Righteous Bubba

Name Change Time

2009-07-18T19:09:00.001-07:00

The Stamp of Approval

2009-07-17T17:36:00.003-07:00

On the one hand, peace between Israel and Palestine would contribute to stability in the Middle East.

On the other hand, war between Israel and Palestine would contribute to stability in the Middle East.

Let the Photoshopping Begin

2009-07-17T14:07:00.008-07:00

John "Humbert" Derbyshire will soon have a new book out, and I gotta say I like the cover:

The "doom" is apparently a running gag.

Via mikey:

I Have No Bridge and I Must Troll

2009-07-16T11:08:00.002-07:00

Attacked!

God, I feel so good now. Got it all out. Okay, let’s hear it in the comments section now. No holding back. That includes you, Unrighteous Bubba and Cognitive Dissonant. Tell us about all the kinky things you like to do with tinfoil, Vaseline and vacuum cleaners while watching sick online German porn in your mothers’ basements

Biggus Dickus Is Angered!

2009-07-15T16:48:00.013-07:00

Roy takes Rod Dreher to task:

The other has to do with Dreher's idea of life in general. He's alarmingly sympathetic to plural marriages between/among nymphets and middle-aged men in a religious context. But the notion of sexual fantasy nauseates him. With God, all things are possible indeed: if a grown man picks the right faith he can live like Humbert Humbert minus the guilt, but if he or anyone looks at Miss November not only is he doomed, but so is society.

So too does this gentleman:

Rod Dreher irresponsibly drags the "problem of pornography" onto his blog and then attempts to hide the mess behind a few utterly boring "essay" questions. Typical Dreher. Bring up a problem that is at the root of the soul-annihilation of an entire generation, hope people will applaud you for noticing (and being "above it all, really"), and proceed to render the gravity of the problem vulnerable to the most basic statistical and narcissistic critiques.

Why yes, thank you for guessing, smart person!

It's RIMWELL again!

LATE-BREAKING BUTTDATE!!!

A dynamic logo for a dynamic personality:

Nostalgia

2009-07-15T13:27:00.002-07:00

Subsidized Blogriculture

2009-07-14T14:13:00.003-07:00

Mark Steyn spies this:

The closing of a newspaper means a little piece of democracy has died.

Mark Steyn responds thus:

This kind of indestructible, fatuous narcissism is a big part of what's wrong. What other industry conflates itself with the very legitimacy of the state? If you're insisting on your indispensability even as millions dispense with you, you're the one with the problem.

That makes me want to donate money to the National Review which could not survive in the marketplace without the blah blah blah.

Bicycle Race

2009-07-13T23:45:00.003-07:00

Antonio Ruiz, 1938.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

How Dare They!

2009-07-13T15:33:00.003-07:00

Billy is outraged!

Last but not least comes Madonna (who just screams “family values”). During the 2008 campaign, she used a photo montage during one of her performances to compare John McCain to Hitler.

NOBODY ON OUR TEAM WOULD BE SO CRASS.

In comments to the article (which is entitled "Hollywood's Oxymoronic Definition of 'Liberal Tolerance'"):

Here's the sitch. These fragile ego'd pretenders in Hollywood feel guilty because they know they know what they do is a joke and yet they get paid well and are fawned over. They feel bad because they play act all day and do nothing of importance yet earn much more than people of real significance. They also are aware of what dirt-bags they are (remember "casting couches" -- Think they went away?) and due to a non-belief in God are unable to ever feel forgiven for their shortfalls. To fight and appease this nagging guilt, they get involved in social causes. Further, most all of them have massive insecurities and so they cannot tolerate anyone who shines a light on their immorality. As such they surround themselves with other dirt-bags, including a dirt-bag President who will not threaten to expose their immoralities and shortcomings.

Also the site is entitled Big Hollywood, because conservatives are supposed to like entertainment just like regular folks.

The Human Shrub

2009-07-13T12:38:00.001-07:00

The world needs heroes.

Corrupt bureaucrats cannot stand the shining green light of justice aimed at their actions:

Martin Hunt, the council committee member for parks and gardens, said the only reason containers were bereft of flowers was because the planting season had yet to begin.

"If the Human Shrub is crossing dual carriageways in order to make a political point then I think he is being very irresponsible," he told the East Anglian Daily Times.

"He could get himself injured or killed, or even worse could lead to someone else being injured or killed. At least when he was outside the town hall he was amusingly stupid. This is not funny at all."

Quartz Composer

2009-07-12T20:19:00.007-07:00

I've been fiddling with Blender once in a while, which is free, but the learning curve is steep and I tend to give up after extruding a sphere or two. While I was looking up some related material I remembered Max/MSP which had a nifty kinda modular interface but costs oodles of money for honest law-abiding citizens such as myself. For some reason I looked that up on the Wikipedia and I find I have a low-budget modular video synthesizer right on my Mac. Quartz Composer is a fucking snap to use.

Share with me the fruits of my labours:

Autoplaying and looping YouTube is awfully fun.

Serendipity

2009-07-11T23:58:00.008-07:00

Here is Michael S. Rulle Jr.:

He is manager of his very own financial firm and loves the Red Hot Chili Peppers:

I have been trying to figure out how to work the Red Hot Chile Peppers’ (RHCP)* 1999 hit, Californication, into a blog.

This is a wonderful coincidence, because prior to moseying over to Big Hollywood to nutpick I had spent upwards of twenty seconds trying to figure out how to work this picture "into a blog":

Shall we finish up the first paragraph?

I had known and liked the song for some time. Who doesn’t?** But other than simply liking the song and having a general sense of what it was about, I had never listened closely. Of course, the title itself has almost the entire meaning of the song within it. I had recently read economist Russell Robert’s Hayekian novel, “The Price of Everything.” It is a simple yet spiritual characterization of the mystery of what Hayek called the “spontaneous order” in human organization.

What follows are a couple thousand words of similar character and spontaneity in an attempt by Mr. Suit and Tie Guy to have a more dignified midlife crisis than his buddy who got the clap. After a painful verse-by-verse examination of the lyrics, we wind up here:

Lets put it all together. We know this “Californication” thing is “bad” but what is it? Californication is libertinism, crass materialism, solipsistic interactions and spiritual emptiness. It is our modern secular world, in short. Who knew RHCP shared something in common with cultural conservatives?

