tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83412472011-08-27T12:22:28.049-05:00chain smoking, drunk and (more often than not)pissed off in md.baltimore.hampden.<br> "I notice that you hail from Baltimore, a city whose residents fall into one of two categories, in my observation: (1) persons of exceeding wit and ingenuity, and (2) complete idiots. Your commentary, quite honestly, lends itself equally well to either proposition." <a href = "http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_049.html">*</a>jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.comBlogger10501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-75196761102770981802011-07-02T22:24:00.002-05:002011-07-02T22:31:12.146-05:00

President Bachmann. Seriously. Our dude in the Whitehouse doesn't seem to be willing to do what it takes. So, say it with me. "President Bachmann". I am not effin' kidding you. What to do about it? I don't know. But if he continues what he's doing now I have two words for you: "President Bachmann". They laughed about Reagan the same way they do about her. That's all I got. See you later.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-9598777677309352422011-01-14T15:56:00.002-05:002011-01-14T15:59:57.131-05:00

It's a wonder they can even speak at all. Shorter Palin et al: "If you traitorous bastards don't stop accusing us of using eliminationist rhetoric we are just going to have to shoot you."

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-88048731714981196242010-10-28T08:54:00.003-05:002010-10-28T09:01:04.493-05:00

In all the talk about the Rand Paul supporter stomping on a Move-On activist an important simple facet has been lost. The stomper - Mr. Profitt - has claimed that he stomped because he has a bad back. Why has no one asked the simplest question? "Mr. Profitt, if you've got a bad back, why did you volunteer for such an obviously physical activity as crowd control?" There really are only two

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-40908299325629486752010-07-06T22:11:00.002-05:002010-07-06T23:01:00.399-05:00

We pay attention to Niall Ferguson at our peril.Let me start with a personal anecdote. Last year I went to visit my grandmother for her birthday, and mere hours before she fell down, broke her hip and then insisted she be taken to her birthday meal to get a steak and decent scotch, she told me that my brother had given her a copy of Ferguson's The Ascent of Money and that she had read it but

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-48544973840511261122010-04-20T23:00:00.001-05:002010-04-20T23:00:45.750-05:00

Fuck you. I work for a living, asshole.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-12511129766397105852010-04-07T10:09:00.003-05:002010-04-07T10:10:31.053-05:00

We offer up a hale and hearty "Amen!"

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-21314341327942455572010-03-23T12:58:00.001-05:002010-03-23T12:59:42.348-05:00

Also, Local Reactions Vary on Health Care Reform.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-50446302451171413722010-03-22T04:14:00.003-05:002010-03-22T04:15:28.742-05:00

In November we will discover that the number of Americans that hate losers is larger than the number of Americans that fear Communism.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-85586227349848500932009-12-02T12:03:00.003-05:002009-12-02T12:42:31.863-05:00

I view it as my duty as a programmer to point out that being a programmer does not qualify you to be much of anything other than a programmer. The best part? Raymond's attempt at digital forensics fails due to his inability to READ THE EFFIN' SOURCECODE. For a list of things that being a programmer does not, by default, qualify you to do, find a list of professions that does not include "

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-56403645668050611822009-11-20T09:45:00.001-05:002009-11-20T09:47:11.686-05:00

An wide-open marketplace of ideas hardly looks attractive when the result is the intellectual ascendancy of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. (context here.)

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-55156653460186085782009-10-07T09:34:00.000-05:002009-10-07T09:35:50.778-05:00

Alternate Brain on Afghanistan.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-24033729284714094502009-08-20T08:45:00.000-05:002009-08-20T08:46:01.284-05:00

Please please please.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-60900927060387648752009-08-11T09:42:00.002-05:002009-08-11T09:51:39.738-05:00

The Government should stay out of personal decisions like health care and stick to telling us who we can marry. For a long time, I made the decision to be too poor to afford health care. Man it felt good to not have The Government getting involved in that decision. I want the freedom to break a leg and set the fracture with bailing wire and part of my Rock’em Sock’em Robot set. First we let

SuperOceanLadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657333660915800103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-67267037444345701572009-07-27T21:54:00.002-05:002009-07-27T22:02:39.870-05:00

