Well, No, Dennis, You Don’t
Posted on June 28th, 2011 by Tintin
ABOVE: Dennis Prager
Shorter Dennis Prager, America’s Shittiest Website™
Have We No Decency?
- God says that men flying around on airplanes in women’s clothing, even if their penises are covered, might as well be flying around naked.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
I’d be more impressed by men flying around in women’s clothing without an airplane.
One way in which higher civilizations have demonstrated the human-animal difference has been the wearing of clothes. Animals are naked in public; humans are clothed. But secularism eats away at such religious ideals. Thus religion-based concepts such as holiness and decency die out.
Looks like Japanese monkey waiters get to go to Heaven.
A burkha would have been acceptable.
You know, my dog’s never actually naked, being covered in fur and all. Clothing doesn’t serve the purpose of making one civilized, it serves the same purpose a dog’s fur does: keeping you warm when it’s cold and protected from the sun when it’s hot.
The end.
“The decline of American civilization,” oh for fuck’s sake. Everything’s a damn apocalypse with these guys.
You can see it in the widespread acceptance of public cursing as well as in public exhibitionism, among many other manifestations.
Fucking shit! I’m assfucking all of religion just by fucking swearing! Cock tits fuck damn splooge! Motherfucker!
I know one thing Dennis is wearing: pearls.
One way in which higher civilizations have demonstrated the human-animal difference has been the wearing of clothes. Animals are naked in public; humans are clothed. But secularism eats away at such religious ideals. Thus religion-based concepts such as holiness and decency die out.
I thought clothes were a byproduct of human insecurity, itself a byproduct of having eaten the fruit God told us not to.
Just dont get him started on Superman and his bulging skin tight clothes. Dennis will not shut up about it once he gets started.
a generation of Americans has been taught: not to judge, not to discriminate, to welcome diversity, and to fully accept those who are different, especially in the sexual arena.
I have personally tested this in restrooms of many arenas throughout the country.
I get that this guy was making a point about the TSA, but I do think he could’ve put on more clothing for the actual flight. I already dislike sharing cramped quarters with strangers and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that my seatmates don’t expose their hairy, sweaty bellies.
Assuming Prager’s account is accurate, which is a caveatosaurus.
POOP.
a generation of Americans has been taught: not to judge, not to discriminate, to welcome diversity, and to fully accept those who are different, especially in the sexual arena.
Correct.
Your objection is…?
vacuumslayer said,
June 28, 2011 at 21:07
I know one thing Dennis is wearing: pearls.
Because he’s clutching them or is he “ahem”
WEARING THE NECKALCE
Wait, this is the accordion guy isn’t it? And he’s got the nerve to prescribe what behavior is acceptable by strangers? And he plays the accordion? Or is that a Tintin inside joke/internets tradition about which I am not aware?
Incidentally, cross-dressing d00d* is an old white “business consultant and frequent flyer”. Imagine, that old white guys get away with weird ass shit but IPU help you if you have a Muslim-y sounding name.
*Don’t gizoogle for teh story unless you can live with seeing the pictures.
Also, fuck shit damn. Cock ass cuntmunch motherfuck blowjob. PENIS.
But if you really must see a sixty five year old pasty white cross-dresser, enjoy.
Imagine, that old white guys get away with weird ass shit but IPU help you if you have a Muslim-y sounding name.
Well duh! Old white guys in drag do not look thugish (for old white guy values of thugish), so that’s ok then.
So this guy has a lot at stake and could be “discredited” by having his cross-dressing exposed . . . so he does it in public and poses for news photographs?
What a waste of space Dennis Prager is. A half-assed ELIZA program would have written a more thoughtful, more pertinent article.
Nunsense.
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When I read the shorter, I thought the guy in women’s clothing was on top of the airplane, like John McClane in Die Hard 2. That would have been so much cooler than the actual story.
I am surprised to learn that airlines don’t have no-shirt-no-shoes-no-service guidelines, but other than that, I am not able to summon any real outrage on Mr. Prager’s behalf.
Alternative shorter:
Please ignore the role that crass commerce has played in the erosion of decency; our lack of social mores is entirely due to hippies insisting, since the 1960s when evil began in this country, on treating wimins and brown-folks equally.
St. Dennis talks with a sane person:
ver. 1
St. Dennis: Well I never!
Sane Person: So that’s your problem.
ver. 2
St. Dennis: Well I never!
Sane Person: It seems you did … last night .. how long do ya think before there’s video on the intertubez?
Yes. I’ll be appearing here all week. Try the veal.
veal is just like Hitler!
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What do you mean?
Is the veal planning to invade Poland?
Does the veal have funny mustache?
Are liberals called veal now?
Does mentioning veal in internet debate mean you have Revoked an internet law and are losing the debate?
Is the veal the new jew of liberal fascism?
I have season tickets, ringside seats, in the sexual arena.
It’s the blanquette isn’t it? I’ve known some euros that hate veal because of too many bad blanquettes de veau. Me, I make a great blanquette but it’s hard to fight history. Panéed with alfredo, also, too. Where’s the Hitler in that?
I notice there are no photos of the second man’s underwear.
ringside seats
heh.
Super civilized dog.
Your objection is…?
HITLER SHUTUP THATS Y
For the first time in my life, I am tempted to “get off the boat”, as some folks put it. However, it’s been a long fortnight and I’m stoned, therefore I don’t think I should nor would it be beneficial. Anyone who claims this:
a generation of Americans has been taught: not to judge, not to discriminate, to welcome diversity, and to fully accept those who are different, especially in the sexual arena.
is simply not worth the smallest mental effort. It would ruin the rest of my day, I’m sure. As it is, I’m actually a bit bummed realizing that I know people who think like that after being able to ignore it for a extended period of time.
