Weekend Question Thread
When was the last time you laughed out loud, and what was it about? A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Month: March 2013
What would Skink think?
Clinton Tyree aka Skink is one of Carl Hiassen’s most vivid and weirdest characters. He’s a one time Florida Governor turned environmental activist/hobo/nomad whose diet largely consists of roadkill.A new law in Montanamade me think of Skink: Elk, deer, antelope and moose: If Montana residents can scrape it up, they can eat it. State lawmakers are poised to say just that after the Senate gave its initial backing Wednesday to a bill that would allow people to salvage roadkill for food. The measure is now a final vote from heading to Gov. Steve Bullock. It makes no sense to let … Continue reading What would Skink think?
Friday Ferretblogging: Furry Beatdown Edition
Riot and Bucky wrestle on the bed, I break it up, they go right back to it. BOYS. http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Furry Beatdown Edition
Friday Guest Catblogging: Social Climber
Here’s Dennie the Den of Muses cat looking down on all of us: Continue reading Friday Guest Catblogging: Social Climber
Deep Priebus Report Thought
Reince and the GOP seem to want to make nice with the 47% without really changing their policies. It reminds me of the *last* few Republican “reforms.” Remember kinder and gentler or compassionate conservatism? Is this leading to a Bush revival in the person of the allegedly “smart one” or is it just another Back To The Future sequel? Stay tuned, y’all. Continue reading Deep Priebus Report Thought
What would Skink think?
Clinton Tyree aka Skink is one of Carl Hiassen’s most vivid and weirdest characters. He’s a one time Florida Governor turned environmental activist/hobo/nomad whose diet largely consists of roadkill.A new law in Montanamade me think of Skink: Elk, deer, antelope and moose: If Montana residents can scrape it up, they can eat it. State lawmakers are poised to say just that after the Senate gave its initial backing Wednesday to a bill that would allow people to salvage roadkill for food. The measure is now a final vote from heading to Gov. Steve Bullock. It makes no sense to let … Continue reading What would Skink think?
Pulp Fiction Thursday: Freaks
I first sawTod Browning’s Freaks when I was a mere lad in a rather odd movie theatre. It was a converted apartment building on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. We literally sat in someone’s former living room and watched the film on a small screen. I was still mesmerized. Freaks was condemned in its time as exploitative since the sideshow was on its way out as a form of semi-mainstream entertainment. But the monsters are the “normal” people who mock and manipulate the freaks until the latter rise against them. It is also a period piece. You do not see these folks around … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Freaks
Portrait of the Artist as a Dumbass
FromAlbum4 So, just in time to mark the passage of ten years since the the triumph of the neo-con nitwits in Iraq, we have six new musings on canvas by El Shrubo. OK, I lied — there are only five paintings. One’s a photo. But they’re all his work. Continue reading Portrait of the Artist as a Dumbass
Job Creation! Walker Style
He’s doing it so well: Gov. Scott Walker’s decision not to accept federal funding to expand the state’s health-care system could contribute to some state employers being collectively penalized by paying millions more in taxes, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, released by Jackson Hewitt Inc., looked into tax provisions state employers could be required to pay under the Affordable Care Act. The “shared responsibility” provision of the ACA would require employers to pay a tax penalty if employees seek aid from tax credits that help low-income individuals pay for their health-care coverage. And yet I’m sure this … Continue reading Job Creation! Walker Style
Wednesday Evening Music: Everybody Takes A Tumble
I’ve been on a bit of a Waterboys bender this week so I thought I’d share this swell song from their relatively recentBook of Lightning album: Continue reading Wednesday Evening Music: Everybody Takes A Tumble
Working Girls
A bunch of links that will make sense when you get to the end of them: My fabulous friend Jennifer’s fabulous new book, Sexy Feminism, is out, and you should buy it and give it to all the young men and women in your life (and get an extra copy for yourself). My favorite part of that book is a chapter about “The Working-Woman Problem,” about the way our culture encourages women to view one another as competition for jobs and favors in the office. I thought of that chapter when looking at this (click to embiggen): Because we need … Continue reading Working Girls
