UPDATE. Here's a cartoon that didn't make the cut:
I'm not sure why Uncle Sam looks so blasé. Maybe he's thinking, "Well, at least it's not a Puerto Rican." Or maybe witnessing over decades the slow destruction of the American Dream has turned his brain into harmless goo, and death comes as a blessing.
UPDATE. Ole Perfesser Instapundit has not one but two posts denouncing the "LEFTIES" who "WERE ALL OVER TWITTER RIDICULING" Tom Perkins' ridiculous assertion that a progressive Kristallnacht is coming. Apparently a bunch of nuts protested at a Google engineer's house, and someone threw a rock at a Google bus; no casualties, but "could things get worse?" Questions... remain!
Plus Obama is mean to rich people, "the basic political thuggishness for which Chicago politicians are known," yadda yadda. There's a FEMA coffin with your name on it, sheeple!
For some people, The Paranoid Style in American Politics is a how-to book.
Once you get the taste of authoritarian control --- and a weekly column at the village voice is like Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw combined -- it's hard to stop. Soon you'll not only demand the state provide health care, you'll expect the rich to start paying more taxes. It's terrifying to see the callousness of liberalism.
ReplyDeleteOur local newspaper treats us to Charles Krauthammer every Sunday, and I always thought it interesting that the guy who originated the diagnosis of Bush Derangement Syndrome... hey, he's a psychiatrist after all... has gone completely off the rails and into pure, festering hatred on the subject of Obama. "Bring it, you leftist scum... just fucking bring it"? I can feel the revolution coming, just as soon as Donald Douglas finishes laying in his supply of guns and Axiron.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be a corollary to Godwin's Law - comparing one's opponents to Hitler and/or the Nazis is a travesty that makes light of a unique historical evil, unless it comes from [insert your group/faction here] in which case it's perfectly accurate and appropriate to the situation at hand.
ReplyDeletethe Obama Administration "would love to send a chill down every conservative's spine..."
ReplyDeleteThe problem is finding it first.
Fuck this power shit. When am I getting my Soros check and my Obama phone?
ReplyDeletepoor Dinesh D'Souza
ReplyDeleteIf I understand correctly, D'Souza's lawyer is not disputing the facts as charged, but reckons it is an issue of intention: when his client arranged for false sworn documents to circumvent the law, he had no idea that this was illegal. It's the opposite of a hate crime!
From the Free D'Souza lobbyists:
“When American citizens begin to suspect that people are being arrested for alleged minor violations because of their vocal dissent against their elected representatives or rulers, it breeds disrespect and
contempt for the law and suspicion of those officials..."
I.e. "You gotta nice respect for the law here, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it."
Curious as to how the "wussified," "sissy," "anti-gun Left" mocked in every other right-wing circle jerk this week is expected to mount a revolution against burly He-Men armed to the teeth, dripping with flagtosterone, and emboldened by the righteous cause of constitutional originalism? Dance fight?
ReplyDelete"Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?"
ReplyDeletealso unthinkable: looking up kristallnacht on wikipedia to see what it actually was.
Once, just once, I'd like to be suspected of actions committed by another brutal empire besides the same three mid-20th century ones.
ReplyDeleteYou know, like being accused of planning up the Conservative Amritsar or planning another "Happy Valley" dispossession of real heartland folks (British Empire).
Or, being blamed for wanting to "run iron into [Conservative] fundaments ... washing them with vinegar and salt, and hot oil, draw them in carts like horses," and other outrageous Turkish cruelties (Ottoman Empire).
Or, that the Left is going to, I dunno, create a Conservative Wounded Knee, go Rolling Thunder on Conservatives, or build a Conservative Abu Ghraib.
destruction of conservative alderaan
ReplyDeleteRing ring ring ring Obamaphone:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU
Well, but is he arguing that this is why desouza did it? Or what will result from desouzas arrest ?
ReplyDeleteAlways read @edroso's column if it's Sunday night and you haven't punched yourself in the face enough this weekend: http://t.co/YA59EQJf5H— Gary Legum (@YeDevolutionist) January 27, 2014
ReplyDeleteThere had been nearly continuous pogroms in some parts of europe for ..oh...1500 or so years by 1930. Kristallnacht was nEVER unexpected.
ReplyDelete"I'm not sure why Uncle Sam looks so blasé...maybe witnessing over decades the slow destruction of the American Dream has turned his brain into harmless goo, and death comes as a blessing."
