Tuesday, August 06, 2013

LOVE POWER/ THE POWER OF A SWEET FLOWER/ IS GONNA RULE THE EARTH/ AND THERE'LL BE A GREAT REBIRTH.


Love. It’s the most powerful word in the English language. When it is flanked by two pronouns, it becomes the most powerful sentence in the English language: I love you... 
As a guy who remained unmarried through my early 40s, I used those three words more casually than I should have, not worried about the heart I might be wounding. Who knows why, but none of the reasons I can think of are good. Was I being careless or selfish? Was I doing it to make the women I was dating feel better? Or myself?
It sounds like something found by the police in a serial killer's room, but it's Lee Habeeb at National Review, debasing himself with bad confessional prose so the Republican Party can learn to love, yes, love as Lee Habeeb has learned to love!
It is love, regrettably, that is so utterly absent from anything we talk about as conservatives. I would bet that if you Googled every speech by every conservative candidate in 2012, you wouldn’t find the word “love” once.
Even though we believe deeply that love is the answer to so many of the world’s problems, we just can’t say the word.
"L-l-l-l-.... [wet, grinding breaths] l-l-l-.. l-l-l-l-...nigger!"
We believe that no government worker can love a child the way his parents can, and yet we still can’t say the word... 
We believe poverty is often a symptom of kids’ being born without fathers, and to mothers who are kids themselves, and yet we still can’t say the word...
Habebb goes on drawing pretty hearts and flowers on proposals to eliminate WIC and food stamps a good long while until, sensing he's losing his audience (they're milling toward the doors, muttering about "hippie shit"), he pulls his surprise move:
If we started talking about betrayal, we might win more hearts, too.
His poor, stammering target snaps to attention. Dolchstoßlegende! That they can say!
Because it wasn’t conservatives who betrayed the people of Detroit; it was that city’s liberal leaders, who made false promises to their own people; and the UAW, which drove auto plants south; and the public-employee unions, which treated that once great city as an ATM until there was no more cash left to withdraw. 
It isn’t just bad math, what liberals are guilty of; it’s bad faith. Liberals are betraying the people they purport to serve.
That's how you woo them, by God! He's only using you... what could you possibly see in him... can't you see that I'm the one.... Then out comes the knife.
Let’s talk about the kind of guy who tells the girls he loves them and then just takes what he wants from them and leaves. And the kind of guy who says the word “love” and then lives it. 
I know those guys. I’ve been both of them. 
The Legend of Two-Face: "Heads I bring America peace... tails I give them a sword." (William Kristol whispers in his ear.) "Tails it is!"
Americans know those guys, too.
And they voted for Obama. Maybe you guys should do something about your breath.

101 comments:

  1. BigHank5310:50 PM

    I don't think ol' Lee has changed as much as he'd like to believe he has. He's using the word "love" left and right...but he still seems pretty damn eager to start right in with the fucking.

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  2. Derelict10:57 PM

    Yeah, let's relive those great days of compassionate conservatism. It's worked so well before.
    And we really mean it this time, baby!

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  3. He sounds an awful lot like one of those internet "nice guys" who think he deserves sexvotes because he really loves women, not like those jerks she's going out with instead of him.

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  4. Insofar as Habeeb's rambling, incoherent column has a singular point, it seems to be here:

    I then turned down the volume; the speakers looked even worse than they sounded. No smiles, no lightness. It was all bitterness.

    So the problem with conservatives is that they're too damn angry, and it's turning people against them. But it doesn't seem like he really wants to honestly change the rhetoric, given this from a few paragraphs earlier:

    It is liberals who endlessly ponder how to transfer that wealth, transfer the fruits of all of that labor and love, and who lecture us about our lack of love when we point out that they can’t keep on forever spending more than they take in.

    It isn’t just bad math, what liberals are guilty of; it’s bad faith. Liberals are betraying the people they purport to serve.



    In other words - if I'm grasping this - fixing conservatism is a matter of talking a bit softer and making sure not to get too honest in any public forums. You know, I still don't think he has a grasp on this "love" thing.

