"So Dumb That It Hurts"

Honest to Zeus, if McCain wins and then promptly croaks from his metastatic melanoma and/or whatever else he has, there is no way I can bear listening to Sarah Palin's phony regular-gal accent for four more minutes, much less four years. After 8 years of Dubya's sniggering dumbshit good ol' boy act, I'm tired of racing for the mute button every time I see his smirking face on the teevee.

My boyfriend uber-mensch Glenn Greenwald called Palin's statement that:

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

"so dumb that it hurts". He adds that:

This isn't only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it's inherently unfair when they're criticized. And now, apparently, it's even unconstitutional.

According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. In the Palin worldview, the First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials such as herself would not be "attacked" in the papers. Is it even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?

No, of course it is not. But whatever, Glenn . . . at least she's not a socialist or pallin' around with terrorist evildoers. Gawd.

BWA-HA-HA

Oh, this is delicious.

I didn't see the entire appearance (not a CNN person), only the clip, but that's enough. Evidently McCain hack Michael Goldfarb got busted trying to link Obama to the latest remotely-connected "anti-Semite" - this Khalidi guy (or "Khaladi" if you're down-home, pro-American, regular gal Sarah Palin) . . . yeah, the same PLO-linked evildoer (and Columbia* professor) Khalidi to whom JOHN McCAIN's given more than FIVE TIMES AS MUCH MONEY as Barack.

But like, whatever! There are so many more anti-Semites to whom Obama's connected, and we all just totally know who they are!



Goldfarb is light years beyond putz. He's a mega-putz, an ultra-putz, the uber-putz. The disconnect between his practiced, patented, smug, condescending, right-wing smirk and the absolute stinking bullshit that's coming out of his piehole is positively galactic.

"We both know who number two is." (Attempt to look confident and affect a shit-eating grin.)

FAIL times ten to the ten thousandth!

He thought he could try to pull it off by being an all-knowing bad-ass and trying to act all smooth and studly. Only thing is, it didn't work--he was anything but. Take a burn, Goldfarb!

[Cue Consolidated's "You Suck" (from the album "Play More Music" now.]
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* - elitist librul kollege where book-learnin' happens

Gay Free World??

So earlier today I'm busy at work reading HuffPo and I click on a banner ad for some funny T-shirts ("McCain for Retirement '08" - ha-ha!) and it takes me to CafePress.com. I've ordered more than a few T-shirts from that site, home of snarkware galore. My favorite is a picture of the Union Jack with "GREECE" written underneath.

I land on a directory of sorts where shoppers can select pro-/anti- Dem/Psycho Racist Homophobic Whining Incompetent Babies Republican items. I click on the "anti-right" link, and the first item I see is this:


Yes, that's "Gay Rights" in a circle with a line through it.

Uh . . . WHAT. THE. FUCK???

At first I'm surprised that someone doesn't know the difference between anti-right-wing and anti-gay-rights, but then I can't believe what I'm seeing. A couple more clicks and I'm on the main page of an outfit called "Uncreated Designs" (we should be so lucky), where I find all kinds of crap:


logo: "Certified Gay Hater"

Hilarious. I can see douchebags everywhere protesting too much by wearing that side-splitting shirt.


logo: "Gay Free World"

Again, fucking hilarious, right?! Let's have a gay-free world . . . after we kill all the gays!

I'm sure the shitstain that thought of this one was just so goddamn proud of itself:


logo: "Love Is Blind: Especially for Queers"

Oh, that's clever. Cuz no straight guys like fucking da hos in the ass or from behind or anything. Hey, isn't Fred Phelps going to be mad that you're using his butt-fucking stick figures? There's another version with the same graphic that says "Sex is Beautiful: How'd This Happen?" Positively Socratic, Uncreated Designs!

I sent GLAAD an e-mail - I'm not sure this qualifies as an "incident" or "media", but I had to do something. I also sent CafePress the following message via their website:

I clicked on a banner ad on HuffPo for some funny political T-shirts, then on a link called "anti-right".

Someone doesn't know that "anti-right" is not the same as "anti-rights", because I was led to a page offering an "anti-gay rights" T-shirt, and then this entire page of crap:
http://www.cafepress.com/uncreated/270257

Gay Free World??

How is this acceptable? Do you sell anti-Jewish or anti-black merchandise as well? Any "Final Solution II" or "Property of Dachau Athletic Co." T-shirts?

Yes, I Godwined, but WTF. I mean, there's snark, and then there's just not funny, and then a few miles beyond that, pure homophobia. Try to think of an equivalent that someone could actually produce and sell--there isn't one. This isn't Cubs vs. Sox or Yankees vs. Boston. Where's the "KKK U. - Varsity Lynching" wear? We'll see what the response is, if any. No more CafePress purchases for me.

Any other thoughts on what to do?

UPDATE - PATHETIC NON-RESPONSE FROM CAFEPRESS

Could this response be any lamer?

Dear Marc,

Thank you for contacting CafePress.com!

As you may know, CafePress.com provides an automated service to a rich and vibrant community of individuals across the globe who differ in their views about what is considered offensive. All product images and ideas used in connection with the CafePress.com Service have been provided to CafePress.com by users and do not reflect the opinions of CafePress.com. While we don't endorse any particular position, we respect the right of individuals to express their own opinions. Thank you for bringing this content to our attention.

Your ticket code is LTK419029348751X. Please use this code in any further communication.

Best Regards,

Margene H.
Content Usage Associate
(650) 655-3104 (O)
(650) 240-0260 (F)
www.cafepress.com

I think Margene has a degree in missing the point (I totally stole that from Melissa McEwan).

Ah, I get it . . . I just have a "different opinion" of what's offensive.

Unbelievable.

My Phoenix Ride

Yo, check out my wheels here in Phoenix courtesy of Hertz. Chicks totally be diggin' me in my white Nissan 350Z:



A resurrection of the Datsun 240Z, the 350Z, according to this book, "stacks up nicely against the Porsche Boxster."

Really? That's probably news to the Boxsters, which are surely much quieter (in a good way) inside. I would describe Mr. 350Z as a little clunky and somewhat hesitant. Sister Girl Jetta, despite her smaller VR6 engine, feels much more responsive . . . and she's 7 years old! Instead of a solid hum, you get kind of an echo inside the cabin, and you definitely feel the road (not in a good way). It is quite comfortable and I give the ergonomics an A and the design a B+.

