Month: December 2008

Jude, Of Interest8 Comments

I Got Yer War On Christmas Right Here, Bub

Hey hey, everybody. Sorry for my absence. I’ve been busy with things, and helping Athenae with her slaughtering of journalism. That, plus the ice and snow. Anyway, I just wanted to say how pleased I am that it’s once again time for the War On Christmas. Really, it’s my favorite time of the year. I just can’t wait to go around, saying “Happy Holidays,” and then watching civilization collapse. If I weren’t so busy at the abortion mill, I’d take it up full time. You know us liberal, queer-lovin’ pussies. It’s because of us that you can’t have images like … Continue reading I Got Yer War On Christmas Right Here, Bub

War in Iraq1 Comment

Proved Fucking Right

Column: Asked by Congress in 2003, before the invasion of Iraq, how many troops it would take to win the war that President George W. Bush was planning to wage there, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki replied, “I would say that what’s been mobilized to this point – something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We’re talking about posthostilities control over a piece of geography that’s fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. And so it takes a significant … Continue reading Proved Fucking Right

Immoral Values13 Comments

‘Rotund Christ’

Christ-lovers on our nine: “Jack Black should remember from his days at Hebrew School that homosexual acts aren’t funny and are roundly condemned in the Bible,” said Dr. Gary Cass, of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. “Appearing as a sarcastic, rotund Christ, Black distorts the Bible and condones shameful, homosexual acts. Associating Christ with perverse activity is an affront to all people of faith, especially Christians. Apparently Black and company find it hilarious to falsely accuse Christians while they intentionally distort the Bible. Black ought to apologize.” Virgo posted the original video Dr. Closet Case is whining abouthere. A. Continue reading ‘Rotund Christ’

So Called Liberal Media9 Comments

Oh, Great Sweet Lord, It’s The Internet Again

Once and for all time, stop talking. Or in the parlance of The Internet, LURK MOAR: Five weeks after the State ofHawaii vouched for the authenticity of President-electBarack Obama‘s birth certificate, the controversy over allegations that Obama is not eligible to take office next month has reached the Supreme Court, which is expected to announce Monday whether it will consider the matter. The fight is unusual because it thrives outside the so-called mainstream media, far beyond the oak-paneled offices of $700-an-hour lawyers and a world away from the 535 individuals whose surnames are preceded by Representative or Senator. This is … Continue reading Oh, Great Sweet Lord, It’s The Internet Again

So Called Liberal Media6 Comments

Chris Wallace Is A Tool

Sigh: WALLACE: Let me ask you this, did the Vice President say to you, “thank you so much for defending the president and yes I’m going to be giving you a special exit interview in a couple of weeks?“ GALLAGHER: Did he say all that to you? WALLACE: Yes. It was predictable, in hindsight. For years the right’s been hammering them, first of all. For years the right’s been hammering them that they’re biased and horrible and hateful and OMG PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT WE THINK and for at least the last three decades there has been this constant drumbeat … Continue reading Chris Wallace Is A Tool

Uncategorized4 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – Birth Certificate Blues

Greetings, campers! It’s time to zip up and hit the airlock. As always, don’t forget to close both outer doors before opening the inner one – as the O-day gets closer and closer, the fumes from Freeperville are getting more and more toxic. Just a whiff of this stuff would be enough to turn you all into a pack of ravening titmice.(actually, I just like saying “titmice”) First up – a little Monday morning heresy… from World Nut Daily, no less Barack Obama: God’s choice?WND ^| November 29, 2008 | Drew Zahn Posted onSaturday, November 29, 2008 5:35:23 PM byRobinMastersDid … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – Birth Certificate Blues

Happy Democrat Photo6 Comments

Happy Feingold Foto

He’s just basically trying to talk me into bed now: While Americans’ decisive call for change this election was a clear repudiation of the Bush administration’s conduct, failing to act swiftly to reverse the damage could essentially legitimize that conduct and the extreme legal theories on which it was based. That is why it is critically important for President-elect Obama to unequivocally renounce President Bush’s extreme claims of executive authority. As I mentioned in the interview yesterday, stating this position clearly in the inaugural address would affirm to the nation, and the world, that respect for the rule of law … Continue reading Happy Feingold Foto

Diary4 Comments

Sunday Fun

CJ does The Jackal. Fashion blog I’ve been devouring. Today is candy-making and tree-trimming day, and yesterday I madethis, but instead of candying the lemon peel myself I took a bag of lemon drops outside and smashed them with a hammer until they were in little pieces and scattered them on top of the white chocolate. Just as pretty and yummy, half the work! A. Continue reading Sunday Fun

Uncategorized10 Comments

They’re Lying To You, News At Eleven

Why it’s bad to bullshit reporters, volume eight: Documents reveal double-digit profit margins at scores of newspapers on verge of massive layoffs We’ve always heard that Gannett newspapers racked up double-digitprofit margins, even as bad times engulfed the industry. But I’ve never seen actual numbers until now, because Corporate keeps the performance of individual businesses a well-guarded secret. It has gotten to the point where Mr. A takes away the sharp objects at the table when someone brings up “the terrible times facing newspapers these days” or “isn’t it just awful how no one reads anymore.” Newspapers make plenty of … Continue reading They’re Lying To You, News At Eleven