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  5. montag211:30 PM

    Of course, there's no mention here, regarding Detroit, that Michigan was run by Republican governors who, for decades, did the bidding of the automakers without question. Yeah, Kwame Kilpatrick did Detroit no favors, but, it was John Engler who happily rammed through one of the most draconian welfare reform laws in the nation when the underfunded state infrastructure was coming apart at the seams (the same Engler who is now president of the Business Roundtable, the CEOs' lobby) (the same Engler that one Democratic opponent aptly described as "a corn-fed bowser"). Nor does our sensitive NRO columnist note that the recent big meltdown in the auto industry was because the automakers got greedy and used their finance arms to get in way, way over their heads in very shaky and ill-advised financial "products." Nor is there any mention that Roger Smith did a pretty fair job of destroying GM all by his lonesome, because he was an arrogant, megalomaniacal idiot with a much-inflated view of his own capabilities and talents.



    The end result, of course, combined with redlining, white flight, industry loss from offshoring and outsourcing, Reaganomics, and the poverty that no jobs creates, is Detroit today. Habeeb can blame unions and libruls until the cows get ground up into e.Coli-infused hamburger, but the Republicans did more than their fair share in reducing Detroit to a shell of its former self (all the things that Habeeb claims are the contributory causes of Detroit's demise were actually in place--and were stronger--in 1960, when Detroit was--unbelievable as it may seem now--the wealthiest city in the country).


    But then, anyone believing that a good, solid partisan screwing of the plebes on behalf of the stinking rich is the same thing as love is bound to get cause and effect all fucked up.

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  6. Fats Durston11:40 PM

    That was just what the world needed: a article that is a mash-up between Huey Lewis & the News lyrics and EVERY FACEBOOK POST EVER BY MY 87-YEAR-OLD AUNT WHO ONLY POSTS IN CAPITALS.

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  7. AGoodQuestion11:52 PM

    Tell you what, Lee. Why don't we grab a burger and a couple of beers before we move onto the murder/suicide pact. I'm giving you a random my phone number right now.

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  8. I was thinking more of a "confession" at a evangelical altar call.

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  9. AGoodQuestion11:58 PM

    In other words - if I'm grasping this - fixing conservatism is a matter of talking a bit softer and making sure not to get too honest in any public forums.


    And of course it's too late even for that. The Halloween mask has slipped, and everyone knows the face beneath it is much more horrifying.

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  10. stfu_donny12:04 AM

    Preach it, brother. This asshole knows nothing about Detroit. I was born and raised on the east side. Lived there for most of my fifty years. And fuck John fucking Engler. I'll never forget the News and the Free Press publishing a front page photo of that piece of shit holding an empty wallet, crying broke, as if he was some kind of innovative, revolutionary leader. Godammit, it makes me furious just thinking about it. His fucking stench lingers to this day in so many ways. How can I count them? Here's one - the jails and prisons can't handle the countless mentally ill that end up there because that douchebag closed all of the state psychiatric hospitals. The corrections officials, being, you know, fucking correction officials, have no idea what to do with these people, and so they drown in their own puke in the county lockups if they aren't freezing underneath some bridge over 94 or 75.


    Sorry, didn't mean to rant, but believe me, I could go on...RIP Doghouse.

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  11. DocAmazing12:48 AM

    Republicans '14: I've Changed, Baby!
    -alternately-
    Republicans '14: Let's Get to the Making-Up Sex Already!

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  12. Spaghetti Lee12:49 AM

    Man, the welfare-slashing, immigrant-bashing, school-defunding, conspiracy-loving, Wall Street-enabling, warmongering party of paranoids, wannabe dictators, and moral scolds rebranding itself as the party of love would be a sight to see. The modern GOP is a place where you can run on a platform of denying school lunches to children, medical care to sick people, and $9/hour wages to workers, and be hailed as a savior-not just a savior, but a "true conservative". That's the sort of shit that gets the Republican base excited, thinking they've finally found one of their own kind. If they were any more villainous they'd start growing curly mustaches and tying women to train tracks. Love? Good luck, Lee.

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  13. montag212:57 AM

    Well, Little Boots did try that one, for a very brief while, with the "compassionate conservative" routine (he knew it was just a con's ruse, but he did try to infuse that particular oxymoron into the debate--he ran hard on it in 1999 and 2000), and I expect it swayed enough independents and conservatoid Dems to give him an edge, enough to get before a crooked Supreme Court.



    But, c'mon, nobody is gonna believe that conservatives love anyone but themselves and their rich friends. It's just not in them to give a shit about anyone else. It's like sharks promising to become Easter bunnies.

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  14. montag212:59 AM

    "Republicans '14: Let's Get to the Making-Up Sex Vicious Anal Rape For Your Own Good, Bitch!, Already!

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  15. DocAmazing1:20 AM

    Tough love. Y'know, the kind Kronos had for his kids.