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Rat On- Swamp Dogg
It’s time for a new pop culture feature here at First Draft: Album Cover Art Wednesday. I’m not one of those people who is a vinyl nostalgist or revivalist. I’m a CD man. In fact, I have boxes full of LPs in my closet that I haven’t listened to in many years but I still cannot bear to part with. I may not be a nostalgist but I am a pack rat. Don’t get Dr A started on that subject… The one thing I do miss is album art in the LP format. I love the hiss and pop free … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Rat On- Swamp Dogg
Portmania
We live in such interesting times that a hitherto boring pol made a big splash today: Ohio Senator Rob Portman. Portman is so boring that the reason he was considered as Willard Mittbot Romney’s running mate is that he was so dull that he wouldn’t overshadow Willard. Today, of course, Portman came our for marriage equality for highly personal reasons: his college age son is gay and came out to his parents a few years back. This reason has been controversial among some of my brothers and sisters on the left. Matt Yglesias and Irin Carmon made some very good … Continue reading Portmania
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Rat On- Swamp Dogg
It’s time for a new pop culture feature here at First Draft: Album Cover Art Wednesday. I’m not one of those people who is a vinyl nostalgist or revivalist. I’m a CD man. In fact, I have boxes full of LPs in my closet that I haven’t listened to in many years but I still cannot bear to part with. I may not be a nostalgist but I am a pack rat. Don’t get Dr A started on that subject… The one thing I do miss is album art in the LP format. I love the hiss and pop free … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Rat On- Swamp Dogg
Deep Priebus Report Thought
Reince and the GOP seem to want to make nice with the 47% without really changing their policies. It reminds me of the *last* few Republican “reforms.” Remember kinder and gentler or compassionate conservatism? Is this leading to a Bush revival in the person of the allegedly “smart one” or is it just anotherBack To The Future sequel? Stay tuned, y’all. Continue reading Deep Priebus Report Thought
Today on Earljam’s Obsession with the Freeperati – No True Conservative edition
Good morning, you commies, and G*d Bless America!
Well, now that I’ve been outed by the Palin-worshippers, there’s no damn reason for me to pretend any longer.
My name’s Earljam, and your homosexualist-worshipping asses are mine.
Let’s look at some Earl pearls of True Conservative wisdom, ya wanna?
First – when yer boat gets full, it just needs a little Palin’ out!
Sarah Palin and the End of an Era: Split from FNC highlights fade of Tea Party as well as her own
The National Journal ^
| January 27, 2013
| Jill Lawrence
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 1:43:03 AM by 2ndDivisionVet
The news that Sarah Palin will no longer be a paid contributor to Fox
News puts an exclamation point on the end of an era, or at least a
chapter, in U.S. political history. She could land somewhere else, and
she still has her Facebook friends, but it’s hard to imagine she’ll find
a more visible or influential platform than Fox.The former
Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee has been fading from
the scene for some time, as she inadvertently highlighted when she
complained on Facebook during the Republican convention in August that
the network had canceled her scheduled interviews that night. Her
brother, Chuck Heath Jr., told Alan Colmes last week on Fox Radio that
his sister is “kind of laying low right now,” though he wouldn’t or
couldn’t say when asked why.Once the face of an energetic and
politically potent Tea Party movement, Palin is leaving Fox at a time
when polls show the Tea Party at an all-time low in both membership and
favorability. Her departure also coincides with calls by some leading
Republicans for their party to stop saying things that erode the GOP
brand and turn off voters in droves.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
said bluntly this week at a Republican National Committee meeting in
Charlotte that the GOP needs to stop being “the stupid party,” and
former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he agreed. The two were
talking in particular about losing Senate candidates Todd Akin of
Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom made inflammatory
(and in Akin’s case, flagrantly ignorant) comments about rape.But
Palin, with her flamboyant rhetoric, has stoked her own
disproportionate share of controversies. This is the woman who, after
all, coined the term “death panels” to describe discussions between
patients and physicians…********************
How many times are they going to write her obituary?