Also,
Wait, this is the accordion guy isn’t it? And he’s got the nerve to prescribe what behavior is acceptable by strangers?
I’m learning to play accordion. However, it’s Cajun accordion for playing Cajun-inspired music, which is cool and you can’t convince me otherwise. Also, I’m fairly nonchalant about what’s “acceptable behavior” by just about anyone.
What do you mean?
Yes.
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Okay, not the first time in my life. Certainly, the first time in a long time, though. Seriously, it hurts my head to think that apparently this guy thinks your average flight from Dallas to El Paso will become a Pride parade in the sky.
Dennis;
Go eat a bag of dicks and shut the fuck up. Whining about decency is for pikers.
The decline of American civilization since the 1960s has been so fast and so dramatic that it takes one’s breath away.
Yeah, it’s only been 50 years…….
Matt T: While mostly I view accordions as a bane to civilized society, I was at one of those Lafayette festivals where Zydeco Joe, just out of prison, made a whole bunch of elderly cajuns (and me) cry. For this I find some mercy in my heart for heart-felt accordion. Does not apply to ignorant washboard.
OT:
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/28/255935/bill-donahue-against-marriage-equality/
but don’t bother watching it. I had intended to watch it for the “The Prong Has To Penetrate The Socket” omonet but gave up when
“I don’t think we should allow child molesters near children.”
Except for priests, right Bill?
One detail Prager omits – the reason this hit the news was as a follow up to an earlier story. The same airline, six days later, refused to let a man board unless he pulled up his pants (over his boxer shorts). When he refused, he was arrested.
As you may have guessed, he was neither 65 nor white. Any comments, Mr. Prager?
The decline of American civilization,” oh for fuck’s sake.
Is actually a product of letting people like Prager out in public. If we had any decency as a nation, we would keep them all locked away in a basement closet or the tower attic. and away from civilized folk.
Christina Hendricks plays the accordion, so…shut up!
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.”
— Tom Waits
Does not apply to ignorant washboard.
You know, Cajun and zydeco musicians have no one but themselves to blame. On Bourbon, they’ll grab yay-hoos off the street to whack on those damn things to bring in a crowd, so people expect it. Washboard is one of those instruments that should require some sort of certification if you want to play it in public.
In christina’s defense, she is no gentleman. *cue someone rhapsodizing about her boobs or gingerness or whatever* Yawn.
As usual, I am unclear as to how tsam feels about things and wishes he would emote more.
Okay, I don’t get Showtime (any more) and it’s taken me this long to Google Christina Hendricks, but now I’m having trouble picturing her playing the accordion, for…geometrical reasons. (Can’t play video here, so I’ll have to look at the youtube clip later).
I totally do not remember her in Firefly, however. I remember Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, and my honey, Jewel Staite, but…Damn, bunk time again!
Coupla years ago…woman too sexy to fly…
FOX News Round Table Thing starts at 3:00 min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthoHbTo3Ck
(with youtube PENIS commentary as well.)
I’m psychic.
I’m psychic.
You are. Although if I was that much of a horndog, I would have looked her up days ago.
the sexual arena.
Sex. As an arena. Ur doin it rong.
Dennis, do you like films about gladiators?
Isn’t Prager the marital rape enthusiast? You’d think even the National Review would be embarrassed at posting his crap, but I guess embarrassment is something the right wing left behind in 2008.
She ain’t ginger. Natural blonde, unfortunately.
Oh well, nobody’s perfect.
She was actually pretty good. She has a lovely singing voice…if that is her voice and not a singing double, that is.
Arena. No Gorn in 1944, however.
I’m going to change my usual shtick and instead rhapsodise about the loveliness of Steve Buscemi.
What a fox!
“Sex. As an arena. Ur doin it rong.”
I shall forego posting even a single one of the many links that demonstrate the utter wrongitude in that comment. To be honest, I cleared my cache today so I just don’t have them handy. But I’ve said too much.
“Natural blonde, unfortunately”
Wasn’t aware my blondeness was unfortunate! I’ve rather enjoyed it.
“I shall forego posting even a single one of the many links that demonstrate the utter wrongitude in that comment. To be honest, I cleared my cache today so I just don’t have them handy. But I’ve said too much.”
You silly man! You never told us you were watching Promise Keeper rallies and their scintillating discussions about being a good husband.
Yeah, sorry, just a hangup of mine.
Most people, I find, look better with their natural colours, but Hendricks looks far better red than blonde. For some reason, it weirds me out when someone looks better with an unnatural colour. Don’t know why.
Similarly, I’ve tried reddish tinges and dark hair..COULD NOT pull it off.
Yeah, I’m an equal-opportunity pervert—I like all hair colors, complexions, etc. That said, the blonde craze does sometimes annoy me. Since we mentioned Laura Prepon the other day, as a redhead she was a fucking goddess; as a blonde, lately—oddly diminished, don’t you think? Especially since her physiognomy is so obviously of the red-headed “race”. I just think natural is better.
Reverend, I so disagree with you.
Yeah, I’m an equal-opportunity pervert—I like all hair colors, complexions, etc.
Pilatist! Will no one stand up for B4? (Except me of course but even I worry about overdoing the creepy bit sometimes).
I thought bald was a hair color. Not collecting stamps is a hobby and atheism is a religion, right?
Eating yourself to death is a diet.
