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March 22, 2010

Gleaming the cube: a rebuke to the idea of a “progressive” cultural singularity of cool

I’m getting a bit fed up with the insistence by statists that because they populate the arts and the academy, they have some kind of death grip on “hip.” For instance, here’s Nishi, whose only hope of ever really touching cool would be to pay somebody to fuck her once with an ice dong: Doughy Pantsload aka Jonah Goldberg is the antithesis of cool …. .he doesnt even get that

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

I thought about maybe going out and picking up a Subway turkey melt, but then I a was all like, meh, I don’t really feel much like driving — so I ate a couple slices of leftover sausage pizza and whacked off to “Three’s Company,” instead. Now I’m thinking maybe a nap. Or a Subway turkey melt, if I somehow get really really motivated.

“Good for the Gander”

From Dan Foster at the Corner: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) “will offer an amendment during Senate debate on the health care reconciliation bill this week to apply the reform legislation to the President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff,” according to a press release. Grassley said, “It’s only fair and logical that top administration officials, who fought so hard for passage of this overhaul of America’s

a self-effacing Monday afternoon joke for the benefit of all the comrades in the hizzouse

Q: How many progressives does it take to change a light bulb? A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just buy a new house! … you’re welcome.*

“The Lie of Fiscal Responsibility”

Peter Suderman, writing in Reason: Since the New Deal, American entitlements have consistently grown faster than projected in size, scope, and cost. Like unwanted houseguests, they cost money you don’t have, and they can’t be kicked out. Reform and repeal efforts are about as successful as kindergarten experiments with do-it-yourself haircuts. Indeed, the health care bill’s very structure is a testament to this fact. Much of it is funded with

Look at all the pretty colors!

See? Isn’t America, like, so much more groovy distilled to its inner rainbow…? Far out.

Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the new day in America, where social justice is ascendent, and the tyranny of the white racist patriarchy lays moribund on the ash heap of history

“So, wait. Does this mean that Screech kid has to share his Smack with me by law? Because I’m pretty tired of having to cut his lawn or style his hair just for a little fucking taste, I can tell you that much, brother.”*