UPDATE. Some late-breaking nuttery:
Knockout game is preview of the chaos coming to America...It sounds like Confederate Yankee, but it's actually something called "Islamic Invitation Turkey" and appears to be what the brethren like to call an Islamofascist site. Well, I figured these two teams would find each other someday.
In this day and age, it has become much more important for all of us to learn how to defend ourselves. As the US economy spirals downhill, people are going to become increasingly desperate. And desperate people do desperate things. The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is beginning to disappear.
This one's pretty good too: "Is the Knockdown Game the Work of Government Agent Provocateurs to Start a Race War?" It's from something called The Lone Star Watchdog, but I found it via The Daily Paul, a Ron 'n' Rand EVOLution site. Who says the GOP doesn't have a deep bench?
Every fucking thing was just straight out racist and insane.
ReplyDeleteThey're not even trying to hide it anymore. The subtext has not only become text, but fuckin' billboards.
ReplyDeleteI was informed in breathless terms about the Knockout Game's dangers by my 91 year old uncle a week or so ago. He hasn't left his house since 1992 anyways.
ReplyDeleteSheesh, all the predictions of teh blahks rioting over this, that or the other have pretty much proven worthless so now we have to find a new Ooga Booga to FREAK OUT over !!11!1 KNOCKOUT OMG!!
ReplyDeleteCan I just find a real reality to live in and leave these morans behind?
What a fucking cesspool. This disease -- like their homophobia -- is chronic, pernicious, and all too depressing. Imagine where we'd be if the Supreme Court hadn't proclaimed the end of racism.
ReplyDelete"Knockout game"? How awful. I do hope LL Cool J's mama is being taken to task for her part in encouraging this.
ReplyDelete"Let's see how much 'fun' the 'game' is when teenagers start getting shot dead," said The Daily Sheeple.
ReplyDeleteHe's already gotten bored since the last time an ignorant shitkicker shot a teenager dead.
There are (approximately) ten thousand stories of Dangerous New Trends among America's youth that find their way to local news features and Snopes articles. If you believed that each one was accurate, let alone a sign of societal collapse, you'd lose your mind within a week. That explains a lot about these guys, I guess.
ReplyDeleteWhat's amazing is not just how nasty and arrogant these guys are, but that they're such suckers. Yeah, THIS teens-behaving-badly freakout is the final-no-backsies end of civilization. Really! We mean it this time!
That's a little unfair. The Zimmerman thing was like having a big bedside bowl of cocaine straight off the docks, for months, and now he has to make due with sporadic shots of this weak-ass stepped-on Knockout Game shit?
ReplyDeleteYou'd be jonesing too.
Race relations in the mind of every winger ever: Each instance of black-on-white violence is necessarily motivated by race and indicative of the coming race war. Each instance of white-on-black crime is a case of a strapping young buck who provoked the attack on himself and got what he deserved.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young we didn't do this horrible Knockout Game shit. We just went wilding like all decent American kids.
ReplyDeleteI give up, man. I can't think of anything insightful or witty to say about this, it's just horrible. Remember when bloggers used to make you work to understand their terrible, terrible subtext?
ReplyDeleteActually, they're going a step beyond. Did you know that Flaherty's book contains QR codes so you can watch all of the videos of dubious veracity that he talks about? Hey, your modern, sophisticated racist needs a full multimedia experience to fully engorge his rage glands.
The dog whistle broke, so now they're using an airhorn.
ReplyDeleteThis is cyclical, and comes around every few years. Previous manifestations included "wilding", "flash mobs", and "superpredators" (and, in the UK, "happy slapping"). Just like this year's crop of street drugs are always OMG so much purer and stronger and more dangerous than last years', there's always a place for ginned-up stories about how dangerous and sociopathic and violent today's urban youths are.
ReplyDeleteOh well. White people will always have the Murder Unarmed Black Teenager game.
ReplyDeleteWell, I figured these two teams would find each other someday.