As many times as it takes, quim-chaser.
My man McCain should have arranged an interview for her with the bottom of Lake Superior.
To: freekittySarah Palin should have her own TV channel.
She does, ya pussified shoe-sniffer – it’s called the Home Shopping Network.
To: Berlin_FreeperShe already has a spiffy studio in her home in Wasilla.
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posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 2:00:26 AM
by 2ndDivisionVet
(I’ll raise $2million for Sarah Palin’s presidential run. What’ll you do?)
If by “Spiffy” you mean she hasn’t started shitting in the corners yet, yeah. Let her fester there until she explodes.
To: Cowboy BobThis might explain the author…
Ummm. Meet jill.13
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 2:50:33 AM
by MestaMachine
(Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
Bullshit. If you put some fuck-me pumps and librarian glasses on her, and squash her nose flat, you’d do her in a minute. Now get back on your knees in front of old Balin’ Palin and do what you were hired to do.
To: 2ndDivisionVetShhhhhhhhhhhhh …She’s re-loadin’
That’s because she can’t hit shit. That stupid piece of meat thinks she’s Annie Oakley, but she’s really William S. Burroughs.
To: 2ndDivisionVetThis was arranged by the GOPe comprising Rove, Romney, Powell
and the other Soros-Obama plants.
Hey –screw you! My man Karl Rove handed the Presidency over to us not once, but twice! The only thing that dim-witted skirt ever handled was when she was handled her ass by Katie Couric.
Katie Kouric, fer Chr*st’s sake!! It’s like getting checkmated in three by a six-year-old.
.
Aren’t there any real men out there willing to take that braying simpleton slut down a notch?
To: 2ndDivisionVetWell, the ugly truth is that Palin lost a tremendous amount of
political momentum and much of her grassroots infrastructure (best seen
in such sites as Organize4Palin and Conservatives4Palin) when she told
Mark Levin that she was not running for President. Those groups and
others are still around, but much of their energy and membership has
simply dissipated over the past year.Moreover, PalinTV (which was a
strong effort to bypass the MSM and to get Palin’s unedited words
directly out to the public) no longer has its own web presence but is
now just a Youtube channel.
That’s because she’s as astute as a guy setting himself on fire and as informative as a talking bird.
Her next stop is pay-per-view slots on YouPorn.
I’m not sure that she will ever be able to
recover what she has lost by her decision, unless she runs for and wins
Begich’s seat in 2014, which would revitalize her political standing and
give her a springboard for 2016.
Yeah – watch the stupid trollop do a one-and-a-half gainer into an empty pool.
As far as the TEA party movement
goes, it is in fact in some disarray now, mostly at the hands of the
corrupt, crooked, GOP-E, which fought it harder than the Rats. Since
Palin chose not to run, it did not have any real leaders to coalesce
around, and was successfully infiltrated by GOP-E hacks and operatives,
who then tried to direct its energy to Team Romney. I remember some of
FR’s resident chest beaters claiming two years ago that the TEA party
was self-sustaining and did not need any leaders. Well, that has proven
to be wrong-headed, and so here we are, stuck with Obama for four more
years (or more), and a fetid, feckless GOP-E now doing his bidding in
Congress.
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posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 6:42:23 AM
by Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
And if that snow-bunny shithead hadn’t derailed Senator McCain’s McCain Train, we’d now have the Presidency, both houses, and the other four-ninths of the Supreme Court, or my name’s not Earljam.
But no – you had to mistake tits for brains, shit-for-brains. Lie down and let the empty-headed bitch walk all over you, why dontcha?