I'm sure as a rental it's not the top of the line and the maintenance is probably not full of love. Yet, it's infinitely better than a Grand Marquis, or the dreadful Mercury SUV I had last week.

UPDATE 11/3/2008
After a week in the 350Z, I grew to like it a lot. A guy I "dated" a few years ago had one, and he loved it--I can see why. I think some of the "hesitance" that I reported above may have been just getting the cobwebs out. After several days of some highway driving it was in top form. The "clunkiness" was probably due in part to the huge gaps in between sections of the Arizona highways (necessary to prevent buckling during periods of extreme heat).

There goes my career writing about matters automotive.

The Shame of WeHo

I know I'm a day late with this, but I was actually doing some work during the day on Monday!

Reporter-Cub put it perfectly:

. . . it seems that some gay libtard dumbass has captured Teh Stupid virus from the wingnuts and has an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from a noose in West Hollywood.

Dog damn that gay libtard dumbass! I'm ordinarily opposed to the "Don't make us look bad" line of thinking, but this pretty much makes us look really bad - "us" being teh gays, lefties, Obama supporters, etc, etc. Not that we should give one molecule of a rat's ass what some freeper thinks, or how this will impact some "undecided" voter's "decision" - It's just wrong. Aren't we as a species supposed to be superior to the wingnuts? I can't say it any better than JMG:

We've all seen the effigies of Obama that have sprung up and while the image of a black man hanging from a noose is immeasurably more chilling in a historical context, I don't see anything very Halloween-y about this. Hanging an effigy is a defacto call for death. We should leave that bullshit to the wingnuts.

The "it's art" excuse as used by Chad Michael Morisette, the "artist", is just so lame. I disagree with Sarah Palin's "principles", political views, and "values" with every fiber of my being, and I seethe with anger every time she, her "running mate", and now her new advisor (that woman who lost on Survivor and married a quarterback) open their pieholes, but I don't want them dead. How can we condemn the ugliness that the McCain/Palin campaign has sown if we start exhibiting the same behavior?

Signs of Phoenix Life

Back in Phoenix for work. This morning on my AM trip to Starbucks, I noticed that all the Yes on Proposition 102 signs on my route were gone. I can only hope that they were vandalized edited in this manner, removed, and not replaced:


(h/t JMG)

Later, on the way to Fresh & Easy for lunch (DEAR F&E, PLEASE COME TO CHICAGO NOW!!), I passed a guy with 3 McCain/Palin bumper stickers on his car . . . or, more accurately, 3 Palin stickers. The first one had a shot of Palin in a miniskirt and read "Sarah Palin: Master Debater". (I don't want to know.) The second one was identical to the standard McCain/Palin logo except it said "McCain / MILF". I didn't get a look at the third one but did pull up next to his car to see what this human shitstain looked like: Cro-Magnon, as anticipated. [I sneered at him - aren't I a brave elitist?!] Qualifications be damned, this stud wants a hawt babe for President, and he wants the world to know it!

Things of Which I Disapprove Strongly

Every time I see those awful NFL.com commercials that use some bastardized, "real-America"/Toby Keith-esque version of "Every Day is Like Sunday", I cringe. How dare they! I hope Moz & co. are getting some huge royalties at least.

Do they know the next line is "every day is silent and gray"?

Here's something of which I approve as strongly as possible:

Things I . . . um . . . er . . . Enjoyed: NKOTB

Yes, that's New Kids on the Block. I am not making this up.

Last night my friend Leah and I attended the NKOTB concert here in "Chicago" (Rosemont, IL). Leah is in her early 30s and thus grew up loving the NKOTB--she was able to tell that one of our fellow concertgoer's miniskirt had been made (poorly) out old NKOTB bed linens . . . more about the ghastly outfits on the audience later. She works for one of our clients and she and I have had done a lot of traveling together for work. A few years ago I went to her wedding when she married an absolutely adorable guy from her company. He, however, is not into the NKOTB, so she and I had a girls night out. I can't say I've ever been a fan (except for the C&C Music Factory-produced disco-y "Call It What You Want" from the early 90s), but it was a fun thing to do together and a way to stay connected now that we don't work together as much. Blissfully, it was also a way to escape the goddamn pre-election malaise (which the great Larry David has perfectly compared to waiting for biopsy results.)

Anyway, as for the concert . . . ahem . . . they were really good! If they had just appeared out of nowhere I'd be quite impressed. They have all aged quite well, especially Jonathan who is the best dancer in the bunch. Jordan and Joey's voices are remarkable, the show's excitement and energy level were off the charts, their dancing was beyond cute, and the videos, lighting, etc. were great. The old songs drove the (97% female, 1% gay male, 1% "boyfriends" who have not come out yet, and 1% husbands willing to do anything, even this, for a blow job) crowd absolutely bonkers, and the new songs from "The Block" were quite enjoyable (especially "Grown Man"--except for the video cameo by one of the Pussycat Dolls). Woof.

The 4 hoochie mama back-up dancers were a big drawback. I get the aesthetic that they were going for but surely the NKOTB could've found 4 more talented and attractive women to support them . . . and who designed their choreography and costumes?? Somebody get a gay man involved, stat!! Girlfriend if you're going to try a heel stretch on stage next to Donnie, at least be able to pull it off. Oh, and the one on top of the piano during "2 in the Morning" (not "2AM" as originally posted--I'm old) and "Dirty Dancing" was 100% pure nasty skank.

We were in the front row of the upper level, and I know Jonathan waved back at me at one point. (Did I just type that? Good thing I don't have any job interviews coming up!)

The funniest part of the entire experience was that all of the girls sitting behind us thought that I was Leah's dream husband/BF who not only came to the concert with her, but was into it as well. At one point Donnie made a reference to the handful of husbands/BFs who came to the show with their wives/GFs [he pointed out one guy that wearing a shirt that read "Happy Wife, Happy Life" (translation: I'm not gay)], and all the girls behind us started pointing down at me. At the very end of the show (after the second encore), I was air-drumming along with the band, and Leah said they were all looking at her with wistful "your boyfriend's so awesome" looks. As she said after the show, "you were mistaken for a straight man!" That might be a first. Couldn't they hear me? It must've been really loud in there! Poor things.

