Steve Owen Would Be Proud

Go Eli.
After Hostetler, after Dave Brown -Dave fucking Brown for chrissakes!- after Kannel, it's so nice to actually see my beloved New York Football Giants replace one decent quaterback with an even better one.

The Immutable Genius of Powerline

Boy, those Powerline guys sure know how to rip into someone...they use all kinds of logic and thinking and stuff. It must be their legal training...or perhaps they're just heady from all the top-quality industrial grade bullshit they've fueling themselves with for the last five years.

Witness the fitness:

Stockholm Syndrome

What is it with liberals who leave the country and immediately start to encourage anti-American sentiment abroad?

Yeah, really! Because, as I'm sure Mr. H can tell you, liberals never ever do that sort of thing in-country.

This time it's Al Gore, who talked to reporters in Sweden. The news headlines are about Gore vowing that he isn't running for President, but here's the rest of what he said:
When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.
"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."
"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country.

Damn him! Damn him to Hell!

"Routinely torturing people"--is that enemy propaganda, or the official position of the Democratic Party? Is there still a difference?

"Enemy propaganda" Indeed.
And, no John, there isn't a difference. We are your enemy. Hey, stop laughing, John! Really, I mean it!

If we're routinely torturing people, then why do those who get caught go to jail?

Best defense of torture ever. Hey, we can't be routinely torturing prisoners if the people we catch routinely torturing prisoners go to jail! It must be true because I'm a lawyer! And a conservative! Clocks are big! Machines are heavy!

And don't Gore and other liberals who travel abroad realize how much they are damaging the United States by recycling this nonsense?

Testify!

Wait, did he mean the nonsense that we routinely torture our enemies, or the nonsense that we can't be routinely torturing our enemies because whenever we catch someone toruring our enemies, they go to jail?

For the rest, it's the usual parallel universe of the Democratic Party.

Yes, the parallel universe where routine torture isn't routine when the people who routinely torture our enemies are routinely sent to jail. The parallel universe where water is actually wet, up is not down, and non-brain damaged people routinely point and laugh at clowns like J. Hinderaker.

The administration is trying to "control and intimidate the news media." Sure, we've all seen how intimidated the media are. That's why they never say anything critical of the administration.

Never.
And I know because I'm a lawyer! And a conservative!

It would be more accurate to say that the media have tried to control and intimidate the Bush administration.

Through the sinister agency of operatives like Jeff Gannon.


And I like the one about "taking money from working families and giving it to the most wealthy families."

Because I'm a lawyer! And a conservative!


Sure, I remember the surtax Congress imposed to support the rich. Just once, I'd like to see a reporter ask Gore or some other liberal what in the world he's talking about when he makes that kind of statement. (You'd think the press would do it, too, since they're so intimidated by President Bush.)

Oh flippancy, thy name is Powerline! Gee, I guess because Congress didn't specifically impose a surtax to support the rich, the whole idea that the republicans are taking money from working families and giving it to the most wealthy is nonsense.
And John? Perhaps he's talking about this. Or this. Or maybe this.


Actually, though, Al Gore is one of the few rich Americans who really is supported by taxes paid by working families, since he receives a federal pension for his service in the Senate and as Vice-President. If he really means what he says, all he has to do is refund his pension to the federal treasury. What do you think the chances are he's doing that?

Yeah, sure, like there's a member of congress that recieves a salary paid for by working families and isn't a millionaire. One of the few, indeed.


Powerline: Lying cocksmokers whose stock in trade is the stupidity of their readers.

Post-Modernism is Not Dead

Hoo-boy! Just when I'm starting to think that post-modernism is dead, along comes the LGF gang...Is meta-irony a word? Because irony by itself isn't strong enough to describe a bunch of people who chortle in grim derision at the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslims in a natural disaster, then decry (presumably with a straight face) someone calling for the deaths of four people who orchestrated a war. Wait, did I say "irony"? I think I meant "cognitive dissonance".

*Update - Total hilarity in the comments, starting (if I may say so myself) at #206. Beagle is my favourite

Fuckin' Yankees...

You know, I never liked Mussina.

Now, Clemons, he I like.

Holy Shit!

Someone actually likes me! Someone cool, no less!

LGF Watch. They rule. Indispensable. And I would have said that even if they didn't call my comment the Quote of the Week.

The quote was at HitchensWatch, which is also awesome. I loved the stuff Hitchens did on Kissinger. Not so keen on his pro-war, pro-Bush bullshit. On the plus side, Hitchens, like the LGFers, doesn't even try to hide the more comical aspects of his nature.

F1 Television Broadcasts Are Weak-Ass Bullshit

Who the holy fuck is in charge of Formula One television coverage? Have these idiots ever even seen any kind of actual television coverage of a professional sporting event? As a long-time fan of F1, I've had to suffer through the total lack of communication between the commentators and whoever is allegedly directing the coverage for years, and I don't mind telling you, it's starting to really piss me off. Every single race, I have to listen to Martin Brundle utter some variation of "We're watching the front-runners, but the real action is going in the middle of the pack", or "I'd like to see a replay of that last accident/pass/shunt/pitstop, but the directors obviously have other ideas". Have these fucking morons ever heard of linking up the commentary booth with the directors booth? They introduced a whole slew of rule changes this season and last, with the intention of making F1 more competitive, and thus more compelling to the viewer, but did they ever think of maybe making the telecasts more cohesive, less, I don't know...retarded? Obviously, they're airing the races in several countries simultaneously, with native-language commentators for each nation, but is there really any reason why each major broadcast can't have customized or semi-customized footage? Perhaps whoever is going to take up the challenge of hipping Ecclestone and Mosley to wonderful world of 21st century television production ("No, really guys, they can speak into this thing called a "microphone" up in the booth, and the director can actually hear what they're saying down in the production facilities!") could also introduce these fucking dimwits to a goddamn computer.

I'm not holding my breath, however.

Wow, It's Still Here!

Yeah, so this blog still exists...which means, I suppose, that I ought to, um, post more stuff here. Which I will. I actually do have tons of stuff I'd like to blog about...some of which might even be almost sort of semi-original. Mostly, though, I think I'll be linking to other, more, shall we say, accomplished blogs. Right after I take my kids to the playground. Priorities, don't you know.

Oh, and even though I live in Oz, I shan't be posting much of anything about Aussie politics, mostly because I'm only a Permanent Resident, and thus am ineligible to vote, but also because I really couldn't care less. Any country that has a queen (or king) as its official head of state automatically forfeits the right to be taken seriously as far as I'm concerned.