If only some mole could infiltrate Governor Palin’s inner circle and convince her to dress more in earth tones, the republic as we know it — nay, democracy itself, and everything this country has come to stand for! — could be saved.
But alas. This dumb tundra hick, this, this… Hooter’s hand puppet, has never even been to Milan, much less tried on shoes for which any self respecting gal on the rise would gladly trade the population of Wasilla and a dozen or so prime beaver pelts.
And sorry, but fur-lined collars, when worn without irony and in pursuit of “utilitarianism,” is a sure sign that the empire is about to crumble, brought down by a Trojan Vagina. At least, that’s what they’re saying in between bites of watercress sandwiches on the upper west side…
(h/t BMoe, who has more)
Comment by MC on 9/23 @ 2:52 pm #
Is that Naomi ‘eaten by’ Wolf? What a waste of grey matter.
Comment by Aldo on 9/23 @ 2:52 pm #
Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is “dialed in” to the McCain campaign.
Rove, you magnificent bastard.
Comment by McGehee on 9/23 @ 2:53 pm #
Um, where could one buy one of these?
Just, hypothetically, you know.
Comment by TerryH on 9/23 @ 2:56 pm #
From the link:
No waterboarding or torture? Karl must be slipping.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/23 @ 2:58 pm #
Speaking of Haute Coture, I hope that none of you Coloradans live near Aurora…
And if you do, I’d suggest that your kids only wear pro-O! togs…
Comment by mgl on 9/23 @ 2:58 pm #
Holy cow, it’s always the End Times with these folk.
You know what they need? Christianity.
Comment by Log Cabin on 9/23 @ 3:00 pm #
Anyone who uses the term “Rove-Cheney cabal” without tongue planted firmly in cheek needs to be held for psychiatric evaluation and should never be allowed to operate a motor vehicle larger than a Vespa.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 9/23 @ 3:00 pm #
Damn. I actually clicked on the link to Naomi Wolfe.
…now I haveta go take a bath.
That means I haveta take two baths this week. This one and one on Saturday…
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:00 pm #
>>Trojan Vagina
I thought “Greek” was something else.
Of course, as a band name…
>>Hooter’s hand puppet
I don’t even wanna go there…
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:01 pm #
>>Trojan Vagina
I thought “Greek” was something else.
Of course, as a band name…
>>Hooter’s hand puppet
I don’t even wanna go there…except to say you’ll go blind, Jeff.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:01 pm #
Damn it
Comment by Jeffersonian on 9/23 @ 3:03 pm #
Teh crazy, she live.
Comment by SteveG on 9/23 @ 3:04 pm #
black S&M geared jack booted thugs invaded patriot David Kernell’s apartment… it’s begun people… another example of the squashing given to your right to freedom of expression by “Evita” Palin, Rove puppet
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 3:09 pm #
Naomi Wolf is not a grown up. I’m not reading her anymore than I’m gonna read that stupid kid who writes about vegetarian dragons. You have to discriminate. You just have to.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 9/23 @ 3:10 pm #
Sarah is apparently a mixture of June Cleaver and Xena the Warrior Princess.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:10 pm #
“puppet”? Poppet!
“In folk-magic and witchcraft, a poppet is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person. … The intention is that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject based in sympathetic magic. It was from these dolls that the myth of Voodoo dolls arose.”
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 3:12 pm #
any more should probably be two words there I think … no shit … vegetarian dragons. Stop pulling my dick you little wanker. And people, discriminate. Don’t make me say it again.
Comment by Pablo on 9/23 @ 3:15 pm #
It’s too bad Naomi is such a crazy bitch. She’s kinda hot.
Comment by Techie on 9/23 @ 3:17 pm #
So, Sarah Palin is going through her daughter’s camp mail?
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your heart it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, man come and take you away.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:22 pm #
hf is all about the threats now. This is getting interesting….
Comment by Sdferr on 9/23 @ 3:26 pm #
Does she reckon that if the riot police uniforms and gear was pink instead of black the rioters would surrender on account of uncontrollable laughter?
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:27 pm #
I think riot police should wear blaze orange and see how they fkn like it
Comment by CelticDragon on 9/23 @ 3:29 pm #
Chris Paolini, I know dragons, and dragons, good sir, ARE NOT VEGETARIANS!!!!
As far as Naomi Wolfe goes, teh crazee washed away teh hawtness a LOOOONG time ago…!!!!!ELEVENTY!!!11!!!11
…I denounce myself…
Comment by Andrew X on 9/23 @ 3:30 pm #
Bill Whittle is one of the most passionate writers out there on the thinking that underlies today’s politics. I’d give my left n()t to be able to write like him.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGVlY2RhOGM0MWE5MjNmMGM2ZjY0NzcxMjMzMTc5NWI=
“No wonder they must be destroyed. Because  Sarah Palin especially  presents a mortal threat to these people who have determined over cocktails who the next President should be and who now clearly mean to grind into metal shards the transaxle of their credibility in order to get the result they must have. Truly, they are before our eyes destroying the machine they have built in order to get their victory. What the hell is so threatening to be worth that?
Only this: the living proof that they are not needed. Not needed to govern, not needed to influence and guide, not needed to lecture us on our intellectual and moral failings which are visible only from the heights of Manhattan skyscrapers or the palaces up on Mulholland Drive. Not needed. We can do it  and do it better  without all of them.”
Comment by SteveG on 9/23 @ 3:34 pm #
mint green uniforms for the jackbooted thugs… everyone would get nauseous without the tear gas.
Maybe some Devo hats would add some levity to the smashing of civil liberties
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 3:39 pm #
Ah yes, the “Happy Boy” riot uniform, with Devo hats and a smart, pleasant tag on the chest, like “I Feel Your Pain” or “No Justice No Peace”
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 3:52 pm #
#15 TaiChiWawa:
Now that is hot!
Comment by D Kite on 9/23 @ 3:53 pm #
The reaction to Palin comes from one source:
She has children, she has a disabled child that in 80% or so of cases is aborted, she has a daughter who is pregnant, again in many cases abortion is performed.
There are many women who have chosen to abort. They can justify it to themselves by many means. But when a public woman does the opposite, they can either hate her and by all means attempt to destroy or discredit her, or feel guilty.
The choice is easy. And it’s between a woman and her doctor.
Derek
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 3:54 pm #
Naomi: “Arrest me! Put me in your Rethuglican gulag!”
Rove: “No.”
Naomi: “No? NOOOOO!!!! You don’t respect strong women!!!!”
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 3:57 pm #
#16 urthshu:
Did you see that Abbott and Costello movie where they went to the old witches cabin and the witch made the voodoo doll of Lou, and when her back was turned he made one of her and they ended up poking pins into each other? “Ow!” “Ow!” “Ow!” “Ow!” Together: “OWWWW!!!”
That was funny.
Comment by SarahW on 9/23 @ 4:01 pm #
“But when a public woman does the opposite, they can either hate her and by all means attempt to destroy or discredit her, or feel guilty.:
Well that’s wrong. I don’t feel that way at all.
Comment by SarahW on 9/23 @ 4:02 pm #
I think the fear is that she would use her power to make her do what she did.
Comment by SarahW on 9/23 @ 4:04 pm #
And if that does’nt make any sense, I am sick as F* and ought to go to bed. But I think you and figure it out. And take away that it’s the honest thing there, really.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 4:06 pm #
A good Palin article which I don’t think has been referenced here yet.
MikeyNTH: No, haven’t seen that. I was actually thinking Gene Wolfe when I wrote that. For no real reason.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 4:06 pm #
Feel better, SarahW. This is the best time of year to stay home in bed I think.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/23 @ 4:10 pm #
History is rife with Mayors/Governors who’ve never pushed their personal religious convictions in office, after taking an oath to uphold the Constitution, suddenly changing course and forcing women to give birth to unwanted children once they assume the role of VP.
GOOGLE IT!
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 4:12 pm #
Oh, hey – if anybody is interested, Sarah’s church has its sermons available. For comparison to Baracky’s, maybe
Comment by Terrye on 9/23 @ 4:14 pm #
Palin drives them crazy doesn’t she? God love her.
Comment by Sean M. on 9/23 @ 4:15 pm #
I liked the part about how people she knows “have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected.”
Damn you, Sarah Palin, and your armies of penis-pill spambots and Nigerian bank scammers! From hell’s heart, Naomi strikes at thee!!!
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 4:16 pm #
I’d give my left n()t to be able to write like him.