ReplyDeleteJeezoNazis vs IslamoFascists! WWE could package this as a tag-team cage extravaganza. Unless they already have...
Also too, the GOP's bench is just wide, not deep. In Rusty's case, doublewide.
ReplyDelete"she also lives in a crappy apartment like many of us in this economy, according to the background of her Skype shot,"
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is with these creeps? Always with the wandering eyes, looking over people's shoulders while they're talking, sizing up their furnishings and countertops. "Oh, is that lube on the nightstand?" Gladys Kravitz called and said to mind your own fucking business.
Judging people is their sport. They'll suit up to play on any field.
ReplyDeleteWhy was my comment about Ross Douthat and his link to Steve Sailer's racist site at his Atlantic site censored?
ReplyDeleteCare if I nutpick a little from that Daily Caller piece?
ReplyDeleteBlacks have a 6000 year history of slavery and segregation.For 30 years there has been a window of equality. Sadly, they are now making their own case for segregation again. That appears to be their default status slavery and segregation. I hate to say it, but i don't want to see young black males anywhere near my family
680 upvotes.
On a lighter note, a spambot got in there and there are at least a half dozen commenters hurling insults at it as though it were a real person.
Oh for the good old days. Emancipation & desegregation were a mistake, which it is time to reverse, as long as it's the commenter who ends up as the slave-owner.
ReplyDeleteI just saw it at VV so it was probably moderated is all.
ReplyDeleteIt's hilarious how angry victims of violence refusing to join them in their racist pareidolia makes these people. It's like they think that old saw about a conservative being a liberal who got mugged is a binding contract, and these people aren't holding up their end.
ReplyDeleteHave i lost my abatar again?
ReplyDeleteIm waiting for smell-o-vision.
ReplyDeleteSilly…segregation only works if white people run things.
ReplyDeleteAccording to wingnuts, the fact that most of the nation's black citizens were living in Murkin-style Apartheid only a generation ago and yet they still haven't achieved whiteness and become 12.6% of the 1-percenters, is only proof that the country ended it too soon.
On a lighter note, a spambot got in there and there are at least a half
ReplyDeletedozen commenters hurling insults at it as though it were a real person.
I'm not sure this is a lighter note--just more evidence of their inability to recognize humanity.
You know, September 11, 2001, really revealed what pants-pissers these folks are. I mean, even in recent memory, natural disasters have killed thousands of folks, who continue blithely to build huts on the flood plain in tornado alley, but point the finger at another tribe and it's all "grab the guns and hide the chill'ins!"
ReplyDeleteI enjoy poking fun at their cowardice as much as the next normal, but times like this make me wonder if they aren't just pretending to be little pussies over everything, so they can have a manufactured justification to kill folks (with overwhelming force and/or a mob, of course).
If it's a con, it works not because these assholes are suckers but because they are part of the con.
I know, right? I mean, I thought Jackass videos signaled the end of Amurkin society as we knew it. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out they didn't.
ReplyDeleteIn 1967, when I was 10 years old, an older teenage boy who was with a gaggle of friends ran up to me and punched me in the head for no discernible reason. I fell into a snowbank and he and his pals ran off, laughing hysterically. This was in a small town in Upstate NY and my attacker was blond and blue-eyed. Knockout Game?
ReplyDeleteGrasping At Hairtriggers
ReplyDeleteI remember that…it was pretty funny.
ReplyDelete:-)
Ah, so you're one of those Coles.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine that the players of the knockout game were satanists hopped up on jenkum who were out wilding, driven mad by the seductive primal rhythms of jazz music.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that really worried me was the jenkum. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and
ReplyDeletedepraved than a man in the depths of an jenkum binge. And I knew we'd
get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas
station.
Don't forget--they were gang initiations! And it all happened in a mall parking lot.
ReplyDeleteNope, still there.
ReplyDeleteYou could tell by the rainbow of lipstick up and down their you-know-whats.
