Whiskey Fire

Fuck the Troops

Sometimes what can't be said must be said.

I'll say it.

No member of the American military who died in Iraq or Afghanistan died to protect the freedom of any American.

Chris Hayes won't even go there, but I will. 

Does my headline bother you? Does it bother you more than it might have when you thought really fucking hard about whether or not these wars made sense, when it might have fucking mattered? Or did you even fucking do that? Or did you send kids, dads, moms, off to die because of slogans and cheap propaganda? Do you give a flying fuck about the moms, dads, kids, Over There? Even now?

FUCK OFF.

Take your coward-ass rhetorical genuflection and shove it where freedom don't shine, you paltry shite motherfuckers. 

FUCK OFF.

Good Grief

To think that back in the day jokes about "is toner partisan" captured the idiocy. 

The idiocy is... breathtaking. 

Did I fail you? Did you want me to pick it apart... explain everything... because it's being talked about... because it was in The New Yorker?

I have an interestingness standard, not an it-was-in-The-New-Yorker standard.

Right.

I have a... fuck you, you fraud standard... 

And a Frightening Clown Standard...

Memorial Day Reminder

No current member of the United States armed forces is in any meaningful sense "protecting your freedom."

They would I'm sure be willing to do this. But they aren't in fact doing anything of the sort.

Enjoy your barbecue.  

MAS. I agree about the photo, heartwrenching. But read the text:

I believe that the civilian-military gap isn’t always born of indifference, but rather, at times, a sense of helplessness on the civilian side. What can I do? If you do nothing else, you can remember those who have given their lives for their country. Our country. Remembrance, which may seem a modest contribution in the moment, is a sacred act with long-term payoff — a singularly human gift that keeps on giving, year after war-fatigued year.

Understandable, but no. 

What "civilians" should do is take a critical attitude towards war. And then do some soul-searching.

Yes, "remember." 

Most of the country was absolutely delighted about the Iraq invasion. 

You don't like it when Americans die for nothing? For stupid wars? 

Well, remember. 

Whoops. The annual video.

 

Civility!

Civility! 

"Civility" is often described as a a Lofty Ideal, but that is all my balls.

"Civility" is the goal of political speech.

Politics is a fight over who gets the right to decide what most people are allowed to say when they are being "civil." Period.

For instance, as we were saying, this garbage:

Thus everybody realizes government spending has lost its airbrakes.

That is the attempt of an ideologue to define what "everybody" believes, even though it's an entirely ideological statement. 

That's politics! And "civility."

The people who are speaking Good Sense agree! Let us enforce who speaks Good Sense, then, even if it's crap. 

Hence, what Steve M said here. 

If the story the righties are telling is true, there's a guy on the loose who should be locked up. But their blogswarm today doesn't seem to be focused on getting him locked up -- it seems to be focused (as is practically everything right-wingers say and do) on damaging liberalism.On the right, that's Priority #1 -- and #2 and #3 and #4 and #5. The posts and tweets I've looked at are full of references to George Soros and the Tides Foundation and Barbra Streisand (because, you see, giving money to organizations that include a guy you don't know is a criminal is a disgusting, shameful, immoral act, which makes you an accessory to crimes you didn't know had taken place, and haven't been conclusively shown to be the grant recipient's doing). 

Observe the response of the Glenn Beck Blaze to this weird story about a lone crank and con-artist. 

Headline:

MEET SOROS-FUNDED DOMESTIC TERRORIST BRETT KIMBERLIN WHOSE ‘JOB’ IS TERRORIZING BLOGGERS INTO SILENCE

Say hi!

But then, in their own story, we learn that Kimberlin is a sociopathic con artist whose primary motivation isn't political!

So if Soros funded him, Soros got duped and is the victim of fraud.

Nice headline.

But then, that's politics for you. And also "civility," namely, a grubby squabble in the muddy playpen for victim status.

We could have a political system based more on a more productive concept of "civility" than we currently do, but that would require an elite journalistic class that requires knowing things and is not Mark Halperin, so we're fucked. 

 

 

Before We All Go Climbing into Bed Together...

As we have said on the Internet for holy crap, about a decade now, Truth is a Higher Value Than Civility. But nobody listens, ochone.

Here is some blather from Michael Fumento. 