Like Hitler, Anthony Kiedis is fond of children and dogs.

*My gratitude to the author for clarifying what might have been a confusing acronym later in the article.
**Me.

Chernobyl

2009-07-11T09:50:00.004-07:00

Dave Brockington has a post up at LGM about Chernobyl tourism. (I'll be damned: spell-check likes Chernobyl.)

One of our party wanted to go, but our schedule was full and some of us were opposed, myself included. I had no wish to become irradiated or have to replace everything I was wearing. The lure of of inhabited land turned feral - not just returned to nature but poisonous - remains pretty powerful though, and I still regret not going, much as I know if I was presented with the chance again I still wouldn't take it.

Below is a picture from the terrific-by-Ukrainian-standards Chernobyl museum in Kiev (photography not allowed, dumb tourists cut some slack). These men who look so pleased at their triumph over the reactor died shortly thereafter of course.

The Baitles

2009-07-10T17:17:00.001-07:00

See Roy for more.

Uighurs

2009-07-10T14:00:00.003-07:00

A 24-minute radio documentary about four who have ended up in Bermuda after Guantanamo. Mostly a series of interviews with their translator/angel of mercy.

Waiting for Gaddafi

2009-07-09T15:06:00.003-07:00

From The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiraya we are presented with a PDF called The Development of Education:

The philosophy of education is based on the Jamahiryi system applied in the Great Jamahiriya from the Third World theory formulated by intellectual leader Muammar Gaddafi in the Green Book with its three chapters (political - economic - social). The Green Book defined knowledge as the "natural right of human beings" and described the systems that monopolize knowledge as systems that call for the ignorance and backwardness, and the social element to this theory identified the philosophical framework of general education, where many statements were made on the educational process, such as:
The study is not an end in itself, but the purpose is to create the new model man.

Compulsory education is in fact compulsory ignorance.

Ignorance will end when the reality of everything is revealed.

Why Bother?

2009-07-09T11:07:00.006-07:00

Ann Coulter is a big liar of course, but here:

Whatever you think of Palin, her argument for resigning was the opposite of "rambling" and "incoherent."

How does it serve Ann Coulter to prop up Sarah Palin? Surely Coulter is bright and vicious enough to leave Palin to the tabloids and move on to some less embarrassing authoritarian monster.

Genetics

2009-07-08T16:48:00.002-07:00

Mitochondrial Eve
Found it hard to believe
That she'd meet the Y-chromosome Adam.
She was right it turned out
For there can be no doubt
That her great × n granddaughter had him.

Via Pharyngula, Brian Kilmeade understands the perils of straying from the bloodline:

Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Provenance

2009-07-08T10:31:00.004-07:00

News from Israel:

This was supposed to be the happiest day in the life of Sharon Schechter and Roman Buksafon, but on Monday, a day before their wedding, the Chief Rabbinate informed he couple they were not allowed to marry.

"You are adopted and therefore your Jewishness cannot be verified," a rabbi at the Chief Rabbinate told Roman, who denies being adopted and says he has produced all the documents required by the Rabbinate to receive a wedding permit.

The rest of the article details what seems to be a requirement that one prove one is not adopted before a marriage will be performed.

What if the guy was really found among the reeds on a riverbank?

Victoria Jackson's Day

2009-07-07T15:33:00.005-07:00

What's Victoria Jackson up to?

I was browsing in a Burbank gift shop yesterday and I asked the store owner how business was doing. She smiled, “Well, you know, hit and miss. I’m sure it will be better soon.” The store was empty.

I apologized for not buying anything. “I’m sorry, but my husband now cringes when I order a Hazelnut Iced Coffee at McDonald’s, so I can’t really buy anything.”

Her smile hardened.

“You know, I’ve been speaking at Tea Parties lately. No one seems to know or care that our country just turned Socialist.”

She stared at me like a deer caught in head lights.

I continued, “I don’t like politics, but we have to do something. I’m writing to my Congressmen and Senators now.”

Her teenage assistants with no customers had frozen smiles and frozen bodies.

“Did you know Obama uses our tax payer dollars to pay for abortions?”

She shook her head no.

“He even supports killing 9 month old babies, in the womb.”

She became a ceramic knick knack.

I continued, “It’s called ‘late-term abortion’. Now he’s going to kill sick people and old people. Did you know that Cap & Trade will allow the government to regulate how long we take a shower? And that the “New Health Plan”, happy, happy, will allow the government to decide who lives and who dies?”

Crickets. Dead crickets.

As I opened the door to leave, she shook herself into reality and said, “Thank you and come again.”

The bell jingled as the door shut.

The future looks good for Victoria as she'll probably be able to afford a custom shopping cart and many many cats.

In any case, she'll be happy:

I got into my fuel efficient economy car, with the leopard seat covers, and the bumper that used to have the “I RESIST SOCIALISM” bumper sticker, until it got smashed, and I drove away thinking, “Ignorance is Bliss.”

This makes me laugh in a surprisingly untroubled way:

I just can't see it as anything but silliness.

Frist!

2009-07-06T17:17:00.002-07:00

Fire, Pro and Con

2009-07-06T16:28:00.001-07:00

Once there was a little church
Scorched one night while stars did turn
It's left the parish in the lurch:
No place to wish a witch would burn.

The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Hero

2009-07-06T09:21:00.003-07:00

Andy McCarthy is objectively pro-communist.

The Wall Street Journal (as flagged in the NRO web briefing) reports on rioting in China by Uighur "students" that has left scores dead and hundreds wounded.

Well, what lover of freedom wouldn't rebel against the heathen Chinese, my good fellow?

The "students," described elsewhere in the story as from a "predominantly Muslim ethnic group

Oh dear. The wrong people are rebelling.

Birds of a Feather

2009-07-05T15:07:00.002-07:00

Y'know, I love screenshots.

This Means America Is Not Conservative Enough

2009-07-05T10:31:00.001-07:00

The Challenge

2009-07-04T10:43:00.004-07:00

VD Hanson:

She's not looking at 2012; but in eight years by 2016 she will be far more savvy, still young, and far more experienced. It matters not all that the Left writes her off as daffy, since they were going to do that whatever she did; the key is whether she convinces conservatives in eight year of travel and reflection that she's a charismatic Margaret Thatcher type heavyweight.

