Month: September 2012

Athenae, Stupid Republican Tricks13 Comments

Not Them

Allison Hantschel

This isn’t likely to hurt Mitt much, really.  I mean, I’d love to be wrong, and see him lose 90-10 instead of 60-40 like he probably will, but come on.  This is what Republicans basically think.  Everybody but them is getting away with something.  Everybody but them is getting some kind of special government help to succeed. Everybody but them has unearned happiness, undeserved prosperity, and suspect advantages.  They don’t see themselves when Mitt talks about people who don’t pay income taxes, even if they don’t pay income taxes because they’re old, or have kids, or don’t make enough money. … Continue reading Not Them

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T10 Comments

Saturday bonus Obsession – Wile E. Bibi edition

Hi all – the marvelous Ms. Athenae gave mepermisso to do a Saturday Special. Whuffo whuffo? This: Bibi Shows the UN a Bomb Rush Limbaugh.com ^| September 27, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:36:35 PM byKaslin RUSH: Benjamin Netanyahu is delivering his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. I just tuned into a bit of it here during the break, and it’s awesome. It’s very, very well done. It’s an exceptional speech, all about Iran’s nuclear weapons and how they differ from the Soviets, for example, in having nuclear weapons and why. BREAK TRANSCRIPT … Continue reading Saturday bonus Obsession – Wile E. Bibi edition

Adrastos, Big Damn Heroes, Diary, Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood, New Orleans2 Comments

Requiem for the Picayune: the Rising Tide 7 Media Panel

Peter Adrastos Athas

The estimable Jason Berry aka Ashe Dambala filmed the Rising Tide conference for the second year in a row. He did double duty as one of my panelists this time around. It was the end of a long day and everyone, myself included, was exhausted. The mood in the room was positively funereal. I looked at the audience and saw a section of former and soon-to-be-former Picayune-ites and decided to play it straight for once. I had a few puns and zingers planned but had to file them away for future use. Tone is everything when you’re performing in public … Continue reading Requiem for the Picayune: the Rising Tide 7 Media Panel

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media5 Comments

Obama Single-Handedly Surrenders America to Radical Islam

Allison Hantschel

Quoth Zombie Andrew Breitbart: Obama left precious little time to address the civil war in Syria or the threat of a nuclear Iran. He gave several pages to assuaging the feelings of radical Muslims angry about a YouTube video; he provided a few sentences to the question of what to do about a nuclear-armed Iran, saying only that “time is not unlimited” for talks. Yes. What he should have done was tell people to make stupid fucking YouTube videos in attention-seeking maneuvers. For free speech. I am just about done equating people waving their e-penises around with First Amendment martyrs. … Continue reading Obama Single-Handedly Surrenders America to Radical Islam

Adrastos, Big Damn Heroes, Diary, Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood2 Comments

Requiem for the Picayune: the Rising Tide 7 Media Panel

The estimable Jason Berry aka Ashe Dambala filmed the Rising Tide conference for the second year in a row. He did double duty as one of my panelists this time around. It was the end of a long day and everyone, myself included, was exhausted. The mood in the room was positively funereal. I looked at the audience and saw a section of former and soon-to-be-former Picayune-ites and decided to play it straight for once. I had a few puns and zingers planned but had to file them away for future use. Tone is everything when you’re performing in public … Continue reading Requiem for the Picayune: the Rising Tide 7 Media Panel

Athenae, Stupid Republican Tricks4 Comments

Booty. Called.

Allison Hantschel

Republicans were never going to dump Akin, not really. Sure, they made a show of abhorring what he said, but in the end, he’s still not a Damnable Liberal, and so the 27 percent of people who’d vote for a syphillitic hamster if it had an R shaved into its fur will turn out, and the bright lights of the party will support him, and all will be as it was. A. Continue reading Booty. Called.