Fumento has a thesis that the New Right is crazier than the Old Right, in that the New Right is shouty-crackers while the Old Right, namely himself, is quite decent, thank you much. But hark!

Limbaugh infamously dispatched a young woman who expressed her opinion that the government should provide free birth control as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Ahem, that was not her opinion. Her opinion was that since she was paying into a particular mandatory insurance scheme, she ought to be allowed to have a say in the medical procedures relating to herself that she is subsidizing according to how health insurance works.

This is not an especially arcane point. 

Neither is this:

But, based on my own conversations with liberals, I think – nay, I know – that if more of these allegedly godless, treasonous people understood real conservatism a lot would embrace many conservative positions.

Thus everybody realizes government spending has lost its airbrakes. 

Uh, no. How Keynes became Marx is kind of odd, but the stranglehold on sensible local and state spending has been deadly. 

The point here is not that Fumento is right that Malkin or Coulter aren't screechy get-paid goofs, but how far edgier to berserk are Responsible Right Thinkers.

Here, this kills. 

The new right cannot advance a conservative agenda precisely because, other than a few small holdouts like the American Conservative magazine or that battleship that refuses to become a museum, George Will, it is not itself conservative.

Is it George Will, then? OK then.

You see, I’ve published articles saying I do “believe in global warming.” Yes, I’ve also questioned the extent to which man-made gases have contributed to that warming and concluded that expenditures to reduce those emissions would be as worthless as they’d be horrifically expensive. 

Breittbarrabas!

Or else:

Conservatism has also historically emphasized empiricism. Joe Friday of “Dragnet” must have been a conservative: “All we want are the facts, Ma’am.”

Uh, well... Do I have to do a joke here?

 

Speak Kindly

Because of all the troubles facing the Empire State the largest-looming would be the Scourge of Anonymous Blog Commenting, soon we will have a Law. This law:

AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person's right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting.

New Yorkers have long suffered by not knowing who is posting anonymous nonsense on the Internet. If you don't know who is posting anonymous nonsense on the Internet, you don't even know exactly whose children to set fire to.

Here are the explanations for why this is a sensible idea. Hark! to the reasonablenessitude.

Earlier today, the Voice brought you news of pending legislation in Albany that would make New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, "remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post."

For state Sen. Thomas F. O'Mara and Assemblyman Dean Murray, the gist of the would-be law is to prevent cyber-bullying.

Murray does not think that this violates free speech or presents constitutional concerns.

"It absolutely in no way infringes on anyone's rights. They are absoltuely free to say whatever they like. However, if the statement is challenged by the target or the victim of those statements, they have two options. They can either identify themselves or put their name to the statement, or the statement will be removed. This is not reinventing the the wheel. This has been the standard letter-to-the-editor policy that has been in place for hundreds of years," Murray told the Voice.

He said that the law would only apply to factual concerns, not opinions.

"This only kicks in if the statement is challenged and it's only challenged based on factual information...It is the victim that has to reach out."

"Letters to the editor policies" are not laws. They are policies.

This is pretty silly. Look, I've gotten some spooky shit myself from anonymous parties. Some old-timey blogfolks will recall this happy episode. But come on.

What It's All about, Then

Here are the opinions of a thick person who pretends to be a nun on the internet.

It is, of course, the usual mainstream media free-assist that should probably be considered a kind of campaign contribution: the LA Times, read by Hollywood folk who air-condition their garages while telling the little people to make sure they hang their laundry out to dry, today tries to help the Obama campaign’s class warfare efforts by talking about Ann Romney’s equestrian hobby, which both the headline and the very first paragraph of the Times’ story points out, is “pricey.”

This is fucking weird. Let us employ Shazams.

SHAZAM! The LA Times is Snooty.

SHAZAM! You should not use "class warfare" by pointing out the snooty.

SHAZAM! The LA Times is both snooty and class warfare-y.

Great Snot!

The snorkle is half-squared by pretending that the MSM is not what it is, and hence somehow never noticed that John Kerry went windsurfing or improperly consumed cheese-steaks or ingested green tea, which they kind of in fact motherfucking did.

But this is all guff.

Look at the original article. Read it.

What we are talking about would be the ability of an immensely privileged person to access a form of heathcare pretty much nobody else in the country can pay for out of pocket.

This is heart and soul about what America should be about.