Jude, Of Interest13 Comments

Dear American Media

Yes, this is an actual photo of my computer. Dear American Media: While you’re fixing your various other deficiencies (see Athenae’s posts for, oh, the last four centuries if you need a good place to start), could you please, please, fuckin’please, for the love of Nutella, stop referring to every scandal or possible scandalby appending the suffix “-gate”? This has bothered me for some time. It actually has since you morons tried calling the Iran-Contra scandal “Irangate.” And, of course, you fucks went crazy during the Clinton years, even trying out “Lewinskygate” on us. For fuck’s sakes–you people are supposed … Continue reading Dear American Media

Uncategorized11 Comments

The Legacy Thing

I know thatpretzels are more Shrub’s speed, but hear me out when I make the case for the Cheeto as the apt metaphor for this administration. You start with that most native of cereals, corn…and then you process it, puff it full of air and god knows what else, extrude it through what must be some sort of Frankenstein monster of a machine, and top it off with a West Texas sized dusting of powdered cheese food product. Calories don’t get any emptier than that. As this administration stumbles to an end that’s so James Buchananesque in the mess that … Continue reading The Legacy Thing

Political Crack11 Comments

This Is No Longer A Place For You To Slack

Obama’s not amused: I think Obama is using this series of pressers in a number of ways. First, he’s assuming power, respectfully but definitively, and it’s being ceded to him by our frat-boy loser who patently cannotwait to go cut mesquite an hour north of where I live and be allowed to openly drink himself into oblivion. (Deeper oblivion, I should say.) To quote Vice President Elect Biden from today’s speech, “These are extraordinary times, and that’s not hyperbole”. We are in death-rattle need of leadership, and watching it pull on hip boots is giving everybody except the End-Timers a … Continue reading This Is No Longer A Place For You To Slack

Of Interest20 Comments

Bail Me Out

The more I think about it, all I really ever write about, in different contexts, is how we choose as a country what we give a shit about. How one politician is brave and manly and another is a puss, how one country is allowed to go to hell and another is The Central Front In The War, how on the one hand there’s no money for anything and on the otherwe’re shoveling it out of the back of a plane and nobody’s asking at all where it goes. And it’s not so much that I’m arguing one choices versus … Continue reading Bail Me Out

So Called Liberal Media6 Comments

And I Kill Journalism AGAIN!

Go me! And look, I’m arguing simply that most of the autowittering on about blogs and their supposed reams of inaccuracies and unchecked facts and anonymous sources and OMG THE HORROR TAKE THEIR PENS AWAY is based mostly on defensiveness and projection. No matter where or how your work is published it is done by a person and thus will be full of mistakes and confusion in a sitch like this, I don’t care if you work for the Daily Telegraph or are Twittering from your kitchen. Mistakes should be corrected and we should all think very hard about how … Continue reading And I Kill Journalism AGAIN!

Doc7 Comments

Smells Like Dude Spirit

Peter Adrastos Athas

(Yeah, we’re pretty much all like this…) I’ve had a book proposal out in the field for a textbook for about a year now. The other day, I poked my editor to ask if the reviews were back, hoping to God that they weren’t. There’s nothing like the ability to live under the delusion that what you’re doing might actually have merit. (Some of us have been working hard at that game much longer than others…) She sent along about a dozen reviews. If you’ve never seen the back end of a review process, it’s a lot like a frat … Continue reading Smells Like Dude Spirit

Immoral Values13 Comments

Cal Thomas: Still A Religious Bigot, In Case You Were Concerned

I think out of all the clowns at ClownHall, out of all the halfwit fascisti populating the political landscape today, the one I really dislike the most is Thomas. Back in 2004 he was opining that it wasstrange that Howard Dean would be married to a Jewish girl and still all … running for president and shit, and now Thomas isimposing birth quotas and counting the number of bricks devoted to mosque-building in the U.S.: The killers — these and others over many years — use Islam as the foundation for their indoctrination, coupling it with the belief that Western … Continue reading Cal Thomas: Still A Religious Bigot, In Case You Were Concerned

Diary12 Comments

This Is Actually Not The Worst Idea Ever

The Crack Den has been all about the urban/suburban planning lately, and I could write long screeds bitching about parking in my neighborhood, and it’s not so much that there isn’t enough of it (sometimes you have to walk A WHOLE BLOCK which is inconvenient when hauling something heavy but otherwise mainly serves to annoy the out-of-town friends who can’t understand how anyone can LIVE LIKE THIS) but that the permit systems, snow routes and ticket periods and street-cleaning days are so confusing as a result of having been amended every time somebody writes city hall a letter that I … Continue reading This Is Actually Not The Worst Idea Ever

Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

Republicans Used To Think Filibusters Were Horrible

But now thatSaxby is back in the Senate (ugh, Georgia, I love you, but comethe fuck on, it’s not just that he’s a fascist, it’s that he’s a moron) look for them to suddenly forget all aboutJustice Sunday: Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said yesterday that Republicans have enough votes to invoke the “nuclear option” to limit Democrats’ ability to stall by filibuster consideration of President Bush’s nominees for federal appeals courts. “I never announce my whip count. But I’m telling you, there’s no doubt in my mind — and I’m a pretty good counter of votes — that we … Continue reading Republicans Used To Think Filibusters Were Horrible

Immoral Values7 Comments

We Must Have The Important Stuff Covered

I’m so glad we’ve got all those starving people fed. Especially the kids. The kids were the worst. Children, through no fault of their own, without enough to eat. It was shameful, in the richest country in the world, to see them going hungry. I’m so glad nobody’s homeless anymore. Everybody has a roof over his or her head this Christmas, isn’t that fantastic? We managed to build all that affordable housing and settle everybody into a place of his or her own. What a job that was, but we did it! Cured that AIDS, too. Cured AIDSand cancer, same … Continue reading We Must Have The Important Stuff Covered