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  16. montag21:26 AM

    Come to think of it, Kronos waited until they were born to fuck `em over, too.

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  17. montag21:29 AM

    BTW, Roy, that title and clip are cherce.

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  18. Linus2:11 AM

    If I were thinking about writing something like, "I would bet that if you Googled every speech by every conservative candidate in 2012, you wouldn’t find the word 'love' once," I would actually google a few speeches to see if that was even close to being true.

    I googled "Romney campaign speech" (without the quotes). I clicked the first link in the results, which was this. The first link in the "Romney" column was his concession speech, so I clicked the second link instead. I did a Ctrl-F for "love" (without the quotes) and guess what?

    Then I thought, well, maybe Habeeb doesn't think of Romney as a conservative, so I tried it with Santorum. It was the third link in the search results. The sixth for Bachmann. The second for Huntsman (though a speech from 2011, so technically not within Habeeb's parameters). First for Gingrich (though a little unfair in context, still he used the word "love").

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  19. montag22:39 AM

    Well, there was that protestation by Bush that gynecologists/obstetricians weren't allowed to practice their "luuuuv" on their patients because of malpractice insurance....


    Maybe that was what gave our brain-dead amanuensis the idea to, uh, pounce upon the word like a jackal on a dead antelope.

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  20. Gromet2:57 AM

    Just look how those Welfare Queens were dressed. They were all wearing Cadillacs and T-bone steaks and a number of children that was not optimal from an upper middle class point of view! So they had it coming.

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  21. Gromet3:14 AM

    This Habeeb essay about Republicanism and love reminds me of some of the most embarrassing science fiction I have read, where the paragraph about the process for manufacturing synthetic mica in orbit is written by a well-educated, clear-thinking adult man who is obviously passionate about chemistry, and the paragraph about the love affair is the work of a 13-year-old taking his best guess.


    Oh, wait, I mean it's like that except for having a paragraph that's educated, clear-thinking, adult, and evidence of having a passion.


    But I'll let synthetic mica manufactured in orbit continue to represent Republican social policies. That works.

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  22. Spaghetti Lee3:36 AM

    That stuck out to me as well, he obviously forgot Romney's wonderful "I do not understand this emotion called love, as I was not programmed to feel it," speech

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  23. Holy FSM, they really need to get the script of their Penthouse/National Review pieces down, because that is one muddled message (all the more so when one considers how divergent it is from the rest of the magazine, not to mention the rest of conservative machine). Did he run this by K-Lo and Jonah? (Also, too, "bad faith"? It's always projection.)

    Lee loves his wife… and hates the government. Conservatives actually love the poors, don't you see, and their seeming cruelty is just Ayn Rand tough love. The love that dare not speak its name… is the love of the free market. Lee wants you to know he's a manly ladies' man, and a total stud, but he's seen the error of his ways and has given all that up… to shill tax cuts for the rich.

    Even taken on his own painful terms, essentially his pitch is that liberals will get you laid, but conservatives will give you a tax cut.

    Conservative slash fic involves a shirtless Reagan cutting the social safety net.

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  24. Republicans '14: Let's Get to the Angry Sex (Is There Any Other Kind?) After You Fix Me a Sammich!

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  25. MikeJ4:21 AM

    I was going to use the phrase "grudge fuck".

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  26. montag25:43 AM

    You can resolve the stylistic paradox by abandoning a strict fidelity to the story you're using as an example, and keeping the tone of the narrative consistent (after all, you do say that one-half of it doesn't apply, anyway).


    This requires only one word change to accomplish. Wherever the word "mica" appears, substitute "shit."


    Voila!

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  27. "Sheesh, kid," muttered the killer, shaking his head as reached under the bed to grab the ankle of the last child left in the family he had left in bloody pieces in other rooms.


    "I bet you are pissed that your parents didn't get better locks for the doors. That kind of betrayal's gotta hurt, yeah?"

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  28. I wonder if what he is trying to write is something like, "everyone is fucking over everyone else--it's a dog-eat-dog world, man; but liberals are the ones who are lying about it, while conservatives are at least honest about it. WHY DON'T THE FUCKING BITCHES APPRECIATE THAT?!"

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  29. hellslittlestangel7:29 AM

    You've got to admit, "Blues In the Night" would make an awesome campaign song.

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  30. redoubt8:00 AM

    Tucked into the bottom of the above essay:

    He lives in Oxford, Miss., with his wife, Valerie, and daughter, Reagan.

    1) One doesn't normally see misogyny displayed so. . .prominently in cold type.