Go for it, Tony Scalia, you bible-thumping, plutocrat-fellating, p.o.s. whore!
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That said, I don’t dare go bald. I simply don’t have the skull for it. Kind of squashed-pumpkin Hoss Cartwright shape. I’m hanging onto my hair by sheer willpower.
Not too long ag. I posted a challenge at a freethinker site for more of those aphorisms. My favorite was “atheism is a religion in the same way that ‘off’ is a tv channel. “
Yes, yes, there are and have been many attractive blondes. The ridiculously proportioned Joi Lansing for example.
VS, I guess I didn’t express myself well. Natural blondes are terrific. I was mainly complaining about already beautiful women dying their hair some unnatural-looking uniform yellow because “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” or whatever. Real hair is such wonderful mixture of shades, usually, that bleached-blonde hair just looks totally fake to me. I do admit that redheads tend to grab my attention more, though.
*I* was once blonde. Oh yes I was! Naturally. The occasional accidental rubbing of lemon juice on my head while out on Lake Travis was just chromatic enhancement. I am still blonde, after a fashion – I call the gray (of which there is plenty) ‘platinum blonde.’
‘Course I remember Lisa Kudrow before she was a blonde, and that was an improvement, so <Kevin Nealon> “Forget about what I just said, I don’t know what I’m talking about!” </Kevin Nealon>
Especially since her physiognomy is so obviously of the red-headed “race”. I just think natural is better.
Sometimes the wrong color is so right.
I have black hair, but I’ve had the odd grey since I was 16. I’ll probably full-on salt and pepper by the time I’m 30.
No plans on dying it though.
*I* was once blonde. Oh yes I was! Naturally.
I was a natural blonde as a kid. Turned light brown in adulthood.
I was a bottle blonde for a short while too. I didn’t have hightlights, though because I’m TOTALLY straight.
Pup, my mom says being blonde is easier when you start to go gray. Blends better.
Yeah, it’s a weird phenomenon—anybody would still call my hair brown if they saw it indoors, but under fluorescent light or direct sunlight, it’s completely “platinum blond”. (Thanks, PM, gotta remember that.)
In christina’s defense, she is no gentleman.
Are you sure? She could be a very clever female impersonator.
Pfft. That’s what they said about Dame Edna.
Anyhow, sorry I got this convo started. Can’t imagine anyone finding it terribly interesting. Besides I think this place is betta left to POOP and PENIS. Especially penis, cuz lord knows I wish we could talk hot guys more.
Oh, and—nice selection in our post, VS, but of the Pfeiffer sisters, I’ve always preferred Deedee.
Yeah, but everybody ignored my Steve Buscemi comment.
I wish we could talk hot guys more.
You need to watch more Firefly. Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are dreamy.
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/public/qqDu_K3Qnd9OISMtTceKSkIf7uMFyuk6fOY01Ow_OnblLk4Lil5klAOStsKyGqsPvKH6FjcwRGQR8-c8LfAJaIC4CbCxMykY30McM74S0QKVAWR-W41Cr7zg
Not really. Though I think Nathan is great.
Hott.
Though I think Nathan is great.
I’ve been a fan of his hot dog for years.
I can’t be bothered (that is ‘arsed’ when pronounced upside-down) to find the link but John Barrowman the other day said the new Torchwood series would have “lots lof nudity.” And mansex! Woohoo!
Does it count when the hawtie plays for my team, vs?
Is that kosher?!!!
Is that kosher?!!!
Not after I sprinkle ground fetus over it to lick off.
“The decline of American civilization since the 1960s”
Hmm, what happened in the 1960’s, sometime around ’64 or 65 let’s say?
Of course, Pup
Hmm, what happened in the 1960?s, sometime around ’64 or 65 let’s say?
I was born. The world went into decline. Next question?
“N__B said,
June 29, 2011 at 0:54
Is that kosher?!!!
Not after I sprinkle ground fetus over it to lick off.”
And horribly inappropriate jokes like this are why I luv N_B.
“Not after I sprinkle ground fetus over it to lick off.”
What if the ground fetus is prepared by a rabbi in a certain way. Would it be kosher then? Answer me that N_B if that’s your real name.
Does anybody but me find it as hard to believe that Steve Buscemi used to be a firefighter as that Mike Rowe used to be an opera singer?
What if the ground fetus is prepared by a rabbi in a certain way. Would it be kosher then?
A rabbi in a certain way? Who knocked up the rabbi?
Does anybody but me find it as hard to believe that Steve Buscemi used to be a firefighter
Actually no. I’ve worked on a bunch of firehouses and so have got to know a fair number of firefighters. They’re mostly average height and lean, and bizarre humor thrives in the houses. Sound familiar?
certain=family?
Feti have gills at one point, but they never have shells or cloven hooves (without chewing the cud), so as far as I know they’re always kosher. Just remember to cut their throats and bleed them out properly.
N_B: guess all of my notions of firefighters come from calendars….
certain=family?
I associate the “in a ___ way” construction with one meaning, I guess.
HEY VS!
N_B: guess all of my notions of firefighters come from calendars….
Woo-HOO!Talk of mens!
What if the ground fetus is prepared by a rabbi in a certain way.
No; fetus chew the cud but don’t have cloven hooves, so UNKOSHER.
I got beat to a fucking kosher joke?!! JESUS.
FY iPhone. I was trying to respond to vs with a link to the clip of John barrowman and David Tenant smooching. Just a brief kiss actually but JB verily swooned. FY iPhone.