To: MestaMachineNo, I don’t think that it’s dead, but dwindling. How many people on
FR have been complaining lately about how their local TEA party groups
have pretty much fallen apart despite their best efforts (including
mine)? Where are the rallies with the Gadsden flags? Why was Romney the
Republican nominee, and why is Obama still the president.Going into denial is a surefire strategy for continued defeat.
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posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 8:38:40 AM
by Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
Screw you, buddy. While you were parading around in front of TV cameras with tea bags dangling from your hats like some kind of faggot dancing on a Mardi Gras float, the commies were registering people to vote.
But you?
You were too busy fapping off to pics of the stupid strumpet to do anything useful.
More after the – HEY!What the hell???? Let go of me!
Continue reading “Today on Earljam’s Obsession with the Freeperati – No True Conservative edition”
Job Creation! Walker Style
He’s doing it so well: Gov. Scott Walker’s decision not to accept federal funding to expand the state’s health-care system could contribute to some state employers being collectively penalized by paying millions more in taxes, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, released by Jackson Hewitt Inc., looked into tax provisions state employers could be required to pay under the Affordable Care Act. The “shared responsibility” provision of the ACA would require employers to pay a tax penalty if employees seek aid from tax credits that help low-income individuals pay for their health-care coverage. And yet I’m sure this … Continue reading Job Creation! Walker Style
Working Girls
A bunch of links that will make sense when you get to the end of them: My fabulous friend Jennifer’s fabulous new book, Sexy Feminism, is out, and you should buy it and give it to all the young men and women in your life (and get an extra copy for yourself). My favorite part of that book is a chapter about “The Working-Woman Problem,” about the way our culture encourages women to view one another as competition for jobs and favors in the office. I thought of that chapterwhen looking at this (click to embiggen): Becausewe need to address … Continue reading Working Girls
Use The Google, David
I’m feeling like the political history police this week. Today’s entry involves a Salon piece by David Sirotaabout the lack of consequences for Iraq War policy makers and pols. I have bold faced the bit I’d like to to discuss: To appreciate how little political fallout the Iraq War generated, consider how different the reaction was to American history’s most recent antecedent to the Iraq conflict. A generation ago, a similarly misguided war of choice in Vietnam resulted in such a fervent political backlash that a president was forced to opt against running for reelection, a slate of anti-war legislators … Continue reading Use The Google, David
Your Intent Does Not Matter
So fuck this jerk and his “intentions:” Richmond walked over to the victim and personally addressed her. “I would truly like to apologize to [girl’s name], her family, and the community … No pictures should have been sent around, let alone taken,” Mays told the courtroom. Richmond stood up and walked across the courtroom to where the victim was sitting. “I would like to apologize to you [girl’s name]. I had no intention to do anything like that,” he said, before breaking down crying. You had no INTENTION? How did she end up raped then? By accident? You slipped, tripped … Continue reading Your Intent Does Not Matter
Tricky Dick’s Treason
The most interesting political story of the week takes us back some 45 years and involves the most evil man ever elected President, Richard Milhous Nixon: It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. At a July meeting in Nixon’s New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message … Continue reading Tricky Dick’s Treason
Your Intent Does Not Matter
So fuck this jerk and his “intentions:” Richmond walked over to the victim and personally addressed her. “I would truly like to apologize to [girl’s name], her family, and the community … No pictures should have been sent around, let alone taken,” Mays told the courtroom. Richmond stood up and walked across the courtroom to where the victim was sitting. “I would like to apologize to you [girl’s name]. I had no intention to do anything like that,” he said, before breaking down crying. You had no INTENTION? How did she end up raped then? By accident? You slipped, tripped … Continue reading Your Intent Does Not Matter
The Way We Were
I never watch “Morning Joe” but Mr. Beale does and I happened to be in the bedroom long enough this morning to catch a truly horrible “both sides did it,” context-free, Iraq War dodge. It featured clips of prominent Democrats (John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin) calling Saddam Hussein a “brutal, murderous dictator” who needed to be disarmed, followed by clips of those same individuals criticizing Bush’s war later. As if that proved something. As if thatmeant anything. As if saying Saddam was a dangerous asshole also meant you wanted to invade his country and kill his people. As if … Continue reading The Way We Were
Use The Google, David
I’m feeling like the political history police this week. Today’s entry involves aSalon piece by David Sirotaabout the lack of consequences for Iraq War policy makers and pols. I have bold faced the bit I’d like to to discuss: To appreciate how little political fallout the Iraq War generated, consider how different the reaction was to American history’s most recent antecedent to the Iraq conflict. A generation ago, a similarly misguided war of choice in Vietnam resulted in such a fervent political backlash that a president was forced to opt against running for reelection, a slate of anti-war legislators wasswept … Continue reading Use The Google, David
Fuck Yeah, America!
