Poor Rick Perry. The Republican masses have found him guilty of having a heart! He wants to help kids even if their parents aren’t Americans! Rick, are you sure you ain’t talking with a lisp? Cause you sound like a damn homo to me. Well, to prove that his heart is true—and cold as ice—Rick…
Totally not the New Yorker
This week’s cartoon is submitted by Ben, that bike-ridin’ fool from Harrisburg, PA. Ben “explains” that this is a surrealistic cartoon. Well, being literary tends to make one literal, so I assumed that that object in the foreground is a foot, belonging to someone who I’ll also assume is a guy and the dog’s owner….
A racial slur corrected
A couple of days ago I chastised Wall Street for, among other things, giving President Obama a hard time because he “hasn’t been publicly thanking them 5 times a day for the privilege of kissing their fat white asses 10 times a day.” Well, I now stand corrected. Robert Johnson, founder of BET, has furiously…
Murder most foul: Obama hath murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and America’s conscience
The more I read about America’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki, the more depressed I get. Obama appears to be very proud of his murder—a murder of his very own, so to speak, since it was the Obama Administration that added Anwar to Uncle Sam’s hit list. Also killed were Samir Khan, a…
Ya gotta have friends, or at least one friend
Add New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to the list of Republican candidates and non-candidates who assert that we must not “turn our back on the world.” Republicans insist that the U.S. must be engaged continuously in some manner of good works all around the globe—which mostly but not entirely means either killing people or selling…
Rick Perry, ahead of his time
Poor Rick Perry! When he busted into American consciousness as a bona-fide candidate for the Republican nomination, he had a killer rap: “I’m Rick Perry, bitch! I hang more men before breakfast than y’all do all day!” Rick’s no apologies, what you see is what you get image, of which he is obviously very proud,…
Shakespeare yes, anatomy not so much
The NYT has a review by Dwight Garner of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which is probably better than its title. Greenblatt’s book tells the story of Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, who found a manuscript copy of De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), the Epicurean epic of the Roman…
The Wall Street Bourbons—still disgusting after all these years
In a little piece on the Billionaire Boy’s Club that keeps pushing the vaporware candidacy of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the New York Times gives a glimpse into the mindset of the Wall Street princes: they’re pissed at the President! Why? Well, it’s all because of “Mr. Obama’s fiscal profligacy and harsh attacks on…
VSOP II—Well, You Needn’t 1983
Herbie Hancock – Piano, Ron Carter – Bass, Tony Williams – Drums, Wynton Marsalis -Trumpet, Branford Marsalis – Saxophone It doesn’t get much better than this. Because it can’t. Posted by “leatherlips.”
So you think you’re a sociologist!
These are the faces of big-time college sports in America—black players and white cheerleaders. Everybody sees it, nobody mentions it. What are the socio-erotic implications for the American mind? You make the call! Afterwords The hypocrisy level here is almost equal to that of the perennial “controversy” over whether college athletes should be paid.* Kids…