    2) Does anyone else keep thinking about the "Ministry of Love"?

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  31. mortimer20008:11 AM

    ...if we spoke from the heart about what we are for and not just what we are against, we might start winning more hearts.

    Yes! All they have to do is speak from the heart about what they are for:
    GOP: We love you so much that we want to free you from the burden of government benefits and instead give your very own job creators a big tax cut! C'mon people now, smile on your brother!

    Libertarian Populists: We love you poor workers so much that we want to you to have even more liberty and freedom by abolishing the minimum wage altogether! Everybody get together, gotta love one another right now!

    Paul Ryan: I don't just love people on Social Security and Medicare. I want to make love to them. Make love to them all over. Real bad. Without a condom. Having my baby. What a lovely way of sayin' how much you love me...

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  32. Teresa8:35 AM

    Great he loves himself so deeply he's willing to punch a lot of people in the face to prove just how "loving" he is. Sure wish he'd stick to punch his own face.

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  33. It is love, regrettably, that is so utterly absent from anything we talk about as conservatives.

    Oh, tut-tut, Lee. When it's love between same-sex couples, you guys won't shut up about it.

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  34. glennisw9:41 AM

    They had cell phones, too!

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  35. Mr. Wonderful10:32 AM

    And just for the record: Am I the only one who thought that "compassionate conservatism" was like an ad for a peanut butter "now with improved flavor"? Suggesting that heretofore the flavor wasn't all that great? "Yeah, yeah, conservatism until now has been heartless, mendacious, and a con game in service to the rich. But we're changing all that!"

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  36. Mr. Wonderful10:37 AM

    "who lecture us about our lack of love"


    Chapter Bajillion in the Chronicles of Projection. (And yet another verse in their unending Ballad of Butthurt.) I will give Habeeb a dollar if he can find one quote, anywhere, in which a "liberal" lectures these excrescences about their "lack of love."

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  37. Halloween_Jack10:38 AM

    Lee Habeeb just wants to make NRO a safe space for women. [Warning: triggery, Onion]

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  38. Mr. Wonderful10:42 AM

    So is the "serial killer's bedroom," which had me laffing for a solid minute. (And right now, too.)

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  39. "War is peace, Freedom is Slavery, Cruelty is Love."

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  40. "You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules."

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  41. whetstone11:22 AM

    I would bet that if you Googled every speech by every conservative candidate in 2012, you wouldn’t find the word “love” once.

    Happy to help! Got your 2016 RNC keynote right here.

    "Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-invisible-hand/left-socialist-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Obama struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You
    see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run
    straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love.
    Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear
    hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch
    'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like
    love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning!
    Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the
    count!"

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  42. Also, there is apparently no more cash to withdraw unless you are a wealthy owner of a sports team in Detroit. Then it is an ATM jackpot!

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  43. Did he run this by K-Lo and Jonah?
    Implying that either of them is a competent editor that would have done his or her job properly assumes facts not in evidence.

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  44. whetstone11:43 AM

    You forgot the law Michigan enacted not that long ago, the "If Detroit Lowers Its Income Tax, the State Will Make Up the Difference, You Can Bet On It" Act.

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  45. whetstone11:44 AM

    If by "run this by" you mean "like a rabbit running past an ancient hound dog on a porch," I believe it.

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  46. BigHank5311:50 AM

    That's....funny enough that you have to watch the edges. They're a bit sharp.

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  47. montag211:52 AM

    Not a matter of forgetting--can't forget to recall something never known in the first place. I haven't been in the area for a while, so some of the news from there whizzes right by me.


    That said, that law sounds as if it was intended to set up the city for failure, doesn't it? They must have had the emergency manager waiting in the wings.

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  48. montag211:54 AM

    And not just cell phones. Obamaphones, at that!

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  49. Mooser11:55 AM

    "I know those guys. I’ve been both of them"
    Play it again, Sam!

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  50. Ah yes, the "Ike Turner" -- "Democracy, I love you so much, sometimes I just get so crazy inside! You know I only violently suppress you because I care!"

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  51. Mooser11:59 AM

    "I know those guys. I’ve been both of them."
    One can only shudder at the fate awaiting womanhood when conservative Lotharios stalk the land, masters of every nuance of erotic entanglement. What mere female can resist their wiles?
    Wow, I bet he cut a real swath through the ladies, like a knife through hot butter.

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  52. dstatton12:03 PM

    Are you sure that wasn't ghost-written by Peggy Noonan?