ReplyDeleteUncle Sam's spent the last 35 years being beheaded by the same Jacobin, though sometimes the Jacobin changes the mask. They've been together for a long, long time. Eventually a person gets bored, is all.
I suggest the D'Sousa d'fenders Google "NATO 3". Some of us have already felt the sharp end of the law as a result of political activities and D'Souza's d'fectives thought that the situation was hilarious. The difference: D'Souza actually broke d'law.
ReplyDeleteMind control, clearly.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but they didn't break windows before. That meant things were serious!
ReplyDeleteKristolnacht? Isn't that the ceremony whereby the sons are given careers as pundits by their fathers, as a celebration of meritocracy?
ReplyDeleteUncle Sam is still bemused by his personal physical exams of young men and woman.
ReplyDeleteDance fight?
ReplyDeleteIt's on!!
[Eight leading rightbloggers line up in triangle formation behind Donald Douglas.]
That's Ace's crusty tube sock.
ReplyDeleteIf the average American gave two shits about D'Souza I might be worried. You can't lead a populist revolt without popularity.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I never dreamed I had so much power.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the old joke: Two Jews are sitting on a park bench in 1938 Berlin. One of them is reading Der Sturmer. The one not reading the paper asks, "Why do you read such trash? With everything and everyone turned against us, how can you read their propaganda?"
The one reading replies: "All around, I see Jews being beaten, Jews being deprived of their work and their businesses. But in this paper, I get to read how we control everything!"
I would like to check this comment's pedigree.
ReplyDeleteGerman for "public funding".
ReplyDeleteWhen he said that Standard & Poor's got the Pitchfork treatment, I thought he meant that some smug hipster only gave their album one star.
ReplyDeleteplus eins
ReplyDeleteI think a nebulous-yet-sinister mind control/subliminal neuro-programming is at the heart of a lot of conservatives' hatred/fear of liberals. It's how, despite being obviously physically weak, morally inferior, depraved, cowardly, etc. we control the media, use pop culture for sinister ends, win elections despite clearly not existing outside of New York and California, etc. Conservatives would knock us out if it was a fair fight, and we know it, so we have to cheat.
ReplyDeleteThis power is undeniably seductive (gay/wimmin) and exotic (furrin') and passed down through the lines of elite families (Jews) who then use it to control the masses, so conservatives are right to fear it. It's why they so often refuse to actually debate their ideas on the merits, falling back on logical fallacies and personal attacks: we'd just crank up our mind control powers, so why bother? Better to just fantasize about murdering us all instead. As my (subliminal!) annotations suggest, this line of thought may take just a tiny bit of inspiration from the many, many "why have we not destroyed the Decadent Enemy despite our clear moral superiority and purity, etc." conspiracy theories that have been applied to outgroups throughout history.
Well, Uncle Sam might not be worried at all since the cartoonist drew the 6'1 Obama as being the size of a four year old and he seems most likely to drop the ax on his foot. Vilification fail.
ReplyDeleteThe Kristallnacht Turd's novel:
ReplyDeletehttp://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/19dnypsqk2wbcjpg.jpg
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Taking political cartoons literally is always a fool's game, but still: if my hooded executioner told me I was only going to lose 5% of my body weight, I'd be happy, wouldn't you? I mean, it wouldn't be fun by any means, but if I went in expecting to get my head chopped off and left with only a missing hand or foot I'd be pretty happy. Maybe show him stealing 5% of someone's birthday cake? Or maybe stop thinking that a tax increase on the wealthiest 5% of the country is akin to murder. Or maybe realize that the other 95% of the country may not give a shit and thus it's not a good spark for a populist revolt? Just spitballin' here. You're the professional.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a conservative? A conservative is someone who hears the "Let's Rise Up Against the Rich" song on Bob's Burgers and uses it as proof of a communist takeover.
I don't know who is the artist, but this originally appeared in Spy.
ReplyDeleteRight-wingers sure do like to plagiarize...
First they came for Romney donors.
ReplyDeleteThey did?
Then they came for the Tea Party.
Huh?
Then they came for Obama critics.
I don't...
Then they came for those critical of Obamacare.
What?
Then they came for the Friends of Abe.
Who?
Then they
No, seriously, who is that?
Then they came for the big names in Conservatives.
Oh, I see. You've forgotten what words mean. Well, keep at it and it may come back to you.