As we know, conservatives are notoriously skeptical so Ms. Palin will have to work hard.

Why You Hate Sarah Palin

2009-07-03T10:22:00.008-07:00

Jim Geraghty tells you:

A short while back, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum suggested, only half-jokingly, that actress Angelina Jolie's "entire Oscar-winning, serial-adopting, Brad Pitt-snagging, plane-piloting, unattainably hot-looking existence makes women around the world feel hopelessly inadequate and therefore unhappy." Perhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world.

In her opponents' minds, Palin's made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she's happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again.

BONUS NITPICK:

Geraghty, July 2nd 2009:

There's no clear sense of her future plans; the near-daily denunciation seems to be just in case she decides to run for national office, a far-from-certain event that would occur, at the earliest, three and a half years from now.

July 3rd 2009:

Sarah Palin will not seek re-election next year, fueling speculation that she will make a 2012 presidential bid.

And Jonah is all about timing.

HOT!

I AM AWARE OF ALL NEWSPAPER READING TRADITIONS.

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The National Review on Revolution

2009-07-02T15:55:00.003-07:00

Michael Ledeen gets hard over some reader mail:

Long before the modern rationalizations for the "benign" nanny state, Confucius had given his own vision of the perfectly ordered pyramid with the emperor at the top, talking to God, and most of the rest of us at the bottom, lucky for the privilege to talk to their dog.

The bulk of human experience is tyranny, whereas liberty is the ultimate unprobability, a.k.a., America. Government of the people, for the people, by the people cannot survive unless the people has enough intestinal fortitude to make it work.
Which is so true. Remember it. And fight.

Ledeen's taste in rhetoric aside, I suppose the above explains why the son of a president should not be president and why we are justly suspicious of those who would preserve a moneyed and powerful elite.

Adversity

2009-07-02T13:52:00.001-07:00

On the website of a Catholic university in Palestine:

Despite being closed twelve times by Israeli military imposed orders, the longest of which was for three years from October 1987 until October 1990, classes have continually been held on- and off-campus. The curfews, travel restrictions, military checkpoint harassment, and the negative impact of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, are factors faced by the University’s enrollment of 2,936 students, most of whom are full time, and 10,816 graduates, most of whom are serving the Palestinian society in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in various professions and leadership positions. The University’s story is one of people committed to pursuing their higher education – perseverance and courage in the face of adversity and injustice – working together in hope with an ever widening international circle of colleagues to build a better future.

Disturbing If True

2009-07-02T13:26:00.005-07:00

Someone got booted off a reality show and made an assertion:

Everyone is a little bit different on TV. No one is going to go on TV and start farting.

I am reconsidering my plan to pay for more channels.

Mind you this show seems to have done well:

Important update:

Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéo

Peak Goldberg

2009-07-01T22:11:00.000-07:00

You owe it to yourself to check out Thers.

The Cheshirecrat?

2009-07-01T11:35:00.004-07:00

Myrna Sokoloff at Big Hollywood is trying to give Obama a nickname. What nickname could suffice for such a monster? Cokesucker? Broke Osama? Commode-in-Chief? Let us misrepresent the order of Myrna's thoughts as she blows the punchline instantly. Also the Nazi party approves of BIG LIES so:

President Obama should have a nickname from our side. Words mean something we are reminded all the time.

I am intrigued. Go on.

If you watch him at “town meetings” when he’s pressing his agenda and making statements that go unchallenged from the adoring crowds, he comes across as calm, reassuring and easy going while he’s attempting to dismantle American capitalism.

The Stealth Obama?

Americans by wide margins do not want to close Guantanamo, are against affirmative action, and against late term abortion. The majority want him to cancel the stimulus and hate the bailouts!

Mr. Funpopular? No, that's not quite right... What does the press think of this blood-soaked infidel?

If they were acting like real journalists they would ask tough questions and do investigative reporting on his proposals and statements. Instead, at so-called press conferences, they ask mushy questions that allow him to pontificate. No one challenges him like they did President Bush.

The E-Vader?

A brave journalist will have to stop acting like a star-struck teenager and ask the hard questions and the hard follow-up questions. Only then, like the fable, will everyone realize that the Emperor has no clothes!

The Empoorinator maybe?

Okay okay, we have a socialist coddler of terrorists and abortionists. WHAT, MYRA, CAN YOU OFFER US?

So I am going to name him “The Smile.”

Missing the Point

2009-06-29T18:16:00.002-07:00

Brent Bozell suggests that real life is different from what's on TV:

None of these TV critics would want to end up in the hospital in real life and answer "yes" to the question "Would you like your nurse to be whacked out on Oxycontin?" In real life, we'd want this woman to go to rehab, and then to marriage counseling. But anything approaching the right moral course would completely ruin all the "black comedy" fun Showtime is having.

Also Tom's owner should simply have called the exterminator to get rid of Jerry.

Keep Up That Fine Editing Work

2009-06-28T21:11:00.004-07:00

Really, though, good for K-Lo for coming out against torture.

Doesn't happen often enough.

I have to add, though, that I don't understand why ass-fucking doesn't count as a harsh-interrogation-technique-that-is-not-torture: people do it in their own homes for fun!

Let's All Twitter About Honduras!!!

2009-06-28T17:05:00.001-07:00

He Takes Requests

2009-06-28T10:42:00.002-07:00

Bon Jovi Records Version of "Stand by Me" for Iranian People

In further bizarro-culture news via Big Hollywood, heartwarming plays about Ronald Reagan and the pro-life movement aren't getting play in New York! Can you believe it?

Of Note

2009-06-28T10:40:00.002-07:00

I have two ~~suckers~~ friends who enjoyed the last Transformers movie.

Both went to see the Imax version of the new one.

Both fell asleep.

Fuck You Barack

2009-06-26T16:54:00.001-07:00

This Obama gentleman is backtracking on some rather important issues.

The Greatest Pop Song Ever

2009-06-25T16:33:00.000-07:00

Comment on the Futility of the Humanities

2009-06-25T13:44:00.002-07:00

Show Fewer Stories

2009-06-24T21:04:00.000-07:00

Pure Satisfaction

2009-06-24T15:15:00.009-07:00

Circle the wagons!

