Hammer Of The Blogs

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Fire in the Hole

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From the Season's Bleedings file comes this Christmas heartwarmer : COLTON, Ore. -- A 2-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the c...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Rebels Without Pause

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After a year punctuated more and more by health scares and cancelled shows, Lemmy has died. The seemingly indestructible icon passed just a...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Have It Your Way, Part 3: Your Call Is Important to Us

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A short parable about customer service in the era of optimization: Since I live in a fairly rural area of Northern California (although I...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Have It Your Way, Part 2: The Trumpening

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( A real thing, by the way. Ain't 'murka grate? ) The nineteenth season of South Park just ended, and the final trilogy of episod...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Have It Your Way

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One of the cornerstone concepts we covered in MBA grad school was customer service. By "cornerstone" I mean that this idea underp...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Bullshit By Numbers

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After being spurred on by a headline from tomorrow regarding yet more Trump bafflegab, I felt compelled to once again take a bullet for y...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

The Family That Preys Together

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Right now just about everything you're reading and hearing about the massacre in San Bernardino is speculation, whether it's the us...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Headlie News

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Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog has a nice catch , very similar to what I mentioned the other day , about these conservative weasel sites...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

And the Home of Depraved, Part Three: Season's Bleedings

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Here's a feel-good holiday fable involving a gun being used at a Waco Wal-Mart. Talk about coals to Newcastle. A woman who fired a pis...

And the Home of Depraved, Part Too: Dipshit Boogaloo

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As more information on the horror at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood yesterday comes in, one thing is clear:  it would be a mistake...
Friday, November 27, 2015

And the Home of Depraved

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Yeah, nothing mixes better than alcohol and guns.
Thursday, November 26, 2015

For Those About to Mock

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Hey, if bullshit antics like this are what it takes to get the dopey corporate media to stop giving Trump a free pass, then I suppose we...
Monday, November 23, 2015

The Enema Within

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The circus comes to town , and more hijinks ensue. Violence against protesters has already occurred at several Trump rallies, mostly in the...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Hos Before Bros

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Apparently noted call-girl aficionado and diaper enthusiast David Vitter is running for governor of Louisiana, and in an uncharacteristic d...

Thanks But No Thanks

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Well, you can't say the headline doesn't try to warn you, but yeeeeaaahhh, I don't think any of us really needed to see Kim Dav...

Do Your Duty, Flush Twice

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Here's just a few of the more outrageous instances of police misconduct and brutality in recent days. Let's take a quick spin aroun...
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Friday, November 06, 2015

Question of the Day

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Which part of the race to the bottom between Donald Trump and Ben Carson is more hilarious -- Trump's continued insistence that he does...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Trump and Trumper

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Not that his moron fan club will notice or hold him to it, but this pitiful attempt by His Douchiness to pick a fight with John Oliver is ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

The Beautiful People

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One of the more bemusing, played-out memes in this wondrous clusterfuck of a nation is what you might call the "what's wrong with ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

What You Wish For

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The maps and demographics don't lie, and it doesn't matter. Red-state rubes insist on voting against themselves, again and again, ...
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