I like the part about vinegar, salt, and hot oil.
ReplyDeleteGiven that Obama has proven that he can "send a chill down every conservative's spine" by, among other things, playing golf, playing basketball, not wearing a suit jacket, eating dijon mustard, eating arugula, drinking orange juice, promoting healthy eating and exercise (via the wife), dropping the 'g's from gerunds while speaking, flying in Air Force One, and so on (notice that I did not have to invent a single thing on that list) I don't think it's something they 'love' to do so much as they can't avoid it.
ReplyDeleteI bet the staff takes bets on just what innocuous thing their boss will do today that will have Fox News in 24-hour panty-twist mode. If I was him I don't think I could resist going "And furthermore, my administration will make it a policy to confiscate all firearms...HA! Got ya! You should have seen the look on your faces!" in the next SOTU speech.
Nutter-to-English dictionary:
ReplyDelete"Came For" = see; criticized, debunked, called attention to, disagreed with, laughed at, failed to unilaterally surrender
"Big names in Conservatives" = Anyone quoted approvingly by Reynolds.
Nick Rizzuto at ConservativePunk
ReplyDeleteI was only half-kidding, really. The fringe conservative obsessions over entertainment and education are due to those being perceived as some deliberate attempt by the Dreaded Left to brainwash people. It's not necessarily restricted to the fringe, either. I've read pedagogical critiques from "serious" conservative education reformers who insist that, say, whole word learning is some sort of Orwellian liberal plot to control the youth.
ReplyDeleteYes, and fear of FLOTUS Water has sparked a mid-winter epidemic of dehydrated, flakey conservatives.
ReplyDeleteThen they came for the Friends of Abe.
ReplyDeleteApparently, this is some clique of conservatives in entertainment. They were one of the many ad hoc right-wing groups that fraudulently tried to apply for 501(c)(3) status (guys, these groups are meant to promote the arts, not conservative political figures, 'kay?). Beyond that, I can't say much, as their official site is so thoroughly locked down that you can't even access the main page without a password.
Goldberg's Law.
ReplyDeleteFrom WIkipedia:
ReplyDeleteThe organization was formed in 2004 by actorGary Sinise. Screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd helped organize the group. "Friends of Abe" is a reference to "Friends of Bill", an Alcoholics Anonymous group, while "Abe" refers to Abraham Lincoln. As of January 2012 the organization had more than 1800 members. In addition to Sinise, Pat Boone, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer have stated that they are members of the organization. ... Sinise later withdrew from the leadership and Hollywood producer Jeremy Boreing became executive director.
The group meets monthly to hear guest speakers. It has hosted a number ofRepublican politicians at its events, including Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, John Boehner and Thaddeus McCotter. ...
IRS officials have questioned whether the organization's promotion of presidential candidates during its events constituted political campaign support, an activity forbidden for tax-exempt organizations. During the application process, FOA has failed to provide the IRS with access to the part of its website that includes its list of members.
Orange juice? I must have missed that one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's some handbook that explains how to determine the partisan lean of everyday objects. I keep picturing one of these guys reaching for a prune danish to go with his coffee, then putting it back because he isn't sure if prunes are a liberal or conservative dried fruit.
Gee, and I would have thought being cited by the Old Prof would render you invincible for life.
ReplyDelete"...But guess what liberals? You called down the thunder. Well, now you've got it."
ReplyDeleteTremble before us, liberals, or by the gods we shall pen another tagline for a Steven Seagal flick!
what's the opposite of an erection? because that's what this gave me.
ReplyDeleteI too don't mean to take political cartoons literally but I couldn't help but thinking "I watch the news pretty closely, I think I would remember if Obama called for guillotining rich people in the streets".
ReplyDeletethe only conceivable answer to the conservative pogrom of 2014 is to cut 1980s-style wwf promo
ReplyDeleteWhen you're that rich, you can afford non-Euclidean yachts.
ReplyDeleteThanks for clearing that up. I was thinking, "Funny conservatives? Whuh????
ReplyDeleteFrench fries made from conservatives would be soggy.
ReplyDelete:^D
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's some kind of lag in posting images. Roy must have to review them for porn or kittens.
Bonus bananaphone!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NUHXU-sW_h4
IIRC, Obama appeared at some "working class" diner to have breakfast and talk to some regular folk, and when asked if he would like some coffee, asked for orange juice instead. To normal people, this wouldn't even register as noteworthy, but in our Bizzaro World it brands you as a cultural elitist.
