tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56415162011-04-21T13:43:25.774-06:00kaisercrackpicture me giving a damn...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1097809772268919932004-11-07T19:49:00.000-07:002004-11-07T20:39:45.866-07:00Fade Out
Look at me, I'm such a liar! It seems I previously said (months ago) that I'd be back blogging regularly and "with a vengeance". That's not going to happen. Attribute it to a wistful mix of me being too busy and just not all that inspired to blog anymore. Although I think I get some originality points for style and viewpoint, the fact is there are bloggers out there who do it richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1092797159642185562004-08-17T20:24:00.000-06:002004-08-17T20:45:59.643-06:00a two-week sojourn and then some!
just a shout-out to you half-dozen faithful who take a gander at my little page every now and then: i'm alive, safe 'n sound, and back in one piece in my beloved denver, colorado. i had a lovelylovely vacation- which i might tell y'all about later at some point- but work and my personal life has been bordering on crazyinsanebusy as of late. so i'm still on an richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090874275977081712004-07-27T00:11:00.000-06:002004-07-27T00:13:30.733-06:00alright, i'm off to Brussels for a two-week sojourn or, as i like to call it, an extended actionpacked whirlwind drinking-bout across the pond. Where the fancy (and not so fancy) booze will be constantly flowing, skirmishes with Eurothugs and preening America-haters will be inevitable (and, hopefully, exhilarating and life-affirming!) and blogging from me will more than likely be light.
Y'all richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090898965414987952004-07-26T21:22:00.000-06:002004-07-26T22:01:50.953-06:00ah, geez...do i have to link to this? why yes, yes i do. only because i care.
via dave barryrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090873693800793422004-07-26T14:14:00.000-06:002004-07-26T14:32:13.856-06:00True liberals are fighting a multi-fronted war: against those smarmy reflexive America-bashers within the U.S. and their numerous allies across the planet, against insane Fascists who strive for nothing less than the utter destruction of the United States, and against those who envision a sort of theocracy within our own country- the religious right who want to shove their reactionary agenda downrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090871715438660462004-07-26T13:42:00.000-06:002004-07-26T13:55:15.436-06:00and Sullivan responds with a one-two punch...
the problem with most of his critics, both from the "left" and from the "right", is that they're the true one-issue blowhards who succumb to inflexibility and myopia and who start to bluster when they encounter someone who does not view the whole Bush-Kerry matchup as an easy black and white decision. I'll continue to maintain that, despite his manyrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090830600854499622004-07-26T00:27:00.000-06:002004-07-26T02:45:30.443-06:00there's been much sneering at andrew sullivan's apparent endorsement of john kerry in The Sunday Times; some of it is warranted but much of it is mere hyperventilating. First of all, i'm not so sure Sullivan has actually endorsed FrankenKerry. The closest he comes is stating, at the end of his piece, that he is "moving slowly and reluctantly toward the notion that Kerry may be the right man." richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090823012017837022004-07-26T00:13:00.000-06:002004-07-26T00:24:53.510-06:00anti-drug vaccines?
commonsense & wonder points us to this eyebrow-raiser, another example of "heart in the right place but, seemingly, head is up the ass". and it kinda creeps me out...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090716067787128922004-07-24T18:36:00.000-06:002004-07-24T18:44:08.236-06:00ahhhhh, Mr. Peebles! Look at him!
h/t jay redingrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090706616651575092004-07-24T15:56:00.000-06:002004-07-24T18:45:36.970-06:00Because they know Nazi-esque propaganda filth when they see it. Much more than the screechy, fawning and historically pampered and tunnel-visioned pseudointellects of this country...
via sullyrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090474715324452992004-07-21T23:34:00.000-06:002004-07-21T23:38:35.323-06:00Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090473141153777112004-07-21T22:41:00.000-06:002004-07-21T23:19:05.196-06:00wow, no shit?
right now, on cnn's homepage, right under "more news", we get this headline- Experts: Beheadings pervert laws. When one opens that link the headline in the new page is altered a bit to "...pervert legitimate law".