To majority media and other Democrats : we police our own, and you don’t get to judge
Drop dead.
Posted by E Pluribus Unum (Profile)
Wednesday, June 24th at 4:50PM EDT
51 Comments

According to my strict interpretation of this writing, no Righteous Bubbas are prohibited from judging, so judge I shall.

HA HA HA.

By all means report the facts. I’m sure you’ll be happy to cover every salacious detail. Have at it. Be sure to cover the pain and suffering of Governor Sanford’s family. While you are at it, cover the depth to which all South Carolina and nation-wide Republicans and conservatives rightly feel betrayed.

Beyond that, just shut up. Shut your lying, hypocritical, power-above-patriotism, hyper-partisan, two-faced, shamelessly double-standard bearing pie hole.

You don’t get to judge.

Let's see this in practice:

1. Mark Sanford is a Republican governor
2. Mark Sanford is married
3. Republicans are the party of family values
4. Mark Sanford vanished, winding up in Argentina to wiggle his weenie in a woman he was not married to
5. I HAVE NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO SAY ABOUT THE FOREGOING

The Library of Congress could hardly contain chapter and verse of the multitudes of ways the press and the other Democrats have gotten away with judging Republicans by wholly different standards than that applied to Democrats.

Er, are Republican standards different or what? I mean, what diaper brand or bathroom stall are we all agreed on?

But that double standard is both obvious and as wide as the Grand Canyon. You show no honor, no equity, no fairness, and no scruples yourselves. You, to put it mildly, do not police your own.

We do. We’ll deal with Sanford.

We have standards (you don’t), and we have a long history of punishing and purging our leaders who prove unworthy of trust.

For your part, serial adulterer Bill Clinton remains a rock star as far as you are concerned, and that about sums up the standards to which Democrats hold themselves.

I believe this sums up the standards to which you hold Democrats.

So, spare us your mock outrage,

your tut-tutting,

your finger-wagging,

your eyebrows furrowed in anger.

Regrettably I can think of nothing funny involving eyebrows.

If you are well and truly outraged by Mark Sanford’s adultery, but could not trouble yourself to muster even a little mild disapproval against the cretin who wiped his feet with the honor of the office of President of the United States, then you are a hypocrite yourself of the lowest stripe. You are unworthy to judge.

So just shut up.

Not at all outraged so yadda yadda yadda.

But what might this policing mean?

UPDATE!!!

M. Bouffant beats me to it but a few This Day in History posts will end the embarrassment in a jiffy.

Also forgot to mention I owe Caliph Garrett a cruel one.

Go Tan Go!

2009-06-24T12:35:00.004-07:00

Employability

2009-06-23T18:49:00.001-07:00

Shorter Mike Adams:

My boss is a crazy bitch!

Tinariwen

2009-06-23T16:56:00.002-07:00

We're Just Plain Evil!

2009-06-23T16:25:00.002-07:00

Shorter Porkins:

Liberals lie, enslave, impoverish, demoralize, remove jobs, keep kids stupid, and prey on the poor. Liberals also indoctrinate, collude with their cronies, teach junk, employ the unemployable, and like enviro-fag-feelgood programs instead of readin' writin' and 'rithmetic. Liberals furthermore bring in illegal aliens to destroy resident aliens and make everybody poorer and hungrier, while destroying the rule of law, then they preen and hire their new slaves. Liberals, not yet content, are wrong about everything scientific, don't care about anything scientific, and embrace hilariously stupid ideas when they are not killing millions. Liberals lie about right-wing violence to conceal the terrorists and cop-killers they worship and give tenure to.

And this, my friends, is how elections are won by liberals.

Perspective

2009-06-23T11:19:00.002-07:00

In trying to figure out what Obama should and shouldn't yell at Iran about when the situation is touchy, it might be worth noting that US allies - perhaps "projects" is a better word - Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan are on her borders.

They're all doing just fine.

Where's Mark Sanford?

2009-06-22T17:18:00.019-07:00

Kinship

2009-06-22T12:19:00.002-07:00

John T. Simpson:

All it takes is one person to break the ice. Example. Twenty years ago, my brother won tickets to a Journey concert in Worcester, Massachusetts on the radio. We rode a packed WBCN Party Bus out of Boston, but everyone was kind of uptight and kept to themselves, like there were cops in the crowd. So I took a risk and lit up a big fattie anyway. Within minutes, it was like a Cheech and Chong movie. You couldn’t see out the windows. Everyone was laughing, joking, hacking and toking.

It was Saturday last week
I was hangin' out at Johnson's Creek
We were partyin' in my van
When we were hassled by the man

Jammin' to Foghat on my 8-track
With a case of malt liquor and a bong in back
From out of nowhere came the man in blue
I thought we were busted but the pig was cool

The pig was cool
I knew him from school
The pig was cool

We were at the Journey show
The first three songs we were hangin' low
Then the band played Wheel in the Sky
Me and my babe started getting high

The dude next to me said "Gimme a hit,"
So I passed him the joint I had already lit
When I saw his badge I thought this is it
But he just said to me, "Man, this is good shit."

The pig was cool
I knew him from school
the pig was cool

Rod and Staff Watch

2009-06-22T10:47:00.002-07:00

73 count indictment issued for alleged fake doctor
By Kirby Haskins
Advocate staff writer

Dean Alan Willoughby, 44, of 205 Helena Drive, was recently indicted by the grand jury on 73 counts, including 45 felony counts of practicing medicine without a license and 28 misdemeanor counts of third degree sexual abuse, according to media reports. An indictment is a formal accusation of a crime but does not establish guilt.

Authorities allege that Willoughby presented himself as a doctor and performed physical examinations on subjects—many of which were reportedly homeless men—at an office suite located at 841 Corporate Drive in Lexington.

[...]

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with Lexington Police, also searched Willoughby’s home as well as his place of business—“Alan and Associates”—on Fogg Pike. “Alan and Associates” includes an an office and recording studio, which was reportedly used for publishing Christian music. Several computers and other media devices were seized during these searches.

The preying on the homeless aspect of this one is pretty sick, and at the same time I'm surprised I've never seen this particular scheme: seems obvious.