The mention of Steve Buscemi made me think of Thora Birch, ’cause that’s just the kind of hairpin I am…
That joke was hardly kosher.
But I bled it and everything!
I often find it hard to predict what women will go for, but every once in a while you see a guy that you say: “Wow! I would not mind looking like him!”
Now admittedly I’ll have The Ghost Whisperer on as a screensaver just for Jennifer Love Hewitt, but this guy definitely triggers that reaction.
“The mention of Steve Buscemi made me think of Thora Birch”
Probably because of the tits.
Just an obscure movie reference. (She wore glasses in it, so she was supposed to be unattractive, see….)
Gee, I sure hope somebody’s already linked to this old Prager column.
Well, irritatingly, my man-related horniness often–but not always–involves an intricate set of metrics. Is he smart? Is he funny? (These are key.) Does he geek out to the proper things? But, yeah, there are some celebs that transcend this. They’re kinda rare, though.
I have a thing for noses. Yes, that’s right. Noses. I like them Roman-ish and aquiline. I do NOT approve of petite noses on men.
I’m curious as to what this incident has to do with religion. I think it’s quite possible to be kinky while simultaneously being religious. I also think it’s quite normal to be someone–like, say, me–who while being atheist, probably wouldn’t choose to sit next to a 60 year old dude in drag. Not that I’d freak out about it…but as mark f mentioned upthread, I’m unclear as to what this fellow’s aims were. That being said, FREE MARKET, BITCHES! If you don’t like that his airline clearly has a pretty lax dress code, you’re free to book your flight elsewhere.
This totally works! When I wear my hair in a ponytail, men just won’t look at me!
Anyway, my favorite tits still belong to Atorney General Funbags.
Pup, my mom says being blonde is easier when you start to go gray. Blends better.
Absolutely. I’m going a lovely white (No gray, bit-chezz!) & if it transforms before my face gets (completely) all saggy I’ll have a few yrs. of looking distinguished before I resemble myself again.
S McG, that’s a pip, all right. Casting a disapproving glance at hate speech is worse than the Holocaust, fer sure!
I wonder if I’ll ever get to look distinguished.
Feti have gills at one point, but they never have shells or cloven hooves (without chewing the cud), so as far as I know they’re always kosher.
In practice, pretty much anything without hooves that isn’t a non-predatory bird or a fish is trayf, so no.
public opprobrium, laws and lawsuits
How long would it take to find many an example of Prager calling for public opprobium (SHAME!!!) about something he doesn’t like?
And how many people have been brought up on charges & sent to jail for hate speech crimes? (No one’s stopped me yet!)
Let alone the thousands of successful lawsuits.
One of the commenters actually says: “On a slightly more serious note – dressing behavior of this nature (even by our diminished decency standards) is atypical to say the least. Such behavior immediately warrants closer scrutiny. Here is a passenger who quite reasonably could have a weapon hidden in a body cavity (disguised as a pleasure generating device perhaps??)”
Are you freakin kidding me?!?! This is what they’re scared of?
Are you brainstorming? Uh-oh… brains are for thinking, yes, yes, they are. They are so. IT’S NOT FAIR!!!!!
I think I’d dress normally if I was gonna fly with something up my ass. But I’ll try anything once and twice if the pay’s right.
In practice, pretty much anything without hooves that isn’t a non-predatory bird or a fish is trayf, so no.
Got it. So un civet des greves, oui, bien sur, mais un civet du lapin, HARAM! No wonder the ligurians had problems with their conquerers. What kind of generous, omnipotent deity gives a little piece of fuck about what you eat?
OK, so I have not more than 30 minutes sleep since around 3 this morning, and I am finally getting a break…and, YES, enjoying a cocktail.
But I have an important question about proper attire: Can one maintain an air of rough and tumble toughness if one is sucking on a pacifier in addition to wearing a skull and crossbones
onesiet-shirt?“Oh my god! What will we do if he has an exploding butt-plug?!?!”
Why linkee no workee?
Someone was masturbating as he wrote this.
I think I’d dress normally if I was gonna fly with something up my ass. But I’ll try anything once and twice if the pay’s right.
I see SN! telethon potential! Now how much would you pay?
especially in the sexual arena.
At last a team sport of some interest!
Prager is an old windbag with too much interest in jig-a-jig to be healthy. Of course it’s it’s all scolding, Don’t Douthat bullshit, but too much interest.
Can one maintain an air of rough and tumble toughness if one is sucking on a pacifier in addition to wearing a skull and crossbones onesie?
Hasn’t been a problem for me.
Note: I wasn’t in S&B – the onesie belongs to The Ho.
“Here is a passenger who quite reasonably could have a weapon hidden in a body cavity ”
How does one “quite reasonably” have a weapon hidden in a body cavity?
WINNER!
Oh – you meant a pacifier made of PLASTIC. never mind.
Well, the exploding underwear didn’t work worth shit, so I guess exploding suppositories are the next step.
An unremarkable story about hair color:
My cousin Little Debbie went for a job interview at the phone company in Dougherty county when she was fourteen. Because she was so little and so young, she decided to dye her hair gray to look older. .
The problem was she couldn’t find any coloring to turn her hair gray, only black, brunette, red or blond. Finally, she decided that she would first dye her hair black and then bleach it with peroxide. She failed to get the gray she was after. The treatment turned her hair to a dull olive green, an army green.
Her sister, Brenda Jean, came up with the idea of cutting most of her hair off and buying a gray wig. This seemed like a pretty good solution, so they walked to town and looked in Danneman’s for a gray wig. Danneman’s didn’t sell gray wigs though, only black, brunette, red and blond wigs.
