Kiss-Ass Off the Starboard Bow

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Above: Ed Morrissey


Special Ed today:

The Road Goes Ever On

Today brings exciting news and an end to a time in my life that has proven far more successful than I ever dreamed. Beginning on March 1, I will begin working for Michelle Malkin, a friend, mentor, and writer I have long admired. She has offered me a position as writer at Hot Air, and my blogging will appear exclusively there.

Special Ed’s bio:

Called “Captain Ed” by his readers, Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather.

Discuss.

H/T: Cole.

PS: The structure of this post has a kind of Eschaton feel to it, no?

PPS: Can I ‘frist’ my own post?


Gavin adds: Say, when last we left Cap’n Ed, weren’t we waiting for a retraction?

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Above: How we left things with Ed

We also have some source images here from the World Beard and Moustache Championships. I’m just sayin’.

 

Comments: 103

 
 
 

Is a mentor by definition an older person? I’m asking seriously.

 
 

“Can I ‘frist’ my own post?”

You can.

 
 

I thought “Special” Ed was supposed to be one of the less crazy 101st chairborne brigade members. So what’s he doing sucking up to Malkin? Guses I gave him to much credit. Seems he’s just another nut after all.

 
 

Dude… you’re still not getting laid.

 
 

Oh yeah, and I agree with Cole that these folks should all consolidate onto one giant website o’ crazy. Make things a lot easier for you guys.

 
 

Michelle Malkin is a younger avatar to Captain Ed ? That feels a Joan of Arc redux . It is about time someone made a saint out of a sows ear

 
 

Ed is a father and grandfather

I hope more than one child is involved.

 
 

I hope more than one child is involved.

Well… if you count the mother…

 
 

Gawd, ANOTHER one of those losers living in my towns? I hope his head exploded today when the MN house and senate overrode one of goldenboy Tim Pawlenty’s vetos of a transportation bill (why yes, we ARE the state of collapsing freeway bridges, thanks for asking). The veto override was a thing of bea-yoo-ty for those of us wanting to see Smug Tim get knocked down a notch. Anyway, what was my point, oh yea, the remark about moving for the weather is too bizarre for me to fathom. What a fucking shmoo.

 
 

Hey, gbear, does he live in our towns or is he out in Apple Valley?

 
 

It takes one to know one seems to be the theme here.

 
 

PS The structure of this post has a kind of Eschaton feel to it, no?

You gotta have a link on most of a word – but not all – somewhere.

 
 

I believe “fristing one’s own post” is a euphemism for what, in an Official Sadly, No! Day By Day Remix would be represented by the sound effect “fap fap fap.”

 
Smiling Mortician
 

DA, as long as you and your post are both consenting adults, I don’t see why not.

 
 

Hey, I wonder if they’ll go a-stalkin’ together the next time someone collects on their health insurance policy.

Ditto for the next cheerleader video. Grampa in the background in shorts?

 
Smiling Mortician
 

Oops. Dan got there first. Er, frist!

 
 

by shorts, I meant hot pants.

 
 

I don’t know, NTLouis. Anything north of Des Moines is way too close.
Apple Valley is part of the evil republican donut that surrounds Mpls & StP, but I count the donut as part of the Twin Cities.

 
 

Fristing one’s own post causes hair to grow on one’s keyboard.

 
 

Michelle Malkin is forcing Ed Morrissey to wear hot pants? Are there no limits to the evils humanity must endure?!

 
 

“Writer” is an exhaulted way of referring to her mixture of spleen, bile and spittle.

 
 

Hmm.

A MetaDiscussion of a MetaPost on a third rate blog with MetaReferences to other blogs.

Gee. I love being an insider and all, ’cause it makes me feel, well, all inside and shit. Kind of spleen and liver inside.

And you KNOW I love the funny. ‘Cause, well, it’s funny and shit.

I think I’ll go in the kitchen now…

mikey

 
 

Hey, I heard about this groovy website called Sadly, No!, so I’m just here to say, if you want to send a message to The Man, vote for me, Ralph Nader, in 2008:

http://www.draftnader.org/

 
 

Oh, yeah, also visit here:

http://www.votenader.org/

Fight the Power!

 
 

Called “Captain Ed” by his readers, Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather.