I know Palin has supposedly, finally, turned herself into a complete joke and her political career into mist. So keep laughing (I know I am). Then remember what they said about a certain draft-dodging rehab'ed drunk ex-fratboy who could barely speak English. Or the senile actor before him. There's a bit of a longer list actually, but there's not much point in being bored by it. If there is one

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-7364213146077296922009-04-29T20:42:00.000-05:002009-04-29T20:43:11.454-05:00

You didn’t think that the federal government would come to the dance without a partner, did you? For the past few months, my office has been involved in CDC preparedness for an influenza pandemic. I can’t really get into the details, but given recent developments I thought I’d share some observations and insights about pandemic planning as an FYI with you (both of you who still read this blog

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-73450687365398325432009-01-11T11:59:00.002-05:002009-01-11T12:06:36.944-05:00

It’s been a long time since I contributed anything to this blog. I don’t even know if anyone reads this anymore.I’ve decided to write some thoughts here about a close friend of mine. I’ve chosen this blog because its one this particular friend does not know about, and hence he will not know I have written this.Some of you may know that after obtaining my bachelor’s degree, I lived and worked in

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-17863966756496121032008-11-13T08:34:00.002-05:002008-11-13T09:02:59.686-05:00

The incessant drone of leaf blowers.Morning noon and night. Backpacks, push models, electric and gas.They join together to form a background cacophony.A discordant harmony that sits on your ears, weighing down your brain.The full effect only truly realized when it stops for a momentand blessed silence returns just long enough to fall in love with it again.It's always there, this anti-Buddhist

Jkliphousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027501001221610622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-55478369387403760422008-09-29T21:52:00.004-05:002008-09-29T23:19:19.068-05:00

How many times have you heard it since last week?"What about Main Street?"On the radio. On the TV.Fox news. NPR.From the mouths of politicians and pundits alike.Main street. Main street. What about Main Street?In my liberal world I've heard it from at least 3 different NPR hosts and SEVERAL guests. I've heard it on MSNBC and CNN. Seen Pelosi say it. Seen Obama say it. McCain, Reid, etc.

Jkliphousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027501001221610622noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-53793895103393386902008-08-01T19:41:00.004-05:002008-08-01T20:04:56.858-05:00

Foreign policy expert Samantha Power may have thrown herself under the Barack Obama bus after being caught calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during the primaries, but if Obama is reading the New York Review of Books, he can still take her counsel.Powers's piece in NYRB argues that the Democrats are on the verge of transforming themselves from the Mommy party to the Daddy party.Between Obama's

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-42402605650974656052008-07-09T12:43:00.002-05:002008-07-09T12:46:06.953-05:00

Until he proves me wrong Tom Delay is a criminal and a degenerate.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-16030546465879743282008-04-23T10:10:00.003-05:002008-04-23T10:11:35.009-05:00

D-squared::"The great thing about the market mechanism, of course, is that when it kills a million people, it doesn't leave fingerprints."

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-4806675275139535662008-03-07T18:13:00.002-05:002008-03-07T18:17:57.186-05:00

A bit of inside Batlimore media baseball: Marc Steiner is no longer with WYPR. Bad for them and us. Good for us is that he's figured out that he can do his own podcasts which he releases through the auspices of his Center for Emerging Media. If you're a Wire fan then you should check out his series of related podcasts. All the usual faces are there including David Simon and Ed Burns. Also

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-25960739551637185312007-12-10T12:12:00.000-05:002007-12-10T12:41:21.983-05:00

I've been keeping a somewhat suspicious eye on the new Open Society Institute blog that is supposed to share big ideas about how to fix the city. This week's posting by Steve Ziger is interesting: make a big park through and around Baltimore. It seems like a great idea, but also raises a bunch of questions. Mine, in no particular order, are these: how do you police that space? Much of the

Dave G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07610115871540518305noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-23128475029923713312007-11-26T09:08:00.000-05:002007-11-26T09:09:22.695-05:00

So I won't bother... Read it, you know?