The audience was a sight to behold. Leah was looking fabulous as always in a white blouse, chunky necklace, jeans (that fit), and heels she could walk in. Note that she did not go for the Chicago Girl Uniform of boobie shirt, skinny jeans, and heels. I myself was rocking the ubiquitous Male Uniform of striped shirt, Diesel jeans (I didn't know they made them this big), and black shoes. She and I must've stuck out like a sore thumb amidst the sea of NOKD, I mean NKOTB fans--I dare say I was the only male (out of the 15 of us in attendance) who was sporting Dolce & Gabbana shoes? [Hrmmm . . . Tim Gunn would say that my mentioning the label speaks to a deep, and deeply unattractive insecurity. So be it. It's relevant for my sociological survey of the NKOTB concert.] The entire scene was a full-on skank hoochie mama wannabe convention. We saw leg warmers. We saw lace gloves (a la early Madonna). We saw home-made T-shirts of every variety. We saw gigantic buttons with photos of the wearers' favorite band member(s). We saw the aforementioned mini-skirt made out of old NKOTB bed linens. We saw a pregnant hoochie in a way-too-tight T-shirt in full going-off mode demanding that the (hot Polish) valet parking guys give her her money back for locking her keys in her car after the show. "I am cold, and wet, and pregnant, and I do no want to get sick!" Then wear a coat, betch!

Confidential to whomever locked their dog in the car for the entire concert: You suck and should not own a dog.

What a trip.

By the way Jonathan if you're reading this: Looking good - Call me!

The B is for Brawley

Hrmmm . . . so a college student from College Station, TX (home of Texas A&M) claims to have been attacked by a big scary black man who held her down, cut a B into her cheek (backwards), and told her she was going to be an Obama supporter.



The girl is LYING. Anyone remember Tawana Brawley?

Mind Your Own Business, LDS!

So I'm Andrew Sullivan re-post/link central today, but check out his item on the efforts of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to impact the outcome of California's proposition 8.

Gay Californians (as well as Atlantans, for example) being able to marry will not impact the paranoid Mormons or their precious children in any way whatsoever. (Perhaps all the closeted LDS men are concerned that gays getting married might reduce the number of potential sex partners for them to hook up with on the DL.) However, passage of the malevolent Proposition 8 will impact my life and the lives of my fellow gay people negatively for years, perhaps decades to come. Thanks, LDSers!

Contribute to No on 8 here to counter the influence of the backwards-thinking Mormon cult. Here's one of No on 8's commercials featuring the magnificent Margaret Cho (and her friend Selene):

The Myth / Religion of Equivalency

When I posted the clip of McCain supporters at a Palin rally reveling in and showing off their ugly, racist Obama-hatred on camera, a "sane, educated, and socially conservative" friend of mine protested that if she tried hard enough she could find a similar video of Obama supporters behaving badly.

It's simply not true. Yet, the standard, baseline reaction is that both sides are doing it!

One of Mr. Sullivan's readers wrote to him with some excellent observations on the Beltway media's handling of their beloved John McCain:

This protection has become its own small scandal. It takes two forms: either an outright failure to report many of his excesses, as well as those of his running mate and his supporters; or a reliance on the old, deeply dishonest tactic of equivalency ("Yes, Charlie, the McCain campaign may have spent a week calling Obama a communist Muslim Arab anti-Christ terrorist who's going to blow up the Pentagon, organize a Department of Ebonics, and take the white peoples' money away, but Obama ran an ad calling McCain 'erratic,' so actually both sides are doing it").

Exactly.

I Luvs Me Some Real 'murcans!

On one hand, life continues as is . . . work work work - a bit of weekend revelry - then work work work again - then weekend escapism again - etc, etc, etc.

On the other hand - WTF is going on? Oh wait, I know . . . right-wing assholes are freaking out and acting more and more like the deluded, entitled neanderthals they are. (Uh, McCain, you were saying something on Letterman about how we're the greatest country in the world? Would this juvenile behavior occur in the greatest country in the world?) What's next? When will the first physical attack occur?

Mt. Olympus willing, should Barack win on November 5, are all of these troglodytes going to STFU and be governed quietly? Or at least non-violently? I know I've been seething with absolute, visceral hatred of Dubya ever since he first showed his smarmy ass on the national scene, but I haven't been trashing cars with those beyond-obnoxious "W - The President" stickers [Hey assholes - embarrassed yet??] on them. Anyone remember the time and money they wasted on Monicagate? That's going to seem quaint compared to what those real 'murcans will pull under an Obama presidency.

What a bunch of fucking babies! They think like six year olds, and they act like them. Problem is, when it comes to the acting part, the consequences are huge (see: anything from Vandalism, 2008 Election-related to Irag, Invasion of).

And then there are the ones who are just insane.

To close on a somewhat related note, here's a truly excellent comment on Think Progress's post regarding Google's public stance against malevolent Proposition 8:

My rant, and it’s OT but I want people to see it:

I am sick and tired of supporting red states. I hail from the state of Minnesota which receives LESS THAN HALF of every dollar of Federal Taxes I pay in.

I think it’s time for a blue States revolt. I am tired of paying higher property taxes so my children can receive an adequate education. I’m tired of the argument over federal dollars so that my neighbors can not qualify for S-CHIP because MY state doesn’t disqualify the parents of children who qualify for this benefit.

Should not, my state, be allowed to decide whether of not to extend health insurance to the parents of these children utilizing addition STATE funds? Why should those of you who receive a far higher return on investment decide how WE who live in state who actually CARE about our people decide how the dismal amount of money we receive be spent?

What in cripes name is wrong with you people????? I thought you were all about loving *States Rights* & oh yeah, Jesus. I guess that only applies to the Confederate Flag or the Ten Commandments.

I’d like some equity here. You red states who claim to be so good for business. PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE! I’m frankly tired of subsidizing your sorry as*ses.

Again, I sorry for being so OT but da*n it, I’ve had enough.