I get it. Captain Ed moved to Minnesota to experience weather. He’s trying to be Garrison Keillor funny.

 
The Leprechaun from The Simpsons
 

Now, you know what ye have to do now, Ralph? Burn them! Burn them all!

 
 

Wingnuttery Central would certainly be convenient, especially for the proprieters of this blog.

But I don’t get it. I thought the good Cap’n was known as a “reasonable” conservative? Certainly throwing his lot to the shithole will hurt this image?

Count me as an absolute “no” vote for media consolidation in the final analysis.

 
 

Ed will not be happy in his new life; he occasionally admits he was wrong, which is a severe character flaw in Wingnuttia.

 
 

I thought the good Cap’n was known as a “reasonable” conservative?

Reasonable conservative being a dishonest wanker, rather than batshit insane?

 
 

Hey Ralph, I noticed that the ‘Share With Others’ link on your site only has comments left by YOU YOU YOU. Thanks for sharing.

I just barely skimmed thru the list of names on his petition, but I didn’t see even one joke name in the lot. Not one Ben Dover, no Eileen Sideways. What a humorless list of names. This ain’t no party…

 
Smiling Mortician
 

Ralph, I know it’s been said before, but it bears saying again.

 
 

Ditto for the next cheerleader video. Grampa in the background in shorts?

by shorts, I meant hot pants.

Soundtrack.

 
 

Hot Air has opened up comment registration to mark this special occasion.

 
 

I think I read, I forget where exactly, but anyway I think I read somewhere, or maybe heard it from someone who said they read it someplace, I’m not sure which, but anyway the point is that, according to this source, is that Michelle ass-fucks all of the male bloggers she works with. I either read it, or somebody told me, I forget which, but apparently Michelle is seriously into rough anal sex with wingnut guys. Lots of guys.

So, do you think maybe that’s what the captain is all excited about – that he’s gonna get to try anal sex? Is that what Michelle’s mentoring him in?

I dunno, has anyone else heard of this? Or am I mixing her up with someone else, maybe?

 
 

That beard and mustache championship thing is awesome. I’ve had a beard and mustache my entire adult life, and I never knew such a thing existed. Of course, the “work” I put into my own facial hair consists of keeping articles of food out of it. Mostly.

 
 

I dunno, has anyone else heard of this? Or am I mixing her up with someone else, maybe?

I think I read that on the innert00bz somewhere, so that’s like two places already.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

As always, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

 
 

The fact is, HEARTLAND, you fuckers!!!~!1

 
Arky - Future Secretary of Kill Straighty
 

So, do you think maybe that’s what the captain is all excited about – that he’s gonna get to try anal sex? Is that what Michelle’s mentoring him in?

I salute those of you who can think about MM wearing a strap on without puking out your own colons.

Now if you’ll excuse me [Blooooorgh!]

 
 

heartland = rat handle

 
 

John Cole demoted Special Ed to the “Blogs we Mock” roll just in time.

 
Ozymandias, king of kings
 

I salute those of you who can think about MM wearing a strap on without puking out your own colons.

Help a fellow out… how do I distinguish the colon from the rest of these entrails?

 
 

I will begin working for Michelle Malkin, a friend, munter, and writer

Typo fixed.

 
 

Wow, I guess being young and seeing your girlfriend in a coma can really bring out the wingnut in a impressionable, asexual musician.

I know, I know…it’s serious.

 
 

via Cole the Mountaineer’s comments:

The really sad news is that noted assclown Bryan Preston is leaving. Captain Ed has some big shoes to fill in the insane “Libruls hate America and Freedom and Jesus” ranting department.

Ooh, intrigue. Mister Leonard Pierce may have something to say about that.

 
 

Uh, oh…D. Aristophanes…for your frist transgression, Me pre-emptively ordered to you to “eat a giant bag of dicks”, I think the phrase was….

 
 

The really sad news is that noted assclown Bryan Preston is leaving. Captain Ed has some big shoes to fill in the insane “Libruls hate America and Freedom and Jesus” ranting department.