ReplyDeleteThen they came for the Friends of Abe.
ReplyDeleteAh, so "IRS Investigation of one's claim to tax-free status" is the new "Taken into Gestapo custody and transferred to Buchenwald".
I can't help suspecting that if these little fuckers ever visited Treblinka or Sobidor they'd be taking lots of notes of "New analogies of how bad things are for Hollywood scriptwriters manqué.
The latter, I think. If Wurlitzer virtuosi such as D'Souza are deprived of their right to violate the occasional petty little law, American citizens might accidentally be led to doubt the impartiality of the legal system, and then disrespect and contempt for the law might happen, oops clumsy me.
ReplyDeleteYou left out "tried to silence our First Amendment rights." That's "called us idiots and cited facts."
ReplyDeleteFnord.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a plexiglass replica of the Turtle.
ReplyDeleteNah, they'd crisp up like cracklings.
ReplyDeleteThe Axe Body Spray Gang? The Ass Gang? Work with me here, people!
ReplyDeleteIt's our top-secret super-Alinksy power. Look upon our lattes and Volvos and tremble!
ReplyDeleteHeh, there are two things conservatives will never understand, Volvos and vulvas...
it breeds disrespect and contempt for the law and suspicion of those officials
ReplyDeleteThat particular horse left the barn years ago.
The two things that ruined water were FLOTUS and fluoridation!
ReplyDeleteYou know, if the programmers and engineers were told how tech industry wages have stagnated, largely due to an influx of lower-salaried H-1B visa recipients, the Google bus windows would be smashed from the inside.
ReplyDeleteTucker Carlson has ALWAYS been uncomfortable around blacks.
ReplyDeleteOrange juice is elitist? I'm so old I remember when the Florida Citrus Commission's spokesperson was an anti-gay activist.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to both of us being cited some day as typical liberal followers of Ilse Koch.
ReplyDeleteVigoda?
ReplyDeleteIt was Chris Matthews, I hate to say, who got in a tizzy over the orange juice. I like the old bugger, but he definitely is ... an old bugger.
ReplyDeleteIt was during the 2008 campaign (the primary, I think), and it was mainly Chris Matthews who decided that orange juice in a diner was a sign of elitism.
ReplyDeleteShirley you mean Freedom Fries.
ReplyDeleteSo, ignorance is now a legal defense? Goddam...I knew I shouldn't have become educated.
ReplyDeleteLittle known fact: Machiavelli hated standard spelling.
ReplyDeleteAn interdiction.
ReplyDelete"Heh, there are two things conservatives will never understand, Volvos and vulvas..."
ReplyDeleteWell, I DO know that one of them does really well in crash tests...
Kristolnacht, when the useless bit of skin is cut off one end of the penis and released to grow up and become a Pundit. The foreskin we keep.
ReplyDeleteBut all kidding aside, why isn't it "Friends of Ron?" These people and the current incarnation of the Republican party have literally nothing in common with Abraham Lincoln and no one thinks they have--even their own voters and foaming at the mouth supporters--so why choose "Friends of Abe?" I'm really confused at who they think this is meant to be directed at. ITs like they are such incredible, disembodied, disegenous, wandering, anuses that the entire organization is a Poe. Be upfront, you assholes, "Friends of Ron Reagan: we name names! We blacklist if we can" should be the right name for the organization.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was thinking this too. The google buses smack of something my father was told when he moved over from academia to CEO' hood in the 80's. They were setting up their new offices in biotech, in the nascent Kendall square area, and he came back from the meeting with the architects and the decorators and described, in absolute fits of laughter, how they had asked him to pick all the chair styles that would be given out. He couldn't figure out what they were doing: qua scientist he figured you'd pick the most comfortable, ergonomic, chair possible for X amount of money and give everyone the same chair. Obviously if its good for your back its good for everyone, especially the secretaries and the scientists. "Oh, no!" he was told "creating illusory status differentials like arms vs. no arms, tilt vs. no tilt, or color choice is the best way to buy people off and prevent them from demanding higher salaries." You satisfy their desire for hierarchy and privilige by ostentatiously spending more on the Chairs for higher ups and less on the chairs for unimportant people, and ultimately thats cheaper than giving them a salary bump.
