Objectivist Whiner Polishes Turd

A first-rate adolescent thinker.

Aragorn, Heir of Isildur, would never let himself be forced to use a compact fluorescent.

Updated:
At the next Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator Equality 7-2521 reveals how badly he wants to fuck Senator Liberty 5-3000.

Open the Overton Window* (because it smells like old people in here)

*Overton Window
All beautifully orchestrated by a bunch of mendacious ratbastards.

Really Screwed

Obama and the Democrats have lost badly in this budget showdown, yet they'll insist on calling it a historic victory over the fake deficit crisis.

Because the Democrats are completely unable to fight for the idea of increasing revenue (as opposed to spending cuts), they just took 78.5 billion* out of an already struggling economy.

I fear that every budget battle moving forward will be waged—and lost—in this way. For now, the Republicans are only interested in tanking the economy to win back the White House in 2012.

It's....that....simple.

*Obama's original budget proposal.

Updated:
David Weigel

Oh Waukesha, Waukesha!

It's kind of funny that the place of my birth—nearly 53 years ago to the day—would figure prominently in a possible vote fraud scandal involving Wisconsin's Scott Walker Republicans.

April, 1958.

Butt-Hurt(ing) continues

Madison DFHs have altered his reality.

This is not really a cause for celebration on the left—the corporate conservatives are playing a long game and we are running low on Gatorade.

Updated:
Sniff and sniff...

Fail

Also...what is up with phasing out Medicare?
A voucher system—because the invisible hand loves to hold old people underwater—with their bellies full of Fancy Feast.

Come on! Can we get upset about this now?

Undemocratic Monsters

David Barton

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Fucking creepy.

Make no mistake—teabaggers + religious right = GOP

The Tea Party was always, and only, a corporation/billionaire funded rebranding effort for the GOP—a clever way to gull people into thinking that George Bush's GOP is somehow different from John Boehner's. It worked and the media made it happen.

UPDATED:
The Black Robe Regiment's graphic designer must be well versed in brand equity.

"Don't Bone Me"

Sterling Hayden in John Huston's Asphalt Jungle.

One of my favorite films—a well-crafted mix of human foibles, strengths and sad outcomes—bleak and wonderful.

Kinetic War Pigs

Good 90's cover of War Pigs.
In 1990-91 I shredded my Faith No More cassette.

ALSO...

Work-Life Soundtrack—play both really loud.


UPDATED:
A friend at work HATES the second song, Epic.

Grifting Excitement

Do you feel it?

• Record profits
• Pay no taxes
• Demand concessions from workers (to increase future profits)
• Fuck you! 

Also, too.

High Functioning Retards or Objectivists Collectively Market Shitty Ideas

This is my favorite.


Context:

Too much text in the previous post...I like my blog to be purty.

Good monsters.

Compendium of Privledged, Lying, Right-Wing Monsters

They will drag the entire 2012 presidential campaign to the right. 

• Michele Bachmann: Fact-challenged kook.
• Haley Barbour: Fat cat civil rights revisionist.
• John Bolton: Mustachioed menace.
• Herman Cain: African-American. Enough said.
• Mitch Daniels: Cheese-eating surrender monkey.
• Newt Gingrich: Unlikeable, amoral flip-flopper.
• Mike Huckabee: Culture-warring colonialist.
• John Huntsman: Obama's favorite Mormon.
• Fred Karger: Openly gay. Enough said.
• Sarah Palin™: Jew for Jesus. ;)
• Dr. Ron Paul or Dr. Rand Paul*: The gold standard of crazy.
• Tim Pawlenty: Action movie zero.
• Mitt Romney: Unnuanced pander bear.
• Rick Santorum: Google him.
• Donald Trump: Megalomaniacal birther.

 From Daily Kos

It may guarantee that a non-crazy Democrat wins in 2012, but sadly a Democrat who would have been considered a moderate Republican a mere decade ago.

Republican politics is a reality television show.

Reality television frequently portrays a modified and highly influenced form of reality, utilizing sensationalism to attract viewers and to generate advertising profits. Participants are often placed in exotic locations or abnormal situations, and are sometimes coached to act in specific scripted ways by off-screen "story editors" or "segment producers," with the portrayal of events and speech manipulated and contrived to create an illusion of reality through editing and other post-production techniques

From here.

No Fun

"...maybe call Mom on the telephone..."

Genius.

Butt-Hurt

That's all.

Well...there's this.
Also Krugman.

1977

This band (and this song) takes the wrongheaded to new heights, but in 1977 they blasted away my midwestern boredom.

To this day, there's still something moving about the futility of the Sex Pistols—a headlong race to an existential nadir—shattering the facade of both commercial and political culture by creating one that was empty and soulless (which makes you realize you have one).

Take all the commercialized artifice of The Monkees, turn it upside down—then punch it in the face.

Also.

It was cold

I went out last evening to try and catch a shot of the "Super Moon." I should have used my telephoto ("but it's supposed to be huge"), and I should have used a filter to reduce the glare, a tripod would have helped. I'm a lazy photographer.
Lastly, I thought I had the perfect spot until the lights started to go on in the McMansions across the meadow.

I'm torn between the experience and the record—one gets in the way of the other. But, it was nice to slow my brain down as I waited—watch the sky dim and listen to the birds transition from day to night.

Wave of Mutilation

For the record, Frank Black states that this song has nothing to do with tsunamis or air strikes in Libya.

Office Supplies

That's funny, just this week I bought a dry-erase board for my job—I don't think it stands a chance against the Power Point guy upstairs.