Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Business As Usual

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Is there anything more hilarious than watching Jan Brewer , of all people, suddenly becoming the voice of reason, or what passes for such i...
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Lucky 13

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Been sidetracked with a metric fuckton of work and family issues lately, but the promised 2013 retrospective, Lucky '13, really is just...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Frustrated Incorporated

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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years, at the end of which they tell you to piss off; endi...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Free Speech for the Dumb

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Oh, they do jest, don't they? When did conservatives become prisoners to idiotic vulgarity? Jeez, I get that the guy is in, like, Eng...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

On the Origin of Feces

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They tell us that we lost our tails, evolving up from little snails. I say it's all just wind in sails. Are we not men? -- Bob Casale, R...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Idiocracy

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Remember, the premise of the prescient classic Idiocracy was that morons would outbreed smart people. Folks, I give you Exhibits A through ...

Better Off Ted

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This is probably another one you can file under "said it before, but it bears repeating", but whatever. When we enjoy a song or m...
Monday, February 17, 2014

I Got Your Stimulus Package Right Here

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On the fifth anniversary of the "stimulus," it's not unfair to ask what precisely it stimulated. You can see pretty effective...

The Party of Ideas

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Shorter Republican Party:  We got nuthin'. Look, I don't think that a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton dynastic dynamic is particularly u...

Magical Misery Tour

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Remember when gun enthusiasts had George Zimmerman's back , so to speak? Welp, apparently that didn't pan out so well for ol' Ge...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Menace II Society

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It's no surprise at all that a halfwit state like Florida should find itself in a quandary over the case of Michael Dunn. Dunn, you may...

True Detective

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If you haven't yet seen the HBO series True Detective , you really should. It comes compellingly close to the rarefied heights achieved ...

Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Part Duh

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One might at least creatively, rhetorically, make the argument that certitude is not bulletproof and absolute about, say, how precisely the ...
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1 Timothy 6:10

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So plutocrat performance artist Tom Perkins , apparently trying to leave no doubt amongst the proles as to whether he really is an asshole,...
Sunday, February 09, 2014

Gay for Play

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Well, it's about time -- a well-known college player from a highly-ranked program who will almost certainly be drafted comes out as gay...

The Voices in Their Heads

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Okay, we get what Bill Nye was trying to do . It's a respectable sentiment, anyway. But to call that dog-and-pony show a "debate...

Animals With Human Faces

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So this happened within the last 24 hours. I think most of us would like to think that zoos are artifices of nature, sort of a cocooned Ede...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Kristallnot

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Here's an idea that is only part polemic:  the next whiny, thieving billionaire asshole to complain about Obama being Hitler, should ge...

Gradually, Then Suddenly

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Brother Orlov has some (fairly extensive) observations about how this house o' cards comes tumbling down. Food for thought, and a solid...

Same Old Trip It Was Back Then

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In the week since Philip Seymour Hoffman's untimely demise, I find myself taken aback by two entirely predictable sentiments:  one, the ...