ReplyDeleteIf you called them a panty-sniffer, their response would be, "Well, in all honesty, who hasn't?", and it would get upvoted by all the people relieved that they weren't the only ones.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that the lonely downvote was by one of the same shirt-tale relatives who signal-boost this shit on FB and resent it when I post the relevant Snopes link.
ReplyDeleteThey could try "Time-Share Slavery", thus putting together racism and real estate scams--two of America's most enduring products. (And the foreclosure process would be Pay-Per-View.)
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no. Every bad thing in the universe is brand new and Obama's fault. The fact that bullies have been engaging in random violence since the beginning of time is no longer acknowledged. History begins anew every time a Democratic president is inaugurated.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise they would have to acknowledge that a lot of the things they are condemning Obama for were actually done by George W. Bush..
Of all the possible reactions to the knockout game, I did not expect Steve Sailer's complaint about excess machismo. Is he trying to circle around to the other side and convince some distracted women's studies professors or something?
ReplyDeleteFirst, great comeback with the line from "Sweet Home Alabama" in the lettercol of the Veev column, Roy. Also, someone posted a link to a Chicago South Loop blog, where someone expressed this opinion: "WOW. I didnt think such evil existed." Knockout game: worse than Hitler.
ReplyDeleteOf course, by the time you've been surprise punched in the head, it's too late to draw your gun and shoot. The only way to be really 'safe' is to have you gun ready to go with the safety off and fire it at any non-white person who gets too close to you. I think Zimmerman will happily give lessons on how to handle this situation.
ReplyDeleteI understand. Small-town hijinks by white kids in the 1960s, even though they left me with a bloody mouth and a likely concussion, are in no way comparable to the exact same thing occurring in the 2000s, except that it's happening in urban settings and the random punchers are black kids.
ReplyDeleteHuh. It's enough to tempt one to say, "It's always projection."
ReplyDeleteBut they're suckers in everything--or at least everything political. Who but a sucker makes five figures and votes Republican? Who but a sucker listens to Limbaugh and watches Fox News? Or thinks Sarah Palin is a "leader"? Believe me, you don't need Marx and/or Engels to explain these clowns. All you need is Barnum.
ReplyDeleteI could have sworn I heard Obama said "Spock you out."
ReplyDeleteNotice how they say they don't want young black males near their families… black females are OK, because someone needs to change the kids' diapers, cook the family's food, clean the house, and in some homes get sexually abused or raped by the white male adults and older white male teens in the family.
ReplyDeleteI live in NYC, ride the subways and walk the streets all the time, see and interact with "young black males" on a regular basis, and they're just people. It's such a simple concept, when you think of it. They're just people, with the spectrum of personality and behavior and ability you see among any other section of society. (I wonder what these racist commenters would think if they realized that a top-ranking chess team in the country, from a poor school, I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, has been made up largely of black kids, including those scary young black males). http://www.nbccongress.org/spotlight/brooklyn-castle.asp
The fact that that comment got close to 700 up votes makes me want to puke.
Eye licking!
ReplyDeleteYou'd think wingnuts would have learned after the last moral panic, when they wound up taking a beating in the vodka and tampon markets.
ReplyDeleteI used to play this Knockout Game all the time as a kid. Figures that it came from basketball courts, you know, where those kids usually play.
ReplyDeleteEvery black kid punching a white guy is worse than all the cross-burnings and lynchings, because those things never really happened, and if they did, Racism in America is Over Since Rosa Killed the Klan, so there!
ReplyDeleteFascinating...
ReplyDeleteIf there is a rash of Black young males attacking White people and knocking them out, this would be a problem. I can't tell if this is a real problem or one created by right wing media. Unfortunately, it seems as if racists are using these crimes as an excuse to engage in nasty anti-Black commentary. As a Black female, I am as appalled by Black youngsters committing these types of senseless crimes as anyone else. There is no reason to turn this into a racial issue. Hopefully the police are making arrests and this fad will go away quickly.
ReplyDeleteGeez, if these conservatives are so concerned with a handful of violent incidents, just wait till they hear about all the violence against women. The VAWA is sure to pass unanimously!