Goddamn, thank the lord we have experts to clear up the muddy waters when it comes to the legality of kidnapping innocent people and sawing their heads off on videotaperichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090388291110583692004-07-20T23:28:00.000-06:002004-07-21T00:29:20.533-06:00Hot Pockets
Some rather incriminating apparel of Sandy Berger's on display over at Who Knew?...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090305331873081582004-07-20T00:25:00.000-06:002004-07-20T01:29:24.220-06:00so next week i take a much deserved, and highly anticipated, vacation. a little two week Eurobreak. i'll be hangin out in Brussels mostly, with possible excursions into northern germany, amsterdam, london, and prague, among other places. but i ain't going to no France! why would i want to cavort with a buncha pretentious, smelly greenslipperyskinned antiamerican jew-haters?!
just kidding. richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090303028795877062004-07-19T23:49:00.000-06:002004-07-20T00:06:04.033-06:00people who use the phrase "me thinks" tend to annoy the bejesus out of me. not nearly as bad as those who use the adjective "delicious" for anything other than describing food or beverages. but it does make me wince. then why in the hell do i use it?!
that's easy. it's cuz i gots The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop. i really, really do...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090300449016331632004-07-19T23:00:00.000-06:002004-07-19T23:24:38.826-06:00she never rocked. ok, maybe at one time she did, back when i was playing with Tonka Trucks and peelin' out in my Big Wheel, but i don't quite remember. and i kinda doubt it.
Desperado for attention, me thinks...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090298835449709872004-07-19T22:45:00.000-06:002004-07-19T22:51:56.550-06:00uh oh.
i'm gonna relish seeing how this one is explained away...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090298201147594822004-07-19T22:12:00.000-06:002004-07-19T22:50:12.530-06:00"dropping mad scientifics"
seems like most people are aware that Dick "PottyMouth" Cheney told Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself", but, kids, do you know what came after? well...it sounds like they both "brung" it! Paul Simms of The New Yorker has the goods.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090284566416587532004-07-19T18:45:00.000-06:002004-07-19T18:49:26.416-06:00there's absolutely no doubt she rocks...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1090222134709032052004-07-19T01:07:00.000-06:002004-07-19T19:21:50.043-06:00there's a damn good chance that this will rock.
h/t neoliberalrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089929809655982232004-07-15T15:55:00.000-06:002004-07-17T04:11:43.693-06:00Secretary of Education Rod Paige to the NAACP: "You do not own, and you are not the arbiters of, African-American authenticity," said Paige, who rose from segregated Mississippi to become President Bush's education chief."
via Ramblings' Journal.
sadly, an organization that has proved pivotal in bettering the civil rights situation for black people in this country continues down the road richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089874379023605952004-07-15T00:49:00.000-06:002004-07-15T01:00:28.596-06:00it's gotta be mine too...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "No one lied. No one made up the intelligence. No one inserted things into the dossier against the advice of the intelligence services. Everyone genuinely tried to do their best in good faith for the country in circumstances of acute difficulty. That issue of good faith should now be at an end ... But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089870972831354692004-07-14T23:55:00.000-06:002004-07-15T00:26:04.890-06:00"so i'm blazing with my friends..."
"Seriously, everybody. Don't go getting soft on me this summer. You're sitting around the pool all day, chasing the muff around. Break down!"
"there's a fiesta in the making, as we speak."
"Let me tell ya what MelbaToast is packin here..."
"that song is about aliens?"
richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089751335312111392004-07-13T14:38:00.000-06:002004-07-13T14:42:15.313-06:00Amici Forever. "the world's first opera band!"
Jo, Tsakane, Geoff, Nick and David.
sweet.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089744872487687922004-07-13T12:40:00.000-06:002004-07-13T12:55:11.400-06:00Al Franken, comic genius.
thusly: Greg Evigan, comic genius. Liberace, comic genius. Linda Tripp, comic genius. Jim Jones, comic genius. David Berkowitz, comic genius...
ok i'll stop now. richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089742094783672872004-07-13T12:02:00.000-06:002004-07-13T12:09:13.586-06:00"Cool Whip in my hair..."