Culture and Context

2009-06-21T20:46:00.003-07:00

I saw Casino Royale - the newer one - and enjoyed it. It was silly fun.

At one point in the movie, however, Bond hasn't got the millions necessary to gamble with Mr. Evil and is about to do something drastic. What follows probably did not get a chuckle during the theatrical release, but time has a way of adding value to some things.

Stabbing Yourself In the Eye With the Beam

2009-06-21T11:44:00.003-07:00

Heh:

Monday’s Gregalogue - Now, Because I’m Pissed
by Greg Gutfeld

Am I an old fart or am I right to be pissed that some jackass is skateboarding down the halls of the White House while all this Iranian shit is going down?

OMG WHO HAS THE GALL TO PRETEND TO BE A HUMORIST IN A TIME OF CRISIS?

UPDATE!!!

Also NO ICE CREAM!

Good Will Thwarted

2009-06-20T10:57:00.003-07:00

Over at Big Hollywood I AM BEING REPRESSED!

Really, all I wanted to do was leave a very positive and encouraging comment after reading this:

Sarah Palin would win a landslide just being herself if she allowed me and John Ziegler produce a “reality show” that follows the Governor and her family around 24/7.

Minor Chortle Snatched From the Jaws of Boredom

2009-06-19T12:25:00.005-07:00

I was looking up that stupid Stanley Fish article about Obama saying "I" a lot ("we" meaning "I" as well of course) because John Zeigler, in describing the Palin/Letterman thingamajig he formed an embarrassing part of, says "I" quite a bit. Why would that be, I wonder?

Anyway, the mysteries of Google led me to The Whirlpool's Rim and a guy seems to approvingly cite that and National Review stuff and who also writes paragraphs like this:

Is it unusual -- or is it just to the point -- that the "propulsion of a pointed shaft through a man's jaw" is a description not only of an action performed within a poem, but also of the pronouncement of the poet, of the activity of speech (giving the lie to the thought that music is the only kind of communication that gathers the authority of both meaning and sound)? How would the sound of the poet's words be carried through the air to his hearers except by some shaft? And is authority accomplished without the wound inflicted by that shaft and calmed by "the leeching lips of time?"*

Yes yes, shafts, jaws, lips. WHO WROTE THIS PIFFLE?

And Furthermore...

2009-06-18T20:44:00.019-07:00

UPDATE: MR. STAPP HAS AN ENTICINGLY LARGE FOREHEAD.

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An Experiment

2009-06-18T16:18:00.000-07:00

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©: Arlington: The Rap

Fear the зомби

2009-06-18T15:05:00.000-07:00

"Medicine of catastrophe and reanimation"

Heeeeeeeere's Hitler!

2009-06-17T21:38:00.014-07:00

Welp, here's what I see:

My heart is won:

Guess What? That's What!

2009-06-17T17:07:00.002-07:00

Jonah Goldberg on removing all doubt:

The Iranians are accusing Obama of meddling even though Obama says he doesn't want to meddle. It seems this offers a great opportunity for Obama to meddle!

Yay! Also:

I'm only partly joking.

If this means he'll walk back the stupid part if necessary I do not agree with "partly".

Today, We Are All Hitlers

2009-06-16T17:01:00.006-07:00

John T. Simpson is bringing the firepower!

The Left Has Spoken: Today, We Are All Extremists

What follows is the usual fairly heated barrage of crazy all about how leftists are really the hateful ones, but as an inadvertent illustration of the opposite of his thesis, he opens his article with this:

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.” - Adolf Hitler.

Indeed, my friend, you have been misjudged.

There's much more there of course, but here:

GROW UP! I’m sick of dealing with a bunch of full-grown screaming control-freak toddlers!

"U LIBS R DUM" would be sufficient here.

Whoopsies!

2009-06-15T21:01:00.000-07:00

Thank God for torture or we'd never have figured this out:

CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows
By Peter Finn and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.

Happenings in the Greater World

2009-06-15T16:41:00.001-07:00

The Talented Telepathist has been busy:

I told the 2 Swedish Girl Journalists about the Entire American Media Covering Up the Fact that TV Star Kelly Ripa was Gay and that this They had done for the Past 2 Years. These Swedish Journalists Said that That Was Impossible, That the Entire American Media Couldn't Possibly Be Bought Off. One of Them was So Worked Up that She could Hardly Talk, She Could Hardly Get the Words Out. Well, you Thousands of American Media People Reading This Blog Know That Unfortunately This is True. I asked These Girls if I Could Mention Their Names in My Blog and They Said No. I Said, The Evil and Powerful American Media Will Be Angry That You Sided With Me and Will Make Sure That You Lose Your Jobs and That You Never Work Again. I Said---You'll Starve To Death on the Streets of Stockhom as Martyrs to the Truth, That is So Romantic . What Girl Wouldn't Be Won by Such Pleasing Talk?

My Education

2009-06-14T11:53:00.004-07:00

Vox Day has a quiz up on one of the modern era's most important tomes: LIBERAL FASCISM.

It turns out I am better than most at understanding its sacred message:

This is where I faltered:

Still, being only mildly above average at figuring out what Jonah wants me to think has me down.

A Little More Amber Pawlik

2009-06-13T21:10:00.001-07:00

Needs some tweaking, but what the heck:

Peppered Hummingbird with Pickled Castle Cheeses

Ingredients:
1 hummingbird
1 castle cheese
1 portion tofu
3 tablespoons peachy raptor toe
1 pint mustard
3 tablespoons brown sugar

The first thing you are going to want to do is let the hummingbird soften. I recommend cutting it into fucking squares to let it soften quicker. Then you are going to roll the tofu with the castle cheese out onto a 15 X 9 (roughly) cookie sheet. Bake the dough at 375 F for 10 minutes. YOU MUST LET THIS COOL BEFORE PUTTING ANYTHING ON TOP OF IT. Let it cool for at least 1/2 hour. You can chop up sailfish while waiting for it to cool and make the hummingbird center. For the center, mix the raptor and the hummingbird. You can use Nurse Beefbegkloth Beautifully-Refreshing's climbing catfish skull but raptor is better for this recipe as you want more of a taste. Mix it with a blender until it is very creamy and there are no lumps. Then add in the mustard to the hummingbird mix. Spread the hummingbird mix over the cooled tofu bottom. I recommend putting it in dollups over the dough, so you can spread it around easier. Try not to touch the tofu bottom as you are spreading it. The reason why the tofu bottom has to be very cool is because otherwise it will start to lift up as you are spreading the tofu. Make sure to get all spots where the tofu shows. After this is done, sprinkle the mustard on top. Don't try cutting it until you have let it cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Before putting it in the refrigerator though, run a knife over the outside of the pizza, so it is easier to get out later. If you try cutting it into slices before it is cool, the tofu and the hummingbird will run along the knife with you.