ReplyDeleteThe google buses are a way of giving your work force an ostensible "perk" that is really a form of hegemonic, big brother control. It enables you work force to live in cheaper areas, you (and they) are not bothering to contribute to a generalized public good like real public transportation, and they don't complain as much that they can't afford to live in a better area or afford cars/garages and private transportation. Also: what would be infantilization if applied to welfare recipients magically becomes a perk when offered to white collar workers.
The property had "no electricity and water" at the start--it was practically a prison camp! Also the entire interior was made by "cynics" I thought he said. Turned out to be the actual name of his interior design firm.
ReplyDeleteGood, he'll be easier to egg now.
ReplyDeleteRight up to Long Beach City College's standards!!
ReplyDeleteWell, and it's true that multibillionaires losing only 5% of their annual income is the same thing as being decapitated, right?
ReplyDeleteO'keefe is pulling the equivalent of the agrieved third grader pouting and telling New York State they'll be sorry when he's gone.
ReplyDeleteThat's a banano, silly. Love the door slam partway in.
ReplyDeleteHe just uses a wide-angle lens for everything because it makes your dick look huge in your homemade porn.
ReplyDeleteHe stinks on ice!
ReplyDeleteTurns out their CEOs illegally colluded to keep wages down by not recruiting from each other, too:
ReplyDeletehttp://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/
Did somebody say dance fight?
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/6B2wtC91_0U
I feel like a lot of us underestimate D'Souzas presence because he doesn't speak up as often as some of the brethren, but you have to remember that 2016 was one of the highest grossing documentaries (domestic) in U.S. history. They may not be reading or listening to him, but they are paying attention.
ReplyDeleteWith great effort you too can aspire to the level of ignorance of a disgraced former president of a pretend college for the children of wingnuts.
ReplyDeleteFriends of Abe Vigoda: Founding member = Bernice. [/barneymiller]
ReplyDeleteWith respect sharc, that would be great effort and power tools.
ReplyDeleteYou and me both.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that the martyrdom aspect is part of it.
ReplyDeleteI looked inside, and what's been seen...
ReplyDeleteThe government is my domme.
ReplyDeleteI'd totally forgotten that one. Lost in the swirling mists of wingnut tantrums past, I guess. And you know what? If he'd taken coffee and said no thanks to OJ, they'd have jumped on that, too. Java and OJ are probably the two most common breakfast drinks nationwide. People have one or the other or both, and it matters only to them. Nobody else gives a fat flying fuck, unless you take the last one, and they were next in line.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Roy's article (*not* clicking any links. Life's too short) all I can do is apply index finger to lip and...
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President Obama did say that if he said he liked bacon that rightwingers would immediately denounce bacon.
ReplyDeletePsst! You misspelled "Bible." Like, a lot.
ReplyDeletePut your loving gun straight out in space
ReplyDeleteRack that slide with style and grace
Swing your gun round and a-round and a-round
Now that's what I call Standin' My Ground!
Anita Bryant. She famously recanted and apologized (about the homophobia, not the o.j.), I think after her husband left her. I keep waiting for Michele Bachmann to have a similar I-was-nuts moment, but you know me--I'm a sentimental slob.
ReplyDelete"They're all goin' under the thunder of Manitoba!"
ReplyDeleteIt kind of goes to show that being super wealthy doesn't necessarily buy taste. The end result is kind of garish and cluttered. Instead of packing it chockablock with a bunch of mismatched art pieces, he could have displayed a few pieces to greater effect and donated the rest museums.
ReplyDeleteThe guy made 33 million selling crap to coprophiliacs. It shows a rudimentary business sense and some good timing.
ReplyDeleteWoah. Needs moar brain bleach.
ReplyDeleteOh, you don't think its a subtle commentary on the fact that Lincoln was killed in a theater by, if Zoolander is correct, a male model?
ReplyDeletePresumably, they'd also call him a Muslim again, for good measure.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Free D'Souza lobbyists:
ReplyDeleteSorry, guys, but that's still not far enough. You're going to have to start offering to pay us.
The giant wretching minotaur is the piece de crap--it was made by Charles' Dickens' granddaughter. QED: Art!
ReplyDeleteMy god, does his apostasy know no bounds? This is obviously a sign of his perfidy since everyone knows that Muslims have permission to lie to unbelievers so by saying he "likes" bacon he is obviously covering up for the fact that as a Muslim he is forbidden to eat bacon. When they sent him here they probably ordered him to eat bacon and ham sandwiches, ostentatiously, to throw us off the track.