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-24099066542026159612007-11-13T18:12:00.001-05:002007-11-13T18:12:13.644-05:00

Rodger Payne at the Duck on the (unlikely existence of) suitcase nukes.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-10673531830430932822007-11-02T18:37:00.001-05:002008-12-10T18:48:14.572-05:00

Photographic proof that Chuck Hagel can have just as much fun as the next guy...

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-54714077262804817432007-10-31T16:45:00.001-05:002007-10-31T16:48:25.195-05:00

Or just a song for the dead, and not gratefully, no not just one tiny bit. Happy Halloween everybody.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-61974552635395190562007-10-31T10:09:00.000-05:002007-10-31T12:29:56.921-05:00

Just damn insightful.(link fixed...)

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-56962979776112206912007-10-03T10:26:00.000-05:002007-10-03T10:29:17.793-05:00

An article in the Jewish Daily Forward online: "The World Can Live With a Nuclear Iran.".

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-2625456616117276562007-10-01T19:25:00.000-05:002007-10-01T19:29:53.269-05:00

Or...one reason to vote for Hillary (and a reason to like Jim Webb too).PS: This is the 1025th RUFNKM post. Anyone who knows what milestone we just passed will get a special digital picture of yours truly with which to do an LOLBLOGGERZ...

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-73306392476224696162007-09-29T15:24:00.000-05:002007-09-29T15:28:25.731-05:00

I can’t say I am a big supporter of FOX News spinster and culture warrior Bill O’Reilly. He has made quite a successful career for himself as a blatant cheerleader for the right-right, and the derision most people have for him as a non-thinker who resorts to shouting people down as his primary method of debating is well earned in my opinion. But I do actually watch “The Factor” from time to time,

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-83837082486701529982007-09-27T13:27:00.000-05:002007-09-27T13:38:19.955-05:00

Democratic Party fund raising organizations will continue to get zip from me while utter lunacy is supported by both my Democratic senators. Strike one for Cardin and strike two for Mikulski.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-34177161979945019652007-09-26T10:22:00.000-05:002007-09-26T10:29:24.933-05:00

So yesterday a good friend called and asked me what I thought of the Big Bad Iranian's visit. I didn't have time for the discussion but I made a note to myself to blog about it later. "Finally!" I said to myself, "something I can actually write about in a bit of depth and not just say 'what he said!' again because jeez it's lame to keep doing that." And then I discover that Rick Perlstein went

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-16705989193942218992007-09-22T15:25:00.000-05:002007-09-22T15:41:00.177-05:00

Since Ahmadenijad's NYC visit is up high on culture warrior Bill O'Reilly's shit list as of late, Scott Adams is really asking for it with today's blog post. In more personal news, I just got a personally signed copy of The Powers of War and Peace by John Yoo. I kid you not.Unitary executive goodness. Someday we will know the joy.

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-33429010688531959092007-09-13T15:37:00.000-05:002007-09-13T15:40:33.522-05:00

Telling us exactly what the goal is: this is why they keep acting like it's culture and not economics that defines class. I think you know the question.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-21488576039003266552007-09-07T18:42:00.000-05:002007-09-08T09:42:30.595-05:00

Chuck Hagel will make a definitive announcement on Monday about his future plans: go for a third term as a Senator, go for the presidency, or go back to Omaha and live out the rest of his life in retirement at golf courses and steakhouses . I will admit: I have been a closet supporter of a potential Bloomberg/Hagel ticket for the past few months (I cannot stand the thought of either Rudy or

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-72711154893042374222007-08-29T08:57:00.000-05:002007-08-29T09:20:52.902-05:00

Just a little clarification for the folks at Instaputz and Sadly, No!: Megan McArdle and Glenn Reynolds are two very cheap internet parodies of people like this guy (whose blog and programming language - Io - I actually like).

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-30835119613136643052007-08-29T08:41:00.000-05:002007-08-29T08:42:14.072-05:00

As in what Larry Johnson says...

