Month: July 2013

Adrastos, Political Crack, So Called Liberal Media6 Comments

Sounds like a drinking joke to me

Peter Adrastos Athas

The internet is aflame with Biden click bait again. This time we’re told that it’s a “dirty joke” but unless there’s more context to it than I’ve seen yet, it’s another “the Irish love to drink” one-liner thrown out by our teetotaler Veep: Even if it’s a mildly “dirty joke,” I’m not sure why the malakas at the Weekly Standard think that stuff like this damages Biden because it doesn’t. People *like* Joey the Shark precisely because he’s so real and occasionally off-the-wall. In the UK, a Tory spin-off anti-establishment party, UKIP, did well in last week’s county elections. There’s … Continue reading Sounds like a drinking joke to me

Doc, Economy, Immoral Values, Stupid Republican Tricks13 Comments

You get six carrots, a bag of celery and a potato because we said so

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For a party that has always said that they didn’t want the government sticking its nose into people’s lives, Republicans in this state have no problem sticking their noses in people’s refrigerators But only if those people are on the government teat. Rep. Dean Kaufert of Neenah has proposed a bill that would create a “tiered buying” system for food. In his bill, which passed out of committee earlier this week, only one-third of the money could be spent on what he deems to be “junk food.” The rest of the money should be spent on good, wholesome food like … Continue reading You get six carrots, a bag of celery and a potato because we said so

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Poor People, Will They Ever Stop Ruining Everything?

Allison Hantschel

This argument worked SO WELL for the Romney campaign!Let’s keep it going: “Today, more people than ever before — 69.5 million Americans, from college students to retirees to welfare beneficiaries — depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or other assistance once considered to be the responsibility of individuals, families, neighborhoods, churches, and other civil society institutions,” Demint wrote in the letter. “The United States must reverse the direction of these trends or face economic and social collapse.” A. Continue reading Poor People, Will They Ever Stop Ruining Everything?

Adrastos, Current Affairs, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks

The Beehive (Mind) State

Peter Adrastos Athas

I have an admission to make. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and lived there until my parents packed up and moved to California when I was 5 years old. Life can be merciful, folks. I still have family there and it’s actually a physically gorgeous place but when it comes to politics, oy vey. Yeah, Louisiana politics are reactionary but our assorted rogues and rascals make it highly entertaining.Here’s the latest example of Beehive state wingnuttery: A state senator voted against a bill Monday that would make cockfighting a felony in Utah because abortion is legal. “In … Continue reading The Beehive (Mind) State

Athenae, Economy, Propaganda, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

Damn Right I’ve Sold Out

Allison Hantschel

For these prices, I’d have said Walmart was not in any way sticky, George W. Bush was the best president we ever had, and ferrets are filthy animals who should be banned from all homes and crack vans. Sure, sure, those are opinions I hold anyway, and the money would just be a nice bonus to support my work. If somebody showed up with a huge check, I’d never question it. A. Continue reading Damn Right I’ve Sold Out

Current Affairs, Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

Hippie Punching

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I know this is childish of me, and probably beneath the standards of this estimable establishment, but in case you haven’t heard, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has died. And while unlike my fellow liberals I was never one to fawn over Chavez, actually knowing some Venezuelans who suffered under his regime, I find the right-wing’s opportunistic hippie-punching a little too much to bear: Seriously? That’s the best you can do? Take a pot shot at Sean Penn and Oliver Stone? Conservatives never cease to amaze me in their pettiness. Continue reading Hippie Punching

Adrastos, Art, Books, Pulp Fiction1 Comment

Pulp Fiction Thursday: All Man- I Served My Time In Hell

Peter Adrastos Athas

It’s potboiler time at PFT again. This week’s entry is a tribute to my friend Kevin who is an avid fan of PFT and trashy pulp artwork in general. He uses this tawdry magazine coveras his avatar at a certain social networking site whose name I will omit to protect the guilty: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: All Man- I Served My Time In Hell

Adrastos, Books, Congress, Film, Political Crack1 Comment

The Real Face Of The Talking Filibuster

Peter Adrastos Athas

Senator Aqua Buddha has spent much of today conducting an old fashioned talking filibuster in the Senate chamber. While I prefer an open display of filiblathering to the cloak room kind more typical of the Lott-McConnell years in the Senate, I have a request: enough with the Mr. Smith Goes To Washington references. I realize that cameras came to the Senate fairly recently so there’s not a lot of footage to show on teevee but the true face of the classic filibuster is this: That’s right, the real-as opposed to reel-face of the filibuster belongs to the arch-segregationist and disgustingly … Continue reading The Real Face Of The Talking Filibuster

Adrastos, Television11 Comments

The Case Of The Missing Limp

Peter Adrastos Athas

I have a love hate relationship with Downton Abbey. Parts of it are really good and parts of it are deeply silly. Like everyone else, I adore Maggie Smith as the feisty, funny, and spunky Dowager but then there’s the dour Mr. Bates who was Lord Pompous Ass’s batman (servant, not caped crusader) when the stiff upper lipped loser was in His Majesty’s Army. In one of the most preposterous but still dull plot lines, Bates has been unjustly convicted of murdering his harridan ex-wife. In writer/producer Julian Fellowes’ fantasy world, the people upstairs deeply care about the dull and … Continue reading The Case Of The Missing Limp

Adrastos, Music, Sports

Deacon Blues

Peter Adrastos Athas

Last year the Alabama Crimson Tide destroyed my LSU Tigers in the BCS championship game. It’s Notre Dame’s turn this year. I tried sending out bad, bad, bad, bad vibrations but it didn’t work. I hate Alabama: the football team, the state, you name it, I hate it; especially the Tide’s humorless, Cosby sweater wearing, LSU quitting coach, Nick Saban. He is, however, a helluva football coach so hating him is futile. In the immortal words of Becker and Fagen, “They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama … Continue reading Deacon Blues

Adrastos, Law/Justice, Malakatude, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: Marion Hammer

Peter Adrastos Athas

I have a new motto for this feature: when in doubt select someone from the NRA, where malakatude along with smoking guns is what they do best: …even by the standards of what we’ve heard from the NRA recently, comments made by former NRA president Marion Hammer earlier this week stand out. Appearing on an episode of the NRA news show The Daily News on Wednesday, Hammer concluded a discussion of the prospects on gun control initiatives prompted by the Newtown, Conn. massacre by drawing a comparison between attempts to ban guns and racism. “And they even admit this is … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Marion Hammer

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks7 Comments

Krauthammer’s Pork Rape

Allison Hantschel

A gentle reminder that hundreds of newspapers pay this man for his syndicated column, while the journalism industry as a whole whines that there is no money for journalism anymore. “I think what Boehner did in postponing the vote until today was absolutely right,” he said on “Special Report.” “That was a rape of the Treasury. $60 billion, including a ton of pork. The part that was essential that passed today was to replenish the flood insurance. That’s right, and the rest ought to be debated in regular order.” First of all, you know what is like rape? Rape. Everything … Continue reading Krauthammer’s Pork Rape