Category: Stupid Everything Tricks

Athenae, Economy, Education, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks1 Comment

Maybe Detroit’s Teachers Could Sell Some Bling

Allison Hantschel

Then they could afford to work!  “There’s a basic agreement in America: When you put in a day’s work, you’ll receive a day’s pay. DPS is breaking that deal,” Ivy Bailey, the union’s interim president, said in a statement. “Teachers want to be in the classroom giving children a chance to learn and reach their potential. Unfortunately, by refusing to guarantee that we will be paid for our work, DPS is effectively locking our members out of the classrooms.” Teachers rallied at the school system’s headquarters Detroit on Monday morning to “protest the news that Detroit educators will not be paid for … Continue reading Maybe Detroit’s Teachers Could Sell Some Bling

Athenae, Bigotry, Propaganda, Race, Religion, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks, Teabaggery, Television, Terrorism4 Comments

On Fighting For Those Who Fight Against You

Allison Hantschel

Charlie:  Before beginning, and in fairness to the good people of Menomonie, Wisconsin, whose voting record we examined earlier Tuesday afternoon, let us remember that Texas is the home office for climate denialists among our elected representatives. It begins at the top with Tailgunner Ted Cruz, who’s been spouting the stupid on this subject heavily for the last few weeks. It runs down through Governor Greg Abbott and indicted attorney general Ken Paxton. And it runs deeply through the Texas congressional delegation, which includes some leading intellectual giants like Lamar Smith and Louie Gohmert, although, to be fair to those other worthies, … Continue reading On Fighting For Those Who Fight Against You

Athenae, Books, Immoral Values, Kids Today, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks4 Comments

NYT: Pedophilia & One-Night Romps are Equally Sexy Hijinks!

Allison Hantschel

In a review titled, no kidding, “John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel,” we get this gem of a passage:  There was a time when the great American male novelists took delight in writing about sex. Rebelling against a literary tradition that perhaps underestimated how much space animal urges take up in the male brain, many big hitters of the 20th century, like Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, dived into the muck with the zeal of Rabelais or Cleland. Sex was freedom, sex was adventure, sex was a good time, sex … Continue reading NYT: Pedophilia & One-Night Romps are Equally Sexy Hijinks!

Athenae, Bigotry, Campaign Notes, Elections, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks, Terrorism3 Comments

It Can’t Be Said Often Enough: Trump Was Not a Surprise

Allison Hantschel

Not if you’d been paying attention in any way:  A 2006 report by the Institute for Policy Studies found that, in 2005, CEOs of the largest U.S. private defense contractors continued to profit from the ongoing wars. Defense CEO pay was 44 times that of a military general with 20 years of experience and 308 times that of an Army private in 2005. Generals made $174,452 and Army privates made $25,085, while average defense CEO pay was $7.7 million. In contrast to wealthy individuals who became even wealthier, those who were sent to do the actual fighting comprised disproportionately high … Continue reading It Can’t Be Said Often Enough: Trump Was Not a Surprise

Athenae, Fuck The Mommy Wars, Stupid Everything Tricks

Science Babies FTW or, Why Chrissy Tiegen’s Critics Can Suck It

Allison Hantschel

I swear, we hate no one in the world like we hate female celebrities. The amount of bile spewed at Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift and now Chrissy Tiegen would, if properly directed towards Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney, solve nearly all our country’s moral crises. What did model and actress Tiegen, who happens to be infertile and public about it, do? She chose to have a female embryo implanted in her uterus during an IVF cycle. People are fucking idiots, no thanks to the morning Mommy talk shows, and accused her of “designing” her baby and personally murdering all children … Continue reading Science Babies FTW or, Why Chrissy Tiegen’s Critics Can Suck It

Athenae, Fuck The Mommy Wars, Kids Today, Political Crack, Race, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks, Supreme Court, Twitter44 Comments

I’m Done With All Your Hillary and Bernie Feelings, Internet

Allison Hantschel

TED CRUZ WANTS TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE. Genuinely, I think he does. I think he wants to bring about the end times. I think he is living in a comic book and none of the rest of us are real to him. Marco Rubio is six years old and he keeps thinking if he talks faster and louder it will make him sound smarter. Debate moderators ask him why his own people think he sucks, and he yells about his Lord and Savior. Jeb Bush once ruined an entire family’s life just to make points with the Jesus freaks … Continue reading I’m Done With All Your Hillary and Bernie Feelings, Internet

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks4 Comments

Are You Proud Now, America?

