I have much to do today, so here are a few links to get you through the existential emptiness brought on by my absence.
1. John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU wants your opinion on FOXNews’ coverage of Fred Thompson in Iowa. “Fair and balanced”? Or do I need to break out another installment of the adventures of RoboShep?
2. “Professors on the Battlefield.” And no, I’m not talking Ward Churchill — though I’ve no doubt if it came down to defending Ethnic Studies Departments against the capitalist pigs who sit on the Boards of Regents, he’d be willing to wield a tomahawk alongside, say, the guy from Dutch Studies, who is not above cracking some skulls with one of his big wooden slippers.
3. Visualizing data, courtesy of David Thompson — whom, interestingly enough, I happen to visualize as a literary salon wherein the tea is spiked with rum, and the cucumber sandwiches are filthy with bacon and served on Wonder Bread.
4. John Edwards, in search of the kind of publicity that his policy prescriptions simply won’t bring him, continues to pound away at Ann Coulter. This time, he calls Coulter a “She-devil.”
After which, I suspect, he retired to a spacious bathroom in the America where his 24000 sq. ft. mansion sits, put on a little Hall and Oates to set the mood, and rubbed one out.
4. Thais prepare to vote on a new Constitution a year after the coup that toppled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra — a story of interest only because it allows one to say “Thaksin Shinawatra.”
Thaksin. Shinawatra.
Mmmm. That’s the stuff.
5. Orlando police trade Reeboks for a shoulder-fire missile launcher. Tom Tancredo so far resists calling Florida “little Pakistan.”
6. And finally, over at the pub, lots of good stuff from this past week, including “Defeating Ourselves” and “Misgivings of a Stalwart Minion”.
7. Bonus Zen Mad Lib: Just as a cup is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olbermann is most __________ for his _____________.
Comment by Chuck E. Jesus on 8/18 @ 1:04 pm #
#7.
engorged
self-portait
Comment by keninnorcal on 8/18 @ 2:20 pm #
Just as a cup is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olbermann is most __________ for his _____________.
Leaving the fields blank would be most appropriate as the antithesis of Oldermann, who blusters a lot but ultimately says nothing. Other than a lack of logic, consistency, intelligence, etc. But other than that, you know…
Comment by Big Bang (Yellow Submarine edition) on 8/18 @ 2:33 pm #
Well known
vast viewing audience of his relatives.
Comment by B Moe on 8/18 @ 3:33 pm #
Just as a cup is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olbermann is most noteworthy for his being full of himself.
Comment by nikkolai on 8/18 @ 3:49 pm #
Keith Olbermann is most renowned for his past work as a fluffer for a gay porno film company.
Comment by Shawn on 8/18 @ 4:17 pm #
Just as a cup is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olbermann is most revered for his hair.
Comment by David Thompson on 8/18 @ 4:18 pm #
“…whom, interestingly enough, I happen to visualize as a literary salon wherein the tea is spiked with rum, and the cucumber sandwiches are filthy with bacon and served on Wonder Bread.â€Â
An outrage, sir. How dare you. I bestride the battlements like a titan, shaking my fist and cursing the stars. I shall make a throne from your bones.
Comment by fletch on 8/18 @ 4:19 pm #
Chuck E Jesus-
engorged
self-portait
#7? You surely meant to write (the first) “#4″… (Well, Jeff is obviously a Literature kind of guy!) :o)
Comment by The Thin Man on 8/18 @ 4:33 pm #
“…whom, interestingly enough, I happen to visualize as a literary salon wherein the tea is spiked with rum, and the cucumber sandwiches are filthy with bacon and served on Wonder Bread.â€Â
Actually, Thompson blogs from a darkened guest bathroom, with pages from Karl Poppers’ “The Open Society and Its’ Enemies” glued over the flock wallpaper, astride a Zebra hide pouff, typing with one hand and using a large torque wrench to tighten his blogging thong.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 8/18 @ 4:40 pm #
Just as a cup is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olbermann is most empty for his uselessness.
Comment by Big Bang (Yellow Submarine edition) on 8/18 @ 4:43 pm #
- Say, wouldn’t “Thaksin Shinawatra†sort of be the “Joey Buttafuoco” for the Thialanders, because you know…. reporters, especially the female ones, use to fight to do the Long Island Lolitta stories, just so they could mouth the words “Jo-ey Butt-a-fuo-cooo” on the air.
Comment by McGehee on 8/18 @ 4:48 pm #
As an intentionalist, I just have to go with the original text.
(TW: same feebleness — the Turing machine, however, appears to disagree.)
Comment by Carin on 8/18 @ 6:29 pm #
Ha! I needed a laugh McGehee.
Comment by ETinTulsa on 8/18 @ 7:01 pm #
Just as a cup of tea is most useful for its emptiness, Keith Olberman is most flexible for his repeated rectal/cranial inversion techniques.