cuz you've always wanted to know the straight dope on this classic, am i right or am i right?richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089738777967649622004-07-13T11:08:00.000-06:002004-07-13T11:12:57.966-06:00When you boil down the posturing of the Moore—boosting genre, you find at last a very strange and hypocritical exercise in special pleading and excuse-making. What Moore's quasi-defenders are telling us is that an illogical, dishonest and tendentious film offers an inarticulate indictment of an evil Administration. The trouble is, if we take this morally confused verdict at face value, we reach richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089704958373544622004-07-13T01:47:00.000-06:002004-07-13T11:05:28.050-06:00Let the preeminent essayist of our time know that his service to the cause is extremely valuable and much appreciated: buy Hitch a drink! damn it, this is a great idea- i kinda wish i would have thought of it first. richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089671924348605002004-07-12T16:24:00.000-06:002004-07-12T16:38:44.346-06:00via killpoets, here's an interesting essay on Richard Rorty and the founding of a "new public religious faith".richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089657686961349982004-07-12T12:42:00.000-06:002004-07-12T12:50:13.293-06:00quite a lucid and gratifying interview with the great milton friedman, via chicago boyz...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089608603570284452004-07-11T22:57:00.000-06:002004-07-11T23:07:51.626-06:00mark steyn's take on the Iraqi-Nigerian uranium SOTUA "scandal", redemption, and a river in Egypt.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089569575474739362004-07-11T22:33:00.000-06:002004-07-12T16:17:12.106-06:00Who We're Dealing With: Today I heard a caller describe how "Fahrenheit 9/11" affected him; now he believed that the Bush administration attacked the Taliban and Iraq because the Saudis wanted it. The host pointed out that the Saudis didn't want it. The caller said "well, that's your opinion." Movies are facts, you see. Facts are just opinions.
and,
Again, the high-school-level thinking: "the richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089516654685022362004-07-11T01:37:00.000-06:002004-07-11T01:45:01.210-06:00Van Hammersly's american history lesson of the day: "and that's when Lincoln said...'don't dis my homies!'"richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089491171424037962004-07-10T14:19:00.000-06:002004-07-10T14:26:11.423-06:00kids, it's time for a little saturday afternoon fun: rock, paper, saddam!richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089327152271129952004-07-08T16:52:00.000-06:002004-07-08T16:52:32.270-06:00yesrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1089013105091598292004-07-05T18:36:00.000-06:002004-07-05T18:41:19.226-06:00the onion interviews The Kids in the Hall. damn it! why couldn't they all just get along?! the world would be a much cooler place if they had...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088999939141021052004-07-05T18:19:00.000-06:002004-07-05T18:27:10.760-06:00Hitchens on Trotsky. just cuz.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088998274427882782004-07-05T18:09:00.000-06:002004-07-05T18:35:35.970-06:00this weekend i drove up to the top of Pike's Peak. standing on the summit, at 14,100 feet, we actually saw lightning form below us and strike the city of colorado springs. and on the way back down i saw me a yellow-bellied marmot! two of 'em, actually, 3 minuntes apart. when i stopped to take a gander at the first one it "chucked" (chirped) at me and quickly scampered into its hole. the secondrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088572827629066142004-06-29T23:08:00.000-06:002004-06-29T23:25:31.946-06:00i'm a big fan of this piece by peter berkowitz. it is still strange to me that progressivism in foreign policy has ended up in the neoconservate ranks, having been nearly completely vanquished from the increasingly-enfeebled Democratic Party, and within a man who, less than four years ago, i was horrified had gained the presidency of our country...
h/t andrew sullivanrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088570674033910862004-06-29T21:44:00.000-06:002004-06-29T23:35:32.113-06:00Soy Capitan
mojo nixon once famously sang that everyone has a little elvis in them. everyone but michael j. fox. i fear, for whatever reason, i really don't have a lot of the king in me- probably not as much as i need or could use. but i do have quite a bit of Ritchie Valens. ever since i was a little kid i've loved singing this song; out loud, for all those around me to hear. perhaps to showrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088562269273773982004-06-29T20:18:00.000-06:002004-06-30T13:12:12.623-06:00nice grammar. "...is their ultimate champion."
i need to smoke less of that "skunky, funky, smelly green shit" when i'm at work...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088539558301058002004-06-29T13:54:00.000-06:002004-06-29T14:07:14.436-06:00Michael King of Ramblings' Journal has a solid post about Kerry and the lack of racial diversity within his inner circle and the interesting sociological conditions at play that still cause many to view the Republican Party as antithetical to black american concerns while the Democratic Party are their ultimate champions...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088534088219060542004-06-29T12:20:00.000-06:002004-06-29T12:38:25.813-06:00sweeeet. let's see the gloves come off- you know Dubya would kick that piddling frog's ass up and down the Rue de Grenelle!