ReplyDeleteI’d like to marry this comment. But let me be clear about something: While I’m sure this comment will receive many offers of marriage, I am not interested in entering into some perverted polyamorous relationship. It must be a monogamous marriage AS GOD INTENDED. It’s Comment and Eve, not Comment and Polyamorous Bisexual Feminist.
ReplyDeleteIt’s gross when they can’t contain their glee.
ReplyDeleteLLAP.
ReplyDeleteThey are waiting for president obama to go on tv and ask all young black males to pull up their pants, put their baseball caps on right way around, and stop chewing gum. Now thats a moral panic!
ReplyDeleteI thought the Knockout Game was when you walked down the street dressed in your finest duds and made people faint just cuz you’re so good-lookin’.
ReplyDeleteA variation on this game is to do it with a soundtrack.
...their you-know-whats.
ReplyDeleteThe barrel of their gun? You've probably noticed that it's the one thing close to a wingnut heart that can't be too big or too black.
Well, ya screwed me, Disqus. Ya screwed me blue.
ReplyDeleteI swear it showed a preview of a youtube inbed.
I would like to sneak up on this comment, knock it out, and write a backwards "B" on its face.
ReplyDeleteI am not interested in entering into some perverted polyamorous relationship.
ReplyDelete[SHEDS BITTER TEARS, TEARS UP MASH NOTE]
I am so stealing that.
ReplyDeleteand, in the UK, "happy slapping"
ReplyDeleteIt might be spelled "happy," but it's pronounced "fish."
This is about De Blasio. Period.
ReplyDeleteI do believe you're funnin' us...
ReplyDeleteWell, ya screwed me, Disqus. Ya screwed me blue.
ReplyDeleteWow, that ban on perverted polyamory didn't last very long.
... a 6000 year history of slavery and segregation.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whose ass he pulled that out of.
Jenkum? Holy shit!
ReplyDeleteI wonder whose ass he pulled that out of.
ReplyDeleteKen Ham's?
Dead End Kids...
ReplyDeleteWell, they're comparable in the sense that they're both Obama's fault.
ReplyDeleteYou mean "Superpredators" isn't a Sci-Fi Channel original movie about sharks who evolve legs and opposable thumbs?
ReplyDelete(Deletes e-mail from Aunt Gladys in disgust.)
I hear that's a popular one among cops and judges.
ReplyDeleteWell, I for one, don’t like the smell of semen and poo.
ReplyDeleteWell, nothing to do now but sit back and wait for the racist comments to roll in!
ReplyDeleteThis strikes me (hehehehehe) as unfair. I'm not convinced you had time to sit back.
"But... but... but Bernhard Goetz was so loooooong ago!!!"
ReplyDeleteBill Cosby has already done that, and if the youngsters won't listen to HIM... well, I just don't know. Also too... Ray Kelly would like the FOX News munchkins and other wingnut flying monkeys to quit yammering about this urban legend, thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, I can't hear you over this W.A.S.P. record. Satanic Panic, where art thou?
ReplyDeleteAtwaterism isn't aging well, is it?
ReplyDeleteMake it a backwards “O."
ReplyDeleteI know. I was thinking of how Cosby was, for five minutes, the Respectable Negro who will tell the black yout where to get off. If Obama had Cosbied the hell out of himself and run as a Republican there are a whole lot of 'em who would have voted for him.
ReplyDeleteThey really, really, hate black females, too since they consider that they are useless as laborers since they are all on the welfare and pupping out the kids as the single mothers and the crack whores. Its just that they don't think they are a direct threat, being too busy on their obamphones collecting the foodstamps.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not so sure. These panics happen all the time and they follow one another one right after the other. Sure, they are always set in the city and New York is the Ur City of our dreams and nightmares, but the right wing needs a provocation and black youth, overexcited that Obama is in the white house (apparently they didn't notice for the first four years) are always going to be the target of the two minutes hate. I'm betting that in Texas the story will involve latinos. Its probably quite regional.
