Month: December 2012

Tommy T1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Silent Night edition

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No post this week, good people. As I said previously. Freeperville isn’t a lot of yucks just lately – it’s hard to parody someone when they beat you to it themselves. When the paranoia over the U.N. coming to get the sidearms that the Freeperati plan to use against M1A1 Abrams tanks and Hellfire-laden drones subsides a bit and they get back to agonizng over their political irrevelancy, I’ll be back to sop up those sweet sweet tears. Until then, may the season lift up your hearts, and fill your souls with happiness and appreciation for that mundane thing we … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Silent Night edition

Athenae, Diary, Faith, Religion, Science3 Comments

Come Inside

I watch this every year, because I’ve always loved this story: This time of year, I’ve written before, is about grace from unlikely beginnings and light in dark times. The older I get, the less interested I am in the war on Christmas, the war over Christmas, the endless back and forth. It’s exhausting, and it isn’t the point. I’ve never understood why science is a threat to belief, why the earth has to be a certain age, why it matters that Jesus was born in summer, how long it really took the wise men to reach him. I’ve never … Continue reading Come Inside

Tommy T1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Silent Night edition

No post this week, good people. As I said previously. Freeperville isn’t a lot of yucks just lately – it’s hard to parody someone when they beat you to it themselves. When the paranoia over the U.N. coming to get the sidearms that the Freeperati plan to use against M1A1 Abrams tanks and Hellfire-laden drones subsides a bit and they get back to agonizng over their political irrevelancy, I’ll be back to sop up those sweet sweet tears. Until then, may the season lift up your hearts, and fill your souls with happiness and appreciation for that mundane thing we … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Silent Night edition

Adrastos, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks9 Comments

The stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

Peter Adrastos Athas

How’s that for a dramatic statement since we live in the land of stupid. As the Veep would say, I mean that literally, not figuratively.It comes via Jillian Rayfield at Salon: Incoming state Rep. Kyle Kacal, R-Texas, will not support any gun control measures in Texas because people need their guns “to be safe,” and, besides, “ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns.” “People know what they need to do to be safe. We don’t need to legislate that — it’s common sense,” Kacal said, according to the Eagle. “Once everyone’s gun is locked up, then the bad guys know everyone’s … Continue reading The stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

Athenae, Diary, Food and Drink19 Comments

Weekend Question Thread: Eating Well Cheaply

John wants to know about recipes/strategies for cooking well with little money. When I was broke-broke, I lived out of my friend’s coffee shop’s day old bagel bin. I’d get a dozen of those for two bucks, buy some cheap cheese and make a heartier version of grilled cheese by melting it over top of those in the oven. A head of iceberg lettuce lasted forever if you trimmed the brown parts off and potatoes were the best cheap food I knew thanks to my grandmother’s stories about the Depression. Eggs, too. Cheap protein. A baked potato, even without butter … Continue reading Weekend Question Thread: Eating Well Cheaply

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Reading, ‘Riting and Rifles

When I was about 7 or 8 years old, a good friend of the family had her home robbed in the middle of the night. While she and her husband lay in bed, feigning sleep, two or more men rifled through their closets, drawers and jewelry. Unbeknownst to these thieves, they had entered a home with multiple guns. The husband was an avid hunter and fisherman and had several rifles throughout the home and a shotgun placed right under the bed. The only problem? For some reason, the gun was on the wrong side of the bed, resting under her … Continue reading Reading, ‘Riting and Rifles

Athenae, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

Pantsed

Allison Hantschel

LOL BOEHNER: Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), one of the conservative lawmakers “purged” from a committee seat by House leadership earlier this month, issued a release gloating over the fact that Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” to avert the so-called fiscal cliff failed on Thursday night due to lack of support. “On a separate note, Republican leadership thought they could silence conservatives when they kicked us off our Committees,” Huelskamp said. “I’m glad that enough of my colleagues refused to back down from the threats and intimidation, thus preventing the Conference from abandoning our principles.” I ask you, is there anything … Continue reading Pantsed