via andrew sullivanrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088532514164496192004-06-29T12:06:00.000-06:002004-06-29T12:16:50.190-06:00freaky-deaky!
git yr sound on...
via dave barryrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088530686116500802004-06-29T11:33:00.000-06:002004-06-29T11:42:35.793-06:00amazing. it appears michael moore has a strong sexual attraction to little boys, has been convicted of third degree criminal sexual conduct in michigan, takes money and support from the terrorist group, Hezbollah, and could just be responsible for john candy's unfortunate and premature death...
and he's gorging himself on canned ham and peach pie at 11:30 in the morning! goddamn him! when richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088441299224086842004-06-28T09:57:00.000-06:002004-06-28T10:57:44.003-06:00The Hegelian Groove
nice. high-fives and handshakes all around; i extend mi mano out not only to Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair, but also to Mr. Hitchens, Mr. Goldstein, Ms. Catalano, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Sullivan, Ms. Postrel and the many others who are on the right side of history. obviously, the ass-kicking doesn't end today. no, fighting the fascists and brutal tyrants of the world, and their richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088401494938536612004-06-27T19:12:00.000-06:002004-06-28T00:10:06.053-06:00Protean Wizardry
Ecuadorean sea turtles, beware...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088289210310740382004-06-26T16:32:00.000-06:002004-06-26T16:33:30.310-06:00Imagine!richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088186186008077482004-06-25T11:44:00.000-06:002004-06-25T16:01:09.096-06:00as laughable as it is that michael moore is seen by many to be some kind of cultural hero in this country, it's downright scary to imagine how he's perceived in kooky, hyperventilating Scandinavia- a Norse god to rival Thor, perhaps. this is telling:Item by item, Revel refutes the European media’s picture of America. Poverty? An American at the poverty level has about the same standard of livingrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088133788277418422004-06-24T20:58:00.000-06:002004-06-25T11:56:35.330-06:00presenting adam michnik, my elected soul-brother of the month...those of us who supported the war primarily on humanitarian grounds and continue to do so are a woefully small (and perhaps diminishing), yet historically crucial, minority; this guy exemplifies the pragmatic/compassionate core of this alliance and the ultimate validity of its perspective.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1088031328264590452004-06-23T15:43:00.000-06:002004-06-24T15:56:36.593-06:00towards the end of christopher hitchens' brilliant tour de force destruction of michael moore's latest piece of shit he points out the mother-of-all-ironies: Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless, richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087925661502058852004-06-22T11:27:00.000-06:002004-06-22T11:34:21.503-06:00liar.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087835272799452512004-06-21T10:02:00.000-06:002004-06-21T13:19:40.613-06:00upon waking up from a much-needed nap yesterday evening on my couch i noticed that Topic A with tina brown was on the television. christopher hitchens was part of the panel and my interest was immediately peaked. they were discussing michael moore's latest piece-of-shit and Rolling Stone music critic, and intellectual non-entity, Toure, was saying that he and his fiancee had viewed it and how richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087402646999581182004-06-16T10:15:00.000-06:002004-06-16T10:17:27.000-06:00Michael J. Totten and job securityrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087343252374488092004-06-15T17:35:00.000-06:002004-06-15T17:50:13.763-06:00Geoffrey Chaucer, smooth talkin' ladies man...
that's funny. in the few times i've used the word (never maliciously!) in the presence of females i've been nearly eviscerated, disemboweled, castrated and decapitated with vicious, vicious EVIL stares and/or reprimanded with a most severe tongue-lashing that i still feel to this very day...
via farm accident digestrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087324775214179302004-06-15T12:06:00.000-06:002004-06-15T17:03:10.910-06:00Jonathan Yardley's fine appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's glorious autobiographical masterpiece, Speak, Memory...