ReplyDelete"fire it at any non-white person who gets too close to you."
ReplyDeleteThat is so wrong!
If you let one of THEM get close, you're already in big trouble. Best pick 'em off at a nice safe distance
Sharks v. Jets
ReplyDeleteGeez, two hours ago you're all down on the polyamory and now you're talking up your O-face. Maybe switch to decaf?
ReplyDeleteWell yeah, but the fuse for this nonsense was De Blasio's election. Anybody with half a cerebellum could have predicted that one of these racist panic crapola scares would be the first wingnut tactical move.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure: if Quinn or the Lhota had won we would have seen an uptick in reports of exactly this sort of "crime" because this is what is used to justify stop and frisk. The angry white suburbanite and red stater needs to imagine a city full of angry blacks in order to make his passion play of dems vs republicans, city vs rural, libs vs conservatives and blacks vs whites work out. As everyone has pointed out these moral panics happen all the time, one right after the other. There really doesn't need to be any one incident that sets them off. On the contrary the right wing noise machine is constantly manufacturing and then dropping them from the rotation on a schedule that is largely immune to particular elections.
ReplyDeleteThat and looking at what people purchase at the grocery checkout, and with what card.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to give this comment granite kitchen counters if it doesn't have them already.
ReplyDeleteWanna make wingnut heads explode in the checkout line? Use an EBT card to buy edible panties.
ReplyDeleteI miss those flash mobs of superthugs. Their dance numbers were fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWarriors, come out and play-ay!!
ReplyDeleteJust don't bother with preview. It's more fun to work without a net.
ReplyDeleteI believe they call your game Just Asking For it!
ReplyDeleteIt's probably safe to say that at any time since Menes united the Upper and Lower kingdoms, there has been some group of Africans being enslaved by other people. Sometimes Nilotic tribes... sometimes, in more recent history, West African groups. Much as there has always been enslavement of some group of Europeans ("Slavs") or Asians.
ReplyDeleteBut for some reason, all Africans (and anyone with an African ancestry) are all alike, so the sporadic slavery part of history covers them all; the rules are different for European history.
Condobondage!
ReplyDeleteThe Young Savages.
ReplyDeleteHERE IS THE RAW TRUTH...NAILED TO THE SCREEN!
A few years ago, I was walking home from a neighborhood bar around 2 a.m. Now, my neighborhood at the time was the French Quarter, and since I'd moved to New Orleans, everyone told me variations of, "Don't let you guard down, especially at night, and you will get hit one day, so don't carry too much." New Orleans is an active town.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, as I came within a dozen or so yards of my pad, a Titan pick-up truck with Minnesota plates slowed down until it was right behind me, and then sped up until the reached the end of the street. I figured they were drunk or looking for one of the transvestive hookers that worked that corner of Rampart. Then I heard the footsteps: someone was coming up behind me mighty fast and I figured this was it. Whack! Something struck me on the right side of my face, just below my eyeball, staggering me for a bit.
When the stars evaporate, I saw a skinny white kid in a Hornets jersey run and open the passenger side of the door of the truck at the end of the street. I'd gathered my wits enough to tell him not only what I thought of the kind of man who'd sucker punch complete strangers from behind but also invited him to step back over here and let's discuss this for a bit. He looked a bit stunned for a second, called me a "fag" and jumped in the truck as his buddies - two other white kids - urged him to move his ass.
He broke skin, but that was about it and I had a shiner for a few days. One of the old Quarter drunks saw the whole thing, called the kid a "chickenshit cracker" and asked me for a cigarette. I didn't realize until this day that I had been the victim of a vast conspiracy perpetrated by, hell, Kanye West or someone to get revenge on George Zimmermen using dumbasss yooper kids in between vomitting day-goo grain alcohol on each other.
other-handed
ReplyDeleteEvery VV column seems to bring a cool new invented-by-Roy verb. Edrosoisms?
Surprised no one has mentioned the Wave O' Terrrrrorrrr brought on by the dreaded Headlight Game (Word of which was disseminated in a curiously similar manner. Huh...)
