Smellin' Like A Felon
I swear to God, whoever taught Glenn Reynolds words beyond "heh" and "indeed" should be tried for crimes against those of us with functional brains.
Pandagon
Cheap people porn
Am I the only one who finds it odd that Salon is running a piece in their "Pinched" series about planting a garden to save money? If you don't find it odd, you either aren't a gardener of any sort (yet), or you live south of the Equator, because the glaring problem with planting a garden now is that it's fall. I got over my annoyance, though, because it's a well-written little piece that I wished I'd thought of and pitched myself, and really does get to the heart of why gardening is a great hobby for people who are otherwise completely caught up in their modern ways and surrounded by air conditioning and electronics, like myself.
This bigot wanted to own it - Obama and a noose
“The Fucking Solution and “Asphyxiation: a breathless experience.”
It was accompanied by equally heinous text, but I didn't get a screenshot of this call for violence before the racist human garbage proprietor of Political Byline took it down. UPDATE: Glory be -- the entire post is preserved up here at Washington Scandal. Read and weep.
BTW, it's clearly not because he's sorry:
I never, ever wished any harm come to Obama, at all. I was simply making a point and doing exactly what the left is doing to Sarah Palin. That is all, nothing more to see, move along…
In fact, he's actually angry that his crosspost at Say Anything was taken down (calling the moderator a coward, that's rich). Look at this - he's calling this election a war:
We’re at war folks, and I intend to fight this war until my dying breath. We’re at war against terrorists that want to destroy this country and everything it stands for and we are war against godless liberals who hate the very values and freedoms that this Nation was founded upon.I will not submit to a “Political Correct” fascist agenda, which wishes to restrict my freedoms.
You have been warned.
And as for his fellow conservatives, they are simply wimps.
I will not be intimidated by Communist liberals nor Crybaby “politically correct” so-called Conservatives.
This is the America that John McCain and Sarah Palin has unleashed. When will they own it?
The state of the blogosphere conservatives has obviously tossed into disarray; the co-founder of Red State, Joshua Trevino, just blogged that he couldn't bring himself to vote for McCain at this point (he wrote in Bobby Jindal).
Maryscott O'Connor has more.
And below the fold, a Pennsylvania bigot who also wanted to own it -- until the MSM cameras were on him.. Take a look at this footage by Keystoneprogress.org of the idiot with the monkey doll that I posted about yesterday. Here he's having a grand old time outside the Palin rally.
Waving the monkey doll with the Obama sticker around its head he says "This is little Hussein; little Hussein will deceive truth and good Americans." (laughs with gusto). He then waves and taunts protestors at the Johnstown, PA Palin rally with the monkey.
Later, this bigot wasn't nearly as boastful when he noticed that the MSM was videotaping him, then he took the sticker off. Too late, you SOB.
You know, the question I have is what are these people going to do if Obama wins? That scares me.
H/t Fritz, who found some additional knee-slappers from the Base.
The performance artist gets a Harley
Man, that guy who masquerades as a Republican to make them look stupid is certainly dedicated. (Hat tip.)
McCain's boast about upcoming debate w/Obama: he will 'whip his you know what'
Ah, the class of John McCain. Will Gramps chase Barack Obama off of his lawn as well? The mixed messages coming out of this failing campaign are maddening.
Reduction Ad Concussio
I'm sure we're all familiar with the logical fallacy reductio ad absurdum, wherein a position from which an absurd outcome can be derived is rendered invalid because it led to an absurd conclusion. Hollywood conservatives have now invented reductio ad concussio, wherein any commentary on conservatives in Hollywood which sounds like a criticism of actual oppressed minorities therefore makes Hollywood an oppressor of conservatives. Case in point is Andrew Klavan's piece in the Washington Post today, wherein the multiple-time screenwriter complains about how the industry that's gainfully employed him for over two decades oppresses people like him. It's like slavery, except that you set your hours, can quit any time you so desire, and is in no way oppressive or restrictive in any way, shape or form that would so impact a burgeoning member of the film and television industry.
Why not a Springsteen populism?
So I'm scrolling through a backlog of Coverville podcasts and I see that he did a Bruce Springsteen show, and I shot right to it. Because I have a soft spot for the Boss, and I'm fascinated by indie musicians who share it and are going to try like hell to get his reputation revived in the same way that old country-western has been revived. The most effective shot of this was definitely Bonnie Prince Billy and Tortoise covering "Thunder Road". But I'm skeptical that it's ever going to take. Springsteen mines the same territory as country-western musicians---valorizing the lives of the most ordinary people---but it's way more uncomfortable because there's not a thick layer of nostalgia to give the listener distance. The characters in Springsteen songs are people you know, and if you're an insufferable music snob, odds are they're the very people that you've spent most of your life trying not to be. It's painful to listen to a lot of the time, because it's just depressing to hear the small dreams and little frustrations that are just too close to home. But honestly, that's what appeals to me about Springsteen. He's successful as a social realist, and as bonus, his music really means a lot to the very people he writes about. You can imagine the characters in songs like "Atlantic City" or "The River" dipping into their savings to go to a Springsteen show, and making a night of it, taking a little break from the lives of quiet desperation.*
Devastation Has Been Visited Upon Us
In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jack Kelly reveals the secret link between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama - their Fleisch-Kincaid reading levels:
The Wachovia Center Tried To Kill Sarah Palin's Family
Last night, Sarah Palin was resoundingly booed at the Wachovia Center before the Flyers game. Over the past week, several members of McCain/Palin audiences have declared that various people are terrorists, traitors and deserve death.