Adrastos, Congress, Economy, Malakatude, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks7 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: John Boehner

Peter Adrastos Athas

I don’t have to recite chapter and verse on this one, you know why he’s won the malakatude crown of thorns. Speakers-even strong ones-all eventually lose control of their caucus. Boner, however, *never* had control over his, and it turns out he has no influence with them either. He also doesn’t know how to count votes. I have never in a lifetime of following politics seen an important vote, announced, scheduled, and withdrawn in a 24 hour period. Never. It’s hard to see how John of Orange can survive this public humiliation at the hand of the teawads in the … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: John Boehner

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Fuck The NRA

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Okay, I spent an hour composing a nice thoughtful post with a much more polite title and fucking TypePad ate it and it’s nowhere to be found, so that’s an hour of my day gone and I’m now inclined to be crabby and brief. Here goes: 1 – TypePad sucks. 2- Fuck the NRA. Let’s just stop pretending they’re anything other than a political lobbying arm of the Republican Party operating on behalf of gun manufacturers. Whatever they started out as, they are no longer that. They do not represent gun owners or sportsmen. They are not a grassroots organization.Their … Continue reading Fuck The NRA

Adrastos, Congress, Economy, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks7 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: John Boehner

I don’t have to recite chapter and verse on this one, you know why he’s won the malakatude crown of thorns. Speakers-even strong ones-all eventually lose control of their caucus. Boner, however, *never* had control over his, and it turns out he has no influence with them either. He also doesn’t know how to count votes. I have never in a lifetime of following politics seen an important vote, announced, scheduled, and withdrawn in a 24 hour period. Never. It’s hard to see how John of Orange can survive thispublic humiliation at the hand of the teawads in the GOP … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: John Boehner

Athenae, Immoral Values, Stupid Republican Tricks, Urban Hellhole9 Comments

Without A Sidearm

Allison Hantschel

What the fuck do they think goes on in black neighborhoods? The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan’s former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused “from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times.” Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. “without a side arm.” I hear this miserable fraidy-cat shit all the time and … Continue reading Without A Sidearm

Athenae, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

Pantsed

LOL BOEHNER: Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), one of the conservative lawmakers “purged” from a committee seat by House leadership earlier this month, issued a release gloating over the fact that Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” to avert the so-called fiscal cliff failed on Thursday night due to lack of support. “On a separate note, Republican leadership thought they could silence conservatives when they kicked us off our Committees,” Huelskampsaid. “I’m glad that enough of my colleagues refused to back down from the threats and intimidation, thus preventing the Conference from abandoning our principles.” I ask you, is there anything more … Continue reading Pantsed

Adrastos, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks9 Comments

The stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

How’s that for a dramatic statement since we live in the land of stupid. As the Veep would say, I mean that literally, not figuratively.It comes via Jillian Rayfield at Salon: Incoming state Rep. Kyle Kacal, R-Texas, will not support any gun control measures in Texas because people need their guns “to be safe,” and, besides, “ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns.” “People know what they need to do to be safe. We don’t need to legislate that — it’s common sense,” Kacal said, according tothe Eagle. “Once everyone’s gun is locked up, then the bad guys know everyone’s gun … Continue reading The stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

Athenae, Immoral Values, Stupid Republican Tricks, Urban Hellhole9 Comments

Without A Sidearm

What the fuck do they think goes on in black neighborhoods? The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan’s former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused “from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times.” Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. “without a side arm.” I hear this miserable fraidy-cat shit all the time and … Continue reading Without A Sidearm

Adrastos, Diary, Law/Justice, Political Crack5 Comments

Borked

Peter Adrastos Athas

I don’t usually speak ill of the dead but there are exceptions to every rule and Robert Bork ticks off many of the boxes on my speak ill of the dead checklist.He died today at the age of 85. The first time I ever heard of the wingnutty legal scholar was when he did Tricky Dick’s dirty work and fired Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. That was the originalist’s original sin in my book. I was in law school when Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court. Our faculty was largely liberal but there were some pretty good debates in … Continue reading Borked