If I live to be 80, I’d like think I’d be in a bar and if someone asked for requests from the music server, I would say something like, “Play some Metallica, you pussies.”  I might throw in a few muttered “damn punks” and “frelling kids” just to round out my curmudgeonly display.

There had been in the back of my brain this nagging sense that I recalled an analogue to Obamamania earlier in life, but I couldn’t recall what it was.  On the way to work today, I realized it was Haile Selassie I.  I don’t really know much about the man, but I recall his posture as a head of state during my childhood, and I knew that he was a religious

From Out & About, a gay-oriented newspaper, comes their version of the terrible tragedy wrought by an anti-Christian gunman at a Knoxville church.  The death toll has now reached two. Out & About’s story recasts this as a possible anti-gay hate crime because the church in question was “gay affirming.”  Among other details, we learn that the church had recently put up a sign specifically inviting gays to become parishioners, and

RCP’s Jay Cost notes (as noted here) that John McCain’s campaign still seems like a pudding without a theme, but also argues that Barack Obama’s campaign “is built around a faulty, occasionally absurd meta-narrative”: Obama’s narrative should be similar to [Bill] Clinton’s [i.e., generational change can invigorate a tired government and grow a sagging economy]. It’s tailor-made for a year like this and a man like Obama. But that is not the

Even following his World Tour, Barack Obama is sticking by his opposition to the “surge” of roops to quell violence in Iraq.  He has consistently argued that the addition of troops would take the pressure off of the Iraqis to reach the political accomodation necessary to stability in the long term. At the same time, Obama is advocating a surge of troops into Afghanistan.  He is doing so despite his own opinion

Don’t worry, though. He’s proud to be an incontinent sheep. I’ve got to work today, so I thought I’d just package this up in a title that might get some RSS action. I’d feel sorry for this piece of work, if he weren’t such a POS. The conversation about the Bitter Critter and some good sleuthing on behalf of the commenters can be found here. Karl and Darleen will have

Blowjob. on Happy Mother’s Day! [Dan Collins]

Baddie by: David Brown You do not do, you do not do Any more, damned Jew The which I have suffered to post For seven years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Baddie, I would like to fuck you. You left before I had time– Marble-heavy, a family man, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Wide as a Frisco ass And a head like the freakish wingnutter’s

Lamb Cannon Armadillos, vacuity, endless self-referential garble. Jeff–from the bottom of my heart–fuck you and your hydroencephalic prick kid. No one cares about you and/or your little pink dick. There, I just said it! What needed to be said! From Goodbye, 2008/07/27 at 1:48 PM Let’s do a bit of research, shall we? Our brave contributor didn’t leave an email address, but I’m glad he feels relieved of his burden

Go thou forth and listen to it, for it will bring thee light. [h/t serr8d]