cause shut up that’s why.

 
 

What the fuck is it with some science fiction writers – and SF is supposed to be speculative! – that they’re so fucking limited in their imagination that they can’t get beyond milito-wanker Libertarianism?

It’s more pervasive than you think, especially in early SF. See Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream for a satirical look at the attitude.

 
 

According to the well-named Jersey Nut, Moontroversy + the NPR/Juan Williams flap = KRISTALLNACHT!!!!!

Speaking of fascism, remember that “Fascism: Are We There Yet?” Sara Robinson article from last year? Here’s the sequel (http://www.alternet.org/story/148588/fascist_america:_is_this_election_the_next_turn) from a couple days ago.

 
 

Jihadist thugs are now attacking us in the name of Islam. No doubt there are a lot of Islamic believers who don’t support this. But like the Germans in World War II, they are not speaking up… for good reason of course, as there was a good reason back in the days of the Third Reich.

And he’d have a really good point, if that was true. But here’s the thing; it’s not. Passing on every American Muslim who’s been screaming him/herself hoarse since 9/11 condemning everything al-Qaeda stands for, you’ve also got the wave of condemnation from all over the Middle East and Southwest Asia, the material support for the war on terror from nearly every Muslim government on earth, and of course the many individual Muslim groups who’ve picked up arms on our side (the Northern Alliance being the most obvious one; the Awakening movement in Iraq, which did more to stabilize things than any “surge” ever did, being an even more vital one).

In WW2, all (or most) Germans were under Nazi control, and thus we had no choice but to attack Germany. All Muslims, however, are not under al-Qaeda’s control. Hardly any Muslims are under al-Qaeda’s controls, and they’re repeatedly rejected association with AQ. Thus the drumbeat, hysterical insistence of “clash of civilizations” and “war with Islam” is a complete fucking lunatic’s delusion.

 
 

Thus the drumbeat, hysterical insistence of “clash of civilizations” and “war with Islam” is a complete fucking lunatic’s delusion.

And yes, it is also fascism. The desire to wage war against something as wide as “Islam,” a group of people spanning a fourth of the human race, with no unifying political or institutional structures, whose only common link is the God they pray to, has nothing to do with national security. It has to do with simple ethnic hatred, and the constant pressure to subordinate the state to those hatreds is identical to the attitude held towards the Jews in the Europe of a century ago.

Nazis. I hate these guys.

 
 

Oh, fuggity-fug-fug. Orson Bean, who is Breitbart’s father-in-law, it should be pointed out.

 
 

Oh, and yeah, sorry if someone mentioned this in the Erick the Goatfucker thread, which I haven’t seen yet, but there’s a NYT article about how Catholic teatards are trying to “purge” the church of librulz. Unfortunately it doesn’t mention Teh Ankuress, K-Lo, or any other names I recognize.

 
 

Well, I will say that Jersey Nut has something equivocating Williams and Moon. Of course, his views on both are utter shit, but it’s true enough that the underlying issues are similar.

This comment by Fred Davis on the sf3 thread says it about as well as I’ve seen.

A bit of it,

Moon stated her views clearly and concisely, and because those views were utter horseshit people criticised said views, because freedom of speech means freedom of critical speech as much as it means freedom to take a huge textual shit all over your personal blog and public image, and freedom of speech thus is fundamentally unable to protect a person from criticism for the views they express – and if you views cannot be sustained in the face of really quite civil criticism, nor stand up to even the most rudimentary fact checking or analysis, maybe your views are not that good.

In turn, not only does freedom of speech not obligate people to suppress their own reactions to other people’s speech, but in the case of feminists you have a group of people for whom social justice and, to put it in the Moon’s own nationalist terminology, “being a good citizen” actively requires them to (as a bear minimum) criticise speech who’s sole point is to act as an apologetic for violence aimed towards an oppressed minority group, that dehumanises that group, and calls for that group’s rights to be sharply curtailed – which Moon did the moment she came down on the side of the arseholes who wanted a muslim community to be forcibly stopped from building a cultural center for their community in the area that that community lives in.

A good old fashioned shunning is not censorship.

 
 

@owlbear1
“I’m betting Bozo God only has a universe with 1 star, 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, and a few million balls of frozen stuff.”

Surely you jest. There are 5 planets, plus the Sun and the Moon, all majestically moving in perfect circles (except thy aren’t(1)) at uniform speed (except it isn’t(2)) around the same center which is the center of the Earth (except it isn’t).