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  53. montag212:03 PM

    Is there a finger pointing to an empty chair in this?

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  54. montag212:07 PM

    No dolphins around, so, maybe not.


    Of course, that might be because BP killed them all.

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  55. whetstone12:08 PM

    Here are the details. When anyone says "I can't look backward," check to see if you still have your wallet.

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  56. That's not a finger, it's just small.

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  57. montag212:20 PM

    It doesn't sound as if getting the shortfall back would have cured all ills, but it's still just insult on top of injury.


    It's pretty clear from what's happening around the country that this mania for tax cuts has made it impossible for states and municipalities to build/maintain rainy day funds--which ought to be there to carry the entity through the bad times when the economic picture turns sour and revenues decline.



    Used to be (in the bad ol' days of Eisenhower socialism) that keeping taxation adequate for current and foreseeable future needs was pretty much SOP. No more.

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  58. Love means never having to say your policies wrecked the country.

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  59. montag212:24 PM

    Ah, yes, what Mailer described in The Deer Park as "the thumb of power."

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  60. The problem is when the orbit of that synthetic shit decays and you have flaming meteors of shit hitting the earth. Now, that's exactly like Republican social policies.

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  61. nanute1:07 PM

    Fats, My mom does the same thing. (all caps). When I ask why she say's "because I can't see, Anthony."

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  62. satch1:46 PM

    "But we're changing all that."





    It's like the rest of the Pug "Rebranding" effort that guys like David Brooks want to engage in... the one where they learn to choke out through clenched teeth a few pleasant sounding phrases about women and immigrants to help them get elected. After that, it'll be back to business as usual and counting on mass amnesia of their hand picked electorate. And the hilarious thing is that the rabid weasels in the Tea Party can't even fake THAT.

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  63. satch1:58 PM

    Lee knows every word of the lyrics to "You Always Hurt The One You Love", and usually follows them up with "See What You Made Me Do???"

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  64. Substance McGravitas2:37 PM

    CONTROL-PLUS YOU OLD BAT OR ARE YOU DEAF TOO

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  65. KatWillow3:00 PM

    It is liberals who endlessly ponder how to transfer that wealth, transfer the fruits of all of that labor and love...


    .... to the people who created it. Teh Poor.

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  66. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s8OBadvqakc/UajUuhPlrGI/AAAAAAAAMbc/FHO0068GEz4/s320/The-only-way-to-swim.gif
    ~

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  67. chuckling3:23 PM

    It's a lot more convincing when Robert Mitchum says it.

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  68. Jay B.3:26 PM

    Even though we believe deeply that love is the answer to so many of the world’s problems, we just can’t say the word.


    It's true. After all, I've always considered Sept. 11, 2001 as the kick off date for their Decade of Love.

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  69. A number of people in this thread have figured it out - strip away the creepy bookends, and what you've got is a typical "tough love"/austerity column. It's confirmed by the NRO commenters, one of the better crops of assholes I've seen in a while.


    But they don't seem to understand why people think they're assholes. A hint, guys: It's not because you keep telling people to get jobs. It's because you keep telling people to get jobs at a time when there are no jobs. All your apocryphal stories about empty job fairs and welfare cheats aren't going to change the fact that there are currently an average of three applicants per opening even in the healthiest sectors. That's why people think you're a bunch of dicks - you keep telling them to do things that they can't do.


    Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to applying to positions for which I'm dramatically overqualified.

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  70. nanute3:42 PM

    I tried that. Then she just bitches that she can't see the side bar and other stuff on the page. It takes a lot of C+.

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  71. whetstone4:06 PM

    All I'm saying is that if Ted Cruz tattooed his knuckles and dressed up like a preacher, it wouldn't make me less likely to vote for him.

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  72. Halloween_Jack4:39 PM

    This GIF is now my spirit guide.

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  73. marindenver4:54 PM

    Why, of course the Rethugs know what love is! Seems like just yesterday that Queen Mrs. Ann ("Egg") RMoney was voicing her great luuuurve for the lady poors with kids who have no choice about going to work and all and she didn't have to!

    http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/04/24/469896/ann-romney-women-work/

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  74. mgmonklewis5:05 PM

    Ironically, studies show that ALL CAPS is harder to read than regular case. Unless you're learning a word for the first time, the human brain recognizes the shape of the entire word, not just the individual letters. ALL CAPS TENDS TO MINDFK YOUR BRAIN IN THAT RESPECT.

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  75. dstatton5:08 PM

    Elian, is that you?


