In the parlance of our times. . .

A proper and well earned Bitch Slap™.

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Who is your favorite Founding Father?

Lincoln or Reagan?



Yep, two of those people said Abraham Lincoln (b. 2/12/1809) and Ronald Reagan (b. 2/6/1911), respectively, were their favorite Founding Fathers of the United States of America (b. 1776-1791) All four people are Republican candidates for an open Congressional seat in Missouri's 9th District. I give credit to the other two for not busting a gut while the Poli. Sci. kidz were giving their answers. That had to be hard not to after the woman on the panel said Reagan. To make this even more rediculous, Abe Lincoln fanboy, Brock Olivo once had this to say back in February about his qualifications for office:

"Not only was I football player, but I also was in social studies class, and I have a passion for how this country works," Olivo said.

I know a lot of people that were "in" class, but never learned shit. By the way, just to prove that the best way out of a hole is to keep digging, Olivo (about 0:33 into the video) blathers out loud that while the "courage" Lincoln displayed in abolishing slavery was immense, it probably was not on par with the "courage" fellow Founding Father Ronald Reagan displayed when he watched the Soviet Union collapse under the weight of it's own largess, thus "winning" the Cold War. That's some titanium balls on teh Gipper, eh?

If it were my question I would probably pick either John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and/or James Madison - the authors of the Federalist Papers - as personal favorites. Though I suppose, in a debate for public office I might stick to heavy hitters like Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, so people might think that I had at least attended a social studies class once.

(h/t teh GOS)

Egads! WTF?

George Denis Patrick Carlin
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

While everyone should go watch the seminal "Seven Dirty Words" bit, I'm gonna post a more recent favorite of mine.

A little more on this later. . .

Feel good hit of the summer. . .

It would warm the cockles of my dance-club-hating-heart to know this is making the rounds in the weekend roofie grind-fests that are American dance clubs.



Music courtesy of RevoLucian. Priceless.

On polite discourse and the like. . .

It's not a secret that the conservative end of the spectrum has demonizing their political foes down to an eloquent art form. That's not to say liberals have not or cannot do the same, but in no way are they as effective as their conservative brethren. If that was case, George W. Bush would have long ago been branded a dry-drunk, spineless little shit who avoided Vietnam and John Kerry (a lackluster presidential nominee, if there ever was one) would have never been tarred as a traitorous soldier in a war where he actually fought and was wounded. But whatever, water under the bridge, right?

The whole point being that this week at Eschacon, progressive blogger and fraternity brother (something I normally don't even think of) Sinfonian has been "live blogging" the the affair. In attendance is the Rude Pundit, the John Valby of liberal political discourse and one of my favorite reads on the tubez (when my truck is working, of course.) Intentionally avoiding any hint of subtlety and going for the throat (or cunt, actually) I present the Rude Pundit's take on the many ways he wouldn't fuck Right-wing harpy and bomb thrower, Ann Coulter.

(note - not a single minute of this is even remotely work or kid friendly)



If you're watching this after you've gone to church, think of it as a way to get the new week of sinning off to a smashing start. . .

(h/t to the Rude One and Sinfonian for reminding me of this skit)

The Proletariat of a Conservative

I stumbled across the entertaining blog Johnny Pez a little while ago. This is funny because it's intentional:

A specter is haunting America -- the specter of conservative communism. All the powers of liberal fascism have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this specter: social worker and college professor, Moulitsas and Soros, San Francisco homosexuals and New York intellectuals.

This book will present a very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care: that the roots of the modern-day American conservative movement can be found in the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. We (and when I say "we", I of course speak of myself as a member of the conservative collective) will trace the intellectual roots of conservative communism from its origins in the 17th century conservative communitarian religious factions of Cromwellian England. I will follow that strain of belief as it is introduced into colonial America by such notable conservative communitarians as William Penn and Mother Ann Lee. I will examine the cross-pollination of ideas between 19th-century American religious communists and European secular communists. And finally, I will trace the convergence of these two communistic impulses into the modern Republican Party, the "Grand Old Revolutionary Vanguard Party", with its vast array of think tanks, media outlets, radical journals, revolutionary "militia" cells, warblogs, and self-reinforcing mytho-ideology.

As for the book being spoofed, however, it's not intentional.