Oh yeah! I am beyond sick of having to pay attention to some knuckle-dragger in Wyoming or (downstate) Illinois who doesn't like the fact that I'm gay. I'm sorry, but if the blue/red divide ever did occur, the reds would be positively third world (maybe second-world with Texas's oil money), while the Blues would be friggin' Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland put together - with a few bits of France, England, and Germany thrown in for fabulousness. Until you start pulling your weight financially, all y'all "pro-American" red-state, McCain/Palin-supporting, racist, mofos need to SHUT THE FUCK UP about us not being patriotic enough, get your dumbass noses out of our lives . . . and start behaving like adults, if that's possible.

UPDATE 10/22/2008
So - not just right-wing assholes acting out. Seems some guy lost it on 51st and Lexington and attacked a woman with a McCain sign. Via Shakesville comes the story of an unhinged McCain hater.

Things I Love: EVITA

No explanation necessary.


[NOTE: Applies only to original Broadway production and cast recording, not Madonna's fake-English-accent BS bastardized self-aggrandizing knock-off.]

Thank you to my friend Ron in SF, who is also listening to this today as he cleans his apt. He reminded me of our successful and wildly popular (with us) sing-along during a drive from Chicago to Madison two summers ago.

The Shame of Johnstown

Here's a video of some of our fellow Americans in Johnstown, PA, on their way in to a Sarah Palin rally. It's sickening. I could only watch about 40% of it. If you make it that far, the sniggering, lecherous guy with the Curious George in the Obama bumper sticker "hat" will make your skin crawl.



I stole the title from dday's post on Digby's blog. Couldn't think of anything more appropriate.

Is Secession "Pro-American"?

Sweet Dionysus on Olympus, I'm so f-ing sick of this patriotism shit. Now Sarah, um, Palin has, um, taken it to a new level. I first read about it via Mr. Sullivan's Quote of the Day III. Here's Bible Spice kissing ass campaigning in North Carolina:

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation"

For the love of Bacchus, STFU with the patriotism shit, you stupid cow.

I guess they really do think that if they keep telling Joe Sixpack that we're the greatest country evah (except when it comes to "elitist" things like reading, mathematics, infant mortality, access to health care, etc, etc), he'll forget the beyond-shitty job that George W. Bush, the REPUBLICAN President since January 2001 and his cabal of fellow assholes have done since "winning" the "election" in 2000. Surely anyone who says that there's anything about the USA in need of improvement must hate the country, right? Way to think like six year-olds, GOP. [If we hate it so much why are we still here putting up with you dumbshits and your dangerous, juvenile behavior?] Funny that the right is always railing against the lefty "elites" with the "They think they're better than you" crap, when in reality, they're banking on people being dumb enough to buy their shit and vote against their own interests.

Oh, and speaking of leaving America, how pro-American is it to belong to the Alaska Independence Party? Seems none other than First Dude (and future COLT model) Todd Palin was a member.

A Glimpse of Light, and A Worthy Cause

Via the great Digby (10/16/08, 8:00PM), a glimpse of humanity and grace amongst the ugliness that is October 2008 in Amurca.

Baghdad Pups brings doggies who gave so much to the lives of soldiers in Iraq home to a stable, comfortable, loving life in the U.S. I'm getting a little verklempt just typing about it.

Since my mother is allergic to the world, my sister and I grew up without the benefit of pets in the home. In recent years I've turned into a huge dog person. I adore these creatures who more than any other species on the planet just want to be around and chill out with people. (OK, more than that they really want to 1.) sniff each others' assholes and then have sex or 2.) just find some food, even if it's the smallest crumb that might fall of your plate . . . wait, what's wrong with that???) On my floor here in Lakeview East Living at its Finest, I have Sophie the Pug, Nico the Dachshund, Lucy the King Charles Spaniel, Mick the Australian whatever-that-is, Charlie, the white furball thing owned by my totally unfriendly, probably fag-hating neighbors, and one or two others . . . not to mention all the others here in the building. Elsewhere in the city and around the world I love the four extremely naughty Beagles on Lakewood, Romey the Best Chocolate Lab ever, Craig's 3 adorable doggies in Sydney: ZouZou, Argie, and Kim, Roscoe and Maya (Phyllis Diller) in Nashville, Cousin Steve and Wendy's Annie, Rocco and Pilgrim, the cutest Boston Terriers in the history of mankind . . . you get the idea.

ANYWAY, more about Baghdad Pups:

Operation Baghdad Pups began with an email received on September 11, 2007. The desperate words of the U.S. soldier serving in Iraq told of his desire to get the dog, Charlie, he and his regiment had befriended out of the Middle East before their tour of duty ended. Because it is against regulations for troops to befriend an animal or transport one on a military flight, the likelihood of the determined soldiers succeeding alone seemed doubtful.

Members of this Army regiment discovered the dog earlier that summer while patrolling a dangerous neighborhood on the outskirts of Baghdad. The malnourished and flea covered puppy, no bigger than a baked potato, was scooped up by a soldier who felt sorry for the pitiful orphan. Hidden in a tattered blanket, the puppy was snuck onto the Coalition Outpost. As the soldiers took turns secretly caring for the puppy the strong bond between man and dog grew.

Read more at the Baghdad Pups website. "No Buddy Gets Left Behind!"

Dear Douchebag

Dear Douchebag sitting next to me in the bar at the Westin Tysons Corner lecturing the bartender who fled Vietnam in 1975 at age 20 about how John McCain is the better candidate because of all his "proven leadership" and because it’s not so much the man, it’s the people with whom he’ll surround himself:

Have some more Kool-Aid, Mr. Tassel Loafers. Do you mean he’ll surround himself with qualified people like Sarah Palin? Great! Weren’t George W. Bush’s supporters saying the same thing in 2000? Look how well that worked out. (By the way, are you completely embarrassed yet, Yale and Harvard Business School? Hope you guys feel good about admitting him and excluding an actual qualified applicant. But whatever.)

Getting back to Mr. Façonnable, that was so totally scary and insightful when you asked "Who knows who 'the other one' would appoint?" Nice use of "the other one"! Well done--wouldn't want anyone to think you were speaking Muslamic or anything. I mean, Barack Hussein Osama, oops I mean Obama would probably appoint all those Muslim, ‘Murca-hating terrorist friends he made when he was 8.