Allison Hantschel

Nothing. There was nothing there. Not only was there nothing there, but there was something less than nothing there, because people actually got themselves INDICTED for making out like there was something there. Not only was there something less than nothing there, but anybody with two brain cells to rub together looked at the sterling credentials of the people making out like there was something there and said, there’s nothing there. They were, of course, the exact kind of carnival barkers they seemed to be, and this news only surprises the people who make a living being surprised when the curtain … Continue reading Are You Proud Now, America?

Adrastos, Elections, Fog Of History, Political Crack, Stupid Everything Tricks, Twitter5 Comments

A Loyalty Oath? Really?

Peter Adrastos Athas

It’s time for me to walk the Fog of History beat again. There’s some weird shit happening on Twitter during this election cycle. There’s someone using the handle @USJeffersonianA. He/she/it is a big Bernie Sanders fan. I’m not but that’s fine. But they’ve posted some twisted shit. First, they’ve done the whole picture mashup thing with Sanders’ mug combined with Thomas Jefferson. Second, they seem to think that the small guvmint loving, slave owning, aristocratic 3rd President would be a “Democratic Socialist” today. TJ wasn’t even willing to free his own slaves let alone those of others. Don’t get me … Continue reading A Loyalty Oath? Really?

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks1 Comment

Joe Klein was Thrilled by George Wallace, Who He Thinks is the Same as Al Sharpton

Allison Hantschel

Even for Joke, this is really gross:  He does not finish stories he starts—he starts his riff about forcing Ford, which has built a plant in Mexico, to pay 35% tariffs, but something else grabs his attention…not once, not twice, maybe three or four times before he sees it to the end, and the end, when it comes, is clumsily delivered, he steps on his punchline, darting off in some other direction. It occurs to me that the Tweet is the extent of this man’s attention span. He is the ADHD candidate. It occurs to me that being a “low-energy” … Continue reading Joe Klein was Thrilled by George Wallace, Who He Thinks is the Same as Al Sharpton

Athenae, Elections, Fuck The Mommy Wars, Immoral Values, Kids Today, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks, Stupid Everything Tricks3 Comments

The Generational Feminism Olympics, Yay!

Allison Hantschel

I am so not looking forward to the next 10 months of this bullshit:  Do you notice a difference between young women and women our age in their excitement about Hillary Clinton? Is there a generational divide? Here’s what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided. Guys? Which one of you forgot to send Debbie Wasserman Schultz the list of stuff ladies younger than 40 care about? Because she seems to be under the impression that young women aren’t working as clinic escorts, or donating to … Continue reading The Generational Feminism Olympics, Yay!

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Donald Trump’s Fascism is So Much Ruder Than Yours!

Allison Hantschel

A few things to note this morning before we begin: Serious guys purge 1000s of Florida voters, battle family end-of-life decisions & hawk a 3rd family invasion of Iraq https://t.co/pp5zwFdiKK — Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) December 8, 2015   From Tommy’s Monday post: In impolite company I call them “Sand N****rs”.   Indiana Gov. Mike Pence:  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he’s asking a Roman Catholic archdiocese to not bring a Syrian refugee family to the state. Pence met for about an hour Wednesday at his Statehouse office with Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin amid a dispute over the Republican governor’s order … Continue reading Donald Trump’s Fascism is So Much Ruder Than Yours!

Athenae, Elections, Political Crack, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Everything Tricks18 Comments

Shorter Salon: So What About the Dead People, Let’s Concentrate on My Ego

Allison Hantschel

I thought we had this argument in 2000, and 2004, and 2008, and 2012, you solipsistic prick:  A Hillary presidency, we believe, would do very little to address wealth inequality, and the situation in the middle and working classes would continue to deteriorate. Republicans would have another villain to turn their base against — maybe even a better villain than Obama, if such a thing is possible — and a means of escaping accountability yet again. Maybe they’d win the next presidential election, and if not, they’d at least stir up enough hatred and backlash to maintain their ironclad grip … Continue reading Shorter Salon: So What About the Dead People, Let’s Concentrate on My Ego