They left Danneman’s and went to a wig shop for black women in the shopping block where all the black people went to buy their clothes and stuff. Here they found what they were looking for, a cute little curly wig made just for little women.
When Little Debbie arrived at the phone company, she discovered that the lady conducting the interview was her cousin June. June asked Little Debbie what had happened to her hair and Little Debbie made up a story about getting lost in the woods and being so frightened her hair turned gray.
June told Little Debbie that she was too young for the job and that she should come back in a couple of years when she was sixteen.
Little Debbie decided she liked the gray wig so much she would just continue to wear it. This she did until she was almost eighteen. When she finally gave up the wig, every body asked her what had happened to her hair. Again she made up a story about getting lost in the woods and being so frightened it changed her hair color back to blond.
Can one maintain an air of rough and tumble toughness if one is sucking on a pacifier in addition to wearing a skull and crossbones onesie t-shirt?
Yes, it’s a tough call but I find the pacifier to be the main problem in this ensemble.
I keep telling him this! He just won’t listen!
Also, why do baby arms look like little sausage links? It’s like they WANT us to eat them.
WRT the buttplug bomber theorists, I once again remind everyone that the contrapositive statement of Rouchefoulcald’s aphorism, “Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others” is also true.
Cute baby looks like he’s counting to ten in his sleep.
Good thing they look like Vienna sausages, no one wants to eat those.
“rodertudis said,
June 29, 2011 at 2:50
Cute baby looks like he’s counting to ten in his sleep.”
Thank you:). One thing people didn’t tell me about motherhood was how much he would make me laugh. He always has his hands up by his face…like he’s doing silly portrait poses. It cracks me up.
Ok, Adult Swim may resume. Baby talk is OVA.
Also they may look like yumdelicious sausages but I bet they taste like the bad smells they make.
I am willing to judge people, to discriminate, and to question concepts of diversity — when appropriate (in my view) and with due restraint, meaning alot of it.
Prager is sloppily mixing up corporate policy and broader societal issues. Working for an airline limits one’s response. Paying for a ticket and riding along with lingerie-wearing-man limits one’s response. The issue is vaguely similar to the hullabaloo surrounding “Happy Holidays” vs. “Merry Christmas” in corporate or other private settings. Lotsa companies want the mealymouthed best of both worlds, so they stand silent while liberals or society-at-large are demonized. But it’s as clear as a bell that companies can direct their employees to behave differently, or fire those who won’t, within very broad limits. Neither tempest-in-a-teapot is about the decline of western civ. Let the airlines and department stores take responsibility for policies adopted to maximize profit and minimize conflict while controlling such aspects of employment, shopping, and service as they care to control. Don’t blame me, or big abstractions. Nor am I a helpless victim faced with lingerie man; I don’t need fucking Dennis Prager to stand up for me as the guy in the next seat. I can tell lingerie man off, or not, as I see fit, but then, I wasn’t there. I take issue with Prager moreso than the airline’s policies or the fool in the lingerie. My world has been a great deal messier than all this…
I have nommed on them, and they are pretty delish…but some people think I am BIASED.
I just opened up a bottle of mustard of a color that in a real estate jacket would be called “Baby-Shit Yellow™—but fortunately it tastes better.
Are you freakin kidding me?!?! This is what they’re scared of?
Considering the push by social conservatives in places like Alabama and Texas, I’m going go with a guarded yes.
This reminds me of the ongoing flap over corporate policies re: “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holidays.” Personal and corporate policy-making are not direct reflections of big abstractions like Western culture (or the decline thereof). They’re personal decisions made as such or as agents of corporate bodies. They’re policies made to maximize profit, manage risk, or what have you.
Turning to Prager, I dunno how much outrage he’s feigning because it’s his schtick or job. But my world — I turned forty last week — has been very messy. As an atheist I hope the worst that happens to me tomorrow is that someone (incongruously) wishes me a Merry Christmas. I hope the most unsettling thing that happens is that I get on a plane with a man wearing ladies’ underwear. In my last gig I had to catalog artworks, including disturbing ones. I was well-paid and I got over the few discomforts involved. Even children and the faint-of-heart can live through and learn from such traumas with no help from Prager. He makes it worse, wants to make it worse. If a kid was on that plane and thought the whole thing hilarious, Prager wants to make sure that kid changes his little mind. The kid should pine for Armageddon when he sees that!
(Once a grandma of mine watched me for a week and explained Revelations to me. As an example of the world’s depravity, she told me (I was maybe ten) that there were men out there having sex with sex dolls. And I was led to feel very bad about it and hope Jesus would come back soon. Well, now I think it’s a very human thing for a lonely man to do. Maybe tragic, maybe a little pathetic or laughable, maybe not. I am no better than some dude with a sex doll, I will tell you that much, and I am not trying to allude to freaky behavior, of which I engage in precious little … I have been lingerie-on-a-plane man, in my own ways. Prager will never make this leap of comprehension before he dies, I suspect.)
I thought of this earlier today glancing though the comments in the David Frum article:
I love seeing the goalposts moving in a good direction for a change, don’t you?
After Stonewall, we had to grudgingly admit it was not OK to go in an beat the shit out of people, even though they were still just a bunch of fucking fags…
Then when the Supreme court overturned state sodomy laws, we had to come to terms with the fact that what consenting adults did in the privacy of their bedrooms couldn’t be considered a crime–but that didn’t mean we had to accept them, dammit!
