tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post2705070318733670417..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: STUPIDEST, WRITTEN, GOLDBERG, AGAIN*.roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-31788288707439175342014-01-24T13:47:12.350-05:002014-01-24T13:47:12.350-05:00Nothing says "hello neighbor" like looki...Nothing says "hello neighbor" like looking down the barrel of a shotgun.Jay B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-39410654927835550992014-01-24T13:45:36.434-05:002014-01-24T13:45:36.434-05:00YOU'RE NOT WATCHING HARD ENOUGH.YOU'RE NOT WATCHING HARD ENOUGH.Bethany Spencernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60810407553987285532014-01-24T13:45:29.765-05:002014-01-24T13:45:29.765-05:00Or Stand Your Ground laws.Or Stand Your Ground laws.merl1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-90487185194280953722014-01-24T13:45:28.745-05:002014-01-24T13:45:28.745-05:00Strange that an urban frat boy like Goldberg would...Strange that an urban frat boy like Goldberg would regurgitate that lost neighborly sentiment, but it a very real feeling for a large swathe of the voting public. To the dismay of some on the left, all too many coastal liberals are unable to empathize with their country cousins on this point. Those of us living in soho, noho, weho, or whatever direction ho, or the new wherever ho being gentrified across the bay do not see the devastation wrought by Walmart, union busting, and incompetent Republican government. Pretty much any block in Park Slope is a far more neighborly place than you'll find out in the ustabe white picket fence America that is now a wasteland of abandoned downtowns, woebegone strip malls, and empty playgrounds. It's sad, sad I tells ya. And the Republicans speak to that sadness. Even a sorry piece of shit like Goldberg does it better, or at least more effectively, than just about any liberal.<br /><br /><br />Last night, for example, I was at a girls basketball game in a small gym out in Rurality and sat next to a 5th grade teacher. We got to talking, as they say, and once she got comfortable with me, did an epic takedown of conservative education policy and the many specific ways in which it was destroying education for the majority of children and the quality of life for the majority of teachers. So as I've taught myself to do towards the end of these conversations, I asked her if she votes. And as is always the case, she answered with some version of "you're darn tootin I vote!!!." After which I ask if she votes against Republicans. Ah, no, the answer, as I'm finding typical, is that she votes for the person not the party. But by her demeanor, I can tell she votes almost exclusively Republican. <br /><br /><br />So there's your challenge. Mine actually. Why does an obviously well-educated, very intelligent person whose life and the lives of many she loves, vote for the people that are destroying those lives? Why does a person who longs for the neighborly times of the past support the policies that make so many people unneighborly?<br /><br /><br />I have a few ideas, but I think for most of us it's much easier to have ideas than it is to have empathy. And without empathy, our ideas are just sweeter smelling variations on Goldberg's farts.chucklingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-18290435843414939642014-01-24T13:44:31.963-05:002014-01-24T13:44:31.963-05:00In so, so many ways. Like, if you have a soup kitc...In so, so many ways. Like, if you have a soup kitchen, the damn county actually wants you to obey the health code. And I'm like, "What? Just because we serve food?" And the government is like, "Yep. Also, congrats on that new $50,000 government grant so you build a new transitional living facility. That should be a huge boon to your clients." And I'm like, you know, internally, "These fuckin' g-men. They just wrap you up in red tape and throw you off a bridge. What do they know about community?"Wranglernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-79422118953386757262014-01-24T13:40:40.807-05:002014-01-24T13:40:40.807-05:00Speaking as a Red Sea Pedestrian, I can attest to ...Speaking as a Red Sea Pedestrian, I can attest to the fact that I loathed Cohn about as much as any public figure in my lifetime. If there truly was a vengeful God of the old testament, he would have smote that world class shitweasel with a bolt of lighting even before he hooked up with McCarthy, let alone in his later career as a power broker/Steve Simelshttp://powerpop.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-86413743206883387852014-01-24T13:39:09.795-05:002014-01-24T13:39:09.795-05:00I think JG should be stretched out across a God-cu...I think JG should be stretched out across a God-cursed altar, have his <br />heart cut out with an eldritch blade, and have the beating organ offered<br /> up to the Goat of Mendes.<br /><br /><br />To the dismay of some on the left. And probably the Goat.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-50250722944494659592014-01-24T13:38:28.703-05:002014-01-24T13:38:28.703-05:00Thank you, Bethany. I was just going to write an ...Thank you, Bethany. I was just going to write an overly long post saying what you just said in two sentences. They satisfy themselves merely by gesturing toward some grand principle... but how the hell does it apply? Not their problem. The important thing is the principle -- Cohesion! Liberty! -- and it must be left untainted by the compromise that reality would bring. So they can't address the actual issue, which becomes the elephant, or in this case the Satan statue, in the room.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-33179988682713813022014-01-24T13:37:03.884-05:002014-01-24T13:37:03.884-05:00Examples, please? Just what the fuck is he talking...Examples, please? Just what the fuck is he talking about?<br /><br /><br />Well, the other evening, I was trying to open a new jar of pickles--- dill spears because they were out of the whole ones--- and the lid was really stuck. So rather than try the old tricks of my parents' generation (differential heating, those hard-to-find heavyweight rubber grippy things, etc), I simply called up a bureaucrat. Thanks, Obama!mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-33125572491337330062014-01-24T13:33:50.674-05:002014-01-24T13:33:50.674-05:00Oh God yes... like Ted Nugent claiming that if Oba...Oh God yes... like Ted Nugent claiming that if Obama were re-elected, "By this time next year, I'll either be dead or in jail." Ted's self esteem must have been crushed when he realized that he's not worth the energy Obama would have needed to expend to order him killed.satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-18591628554479965122014-01-24T13:33:02.111-05:002014-01-24T13:33:02.111-05:00Do they contradict themselves? and why not, they ...Do they contradict themselves? and why not, they contain myriads. <br /><br /><br /><br />Although i wonder about Jonah, with his gustatory tendencies and his antipathy to untamed nature. Is he gearing up to reverse his namesake's Biblical misadventure?Moosernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-10112771186087238392014-01-24T13:32:05.128-05:002014-01-24T13:32:05.128-05:00Or the Kirk/ Holden war.