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-57551889687171305242007-08-24T08:27:00.000-05:002007-08-24T08:57:23.830-05:00

Daniel Nexon expresses exactly what I've thought of Tom Friedman since 1999. Ever since the awful book The Lexus and the Olive Tree - which was not a useful book for anyone but Tom Friedman - was published (initial reaction: "This is the book that describes our time? ARE YOU EFFIN' KIDDING ME???"), I've had this same argument with otherwise intelligent people. In that book Friedman demonstrated

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-89723910578538993382007-08-20T21:43:00.000-05:002007-08-20T21:55:21.484-05:00

Couldn't resist transcribing this gem verbatim, which I've only found in bits and pieces on the Internet, of which I can only imagine Mencken's pronouncements had he lived to see it. From Newspaper Days (1942): At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-83391281651356882512007-07-26T14:47:00.000-05:002007-07-26T14:49:59.167-05:00

From MaxSpeak (which means you listen):...There is no general case for or against markets. Sometimes they work, other times not. What we need most is the freedom to deal with them when the results are unsatisfactory on either efficiency or ethical grounds.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-90682093577967468062007-06-23T08:03:00.002-05:002007-06-23T08:10:22.899-05:00

My brother in law is a legitimate "old media" reporter and did a profile of this guy for his paper. Link to come, but check this out.

Dave G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07610115871540518305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-75652280760041702682007-06-22T10:26:00.001-05:002007-06-22T10:27:53.758-05:00

And here the whole point was to run a family show...

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-52123950813333970512007-06-12T21:51:00.000-05:002007-06-13T05:59:26.762-05:00

While Marshall Rogers died three months ago, I didn't discover that fact until a few weeks ago. Over whiskey with some fellow comic fans (our own SOL among them), I heard he had died and I nearly went into shock. It's taken a little time to process this information. Many people knew Marshall Rogers as an artist who's pencilling of Batman defined the character for a generation. 13 years ago, I

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-3488112123666746592007-05-15T14:19:00.000-05:002007-05-15T14:23:25.197-05:00

So the native Brazilians were "silently longing" to be converted to Christianity, sez Pope Maledict. That's right...they were asking for it.I guess it's been a while since he picked up Bartolome de las Casas's Short Account of the Destruction of the West Indies.

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-74331672046850881942007-05-15T13:58:00.000-05:002007-05-15T20:44:19.883-05:00

I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America...I point my finger in their face and say, "You could have helped this happen sooner."Inside of one human being, piety leaves no room for

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-56372155755234209882007-04-30T12:18:00.000-05:002007-04-30T12:20:00.561-05:00

The last thing the USA needs is another destiny driven president. I yearn for candidates like the ones produced in my youth in smoke filled rooms.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-34762131201040351642007-04-28T15:27:00.000-05:002008-12-10T18:48:15.434-05:00

If there is one politician who I truly hate, it is the Republican Senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman (former democratic mayor of St. Paul by the way). If you have ever seen this man on C-Span before, you will likely know and share the same nauseous revulsion I have for Norm. The sleaze is practically bubbling up from underneath his pressed dress shirt. He is more insincere and politically

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-86644709010637126402007-04-27T20:15:00.000-05:002008-12-10T18:48:20.482-05:00

A funny thing happened on the way back from our Nation’s Capitol the other day. I went to the DC/Baltimore/Virginia area for a mix of business and pleasure. My trip started out momentous enough. I ended up sitting close to The Apprentice (above) on the flight out east. I was actually surprised that the poor guy wasn’t recognized by too many others. Upon arrival in Virginia, I headed straight

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-61778948818512346872007-04-23T16:02:00.000-05:002007-04-23T17:04:49.192-05:00

He sure is the poster-boy for the ass backwards reasoning that passes for cultural criticism on the hard right, isn't he? This game is getting so silly it's a wonder even he wants to play it anymore. Yes, I too would prefer we return to a time when rap was about parties and dancing and video games were so primitive that most of the thematic content had to be gleaned from the instruction manuals.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-79972701431636136022007-04-23T08:38:00.000-05:002007-04-23T08:40:13.535-05:00

No, it's not going to be THAT. That'd be annoying. DaveG just sent me a link to this picture of the first ever bug in a computer system.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-49427560249853781102007-04-17T07:58:00.000-05:002007-04-17T07:59:20.786-05:00