(1) Actually, a motion compounded of multiple epicycles, and of a crazy form that one Johannes Kepler described as a pretzel.

(2) Equants, bitchez!

(3) The eccentricity having been established in Classical times and incorporated in Ptolemy’s work.

(None of this is to defend obsolete astronomy, just trying to get the details right as an example and rebuke to the Bozells of the world.) (If you think this makes idiots of the philosophers who insisted on the old astronomy because of the perfect uniform circularity of its model — well, that’s your problem.)

 
 

Will no one rid us of these troublesome italics?

 
 

“Speaking of fascism, remember that “Fascism: Are We There Yet?” Sara Robinson article from last year? Here’s the sequel (http://www.alternet.org/story/148588/fascist_america:_is_this_election_the_next_turn) from a couple days ago.”

The comments to that article are depressing. Its all “Obama and the democrats are just as bad.” “He left Gitmo open, bailed out the banks, and HCR was a big sellout boo hoo I’m voting 3rd party.”

Yes, just like Bush and Gore, there is no difference between Palin and Obama or Rand Paul and Jack Conway. Fucking purity trolls, I hate them..

 
 

Bozell the Clown: Isn’t he Christine O’Donnell’s dad?

 
 

@Chris –
“It’s the sexual debauchery of liberals that makes them so drawn to Islam, doncha know.”

Last night I was reading some blogging about the schism in the Anglican Communion: You know, where the crazy radical Episcopalians — Migod, it’s fun to say that — the crazy radical American Episcopalians are being run out of the Communion on a rail for their pro-Gay policies and women priests and ZOMG Women Bishopz!!!1!

It turns out that there are commenters in England, just as full of Mooslim hysteria as we Americans. Makes a man proud. But I digress.

In just one comment you can find out all about the spreading evils of homosexuality, gay marriage, and women priests — *and* how it’s all the fault of people who are setting up Sharia law in England.

 
 

I deleted the comment with the bad tag. My vote right now is only to allow anchor tags for links. All other tags will be disallowed. We’ll let you know before any changes are made. And, yes, I realize this is the fault of WordPress, but, hey, I’m not Mr. WordPress, so don’t yell at me.

 
 

Orson Bean, author of SMG’s all Muslims are Nazis link.
To clarify.

 
 

Funny, that NYT story (very worth it) is an AP story, but no credit is given.

And the Michael Voris guy is just plain nuts.

Tags still working. For now.

 
The Kid from Kounty Meath
 

@Substance: I wonder if Sheldon realizes that his argument is also an endorsement of banning white people from the army.

 
 

We need an all-Vietnamese military, obviously.

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery? His art offends me.

Just photoshop in images of “eldritch horrors from beyond space and time” leering hungrily into the windows of those gingerbread houses.

 
 

We need an all-Vietnamese military, obviously.

Bahn-mi brigade.

 
 

An army of puppies and kittens never lost a war for us. I vote for a puppy and kitten army.

 
 

They’d better not be gay puppies and kittens!

 
 

We need an all-Vietnamese military, obviously.

Evidently they can beat your existing army.

 
 

Surely you jest. There are 5 planets, plus the Sun and the Moon, all majestically moving in perfect circles (except thy aren’t(1)) at uniform speed (except it isn’t(2)) around the same center which is the center of the Earth (except it isn’t).

The Catholic Church knows better

 
 

The Catholic Church knows better

Facchinello, I thought that was a “Poe”.

Shoulda oughta known better… we’re living in a post “Poe” world.

 
 

I get that he was trying to stuff as many ephithets and adjectives together as he could

I stopped reading Card halfway through the first novel of his I read because it stank. He can’t write. This idiocy is more proof.

Also, by the way, he’s an authoritarian douchebag. Also. But his real sin is bad writing.

 
 

The Catholic Church knows better

Facchinello, I thought that was a “Poe”.

I’ll go with hucksters trying to make a buck off morons.

 
 

I read Ender’s Game because I’d heard it was an inspiration for Halo. It seems the original novella was pretty good, but he expanded it into a full-blown novel with some really crappy pseudo-philosophical garbage.

I bought the book cheap from a street vendor, so OSCobag didn’t get a penny from me.

 
 

BBBB – I’m awake to keep mini-b asleep – typing with just my left hand so my right stays rubbing his belly – what’s your excuse?

 
 

Yerba mate fueled work-related all-nighter. Been on the job since 3PM.

How’s baby bear doing?