Then when the haters couldn’t protest, boycott or browbeat companies into dropping employee benefits plans that covered same-sex partners, they had to come to terms with the fact that people supported this kind of inclusion. But by damn we weren’t gonna give ’em any special rights! (i.e, the ones everyone else has enjoyed since forever)
Now that states have started offering “civil unions”, which offer virtually the same legal benefits of marriage, the new line in the sand is “dammit, you can’t call it ‘marriage’!”
So the new Maginot line is semantics. They’ve planted they flag on the dictionary: “Fine, you can have legally-recognized relationships, with the same financial and social benefits as a marriage, but you can’t use that word. That’s our word!”
Fine, if that’s what so important, let’s propose calling it “mariage”, with 1 “r”, rather than 2. Then they can move the goalposts to Phonology. “Hey, no fair using a word that sounds like ‘marriage! You need to come up with your ownword!
Hey Jennifer! (And others still interested in grousing about the taxes are theft crowd)
I replied on the old thread about diminishing marginal utility some more. Thanks for your previous response.
Now to get caught up here.
Steerpike Johnson is making sense.
OK, fine, we’ll let the queers get married, and accept that they’ll have the same rights and privileges as anyone else, and we’ll stop telling “pillow biter” jokes and telling our children they’re evil, but don’t expect me to spend more than $100 on a wedding shower present! I refuse! And if you criticize me for that, you’re just being intolerant of my religion!
All Right, all right, $150, but the giftwrap will be second rate, dammit, I have my principles!”
Aunt Acid is funny.
I’m unclear as to what this fellow’s aims were
Pay up on lost bet?
My favorite mango from the original link from commenter Bulldog 82:
If you have to rant about bringing “shame back”, then you have already lost. The time when the non gender conformists would hide in their homes and be invisible so you and your artifact children wouldn’t have to notice or grow is over at the exact time when you have to rant about putting them back in the closet and bringing shame back.
People have gotten the taste of actual genuine free expression and a few throwbacks somehow still think they can scream history into reversing itself.
It’s so cute in its naivety. Hoping that just by yelling freak that history will reverse and they can go back to a 1950s standard that never was.
Additionally Dennis Prager earlier on in his rants where he acknowledged the march of tolerance as an epithet and all he could think in response was “standards” and “moral decency” like some parody of conservative repression.
It’s just so adorable.
Also adorable?
The fact that it is Pride Week in quite a few major American cities this last weekend and this was the best he could come up with for “moral standards degenerating”?
I mean, this is the time when wingnuts froth at the margins hoping to shame the entire LGBT movement by the people on the ends, ranting about the sea of unclad bosoms at Dyke Marches, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, or “crazy displays” that are no less odd than a halloween costume to the sane world.
And they’ve got a transgender person on a flight who may have been wearing bra and panties (I mean, the chances that’s not exaggerated are a thousand to one when he admits exaggerating that to naked on his radio show).
Wow, the children are scandalized.
Not by the person, but rather how much weak sauce that is.
OTbutFfffuuuuuuuuuu
I don’t know that I’ve heard it put so perfectly before.
I’ve said for some time now that they should be called Patriot Unions, or Freedom Couplings or some such, just to chafe the bigots’ hides all the more.
There is a move afoot (said move being sadly plausible) to amend the KONSATOOSHUN such that corporations are not people. It’s a great and reasonable idea, albeit one unfortunately devoid of hope. I shouldninsert lots of links here but I’m having fun bashing a Xian apologist at another site so I can’t be [bothered, arsed, what the fuck do you people expect from me?] to provide a linky-poo.
‘Scuse me, gotta go grill some fetus.
FYipad: imfuckingplausible.
Pup, how about a linky to the site where you’re bashing the fundy? Always enjoy reading a good comment thread beatdown
Because before 1964, nobody ever cursed. See: the Deadwood video from the other thread.
Sigh.
Yes, Glenn, there is nothing you’ve ever done or said that might make people react poorly to your presence.
Just. Fucking. Wow.
Mirrors apparently suffer spontaneous combustion in his presence.
“This isn’t about being nice and tolerant. Why do we, in the majority, always have to be tolerant of the freaks? How about we make the freaks tolerant of us and get them to behave like the rest of us?”
Standing athwart freaks shouting conform.
[I like saying the word “Athwart”. Its fun, try it yourself]
William F. Buckley, standing athwart English, pronouncing “ACK-yu-min” “uh-COO-min”.
Hey,
Are we still talking about hot menz? I have one I want to show to VS!
RUPERT MURDOCH HAS A SAD.
“MySpace is being shopped around by News Corp. for a quick sale, and the corporation is weighting two cash-and-stock offers for the former top social networking site.
News Corp. is in talks with Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco private-equity company, as well as Specific Media, an online advertising network operator, according to an insider familiar with the negations but not authorized to speak publicly.
The final price is rumored to be in the $20-30 million range, plus a possible continuing equity stake for Murdoch’s New York News Corp., the company’s AllThingsD reported. As part of the deal, MySpace may cut over half its staff.
Representatives for the companies allegedly interested declined to comment.
Launching in 2003, MySpace became popular enough to warrant a $580 million buyout from Rupert Murdoch’s corporation. But for a variety of reasons, the site was quickly supplanted by Facebook in popularity and fell off the radar.
MySpace unveiled an extensive overhaul in October in an attempt to revive the sagging brand as a hub for entertainment content. Then, in January, it cut nearly half its staff, about 500 people, hoping to cut costs.
