Your Mileage May Vary
Posted on April 13, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Film, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
The Gray Lady covers a kerfuffle surrounding the Russian film Taras Bulba, adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel.
“Ultranationalist” politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently likes what he sees: “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”
Meanwhile, “The premiere inspired viewers in Krasnodar to [...]
Just For The Funk of It
Posted on February 26, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m a sucker for the Universal Newsreels youtube channel. Always amusing to get my daily dose of propoganda 50+ years ex post facto. So it’s with a smidgen of curmudgeonly delight that I revel in viewing this recitation of the pledge of allegiance in 1941 before the “under God” clause was added1 in 1954. Which [...]
Read More..>>You Got Served
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Music, Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
I feel compelled to post items in the case of Ernie Chambers v God as they continue to trickle through the Omaha World-Herald’s RSS feed. In today’s installment, former Senator Chambers’ response to a judge’s dismissal of the suit on the technicality that God had never been served properly.
A God who is “all-knowing” would realize [...]
Yes We Can Haz Soundboard?
Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Stickin' It To The Man, remixed | Leave a Comment
Dear Internet,
Please make a soundboard of these Obama MP3’s which I found over here via over there.
obama_blam
obama_complicated
obama_fries
obama_ignorant
obama_number
obama_that_guy
UPDATE: And boom goes the proverbial dynamite: http://obamasoundoff.com/
Read More..>>0 subscribers
Posted on January 20, 2009 - Filed Under Politics, Statistics | Leave a Comment
0 subscribers, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe.
Amazingly, 0 subscribers to http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog (according to bloglines, at least)
Read More..>>Choosie Bloggers Choose GIF
Posted on December 16, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Power Rankings | Leave a Comment
What are the post-web 2.0 metrics for measuring the “stickiness” of a news “event”? Perhaps there is nothing better to ask than: How many animated GIFs can a story launch?
Then again, when it comes to animated GIFs, only one can reign supreme:
Stagnance: Addendum
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Race, Religion | Leave a Comment
Further and final note on the sliver of America voting redder than ever:
Half of McCain voters believe Obama is or was Muslim, with 31.7% saying “He used to be Muslim and still has too many connections to Islam.”
(Source)
Stagnance unto Death
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Power Rankings, Race | 1 Comment
A few fascinating data points on the Times’s demographic comparison of counties that went deeper red vs counties that went deeper blue in 2008 vs 2004. (Please click on the Voter Shift Multimedia Graphic for a frame of reference.)
Not surprising that the strip of deeper red is in the white rural south, but a [...]
O! Omaha! Obama!
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Caffeine, Politics | Leave a Comment
This is me celebrating the Nebraska electoral vote for Obama in my official “Big O!” Omaha mug.
(Peet’s Darjeeling for those scoring at home)
Read More..>>Update in the Global War on Terror
Posted on October 22, 2008 - Filed Under Crime, Knee Jerk Reactions, Politics, Power Rankings, Tempests In Teacups | Leave a Comment
This week the US has abandoned its pursuit of criminal charges against eleven Gitmo detainees despite “plenty of evidence to convict all of them” because of the Bush Administration’s pig-headed efforts to abandon all appearances of deference to the rule of law. That is, because “there were systemic problems with the fairness of the [...]
Read More..>>the only person who can claim she has worked regularly with both Chuck D and Pat Buchanan
Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Stickin' It To The Man, Television | Leave a Comment
We had set our alarm to Air America’s first drive-time talk show, Morning Sedition, in part out of obligation to a friend who produced it, but, in time, because it was a very funny show that allowed us to share the wrath as the 2004 elections approached.
We were more than a little upset [...]
Fox News–Something Fishy is Going On…
Posted on September 15, 2008 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Pain, Perception, Politics | Leave a Comment
I wouldn’t call it a guilty pleasure–I generally wince in pain at the bloviating ad hominems–but on occasion I will check in on Fox News to see just what garbage they’re spewing these days. Last night was one such occasion.
What I noticed caught me a bit off-guard. There was a story on the [...]
Yes, so I’m reading Zinn now
Posted on July 3, 2008 - Filed Under Now Reading, Politics | Leave a Comment
So said a lanky junior Illinois congressman about the war not started on his watch:
The declaration that we have always opposed the war, is true or false accordingly as one may understand the term ” opposing the war.” If to say ” the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President,” be opposing the [...]
Next stop, Gay Marriage
Posted on June 13, 2008 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, Politics | Leave a Comment
The nomination of Justice Roberts to the Supreme Court is the only respectable exercise of executive power this millenium that comes to my mind this Friday morning. An unapologetic right-winger, perhaps, but an intelligent, thoughtful man who genuinely believes in upholding the rule of law.
I stood by him in the nomination process [...]
Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Politics, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Anyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV [...]
Read More..>>Joe Posnanski talks politics….
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Drinking, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
in an Andy Rooney kind of way1 (after reminiscing about Ambiorix Burgos, and pondering Gil Meche’s place in this crazy, mixed up world):
You know who has a lot of friends? John McCain. Have you noticed that? And no, I’m not talking about any of the recent talk. I’m saying that everywhere he goes, he keeps [...]
john.he.is
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under Music, Politics | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
Read More..>>Peter, Paul
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Diversions, Money, Politics, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
Penny Wise
Dollar Dumb
election
Posted on January 20, 2008 - Filed Under Movies, Politics | Leave a Comment
{via LawGeek}
Read More..>>It’s Ok to Get Angry
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Race | Leave a Comment
The luxury of living in a deeply blue state whose primaries are held on Super Tuesday is that I can easily moderate the intake of political news and am left blissfully unaware of the product of Mitt’s obscene spending. The downside is that, where the inundated masses in New Hampshire can be forced into [...]
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