And if he’d just quit licking his fingers afterwards too…yuck.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/18 @ 7:33 pm #
From the WSJ article on “Professors on the Battlefied”….
That seemed… counterintuitive. His full quote is here…
He demands new protocols to handle these collaborators. I’d say this is a window into where climatology is heading.
Comment by Moe Lane on 8/18 @ 8:41 pm #
3. Visualizing data, courtesy of David Thompson  whom, interestingly enough, I happen to visualize as a literary salon wherein the tea is spiked with rum, and the cucumber sandwiches are filthy with bacon and served on Wonder Bread.
I’ll have the same, hold the tea, extra mayo. And can you toast the bread? Thanks.
Comment by me on 8/18 @ 9:47 pm #
I remember when Olberman was the lowly sports guy on an L.A. network affiliate back in the 80’s. I also remember he was unbearably stupid and unwatchable. I lost faith in humanity when ESPN gave him a job. Sigh.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/18 @ 10:10 pm #
Who watches Keith Olberman?
Comment by alppuccino on 8/19 @ 1:49 am #
likely to be arrested
penchant for coke and the minors
Comment by Sean M. on 8/19 @ 2:17 am #
I realize that I’ll have to surrender my conservative credentials for saying this, but I liked Krazy Keith back then. I thought he was pretty funny. I had no idea then how fucked-up a loser he actually was.
Oh, and I’d fill in the mad lib blanks with “tumescent” and “regard for himself as a wannabe Edward R. Murrow.”
Comment by RiverC on 8/19 @ 5:09 am #
Wait, I know this one… there is no mad lib. Instead, there is a series of blank spaces that are presented in such a way that one might think one has to add words. Instead, it is best to leave the blanks empty, or rather, containing all possible words.
Om?
TW: 272-290 steep? That’s… deep, man.
Comment by Big Bang (Yellow Submarine edition) on 8/19 @ 6:55 am #
Reuters WNS….8/18/07, Switzerland: – In a blow to the latest Greenpeace “Nude-out†involving upwards of 300 activists appearing naked on a Swiss glacier to call attention to the effects of global warming, local Union 542 of the Mountain Goats Brotherhood filed a brief in Swiss Magistrate court, charging the Greenpeacers with “cruel and unusual visual abuse to animalsâ€Â, citing the horrible vision of all those semi-washed naked bodies in one place.
A spokesman for the Union, speaking on condition of anonymity said; “Damn…havn’t these people ever heard of soap and water?â€Â, to which a group of gathered Union members replied in unison…â€ÂNaaaaahhhhhhhhh…â€Â
- Pics here (warning, ocular damage may occur, proceed with caution)
…Turning to sports…
TW: moving opinions …..hopefully, they’ll move them someplace else….
Comment by Rusty on 8/19 @ 8:11 am #
Oh thanks a lot BB! More saggin asses than an AARP convention. I remember when hippie chicks were hot. Or I was stoned more often.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/19 @ 8:31 am #
That Hayden quote speaks to the sorry state of affairs in today’s academy.
There is a “correct” way to think — and “correct” programs designed to produce and enforce such thought — and all else is dangerous and must be strangled in its crib.
Our institutions of higher learning have been reduced to breeding grounds for orthodoxy, guarded by entrenched high priests of the Narrative.
What the world needs now is a good civics lesson.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 8:35 am #
So some photographer got a bunch of people to roll around naked on a ginormous sheet of ice, and that is supposed to somehow lend credibility to a movement whose biggest pr problem is they are perceived as a bunch of gullible quacks? Am I missing something here?
Comment by pst314 on 8/19 @ 10:53 am #
“programs designed ultimately to kill people”
Dishonest rhetoric, of course, for Tom Hayden has never had any objection to killing people, only to killing people who were killing on behalf of tyranny.
Comment by T&T on 8/20 @ 9:19 am #
Jeff,
I’m visiting friends who subscribe to World Magazine. A recent article (see http://www.worldmag.com/articles/13235, requires log in) discusses a poll of tenured profs who admit prejudices against several groups. The poll was not taken by a Christian group, so it is at least nominally disinterested in the results regarding evangelicals. 53% of profs interviewed admit prejudices against Ev. Christians. Mormons came in a distant second.
T&T
Comment by RDub on 8/20 @ 11:16 am #
I realize that I’ll have to surrender my conservative credentials for saying this, but I liked Krazy Keith back then. I thought he was pretty funny. I had no idea then how fucked-up a loser he actually was.
You’re not alone. My buddies and I used to enjoy his antics on Sportscenter when he was paired up with Dan Patrick. Even then, when he left the first thing I said was “Really? Someone gave that guy his own radio show, much less anchor gig?”
Comment by The Left on 8/20 @ 4:21 pm #
I think I’m going to start my own gun exchange program. I can buy tennis shoes pretty cheap. Anything I get that’s useless, I’ll just bury at the farm.
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