Are there takers for left nuts? I mean, I’ve got two, near as I can tell, and I can’t see myself ever being in the market for another dude’s left nut. Do women take left nuts when they’re offered. Do they keep them in a jar in the fridge?
Scientists maybe?
Comment by Cowboy on 9/23 @ 4:16 pm #
Sarah:
This being sick thing is just taking too long for you.
Feel better, ok?
Comment by Sean M. on 9/23 @ 4:18 pm #
You’ve got two left nuts? I mean, I’ve heard of the proverbial “two left feet,” but that’s gotta be a first.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 4:23 pm #
Does O! still have nuts or does Jesse have them.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 4:26 pm #
You’ve got two left nuts?
Only when I’m wearing the mankini. Boxers – one of each.
Comment by Jim in KC on 9/23 @ 4:36 pm #
How the hell did she smuggle that out of the gulag, I wonder?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 4:40 pm #
“Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 4:16 pm #
I’d give my left n()t to be able to write like him.
Are there takers for left nuts? I mean, I’ve got two, near as I can tell,”\
Oh, please, left nuts post at DKos or DU.
Comment by Dan Collins on 9/23 @ 4:49 pm #
Huh. What’s in a watercress sandwich, anyway?
I bet Obama doesn’t know how to make one by himself.
Comment by Salt Lick on 9/23 @ 4:49 pm #
[Professor Harold Bloom] drank several glasses of Amontillado. Afterward, he cornered [Wolf] and breathed, “You have the aura of election upon you.”
I really don’t think Sarah would have vomited in the sink and cried if he’d said that to her.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/23 @ 4:55 pm #
SarahW: you are seeing a doctor, yes? I’m getting a little concerned.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 4:55 pm #
Did you see the price of watercress at Whole Foods?
Comment by Dave E. on 9/23 @ 5:05 pm #
Wow…the batshit is strong with this one. I know it’s not the right reason, but I think I’ll vote for McCain now just in the hopes of reading this poor demented woman’s screed after Obama loses.
Comment by Ward Heeler on 9/23 @ 5:10 pm #
Does O! still have nuts or does Jesse have them.
They’re in my wife’s purse, if you insist.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 5:16 pm #
My deal with Whole Foods is I have a $20 limit. It’s just shoppertainment. It’s not for serious I don’t think, just an on the odd Sunday afternoon thing. Also, our ones are very squinchy anyway and you feel like a dork if you get a cart. Maybe it would be different if I was back in Austin.
Comment by Ward Heeler on 9/23 @ 5:22 pm #
you feel like a dork if you get a cart
Or go bowling.
Comment by Ward Heeler on 9/23 @ 5:26 pm #
you feel like a dork if you get a cart
That’s why I don’t rent one when I go bowling.
Comment by Sean M. on 9/23 @ 5:29 pm #
That’ll get you a couple of leaves of arugula, right?
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 5:30 pm #
Does a Hooter’s hand puppet with prime beaver pelts have a Trojan Vagina? Maybe only at Walmart or Family Dollar.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 9/23 @ 5:30 pm #
Go ahead, laugh it up. But everyone knows Sara Palin and her hillbilly hick cohort stole the Ryder cup from the Euros so Cheney and Rove could use it to hold the potato salad they made from the giant tub of Sam’s Club mayo at the church picnic.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 5:34 pm #
Usually I get little thingers of the prepared stuff from their deli people. Usually salad or vegetable thingers with odd ingredients. It’s just kind of nice to have those in the fridge for laters I think. That’s about all Whole Foods is really good for here. Some people will tell you they love to go there because the Whole Foods lady turns them on to these fabulous wines. This is a good time to look at them blankly and go for one of those awkward silences.
Comment by Ward Heeler on 9/23 @ 5:35 pm #
That’s why I never rent one.
Do you understand, people? Harvard.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 5:40 pm #
#48 SaltLick:
No, I can see Gov. Palin grind a heel into his instep and then give him the what-for.
And she’d smile when she did it.
And she’d tell him that she would own his town, and the mercenary Moose Troopers from the Yukon would make sure he’d know what was what. “Wouldn’t want to wake up to an antler on your doorstep, would you?”
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 5:40 pm #
I just read on the internet that Barack Obama masticates.
And that his wife hangs out with thespians.
‘Struth!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 5:45 pm #
#51 Dave E.:
That is as good a reason to exercise the franchise as any – to drive others into a deepening pit of bat-guano crazy. An you don’t have to threadjack to just say that.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 5:46 pm #
Never even seen a Whole Foods.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 5:48 pm #
O! No:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gCoFFAAVoRoOM6HXGudGtpjfjcpwD93CNHL80
Comment by archie on 9/23 @ 5:49 pm #
The Awkward Silences! That’s my band name!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 5:50 pm #
#53 haps:
My work has this third Thursday pot luck thing and once I brought in gyros. I could get the bread and the meat and all the trimmings, except the sauce. I had to go online to find a recipe for that. You would think that in a university area you could find that, but no.
It worked out fine, though. I can follow recipes, and all that.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 5:51 pm #
Just googled them and nope, none of those Whole Foods around here…I think prob’ly Wegman’s would chase them away. Which is sort of satisfying in a way.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 5:52 pm #
If O! found a moose head in his bed would that be racists or just a part of the coming police state?
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 5:53 pm #
Oo yuck pot lucks suck ass. I can’t eat nothing nobody brought in, no how. Can’t even make myself do it when I’m clearly starving. nopenopenope
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 5:54 pm #
well Aldo, Palin’s free photo-op pass just ran out.
the press said no print reporters, no photos at the UN.
so Team McCain allowed them in, and kicked em at 0.29 sec.
the ole bait and switch
look for Palin to go “dark” in media coverage now, unless she agrees to take questions lol.
sweeet!
tolja so ;)
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 5:55 pm #
“Yeah, sure it is ‘archie’.
Hot Dog already squealed; you want to cut a deal now?”
Detective Sergeant Clancey leaned over the perp and let out a stream of cigarette smoke. The perp didn’t blink. It was still early, ten p.m., and Clancey had all night. He knew these punks, had been one of them, once. A little time, a little pressure, keeping them from their fix, ‘the web’, and this one would spill his guts.
Clancey fished into his pocket for the crumpled pack and lit another Lucky. He had all night.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 5:55 pm #
vell Eldu, Peleen’s free-a phutu-oop pess joost run oooot. Um de hur de hur de hur. zee press seeed nu preent repurters, nu phutus et zee UN. su Teem McCeeen ellooed zeem in, und keecked im et 0.29 sec. zee oole-a beeet und sveetch luuk fur Peleen tu gu “derk†in medeea cuferege-a noo, unless she-a egrees tu teke-a qooesshuns lul. sveeet! tulja su ;)
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 5:57 pm #
Comment by quellcrist falconer
If the moose hunter lived up to the O! std of 8? from the press would you then stfu?
Comment by Republican on Acid on 9/23 @ 5:57 pm #
The never ending slippery slope reappears in its eternal form. Every since I have been politically sentient there have always been these farce calls from the uber left retards. I am sure any of you over the age of 35 might remember that Reagan was also to begin placing us in internment camps. And for those of us who do not heed these calls we are placing a wager more serious than Pascal ever did.
It’s this constant nonsense that these people hope to wear sensible people down with. Like an ugly wife that keeps on nagging many of us dream to divorce ourselves from these idiots but unfortunately some of them are our neighbors and family members.
And I am still astounded that so many people in this ugly little planet of ours haven’t taken a second to understand that every ugly and destructive and murderous thing that has happened in the last 100 years has been accomplished by the hands of men and women whom Naomi probably worships.
Fuck her, and fuck everyone like her.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/23 @ 5:59 pm #
urthshu, food sharing is a vital human ritual. You want you can has some of my Nilla wafers. Gyros here I get from Emir’s Falafel, sometimes. I haven’t done that in awhile.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 6:00 pm #
You just go on listening to the voices in your head, nishi.
[smiles and nods]
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 6:00 pm #
LOL@73
nishi boooooooo
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 6:01 pm #
im watching Fox.
doubt they’d lie about that story.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 6:01 pm #
im vetcheeng Fux. duoobt zeey’d leee-a ebuoot thet stury. Bork bork bork!
Comment by TmjUtah on 9/23 @ 6:02 pm #
Kind of funny, but sad.
The big story last weekend? One kid hacked (or accessed a free mail account without authorization – if you have to be picky) and then published his motivation, his method (with detail that would bring a tear to the eye of a designer of Japanese commuter train timetables), restated his motivation, then reflected on his DISAPPOINTMENT that he was unable to find ANYTHING damaging he could point to…
… to derail the candidacy of the VP nominee HE IS CERTAIN, TO THE BLOOD IN HIS VERY VEINS, AND THE MARROW IN HIS BONES…
… to deny him his rights under the U.S. Constitution.