Ended almost immediatel...Or the Kirk/ Holden war.<br /><br /><br />Ended almost immediately when Caulfield pointed out that the snooty starship captain was just another big phony.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-18738066265727847082014-01-24T13:31:25.580-05:002014-01-24T13:31:25.580-05:00It is easily in my 10 favorite movies of all time....It is easily in my 10 favorite movies of all time. It gets funnier every time I see it. The way Ruth Gordon's bracelets jingle as she explains the honor of being chosen by Satan -- it's perfect. A perfect movie. <br /><br />I have no idea if it's liberal or conservative, though.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22982954986014232552014-01-24T13:29:42.979-05:002014-01-24T13:29:42.979-05:00...and i'll form the FAAAARRRT...and i'll form the <i>FAAAARRRT</i>dexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20903824339119244342014-01-24T13:29:39.098-05:002014-01-24T13:29:39.098-05:00"We did, though."
"Oh, yeah, sure,..."We did, though."<br /><br />"Oh, yeah, sure, everyone has hobbies. But the point is, we didn't <i>have</i> to."mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-71305054027052715032014-01-24T13:27:48.758-05:002014-01-24T13:27:48.758-05:00To the dismay of some on the left!To the dismay of some on the left!Tiny Hermaphrodite, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22363007455868571422014-01-24T13:27:23.965-05:002014-01-24T13:27:23.965-05:00Probably more of a coagulation. Not that you wante...Probably more of a coagulation. Not that you wanted to be thinking about the Derp Voltron.BigHank53noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23640397973180423202014-01-24T13:27:21.515-05:002014-01-24T13:27:21.515-05:00What's an ass crucifix?
One with an extra cros...What's an ass crucifix?<br />One with an extra crossbar.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-84813046776808672942014-01-24T13:25:24.478-05:002014-01-24T13:25:24.478-05:00but Obama's totally gonna start rounding up al...but Obama's totally gonna start rounding up all the conservatives and FEMA-camping them, we mean it this time you guys!<br /><br /><br />Tease.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20805429712896353472014-01-24T13:25:22.782-05:002014-01-24T13:25:22.782-05:00Jay Gould:
"I could hire one half of the wo...Jay Gould:<br /><br /><br />"I could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half, after a neighborly conversation."satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34567366270451603232014-01-24T13:24:33.849-05:002014-01-24T13:24:33.849-05:00I would guess that actual Anti-Semites of Cohn'...I would guess that actual Anti-Semites of Cohn's era were more incited by the Rosenbergs, to the dismay of some on the left.Tiny Hermaphrodite, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-50855744156586115342014-01-24T13:24:29.342-05:002014-01-24T13:24:29.342-05:00"I can’t nail down what the fuck they’re talk...<i>"I can’t nail down what the fuck they’re talking about."</i><br /><br /><br />I'd be glad to sum it up for you: When the Federal Government outlawed racial (and other) discrimination by the States, all hope for America was lost. All the rest is commentary.Moosernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-31591207136882197512014-01-24T13:24:23.462-05:002014-01-24T13:24:23.462-05:00If liberals get their way, Columbus came here on t...If liberals get their way, Columbus came here on the Satan Maria.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22839110965994904052014-01-24T13:23:58.949-05:002014-01-24T13:23:58.949-05:00Sorry, Little My, but downvoted for GAAAAAAAAAAAH!...Sorry, Little My, but downvoted for GAAAAAAAAAAAH!mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-77774099177282869332014-01-24T13:23:00.475-05:002014-01-24T13:23:00.475-05:00Government at least has to attempt to treat everyo...Government at least has to attempt to treat everyone the same, whereas charity can pick and choose. Thus the undeserving <i>cough*blacks-sluts-wetbacks*cough</i> don't get their filthy paws on the hard-earned money of conservative white folks.BigHank53noreply@blogger.com