NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Picture via WWL.com Jesus, this sucks. TheHubig’s Pie factory burned to the ground today. What a pisser. Continue reading NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Just A Thought
This is a 100-round magazine for 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition. You do not need that. No one outside of an infantry engagement needs that. That is all.* *Cue gun fetishists telling me that I don’t know what I’m talking about, others accusing me of wanting the eeevil gub’mint to enslave us all, others saying that I’m a traitor to the Constitution, and still others rationalizing that this maniac would have murdered a dozen people with Matchbox cars if he hadn’t had 100 rounds of .223 Remington ammo at his disposal. Yes, I’ve been down this road before. Continue reading Just A Thought
Just A Thought
This is a 100-round magazine for 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition. You do not need that. No one outside of an infantry engagement needs that. That is all.* *Cue gun fetishists telling me that I don’t know what I’m talking about, others accusing me of wanting the eeevil gub’mint to enslave us all, others saying that I’m a traitor to the Constitution, and still others rationalizing that this maniac would have murdered a dozen people with Matchbox cars if he hadn’t had 100 rounds of .223 Remington ammo at his disposal. Yes, I’ve been down this road before. Continue reading Just A Thought
Just A Reminder
Yep. Power in a union. Remember–this happened. And that energy, and that power, is still out there. We’ve had some wins lately, and a lot more losses, but the people are still there, and will always, when push comes to shove, tell the powerful where to stick it. Continue reading Just A Reminder
Further Adventures In Social Media; or, We Just Can’t Be Educated
Instead of engaging these dopes, I think I’m just going to have this. ALL OF THIS. Well, I’m back for one more pre-election go with Adventures In Social Media. Please kill me now. Anyway, today I bring up an acquaintance from high school, who gives us the following: I just stopped at this point. Folks, that guy is under the impression that he was right. If there are any of you out there who think that this world can actually see a riot that “upholds violence,” please–take a few minutes to say goodbye to your family and friends, then swallow … Continue reading Further Adventures In Social Media; or, We Just Can’t Be Educated
One Word Regarding The Recall Elections
So It Begins
Indeed. Well, today’s the day. Did you vote? I went for the anti-dickhead slate myself. Continue reading So It Begins
One Word Regarding The Recall Elections
So It Begins
Indeed. Well, today’s the day. Did you vote? I went for the anti-dickhead slate myself. Continue reading So It Begins
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
For true. So, as everyone in the world has noted by now, the President has affirmed his support for marriage equality. This would seem to be, to borrow a phrase, a big fucking deal. It’s time for those of us on the progressive side of things to down a shot, do a victory lap, and shout WOOOOOOOO in the face of the nearest homophobe we can find (I’d suggest checking the glory hole in the local GOP clubhouse restroom). But of course that can’t happen. At least 1/3 of the people commenting on my Facebook feed said something along the … Continue reading This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Your Help Is Needed
Internet, this is Ginnie. Ginnie, Internet. See that doggie right there? She belongs to the mother of someone who is very dear to me. And, as noted above, your help is needed in this little doggie’s case. I’ll just let my friend say it: My mom’s dog, Ginger fell and broke 2 vertebrae in her neck. She is an adorable miniature brown dachshund who LOVES everyone! She needs surgery and has an 80% chance of a full recovery. The surgery could cost anywhere from $3000-$5000. She is only seven years old. Without meds, Ginger is in a lot of pain … Continue reading Your Help Is Needed
Oh Yeah
Since everyone else posts pet photos, I guess I should show off my roommate’s pet. It’s a rat. I call it Ratty. She’s a cute little rodent, I must admit. Yeah, it’s blurry. You try getting a rat to sit still. Kinda hard to believe they’re plague vectors, no? So there you go. Continue reading Oh Yeah
I Had No Idea White Folks Had It So Bad In America
Don’t worry, my brothers and sisters. You shall overcome. Someday. Just a quick one here, folks. Did you know that white folks needed saving in this country? Apparently, we are seriously oppressed. Don’t believe me? Just ask thisfuture Nobel Prize winner: Today I, John King, MAEd, a father of two, honorably discharged officer of the US Army and a proud individual of European descent, decided to take on the “Klan with a Tan” at a “Justice for Trayvon” rally held at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) just outside of Evansville. I have had it with anti-White rhetoric thinly disguised … Continue reading I Had No Idea White Folks Had It So Bad In America
Even More Adventures In Social Media; or, Have These People Ever Heard Of The Internet?
Behold, the Internet!
Okay, so maybe I’m doing this bit too often, but it’s just comedy gold.