And then Ms. Woof and her happy herd of clowns have (at this moment) ten pages of comment lamenting the ARREST and COERCION (well, okay, restraint upon service of trespass/disturbing the peace citations) of a handful of wackaloons who absolutely put themselves inside of riots or demonstrations practicing civil disobedience, and they are shooting foam flecked paranoia back and forth faster than serves at Wimbledon…
… while not a one of them believes for one moment that their door is in danger of being kicked in. Not really. And not even if Sarah Palin and John McCain get sworn in.
They need to wise up. The threats to our freedom in this country don’t wear Nomex or carry guns. They wear two thousand dollar suits and write laws that make our tax money their piggy bank.
Children. Wackaloons.
I’m outta here. I’ll be in the Soapstone Basin, east of Kamas, Utah, for the next few days. May jump up north of State Road 150. Taking two good books on philosophy and my .50 cal Hawken.
Enjoy.
Comment by urthshu on 9/23 @ 6:02 pm #
hf – but thats from a store, so OK. Its the stuff from houses which turn my stomach gears. Kind of socially awkward, admittedly.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:04 pm #
My boots! Keep your eyes on my boots while you’re shining. Look there, you missed a spot.
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:05 pm #
Mah boots! Keep yer eyes on mah boots while yo’’re shinin’. Look thar, yo’ missed a spot.
Comment by Rightwingsparkle on 9/23 @ 6:06 pm #
I’m just gonna squeeze my take on Naomi in here. Come check it out. http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-have-our-own-nuts-here.html
Here is a tease:
“I knew Naomi Wolf had gone off the deep end when I heard her on television say one time that she had seen Jesus in her room. I mean, like standing there in front her. Now, I’m not saying Jesus appearing to someone isn’t possible, even a non-believing Jewish person such as Naomi, but I’m really thinking it had more to do with the medication she probably takes than any spiritual awakening.”
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:09 pm #
Clancey dropped the match on the floor. He watched the smoke rise up from the Lucky. “This Naomi frail, she was one of yours? Too bad about her. She couldn’t keep her head. A fisherman found that this morning; the county boys and the Coast Guard are dragging the bay right now for the rest. That’s a lot of work to deal with a dime-a-dozen web screecher, even if she did provide fashion tips for the up-and-coming green activist.”
Clancey drew on the cigarette and watched the exhaled smoke rise up to the ceiling tiles.
Comment by TmjUtah on 9/23 @ 6:09 pm #
Oh, and pursuant to my #81, I was impressed by the number of our Canadian neighbors that have chosen to weigh in on this subject.
Must have built a lot of libraries up there, I guess; it’s good to see them finally getting on the innertubes.
(rimshot)
But really: Canadians – my neighbors, my friends – those of you that have problems with McCain/Palin, please just post up your spare bedrooms on Craigslist, and help out our Dems after they lose in November.
They’ll only be there until they need dental work. Or an appendectomy that can’t wait two weeks. Or to give birth. But they’ll be boon companions for the short while they are there, none the less.
You won’t even have to go to the library to chat with them!
Win. Win.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:14 pm #
Hello, whore. Are you a dumb white hick, whore?
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:15 pm #
Howdy, who’e. Is yo’ a dumb white hick, who’e?
Comment by thorium on 9/23 @ 6:17 pm #
“Are you a dumb white hick whore?”
No, but yo mamma sho is.
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 6:18 pm #
The thing that I find unsettling is that throughout my life when the Left accuses the Right of doing something evil it is something they themselves want to do and will if they have the opportunity as in this.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 6:19 pm #
Wipe the white stuff off your chin, thor.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:19 pm #
Clancey lowered his gaze to ‘archie’ and gave a thin smile. “You won’t talk? I guess you’re just another tough guy. You can go.”
Archie sat up straight. “Go? What do you mean ‘go’?”
“I mean go, punk. You can leave, and if you don’t I’ll have you tossed out; you’re stinkin’ the place up.”
Archie rose from the chair, a smirk on his lips.
“Just one thing, buster,” Clancey said.
“What?”
“Hope your pals like you now that you’ve been talkin’ to me. They got really strong opinions about people bein’ friendly with people like me.”
Archie’s face went white, the smirk remaining like a faded billboard.
“In fact,” Clancey smiled and draped his arm around Archies’ shoulders, “We’re gonna walk out of here like we’re the best of buds – BFF you punks call it.”
Archie looked like death as Clancey walked him out of the doors of the headquarters building and said “See ya, buddy.”
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 6:22 pm #
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 6:18 pm #
Jonah Goldberg.
“Liberal Fascism”.
Of course the reactionary left accuses conservatives of atrocity, and of course the reactionary left actually commits the atrocities. They lie. It’s what they do.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:22 pm #
I may have read too much Raymond Chandler.
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 6:25 pm #
You can never read too much Raymond Chandler.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 6:30 pm #
Earth colors to Naomi Klein
Comment by tanstaafl on 9/23 @ 6:30 pm #
Naomi Wolf is mentally unstable.
She shares the deep affinity to paranoia with George Soros.
I hope this helps.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:32 pm #
And the sticky rim of you poo-poo hole? Wipe the jizz and dingles mix, eh!
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 6:33 pm #
I wonder if Naomi has Trojan Vagina envy.
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:33 pm #
An’ th’ sticky rim of yo’ poo-poo hole? Wipe th’ jizz an’ din’les mix, eh! Fry mah hide!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:39 pm #
True that, geoff b; true that.
All that deconstructionism means is that you can’t enjoy the gift of a story as just a story.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:40 pm #
Chandler is about your speed, besides he was queer as square fruit.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:40 pm #
Oh – just for fun! Back to School!
Dean Martin: [Barbay has arrived at the groundbreaking of the new Melon School of Business] Ah, Phillip…so glad you could make it. Mr. Melon, this is Dr. Phillip Barbay. He’s the dean of our new Melon School of Business.
Dr. Phillip Barbay: [Thornton extends his hand, Barbay refuses it and takes Martin aside] David, I just want to get it on record that I am totally against this. I don’t think that selling admission to an obviously unqualified student is either ethical or honorable.
Dean Martin: Uh, right…Phil. In Mr. Melon’s defense, it was a really big check.
Dr. Phillip Barbay: [glaring at Martin in dismay] It’s a simple matter of undermining the efforts of our best students, who are here as the result of hard work!
Thornton Melon: [chiming in] Hard work? Listen, Sherlock! While you were tucked away up here working on your ethics, I was out there busting my hump in the REAL world. And the reason guys like you got a place to teach is ’cause guys like me donate buildings.
Dr. Phillip Barbay: [rudely] I wasn’t speaking to you, Mr. Melon.
[turns on heel and heads to his car]
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 6:42 pm #
Ya know a Trojan Vagina is sortof like putting the rubber machine outside of the wymens room.
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:42 pm #
Chan’ler is about yer speed, ’sides, he wur as queer as square fruity-loops.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:44 pm #
Mikey, were you a busy hick this weekend?
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:45 pm #
upremacists distribute fliers attackin’ Obama Leaflets is delivahed in some Roxbury neighbo’hoods on over weekend Tuesday, Seppember 23, 2008 BY LAWRENCE RAGONESE Star-Ledger Staff Some neighbo’hoods in Roxbury were blanketed on over th’ weekend wif campaign literature fum a white supremacist, anti-immigrashun group thet bluntly raised th’ issue of race regardin’ presidential kindidate Bareeck Obama, offendin’ some recipients an’ angerin’ Democratic leaders. A flier lef’ on driveways in a neatly packaged plastic invelope an’ distributed by a group named th’ League of South Car’linan Patriots, wif a Butler mailin’ address, quesshuned, “Do Yo’ Want A Black President?†an’ stated “Black Ruled Nashuns most unstable an’ violent in th’ wo’ld, cuss it all t’ tarnation.†Ichabody, were yo’ a busy hick this hyar weekend?
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 6:45 pm #
Not a barracuda, a poodlecuda</a.
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 6:46 pm #
One of the best gifts my wife ever gave me was a multi volume complete works of Raymond Chandler. She is more in love with Arthur Conan Doyle but indulges me.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 6:46 pm #
like i said, if she’s qualled, show ‘em or fold ‘em.