ReplyDeletehttp://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/headlights.htm
A spambot has more warmth and humanity than those 680 upvoters put together.
ReplyDelete"pareidolia" - I had to look that sucker up on Dictionary.com. It will keep me busy making up sentences for 2 months. Thanx!
ReplyDelete"On the contrary the right wing noise machine is constantly manufacturing
ReplyDeleteand then dropping them from the rotation on a schedule that is largely
immune to particular elections."
And if they confined themselves to elections, what would happen to the GNP and employment stats? Who says conservatives don't have a heart?
But seriously folks, the calculated and openly pernicious and largely successful effort to drive discourse to the right and down to the lowest uncommon denominator in the US is sickening.
That a point of view which really has no natural constituency except the shortcomings of the people who fund it can become so predominant worries me a lot, when I'm not to stoned to worry about anything at all.
"that ban on perverted polyamory ..."
ReplyDeleteThat's all I need to see. I'm gone. I know where I'm not wanted.
I was Cole before Cole was Kool.
ReplyDeleteMaybe percussion cap earrings would be the thing.
ReplyDeleteWhat? THEY HAVE A DAY’S SUPPLY OF CALCIUM.
ReplyDelete"Well, nothing to do now but sit back and wait for the racist comments to roll in!"
ReplyDeleteAnd they do, don't they!!
Next they'll be wearing zoot suits and swingin' to the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
ReplyDeleteSure, remember how as soon as gay marriage is brought up, every straight marriage becomes monogamous, lifelong, mutually beneficial and produces loved, brighter than average kids.
ReplyDelete"Hopefully the police are making arrests and this fad will go away quickly"
ReplyDeleteDo you really think there is any "fad" called "the Knockout Game" among Black younsters?
That's because Europe has real countries in it, including ones we don't like. Our refined taste in loathing matters more there. (First frog joke in my direction gets a canned Goldbergian FAARRRT.)
ReplyDeleteYou know, if I was a betting man (instead of a beaten one) I would wager on long a time will elapse before one of the usual suspects emits a column asking "Where is This Decade's Bill Cosby?"
ReplyDeleteThe duck calls just got laughs.
ReplyDeleteJazz music?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instink!
Mass-staria! Not to mention hip-hop and rap.
A brass band is a little unwieldy.
ReplyDeleteNever mix jenkum with your milk, my lovely droogs.
ReplyDeleteHoping to get laid again. That's how I became a feminist myself.
ReplyDeleteImagine what a good swat (a fast swing with plenty of follow-through) with a Strat would have done to his ass! After that incident, I imagine your musical choices became clearer.
ReplyDeleteYea verily, I seem to recall Tyrannosaurus Stossel getting his ears boxed by Dr. D for failing to respect the JeezoNazi team...
ReplyDeleteYer modem's clogged - upload more fiber.
ReplyDelete"If you believed that each one was accurate, let alone a sign of societal collapse, you'd lose your mind within a week."
ReplyDeleteHoorah! Now that I know what caused it, maybe I can be cured!
What once were dog whistles now are vuvuzelas.
ReplyDeleteA game that's a knockout? Surely Mr Gabriel is the one to ask (the line first appears at 1:15):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKb9XQ39-zc
Backwards orgasm? How does that work?
ReplyDeleteThe hostility to black women comes out a lot of places, among them the assumption that if he could Obama would have married a hot white woman instead of that trash Michelle. Saw that last week, not even at Daily Caller, but among the race trolls who immediately glom onto news stories at the New York Magazine site.
ReplyDeleteI heard that Cosby refused to do Marc Maron's podcast because of its name, "WTF." Come on, Cos, WTF?
ReplyDeleteYou know who else was good at inventing verbs?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the racist trolls are finally showing signs of life over at the VV. One calls Roy a "smirky leftist queef." Gotta admit, "queef" does deserve a couple of points.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but in Lake Wobegon, it's true...