    Love, Peggy

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  76. AGoodQuestion5:34 PM

    Turns out that politicians can thrive under Thunderdome conditions. To be clear, that means when other people are experiencing Thunderdome conditions.

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  77. Financiers hate municipal and state surpluses for the same reason that they hate Social Security. All that money lying around, entrusted to the public good, that they can't swap derivatives on or throw into risky (to taxpayers) investments. It's practically a crime, I tells ya!

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  78. And the hilarious thing is that the rabid weasels in the Tea Party can't even fake THAT.

    They really, really can't.

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  79. Yeah, that plus, if you can't read the words on your monitor, just increase the zoom level or the font size. You can even increase the font size system wide! And yet they make these features hardest to find (or even know about) for the people likeliest to need them.

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  80. It's because you keep telling people to get jobs at a time when there are no jobs


    ...due in large part to policies that the NRO readership keeps voting for.

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  81. AngryWarthogBreath6:31 PM

    The Lee Habeeb Method: How To Get Beautiful Electorates Into Bed.


    Mitt Romney's comments about a nation of takers were just negging, guys! It's guaranteed to work!

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  82. TGuerrant6:43 PM

    And here we see another way my parents let me down. They could have named my sisters Nixon and Agnew, but no. Nixy and Aggie. Stinkin cute, dammit.

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  83. bekabot8:59 PM

    "I know those guys. I've been both of them."


    Together or separately, and in what order?

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  84. bekabot9:08 PM

    Isaac Asimov's suggested solution to this problem, way back in the day when he was still a fanboy, was that science fiction writers forget about the love angle and stick to writing what they knew about and were interested in. (He wasn't against the existence of female characters but he didn't like the way female characters got inserted in order to satisfy an editorial demand for one heterosexual grapple per story. The whole thing struck him as unnecessary.) I don't know that the writers he was addressing ever followed his advice but to me it doesn't sound like bad counsel. It sounds like the kind of hint that might do Mr. Habeeb some good.

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  85. realinterrobang9:23 PM

    I'm gonna bet that the people who decided to ram a shoddily-built highway through some of the city's stable middle-class black neighbourhoods were more akin to today's Republicans than today's liberals and Democrats, too, regardless of what political party they might have belonged to. I mean, cars over people, and screwing up black urban neighbourhoods? Sounds like Republicans to me.

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  86. realinterrobang9:34 PM

    I'm just gonna leave this hear. Or heave this leer. Also, too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs

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  87. Tehanu9:45 PM

    "It's like sharks promising to become Easter bunnies."
    I wish I could upvote this about 100 times. I love it!

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  88. Tehanu9:49 PM

    Am I the only person who remembers that "Regan" (without the extra A) is not only the name of the wicked older sister in "King Lear," but the name of the exorcise-ee in "The Exorcist"?

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  89. Lee loves his wife… and hates the government. Conservatives actually lovethe poors, don't you see, and their seeming cruelty is just Ayn Rand tough love. The love that dare not speak its name… is the love of the free market. Lee wants you to know he's a manly ladies' man, and a total stud,(a href=http://thelionkinggames.com>lion king games) but he's seen the error of his ways and has given all that up… to shill tax cuts for the rich

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  90. Bethany Spencer8:18 AM

    The title of this post alone...

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  91. Bethany Spencer8:19 AM

    LOVE POWA!!!

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  92. digitusmedius8:35 AM

    Wait...I thought only liberals were supposed to write sappy, maudlin, sophomoric crap like that.

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  93. Wm Kiernan9:13 AM

    holds the mike in one hand kinda waves the other hand in the air shakes his hips and "but then I fooled around and fell - bomp bomp bomp - in love"

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  94. Let’s talk about the kind of guy who tells the girls he loves them and
    then just takes what he wants from them and leaves. And the kind of guy
    who says the word “love” and then lives it.


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  95. cleter3:18 PM

    Or "gruck."

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  96. cleter3:20 PM

    I would pay actual folding money to see his expression if somebody said that right to his face.

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  97. cleter3:22 PM

    So, he thinks Republicans should be pro-love, but I guess they can keep being anti-fucking? Good luck with that.

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  98. cleter3:29 PM

    I guess ol' Lee is about a year and a half away from skipping the love part of that song and jumping to the end so he can point at Rand Paul or Ted Cruz and shout, "THAT'S OUR HITLER!"

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  99. parsec9:33 AM

    Making me hungry.

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  100. parsec9:56 AM

    Yup. The other sister was GONERIL.

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