Comment by crablice penginshit on 9/23 @ 6:47 pm #
leeke-a i seeed, iff she-a’s qooelled, shoo ‘im oor fuld ‘im.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:47 pm #
Enjoying a story – without a professor or a director or an actor geting between you and the author. That is what Prof. Turner in ‘Back to School’ told Thornton Melon.
Otherwise, what is the point of a story? It certainly can’t be to give some old dried-out wanna-be Stalinist his chance to be at the top of a manure pile (Hi, Prof. Ayers!)
A story is a gift, and how we treat that gift says everything about us and nothing about the author.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 6:49 pm #
are the American people seriously going to vote for a VP that is too weak and ignorant to take questions?
Comment by crablice penginshit on 9/23 @ 6:49 pm #
ere-a zee Emereecun peuple-a sereeuoosly gueeng tu fute-a fur a FeePee thet is tuu veek und ignurunt tu teke-a qooesshuns?
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 6:50 pm #
<blockquoteSeptember 24, 2008
Republican Sarah Palin meets her first foreign leader
My, what big teeth they have, remarked Palin.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 6:51 pm #
Just admit it, Jeff, Aldo.
Palin is profoundly unqualled.
When has the VP candidate needed on the job training?
Isn’t that the diametric opposite of “ready”?
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 6:51 pm #
Joost edmeet it, Jeffff, Eldu. Peleen is pruffuoondly unqooelled. Bork bork bork! Vhee hes zee FP cundeedete-a needed oon zee jub treeening? Isn’t thet zee deeemetric ooppuseete-a ooff “reedy�
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:52 pm #
Republican Sareeh Palin meets her fust fo’eign leader Mah, whut trimenjus teeth they have, remarked Palin, as enny fool kin plainly see.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 6:52 pm #
Seems like Andrea Mitchell was complaining about access to Obama when he was on his European Tour. Remember? He wouldn’t visit the wounded troops because they wouldn’t let him take in his halo-machine. Lighting is very important.
So he put on his waffle shoes and worked out on the elliptical until his manboobs glistened.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 6:53 pm #
117 barneyfranksunderwear
“When has the
VPPresidential candidate needed on the job training?”Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 6:55 pm #
I enjoy Raymond Chadlers’ stories, geoff b., but I also like Conan Doyle. I have a ‘Complete Shelock Holmes’ and was re-reading the ‘priory school’ last night.
Druthers are with story-telling; but a good writer is like a cool glass of water on a dry day. I think I’ll touch in on ‘A Study In Scarlet’ again; then re-read ‘Red Wind’.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/23 @ 6:55 pm #
See? Readiness to take questions from a hostile press looking to turn your answers into politicized soundbites in aid of the opposing ticket is the new litmus test for President.
JUST LIKE THE FOUNDING FATHERS WANTED!
Yawn. Yawn. Yawn.
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 6:55 pm #
Sayra Paylen iz’m a hore! Ort Ort Ort! Bes fewl mooz suk in’aLaska!
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 6:55 pm #
What would BarneyFrank do with a Trojan Vagina. Is that like a wabbit foot?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/23 @ 6:57 pm #
Pretty sure that a vagina would have the same effect on Frank that a crucifix does on a vampire, dre.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 6:58 pm #
I would’ve thought Barney Frank would have come away with the most Fannie money.
hee
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:02 pm #
I think ‘Red wind’ was Chandler’s best; and would make a good movie if a director and scriptwriters and actors could be found to keep as close to the story as humanly possible.
Short stories make the best movie adaptions. ‘A Christmas Carol’ is very short, which allows it to be adapted easily, I think. Like ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 9/23 @ 7:02 pm #
#65 dre
Comment by Spiny Norman on 9/23 @ 7:03 pm #
Damned HTML.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:04 pm #
“Readiness to take questions from a hostile press looking to turn your answers into politicized soundbites in aid of the opposing ticket is the new litmus test for President.”
So wat would she do as president?
the ‘merican press is gonna be even more hostile, and the foreign press will loathe her too.
we are all elite ;).
get a clue Jeff…..you’ve been scammed by IQ-baiting.
i bet there might be some questions about this.
As the Anchorage Daily News wrote in a blistering opâ€â€ed over the weekend: “Is it too much to ask that Alaska’s governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska’s governor?” One longtime observer  a Palin fan who says she’s done “brilliant” things in the state  worried aloud to me over coffee in downtown Anchorage that allowing the McCain campaign to antagonize both parties in the legislature on her behalf could even lead to her eventual impeachment, if her bid to become Vice President fails and she returns to the state with a little less political luster.
That seems farfetched, but the whole affair is a rarity in Palin’s charmed career: a political miscalculation. To many observers, the underlying accusations in Troopergate are not all that damning. Many Alaskans have sympathy for the anxiety and frustration the Palins felt over Wooten’s continued employment. In Anchorage, I’ve heard time and again that Palin could have avoided further scrutiny with a single convivial mea culpa at the outset, apologizing in particular for her initial inaccurate denial that anyone in her administration, including herself, had contacted Monegan about Wooten. Something that simple would have defanged any investigation, and signaled to Alaskans that even as the Vice Presidential nominee, she would still be the same supposedly straight-talking Sarah they voted for overwhelmingly.
But almost every move she has made related to Troopergate since she was named McCain’s running mate has damaged her credibility and standing. Most recently the shifting public explanations for why Monegan was fired have looked shaky  at one point it was that they didn’t share the same general law enforcement priorities, at another it was that he hadn’t done enough to crack down on rural bootlegging, and most recently it was for his unauthorized travel to Washington to lobby for federal dollars. Coming after many Democrats complained that the McCain campaign appeared to be trying to run out the clock on the investigation, the campaign’s announcement that Palin will work with the Personnel Board is designed to blunt such criticism and show voters nationwide a renewed openness in the case. But it’s unclear whether the board will actually reach any findings before the November 4 election.
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 7:05 pm #
Neither Chandler nor Doyle quite rise to the level of a Celine, forget Calvino, but if you’re in want of meticulously stupid that fits comfortably up inside your muscular posterior cavity then I can see where you’re going with this. Try a little Thomas Mann, maybe, when you have extra room in there.
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 7:05 pm #
Considering that J-school grads rate only slightly higher in intelligence than bunnies, this is what should be said about Sarah Palin not having any press interrogations recently
The American people are going to vote for a VP who is too smart to take weak and ignorant questions from partisan hacks.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:08 pm #
#123 Jeff:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Then you’ve been interviewed by Charlie Gibson.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:08 pm #
so the IQ-bait is the press hates Palin, so she doesnt have to take questions from them?
How presidential.
Not!
lollollolllllol!
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 7:08 pm #
Neifer Chan’ler no’ Doyle quite rise t’th’ level of a Celine, fo’git Calvino, but eff’n yo’’re in be hankerin’ of meticulously stoopid thet fits comfo’tably up inside yer mooscular posterio’ cavity then ah can see whar yo’’re gwine wif this. Try a li’l Thomas Mann, mebbe, when yo’ haf extry room in thar.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:09 pm #
su zee IQ-beeet is zee press hetes Peleen, su she-a duesnt hefe-a tu teke-a qooesshuns frum zeem? Hoo preseedentiel. Nut! lullullulllllul!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 9/23 @ 7:10 pm #
So.. there’s a violent war about to be declared on American citizens. Ms. Wolf and her friends are the only ones clear-eyed enough to see it coming, and..
What? They’re not renouncing their citizenship and moving to Europe? Don’t they know they’ll be the first ones targeted by the coming American police state? They should be urged to flee while they can!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 9/23 @ 7:10 pm #
And take Thor and Kate with them..
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 7:13 pm #
Mikey,
You have talked me into rereading “Red Wind”.
I agree about short stories and movies. Novels call for the multiple episode treatment like a TV mini series. Unfortunately many mini series are done badly. “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy is a movie exception.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 7:13 pm #
If a police state is coming, why isn’t Naomi Klein telling us what the agents of the STATE should be wearing? I mean earth tones simply will not do!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:14 pm #
C.S. Forester and Kenneth Roberts are also good, but you have to take them in measured doses.
Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson are fun.
P.G. Wodehouse just makes the words dance and the language laugh.
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/23 @ 7:14 pm #
*Chris Paolini, I know dragons, and dragons, good sir, ARE NOT VEGETARIANS!!!! *
Favorite comment of the day.
