Month: March 2010
Quitting Time Booster Shot
Welcome back to the Booster, now complete with Retsyn! – Here’s one of those things that drives me crazy: People who either lie or exaggerate in an attempt to make me feel better when they are actually having the opposite effect. Case in point: I’ve got The Classic out of storage for the summer. (Yeah, yeah, it’s only 48 degrees and rainy, but I wasn’t waiting any longer…) The first project I wanted to have someone else do was the radio. I’ve wired dozens of radios into various cars, but I figured with an older car and some other power … Continue reading Quitting Time Booster Shot
Malaka Of The Week: John Roberts
It was a malakatudinous week, which made this a difficult choice. I decided to pass on the easiest targets although Massa Malaka has a certain ring to it but he’s just a common garden variety malaka. That lying sack of shit Bart Stupak was also a contender but I decided to make him a bum, which is what he is. Instead, I’ve picked the petulant Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Why? We have oodles of opportunities to mock the Supremes for their cases but very few chances to mock their public statements. Supremes should be seen and not … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: John Roberts
Friday Ferretblogging: Fwuffy
Preserving in memory Bucky’s stunning winter coat, since as it’s finally started to warm up here he’s due to start shedding it all over pretty soon. Ferrets’ coats change color when they change seasons and when they age; it’s why Stripe was named Stripe even though he had no stripes. He’d had one once. Riot was much darker as a baby than he is now, now he’s almost as pale as Puck. It’s going to be interesting to see what Bucky turns into. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Fwuffy
Rights and Responsibilities
When I was a Boy Scout, I remember getting my Totin’ Chip card, which gave me the right to use a knife and an axe as part of scouting life. In one part of the card, it explained the rights you garnered, but on the other half, it talked about the responsibilities you were required to live up to. I thought about that today as I read through the discussion on this topic, primarily because I wonder how much we tend to think about our rights, but maybe not our responsibilities. As an ardent defender of free speech, I’m having … Continue reading Rights and Responsibilities
Friday Catblogging: Foot Stool Edition
Dr. A and I make the odd joke about turning Oscar into a foot stool upon his demise. He’s a big cat so it could work. Of course, we’re not serious about it but Della Street seems to be taking us literally. So much for Oscar’s brief reign as top cat: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Foot Stool Edition
If You Weren’t Real I Would Make You Up
I Cannot Wait for Bourdain & Ruhlman to Get Hold of This Guy
MORAN. Speaking of Ruhlman, I’ve hadthis bookmarked for a while: Book sales generally are stagnant but cookbooks keep selling. People want to cook but they’re told at every click of the television remote, in every cookbook, in all the magazines, this is HARD people, so here are the shortcuts! Next cookbook I’m going to write? It’s going to be called, Recipes That Take a Really Long Time and Are Too Hard For People To Do. (The only problem would be coming up with enough recipes where that was actually true.) I don’t cook every day. Last night, we wanted wanted … Continue reading I Cannot Wait for Bourdain & Ruhlman to Get Hold of This Guy
Happy Sebelius Photo: CHOOSE TO KISS MY ASS Edition
Hey baby, hey baby, you so fine baby: “You have a choice,” she said. “You can choose to continue your opposition to reform.” Or, she said, there’s the other option. “You can choose to take the millions of dollars you have stored away for your next round of ads to kill meaningful reform, and use them to start giving Americans some relief from their skyrocketing premiums,” Sebelius said. “Instead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the President’s proposal you don’t like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.” Via Sebelius’sstalker one-man fan club, joejoejoe. A. Continue reading Happy Sebelius Photo: CHOOSE TO KISS MY ASS Edition
A Frakking Video Game? Frakkin’ A
I’m not big on video games. But I am aBattlestar Galatica fan so I thought I’d pass on the news that aBSG video game is in the works for those who care about that sort of thing. Continue reading A Frakking Video Game? Frakkin’ A
When Birtherism Isn’t Quite Crazy Enough
FromAlbum3 Non-hybrid seeds. The stuff thatdreams are made of…if you’re absolutely bug fuck insane. Continue reading When Birtherism Isn’t Quite Crazy Enough
Bad Hair Day
I almost never turn a comment into a new post but sometimes I cannot help myself. BlameCharlie Frakkin Crist. It took FD reader dr2Chase and a British tabloid to introduce me tothe story of the Florida muff driver. I am not making this up, y’all. Hand to God. Talk about someone who should have gotten waxed… Continue reading Bad Hair Day
What they’re afraid of
In keeping with A’spost earlier. viaJoe.My.God Continue reading What they’re afraid of
Rubio Waxes, Crist Wanes
p>As a resident of the Gret Stet of Louisiana, I am grateful whenever another state’s political scene is goofier than ours. Florida is one of the states that has a way of equaling our silliness; especially since the advent of Charlie Crist. Until recently, Florida Governor Charlie Crist was wildly popular. This popularity, however, had more to do with his tan and a pleasant personality than with any accomplishments. Crist is an empty suit but a telegenic one. Initially, his run for the Senate looked sure fire but that was before the emergence of the tea baggers. Crist made the … Continue reading Rubio Waxes, Crist Wanes
“You have a little crush on her”
First, never forget that Liz Cheney (or Bill Kristol) hired this guy. “I was excited about Palin; I’m more excited about Liz,” he says. “The same sort of excitement you get when you hear her father, except she’s this petite blonde with five kids … There’s just something about her. You see that response across the activist portion of the party. It’s the response you saw to Palin … She gets people worked up. She connects to people. She is in harmony with where the base seems to be. She’s right on the issues.” But, of course, what politicalconsultant hack … Continue reading “You have a little crush on her”
Iron Jawed Angels
Brave women: Onziema and her partner met playing rugby at a local Kampala club a couple of years ago. Onziema knew “within five seconds” that she had met the one, she says. It took her partner a bit longer. Onziema has known her whole life that she’s gay, but her partner is not out publicly, and the process of coming to terms with who she is took a little longer. After they’d been friends for a few months, Onziema made her move. “There was a kiss,” she grins. “She wasn’t expecting it.” Since then, the couple have been through a … Continue reading Iron Jawed Angels
