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The ultimate in Asshat Thunderdome

Fetch my Axe  Jul 25 09

is David Frum, Bay Buchanan and Ann Coulter bickering over Sarah Palin. It's compelling like the shower of maggots scene in whatever horror movie I've mostly blocked from my brain that was.

GET! OFF!! MY! PHONE!!!!!

Fetch my Axe  Jul 22 09

Glenn "Ask Me About My Crawlspace" Beck's latest meltdown doesn't exactly help to inspire...confidence.

Damn. Does it -hurt?-

Fetch my Axe  Jul 20 09

I never really took the time before to read Pamela Whosis of Atlas Shrugs before, I don't think. Not sure how much influence she has these days, or if she ever even really was more than a novelty act; after all, there's -so much- competition among the foaming classes.

113 year old WWI vet (world's current oldest man) just died

Fetch my Axe  Jul 18 09

In Britain.Apparently quite lucid and passionate about peace up to the very end. I'm always fascinated by stories like this; these are the real time travelers, you know? He lived in three centuries; he was around when airplanes were first being invented and cars were just starting to edge out the horse and buggy.

Good old Uncle P[F]a[scis]t

Fetch my Axe  Jul 17 09

So Rachel Maddow, bless her, allowed Pat Buchanan to display some of his true white starched colors on her show.

Mommy, make the stupid STOP now, please.

Fetch my Axe  Jul 15 09

I can't even watch:Is this a great country, or what? Even though Alabama's Jeff Sessions was blocked from a federal judgeship because of kooky statements about the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan, he could still go on to become a U.

Right wing populism v left wing populism, as expressed through musicals.

Fetch my Axe  Jul 08 09

Both expressions of powerful energy...the question is, for whose benefit, and how do you channel it?And, which scares you more?Which attracts you more?** **Yeah, for people reading this blog, pretty rhetorical question.

Personally, no, I honestly don't think that's it.

Fetch my Axe  Jul 06 09

Over at the Moderate Voice, speculation--far from the first I've seen along these lines-- that Palin's appeal is her "regular folks"-ness.

Happy fucking Pride, eh?

Fetch my Axe  Jul 01 09

40 years, people. And:Some cops in Forth worth decided to celebrate Pride weekend with a good old fashioned gay bar raid.

I also want to apologize.

Fetch my Axe  Jun 30 09

brownfemipower is right. And I was already thinking similar things wrt the "swarming" business even as I went along with shit I knew I really didn't know enough about the on the ground situation (which is what matters here, -right?-) to speak to.

Quote of the day, 6/30/09

Fetch my Axe  Jun 30 09

“We begin to confront the thingness of objects when they stop working for us: when the drill breaks, when the car stalls, when the windows get filthy, when their flow within the circuits of production and distribution, consumption and exhibition, has been arrested, however momentarily.

Happy Pride, yo.

Fetch my Axe  Jun 28 09

I shall probably be celebrating by doing late papers, slouching about & popping Rolaids, but y'all don't worry about me, I'll just sit here in the dark.

Hey. Here's a wacky notion about "public health care:"

Fetch my Axe  Jun 21 09

If you're a government official and against "public health care?" As in, the government paying for the public's health care? Then go off the fucking grid and stop accepting our tax money for YOUR health care, you miserable son of a bitch.

Slice o' life on wry

Fetch my Axe  Jun 15 09

So, after having eaten at the little table, I go to pay for my sammich at the deli. Counterman who made said sammich rings me up.

Paging Tippi Hedren

Fetch my Axe  Jun 12 09

Aggro bird dive bombs pedestrians, smacks 'em in the head.

"When I say I want to talk about you, I don't mean I'm actually INTERESTED in what YOU have to say for yourself," part infinity-fo

Fetch my Axe  Jun 11 09

This edition, a slight twist on other versions of this wank, at least for this blog: a feminist who has decided that not only is sex a -positive- thing, it's positively -mandatory.

Memes that need to be killed with fire (first of a possible ongoing series):

Fetch my Axe  Jun 09 09

Today, (probably not saying this for the first time or the last here), as per thejadedhippy's example (Rainn Wilson in this case, I guess):"O hai! I seem to have offended some people! Oh, look, lots and lots of people, now! All kinds of people! Many of them in groups considered marginalized! Some so marginalized I heretofore barely even tweaked their existence, except as a punchline! People

Donate to Trans Women Homesteaders

Fetch my Axe  Jun 07 09

Lost home due to foreclosure (o brave new economy), starting new life on substistence farm. send money and/or leftover seed packets from your garden:Alyssa and Crystal C.

Harold Bloom IS my sister!

Fetch my Axe  Jun 04 09

From everything I've read, from the anecdotes that I've heard, from the dreams I've had, from the messages I've had from my fillings, Harold Bloom is an intellectual who cares deeply about maintaining standards.

Someone please call CPS on Rob Williams and Arnie State.

Fetch my Axe  Jun 04 09

Tried several times to sufficiently convey my revulsion for these people in the headline and failed, sorryBasically, these shitbag radio talk show hosts--what, redundant, you say? No, wait: really, here's a lower place: Even by the flexible moral, ethical, and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.

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