Also
*Scientists maybe?*
Well yeah- I’d love a genetically enhanced left nut. I could fit it with a spotlight or a disco ball.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:14 pm #
where is her courage?
is she a scrappy lipstickedpitbull or a pathetic poodle hiding under granny mccain’s skirts?
mccain is committed to public financing.
how much visibility will Palin get if the newsmedia goes dark on her?
how many commericials can mccain afford?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/23 @ 7:14 pm #
If I’m going to be one of these agents, I simply insist on Hugo Boss. Preferably in black.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:15 pm #
vhere-a is her cuoorege-a? is she-a a screppy leepstickedpitbooll oor a pezeeteec puudle-a heeding under grunny mcceeen’s skurts? mcceeen is cummeetted tu poobleec feenuncing. hoo mooch feesibility veell Peleen get iff zee noosmedeea gues derk oon her? hoo muny cummereeciels cun mcceeen effffurd?
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:16 pm #
and…what gawdawful stupid thing do they think she is going to say?
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/23 @ 7:16 pm #
nishi if you could maybe start your lengthy posts with some kind of introductory premise – for example “Dick Cheney is Satan and here’s why”, it would save me alot of trouble of trying to parse your post and determine wtf you are saying.
Thanks in advance.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:16 pm #
und…vhet gevdevffool stoopeed theeng du zeey theenk she-a is gueeng tu sey?
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/23 @ 7:17 pm #
*where is her courage?*
Lol really ? Taking on her own party AND the old boy establishment. That takes… well balls. Which Sarah doesnt have but she has courage in spades. THe fact that you would even question this woman’s courage is telling. What courageous thing have YOU done in the last 5 years? And “speaking truth to power” does not count.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:17 pm #
exactly what are we being quarantined from?
is the Cone of Silence goin to extend right up to the election?
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:17 pm #
exectly vhet ere-a ve-a beeeng qooerunteened frum? is zee Cune-a ooff Seelence-a gueen tu ixtend reeght up tu zee ilecshun?
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:18 pm #
well Matt, she isnt being very courageous now, is she?
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 7:19 pm #
Sarah got balls. Ask the moose.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:20 pm #
#140 geoff b.:
It’s the time factor. A novel has so much going on that a movie can only skim, leaving the audience with the feeling that the banquest was short a few courses. A short story doesn’t do that.
Imagine a movie version of ‘The Ransom of Red Chief’.
It would cost little, but I think it would make so much in return to pay for all of the years’ big projects.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:20 pm #
shes duckin and runnin from reporters just like Edwards runnin from the Nat’l Enquirer.
why?
is she so stupid that shes gonna say something that will destroy McCain’s campaign?
is she that inexperienced and unprepared?
why should we believe she will be any more prepared in 40 days?
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:21 pm #
vell Mett, she-a isnt beeeng fery cuooregeuoos noo, is she-a?
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/23 @ 7:21 pm #
shes doockeen und roonneen frum repurters joost leeke-a Idverds roonneen frum zee Net’l Inqoourer. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! vhy? is she-a su stoopeed thet shes gunna sey sumetheeng thet veell destruy McCeeen’s cempeeegn? is she-a thet inexpereeenced und unprepered? vhy shuoold ve-a beleeefe-a she-a veell be-a uny mure-a prepered in 40 deys?
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 7:21 pm #
I’m with nishi. This country needs courage. The kind of courage it takes to remain silent about the NYT doing the General Betray Us thing and then running out the back door just before the denouncement vote to stay in Daddy Soros’s good graces.
Cour-AH-hee
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 7:21 pm #
You wish there was a “Cone of Silence” around my man Joey Biden.
Opening Nov. 10th, 2008 @ Harrahs Las Vegas
Comment by whore on 9/23 @ 7:23 pm #
Shtopn yor fun’n on mah Sayrah hore! Sha givn al’er neez caypayballs of’a givn! Shay goots bess leps an jawz n’towen.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/23 @ 7:23 pm #
I was kidding, of course. Obama is not courageous at all. He’s more of a pussy.
Too obvious?
Comment by geoffb on 9/23 @ 7:24 pm #
What seems to lost on all the trolls around is that the idea is to win the election. Being on Chris Matthew’s or David Gregory’s Christmas gift list is not a prerequisite for that.
In other words, screwing the “press” is a good thing. It’s a feature!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:25 pm #
Matt, Matt.
Just let me know what kind of stories you like, and run with that. It’s more fun, like the garage guys in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ racing around in the Ferrari – you got this car and the keys, and IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 7:37 pm #
Ugh. I don’t agree with any of this escalated bullshit. Palin’s gone before the press. She’s not stellar, but so what?
Comment by Rightwingsparkle on 9/23 @ 7:40 pm #
urthshu just referenced a pro-Palin article by a pro-choice wiccan guy, so I think we have come full circle here.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:42 pm #
Now to be even more OT (like Naomi Wolf’s rant has any relevance to anything anywhere at anytime) Lightship 82 was sunk on Lake Erie during the November 1913 storm. The wreck was found when fishermens’ nets got fouled, was raised, and returned to service as an auxiliary light vessel (used when the regular lightship had to go into port in season). The only thing they got from it before the wreck was found was a panel with the words ‘Good-bye, Nellie. The ship is breaking up fast. Williams.’
Makes all of the rest of this seem so petty, doesn’t it?
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 7:43 pm #
“She’s not stellar”
“Um,oom,ah,Trojan Vagina,um oooh, uuuum”
Barack Obama
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 7:44 pm #
How the hell did the “Edmund Fitzgerald” get into this.
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 7:45 pm #
I’ve clearly wandered into a rave. Excuse me, I’ll collect my boa and begone.
Comment by Pablo on 9/23 @ 7:46 pm #
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,†Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’â€Â
If Bozo is the President, Joey Hairplugs is qualified to be a heartbeat away. Even though he can’t get people to vote for him.
Comment by Marlon Brando on 9/23 @ 7:48 pm #
STELLLLLLLLLAAAAAAA!
Comment by ST on 9/23 @ 7:56 pm #
I just wanted go on record as being a committed fan of watercress.
Even though it was introduced to me against my will as a captive of the Amish as a young lad, I grew to appreciate it’s peppery versatility once I put those hellish years behind me.
Sarah Palin? They should let that poor woman out of the attic and let her speak her mind about leafy vegatables.
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 7:57 pm #
I’m not too worried about Biden. Worse comes to worst, he just explodes in an immolation of what the fuck.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 7:58 pm #
I would like to know, just for personal entertainment, how Naomi Wolf’s fantasias and William Ayers’ grim ideology deals with this.
http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/light/light-vessel.htm
The world is bigger than your egos, baby-boomers.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:02 pm #
#169 dre:
I didn’t raise the Big Fitz’s twenty-nine ghosts.
Just a big bucket of water on the fevered ones.
And if there is to be a thread-jacking, it should be educational, no?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 8:04 pm #
“Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:16 pm #
and…what gawdawful stupid thing do they think she is going to say?”
They fear, they DREAD, that she’ll say something that comes within 50
AUs of being as stupid, boring and mendouchous as your craptacular ravenings, you fucking idiot.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 8:06 pm #
“Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/23 @ 7:17 pm #
exactly what are we being quarantined from?
is the Cone of Silence goin to extend right up to the election?”
My fervent wish is that it’d extend right up your stupid ass, you fucknozzle.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:11 pm #
Oh, and way OT:
RMS Olympic was a troopship during WWI. After the war she carried a bronze tablet:
This tablet presented by the 59th Regiment United States Infantry, commemorates the sinking of the German submarine U103 by the Olympic on 12 May 1918 in lat. 49°16′N., long. 4°45′W on the voyage from New York to Southampton with American troops.
Olympic fired upon, and rammed, the U-103. She sank it, the only ocean liner to sink a sub.
Titanic’s elder sister.
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 8:14 pm #
N.OBrain, have you made any kind of substantial contribution other that automated squails against others? I’ve been busy, not keeping up. And yes “squails” is another neologism combining squalls and quails. One you have to weather, the other you shoot down indescrimately. Combine them? You have a squail.
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 8:16 pm #
shoot. Indiscriminantly. Is that right? Looks big enough.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:17 pm #
Now, N. O’Brain;
What little piece of trivial knowledge do you know? Do you know that the USS Lexington provided electric power to Tacoma, Washington? That the ‘Lady Lex’ would be equal to part of a major generating plant today? Please share OT knowledge.
*ahem*
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:18 pm #
cynn, N. O’Brain has contributed more to these threads than many others. Look it up if you doubt me.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:20 pm #
Mikey now must go to bed. ’scuse me.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/23 @ 8:26 pm #
Mikey,
Thanks for the link to the Lightship 82 page. I remember reading about it once and now that I am home looked up the book. It’s called “Ships Gone Missing – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913″.