Once again, a cousin posted something stupid, and I did this idiotic thing called “responding with facts.” Naturally, things only got better from there.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
- Red: God-bothering first cousin
- Blue: Yours truly
- Purple: Cousin’s African-American acquaintance
- Green: Cousin’s god-bothering in-law
It’s pretty awesome, and you can see the beating after the jump.
I Just Don’t Fucking Get It
This is fucking bullshit, man. I don’t get it. I just don’t fucking get Mitt Romney at all. Don’t get me wrong–I don’t understand the idea of wanting to be president at all. It’s tons of work, there’s never really a fucking second when you’re NOT on the job, at least a hundred million people who you’re technically supposed to represent are going to hate every fucking thing you do, and there’s the possibility that you’ll be the person responsible for incinerating half the people on the globe at any given moment. So, yeah–shitty, shitty job. But back to Romney. … Continue reading I Just Don’t Fucking Get It
The War’s Never Over
Never. Ever. As part of my job, I talked to a young man today who had recently been fired. He is 26 years old. We sent him to Iraq when he was 19 years old. Yes, “we.” You and I. Everyone who lives in the United States of America sent him there. And he got broken. Ruined. He has post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury that you and I are responsible for. He did not incur those injuries defending our freedoms, or securing weapons of mass destruction, or “fighting them there so we won’t have to fight them … Continue reading The War’s Never Over
Religion Is Poison
It comes in Christian and Buddhist and Animist and… When I was talking to a friend this weekend about the same stuff I put inyesterday’s post, she mentioned that his Mormonism also put people off. I said, sure it does for the crazy fundamentalists who think that Jesus rode to work on a dinosaur, but most people don’t really care about that; his Daddy Warbucks/sea snake mash-up is much more of a problem. So then she started talking about just how crazy Mormonism is. Which, don’t get me wrong–it’s nuts. But I don’t see it as any crazier than any … Continue reading Religion Is Poison
Prove Me Wrong
On to the next campaign event. As we’ve all seen, Mitt Romney has a problem–he’s terrible at running for office. It occurred to me the other day why this is. You see, if you were to take our society’s worst image of a politician and worst image of a rich person, throw them into the Large Hadron Collider, and smash them together at about 95% of the speed of light, Mitt Romney would emerge. The rich part: He’s an incredibly, unbelievably wealthy man who inherited a fortune, never labored a day in his life, and is the sort of person … Continue reading Prove Me Wrong
Sweet Jesus, These People Are Insane
Fuck you guys. This is bullshit. Well, it’s February in Wisconsin. And that means it’s time for the Polar Plunge. That’s right. Every year, a bunch of totally insane motherfuckers jump into a hole cut into the ice as a way to raise money for the Special Olympics. This year, friend of the blog and regular commenter Hobbes is taking the plunge. Sothrow her some cheddar so she can get wetter. Also, our good friends the Mad Rollin Dolls also have a team jump.Help them out. If you’re interested in other individual donations, check outAndi orPatty. Go give some money, … Continue reading Sweet Jesus, These People Are Insane
Today In Wisconsin Republican Duck-Fuckery
Funny, he doesn’t look like an utter halfwit here. That, ladies and gentlemen, is Wisconsin state senator Glenn Grothman (R-Lead Industry). Why is he the duck-fucker of today, you ask? Simple.Just look here: The bill, introduced only last week, is moving at breakneck speed, getting a hastily scheduled public hearing on Thursday. Introduced by Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, the proposal also apparently has the blessing of Republican leadership. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has signed on as a co-sponsor. “When a court does something that’s as outrageous as (the Thomas ruling), when they retroactively tell businesses that were producing … Continue reading Today In Wisconsin Republican Duck-Fuckery
Today In “How Is This Dickweed Employed?”
Where David Brooks should be. Where David Brooks is. Okay, Okay. I shouldn’t read David Brooks. I shouldn’t give two shits about what that neo-Victorian finger-wagger is on about today. Butthis shit right here just left me gobsmacked. Read on! [T]here is a misbegotten ideology haunting the land, the ideology of sunshinism. This is the belief that everything should be made public. –snip– Sunshinism is a destructive ideology. Forcing people to financially undress in public is just one of those incursions that repels decent people from running for office. That’s right. You have just witnessed a man who has a … Continue reading Today In “How Is This Dickweed Employed?”