I Don't Blame Him Either

2009-06-12T21:01:00.002-07:00

Professor X is currently held in an ultra-secure prison while a team of torture specialists works on his as.

Trivia

2009-06-12T15:26:00.001-07:00

This film review podcast is pretty funny.

Smacked By the Invisible Hand

2009-06-12T13:29:00.002-07:00

A big Nelson Muntz laugh:

Stephen Baldwin's NY House to Be Auctioned June 24
By Roy Edroso in Featured
Friday, Jun. 12 2009 @ 12:36PM

Stephen Baldwin was once nice enough to give Runnin' Scared an interview, so we are compelled to express our regret that his house in Rockland County has been foreclosed upon and is scheduled to be auctioned off on June 24.

Remember This?

2009-06-11T10:38:00.010-07:00

Now it's this:

I have stolen
the hair
that was on
the nightstand

and which
you were probably
saving
for sentencing.

Forgive me
it was hilarious
so big
and so silly.

[Someone made Phil Spector's hair even bigger.]

Go There and Watch That

2009-06-10T13:26:00.001-07:00

Follow the link please for some improv and electronics in Africa.

No Opinion

2009-06-10T10:46:00.002-07:00

Via Mr. Atrios, a poll:

So, as answered by Republicans, we have No Opinion, closely followed by No One, with Other in third (okay okay this is not exactly a single answer but We Are Mean). Then Limbaugh and Gingrich are tied for fourth.

I am getting the suspicion that few people really want to be the loon who has to stand up and articulate what the Republican message really is.

It's In My Head ALL DAY LONG

2009-06-09T22:42:00.003-07:00

Paul Whiteman, C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E. Snagged here. There's much more at that site than meets the eye.

Please do not mention They Might Be Giants.

Also:

Is This What Andy McCarthy Was Doing?

2009-06-09T17:54:00.003-07:00

Osama bin Laden today gave a speech to his party followers in Waziristan. What follows are excerpts from his remarks:

—We are in a period when we are surrounded by paganism. And paganism is on offence and that's why our first great challenge is spiritual.

—Reignite in people an understanding that the heart of your life is subordination to God, the heart of your life is seeking God's will and that all of us are weak and vulnerable, all of us make mistakes, but that all are welcomed by a loving God.

—Reach out to everybody in the country who is not yet saved and . . . help them understand the spiritual basis of a creator-endowed society.

—The beginning of wisdom and virtue is a recognition of our subordination to God, and to the fact that a life without God is a life so empty that even drugs and alcohol and other things cannot fill it.

—This is a country in hunger for another Great Awakening, a wave of belief which has again and again swept this country and fundamentally changed us.

The Whole Andy McCarthy

2009-06-09T17:01:00.003-07:00

I don't get this:

Re: Getting healthier by the day! [Andy McCarthy]
Turns out: it's not just me. Our buddy Steve Schippert reports that hope and change has come to ... AL QAEDA!

Ayman Zawahiri announced today that, under the Recruitment Stimulus Initiative Insha Allah (RSIIA), the terror network has created or saved 10,000 jihadist jobs (resulting in a concurrent creation or saving of 720,000 virgins!).

Zawahiri added that al Qaeda has appointed an Explosive Czar. It has also taken over al-Shabaab in Somalia — although Zawahiri insists this is a temporary take-over because, with two wars to run, the last thing CEO Osama bin Laden wants to be doing right now is running a failing cell in Somalia.
06/09 06:41 PM

There's no link in the story to Steve Schippert and whatever it is he has to say, so I suppose you have to deal with the satire you're given, which is a conflation of Osama and Obama. HA HA!

Also union members are dangerous terrorists.

It's not beyond the usual stupidity or unfunniness but I feel there must be some code I'm missing that would help me understand just what prompted McCarthy to post this. Surely he wouldn't just waste his day posting bullshit on the internet.

Thank You Google

2009-06-08T20:23:00.003-07:00

URPDATE!!!

The Cult of Sumo

2009-06-08T16:13:00.002-07:00

Sumo stablemaster jailed in teenage death case

TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese court sentenced a former sumo stablemaster to six years in prison for ordering the beating of a teenage wrestler who later died of his injuries.

[...]

Prosecutors said Yamamoto ordered three senior wrestlers to assault 17-year-old Takashi Saito, with one using a metal baseball bat, after he had repeatedly tried to run away from the stable.

What I want in my sumo stable is a wrestler motivated enough to not want to be there. It's the heart that counts in this, the most noble of sports.

Naming Names

2009-06-08T14:22:00.003-07:00

Hey, isn't that the asshole who wrote It Sticks in My Craw?

But one of the areas where conformity is appropriate is how your new countrymen say your name, since that's not something the rest of us can just ignore, unlike what church you go to or what you eat for lunch. And there are basically two options — the newcomer adapts to us, or we adapt to him. And multiculturalism means there's a lot more of the latter going on than there should be.

Golly I guess it's stuck there in his craw. May he choke on it.

The Unseriousness of Liberalitiness

2009-06-08T12:10:00.007-07:00

The art of negotiation:

The "Transformers" bombshell-cum-uninhibited philosophizer also contemplates -- reluctantly -- what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world. "I'd barter with him," she muses to the July issue Total Film UK, "and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?"

So Megan Fox would trade away parts of AMERICA to Megatron? Does she not know that Autobots plus teenagers ALWAYS DEFEAT MEGATRON?

Clearly treason is within the liberal soul.

UPDATEMEPLEASE!

John Nolte weighs in!

