Hi. This is Thers, acting Ranking Grand Supreme Skull-Lord of the Whiskey Fire Central Institute for Advanced Research in Saying Bad Words on the Internet.
Most readers know that the opinions expressed on this blog are Thers's own and don't always reflect the views of the Whiskey Fire Central Institute for Advanced Research in Saying Bad Words on the Internet. Such is the case with Thers's comments about Rankin-Bass animated Christmas specials. Our Central Institute has partnered with Rankin-Bass on a number of important projects -- including an update of "Frosty the Snowman" entitled "Fuck You, Frosty, And Your Hat Looks Stupid" -- and have a great deal of respect for their cute little Snow Misers and their whimsical depiction of soul-numbing, conformist, "reindeer games." They are key leaders in the holiday-nostalgia industry and we look forward to working with them in the future.
MORE: Instagit is such an ass.
POPPING A CAP on Matt Yglesias. Sorry, if you can’t stand what bloggers blog, don’t pretend you’re cool enough to hire bloggers. Because when you do what Jennifer Palmieri did, you demonstrate that you’re just a bunch of political hacks with a blog, and you’ve undercut your blogger’s position in the future. Dumb. Too dumb for a position in the Obama Administration, I’d think.
Kill me. I hope to Christ that no one in the Obama administration at any point ever thinks to themselves, "gosh, I was going to give this otherwise qualified person a job, but look here! It seems that she violated the largely imaginary rules of blog etiquette!"
And what on earth makes Glenn Reynolds think he is not in the class of "political hacks with a blog"?