UPDATE
This morning at Starbucks, the same guy was in front of me in line. Reader(s), he ordered a latte. A pumpkin spice latte. The "latte-sipping libruls" BS is officially over! Ovah, I say! (I'm talking to you, Obama!)

P.S. Dear banana chocolate Vivanos: Never let Starbucks take you away from me. I love your delicious chocolate "nutritional" goodness.

Threat to Society

Over the weekend my BF Jim and I attended a subversive event at which the sacred marriages of men and women throughout the nation were threatened. In fact, the very foundations of society were at risk!

My friends Amy and Melanie brought their Atlanta, GA values to Amy's parents'/grandparents'/great-grandparents' ranch southeast of San Jose, CA for their marriage. They've only been together for 17 years, so as you can see they're not quite as stable or loving as all the straight marriages that are in such danger.

In all seriousness, the outpouring of love from the couple's families and friends was a thing of beauty. Amy's parents and seven brothers and sisters all spoke eloquently of their love for her and Melanie. All of Amy's nieces and nephews were in attendance--they absolutely adore her. Friends and family from around the country made the trip to CA for the wonderful weekend - I'm so glad we went! Toast after toast honored the brides' joie de vivre and the wonderful times everyone has spent with them: From the lesbian friend who is part of their family in Atlanta, to the straight couple neighbors, to the younger brother recalling when Amy came out to him while they were both in college and testifying to the proof of G-d's love (his words, not mine) in her and Melanie's partnership, to the gay friends for whom Melanie (an ID doc) has cared for over 20 years, each one had the guests either close to tears (seriously--not being maudlin) or roaring with laughter.

Clearly, these people must be stopped!! On the way to and from the wedding, we saw signs, bumper stickers, etc. urging Californians to "Restore Marriage" and vote YES on the malevolent Proposition 8. Disgusting. Despite the propaganda funded by out-of-state money from the Knights of Columbus and the Mormons,

Proposition 8 eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry. It’s that simple.

Not one word in Prop 8 mentions education. Nothing in Prop 8 would force churches to do anything. California’s laws already prohibit discrimination against anyone based on race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

I just don't get it. Vote NO on Prop 8.

Good Night and Good Luck

It gets uglier every day. Even after all we've witnessed, going back to the emergence of their crazed Clinton Derangement Syndrome/Obsession, the current juvenile, racist, foaming-at-the-mouth malevolence and desperation of the right is astonishing. Where will it end? Not sure I want to know.

That said, I'm ending my day with two signs of intelligence and beauty:

This blurb from Mr. Sullivan:

This election really is a classic battle between fear and hope. All Palin and McCain are offering right now is more fear: fear of a black man, fear of terrorism, fear of the other, fear of Iran, fear of the future, fear of Islam, fear of the truth. And above all: fear of defeat. On that last one, they're rational. Which side are you on?

Thank you to David Dust - in addition to my daily dose of amazing male beauty (see Harol Baez in his yellow swimmers in the beach shot), thank you David for mentioning Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia and putting me in mind of the book by James Baldwin from which the store gets its name.

More Phony Right-Wing Fetishization of "Real Americans"

I can't get my mind around the right's hypocrisy. From Think Progress, it seems the usual suspects (and Joe Sixpack poseur wannabes) are not takin' kindly to Obama's book-learnin' and fancy talk:

Conservatives are in a tizzy over the way Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) pronounced “Pakistan” during last night’s debate:

– “When Obama says Pock-i-stahn I have an uncontrollable urge to read the New Yorker and find some Chardonnay. Fortunately I have an old copy of NR and a Coors Light to snap me back to reality. Seriously though — no one in flyover country says Pock-i-stahn. It’s annoying.” [E-mail posted by Kathryn Jean Lopez]

– “Re Senator Obama’s ostentatiously exotic pronunciation of Pakistan, one thing I like about Sarah Palin is the way she says ‘Eye-raq’.” [Mark Steyn]

– “Most overwrought pronunciation of the night: The academic way that Obama says ‘Pakistan,’ with a soft ‘a’ - reminscent of a 1980s ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch in which newscasters over-pronounced ‘Managua, Nicaragua.’” [Philadelphia Daily News]

– “Drinking Game: A shot every time the candidates pronounce ‘Pakistan’ or ‘Taliban’ in an annoying way?” [Ramesh Ponnuru]

No, KLo, you're annoying. (Oh, honey . . . "flyover country?" Really?) No one in "flyover country" says Pock-i-stahn? Barack's from flyover country, you dumb cow . . . but I guess that's too "academic" for a Coors Light-drinkin' regular gal like yerself.

Think Progress points out that His Holiness General David Petraeus (you know, the non-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) pronounces Pakistan that way and asks, is he also "exotic, academic, and annoying"? I love this update to the post as well:

A. Serwer at TAPPED writes: "To pronounce something correctly is to be 'ostentatiously exotic,' while pronouncing something incorrectly is raised to the level of something like a presidential qualification. Meanwhile, there are thousands of Americans of Pakistani descent who are themselves 'ostentatiously exotic' by virtue of their names (and it would be elitist of them to expect anyone to pronounce them correctly) and ancestry."

Right-wing Losers are LOSING IT Worldwide

Via Pam's House Blend, news of an anti-Obama shooting in London.

As Pam says, "The diseased bigotry is occurring around the globe."

Dog-damn troglodytes.

Cave-dwellers.

Attention Right-wing Neanderthal "Patriots": Get over it. So very, deeply, truly sorry that your warped sense of entitlement and potency is challenged, shrinking, and dying.

Get. Over. It.

You don't rule the world anymore. Most of you losers never did! Just because you're straight, white, and male (or a female who loves them, and thinks/hopes/prays that they love you), you're NOT totally in charge, mmm-kay? Sorry - that's not the way it works. As we face new challenges to our survival (as a species, not 'murcans), intelligence and compassion will win, and you lack both. Them's the breaks.

Debate Post-Game

Apt title, if I do say so myself, since that is how our elections are interpreted for the great unwashed masses of real 'murcans by the "librul" media - a horse race, a boxing match, a baseball or football game.