Your kid gets sick. Ain't your kid entitled to the same chance of health and a good life as the kid whose dad runs a private equity firm?

Are we going to be the 21st century, or the 19th?

I'm Not Racist, but White People Have Those Ugly Thin Lips and Like Mayonnaise

First, some scenes from post-racial America. Obama is such a divisive figure. It's his fault these people are unrepentant racists. If he could just be little less black divisive, they wouldn't be this way.

 

 

BTW, a tip for racists: If you have to add a "but" on the end of "I'm not racist," you are a racist. No buts about it.

 

Here's professional goat-blower, George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina. His name is George Tierney. He hails from Greenville, SC. and he likes to blow goats. A lot.

George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina. I read on the internet he's a professional goat blower, so it must be true.

 

BTW, I was putting professional goat-blower, George Tierney of Greenville, SC on the map before it was cool.

 

And now for some soothing, comedic balm:

My latest work is here, if you're interested.

A Nicer Group of Assholes

I contemplate the recent misfortunes of the Heartland Institute with equanimity.

Except, gosh, maybe now we'll never have a Sincere and Honest Discussion about Science, as the Heartland People always said was their goal.

Joseph Bast wins all sorts of prizes as the Cloacal Ahab, the mad zealot who goes down with his shit, the Peabrain...

Sobby Pope

The Wahington Post {extremely sic] does not like it that Catholic Voters, by which is meant far right professional shouty-crackers, are very often professionally motivated to whine out loud about how bady their feelings have been bruised.

Catholic schools have conducted a massive education program, nationally and locally, to train students, teachers and aides to recognize the signs of child abuse, in the wake of the priest sex scandals, but it is hard to get coverage of that effort.

The ceremonial Slamming of the Barn Door after the Pedophiles Got Out was indeed sparsely attended. I don't recall the details of that particular sacrament myself...

More even-handed child-rape coverage, damn you!

sometimes The Post’s reporting and even editorials fall short in conveying the passion with which many Catholics hold their views, whether they be against the contraception mandate, gay marriage, and abortion or in favor of aid to the poor. It doesn’t mean that Post reporters or editorialists have to embrace those views, but they should accurately explain them in a ways all readers can understand. That, after all, is also part of getting at the truth.

Oh yes. "Conveying the passion of religious zealots" is a time-honored foolproof genius plan for arriving at "The Truth."

Shazam...

 

Calling Bullshit

Bullshit.

Three men — Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 27, of Keene, N.H.; and Brent Vincent Betterly, 24 of Oakland Park, Fla. — allegedly plotted to firebomb President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s North Side home, as well as police stations and squad cars.

Undercover Chicago Police officers who infiltrated the group were with the suspects when they allegedly made Molotov cocktails — bottles filled with flammable liquid that are used as firebombs, sources said.

After raiding the apartment Wednesday, police said they found written plans for assembling pipe bombs and confiscated a mortar gun, swords, a crossbow, a throwing star, ninja knives and blades with brass knuckles, too.

As soon the word "ninja" appears in a story about the police, it's a bullshit story. "Ninja knives." Fuck you.

Shocker in Dumbtown

Oh, Ann Althouse, you brainless twit.

There is a lot of horseshit, and then we discover this:

But Rush's bigger point was:

"If you're Barack Obama, wouldn't you rather... people get all absorbed and sidetracked on some blurb in a literary pitch years and years ago?  I can see Obama and his boys sitting in the White House saying, "You know, let's have some fun with the birthers. Let's go ahead and release this thing...."

Maybe it's all a clever plot to make us all look like idiots! But that just proves that he has a clever plot to make us look like idiots! What does he think we are -- idiots?

And the Democrats will probably lose to these shits...

 

 

Jonah Goldberg Is a Colossal Asshole

"Generational politics" isn't a gimmick when you're on the one hand browbeaten into going to college to "get a job" and on the other browbeaten into debt slavery because you went to college and there are no jobs.

You fucker.

...

This shreds.

 

Haidt in the Morning

I guess I'm pretty wee-wee'ed up about this Haidt fellow. I've seen snippets of his book and a snippet of his appearance on "Up with Chris Hayes," and he did not come across as a sympathetic figure. But I was trying to figure out how to articulate this, while simultaneously getting a better feel for the man.

This insipid piece seems to take an awful long time to cutely say that Teabaggers love seeing people suffer and that that is their raison d'etre.