Not every actor’s behaved as poorly as the usual suspects, not all of them deserved to lose their firepower, but there have been too many like Megan Fox spoiling it for the rest. And so the movie star has managed to accomplish the one thing capable of causing their own extinction: they’ve deconstructed themselves.

Indeed: people may no longer look to movie stars for advice when they have Britney Spears.

Lest We Fart Jets

2009-06-06T19:39:00.004-07:00

Assrocket:

Good Lord. Reporters are often compared to teen-age girls with crushes on Obama, but, as the father of three present, former or about-to-be teen-age girls, I object to the analogy. I personally have never seen a teen-age girl make a fool of herself over a boy the way many--most--mainstream reporters have over Barack Obama.

Now where the... [crashing noises] ...I know it was... [paper ruffling] ...oh yes, here.

Assrocket some time ago:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

So satisfying. From that last link:

UPDATE: Of all the thousands of posts we have done over the years, this one seems to most outrage the Left, I suppose because it is so at odds with liberals' cherished illusions about President Bush. The tone of the post is obviously tongue in cheek, but liberals never seem to notice.

In some unspecified arrangement of individuals, tongues were inserted in cheeks. Noted.

Via Omniscient J—:

I had the opportunity this afternoon to be part of a relatively small group who heard President Bush talk, extemporaneously, for around forty minutes. It was an absolutely riveting experience. It was the best I've ever seen him. Not only that; it may have been the best I've ever seen any politician. If I summarized what he said, it would all sound familiar: the difficult times we live in; the threat from Islamic fascism--the phrase drew an enthusiastic round of applause--the universal yearning for freedom; the need to confront evil now, with all the tools at our disposal, so that our children and grandchildren can live in a better and safer world. As he often does, the President structured his comments loosely around a tour of the Oval Office. But the digressions and interpolations were priceless.

And

Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly. He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn't raise his standards, he will exceed Bush's total before he is inaugurated.

Noted for Future Use

2009-06-06T19:30:00.002-07:00

Schwarzenegger backs state services to immigrants

Saturday, June 6, 2009
(06-06) 10:20 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's "happy" illegal immigrants get state services and says they're not to blame for California's $24.3 billion budget gap.

...

BING!!!

2009-06-05T17:01:00.002-07:00

First Ever Dual Post Update

2009-06-05T13:39:00.008-07:00

In comments on the Klavan thread:

UPDATE!!!

Also from a longer post by Donna, a crowning achievement:

Reaping

2009-06-04T22:33:00.007-07:00

Burt Prelutsky:

When, on top of all that you factor in my low opinion of John McCain, one might even wonder why I’m even a Republican. The easy answer is that, as bad as Republican politicians are, they’re better than the Democrats. But the biggest difference is between the two sets of voters. By and large, Republican voters are more patriotic, more mature, more logical and far more honorable.

And it shows! Look:

I think a reasonable person might ask one or two reasonable questions of President Obama. One: Who does he have in mind to run this paramilitary organization now that Hermann Goering is no longer available, and, two, what color shirts will they be wearing? Black or brown?

Shoot First, Talk Later

2009-06-03T13:34:00.004-07:00

Andrew Klavan in defense of terrorism:

And guess what? It doesn’t matter a damn whether you’re for abortion or against it. The Supreme Court decision arbitrarily declaring abortion a constitutional right is the worst thing that ever happened to either faction.

Er, except the faction that's for abortion...

It was rotten and dishonest at its core – read the constitution and you tell me where the right to an abortion is – and rather than conferring a right on people, it actually stripped them of their most important right: the right to elect legislators who make the laws they want.

The point of a constitution is that THAT RIGHT IS LIMITED. Jeebus, this is the very heart of conservatism, guy: it should not be easy to go nuts with kooky laws!

I blame Roe v. Wade for a lot of things: the current poison partisanship, the rise of inappropriate religious politics, the corruption of our system for appointing and approving Supreme Court justices – but most of all, I blame it for the irreconcilable virulence of the sides in the abortion debate.

Let's imagine Roe v. Wade as a legislative act. How much shorter would this list be for Klavan?

How can you discuss things in a civil manner when your right to make a final decision about them has been taken away by seven Little Caesars who think their black robes make them kings?

Clearly you cannot discuss things in a civil manner if what was once a rule restricting women IS NO LONGER A RULE! YOU GO CRAZY AND SMASH EVERYTHING AND SHOOT PEOPLE! Or, wolverine-like, you turn on the computer, clicking here and there, typing this letter and that in order to post something on the internet.

It’s tyranny, pure and simple, whether you believe in abortion rights or not.

I do not believe it's tyranny to one day be able to do one thing and the next day be able to choose between two things. Call me crazy.

And in a free country, tyranny makes men mad and will ultimately be answered with bloodshed.

In a free country, tyranny makes men write crazy sentences that make no sense but can be loosely construed as dangerously nuts!

Important!

2009-06-02T18:03:00.003-07:00

News from abroad:

Puppet Princess
In the age of chaos, at a time of great upheaval, there was a small country in forgotten realm, ruled by Lord Ayawatari. He was not interested in governing his territory, nor in conflicts between the other warlords, but instead was only creating puppets. Knowing Ayawatari's nature, the evil warlord Sadayoshi Karimata invaded Ayawatari's castle and wiped out his entire family, or so it seemed... With her homeland in ruins, Princess Rangiku, the daughter of Lord Ayawatari the puppet master, is forced to seek out the legendary ninja, Danzo Kato. It is only with his help that she can hope to oppose the evil Karimata, but Danzo's assistance comes at a cost. Together these unlikely heroes must find a way to infiltrate Karimata's castle and restore the mysterious stolen puppet.

Silly princess: PUPPETRY IS THEFT.

[Those feeling ripped off at a post solely intended to be the first use of PUPPETRY IS THEFT can go read this and nod in agreement.]

Red Tape

2009-06-02T14:29:00.005-07:00

Megan McArdle has been receiving well-deserved derision from everywhere all the time, but here:

If you interpret this murder as a political act, rather than that of a lone whacko, than this should be a troubling sign that the political system has failed. So why do so many people think that the obvious answer is simply to more firmly entrench laws that are rightly intolerable to someone who thinks that a late term fetus is a person?

Someone should point out to Ms. Galt that the laws that are firmly entrenched restrict abortion. It's the absence of an abortion law to his liking that Mr. Not-So-Lone Whacko is pissed about.