Three giants of my blogosphere have captured tonight's "debate" pefectly:

From His Excellency Joe.My.God.:


His post is titled "Debate Result"! I'll say.

And, from His Excellency Mr. Sullivan:

This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it. I've watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxford. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out.It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don't really see how the McCain campaign survives this.

Say what you will about Mr. "fifth column" Sullivan, he's debated a few dozen more times at Oxford than I have . . . and the subject at hand is a "debate".

Finally, via His Excellency David Dust, a new rallying cry:


Don't you love hte internets?? The "That One" mock-up is already on all three of the blogs I mentioned above. Ten years ago, we would've seen it in next Thursday's Reader, twenty years ago . . . in a campus newspaper?

UPDATE
Just watching part of the re-run . . . McCain is just a ghastly physical presence. I catch myself feeling sorry for him, then I remember what a monstrous ASSHOLE he is. Watch as he hobbles forward, sniggering, rheumatic . . . "I'll answer the question, Tom" - as if Barack hadn't just nailed him on the whole Obama-will-raise-your-taxes scare tactic.

Brokaw: McCain Hack.

Oh and McCain, please stop saying "my friends" you FREAK. You're not my friend, and I'm not your friend . . . asshole.

Stranded and Broke

Another Phoenix story . . .

Driving back to my hotel after work tonight (around 7PM), I passed a young man standing on the median near the onramp to Interstate 10. He was young (mid-20s) well-groomed, and good-looking. I realized this was the same guy who had been standing there when I went to get my lunch at 1:30PM! Maybe he took a break, but still . . .

His cardboard sign read: STRANDED. BROKE. NEED HELP.

After a few impure thoughts, I started to wonder how he ended up stranded, broke, and in need of help, standing on Baseline Road and I-10 with a cardboard sign. Maybe he's been raking it in all day and now has enough money to meet all of his immediate needs and buy a bus, train, or plane ticket to where he needs/wants to go. Maybe he's a hustler trying out a new marketing strategy. Or maybe he's gotten $2 after standing in the sun all day and will end up sleeping outside tonight.

I wonder if he'll be there tomorrow.

I mean, if someone rolled me while on a business trip and I woke up with no wallet, ID, no anything - I could still phone my parents or one of my friends and have them wire me the money or even come and get me. Beyond that, I've always said to myself, if financial catastrophe struck and I was wiped out, I could always go live with my parents. [That was before I found out my dad is a McCain supporter and I "disowned" him.] I'm white, male, and college-educated [just stating the cruel facts--no judgments] so certainly I could find a job doing something. However, I'm sure most, if not all homeless people and guys with "BROKE. STRANDED. NEED HELP." signs never thought they'd end up that way either.

Bitch CANNOT Be Serious

Now what did those poor kids at Vanderbilt's Children's Hospital do to deserve a visit from Cindy McCain? Haven't they been through enough?

Via Huffington Post:

CINDY McCAIN: OBAMA'S WAGED "DIRTIEST CAMPAIGN" IN U.S. HISTORY

Cindy McCain said today that she expects her husband to clear the record at tonight's debate and let America know where he truly stands.

McCain, who stopped to visit a half-dozen children at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt today, said the presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history," and her husband Sen. John McCain will use tonight's debate to correct the distortions.

He's going to "clear the record", Cindy? How's he gonna do that, hon? By "clear the record", do you mean he's going to admit that he has no idea of what is going on with the economy and no plans whatsoever for how to deal with it, that he's actually the one who's in the midst of the most disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable campaign in U.S. history, that Sarah Palin is unqualified to be Vice-President/ Queen/Empress/President and her choice as his running-mate was a craven political ploy, to name just a few of the items on the aforementioned record that need to be cleared?

It's positively surreal. So did everyone at the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital just nod in agreement or listen quietly when she said that? How could anyone hear that propaganda and not yell "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, YOU LYING HYPOCRITE?"

I'll say it again: Every word that comes out of that campaign is a lie, including "and" and "the".

UPDATE
Sorry Cin, but Obama's campaign has beat your decrepit husband to it. As Thomas Schaller in Salon's War Room put it, they've "pre-whupped" his sorry scraggly ass.

Pre-whupping McCain's arse

You've heard of rapid response and rebuttal, right?

Well, 90 minutes before tonight's debate was slated to begin the Obama campaign sent out a "pre-buttal" of 16 points that John McCain might make tonight.

Damn: That's what I call (p)rapid (p)response.

I won't provide the text and details (all with accompanying sources or links) of the prebuttals, but here are the 16 arguments or charges the Obama campaign has either anticipated McCain might make, or made in the previous debate:

1. OBAMA VOTED TO RAISE TAXES 94 TIMES
2. OBAMA WILL RAISE TAXES ON SMALL BUSINESSES
3. OBAMA VOTED FOR THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY
4. OBAMA SAID SUBPRIME LOANS WERE “A GOOD IDEA”
5. OBAMA IS “PALLING AROUND” WITH TERRORISTS
6. OBAMA SAID OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE JUST BOMBING VILLAGES AND KILLING CIVILIANS
7. OBAMA OPPOSES CLEAN COAL
8. OBAMA VOTED TO RAISE TAXES ON THOSE MAKING $42,000 A YEAR
9. OBAMA’S TAX PLAN WILL RAISE TAXES
10. OBAMA HAS NOT LED ON FINANCIAL CRISIS
11. MCCAIN A LEADER IN EFFORT TO REFORM FANNIE AND FREDDIE
12. OBAMA’S PLAN WOULD ADD ALMOST A TRILLION IN NEW SPENDING AND INCREASE DEFICITS
13. OBAMA WANTS A GOVERNMENT-RUN, SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
14. MCCAIN HEALTH CARE PLAN DOES NOT INCLUDE TAX INCREASE
15. MCCAIN’S HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL REDUCE COSTS
16. OBAMA VOTED TO CUT OFF FUNDING FOR THE TROOPS

With four weeks to go, Obama's campaign is hitting on on cylinders right now.

― Thomas Schaller

Schaller has just updated his post with the link to the rebuttals. Seems I wasn't the only one who couldn't find it.

Creepy

How disturbing were the clips of McCain's and Palin's "events" yesterday? Not just the candidates, of course, but the crowds.