More Adventures In Social Media; or, Please Let Me Find Out That I’m Adopted
Apparently, this is George Clinton’s DNA; I don’t think you or I are funky enough to have major AND a minor groove in all of our cell nuclei.Via. In my ongoing quest to get disinvited from all future family reunions, I’ve started responding to moronic things that relations post on line. If you know anything about my family, you’re probably thinking that I’ll need to take a sabbatical from work for a while if this hobby is going to continue. Today’s idiocy comes from a first cousin, with a special guest appearance from my older brother (they are anonymized in … Continue reading More Adventures In Social Media; or, Please Let Me Find Out That I’m Adopted
Dear Journalists: Please Stop
Send your best reporters! Attention, dear news media: A woman with 19 kids whomiscarries the 20th is not news. It’s just not. I realize that, by posting this, I’m doing a share of feeding the beast. But stories about the Duggars are the “real” news equivalent of sportsyakkers blithering on about Brett Favre, so please: Stop. For the sake of your profession, just stop. I’m not even going to make a joke here about statistical significance,* because, really, these people are probably truly upset. Fine. But this absolutely does not concern anyone outside of that family and their acquaintances. Now … Continue reading Dear Journalists: Please Stop
It Begins
Recall, you fools! Indeed it does. Yesterday was the kickoff of the drive to recall Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch here in Wisconsin–I believe this fact was noted at this very site yesterday. But, of course, it was also the beginning of stupid Republican nonsense against the recall. Includingvandalizing a business (auto-play video at that link) here in liberal-ass Madison. Keep it classy, Walker supporters. Oh, and the first person who compares dumping a glass of beer on someone’s head to hurling a large and heavy projectile into a place of business gets a free punch in the dick, courtesy … Continue reading It Begins
It’s Veterans Day
Nope. No freedom being defended here. Reposting this from Memorial Day with minor edits. So it’s Veterans Day, which means that the US is awash with mostly obligatory tributes to military personnel. I hate this shit. I didn’t fight for your freedoms. In the six years I was in, I never once defended your right to vote, or to carry a gun, or to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure (that one doesn’t really apply anymore, anyway), or any of the other things you enjoy as a citizen of this country. I just didn’t. Neither did anyone who went … Continue reading It’s Veterans Day
Today In Wisconsin Republican Heroics
Republican legislative consultant (file photo) In their continuing quest to right all of the wrongs in the state, the Wisconsin Republicans have made a great leap forward. Assemblyman Joel Kleefisch (R-Newgate) woke up recently, opened the lid of his coffin, and said to himself “You know who has it too easy around here? Ex-cons. Blah blah!” (Note–this is only a partial transcript.) So the good Representative took it upon himself to do something to rectify this grave injustice. He thought and he thought, and he puzzled some more, and it finally came to him. “Aha!” he said. “I’ll make it … Continue reading Today In Wisconsin Republican Heroics
Cough Up A Buck, Ya Cheap Bastards
Do you have any idea how much Claire’s coke habit costs? Non-sequential bills only, please. It’s the last day of the fundraising drive, and I’m breaking radio silence to urge you tochip in. Why? Well, because if you don’t, Virgo will come find you, and I can’t appeal to her sense of restraint every time. Also, look at what you get here. You get Scout, who is a natural reporter–that woman makes Edward R. Murrow look like a PR flack. You get Athenae, who is the best goddamn writer on the Internet (except maybethis guy, but he already gets paid). … Continue reading Cough Up A Buck, Ya Cheap Bastards
Adventures In Journalism: Or, The Grate-est Story Ever Told*
I’m just looking for more favorable taxes! Hey there, gang. Still stupidly busy at work, so I haven’t had a lot of time for posting. And, honestly, this shit is wearying. It’s not even much fun mocking the dumb shit that the right-wingers say, because 1) it’s predictable and 2) reading that shit costs me IQ points (insert your own joke about how I can ill-afford that). So I haven’t had a lot to say or much time to say what I want. However. I was just chilling out, reading the NY Times–nothing political! I was checking out the “Dining … Continue reading Adventures In Journalism: Or, The Grate-est Story Ever Told*
Plans For The Year Ahead
AK-47 is the tool. Don’t make me act a motherfuckin’ fool. I have some advice for all good liberals in the upcoming year. If you don’t already, buy and learn how to use a weapon. Seriously. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all the right-wing maniacs being well-armed and our side being outgunned. Those people are scared of everything–let’s give them a real reason. You may not have noticed, but the big money party just won some big victories, and they are going to do everything they can to fuck over anyone who’s not already rich. It’s … Continue reading Plans For The Year Ahead
Dispatches From The War On Christmas
Happy Xmas. War is over. I have come into possession of a series of dispatches from the War on Christmas. I reproduce them here for the record. Day One: The predawn assault by the enemy’s reindeer brigade was repulsed with heavy enemy losses. The enemy general made the incredible tactical blunder of placing LT Rudolph in the front rank, alerting our gunners that an attack was imminent. Our soldiers inflicted an incredible 77.8% casualty rate on the assault element. We eat well tonight. Day Five: No matter how jauntily they wear their top hats, snowmen are no match for flamethrowers. … Continue reading Dispatches From The War On Christmas