But this is the tedium of McArdle: goofier and funnier nutballs think their enemies are terrorist faggot Muslims, while she is content to assume her opponents over-regulate.

Sick and Ridiculous

2009-06-02T10:10:00.002-07:00

Via NPR, a brief article about this:

Marc Myers:

Why the song's lyrics weren't recorded the first time around on Mingus Ah Um isn't clear. Most likely the omission came at the behest of Columbia executives, who at the time didn't want to overly inflame the label's Southern markets. Writes Gene Santoro in Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus:
"[The group recorded] Fables of Faubus, but Columbia, Mingus said, wouldn't let them record the lyrics."

Adjustments

2009-06-01T20:30:00.012-07:00

I'm just not mean enough to leave the autostart on "true".

Perhaps Roeder Should Be Executed

2009-06-01T10:39:00.000-07:00

Not Getting It

2009-05-30T08:20:00.003-07:00

The cool thing about this video is that Bill O'Reilly - in the course of misunderstanding why he hasn't been libeled - makes a crystal-clear case for Bill O'Reilly being a stupid bigoted asshole.

Maybe there are RD Laing-like steps here.

B says something stupid.
"B is stupid."
"That's libel!"
"No it's not."
"Yes it is!"
"That's stupid. I must conclude you are stupid."
"That's libel!"

B says something assholish.
"B is an asshole."
"That's libel!"
"No it's not."
"Yes it is and SHUT UP!"
"I must conclude you are an asshole."
"That's libel!"

B says something bigoted.
"B is a bigot."
"That's libel!"
"No it's not."
"Yes it is and you're siding with C because she's a woman!"
"I must conclude you are a bigot."
"That's libel!"

Time to Waste Time

2009-05-29T21:15:00.007-07:00

Look at this. Or if that doesn't work, check out some examples at this gallery.

You can make fun stuff with this.

~~Kick Click the baby:~~

Baby killed.

Stipulations

2009-05-29T11:43:00.002-07:00

I stipulate
That I am great
With perfect-titted gal
I stipulate
A cocktail fete
With secret agent pals
I stipulate
A three point eight
NO WAIT! A three point nine!
I stipulate
A poker date
Would make your money mine
With all these stipulations
And my ever-flowing wit
How, when I stipulate more,
Could you think me full of shit?

Old news.

The History of Germany

2009-05-29T09:54:00.002-07:00

This is worth reading:

The killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today.

Now a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany’s perception of its postwar history. The killer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, though working for the West Berlin police, was at the time also acting as a Stasi spy for East Germany.

Erick Erickson: secret leftist?

Dick Cheney: Unassuming Defender of the Helpless

2009-05-27T22:16:00.004-07:00

What the shit?

Cheney's "media offensive" consists of a speech and a couple of interviews. The thrust of his offensive has been to caution against the weakening of America's defenses and to respond to the current administration's nearly daily disparagements of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror.

Well, seeing that such a nice young man wrote that I... Hey... Wait a minute...

[Sorry Bouffant! Looks swell big!]

The Boy Who Cried Puppy

2009-05-27T12:18:00.003-07:00

Far far far shorter Charles Winecoff:

Before I denounce credulous fools, let me explain that I myself am a credulous fool.

Some celebrities are flakes!

I am a writer who never came across the phrase "paradigm shift" before the election.

Don't mind this beam, check out that mote!

The article is very very very long and so chock full o' nuttiness that I am going to pretend I have a reasonable excuse to not investigate further.

Poems I Always Hated

2009-05-26T17:26:00.008-07:00

I have fucked
your mum
while we were in
your bedroom

and while
you were probably
shopping
for Mother's Day

Forgive me
she was delicious
so sweet
and so old

Context here and here.

Winning Hearts and Minds

2009-05-26T12:30:00.006-07:00

There's a larger version of the following pic by Bosch Fawstin at Big Hollywood:

I think if there's a way to get to the heart of why we should support the troops, Comic Sans messages from hulking thugs with mildly reprehensible design elements - is that a rising sun he's obscuring? - are just the thing. But who is this mysterious bruiser?

Bosch Fawstin is the creator of Pigman, the jihadist’s worst nightmare, who wears pigskin leather to exploit the enemy’s pigotry. To see Pigman’s 1st appearance in print, check out ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad.

I see. We can expect that with each jihadi defeat at the hands of Pigman, local villagers freed of their oppression will rush out to embrace their porky hero.

UPDATE!!!

In comments J— informs us that the put-upon natives of Islamistan have another reason to love Pigman: he too worships the god of Ibrahim.

Fifteen Paragraphs, Eighteen Sentences

2009-05-25T16:58:00.002-07:00

Mike "Gamecock" Devine howls:

America may never be able to re-pay the national debt to foreign bondholders that the ObamaDems’ stimulus and budget bills promise to incur and certainly we will never be able to re-pay the ultimate sacrifices so many Americans have made that we honor on this and every Memorial Day.

Okay, caught your breath? One more:

Yet, surely the fallen didn’t die for self-government that would find representatives like Senator Barack Obama voting to grant the Treasury unfettered power to squander $750 billion last September and a President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi tripling the national debt built up during the past 194 years in the next ten.

Okay, got that? MORE!

Surely those that died in the efforts that led to the capture of those whose squealings saved Los Angeles after 911, without harming one hair on the heads of prominent perpetrators of 911, didn’t fall so that those that defined interrogations down could be disbarred.

I wonder if Dr. Sanity could come up with a diagnosis here.

Etymology

2009-05-25T10:33:00.002-07:00

Who destroyed the word "hero"? Jimmy Carter, that's who.

He Must Have Done Something Disgraceful

2009-05-23T09:24:00.001-07:00

Troubled With Thick-Coming Fancies

2009-05-22T21:06:00.003-07:00

Dr. Sanity attempts a soliloquy:

TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG?
To blog, or not to blog: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outraged leftys,
Or to take arms against a sea of insanities,
And by opposing cure them?

You may peek over there for the full version. Or not. Very soon after the contemplation of noble suffering:

It must give pause: there's the psychosis
That makes virtue of victimhood;

It's a wonder she isn't recasting the advice of Polonius.