"Terrorist!"

"Kill him!"

I thought it was us libruls with Bush Derangement Syndrome who were so angry.

What would happen to someone who yelled "Kill him!" in reference to Bush in public? As Jeremy (from Cobb) suggested while commenting on Joe.My.God.'s post on the matter, ". . . they'd be in Gitmo by now with their testicles frying."

I've returned to and am determined to finish Victor Klemperer's diaries of life in Germany from 1933 to 1945. I'm only up to October 1933, but already some of his comments and observations have given me pause.

(I don't think Godwin's Rule applies here. If only.)

UPDATE
This is moderately encouraging--at least Sheriff Scott's "Barack Hussein Obama" star turn yesterday is not going unnoticed.

If his law enforcement career suffers as a result of this (as it should), he should contact Hot House Entertainment to explore other options. "Justice II"?

Phuck you Phoenix

I'm in Phoenix for a few days. A few years ago Phoenix passed Philly to become the country's fifth-largest city. Yup, the fifth-largest city in the nation, out in the middle of the desert. (Thanks for all the water, Colorado!) I don't get it. Anyone for a nice case of Coccidioidomycosis?

Tons of propositions on the ballot here . . . including the malevolent Prop 102, another attempt by fundie Xtian freaks to amend the state's constitution to "protect marriage". The Yes on 102 signs are not as ubiquitous as those for many of the other initiatives (at least in the lovely part of town I work in while here), but here's one across the street from the Starbucks I frequent. (Who wants Hot Chocolate in Arizona??) Hidden from view in this shot is the Spanish version "¡Si! on 102" - pandering to all those Spanish-speakers who don't know what "Yes!" means. (Gotta make sure they reach every last "pro-family" Catholic voter.)

Coincidentally, the great Joe.My.God. reports today that the founders of Coldstone Creamery have donated $10K to the pro-102 effort. Not that I've been there more than a few times [I prefer to consume mass quantities of (Ben & Jerry's) ice cream in private], but never again. Fuckers. How dare they open an outpost on Halsted Street. Perhaps the patrons of that location need to be made aware of this connection.

UPDATE - ANOTHER PHOENIX OBSERVATION
I swear I am not making this up. When I went out for lunch just now I saw a silver license plate holder with pink lettering: DON'T HATE ME CUZ I HAVE BIG BOOBS. Now, I know it's an N of 1, and yes it is possible that someone in my genteel zip code of 60657 has one of those, but to date I have not seen one. Only in Phoenix.

Add to this the rear window decal on the Escalade that read "NO THESE ARE NOT MY DADDY'S WHEELS" that I saw on an earlier trip, and I'm thinkin' that the ladies of Phoenix are a somewhat, shall we say, boastful bunch.

Friday Night Things I Love - (original) Hed Kandi

cover art by Jason Brooks
HED KANDI DISCO HEAVEN 01.05
A Deliciously Stylish Selection of the Sexiest Disco House and U.S. Garage

What can one say about Hed Kandi? To start, I'm an addict, and have been since I first saw Mark Doyle's compilations wrapped in fantastic, fabulous cover art by Jason Brooks. As with any album (are they still called albums?), not every song is a total winner, but most of these discs have several that are worth the price of the entire 2-CD set many times over.

On this particular Disco Heaven, it was, is, and always will be "Hypnotic, Erotic Games" by Soulshaker featuring Lorraine Brown. If it's possible to wear out a CD or an mp3 file, I'll find out with this song that is well and fully true to its title. I don't know what it is, but I can't get enough. I love the breathless, somewhat possessed urgency of the vocals. The music and the beat are absolutely DISCO HEAVEN - transcendent and ultimately ecstatic.

Baby tomorrow you can try and work me out
But for now, you've gotta take me as I am
And maybe tomorrow we might go our separate ways
So right now, I'm gonna take all that I can

So don't ask me when I'm leaving,
And don't ask me if I'll stay, no
'cause I'm free to do what I want,
and that's my way

So tell me Boy are you ready?
'cause I'm sure you feel alright
We're all alone
and I'm gonna take my time tonight

This time it's automatic
Hypnotic, erotic games
Can't stop it now it's started
Hypnotic erotic games

You know that this time tomorrow
I might move on into the light,
but it's you
that I wanna satisfy tonight

You know we can't be together
'cause I want what I just can't have
Don't try to figure it out
'cause there's no way

So don't ask me when I'm leaving,
And don't ask me if I'll stay, no
'cause I'm free to do what I want,
and that's my way

So tell me Boy are you ready?
'cause I'm sure you feel alright now
We're all alone
and I'm gonna take my time tonight

Who among us hasn't been there? The mutual, shared thrill of the hunt - being in full cruise mode, the State of Nature. Hypnotic and erotic indeed.

[Yes I did just use the phrase "thrill of the hunt" and type out the lyrics from one of my favorite songs. Werk!]

Here's one of David Dust's magnificent Daddies of the Day, just to compliment the mood:


This time it's automatic
Hypnotic, erotic games
Can't stop it now it's started
Hypnotic erotic games
YEAH, BABY!

Well, er, um . . . where was I? Oh yes:
NOTE: I'm not sure exactly when, but a year or two ago, Mark Doyle left Hed Kandi to start a new "record and events company", Fierce Angel. Initially, Jason Brooks was involved, but I don't see his sleek and fabulous influence on the current website. Their loss if he's no longer part of the team. You'll also notice that on the current Hed Kandi CDs, the girls no longer exude that above-it-all, ephemeral sexuality and hotness - they're just sort of skanky not the same.

[Sidebar: Fabulously enough, my Australian hottie Craig knows someone who knows Mark Doyle. Un-fabulously enough, I have not yet acted on this semi-connection to meet the creator of all this wonderfulness in person.]