Maybe they should hook up with Ed Anger. I hear he’s not real busy since the Weekly World News folded…and there’s no sense in him just wasting time hanging around getting drunk with BatBoy all day in BatBoy’s mother’s basement, particularly when repetitive use of the term “pig-biting mad” would be so very useful and appropriate in virtually every post at Malkin’s site…

 
 

If that was really Nader, I feel sorry for his campaign. Not sorry enough to vote for him, of course, but…

 
 

Uh, oh…D. Aristophanes…for your frist transgression, Me pre-emptively ordered to you to “eat a giant bag of dicks”, I think the phrase was….

You noticed. You noticed!

 
 

Malkin yesterday:

It is with regret that I announce that Bryan Preston has left the company. He has chosen to take a position as a producer with the Laura Ingraham radio show. We thank him for all the time and talent he devoted to making Hot Air a success. Please wish him all the best in his new endeavors.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

 
 

One thing I have learned from that picture of Capt. Ed. is that using one’s earlobe hair in a comb-over does not count as ‘balding with dignity’.

 
 

It is with regret that I announce that Bryan Preston has left the company. He has chosen to take a position as a producer with the Laura Ingraham radio show.

Onwards and downwards!

 
Arky "I just get these headaches" The Blasphemer
 

Dagoril wins the Internons.

 
 

Damn. You REALLY don’t have to have any skills to work in right wing noise.

Ah well. I probably would have failed…

mikey

 
 

Hey gang? My hare just died. What she had was a twisted throat and if I had the money she would have lived many more months. She never did anything wrong…

 
 

Is a mentor by definition an older person? I’m asking seriously.
Wikipedia informs me that rather than “protégé” or “mentoree”, the proper pedantic-wanker term for the person who is being mentored is the telemachus. The challenge now is to find a way of using that in conversation.

 
 

RB, you could have just let her loose in my neighborhood. The bunny popiulation went way down when homeless people started living on the river flats below my house.

 
 

Smut, howabout this: You can tell a wingnut, but you can’t telemachus.

 
 

What she had was a twisted throat

Yeah. That shit can fuck you up.

Related conditions include twisted soul, twisted point of view and twisted sense of humor.

These are frequently less likely to be fatal.

But lets face it. Rabbits can, in addition to being naked and believable, be quite fragile.

And delicious, in a hot saute with peppers and taro…

mikey

 
 

Hello… My ibex just died. I don’t know how he got stuck in that net. I blame the grief-inducing hard body.

 
 

bunny popiulation

popiulation? sheesh. way past bedtime….

& yes. I agree that bunnies do taste good.

 
 

They are pretty tasty. I was kind of wondering how you’d confess that your bunny had a twisted throat…

 
 

Hell, for that matter I reckon a braised Ibex, once you take out the net, would be pretty damn good too.

I’m thinking over rice with a rich Bearnaise sauce…

mikey

 
 

The grief-inducing hard body could help.

 
 

5 months ago my pigheaded beaver died. What she had was an infected carapace and if I had the money she would have lived many more minutes. I’m sure you know a beaver requires strength but I had no strength left.

 
 

Rabbits eat their own poop! It’s a type or rumination. Poor things! And yet, they’re sooo cute!

 
 

While it is universally agreed that they are wonderful eating, I don’t recommend cooking a beaver…

mikey

 
 

Is this blog on european time? Because it’s 10:18 pm here, still the 25th.

 
 

Wikipedia informs me that rather than “protégé” or “mentoree”, the proper pedantic-wanker term for the person who is being mentored is the telemachus. The challenge now is to find a way of using that in conversation.

Captain Ed is Stephen Dedalus!

 
 

Sadly HQ is in Germany.

Subtract two from your local and flippity floppity your Anti and your Post.

Adjust date accordingly.

Daylight time, Subtract three.

If you’re not in pacific timezone, do your own damn algorithm…

mikey

 
 

Fozzetti said, February 26, 2008 at 7:01

Cap’n’s lookin’ frisky

 
 

dunno, has anyone else heard of this? Or am I mixing her up with someone else, maybe?

Oh, I don’tknow. But it sound like it might be true, so let’s go with it. Why not?

 
 

It is with regret that I announce that Bryan Preston has left the company.

heh. I knew when I saw those photos of them together at CPAC that something wasn’t working out.

 
 

I imagine they’ve got some sort of minstrel show in the works

 
 

Can someone puh-lease explain the DBD reaction to the announcement?