 
 

Pretty mellow given the basic indignity of his life. Only cries when hungry, easily distracted by playing ‘baaaabieeees iiiin spaaaaace’, where I cradle him in my hands and give a him a rollercoaster ride from 2 to 5 feet above the floor.

 
 

I am worried he may be a repub.

A. He believes breasts are a limited good.

B. He has, several times, followed up crapping himself with assuming a peaceful, almost-smiling expression.

 
 

I am worried he may be a repub.

would only be true if this were true:

Only cries when hungry (which is all the time), easily distracted by playing ‘baaaabieeees iiiin spaaaaace’ crying pseudo-religious conspiracy nut huckster.

 
 

where I cradle him in my hands and give a him a rollercoaster ride from 2 to 5 feet above the floor.

The fact that this gives him a sense of comfortable familiarity implies that before babies arrive on Earth they inhabit a planet of variable gravity conditions.
Also there is no object constancy there.

The only advice I can pass on about child-rearing is that from the age of 2 or 3, infants no longer accept being read quantum-mechanics texts as a bed-time story — they begin to suspect that they are being short-changed somehow — so make the most of it while you can.

 
 

Y’know what I’d like to ask Moon or any of these pants-pissing Islamophobes? Name three ways you yourself, personally, have been inconvenienced by “giving in” to Muslims. “Someone on the other side of the country had to change something so I felt bad blert blert” doesn’t count. How have YOU, personally, had to “bend over backwards to accommodate” them?

 
 

The only advice I can pass on about child-rearing is that from the age of 2 or 3, infants no longer accept being read quantum-mechanics texts as a bed-time story — they begin to suspect that they are being short-changed somehow — so make the most of it while you can.

I’ve been reading him The Cod Six Thousand by James Ellroy. He seems to disapprove of Howard Hughes.

 
 

Y’know what I’d like to ask Moon or any of these pants-pissing Islamophobes? Name three ways you yourself, personally, have been inconvenienced by “giving in” to Muslims. “Someone on the other side of the country had to change something so I felt bad blert blert” doesn’t count. How have YOU, personally, had to “bend over backwards to accommodate” them?

You know they’ll just bring up 9/11… and since the President raised their taxes and he’s Muslim, there’s that too… and every soldier who’s died in Afghanistan and at Fort Hood is because of giving in to Muslims… Oh, they’ll find things to say.

 
 

It’s more pervasive than you think, especially in early SF. See Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream for a satirical look at the attitude.

Exactly. One of my favorite (?) books.

Michael Moorcock, in the essay “Starship Stormtroopers”, points out the example of a reviewer who gave Iron Dream a raving review but thought that it would have been better without all that Nazi stuff in it. So, yeah, it’s been a problem for awhile.

 
guitarist manqué
 

How have YOU, personally, had to “bend over backwards to accommodate” them?

I once had to go without liquor for almost 48 hours in Kelantan, Malaysia because of oppressive muslin beliefs. It was hell I tells ya. Then I played a set on my travel guitar in the little beach front restaurant and moonshine started appearing at my table disguised as coca cola. As long as I kept attracting customers away from the other beach front restaurant the arrack kept flowing. Oh and once I had to see the owner of the guesthouse about something but he was praying for like five minutes. This too oppressed me, also.

 
 

You know they’ll just bring up 9/11… and since the President raised their taxes and he’s Muslim, there’s that too… and every soldier who’s died in Afghanistan and at Fort Hood is because of giving in to Muslims… Oh, they’ll find things to say.

Yeah, I know. Introspection is not one of their virtues.

Still, we’re talking about people who, as Sarah Robinson points out, are happily leading us down the path to outright American fascism because they’re so goddamn concerned about the vague threat of someday Islam being imposed on their country because OMFG 9/11 MEGAMOSQUE and halal soup.

 
 

Point is, they’re aiding the real fascism by whining about imaginary “Islamofacism”.

 
 

Point is, they’re aiding the real fascism by whining about imaginary “Islamofacism”.

A “liberal fascism.” And so on and so forth.

If Sara Robinson ever happens to be proved right, the teabaggers will be the first fascist movement to have seized power by accusing all their enemies of being fascist. Lack of introspection, as you say, helps a lot with that.

 
 

ALWAYS. Trust. The. Shorter.™

So I can take an axe to Mallard Fillmore?

 
 

But what makes this story different is that Kathleen Folden, bless her heart, entered the gallery, broke into the artwork with a crowbar and ripped it to pieces.

Kathleennacht?

 
 

Mini__B will be exposed to readings from The Nation whilst still encribbed.

Good thing Chris Hitchens doesn’t write for them anymore.

