UPDATE: Turns out the “official” 60K-70K figure wasn’t so official. In fact it was some guy talking out his ass. (Still working on fixing this blog, sheesh.) UPDATE: Some less questionable figures here. Don’t you wish the MSM could do basic math? We had somewhere between seventy thousand and two Read more…
Van Jones has quit the Obama administration, so apparently I can’t use him to point out to people that, no, actually this really is a radical left administration. It’s a shame, because it was really interesting to hear the rationalizations when someone says that “no this really is a center Read more…
Nancy Pelosi faces a horrifying disruption at a town hall meeting (here via here): By the way, speaking of Democrats revising their publicly declared policy positions: We all know that all this “Death Panel” stuff is crazy talk, hell Obama himself has called such arguments “dishonest,” problem is, he’s also Read more…
Strangely enough, I try not to demonize and/or ridicule people for their political beliefs. When I hand out asshats, I’m doing so for statements and actions that define a universal Platonic ideal of stupidity. So Pelosi is here not because of her political views, which I find the philosophical equivalent Read more…
And her name is Janeane Garofalo. Hear me out here. Kaufman’s genius, or his insanity, was to blur the line between performance and reality to the point where the audience’s reaction (is this really happening? Is this guy serious?) becomes part of the act. Unlike some latter-day acts (can you Read more…
UPDATE: Fixed dick quote attribution. I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats out there, and forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, most rules boil Read more…
But an asshat named Robert Stanek seems to think otherwise. This gentleman appears to think that anyone’s success comes at the expense of his own career. I’ve heard of misguided authors trying to game Amazon to pump up their own work, but this has got to be the most vindictive Read more…
Lest one think I’m suggesting that the idea of using offensively asinine statements that allege to support one’s point of view while fatally undermining the political principles one claims to support while being cringe-inducingly tacky at the same time was in fact a monopolistic practice on the left side of Read more…
There exists a certain type of incredibly sleazy male, the kind who has paleolithic attitudes about women that would embarrass the guy filming the Girls-Gone-Wild videos, but who at some point in his education, discovered that he got a complete pass on his repulsive personal antics as long as he Read more…
Boing-Boing tells us of a lil Canadian think-tank report. The Conference Board of Canada (sounds so official, I trust them already) who’re self-characterized as “the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests” (you know they’re independent, they said so.) Read more…