This explains a lot actually
This has gotten quite a bit of play but it’s deserved. One of the better bits of punditry from the Massa trainwreck, triggered by Massa’s disclosure that he employed the present participle of “frak”whilst drunkenly tousling the hair of his male staffer, fromAna Marie Cox: —– Continue reading This explains a lot actually
Your Old Road is Rapidly Aging
So get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand: In comments to the ombudsman’s call-in line (202.334.7582), one reader said, “the picture of two guys kissing makes me cringe.” Another called it “ridiculous,” adding: “Put it on page 10 or page four, put it in the paper, but I do not like it right there where I can’t avoid looking at it.” Many threatened to cancel their Post subscriptions, and more than two dozen did. Post circulation vice president Gregg Fernandes said that late last week 27 subscribers canceled, specifically citing the photo. In contrast, The … Continue reading Your Old Road is Rapidly Aging
I’m Depending on You Now
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar
No, this post isn’t about my cat or even fictional super slob Oscar Madison. It’s my annual post-Academy Awards piece, which I decided to share with y’all. It’s rambling, discursive and random. Hmm, that sounds like *all* my posts. Oh well, time for some random thoughts about the Oscar telecast: This year’s broadcast was pretty good: Martin and Baldwin were very funny and had some good zingers. It was interesting to watch Martin play his *original* 1970’s comic character for the show. It worked pretty well too. Okay now for the promised random thoughts about en event that I enjoy … Continue reading Oscar, Oscar, Oscar
Abortion Cooties
Another idiot “news analysis” from the AP: Current law — known as theHyde amendment — prohibits federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. The first drafts of the Democratichealth care bills, written by abortion rights supporters in Congress, would have allowed health insurance plans receiving federal subsidies to cover abortion as a legalmedical procedure. They couldn’t get the votes to advance, so eventually Democratic abortion foes took over writing the language. But any trust abortion opponents might have had in the administration was gone. What trust was there, exactly? … Continue reading Abortion Cooties
Happy Hillary Photo
On International Women’s Day. A. Continue reading Happy Hillary Photo
You Have To Contend With What You Choose To Contend With
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH: Drew Westen: To his credit, the president pushed through a stimulus bill that prevented us from falling off the cliff. But he refused, as FDR had done, to brand the crisis that had occurred as the direct result of Republican ideology and governance. He refused to explain to the American people why deficit spending in times of a crashing downward spiral is a virtue and not a vice. And he refused to call out — let alone even answer — Republican politicians attacking him from his first days of office for deficit spending, although they had just created as … Continue reading You Have To Contend With What You Choose To Contend With
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Chock Full ‘O Nuts Edition
Good Monday morning, everyone! Well, the rich get richer, and the crazies get crazier. It’s as if the Freepers smell electoral victory in the all, but every time they snap their muzzles at it they come up with nothing but air, and it’s making them crazier than usual. Let’s spin that airlock door and go in with instruments designed to measure the crazy-to-oxygen ratio, shall we?Sorry about the heavy typeface, but Typepad just screwed my entire post and I don’t have time to fix the whole thing. First up –When GLEN BECK thinks you’re crazy… blockquote> Did Beck jump the … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Chock Full ‘O Nuts Edition
Deep Yaz Thought
Why is abirth control pill named for a Red Sox Hall of Famer? Continue reading Deep Yaz Thought
Love Wins
Thy neighbor, apparently, can suck it: According to teachers at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, a meeting was held Tuesday to discuss the issue. The staff was told a student would not be allowed to re-enroll because of his or her parents’ sexual orientation. The staff members were also told not to talk to the media. In a statement sent to 9NEWS, the Archdiocese said, “Homosexual couples living together as a couple are in disaccord with Catholic teaching.” According to the Archdiocese, parents who enroll their kids at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School are expected to follow the … Continue reading Love Wins
Weekend Question Thread
If you felt you were truly successful, what would you have accomplished? A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Saturday Blogwhoring Thread
p>Post away. A. Continue reading Saturday Blogwhoring Thread
It Matters Whose Child: Caprica Thread
SERIOUS clothes envy. And legs envy. And don’t get me started on the bone structure, Jesus god.
It’s the reason I loved writing aboutLt. Thrace
so much, and eventually fell in love with her without ever identifying
with her: That was her story. She painted the sky. She wrote the
Starbuck story, starring Starbuck. She came back from Heaven unbroken,
and brought us all home. And she did that by being braver than we can
imagine, in ways we barely knew about sometimes, and in ways that
usually looked more crazy than not, because she knew the Underworld and
learned to speak the language of birds. Shit happened to her that
wasn’t her fault, and I’m not saying otherwise. Shit happens to
everybody. Unbelievably awful shit happens to us on the reg. But once
it happens, it’syours. Different rules for before and after, because you’re not the one to blame.
Malaka Of The Week: Jim Bunning
Senator Jim Bunning’s one man crusade to deny unemployment benefits and medicare paymentsended yesterday.He’s the clear cut choice for malaka of the week but Bunning is a special kind of malaka. Some malakas are made and may even grow out of it but Jim Bunning is a natural born, lifelong bona fide malaka. Just call it cradle to grave malakatude… I’m just old enough to remember the rag end of Jim Bunning’s baseball career. I never saw him at his best but the announcers of the day were fond of talking about what amazing stuff and control he had just … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Jim Bunning