In-effin'-deed.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-76200124362416837562007-03-05T11:50:00.000-05:002007-03-05T14:21:47.377-05:00

Yeah yeah, this is decades old news in blogtime , but I haven't had time to look at these here internets much lately. So, to get the rust out of the pipes I offer Shorter Jonah Goldberg(two times):"When considering global problems, we must keep in mind the hard economic realities of proposed solutions - unless those solutions involve shooting at something."Shorter concept created by Daniel

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-13143287472615072552007-02-20T09:48:00.000-05:002007-02-20T10:04:38.021-05:00

And you thought Harbor Place was annoying.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1171252467848459072007-02-11T22:13:00.000-05:002007-02-12T17:44:50.506-05:00

Michael Gordon, whom you might recognize from several of the boners cited in the New York Times' Iraqi WMD mea culpa, landed this whopper on the front page of the Friday Times:The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran.That's quite a lede. Let's look closely at the phrasing. Take

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1170975629960347492007-02-08T17:46:00.000-05:002007-02-08T18:01:28.316-05:00

More than enough has been said about Bill Donahue, who, in a fit of 200 grain hypocrisy (deriding the incivility of bloggers after having said things like "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity" and "Hollywood likes anal sex" and "Just imagine if a white guy is performing oral sex on a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection. Do you need to see it to know it's ugly?"

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1170199553332367892007-01-30T17:54:00.000-05:002007-01-31T08:58:45.050-05:00

Political correctness, once deferential to minorities and easily lampooned as the busywork of ism-ized faculty committees, began to change with the election of George W. Bush and was totally redefined after 9/11.John Podhoretz perfeectly exemplifies this changing of the guard, taking a lazy swipe at a Johns Hopkins history professor whose sin was to suggest pursuing terrorists with "coolness,

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PETRAEUS: A friend of Philip V., King of Macedonia, who was sent by that monarch to receive the submission of the Lacedaemonians, and confirm them in their allegiance to Macedonia.Philip V of Macedon was an empire builder; he eagerly sought to extend Macedonian control over more territory. In Macedonia...young Philip V anxious to prove himself became entangled in all kinds of Balkan intrigues…[He

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1170194930223298052007-01-30T17:04:00.000-05:002007-01-30T17:08:50.256-05:00

Can't the President of the World Bank afford to have a spare pair of dress-socks handy?

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A Hopkins professor dares to put 9/11 in perspective, and John Podhoretz at National Review not only oversimplifies the piece through conservative-style political correctness, but slams him just for being from the same city as Nancy Pelosi and Divine. This, from an Upper West Side snickerdoodle whose sole redeeming feature is that he seems to surpass the combined nepotistical credibility of Bill

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1169735357725547052007-01-25T08:53:00.000-05:002007-01-25T09:29:17.760-05:00

If a wingut* manages to be funny and insightful - at the same time! - does he cease to be a wingnut?* The question might be totally moot, as "wingnut" may not be a fair characterization of William Lind. Mr. Lind is a regular contributor to antiwar.com, but then again, so is Pat Buchanan. Lots of Mr. Lind's contributions to antiwar.com are also published at News At Defense and the National

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1169250347610800492007-01-19T18:40:00.000-05:002007-01-19T18:45:47.643-05:00

Not that I'm a huge Obama booster or anything (it's way too damn early to be making any such decisions, I think), but this does make me wonder if the Ministry of Information is already terrified that he might win.Tags: Obama, Fox News

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Via Hitchens Watch: A nice summary of what they did to sell you this war.

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From the header of the Wikipedia article on "Irony":"Ironic" redirects here. For the song by Alanis Morissette, see Ironic (song).