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2008/02/26/#a004518

Has he forgotten to paste the black dude into second panel? Or is Special Ed “fristing his own post” behind the sofa?

 
 

The only reason to move to Minnesota from California is to roll the price of one’s ancestral home into a nice retirement package.

I wish I had an ancestral home.

 
 

Bilbo Baggins is spinning in his grave.

 
 

Captain Ed performs for his new audience.

Next up, breast beating while Michelle Malkin sqawks like a chicken.

 
 

…We also have some source images here…

That’s a threat? Well, okay then.

 
 

Speaking of Day by Day :

What th’ … ??!!

Someone please explain this to me. Is she getting goosed by an invisible Cap’n or something? And liking it? Ewww.

And is the final panel really just some sort of entry for the Sadly,No! existential DbD punchline contest?

I don’t get it. 🙁

(Sort of cross-posted from B-Juice. )

 
 

#

ortho_bob said,

February 26, 2008 at 8:34

Can someone puh-lease explain the DBD reaction to the announcement?

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2008/02/26/#a004518

Has he forgotten to paste the black dude into second panel? Or is Special Ed “fristing his own post” behind the sofa?

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Yeah, inquiring minds want to know.

 
 

Her can’t draw worth beans, can he? Her leg over the sofa looks like an alien appendage. Plus the punch line is stolen from a commercial. Imagine moving up in the world to Ingraham. It’s like gruaduating from cleaning up roakill to cleaning toilets.

 
 

Can someone point out an example of DBD that is neither a) an inscrutable non-sequitur, or b) an unfunny, gratuitous insult?

Because I’ve never seen one like that.

 
 

Plus the punch line is stolen from a commercial.
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Oh … it’s coming clearer. Thanks.

So does Captain Morgan “sproing” people off the couch too?

 
Arky "I just get these headaches" The Blasphemer
 

Captain Ed performs for his new audience.

Next up, breast beating while Michelle Malkin sqawks like a chicken.

Ed wishes he had that much hair. As for breast beating, I’m sure he’s got a fine pair of mudders.

 
 

Called Captain Ed by his readers

Umm, doesn’t he call himself Captain Ed? I mean, the blog is called Captain’s Quarters. Nicknames don’t count if you give them to yourself.

 
 

Will he still carry the honorific “Captain” at Hot Air or will he be promoted to Admiral Ed or Commander-of-the-Fleet Ed?

Or will he be Old Tugboat Ed, Comical Copy Boy and All Purpose Skivvy?

 
 

He’s Second Mate now. I guess that would mean Malkin is now Pirate Queen. And someone, I beg of you to photoshop that book cover.

 
 

It’s like gruaduating from cleaning up roakill to cleaning toilets.

“Is there much opportunity for advancement?”
“Oh yeah, guv’nor … after five years, they let me have a brush!

 
 

You guys… Fozzetti, I’ll never get that picture out my mind, and RIghtwingsnarkle, you owe me for a new keyboard, I just sprayed beer all over it…………………

 
 

If you’re not in pacific timezone, do your own damn algorithm…

My algorithm here in the Central Ice Age Zone is as follows:

1. Take the time-stamp from a S,N! post or comment.
2. Don’t give a fuck about when it was posted.
3. Repeat as necessary.

 
 

This guy is a comedian,no?

“Today brings exciting news and an end to a time in my life that has proven far more successful than I ever dreamed”

If this is the END of the more successful period of his life why his he excited? Plus, with all respect to Twin Cities residents, why would anyone move there from Califonia for the WEATHER?

Am I missing something here?

 
 

why would anyone move there from Califonia for the WEATHER?
No, that’s fair enough. It’s in the tradition of moving to Casablanca for the waters.

 
 

Called “Captain Ed” by his readers, Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather.

How much do ya wanna bet that he moved up there for the excellent conservative networking opportunities found in the Minneapolis airport lavatories.

It seems to have been a good career move.

 
Major Mel Funkshun
 

I think he’s now known as Cabin Boy Ed.

 
 

hopefully, ed will move out there to be with his girlfriend… so i don’t have to smell his skank-ass around my city anymore.

 
 

I don’t know, NTLouis. Anything north of Des Moines is way too close.

We don’t fucking want him, either, you gorram loon-fuckers.

 
 

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