Michigan’s first legal same-sex marriage: Last year, the Odawa tribal council debated a resolution to recognize gay marriage, but the measure failed by one vote. When it was reintroduced, the language was changed to require at least one spouse be a tribal citizen, and that swayed support. On March 2, it passed by a 5-4 vote. All that was needed was the signature of tribal Chairman Dexter McNamara, whose veto would have required a difficult 7-2 council majority to override. McNamara not only signed it, but also asked to perform the wedding ceremony. “I’ve always felt that either you believe … Continue reading Fuck Yeah, America!
Fuck Yeah, America!
Michigan’s first legal same-sex marriage: Last year, the Odawa tribal council debated a resolution to recognize gay marriage, but the measure failed by one vote. When it was reintroduced, the language was changed to require at least one spouse be a tribal citizen, and that swayed support. On March 2, it passed by a 5-4 vote. All that was needed was the signature of tribal Chairman Dexter McNamara, whose veto would have required a difficult 7-2 council majority to override. McNamara not only signed it, but also asked to perform the wedding ceremony. “I’ve always felt that either you believe … Continue reading Fuck Yeah, America!
Tricky Dick’s Treason
The most interesting political story of the week takes us back some 45 years and involves themost evil man ever elected President, Richard Milhous Nixon: It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. At a July meeting in Nixon’s New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message needed … Continue reading Tricky Dick’s Treason
IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD SAID SOMETHING
What you had to say actually DID matter, you self-absorbed bucket of mop water: I was less impressed by Chalabi than were some others in the Bush administration. However, since one of those “others” was Vice President Cheney, it didn’t matter what I thought. In 2002, Chalabi joined the annual summer retreat of the American Enterprise Institute near Vail, Colorado. He and Cheney spent long hours together, contemplating the possibilities of a Western-oriented Iraq: an additional source of oil, an alternative to U.S. dependency on an unstable-looking Saudi Arabia. And yet imagine if you had spoken out, as you are … Continue reading IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD SAID SOMETHING
Malaka Of The Week: Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier
Wilfrid Fox Napier sounds like he should be a Tory MP, a rural Anglican vicar or a nob tormented by Hyacinth Bucket. Instead, he’s the Archbishop of Durban in South African. He’s also a slam dunk choice as an early malaka of the week “winner.” The Cardinal put his slippered foot in his mouth and told the world that “pedophilia is not a criminal condition, it’s an illness.” The most depressing part of this malakatude is that the Cardinal is typical of the Catholic hiearchy’s views on this matter. Cardinal WFN (or do y’all prefer WiFoNap?) has already issued a … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier
Another reason to miss Freddie
I got into a discussion about Freddie Mercury on the parade route the other day with my friends Leigh and Cait. It happened during the Irish Channel St Patrick’s Day parade in between dodging cabbages and drunken Irishmen. Cait is18 weeks preggers so we were drinking for her as well as trying to get the walking groups to give her peck on the cheek to the chant of “kiss the pregnant Irish lady.” It was hilarious at the time. Guess you had to be there… Anyway, I don’t remember much of the Freddie-chat because I had an epic encounter that … Continue reading Another reason to miss Freddie