The site continued to hemorrhage money, and for the three months through March, the News Corp. segment housing MySpace lost $165 million, owing chiefly to lower advertising revenue on the site.”
http://www.thirdage.com/news/myspace-news-corp-entertaining-offers-from-two-companies-for-troubled-site_06-29-2011
Athwart I saw a putty tat
Who has/had the most affected speaking style: William F Buckley or Peggy Noonan? Discuss.
men are not meat. yer gross.
NEWSFLASH:
Bachmann Violates Property Rights
”American Girl” Privileges to be Revoked
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/tom-petty-reportedly-issuing-cease-and-desis
Peggy was born in Brooklyn, NY. Her accent is not an affectation, it is the real deal. Haven’t you ever heard a Brooklyn accent?
Alright, well I’ll see your Dudeskull and raise you our cute, cute manz anyway!
Wow, he is cute. CONGRATULATIONS.
”American Girl” Privileges to be Revoked
Maybe she can use “American Woman” instead.
Its the perfect song for her campaign. Its almost as if it was written with Bachmann in mind.
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, she gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Don’t come hangin’ around my door
I don’t wanna see your face no more
I got more important things to do
Than spend my time growin’ old with you
Now woman, I said stay away
American woman, listen what I say
American woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Don’t come knockin’ around my door
Don’t wanna see your shadow no more
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else’s eyes
Now woman, I said get away
American woman, listen what I say
American woman, said get away
American woman, listen what I say
Don’t come hangin’ around my door
Don’t wanna see your face no more
I don’t need your war machines
I don’t need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else’s eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Go, gotta get away, gotta get away
Now go, go, go, I’m gonna leave you, woman
Gonna leave you, woman
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
You’re no good for me
I’m no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye
Tell you what I’m gonna do
You know I’m gonna leave
You know I’m gonna go
You know I’m gonna leave
You know I’m gonna go, woman
I’m gonna leave you, woman
Goodbye, American woman
This is some thin gruel, even by Prager’s standards.
The thing that bugs me about the culture crusaders is that they constantly talk about the great antiquity of their beliefs without ever having to actually justify it. Which civilizations, Dennis? What do you mean by “higher”? Are there religions that don’t emphasize the distinction between man and animal? Did the openly atheistic communist regimes of the 20th century encourage public nudity?
Does any of this matter when the man in question wasn’t nude?
As usual, conservatives can’t hear the lyrics to songs because their projection is just tooooo strong. I hear what I want to hear!! American Woman!! I am so great!! American Woman!! I wanna be president!!
The ‘we wear clothes argument’ is also stupid because the things that make us humans were invented long before we started wearing clothes.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1790635347/
Making tools: 3,300,000 years ago.
Making fire: 800,000 years ago.
Making houses: 500,000 years ago.
Making clothes: 170,000 years ago.
I wonder when man-clothes and lady-clothes bifurcated.
William F. Buckley, standing athwart English, pronouncing “ACK-yu-min” “uh-COO-min”.
Summer is acumen in.
I wonder when man-clothes and lady-clothes bifurcated.
Now that’s a wonder. I’d guess not until agriculture made surplus labor possible.
In its most basic form it may date from breast-feeding necessities.
Silly, there’s only property rights if it’s my property.
Now, y’see, there you go with your facts and your science and knowin stuff.
It’s things like this that’s why we gotta kill PBS.
UPDATE:
This
Atom&Yves said,
June 28, 2011 at 22:00
Thanks for the link to Foehammer’s site. Maybe he’ll provide a link to your crap site as a Thank You. Going to scrub my puter memory of this crap site now.
was in the comments feed, attached to this post of four yrs. ago.
Fudgehammer is no longer worried about the Islamist menace, he’s now all Constitutional, & found Alex Jones & Ron Paul. 9/11 TRUTH, BABY!!!
Right M. B.,
But think about how our stereotypical caveman attire was a one-strap exposed breast animal skin; and how actual plains/jungle nomads basically only dress from the waist down.
When did we settle on fur-bikinis/skirts (dresses) were only for da ladieez!
You just keep those impure heathen thoughts to yourself, hippie. Don’t be talkin about bifurcatin around the little ones. That’s the sort of thing they should be finding out about from their parents, like everybody ought to. Or maybe in the men’s room at that rest stop out on I-75.
I must ask: How wide is your stance?!
Caerful there, Laddie.
My new post. Hot off the press
Bachmann Takes Other’s Property; Can No Longer Claim to be an ”American Girl”
Perhaps she thought the song was owned collectively for the common good of all mankind. From each according to his ability, to each according to her need. Hey Michele, your Marxism is showing.
http://gocart-mozart.blogspot.com/
Scotsmen and their kilts are a pretty perfect example of the question I’m curious about. But we do think of the Scots with traditional garb that is different for both men and women. I will investigate!
When did we settle on fur-bikinis/skirts (dresses) were only for da ladieez!
I was going to mention some of the filmed records of the era, but you never know when exactly after 170,000 B.C.E. they were shot. (In Arkansas.)
What is one to do w/ a film titled One Million Years B.C.?
Let me check some authoritative sources!! AMIRITE?
This turned up in my research, but was discounted because (spoiler alert) it’s actually shot in the future!!
Atheism is a religion in the same way that
‘off’ is a tv channela 404 error is a website.Contributed.
why do baby arms look like little sausage links?
The nurses in the maternity units put rubber bands on them when you’re not looking.
SOON TO BE UNEMPLOYED, GLENN BECK GOES ASHLEY TODD ON US
“With his Fox News show down to its last few days, and about to embark on a risky and probably unsuccessful attempt to replicate his cable success on pay-to-view Internet broadcasting, a desperate Glenn Beck cooked up a transparently phony publicity stunt that began to fall apart within hours.”