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"If we increase our support at this crucial moment, and help the Iraqis break the current cycle of violence, we can hasten the day our troops begin coming home."- George W. Bush, January 10, 2007"Cycle of violence"? President Bush thinks a 15 percent increase in troops will "break the cycle of violence" in Baghdad? Has he been to Baltimore lately? It's taking a little longer than we thought to

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1167377666759437302006-12-29T02:24:00.000-05:002006-12-29T02:36:11.003-05:00

I once heard Brian Williams ask (and this was in the heat of the 2000 sillyness) "Where are the wise men?" Heh. Indeed. My answer at the time was: "Concentrate less on the eye makeup and more on the thinking and you might become one..." But that's just plain bitchy, no? Anyway, the question, even if out of context, remains worth asking. So I ask you, how's this for a start? Yes, it's the second

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This did not happen. Ok, it did. What an eff'ed up Christmas event. While it's perfectly evident that James was Not A Nice Man, I don't think I'd want to have existed in a world without this:Also, something we almost embedded yesterday (the fact that it's Atomic TV is totally coincidental - it just happens to be the only YouTube that contains this song - you might want to skip ahead 2.5 minutes

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1167025642740082852006-12-25T00:30:00.000-05:002006-12-25T00:55:04.243-05:00

Something for El Presidente' Jorge Arbusto. No one likes to be left out on Christmas, and this is how we'll always remember you. Garage life lifers....Ray Davies is, along with certain fermentation processes, proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

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I think this article by Pat Lang and Ray McGovern bears repeated reading. Never mind that, as they point out, it's a losing gambit. Instead, consider:Analogies come to mind: the Bulge, Stalingrad, the Battle of Algiers. It will be total war with all the likelihood of excesses and mass casualties that come with total war.To take up such a strategy and force our armed forces into it would be an

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1166122291739905492006-12-14T13:44:00.000-05:002006-12-14T13:51:31.776-05:00

Everyone caught on to Bush's pained candor at his press conference with Tony Blair: "It's bad in Iraq. How's that?"But did you see this one?"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die."He so doesn't want to be there. You can measure the degree to which he isolates himself by the degree to which his features withdraw to the center of his face. Seriously

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1165837891066258252006-12-11T06:45:00.000-05:002006-12-11T06:51:31.113-05:00

Pinochet is dead. Good riddance, you despicable effin' bastard. One of the reasons I sort of tremble at the thought of our side embracing Kissingerian Realism is because I don't want to embrace policy that ends up actively creating "our bastards" such as Pinochet (or Hussein). There has to be a better alternative to Neo-conservatism.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1164864051973371212006-11-30T00:17:00.000-05:002006-11-30T00:30:37.833-05:00

What is victory, or defeat, in Iraq? Why do we care if it's one or the other? No, really. To desire victory always seemed axiomatic, but what would it mean now? What comes after victory? Peace? Another struggle? A different struggle? I doubt we'll see any of those with a "victory."We will have the same struggle. Now that there is a stateless, murderous enemy that fetishizes death, that has no

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1164138610315470142006-11-21T14:38:00.000-05:002006-11-21T14:50:10.356-05:00

Here in New York, they can't even wait for Thanksgiving to release the Christmas virus. I just picked up a sandwich at the deli around the corner, and "Little Drummer Boy" was a-caroling from the speakers. I didn't really notice the song while I was there. But then I got back to the office and noticed that my shoe was untied. And I thought, I have to tie my shoe...pa-rum-pa-pum-pum.Now all my

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1163691629192412402006-11-16T10:38:00.000-05:002006-11-16T12:15:47.023-05:00

Meanwhile, in liberal Los Angeles (video after the jump - keep volume down if viewing at work).Update: Daily Bruin site isn't working now. You can view at Google Video however.

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So I finally saw Borat. Can someone please show me the difference between this movie and the "field reports" that The Daily Show used to do? Comedy Central had the good sense to kill those off, just as they had the good sense to ditch Craig Kilborn.Kilborn and Cohen have a lot in common actually. The content and delivery of their comedy would have been poignant satire in someone else's hands, but

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1163097558719085882006-11-09T13:37:00.000-05:002006-11-09T13:40:41.913-05:00

The experiment is over. And I’m guessing that many Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief. This afternoon’s concessions from Burns and Allen will be the death knell of the blood-spattered juggernaut that started its engine on January 20, 2001, and sped off toward the east on September 12, 2001. It was so absolutist, so…well, there are many ways to describe it: Trotskyite, quixotic, daring