Diary, Doc3 Comments

Love of My Life

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I had this post worked out in my head for weeks. I had it built until about four hours ago when someone decided that “Hey, when we say something is due on X day, that means whenever, right?” The concept was simple: This summer, The Missus, The Midget and I went to the Wisconsin Dells for a summer get away. One of the things we did was the rather campy tourist trap thing known as “The Dells Mining Company.” They sell you a giant bucket of sludge with raw gems in it and then try to get you to up … Continue reading Love of My Life

Diary, Doc3 Comments

Love of My Life

I had this post worked out in my head for weeks. I had it built until about four hours ago when someone decided that “Hey, when we say something is due on X day, that means whenever, right?” The concept was simple: This summer, The Missus, The Midget and I went to the Wisconsin Dells for a summer get away. One of the things we did was the rather campy tourist trap thing known as “The Dells Mining Company.” They sell you a giant bucket of sludge with raw gems in it and then try to get you to up … Continue reading Love of My Life

Athenae, Immoral Values, Kids Today3 Comments

Living in the Crash Position

Allison Hantschel

I wrote this, about Laura Roslin and Galactica: What’s the hardest thing to do after a loss? Trust, again. Hear the phone ring and know it’s not a crisis siren, hear the love in someone’s voice and know he’s not going to die. Fracking getting up in the morning, with all it entails; you’d like to stay mired in your fear and your anger and your very special alone-ness for all of time, but contact is inevitable, leading to information bleed. We have to start over. We have to keep moving. We have to meet each other and change and … Continue reading Living in the Crash Position

Adrastos, Malakatude, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: Scott Brown

Peter Adrastos Athas

Dear MSM: Please stop telling us that Mass. Senator Scott Brown is a mainstream moderate when he’s really a main street malaka. His campaign reminds Joan Walsh of Jesse Helms in 1984. A pretty darn good analogy since that was a despicable campaign run by an odious candidate against an honorable and decent one. It reminds me more of Poppy Bush’s endlessly trivial and loathsome campaign against my hapless countryman, Michael Dukakis. The good news is that Elizabeth Warren is no Dukakis and that it’s 2012, not 1984. Here’s hoping that it’s the last gasp of Helmsville, Thurmondia and Nixonland… … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Scott Brown

Athenae, Immoral Values, Kids Today3 Comments

Living in the Crash Position

I wrote this, about Laura Roslin and Galactica: What’s the hardest thing to do after a loss? Trust, again. Hear the phone ring and know it’s not a crisis siren, hear the love in someone’s voice and know he’s not going to die. Fracking getting up in the morning, with all it entails; you’d like to stay mired in your fear and your anger and your very special alone-ness for all of time, but contact is inevitable, leading to information bleed. We have to start over. We have to keep moving. We have to meet each other and change and … Continue reading Living in the Crash Position

Athenae, Happy Democrat Photo3 Comments

Happy Democrat Photo: Feel the Tammy-mentum!

Allison Hantschel

AP photo via Politico. I know. I feel dirty, too. My favorite Democrat is opening up a can of whoopass on Thompson: Already down almost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has now shown up in a video from a Tea Party meeting in June bragging that who better than him to “do away with the Medicare and Medicaid”. A. Continue reading Happy Democrat Photo: Feel the Tammy-mentum!

Adrastos, Boardwalk Empire Recaps, Television7 Comments

Boardwalk Empire Thread: Coffee and Spaghetti Talk

Peter Adrastos Athas

Nucky Thompson has gone full gangster in Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire. That means that he’s insulating himself from day-to-day bootleg sales. It’s causing him all sorts of problems with the man on the right above, Gyp Rosetti. You know, the guy who called him a “fucking bread stick in a bow tie.” Gyp is now obliged to buy booze via Arnold Rothstein. Gyp is not amused and he’s one scary motherfucker when he’s not amused. Okey doke, on to this week’s random and discursive comments on episode 2, Coffee and Spaghetti: Eli’s Coming (Home) Nucky’s feckless and rather dim … Continue reading Boardwalk Empire Thread: Coffee and Spaghetti Talk

Adrastos, Law/Justice, Political Crack1 Comment

Quote of the day

Peter Adrastos Athas

It comes from former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard who yesterday pled guilty to a shitload of felony corruption charges: “At 23 years old I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old I’m going out as a dragon.” Broussard is best known nationally for having wept on Meet The Press during the post-Katrina clusterfuck/fog of war period. Continue reading Quote of the day

Athenae, Happy Democrat Photo3 Comments

Happy Democrat Photo: Feel the Tammy-mentum!

AP photo via Politico. I know. I feel dirty, too. My favorite Democrat is opening up a can of whoopass on Thompson: Already downalmost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has now shown up in a video from a Tea Party meeting in June bragging that who better than him to “do away with the Medicare and Medicaid”. A. Continue reading Happy Democrat Photo: Feel the Tammy-mentum!