Have you ever been to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point? We went a few years ago, the UP is so nice. Also discovered another, modern, mystery writer who bases his stories up there, Steve Hamilton.
Comment by B Moe on 9/23 @ 8:41 pm #
Are there takers for left nuts? I mean, I’ve got two, near as I can tell, and I can’t see myself ever being in the market for another dude’s left nut. Do women take left nuts when they’re offered. Do they keep them in a jar in the fridge?
Scientists maybe?
What i want to know is, when you are all up on that shit, about to get a nut, and then her kid wakes up or her old man gets home early or some shit and you got to go all of a sudden… is that a left nut? I mean, you had to leave it there, you know? So I must have a couple dozen left nuts if that is how you figure them, is all I am saying.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/23 @ 8:42 pm #
Ah, you went while I slowly wrote.
Thanks for the reminder of the 1913 storm.
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 8:44 pm #
@ 176
lol getchagoomme
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 8:56 pm #
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/23 @ 8:17 pm #
Holy Crap, Batman, er, Mikey, you won’t believe this, but I met a WWII vet, TODAY, who sailed on the Lex, CV-16, on his way to the Lex reunion, getting on a train going to S. Carolina, I do believe.
He affectionately called her “The Blue Ghost”.
HA!, from wiki:
“The Blue Ghost
Part of the reason for the nickname the “Blue Ghost” was the fact the Lexington CV-16 was painted dark blue and was the only carrier not to wear camouflage. “She sinks beneath the deep blue seas each evening, all hands aboard, only to re-appear each morning on the horizon.” This aspect was used to demoralize the Japanese as they could not sink the Lexington since she was so heavily defended.”
The gentleman said that Tokyo Rose had claimed the Lex was sunk 3 or 4 times.
I always stop and talk to the elderly, usually gentlemen, wearing “WWII Vet” or “DD 234″ or “BB 16″ hats.
Too few of them left.
Too few.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/23 @ 8:59 pm #
Comment by cynn on 9/23 @ 8:14 pm #
My contribution cynn, is bitchslapping the fucktards.
It improves the breed, and besides, it’s fun.
Comment by Blitz on 9/23 @ 9:02 pm #
Kate? in deep reverence to your continual downwards spiral into insanity shown here? I offer you this, hoping it will comfort you…
‘Cause suicide is painless,
It brings on many changes,
And I can take or leave it if I please
Seriously Kate…you wish to bring eugenics back into the mainstream, so I suggest you be the first…
Comment by dre on 9/23 @ 9:11 pm #
Change You Can Believe In:
And I can take or leave it if I please
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 9:12 pm #
Knock yourself out, little girl.
Comment by Blitz on 9/23 @ 9:12 pm #
And as long as the asshole known as THOR is weighing in? Thor? the bushes in front of your building may be able to hide a body, but they cannot hide your cowardice, nor your bullying attitude towards your betters. Just a question though? Is THAT where you rape the babies? ‘cus if so, I’d get a better place if I were you…People are watching you asshole. You’re NOT as good on a proxy as you thought you were….
Comment by thor on 9/23 @ 9:15 pm #
I don’t use a proxy, ya squeaky fag.
Comment by McGehee on 9/23 @ 9:22 pm #
Archie came to standing alone on a street corner in a strange part of town. It was late at night, he thought — the stars were out, the streets empty — but the last thing he remembered was being walked out of the police station by that creepy detective Clancy.
“Did he slip me a roofie?” Archie wondered out loud as he went to check his pockets.
“Shit,” he said as he realized he wasn’t wearing any pants.
Comment by Blitz on 9/23 @ 9:30 pm #
Fag? best ya got? Trust me hammerjerk, people better than me are watching…and yes, accordng to the experts, you DO use a proxy. Now about those bushes? In FLORIDA???….shit…shrubs. you couldn’t possibly hide all our “claimed” bodies behind them. Here in New England? we know our shrubberies. Let me be the first to invite you behind mine….
Comment by TmjUtah on 9/23 @ 9:41 pm #
If thirty men wearing cheesy armor and waving prop swords spilled out of a Trojan vagina in my back yard, I’d wonder how extreme Pam Anderson’s circumstances were that she was working for the Sci Fi channel Friday night movie department…
Patrick O’Brian RULES. In measured doses, measured like a junkie does. Terry Prachett has written exactly TWO out of a bazillion books that weren’t cover to cover excellent.
And couldn’t make it up the canyon tonight to hunt tomorrow; too many old boys grimly clinging to their guns but sadly forgetting to secure their trailers and loads before heading up the canyon.
Comment by Blitz on 9/23 @ 9:45 pm #
Dre? Hell, the little eugenicist want to mess with the gene pool. She shouldn’t breed I think.
If that wasn’t to # 191, I apologise.
Comment by Blitz on 9/23 @ 9:50 pm #
TMJ? We have a movie there, but we nees Shannon Elizabeth as the Queen and Eliza Cuthbert as her lesbian lover/General of the armies.
May I suggest a cameo of Zenas’ blonde girlfriend(forget her name) as Shannons mother and that really hot girl from “Buffy the Vamoire Slayer” as Hercules?
I’ll be in my bunk…..
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/23 @ 9:53 pm #
Please, do not feed the fucking troll. The troll is here to be fed, and for no other reason. It’s like feeding bears at Yellowstone. The bear is not going to meet you for a fight; the bear just wants your pickanic basket.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/23 @ 10:03 pm #
I think Jellystone is closer. Yogi and his sidekick Booboo.
Comment by TmjUtah on 9/23 @ 10:44 pm #
Hmmm. Style elements…lesbians? I don’t think we can have the head shed (no pun intended) going all greek without the rank and file lining up for a munch. Tactically and politically unsound, that… wait one.
Alright: “Props!”
“You’ve got thirty girls here. Pretty good lookers, and we’ve got camera angles for the rest. Now you see the two up front? No, the TWO, not their FOUR. Yeah, yeah, kinda like stars on a general… and no, generals generally don’t do that…OR that. And I’m sure it’s not in any regulation what she’d doing with the but of her knife there. No, NO, don’t need to know about your wife’s toothbrush.
Listen, We got thirty lesbians, all armed to the teeth, all dressed up and uh ready to go. What do you think is going to happen? No, I DON’T know where the amphora of olive oil is… but look ,they all have the same shoes? *ssshhhhhhh* When they notice, we’re done shooting for the day. Lions and tigers ain’t in it.
So, by tomorrow, thirty UNIQUE pairs of racy shoes. No damned crocs, either. Spread out the new shoes whisper to each one she’s the prettiest and BAM Bob’s your unkie.
Oh, and props – tell gaffer that Ms. Andersen needs more oil. His crew MUST be in their harnesses before they touch a bucket, and no exceptions. Workmen’s isn’t buying that “slipped and crushed in cleavage” line unless we send video again, and marketting waved off that one without blinking.”
Comment by Gray on 9/23 @ 10:45 pm #
Cour-AH-hee
Currahee?! I was 1/506 IN….
shes doockeen und roonneen frum repurters joost leeke-a Idverds roonneen frum zee Net’l Inqoourer….
I skip queefquist’s posts and read these instead. Don’t stop, that’s teh funnee!!
Comment by Merovign on 9/24 @ 12:32 am #
Not fond of earth tones.
Sorry, I was referring to the post – I should know better by now.
Comment by SteveG on 9/24 @ 1:54 am #
RE: #3 “where can i get one of those?”
Hypothetically you might… as I may have heard… find one here: http://www.realdolls.com
The testamonials seem a bit optimistic while the basement photos provide a peek into trolldom
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 3:51 am #
When did having a fawning press becoming a requirement for office? Was it when the press decided to go all-out for the O?
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 6:11 am #
how about not runnin from the press being the requirement?
its simply ludicrous that Palin pretends to the highest office in the land can’t even stand and take questions from the press.
it isnt presidential.
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/24 @ 6:13 am #
hoo ebuoot nut roonneen frum zee press beeeng zee reqoourement?
its seemply loodeecruoos thet Peleen pretends tu zee heeghest ooffffeece-a in zee lund cun’t ifee stund und teke-a qooesshuns frum zee press. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
it isnt preseedentiel.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 6:15 am #
here is a wee thought experiment for u Jeff and Aldo— if Palin was a man……wouldn’t you all think he was a chickenshit coward for not standing up to the press?