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1163016598631997842006-11-08T15:00:00.000-05:002006-11-08T15:09:58.686-05:00

I was with DaveG on the election commentary - the less noise we made, the better. I was also expecting that the two most, uhm, interesting races - governor and senate - would not be decided until we'd had both a good dose of absentee ballot counting and a few lawsuits. But now we've got this and this, so that's that. For us liberal terrasymps I second both DaveG and disappearingink. For our

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162991176897547412006-11-08T07:43:00.001-05:002006-11-08T08:06:16.900-05:00

I've been meditating on this choice bit of internet lingo. I haven't been posting much lately, partly because I thought that disappearingink was putting things so well - let's hope he's right about the senate race - and partly because I have been convinced since at least August that I couldn't do anything that the Republcans weren't doing all by themselves. But I do think that, while today is

Dave G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07610115871540518305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162970181855671102006-11-08T02:06:00.000-05:002006-11-08T02:16:21.893-05:00

The media is being extraordinarily circumspect about the Senate results, but I want to say what I think they know. The Senate is going to the Democrats, too. Missouri's called, and the counties in Montana that have yet to report are leaning Democratic. The Burns precincts already reported. And Virginia? Webb's up by just a couple thousand; it will likely go to recount. But it sounds like the

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162881200765108182006-11-07T01:13:00.000-05:002006-11-07T01:36:17.620-05:00

No robocalls.An Ohio woman, who did not leave her name, called The Washington Post in tears yesterday, saying she could not keep her phone line open to hospice workers caring for her terminally ill mother because of nonstop political robo-calls.If you are inured to the putrescent, feces-spattering carcass that our electoral pageant has become and think robocalling couldn't be that bad simply

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162274964155435012006-10-30T23:56:00.000-05:002006-10-31T10:35:01.506-05:00

For Halloween, I dug deep into the ancient cobwebbed temples of the first epoch of hypertext. In the mid-1990s, the prescient creators of Snopes.com saw the potential of the Internet to allow ninnies and rogues to misinform the entire world. They quickly set themselves to setting the record straight. (Nonetheless, Americans elected the Bush/Cheney ticket twice.) Back in the days when people

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George Allen put out a press release with a passage from a Jim Webb novel that depicts an adult placing a boy’s penis in his mouth. It’s not a sexual scene, though. Rather, it’s something that Webb says he saw in Bangkok when he was a journalist. Would Allen, with his delicate sensibilities, object to a major newspaper reporting on a baby dying of herpes because a rabbi, practicing a 5,000-

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162125827293762362006-10-29T07:38:00.000-05:002006-10-29T07:43:47.413-05:00

Why do reporters insist on using statistics like this?If the midterm elections were held today, 53 percent of those likely to go to the polls would vote for the Democratic candidate in their Congressional district versus just 39 percent who would vote for the Republican.Why report the results of a national poll for state races? Why would you even ask the question when you can ask, "Are you voting

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1162008942305890522006-10-27T23:12:00.000-05:002006-10-27T23:25:49.153-05:00

A BBC reporter in China finds that a few minutes of broiling makes man-dog relations respectable...and delicious!Andrew Harding visits a Beijing restaurant that specializes in penis: ox, seal, dog, deer, imported Manchurian reindeer, and the ultimate status symbol, the Cristal of the Chinese businessmen set: tiger penis ($5,700). They are draped awkwardly across a huge platter, with a crocodile

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1161368295583618952006-10-20T12:37:00.000-05:002006-10-20T13:25:36.683-05:00

I don't think we need any more reason to ditch Diebold as our computerized voting provider, but there's one more anyway (link via our own Dave G). It doesn't matter if Diebold does or doesn't have nefarious intentions. They can't even secure their own source-code against real world theft, and we already know that making secure boxes is not something they know how to do. As much as I hate to say

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1161043143111945722006-10-16T18:45:00.000-05:002006-10-16T18:59:03.146-05:00

Via Boing Boing, an article about Chinese soldiers casually picking off Tibetan refugees on their way to India. There's a link to video of the shootings if you care to see it.Don't count on the administration to say anything to the Chinese government. We need them for North Korea, and, anyway, it was probably just the work of a few bad apples, right?

disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1160947497101640382006-10-15T15:53:00.000-05:002006-10-15T16:24:57.163-05:00

As we know, early next week it is believed that the population of the United States will surpass the 300 million mark. According to estimates, 1 in 3 persons will be a minority. God bless America George! But watch out, there may be a macaca coming to a bus stop near you.