ReplyDeleteIts like watching that guy from The Princess Bride try to figure out which is the poisoned cup.
The four horsemen of this apocalypse--Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Liddy--then torched the barn with flaming copies of the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteBugs Bunny beat you to it:
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/HillbillyHareMm
As legalized under Agenda 21.
ReplyDeleteRushlimbaughitis
ReplyDeleteWell yeah, but that's the game. I feel like he gets underestimated in his ability to play the game because he doesn't release as many angry screeds as some of his compatriots.
ReplyDeleteAlso OT, but I've been meaning to ask you this for a while, but do you have an e-mail I can reach you at. I wanted to respond to some of the very correct frustrations you've expressed about NARAL over at LGM from a former insider's perspective, but it's not really something to hash out in a public forum.
But guess what liberals? You called down the thunder of Goldberg's Porcelain Throne. Well, now you've got it
ReplyDeleteFIXED
Stupid VV comment system. Defiantly, I repeat myself here, despite the Voice's assault on my Third Amendment rights.
ReplyDelete"It is super-important that the GOP take the Senate and contain the fascist beast that Barack Obama has become," said Flopping Aces.
Indeed, imagine how different history would have been if Hitler had lacked a legislative majority in both the Reichstag and the Reichsrat.
"It would be highly gratifying for the GOP to retake the White House and visit upon these far left radical democrats the grief they have heaped upon conservatives."
Far-left radical Democrats like Barack Obama have perpetrated high crimes and misdemeanors against the Constitution, acting in a manner comparable to Hitler and Stalin at their worst. So imagine how great it'll be when Republicans get to do the same. Yeah, that's some awesome moral framework you've got there, Ace.
(Never mind all the assaults on contraception; someone needs to file suit to keep insurance plans from covering all those stupidity pills for wingnuts. )
It looks like a pretentious Vegas restaurant, full of overpriced escorts and overcooked steaks
ReplyDeleteThey've got an understanding with a shipwright from R'lyeh.
ReplyDeleteExplains his shrill, unholy madness.
ReplyDeleteEldritch-Cooper? I think they're based in Innsmouth now.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just violating the laws, it's redefining them, as in "Hey, what I did wasn't THAT bad", or "No blood, no foul".
ReplyDeleteGary, try punching harder...
ReplyDeleteYikes. That loft is like if you were in a Twilight Zone set in the 1980s where an airbrush artist could paint you a reality, and you said to him "Paint me the most expensive Hard Rock Cafe you can imagine." And now that's what you call home: A jumble of moronic bric-a-brac with an uncanny glow where the texture and life should be.
ReplyDeleteAlso loveable: How he says he loves a project like this -- like yeah, he was happy to roll up his sleeves, get out his drafting pens, maybe put in some honest Saturdays with his DeWalts. Like he wasn't the guy living 3000 miles away and occasionally approving a swatch. There's nothing wrong with being Mr Check-Writing Swatch Approver; I have a low tolerance for the kind of self-mythologizing where a guy has to imply in interviews that he overcame the hardship of no electricity through sheer pluck, sweat, and genius, and describes the artistry of the ceiling as if he frickin designed it instead of just nodded at an expert who described it to him.
ReplyDeleteArugula = garden rocket
ReplyDeleteThe amount of irony contained in this tidbit is Art in and of itself. Grandpa Chuck is spinning like a top...
ReplyDeleteAbout NARAL? I haven't had a discussion about NARAL for a really long time, have I? but you can reach me at aimaiami at comcast dot net.
ReplyDeleteYou're thinking of biscuits.
ReplyDeleteIt was a while ago but yeah, I've been meaning to get around to this. Gonna compose my thoughts but expect something within the next day or so.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was "Friends of Dorothea Dix."
ReplyDeleteInnsmouth? Great example of social cohesion. Goldberg should move there.
ReplyDeletePerkins: From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in
ReplyDeletevirtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco
Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one
percent. ... We have, for example, libelous and
cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author
Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a "snob" despite the millions she
has spent on our city's homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
Calling someone a snob is JUST LIKE destroying thousands of businesses and sending tens of thousands to concentration camps.
Sounds Fishy...