 
 

Wolverines???. Some conservatives are gonna be mad when they find this!

a) When did Alaska secede from the 1980s America?

b) All right wing fantasies sound more like sandbox G I Joe sorties.

 
 

Would anyone be put out if I destroyed a Thomas Kincaide gallery?

A what now?

 
 

How did I not know this about Dumbya?

 
 

Shorter Elizabeth Moon:

“We didn’t put Muslims in internment camps after 9/11. Why can’t they be more grateful for that?”

 
 

“We didn’t put Muslims in internment camps after 9/11. Why can’t they be more grateful for that?”

That argument I’ve been hearing forever. Of course, they’re also proud of things like the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2, and given the chance would definitely have gone through with it, so once again, we’ve got conservatives taking liberal influences in the U.S. to their own credit even as they think these things suck.

 
 

Of course, they’re also proud of things like the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2

But set up FEMA camps for refugees and it’s Katie Bar The Door, They’re Coming For Our Guns!

 
 

gocart mozart: I’d say that continuing to trample on civil liberties, continuing the neoliberal economic policies of Bush II, and pushing through a healthcare “reform” bill that’s little but a boondoggle to insurance companies are very good reasons for lambasting Obama. Not to mention his administration’s stubborn refusal to recognize the equality of our GLBT compatriots — to the point that the military is being hurt by the absence of qualified people.

That’s not purity trolling. That’s realism. Do you vote for someone who upholds your values, or do you simply vote for someone with the right letter on their jacket?

“The GOP is worse” isn’t an argument anymore. The answer isn’t to suck up whatever the DLC chooses to dish out; the answer is to struggle to improve the party.

 
 

Do you vote for someone who upholds your values, or do you simply vote for someone with the right letter on their jacket?

Letter, or you’re a fucking idiot.

End of discussion.

 
 

What the fuck is it with some science fiction writers – and SF is supposed to be speculative! – that they’re so fucking limited in their imagination that they can’t get beyond milito-wanker Libertarianism?

Limited imaginations? Oh man, do you know how hopped-up-on-goofballs crazily overactive your imagination has to be to envision a would in which libertarianism actually works?

A good old fashioned shunning is not censorship.

People like Newt Gingrich were always whining for a return of public shame into the culture, and yet when they get it they piss and moan. Ingrates.

I’m awake to keep mini-b asleep – typing with just my left hand so my right stays rubbing his belly

It’s a boypuppy!

 
 

Jim said: “Hess her blart”

I just wanted to quote that again, as it seems to have gone by unnoticed.

 
 

The Cod Six Thousand by James Ellroy
this is the most gritty novel about the sordid world of Norwegian fishermen ever written

 
 

this is the most gritty novel about the sordid world of Norwegian fishermen ever written

The scene with the blow-up rubber lutefisk is sordid.

 
 

Hess her blart

Stolen.

 
 

Actor212, I have higher standards for my pols than “just don’t be quite as bad as the other guys.” I’d like to think there are alternatives other than “really fucking quick destruction” and “a slower, prolonged destruction.”

I think it’s really sad that anyone who wants to pull the Overton window back toward the left in this country, and who insists on holding Democrats to a standard of behaving like Democrats, is written off as an “idiot” rather than as someone looking skeptically at what they’re being promised.

 
 

Actor212, I have higher standards for my pols than “just don’t be quite as bad as the other guys.” I’d like to think there are alternatives other than “really fucking quick destruction” and “a slower, prolonged destruction.”

Ralph Nader, 2000

So voting your idiotic principles fucked this country but good until the next Stone age.

So fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

 
 

And BG?

How about instead of whining over the choices, make a choice and then get in that choice’s face?

Oh, but that would require an effort when it’s so much easier and so much more fun to invoke the Magic Dick theory of politics, where somehow a human being is incorruptable and would always be reflexively responsible to his constituents!

 
 

“Jesus Buttplug Crisco Frenzy, St. Augustine and the Miracle of the Latex Goat, and Pope Ratzo’s Last Stiffy.”

This is why i should ALWAYS stay in the boat!

Beautiful, man!

 
 

Stolen.

HA HA! The magic of Spoonerisms cannot be stolen – only moved!

Because GO FOR IT, that’s why.

 
 

America has never lost a war to homosexuals.

Or, to interpret what he said a slightly different way, America has never lost a war against its current allies*. Of course, we’ve also never won a war against openly serving homosexuals.

*Although I’d say that the War of 1812 did not exactly go well for the US.

 
 

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