Explanations so far have spanned a rather narrow range, from racism (they're all white!) to greed (they just don't want to pay taxes!) to gullibility (Glenn Beck has hypnotized them!). Such explanations allow liberals to disregard the moral claims of tea partiers. But the passion of the tea-party movement is, in fact, a moral passion.

*taps Haidt on shoulder* Erm, Mr. Haidt, the fact that Teabaggers see themselves as moral crusaders does not, in fact, discount the fact that many of them are, YES, dumb, gullible, greedy racists. These two things are not necessarily anathema to each other.

There are few things that make me angrier than mushy-middling, feel-good pablum about all ideologies having merit. [INSERT HAIDT BABBLING HERE]

My first few weeks in Bhubaneswar were therefore filled with feelings of shock and dissonance. I dined with men whose wives silently served us and then retreated to the kitchen, not speaking to me the entire evening. I was told to be stricter with my servants, and to stop thanking them for serving me. I watched people bathe and cook with visibly polluted water that was held to be sacred. In short, I was immersed in a sex-segregated, hierarchically stratified, devoutly religious society, and I was committed to understanding it on its own terms. It only took a few weeks for my dissonance to disappear, not because I was a natural anthropologist but because the normal capacity for empathy kicked in. I liked these people who were hosting me, helping me, and teaching me…Rather than automatically rejecting the men as sexist oppressors and pitying the women, children, and servants as helpless victims, I began to see a moral world in which families, not individuals, are the basic unit of society, and the members of each extended family (including its servants) are intensely interdependent. In this world, equality and personal autonomy were not sacred values. Honoring elders, gods, and guests, protecting subordinates, and fulfilling one’s role-based duties were more important.

[Bolding, mine. Here he comes across as downright sociopathic to me.]

The fact is, NO. That's simply not true. Conservative ideology centers around creating hierarchies, where a small group of people benefit and everyone else, to varying degrees, suffers. This is something that Haidt sort of acknowledges in the writings I've seen, but what he doesn't acknowledge is that, as someone white, male, heterosexual (I'm assuming) and upwardly-mobile (I'm assuming), he will naturally be at the top of this hierarchy. So, it's convenient for him to leave his liberalism at the door and appreciate the "order" of oppressive, conservatively-behaving ecosystems. That he does not recognize this stunning to me. It's extraordinarily troubling oversight, and calls into question pretty much everything he says. I'm comfortable dismissing him as a cynical hack. Oh, and an asshole. I do not like this guy.

I will continue to keep an eye on him and pick apart everything stupid fucking thing he says.

Before I work myself up into a bad mood, I'm gonna post some pics of Lord Chubbington (or Dudeskull, if you prefer), who is a horrible narcissist. Of course, when you're this cute, you almost can't blame him for being one.

 

--vacuumslayer

Hope and/or Change News Roundup

1. From a Tom Coburn interview (R-OK) by Ezra Klein:

EK: On the other side of that hypothetical, let’s say Obama wins, but Republicans hold the House and maybe even take the Senate. How do they act in that hypothetical? Are they more or less willing to compromise with Obama?

TC: I don’t know. I’m not good at predicting that. If President Obama is president again, those problems are still there and we have to solve them. He knows that. We’ve had conversations where he’s told me he’ll go much further than anyone believes he’ll go to solve the entitlement problem if he can get the compromise. And I believe him. I believe he would.

2. Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy? by DAVE LINDORFF

A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild makes it increasingly evident that there was and is a nationally coordinated campaign to disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.

3. Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? by Jeremy Scahill

On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said “had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP.” It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time of the call, but Saleh did have a pardon for him prepared and was ready to sign it. It would not have been unusual for the White House to express concern about Yemen’s allowing AQAP suspects to go free. Suspicious prison breaks of Islamist militants in Yemen had been a regular occurrence over the past decade, and Saleh has been known to exploit the threat of terrorism to leverage counterterrorism dollars from the United States. But this case was different. Abdulelah Haider Shaye is not an Islamist militant or an Al Qaeda operative. He is a journalist.

...

