November 2010
October 2010
“Today’s American military has all the tools it needs to fight Iran, and there isn’t going to be any sort of buildup. Hasn’t Broder been reading his own newspaper? The Pentagon is looking to find billions in cuts as it confronts the coming world of budget austerity.”
—Man, David Broder sucks so hard.
“The arena is typically jammed with middle-aged fans, who have donned après-office relaxed-sized jeans, paid the sitter, parked the mini-van in the lot, and, for a few hundred dollars a seat, shimmy along with Mick Jagger, who, having trained for the tours as if for a championship bout, prances inexhaustibly through a two-hour set, at his best evoking the spawn of James Brown and Gumby, at his worst coming off like someone’s liquored-up Aunt Gert, determined to trash her prettier sister’s wedding with a gruesome performance on the dance floor.”
—That’s one hell of a sentence, Remnick.
And 47 Years After Dr. King, Viacom Marched On Washington
“When without cause a demon lodges in a person’s home—this is the Demon of
Abandoned Places. Take earth from an old abandoned place, and make
imitation people and dogs with it. Set them on the outside wall, and
encircle the home. When the demon comes, scatter ashes, strike a winnowing basket, and screech at it. Then it stops.” —
Abandoned Places. Take earth from an old abandoned place, and make
imitation people and dogs with it. Set them on the outside wall, and
encircle the home. When the demon comes, scatter ashes, strike a winnowing basket, and screech at it. Then it stops.” —
Dear Tony Perkins: You Are a Terrible, Ignorant Human Who Will Hopefully Die Loveless and Alone →
blogs.villagevoice.com
I hope you die alone and miserable. Not because any good will come of it either. Just because you make me angry. You make things worse. You probably deserve worse than that, but it’s the most benevolent recourse I can think of without letting you evoke any more hatred or anger or sadness than you already have.
And, per his friend Bryan Fischer, you could add “and diseased.”
“The day that we saw a spike in the polls was a day that some people had a prayer meeting for me that morning for this campaign so I believe that prayer plays a direct role in this campaign and I always ask please pray for the campaign; please pray for our staff; please pray specifically that the eyes of the voters be opened.”
—God hates Chris Coons.
“There are more African Americans under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.”
—Land that I love, etc.
“Rather than hiring writers and building out various verticals that are then federated into a business, The Awl is finding specific writers it likes and then going into partnership with them…and The Hairpin’s partner will be Edith Zimmerman, most recently of New York magazine’s Vulture blog.”
—Hot damn.
“Coe calls it “Jesus plus nothing” -– not the church, not history, not even morality.”
—
“How Fundamentalist C-Street Center is Shaping the Mid-Term Elections”
j+0.
Dance 1
Philip Glass
Taking my coffee with two cups of Glass.
“Actor Randy Quaid told Canada’s immigration board Friday that he and his wife are seeking asylum from “the murderers of Hollywood” and will therefore apply for refugee status in Canada, after they were arrested on U.S. warrants related to vandalism charges.”
—Yowza.
“I suppose this means that in about ten years, Rothfus will be the kind of Republican liberals point to as a respected elder statesman, because he only favors defunding the Supreme Court in response to unfavorable decisions rather than having the justices publicly flogged.”
—New normal.