Beck claimed on his radio show this morning, and then later (at great length) on his TV show, that he and his family were victims of an evil
liberal mob in a New York park:
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/
I would have gone with “MORTON DOWNEY GLENN BECK JR.”
“In 1989, as fascination with Downey’s TV show began to wane, he was involved in an incident in a San Francisco International Airport restroom in which he claimed to have been attacked by neo-Nazis who painted a swastika on his face and attempted to shave his head. Some inconsistencies in Downey’s account (e.g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.[10][16] A few months later, the show was cancelled.[10]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey,_Jr.
Mmmm please enjoy these delicious sausage links.
gocart, that’s just the kind of thing that
shouldmay already be on your web log.When E.T. archaeologists power Google’s servers again, they will know who was the cleverer, gocart mozart or “Steve M.”
I’m so proud of NYC.
A linguistic explanation.
Wait…men flying in women’s clothing is supposed to make me STOP flying?
Glenn Beck is ready for his closeup, Mr. DeMille.
So Glenn Beck took advantage of a FREE event at a GOVERNMENT provided PUBLIC park…which by the way also provides FREE Wi-Fi (albeit sponsored by a non-profit) to enjoy a movie provided FREE of charge by a private corporation (which also agreed to pay for the clean up, to be fair)
And people exercised their FREE speech and he got offended?
Why does Beck hate FREEdom?
Panéed with alfredo, also, too. Where’s the Hitler in that? – El Manquécito
Well you may very well be boiling that calf in its mother’s milk …
Silly, there’s only property rights if it’s my property.
That’s really it.
I was reading John Wayne’s wikipedia page after Bachmann’s gaffe the other day, and really liked the one nugget when he says “there were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves…” The rest of the interview is him pontificating about socialism and undeserving people handouts.
Say this out loud in the voice of your Python of choice: But it’s not got much Hitler in it!
Oh noes, misquoted, I should be punished: “that’s not got much Hitler in it!”
Hmm, what happened in the 1960?s, sometime around ’64 or 65 let’s say?
Fenwick was a freshman and sophomore in high school. America’s long, slow descent into immorality, wickedness, and licentiousness plunged abruptly into a steep dive from which the nation has never recovered. Also Hitler.
Julie Christie
http://thecuckooclock.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/600full-julie-christie-3.jpg?w=324&h=442
((I hope this link works. I haven’t put up a link in a l-o-n-g time. Also can some one provide a quick refresher of how ‘text replacement’ tags work? The ‘href’ doo-hickey or whaterver it was.))
Fenwick: <a href=”URL”>text</a>
Funny, I seem to hear Marty Feldman in a voice like EYE-gor: “They told me it was EE-gor” “Well, they were wrong then, weren’t they?”
“That’s not got much Hitler in it, does it?”
I’ve said for some time now that they should be called Patriot Unions, or Freedom Couplings or some such, just to chafe the bigots’ hides all the more.
Hogeye made a good funny.
Athwart I saw a putty tat
Kiwi winz.
<blockquoteour cute, cute manz
Wow, he is cute. CONGRATULATIONS.
What VS said.
Thanks, Rev!
Btw, I’ve always wanted to ask about your ordination and your denomination. Can you be elevated to sainthood?
Also, is the Battleaxe a symbolically sacred object?
I have monopolized the thread.
Now I’m going to sell it to a gigantic cartel for ginormous amounts of lucre.
Very Rev BOK –
Unless I missed it, no one has answered your Christina Hendricks/Firefly question yet. She was Saffron in “Our Mrs Reynolds” & “Trash”.
I’ll send the DVDs around to your bunk
Hogeye Grex said,
June 29, 2011 at 5:02 (kill)
Hey, won’t Prager be happy people are are into shaming the shameful again!
Dear accordion haters: FOAD. I don’t play it, but it’s just another instrument that can be used well or ill, in many styles. I could say the same about electric guitars, that you hear in all kinds of commercial music, sports themes and backgrounds, and every one of them sounds like bad Ted Nugent (which is already bad, in many cases).
Accordions are great in not only cajun music, but Brazilian (forro, baiao, frevo) hot jazz ala Django Reinhart, and even jazz. Like any other instrument, they have to be well-played.
The accordion is the jew of Music fascism!!!
I like ‘European’ accordian music, if that makes any sense.
Also, loved the use of the accordian in Paul Simon’s Graceland.
So I ain’t hatin’ on the accordian.
((Don’t go hatin’ on the banjolele either, in case Spengler drops by.))
tagfail. Pretend I closed it after the album name.
@ Fenwick:
My ‘nym is just my Unitarian Jihad name. It was funny for a couple of days three years ago, but now….
I don’t think there’s enough of a hierarchy to give me much chance of being elevated.
Seriously, I’m tired of it, but I changed my ‘nym completely once already, and thanks to the wonders of modern technolology, the browser types it for me, so sloth wins out.
M. Bouffant said,
June 29, 2011 at 11:27
gocart, that’s just the kind of thing that shouldmay already be on your web log.
When E.T. archaeologists power Google’s servers again, they will know who was the cleverer, gocart mozart or “Steve M.”
Ahem! If you click on the Marx quote, the link goes to a “Crooks and Liars” post which is where I got the information but your concern is duly noted.
http://gocart-mozart.blogspot.com/2011/06/bachmann-takes-others-property-can-no.html
Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge:
You are a fucking schmuck.