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/24 @ 6:15 am #
here-a is a vee-a thuooght ixpereement fur u Jeffff und Eldu iff Peleen ves a mun……vuooldn’t yuoo ell theenk he-a ves a cheeckenshit cooerd fur nut stundeeng up tu zee press?
Comment by B Moe on 9/24 @ 6:19 am #
When has the VP candidate needed on the job training?
Yesterday.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/video-on-clean-coal-biden-takes-bold-stand-against-um-obamas-position/
Comment by McGehee on 9/24 @ 6:19 am #
Kate makes a cameo appearance in the funny papers!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/24 @ 6:25 am #
#189 BJ:
No kidding? I know a guy, friend of my folks, who was on USS Lexington CV-16 also.
Funny world, eh?
(The Lexington I referenced earlier was CV-2, lost at Coral Sea.)
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/24 @ 6:30 am #
#185 geoffb:
Yep, I was up there a few years ago. Interesting place.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 6:57 am #
Dear Sarah Palin
I’m sorry for initially mocking you.
Honestly, I thought it was a joke candidacy and gave in to the always seductive temptation of laughter.
But it seems that you actually think you might have the qualls to be the president in four years, or sooner i guess if Septugenarian Guy succumbs to either cancer or senile dementia.
Let me disabuse you of that notion.
Im perfectly willing at this point to give you a chance to prove you’re qualified. But how are you going to that whan you ducking and runnin from the media? Isn’t Team McCain treating you in a profoundly sexist fashion, protecting you from the big bad media?
If you were a man, Gov. Palin, at this point we would be talking about cowardice and hiding things. I thought your big claim to fame to is being a crackerjack reformer, facing down big government.
Do crackerjack reformers run from the press?
At this point I dont see much pitbull in you, Gov. Palin.
You are far more like a timid teacup poodle, hiding behind her master’s skirts and the popular meme that you dont need to to talk to the press because “the elites are all against you”.
You see, it is IQ-baiting, pure and simple.
You think you dont have to answer questions because the questioners are hostile?
Welcome to the real world.
I’m sorry, but I just think the leader of the Free World out to have to have the nads to stand up to bullies, whether they are a man or a woman, and whether the bullies are in the MSM or the UN.
And the fact that you aren’t doing it….well that makes me think that Team McCain is running a confidence game and that…you have nothing.
Is this all a bluff?
You say you are “ready”, but you dont act “ready”.
So Sarah Palin….I have one request for you.
Cowboy up and quit teh whinage.
Show ‘em or fold ‘em.
Best Witches,
Kate
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/24 @ 7:00 am #
why is nishi being called “Kate”?
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 7:02 am #
Damn straight, Kate.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 7:02 am #
Move along, troll.
Comment by McGehee on 9/24 @ 7:15 am #
<evil, maniacal cackle>
</Rove>
Comment by JD on 9/24 @ 7:21 am #
Does the nishit ever STFU?!
Comment by JD on 9/24 @ 7:23 am #
It is like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman chanting “10 minutes until Meme #4″ over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over …
Comment by crablice penguinshit on 9/24 @ 7:28 am #
Deer Sereh Peleen
I’m surry fur ineetielly muckeeng yuu. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Hunestly, I thuooght it ves a juke-a cundeedecy und gefe-a in tu zee elveys sedoocteefe-a tempteshun ooff looghter. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Boot it seems thet yuoo ectooelly theenk yuoo meeght hefe-a zee qooells tu be-a zee preseedent in fuoor yeers, oor suuner i gooess iff Septoogenereeun Gooy sooccoombs tu ieezeer cuncer oor seneele-a dementeea. Let me-a deeseboose-a yuoo ooff thet nushun. Im perffectly veelling et thees pueent tu geefe-a yuoo a chunce-a tu prufe-a yuoo’re-a qooeleeffied. Bork bork bork! Boot hoo ere-a yuoo gueeng tu thet vhun yuoo doockeeng und roonneen frum zee medeea? Isn’t Teem McCeeen treeteeng yuoo in a pruffuoondly sexeest fesheeun, prutecteeng yuoo frum zee beeg bed medeea? Iff yuoo vere-a a mun, Guf. Peleen, et thees pueent ve-a vuoold be-a telkeeng ebuoot cooerdeece-a und heeding theengs. Um gesh dee bork, bork! I thuooght yuoor beeg cleeem tu feme-a tu is beeeng a creckerjeck reffurmer, feceeng doon beeg gufernment. Um de hur de hur de hur. Du creckerjeck reffurmers roon frum zee press? Et thees pueent I dunt see-a mooch peetbooll in yuoo, Guf. Peleen. Bork bork bork! Yuoo ere-a fer mure-a leeke-a a teemid teecoop puudle-a, heeding beheend her mester’s skurts und zee pupooler meme-a thet yuoo dunt need tu tu telk tu zee press becoose-a “zee ileetes ere-a ell egeeenst yuooâ€Â. Yuoo see-a, it is IQ-beeeting, poore-a und seemple-a. Yuoo theenk yuoo dunt hefe-a tu unsver qooesshuns becoose-a zee qooesshuners ere-a husteele-a? Velcume-a tu zee reel vurld. Bork bork bork! I’m surry, boot I joost theenk zee leeder ooff zee Free-a Vurld oooot tu hefe-a tu hefe-a zee neds tu stund up tu boolleees, vhezeer zeey ere-a a mun oor a vumun, und vhezeer zee boolleees ere-a in zee MSM oor zee UN. Und zee fect thet yuoo eree’t dueeng it….vell thet mekes me-a theenk thet Teem McCeeen is roonneeng a cunffeedence-a geme-a und thet…yuoo hefe-a nutheeng. Is thees ell a blooffff? Yuoo sey yuoo ere-a “reedyâ€Â, boot yuoo dunt ect “reedyâ€Â. Su Sereh Peleen….I hefe-a oone-a reqooest fur yuu. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Coobuy up und qooeet teh vheenege-a. Shoo ‘im oor fuld ‘im.
Best Veetches, Kete
Comment by Nan on 9/24 @ 7:32 am #
Hah! I know that’s a fake, silly person. Nishi doesn’t use punctuation.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/24 @ 7:34 am #
Yeah, my guess would be thor.
He’s been reduced to doing poor imitations of bots and psychotic children.
What’s up, thor? Shouldn’t you be logged on to your “forex account” at this hour, gambling against your country with daddy’s money?
Comment by Katie Couric on 9/24 @ 7:37 am #
Hey, watch this! I’m fixin to black that bitch’s eye.
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Comment by Pablo on 9/24 @ 7:39 am #
Catfight!
Comment by BJTexs on 9/24 @ 7:39 am #
I’m betting that the satirist is JD.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 7:42 am #
HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHH. Thanks BJ I spilled my coffee.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 7:46 am #
You assume I’m ever logged out? You don’t know me well, obviously. I’m up $332 just 44 minutes into this hour. I like it when I hit 500-bones per.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 7:49 am #
So that’s, what, $80 a trick, plus tips?
Comment by whore on 9/24 @ 7:49 am #
Yo’ assoom I’m evah logged out? Yo’ don’t knows me fine, obviously. I’m up $332 jest 44 minutes into this hyar hour. ah like it when ah hit 500-bones per.
Comment by whore on 9/24 @ 7:50 am #
Tan mah hide Ya’ll assume I’is stopped logging mah Sayrah? Yu dun’t knows mah well, oblviousleepy. I’be up $332 in’em 44 minutoos thars hour. Me likes ‘em when I’m hitt’m 500-stokes into Sayrah Paylens bones per minutoes.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/24 @ 7:52 am #
Now, thor. You know Daddy’s going to be pissed if he has to write you another check this month.
Pretty sure thor is what used to be called a “remittance man” (or “remittance boy”, in his case), i.e., the family sends him money to stay away.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 7:53 am #
Somehow I imgagine the QUANTAX MEME GENERATOR moves at the speed of a Commodore 64.
Comment by JD on 9/24 @ 7:55 am #
It really is a fuckin’ ‘tard.
Comment by whore on 9/24 @ 8:00 am #
You probably should be working on another chapter of your latest best seller and worry about people who have money when you’re done writing.
Comment by JD on 9/24 @ 8:01 am #
BJ – Not I. The nishit is not worth the effort. Mock and scorn. Mock and scorn.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:02 am #
Yu’ems shood beeza work – bork bork bork! – on yaz nex’n chappers of’m yu bess sellah on worry’s’m bouts who’m haz munny unce yur dun ritin.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:05 am #
Comment 238 is the give-away. Thor forgot to change his name before commenting in his usual voice.
Thor == whore.