ReplyDelete!doG ho ,doG ho ,doG hO
ReplyDeleteRoy, I don't have an email address for you but I wanted to forward you this link to an incredibly Edroso like review of a 1950's book called "By Love Possessed." The review is by Dwight MacDonald. Kathleen Geier linked to it over at Atlantic Monthly in a little essay in defense of scathing reviews and as I was reading the entire thing (its incredibly long) out loud to Mr. Aimai I kept thinking about how much you (and Kia) would love it. Here's the link directly to the MacDonald piece.http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Books/Doomed/Blog/cozzens1.pdf
ReplyDeleteOh, Ya. They really hate Michelle, who they consider a sign of Obama siding with his Black half. I had a huge argument with a woman over at Twitchy who, like a lot of them, runs together racism and populism to produce a toxic stew in which Michelle Obama is a ghetto Marie Antoinette--did you know "she doesn't even speak to the military personell who fly her around the country?" and she "spends more on luxuries than other first ladies?" etc..etc..etc...
ReplyDeleteYou remind me of the need to light up a large bowl of doobage, stat.
ReplyDeleteI'll do better than that; I'll take on the whole continent all in one go:
ReplyDeleteEuropean definition of heaven: a place where all the cops are English, all the chefs are French, all the administrators are Swiss, all the lovers are Italian and all the auto mechanics are German.
European definition of hell: a place where all the cops are German, all the chefs are English, all the administrators are Italian, all the lovers are Swiss and all the auto mechanics are French.
Reefer Madness?
ReplyDeleteBlacks have a 6000 year history of slavery and segregation.For 30 years there has been a window of equality. Sadly, they are now making their own case for segregation again.
ReplyDeleteEven if you follow this guy's line of thought, he's still a jackass. "Okay, so you've been shat on constantly for a while, sure, but you've had a whole one-half of one percent of that time to get your shit together and the best you can do is hippity-hoppers. Back to Jim Crowe for you, boy!" Asshole.
If I remember correctly, one can address complaints to the caretaker at roy(at)edroso.com.
ReplyDeleteBut what about compliments?
ReplyDeleteAnd yet its the conservative types who always sneak too many items into the 10-item checkout line. Then scream when spoken to sternly.
ReplyDelete... since Menes united the Upper and Lower kingdoms, [FACT FACT FACT]
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, go ahead and bring your "actual historical record" into it if you must. But you obviously overlook an essential vaguely factesque-shaped thing, which is that it's been several thousand years since Noah's Flood, in the aftermath of which the servile status of the black race was established via divine curse. Refute that using only the King James Version, if you dare.
Shakespeare?
ReplyDeleteThese kinds of wild rumors have been going around since forever. Razorblades in apples given out at Halloween. Drugged-out kids cooking babies in microwaves. And etc. In the charming days before the internets, these types of things could take on local flavor - either in a rumor specific to the locale or in changing details of a wider-spread rumor to add some local flavor. I remember one that was going around with kids here in the early 90's was that there were guys hiding under cars in the parking area at the state fair, waiting to slice people's Achilles tendon at the back of the ankle as they walked past to disable them so they could rip them off. And also, there might have been something something about some type of gang or gang initiation. Even a venerated tradition like the fair isn't safe from the rumors of hoodlumism run amok! Dumbest damn thing I had heard in a while (again, this is pre-internet) but people bought it to the extent that local TV news did a debunking segment.
ReplyDeleteJust checked the article again and there were 88 comments. Which, well, just lock it right there, because that's perfect.
ReplyDeleteThe flood was only 4,361 years ago; are you some kind of Old Earth liberal?
ReplyDeleteJenkum? Damn near killed him.
ReplyDeleteThere is no pleasing some people
ReplyDeleteGladys Kravitz FTW!!
ReplyDeleteJudging form her Skype photo which for certain is her house because no one ever uses Skype not in their house.
Well I was going to send you a Xmas card.
ReplyDeleteHA HA someone can't spell "Queeg".