While Shaye, 35, had long been known as a brave, independent-minded journalist in Yemen, his collision course with the US government appears to have been set in December 2009. On December 17, the Yemeni government announced that it had conducted a series of strikes against an Al Qaeda training camp in the village of al Majala in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, killing a number of Al Qaeda militants. As the story spread across the world, Shaye traveled to al Majala. What he discovered were the remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military’s arsenal. He photographed the missile parts, some of them bearing the label “Made in the USA,” and distributed the photos to international media outlets. He revealed that among the victims of the strike were women, children and the elderly. To be exact, fourteen women and twenty-one children were killed.

Whether anyone actually active in Al Qaeda was killed remains hotly contested. After conducting his own investigation, Shaye determined that it was a US strike. The Pentagon would not comment on the strike and the Yemeni government repeatedly denied US involvement. But Shaye was later vindicated when Wikileaks released a US diplomatic cable that featured Yemeni officials joking about how they lied to their own parliament about the US role, while President Saleh assured Gen. David Petraeus that his government would continue to lie and say “the bombs are ours, not yours.”

That post is dated March 13, 2012, and so is perhaps not "news". How many of you have heard about it? If we had a functioning press, this would be a big deal, and there would be substantial pushback. But we do not, and I only read about it because Glenn Greenwald linked to it in...

4. Obama’s new free speech threat by Glenn Greenwald

There is substantial opposition in both Yemen and the West to the new U.S.-backed Yemeni President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Hadi was the long-time Vice President of the Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, and after Saleh finally stepped down last year, Hadi became President as part of an “election” in which he was the only candidate (that little fact did not prevent Hillary Clinton from congratulating Yemen “on today’s successful presidential election” (successful because the U.S. liked the undemocratic outcome).

...

The Post article notes that, as unusual as this Executive Order is, Obama issued a similar one for Somalia in 2009, and it has one other precedent: “In 2006, President George W. Bush issued a similar order regarding Ivory Coast in West Africa.” Newspapers should just create a template that says that for every article: this radical and controversial power that Obama has just seized for himself has its genesis in the executive power and war theories of Bush/Cheney. Except for the power to secretly target U.S. citizens for due-process-free assassination-by-CIA and the manic war on whistleblowers — those are Obama originals — that’s a reliable claim to make, which is the point.

5. Comfortable Shoes Department By Charles P. Pierce

Right now, if nothing else changes, it looks very much like Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, is going to keep his job.

Dear Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: That heinous future actually could happen if you don't get out of the Green Room and get the DNC off the stick here. I'm still not kidding. If the Democrats blow this one, and if it's proven that the DNC could have helped in any way and didn't, you should be fired before the sun goes down.

Newsflash for Charles P. Pierce: DWS is Obama's handpicked DNC Chair, like Tim Kaine before her. If Obama wanted her to jump to Tom Barrett's aid, she'd be asking, "How high?"

As BDR might say, C.P.P.'s Obamapostasy will never be ready.

(Posted by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© and cross-posted at my place. Mouse over pics for captions, and click them for larger versions.)

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Let's Hear It for Crappy Sitcoms

I saw the Daily Show rerun last night. I hadn't realized that when Joe Biden said that he had no problem with gay marriage he said that he thought that there has been an enormous cultural change on the issue, and that fewer and fewer people are much bothered by it. I'm far too lazy too lazy to look up a transcript, but on being asked why this might be, Biden said something like "honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with Will and Grace."

TDS treated this as just another goofy thing spouted out by the goofy Biden, but I'm not sure why. He's probably right.

I've never seen more than a few minutes at a time of Will & Grace, because it seemed to me like kind of a crappy sitcom. But then again, crappy sitcoms can weild a non-negligible amount of cultural clout.

I don't think W&G is by any stretch the only explanation for changing attitudes towards same sex marriage, but a mainstream network TV show with gay characters who weren't mopey and totally not sexually active probably wasn't nothing, either.

They Never Make a Scene By Hanging All Over Me In a Crowd

by Ripley

In an effort to boost US keyboard and monitor industry sales, I offer this (via Southern Beale at First Draft):

Behind the locked doors of the chamber that was surrounded by more than one dozen police, Rush Limbaugh watched as his bust for the Capitol’s Hall of Famous Missourians was unveiled on Monday, May 14.

Shortly after the unveiling, however, Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration issued a document raising questions about the House speaker’s authority to handpick whose bust can be placed in the Capitol rotunda.

The unveiling of Limbaugh’s bust was kept secret from all but invited guests until less than an hour before the ceremony.

