Republican humor

Just downloaded from the Usenet:

I guess it’s technically not off topic, just not exactly what I expected to find at alt.binaries.pictures.nude.celebrities.fake.
I’m sure this dates back a few years, or at least I hope so. If Republicans are still smearing Al Gore at this level, well, that’s just plain sad. This is either “fan” art, or [...]

The “radio version” of what I just said

Whew. Had to open a window when I got home as the stink waves were still radiating from that last post like from an outhouse in Chernobyl. I’ve reread that post a dozen times now and I have to say that I still think I undersold it.
It’s not really possible to capture the essence of the [...]

Shitting on the steak knives

How awful is Katherine Kersten’s anti-anti-bullying boss column? This bad:
glowers
bellows
plummeting
blasts
tsunami-level intensity
crackpot, lawyers-full-employment scheme
phalanx
Civil rights lingo
scary statistics
our elites tend to be Europhiles
next to impossible to fire an incompetent employee, I’m told
On and one it goes, factless and opinion laden, loaded for bear and barely coherent.
On this side of the Atlantic, anti-bullying advocates tend to downplay the [...]

It’s the economy YOU FUCKING MORONS!

A Strib editorial to explain how the recount is not a court case, and Bob von Sternberg with an update to the recount. Lately Norm’s challenging Al’s votes faster than Al can find new ones. 
One big question mark is the challenged ballots. The state canvassing board will decide whether each of those ballots — now [...]

Redoped with hope

I just can’t remain cynical. Each time I get sucked a bit too deep into the Gang of Prog Obama crit, I read something that pulls me back. Something that reminds me that yes, this is what it looks like when we won and we have to put an administration together.
Obama’s emphasis has clearly been [...]

Sworder in a Sword Land

Samurai sword wielding man shot and killed at the Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles. 
A former cult member, of course. The WaPost swaddles the story with kindness, treating the cultists like a religion.
The Celebrity Centre includes a seven-story Norman-revival landmark that towers over the Hollywood freeway and used to be a residential hotel for [...]

Harpy Xmas

How close does Katherine Kersten come to falling off the ledge and into the abyss today? Just a few ellipses short of the truth but yes, she dives in with abandon.
It’s official. The Interstate 35W bridge fell…because of what Tim Pawlenty or Carol Molnau did….
Pawlenty’s skinflint tax policies and budgets had set the stage for the [...]

Executards and brain aeration

A change of pace at the warehouse today. Better for me but not an improvement overall. More retail customers, families with kids wandering down the warehouse aisles, but not like the earlier more aggressive shoppers. No, these were newbies and they weren’t eager to spend their money. Instead they were punching numbers into calculators trying [...]

I think they killed my dog

How lame are the Coleman team’s ballot challenges? This lame:

The problem? They’re insisting that all ballots marked for McCain-Palin and Franken are suspect because who the hell would vote that way?
I’m starting to believe that Franken just might win this thing. Latest counts range from Coleman up by 115-120 votes. We’re about half way through, [...]

Recount halfway done, not close to finished

46% counted and Norman “stop attacking my Nasser Kazeminy’s bagman wife” Coleman leads by 136 votes.
It’s Friday, so Lileks has a new column mocking the voters and ridiculing the process because conservatives never really respected the right to vote.
Which is not to say that the dude wishes we were ruled over by a descendant of [...]