ReplyDeleteI personally prefer panics with more of a 'Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic' or 'The Mad Gasser of Mattoon' flava...
ReplyDeleteThat review is awesome. It reminded me quite a bit of Fred Clark tearing apart the Left Behind novels on Slacktivist. Out of morbid curiosity, I had to go see what Derbyshire thought of Cozzens, and sure enough, he's a <a href="http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Reviews/Considerations/cozzens.html>fan</a>, pretty much for all the reasons MacDonald gives to <i>dislike</i> the book.
ReplyDeleteYes, I didn't notice that the link was to derbyshire until I put the link here and saw the URL. And then I was scratching my head because the anti-female sections of the book MacDonald calls out seem rather up Derbyshire's alley.
ReplyDeleteHis characters often speak brutally, for example, not because they are supposed to be brutes, but because their creator apparently thinks this is the way men talk. An elderly lawyer, civilly asked by a client to make some changes in the investing of her trust fund, replies: "You're getting senile, Maud.Trynottobemoreofafoolthan you can help." A doctor, presented as a gentleman, meets the wife of a friend at a party, and, no dialogue or motivation given before, opens up: "What's your trouble, baby? Or can I guess? . . . Tell Pappy how many periods you've missed.... You know as well as I do you're one of those girls who only has to look at him to get herself knocked up." She leaves the room "indignantly" (the adverb implies she's a mite touchy) and he turns to Clarissa, Winner's wife:
"I knew it as soon as I looked at her. Sure. One night she thinks: Too much trouble to get up; the hell with it! You two ought to trade apparatus. Then everybody'd be happy."
Clarissa said: "Reg, you're not being very funny-"
"That's right. I don't feel very funny. Sometimes you get your bellyful of women-their goddam notions; their goddam talk-talk-talk; their goddam sacks of tripes!"
No reason is given for any of these on- slaughts, aside from the fact that all three recipients are women; this seems to be Coz- zens' idea of manly straight-from-the-shoulder talk.
Local TV could be debunking these stories now, but then they'd lose the last of their viewers: old white males scared shitless of the world beyond their front door and the safe, soft cocoon of Faux News.
ReplyDeleteBingo.
ReplyDeleteIt might just be my imagination or a function of my small town upbringing, but I seem to remember the whole razor blades in Halloween apples scare (mid 60s?) as a kind of turning point, when people really started to be paranoid about Bad People doing random horrible things. After that it became important to keep doors locked, to keep kids from running around unsupervised, etc. Anyway.
ReplyDeleteI would like to be respectfully Usshered into this comeback's presence.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because I was living in Iowa at the time, but it was the Johnny Gosch disappearance that really seemed to mark a turning point which led inevitably to John Walsh, amber alerts, etc. The razorblades/poison candy horseshit just meant that panicky small towns implemented Hallowe'en fairs instead, which were usually at least as rewarding. After the Johnny Gosch kidnapping was hysterically hyped to the heavens [WARNING: alliteration quota exceeded], everyone suddenly realized that their children could be snatched away at any moment. What had previously been "Don't get into a stranger's car, yada-yada-yada" turned into "Stay in the rec room and only interact with your peers via 'play date,' because monsters." Sweet Moses in a boat, my own father has just recently reminded me not to let the mdslet get too far ahead of me on his bicycle, because someone could kidnap him before my very eyes. Of course, this is also occurring in a midsized Northeastern city where kids still go trick-or-treating by default. All that's missing is an out-and-proud Satanic cult.
ReplyDeleteAlso tempts me to say they think like Charles Manson.
ReplyDeleteWow. The Voice threads tend to be pretty dead unless it's an ooga booga story. That NBForrest1 is a live one.
ReplyDeleteAnd it causes the page to load in exactly 88 seconds. Coincidence?
ReplyDeleteAnd he replied to my snarky comment with some sputtering about homo jew conspiracies. I love it when they come out and say what they REALLY mean.
ReplyDeleteBut it was true I swear - a fiend of a friend's 3rd cousin twice removed was killed just this way ;)
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