CREDITS
Soulshaker
feat. Lorraine Brown
Hypnotic, Erotic Games (Soulshaker Club Mix)
(Warren Meyers / Matt Meyers / John Worsley) M & W Music Ltd.
 & © 2005 'Vineyard Productions Ltd', trading as Audiofreaks Records.
www.audio-freaks.com
lyrics reprinted with permission of Warren Meyers

UPDATE 8/29/09 1:42PM

Here's a YouTube post with a non-Hed Kandi remix. Not my favorite, but still wonderful:

It Had to Happen

This is absolute perfection*:



I just got back from 4 days in Fargo, and that's a pretty pronounced accent on Marge Gunderson there, dontcha know? Those Hollywood elites. I'm here ta tell ya that not everyone in Fargo speaks that way. Like any accent in the US, there appears to be some socioeconomic correlation. My grandmother had a term for those in Wisconsin with a hard-core accent - Deez Dems and Dozers. It's fascinating to see the subtle differences in language throughout the country. Even before Bible Spice appeared with her new-found accent, I've been interested in that. The speech patterns from Chicago through Wisconsin and Minnesota into Fargo - and evidently up to Alaska (who knew?) are all connected, but distinct. This speech archive website from George Mason University is extremely cool.

Speaking of Fargo, on my next trip there I plan to gather some more sociological data for my private online diary blog. On the way from my hotel to the client's site this morning I passed anti-abortion protesters in front of a clinic (so 1992), then stopped in at a packed Starbucks, where the manly man behind me ordered . . . a latte. A flavored latte. I kid you not. I hereby declare the already lame "latte-sipping liberal" bullshit to be officially dead.

[* - self-editing: As opposed to partial perfection??]

Delicious Snark

from Mr. Sullivan:

Even RCP now shows a growing Obama lead. Of course, I haven't checked in with David Brooks on how real Americans outside the Beltway feel. Maybe he senses that the starbursts have been working in the heartland where his finger is always on the pulse.

Ha! So true. David Brooks and Peggy Noonan make me want to hurl.

Three Words: Pa-the-tic

As John McEnroe used to say, "You cannot be serious."

Bible Spice is a joke. I think Jane Hamsher put it best today on Huffington Post:

Forget the tight stripper skirt, forget the metallic eyeshadow inappropriate for anyone over the age of 40, forget the cloying sitcom delivery, the lies, the cruel and calculated needling of Biden by calling his college professor wife a "school teacher" and saying "she'll get her reward in Heaven" (to a man whose first wife died in a car accident) -- she's an idiot.

I cannot believe that we are seriously thinking of placing this dodo bird within reach of the Presidency.

I know she's the Rethugs' wet dream, but seriously. Not surprisingly, Joe Kernan, Perpetual Adolescent, Chief Douchebag, and Head of Smarminess and Ass-Kissing at CNBC, said this morning that "we love her." Of course you do, Joe.

New Best Name for Palin

I appreciated the term "Psycho-MILF". (Can't remember where I first heard that. Will update when I do.)

I laughed (very loudly) during Jamie Kilstein's show in Chicago a few weeks ago when he introduced me to a very colorful and accurate term that I shall not publish here.

I also laughed (very loudly) today when I read the last sentence of the following post on Pam's House Blend:

This sexist whopper out of good-old-boy Mississippi Governor (and McCain pal) Haley Barbour's mouth is breathtaking:

"My wife loves her because...she doesn't have a chip on her shoulder like some women politicians, she is very 'normal' -- she doesn't have to tell you how smart she is. But she is a bonafide energy expert...Sarah Palin knows more about energy policy than the other three put together."

Palin wouldn't have much work to do in foreign policy as Vice President, Barbour added, but just like Mississippi is more "sensitive" to hurricanes, for example, than Kansas, Alaska might be more "sensitive," he went on, to our "Cold War opponent" Russia by being closer to its border.

Uh, no, she doesn't have to tell us how smart she is, governor. She's made it crystal clear every time she opens her piehole. Is it me or is the IQ level of these GOP talking heads dropping moment by moment in honor of Bible Spice?

Bible Spice!!

Palin Bingo

I'm sure this is making the rounds today. I just received the link from my friend Gary in Nashville. In case you haven't seen Palin Bingo yet, be sure it check it out.



"If we are so blessed by the American people" should absolutely be on there. Stop saying that, betch!! It's called "winning the election"*, not receiving a blessing from The American People.

* - sometimes known as: Preventing enough minorities from voting, scaring voters with threats of terrorism, rigging the Diebold voting machines, or, if all else fails, having the Supreme Court award you the Presidency.

Good Morning?

I watch CNBC because usually it's an escape from the mindless politics-obsessed "news" of other television "news" networks.

This morning, however, I'm greeted by the sniggering, truly grotesque visage of Prick Dick "Barney Fag--OOPS" Armey guest hosting on CNBC's SquawkBox. Who gives a flying fuck what that rat fucker has to say? Throw in John Sununu - excuse me, evidently he's now John Henry Sununu - and Joe Kernan trying, as usual, to get his tongue as far up each of the assholes' asshole as possible, and it's too much to take, especially this early.

We learn from these two goons that naturally, the entire mortgage crisis and resulting economic mess are the fault of the Democrat party . . . it all started under Clinton . . . Democrats wanted to give home loans to non-creditworthy minorities people . . . Chris Dodd and Barack are 1-2 in contributions from the GSEs . . . "Giant slush fund for the Democrat party" (Armey) . . . blah blah blah. At least Carl called them on their hypocrisy by pointing out that Fannie and Freddie were equal opportunity contributors, and Steve Liesman has pointed out that the worst of the worst of the subprime lending occurred in 2005-2007.

UPDATE
After Armey said "Democrat party" on the air, I e-mailed them. Here's Joe's thoughtful response:

>From: "Kernen, Joe (NBC Universal, CNBC)"
>To: "Marc Giles"
>Date: October 02, 2008 07:52:12 AM CDT
>Subject: RE: Enough of Dick Armey
>
>Tsk tsk marc... We'd hate to disturb your sensiblilities
>
>And you wonder why liberals aren't always perceived in a positive light
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Giles [mailto:marcgiles@mac.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:42 AM
>To: Squawk
>Subject: Enough of Dick Armey
>
>Come ON . . . if Prick - Oops I mean Dick Armey can't say "Democratic"
>Party like an adult, he shouldn't be on television. I didn't tune in to
>see him puke up his partisan bullshit unchallenged. He's a grotesque
>sight this early in the morning.

UPDATE II
Here's Anonymous Liberal with more on the right's ugly but not surprising "explanation" for the current economic clusterfuck.