ReplyDeleteAlso from the WSJ, their #1 most email hed: "Obama to Assert Unilateral Agenda"
ReplyDeleteIs that supposed to be a bad thing, or is he supposed to dictate to the Republicans what their agenda will be?
Friends of Abe? More like Friends of AB Normal.
ReplyDeleteor is he supposed to dictate to the Republicans what their agenda will be?
ReplyDeleteVice-versa, as usual.
Did Anita Bryant have a son?
ReplyDeleteI thought there was a shooting.
ReplyDeleteI'll try to answer that as soon as I wrap my brain around the phrase " if Zoolander is correct".
ReplyDeleteChalice, palace, etc.
ReplyDeleteI thought friends of Sheldon Abelson
ReplyDeleteAnd did you notice how many letters those two things have in common? Huh? HUH? Well Alex Jones has noticed.
ReplyDeleteI actually attended a donor event at the home of another rich guy here in LA, the home was the second biggest house in LA (beat out by a Saudi prince). And it looked like a bank; all marble floors and soaring atria. It looked like a cold and lonely place to live. This family, BTW also owned another almost-as-huge property just 15 miles away from that one. I can't imagine why you'd want spaces like that to live in. Maybe to host giant gatherings of grateful officials from charities you support - to be fair, the rich guy whose house I visited was quite generous.
ReplyDelete"You've got pretty nice pecs for a man your age, Antoine"
ReplyDeleteUrsula had that calm, easy effrontery of women who were accustomed to being boned on the better yachts. Everything about her; her deeply tanned taut flesh, her careless, abrasive misuse of the staff, demonstrated her cruel Catalonian upbringing.
"My father had no nipples. Partisans removed them and used them in a paella instead of their beloved Morcilla."
"Fascists!"
"No, Communists. My father was a Fascist."
"They're the same thing, in the long run..."
"Are you in tech? She asked, her manner suddenly distant..."
"It enables you work force to live in cheaper areas"
ReplyDeleteIt's somewhat the opposite. These are workers who want to live in San Francisco and work for Silicon Valley companies. It's a perk in the sense that Silicon Valley is (for the most part) a nondescript suburban shithole where not many people want to live (and prices are still ridiculous).
My feeling is H1B's actually (indirectly) help smaller companies. They keep the big boys' salaries at least within breathing distance of what small startups can afford to pay. $80K at a startup vs. $120K at GOOG or AMZN is a tradeoff many good engineers are willing to make. $80K vs $200K would be a much, much harder sell. They also bring in workers who are just happy to have a job, and aren't going to want to live in SF proper. They're coming to the Bay Area to work, not have the "San Francisco Experience"
These sorts of discussions just make me cranky and contrarian because I don't think there's some kind of inalienable right to live in San Francisco. Ceteris paribus, there are always going to be more people who want to live in SF than there are houses for them. There are only a few ways to solve that disparity. None of them will make everyone happy.
I think by 5% they mean the head, in the Indian caste system sense that the Brahmins are the head and the lower castes are the body.
ReplyDeleteAfter years of warnings that the Kenyan Pretender was hoarding ammunition and forming death panels to put all his enemies into FEMA camps, there is literally nothing rightbloggers won't believe about Obama.
ReplyDeleteWell yeah, but he is black, so nothing is outside the realm of possibility.
Yeah, I was thinking it was probably Chris Matthews but couldn't remember for sure. The "issue" may have originated somewhere else, but he gave it oxygen to extend its life from a natural five minutes to two or three days, or at least through one taping of his old weekend show.
ReplyDeleteFelonious, fraudulent film-makers gotta stick together.
ReplyDeleteCome now. Doesn't Roy deserve an Ezra Pound comparison?
ReplyDeleteI think it's worse than that. "came for", in the original sense, meant arrest, imprisonment, and being either worked to death, or just plain executed. These people's "persecution" is at all times, in all ways (in their minds, of course) the ultimate. Though they could produce not one body, show not one cross-burnt lawn, no railroad cars, hell not even a VW minibus full of Conservatives on their way to a new Liberal Dachau, they are all murdered in their beds every night, and yet every day live to tell the tale.
ReplyDeleteWhat got me is the fact that, to the wingnuts, Obama *is* Big Daddy Government. So...he's about to chop of his own head in whiteface?
ReplyDeleteAnd Liddy climbed up on a tall ladder and held his hand over the flames...
ReplyDeleteYeah, he seems to be cutting government spending by axing government down to size on his tax plan.