While Republican lawmakers were invited, Democrats were not and visitors were blocked from entering. All but one of the doors to the House chamber were locked with armed Highway Patrol and Capitol Police patrolling the hallways outside the chamber.

Cowards and crybabies, daddy-o! It's the 21st Century Republican party at their finest.

 

Rip -

 

AMERICA!

AMERICA! DO YOU LOVE IT!

Dennis Prager says that Mitt Romney loves America do, based upon Mitt's exhortations to Liberty College graduates.

It is I suppose cheering that people who believe one class of crazy bullshit are able to set aside their differences with people who believe another class of crazy bullshit in order to hate on gay people. Like, yay.

On Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the 6,000 Liberty College graduates.

It was an important speech, not only because it seems to have closed the gap between Romney and evangelical Christians but also because it spelled out major themes in Mitt Romney's understanding of America.

"We all hate gays."

Romney: "You know who you are. And you know whom you will serve. Not all colleges instill that kind of confidence . . . ."

This is a truism. Most American universities seek to graduate men and women who are as committed to secularism as nearly all the members of faculty are. In contrast, at traditional Christian and Jewish schools, the aim is, as Romney said, to produce students who know "whom [they] will serve."

What Romney is asking is this: If one is not morally accountable to God, to whom or what is one morally accountable? Most universities will respond: to one's conscience. But those who adhere to Judeo-Christian values do not trust the conscience alone. What Nazi or Communist mass murderer was not at peace with his conscience? The conscience is as easily manipulated as the heart (the heart being the other guide to behavior among most college graduates).

The fuck...?

Mostly I yell about comma splices. I apologize for Treblinka (?).

Did he just say "if you get a college degree in America, you are as much a dupe as if you were a Nazi, because that's the same thing"?

He did.

This is weird. "Genocide is bad" does not require any motherfucking Seal of Moral Approval. 

Wingnuts Is Weird

If you wish to take issue with my contention that the American right wing is comprised primarily of vengeful baby-brained geeks, I dare you to avoid gawking in fascinated, gape-mouthed revulsion as  Buttmissile spikes an imaginary football and does a ghastly, excessively prancey victory dance because of how good Conservatives are at rocking the Twitter machine.

We are in the early stages of the 2012 campaign season, with a lot of battlespace preparation going on. In the skirmishing so far, one perhaps surprising media advantage has become clear: the right is clobbering the left on Twitter.

Maybe it’s because Twitter puts a premium on brevity and cleverness. I don’t know. But for some reason, it seems to be a natural medium for conservatives.

I don't doubt it...

Buttmissile thinks this class of thing is extremely "clever":

Currently, the White House is promoting #AskMichelle, where loyal Democrats can go to ask the First Lady a question. Only nearly all of the questions have come from conservatives. A sampling:

When you vacation in Hawaii, can you see the rise of the oceans beginning to slow?
What’s up this week for the @BarackObama campaign and “Operation Change the Subject” (to anything except the economy)?
Do you still exchange May Day cards with Bill and Bernadette?
Do you think your daughters should request affirmative actions preferences?
Do you still get Christmas cards from the Rezkos and Blagojeviches?
So who succeeded you at that critical, highly important $300k/year community outreach job at UC hospital?
I have several friends who specialize in relocation. Shall I give them your number so they can help you relocate in January?

I asked Mrs. Obama this question:

Any comment on the Oprah vs. Michelle excerpt from The Amateur in the New York Post this morning?

Clever.

We were talking a few weeks ago about right-wing humor, and here it is: mean-spirited inside jokes about the ridiculous details of paranoid conspiratorial bullshit.

If this is getting "clobbered," well then, getting "clobbered" is a lot like having a gang of shrieking malicious toddlers flick boogers at your ankles. This isn't an electoral "battlefield"; it's a mashup of Barney and Friends and Lord of the Flies.

Don't You Ever Look Back

So, graduation season, and here is a colossal asshole.

Dear Class of 2012:

Allow me to be the first one not to congratulate you.

Well, fuck you right back. Who are you, anyhow? Oh wait -- someone who knows fuck-all about jack shit.

Follow that last link.

Enjoy the Privilege.

The sheer bloody cheek, this pampered snot applauding the cheerfulness of the lower orders in defense of shit.