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My personal response to this is "Qhqr, lbhe zbz".

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In lieu of having anything interesting to say, I present this and this for your amusement.

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For all kinds of reasons this is somewhat nerve-wracking. However, it does contain a mention of Air Force Space Commander Gen. Kevin Chilton. I find this reassuring, if only because I find the idea of us having an Air Force Space Commander - something I didn't know existed until now - reassuring. Tags: China, Satellite Jamming Test

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1160085075055551182006-10-05T16:48:00.000-05:002006-10-05T16:51:15.093-05:00

It's October, it's gray and cold outside and there's a bust-ass, rusty, old ice cream truck driving slowly down my street BLARING the first few measures of Fur Elise. WTF is up with that!

Jkliphousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027501001221610622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1159471753975823482006-09-28T14:23:00.000-05:002006-09-29T11:23:22.886-05:00

At last, the modern Republican Party tries to make good on its claim of being the Party of Lincoln. (Link via Lawyers, Guns and Money)Update: Yes, some Democrats are even bigger schmucks. From now on I will be referring to the President as El Presidente'-Generalisimo Jorge Arbusto.Update II: Also this.Update III: And this. A happy effin' congruence indeed.

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1159375490438690942006-09-27T11:43:00.000-05:002006-09-27T11:44:50.483-05:00

And this particular one says:"Torture doesn't work."

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In case you were still denying the fact that Rumsfeld is at best an idiot and at worst, is possessed of a cruel disregard for the soldiers he commands and is an idiot, here are some generals who want to tell you you're wrong. The most frightening quote came from retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton who called Rumsfeld, "“incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically." He further called for

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Just in case your getting stressed out about the end of the world, remember, it's really not that big a deal. This tiny speck is The Earth as photographed by the European Cassini Probe circling Saturn. It's the farthest image yet taken of our iddy-biddy blue ball.SOL

SuperOceanLadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657333660915800103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1158923699719141452006-09-22T06:06:00.000-05:002006-09-22T22:36:20.373-05:00

I must need reading glasses because every time I read the phrase "today's compromise" in any blogpost or article relating to the detainee treatment legislation, I read it as "Toady's Compromise". And it takes me a while to figure out that I've made a mistake because McCain's name is generally all over the article.Update: So ya'll macho bad boys wanna prove you're tuff enuff to "protect" America?

jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1158808134685007012006-09-20T21:51:00.000-05:002006-09-20T22:12:51.633-05:00

I'm in a seminar at the University of Baltimore called Political Rhetoric where we analyze the rhetoric in everything from speeches to music.One of my projects is to create and maintain a blog for the class. The blog is called Rhetoric: Word. Image. Sound and it's starting to look pretty interesting. There's about 10 people in the class, each posting at least once a week. Most students swing

Jkliphousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12027501001221610622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1158794595222941752006-09-20T18:14:00.001-05:002006-09-20T18:23:15.260-05:00

Some idiocy recently highlighted in the MN elections for 2nd Congressional District (suburbs and cities south of the Twin Cities) between incumbent Kline (R- MN) vs Rowley (the 9/11 whistleblower). Brought to you by the Inside Minnesota Politics podcast/blog: The return of Japanese-bashing! (warning: video clip). What a refreshing break from a-rab bashing. Everyone.... Celebrate.

BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-1158794094047855272006-09-20T18:14:00.000-05:002006-09-20T18:14:54.086-05:00

It was 5 years ago today...

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Maybe it's my radical past attempting a full-scale return to prominence, but this sounds like a suggestion that ussens the masses rise up and toss off the yolk of themens the oppressors due to said oppressors eccentric incompetence. That this is coming from an ex-CIA guy makes it that much more confusing.

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