But we already knew that anyway.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/24 @ 8:05 am #
Poor thor.
Can’t even imitate a bot.
Those are some mad lit skills you have there, Remittance Boy.
Comment by B Moe on 9/24 @ 8:07 am #
thor is sock puppeting a moby? LMFAO.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/24 @ 8:07 am #
Thor == whore.
Pretty sure that the first “whore” is someone making fun of thor. Some of the later “whore” posts are thor attempting to imitate the first one. Badly.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:18 am #
Actually, hick-child Rob Crawfor is whore. I’m echo whore.
Comment by whore on 9/24 @ 8:19 am #
Mezus not hore Robb cRawfurd is’m hore. I juz ecko me’a hore’n.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:21 am #
Fuck you, thor. I’m not a fuckin’ whore!!!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:22 am #
Fuck you, thor!!!! Stop it!!!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:27 am #
Actually thor is part owner of a up and coming computer concern! If you knew how to machine custom heat sink brackets you might be the next illegal mexican he employs.
He does more than just Spindle Top.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 8:28 am #
This guy must have absolutely no life.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:29 am #
Thor, you DO know that comments are tagged by their originating IP, don’t you? Jeff can tell impostors from the real people.
Hell, I’m pretty sure you’ve been warned against that before.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:29 am #
Damn, Rob, sometimes I just fish and fuck and drink, it’s not like I work all that hard.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:31 am #
Harumph!
But blitz told me I use a proxy. So that’s that!
Comment by happyfeet on 9/24 @ 8:39 am #
Baracky has been overshadowed by recent events. The events are very big and he is very little is why.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 8:44 am #
Finally, Sarah huddled with Henry in his Park Avenue office, next to pictures of Ford and Reagan. The two made an odd couple: the last impure Rockefeller Republican and the first pure Rovian Republican, grown totally in the petri dish of cultural crusaderism.
Summoning his old Harvard teaching days, Kissinger surely looked for a common didactic starting point: She has seen Russia. “Goot. I haff seen it, too.â€Â
(A senior Palin campaign aide told CBS News’s Scott Conroy that the governor’s foreign-policy experience was atmospheric, akin to the way someone from Miami might obtain a feel for Latin America. “It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska,†the aide said. “Metaphorically, I’m talking about.â€Â)
Kissinger probably explained détente and Metternich to Palin, while she explained the Iditarod and moose carving to him.
They talked Russia, which is relevant.
Republicans, who have won so many elections painting Democrats as socialists and pinkos, have now done so much irresponsible deregulating and deficit spending that they have to avoid fiscal Armageddon by turning America into a socialist, pinko society with nationalized financial institutions and a financial czar accountable to no one and no law.
And Governor Palin spends so much time ostracizing reporters who might quiz her on NATO or the liquidity crunch that her press strategy is beginning to smack of Putin’s  but less lethal.
Even if she blows off the First Amendment  and lets McCain’s Rove, Steve Schmidt, demonize the press even though she disdains women politicians who whine
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 8:47 am #
Can you at least link to where you are cutting and pasting from Kate?
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 8:49 am #
that was Dowd.
my links arent working today.
heres Tapper
“If Sarah Palin becomes vice president, she will presumably have meetings with people who are scarier than Michael Cooper, the Times reporter who seems to have the misfortune of covering her today. I know Michael Cooper; he’s a good reporter, but not very mean at all. So why would the McCain campaign want to keep him — and other print reporters — from watching Sarah Palin shake hands with Hamid Karzai, who is also, by the way, a very nice person? What will happen, God forbid, if Sarah Palin is forced into a position where she will have to meet someone who is not so nice? Such as, say, the prime minister of Spain?”
CNN’s Campbell Brown says she’s had it with the sexist, chauvinistic treatment of Sarah Palin — by the McCain campaign, which refuses to let Palin talk to the media, since they are apparently terrified she won’t be able to handle it.
“Stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment,” Brown said. “Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be treated like a real candidate as the men do.”
– jpt
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:49 am #
Not holding press conferences violates (“blows off”) the First Amendment?
Who knew?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:50 am #
Bullshit.
Comment by quellcrist falconer on 9/24 @ 8:51 am #
the IQ-bait isnt going to work much longer.
Like we say Out Here in the West, Show ‘em or Fold ‘em, Sarah.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 8:53 am #
Do you think people that would vote for McCain would honestly give a rats ass what Jake Tapper or Mareen Dowd think?
PS I did laugh at the comparison of Palin to Putin though.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:54 am #
Oh, the poor, poor press! Someone they’ve been spreading lies about is unwilling to talk to them! Oh, how horrible!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/24 @ 8:54 am #
What? Wait – I’ll go check Hey, Jeff! Does Sarah ever come here?
He said she never comes here.
No problem, you’re welcome.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/24 @ 8:54 am #
That’s just IQ-bait!
Whatever the hell that means.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:55 am #
I have just fired off a very terse letter to the Senate Banking Committee.
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Form
Just say “no” to allowing our tax money to be used in wallpapering Wall Street!
The U.S. Gov’t borrowing money to bail out private lenders! What a racket!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 8:55 am #
I doubt anyone on here other than Kate or thor would read a Mareen Dowd column for anything other than amusement.
Comment by thor on 9/24 @ 8:59 am #
Yes, I read Maureen Dowd and I read the NYT.
Reading such prevents me from being an ignorant fuck, like you.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/24 @ 8:59 am #
Alternate realities for sale.
Cheap.
Live in your own world.
You make all the rules.
You write the scripts for all.
Be all you think should be.
Disclaimer:
Not responsible for any loss of sanity.
Not valid in all mental states.
No returns accepted.
No money or reality back.
Abandon all hope once package is opened.
Wise use not possible or recommended.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 9:04 am #
Anyone that believes the NYTimes is a non-partisan entity and worthy of citation when writing about domestic politics is a freakin idiot.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/24 @ 9:08 am #
Mikey,
Re: Raymond Chandler
I like the novels best myself. The opening to “Farewell, My Lovely” is a favorite.
One problem I have with the short stories is that I saw video versions on HBO back many years ago of quite a few before I had read them and that imprints the image in my mind so I see that version whereas if I hadn’t watched a video first my own imagination could see the story in my own minds eye. I have the same problem with “The Big Sleep” but at least that has Bogart and Becall.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 9:08 am #
For an encore you two should bring in citations from Cornell West to describe the quasi-fascism of the Bush regime. That will surely convince everyone in here of your intellectual and moral superiority.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/24 @ 9:23 am #
The New York Times used to be. It was in my lifetime even. But not anymore. It’s sort of a death brand now. Maybe it has an Ovaltiney cachet for some old people. It’s a niche I guess, but not a prestigious one.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/24 @ 9:32 am #
Ah.
I read the stories before seeing the flicks.
It is a bit different when you’ve got someone else’s interpretation getting between you and the story.
Comment by Patrick on 9/24 @ 9:43 am #
This place has everything! Even the sockpuppets have sockpuppets! nishi — thor – qf – whore
Comment by ginsocal on 9/24 @ 9:47 am #
Hey, thor! Reading Dowds is WHY you’re an ignorant fuck! Get a clue, wouldja? Oh, sorry. You read the Times…
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 9:53 am #
I think the NYTimes has about the same amount of bias per day as 3 hours of Sean Hannity. Somehow I doubt Kate will come out quoting him.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/24 @ 9:54 am #
Sorry it ain’t bias anymore, it is advocacy. That was a typo.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/24 @ 10:58 am #
Frequent Maureen Dowd injections pretty much guaranteed that you’ll wind up being of irrelevant intellectual standing. Possibly anywhere from moron to genius, but overly possessed of smug, cattish assured (yet ineffectual) superiority.
Hey, that explains thor fairly well: he’s Maureen Dowd in drag.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/24 @ 11:00 am #
Hey, quit talking IQ with the nishbot. She doesn’t even know what IQ is.
Either that, or she’s dysnumeric.
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Comment by Obloodyhell on 9/24 @ 1:43 pm #
>>> Trojan Vagina
> Um, where could one buy one of these?
> Just, hypothetically, you know.
You can’t buy them, but they are a traditional Greek gift.
Comment by Obloodyhell on 9/24 @ 1:47 pm #
> Yes, I read Maureen Dowd and I read the NYT.
> Reading such prevents me from being an ignorant fuck, like you.
Actually, sneeringly and condescendingly rattling off that fact marks you as an ignorant fuck, because it’s almost certainly the only source of information you actually have, which is to say, not much of one.
Have a *nice* day.
.