ReplyDeleteBugger. You were expecting us.
ReplyDeleteUncle Sam's head is made entirely of rich people!
ReplyDeleteYes. He's the Ezra Pound of Liberal Fascism.
ReplyDelete“When American citizens begin to suspect that people are being arrested
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their elected representatives or rulers..."
then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars.
Those people were merely the vessels of his creative genius. His presence in the room has caused many a welder of giant tchothkes to wake from his creative slumber and add a dick to a formerly dickless seven hundred and forty pound stainless steel bull. In fact a lot of the sculptures start sprouting dicks when he checks in.
ReplyDeleteHe's as big a vulgarian as Trump, and he might even have his head farther up his ass. Tough call.
Except "Ron Reagan" more commonly refers to Ronnie's liberal son.
ReplyDeleteI would like to accuse this comment of liberal hu-bris.
ReplyDeleteThe structure of the Boenhoffer Progression (which sounds like a Ludlum novel but nevermind) is supposed to begin with a completely marginal outgroup -- whom no-one cares if They come for -- and work inwards through degrees of penumbra, until it is Too Late.
ReplyDeleteEvidently the most ostracised, demonised out-group this nimrod could think of are Romney donors. While Friends of Abe and "big names in Conservatives" are the exemplars of normality.
But now they have come for the big names in Conservatives, so it is too late, so who cares?
"Goldberg should move there."
ReplyDeleteHe'd get in over his head.
Which brand of ron? Flor de Caña I'm friendly with, Bacardi less so...
ReplyDeleteWrong movie -- not "The Princess Bride," it's "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye.
ReplyDelete"French fries made from conservatives would be soggy."
ReplyDeleteTo the dismay of all on the left!
"creating illusory status differentials like arms vs. no arms, tilt vs.
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them from demanding higher salaries cheat people out of a fair wage for their work."
If my strikethrough tags worked, I fixed that for you.
An insurrection.
ReplyDeleteEventually, though, despite this perpetual pornographic progression, the conservative blogosphere ran dry and lost its collective erection.
ReplyDeleteSnark is the Zyklon-B of liberal fascism.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that was a part of what chafed my chaps, too: taking a few percent more in taxes from the highest tax bracket means cutting the head off the personification of the country? Now, if it were the ass ...
ReplyDeleteOle Perfesser: "could things get worse?"
ReplyDeleteDoes Ole Perfesser *really* want to play this game? On the one hand, we've got some cranky hippies tossing a brick - on the other we've got far-right organizations all over the country STOCKPILING GUNZ and plotting to kill government employees. If they were swarthy-looking and prayed on a rug, the likes of Instapundit would be shitting their diapers and calling for martial law until the "terrorist menace" was under control....
This is… not my experience of how the Google buses work. They let workers live either in San Francisco, not an area notably cheaper than Silicon Valley, but much hipper; or in the East Bay, which is cheaper enough to let workers afford a family home. People who ride the Google buses seldom lack cars or garages, but commuting via bus is just a much nicer commute experience, and wi-fi makes it more productive as well. I confess to being highly biased as I'm involved in a start-up trying to offer a similar experience to start-up workers. I guess I could understand it being infantilizing if the buses were shuttling workers to their company towns, but that's not happening.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship to public transportation is complicated. There are Google buses that run continuously to the nearest Caltrain station. Are you suggesting that Google should be subsidizing local metro buses like SamTrans and VTA, or pushing for a southern BART extension, instead of developing its own service?
Well, I collapsed several concepts together in my post but I don't think you are arguing anything different. Google wouldn't pay for googlebuses if it didn't feel it had to--to sweeten the pot for its workers, to enable them to live in areas they want to/can afford to live, to enable them to get to work in a timely and convenient fashion without paying for parking at the other end. Its not virtuous is it, in the sense of disinterested? They do it because it makes business sense for them.
ReplyDeleteBut, obviously, it doesn't make business sense for the community which would have an interest in better public transportation for everyone in the region. I mean--you could argue that google enables workers to essentially carpool, thus taking some strain of the public system and perhaps we might argue that this reduces the overall cost of a car centric culture on the city. I don't know. But the alternative is always either paying workers more, giving them more flextime, or paying higher taxes for city provided amenities which would benefit everyone, not just google employees.
Yeah, it's pretty tacky alright.
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to show that you really can't buy taste.