i tell most of my friends this, or anyone i know who claims to be interested in "real" literature: if you have denied yourself the grandeur and astonishing mastery of Nabokov's prose then you are woefully remiss- it's like saying you love to snowboard but then u limit yourself to the richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087321154383883482004-06-15T11:33:00.000-06:002004-06-15T11:39:14.383-06:00check out joyce on blue lanugo. that was my doing. heh.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087317945767517162004-06-15T10:42:00.000-06:002004-06-15T14:47:10.823-06:00via protein wisdom, your big "hmmmmmm..." of the day...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087242465433524162004-06-14T13:40:00.000-06:002004-06-14T13:47:45.433-06:00oooh, screw the whole comparison thing, howzabout putting GDub and the Gip on the same ticket? i'm not talkin about the Reagan of yore, folks...i speaketh of the Undead Reagan...
via allah punditrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1087237830608237022004-06-14T11:27:00.000-06:002004-06-14T12:30:30.606-06:00this is rather amusing: in the past week i have heard several "liberal" pundits suggest, in countering the sentiment that Reagan's death might help GDub in his reelection, that this might actually hurt him because he compares poorly to the Gipper. but what, then, is the alternative to GDub- it's not Reagan! granted, if Bush was facing Reagan in an election he would get smoked. but he's not- richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086996879227533132004-06-11T17:21:00.000-06:002004-06-11T17:43:26.450-06:00frankly, all this idol-worshipping is making me a bit nauseous. at least there has been some honest assessments of Ronald Reagan this week, thankfully, and i especially like this matter-of-fact analysis of the gipper, gorby and the demise of the cold war.
The next month, April '86, brought the Chernobyl disaster, which, among other things, made Gorbachev realize that information had to circulate richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086975165939091002004-06-11T11:29:00.000-06:002004-06-11T11:33:52.903-06:00kevba pointed this out to me. from dave barry:
no...fucking...way...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086974717978701962004-06-11T11:01:00.000-06:002004-06-11T11:25:17.976-06:00an interesting indictment of the Spanish sociopolitical culture and ideological degradation that fostered the terrorist bombings in Madrid on 3/11 and the resulting electoral victories for a callow, weak and cynical government.
All of this suggests that the terrorists did not err in selecting the weakest wildebeest of the herd. In decrying the attacks, not a few commentators have argued that the richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086809881697096102004-06-09T13:32:00.000-06:002004-06-09T13:38:01.696-06:00the A.N.S.W.E.R to all of this fuck's problems...
via harry's placerichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086809030384199592004-06-09T13:20:00.000-06:002004-06-09T13:23:50.393-06:00we have Reagan, the french have this...
via farm accident digestrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086808170620333942004-06-09T13:02:00.000-06:002004-06-09T13:09:30.620-06:00after much intense contemplation (fueled by an increasing intake of raspberry vodka and a decreasing sense of selfdoubt), i've decided that i'm not interested in the nomination, either. i shall always take my political cues from burton cummings...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086807440222456322004-06-09T12:04:00.000-06:002004-06-09T14:28:11.913-06:00ian buruma's thoughtful, yet misguided, take on bernard lewis' latest book of essays, “From Babel to Dragomans”.
i'm not going to rehash my reasons why i believe, and will go to my grave believing, that an armed US intervention in iraq was the fundamentally right thing to do. those who know me personally and/or read me here are more than familiar with those reasons. but i need to point out my richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086728020639119172004-06-08T14:49:00.000-06:002004-06-08T14:53:40.640-06:00very busy at work today- not much blogging time. messin' with the font sizes, tho- there's been some grumblings from the nether reaches. sometimes i forget: not everyone has awesomely perfect 20/20 vision...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086651374197601792004-06-07T16:59:00.000-06:002004-06-07T17:36:14.196-06:00and, of course, this all reminds me of that classic dialogue exchange at the parole hearing in raising arizona:
parole board guy: you're not just tellin us what we wanna hear?"
H.I.: "no sir, no way..."
parole board guy: "cuz we just wanna hear the truth."
H.I.: "Well, then i guess i am tellin you what you want to hear."
parole board guy: "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
H.I: "richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086647632498594432004-06-07T16:26:00.000-06:002004-06-07T16:33:52.496-06:00for more on Rorty and the misappropriation of postmodern thought, check out protein wisdom's more informed and comprehensive post of two years ago on the subject...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086620873478638982004-06-07T13:02:00.000-06:002004-06-07T16:44:18.863-06:00so, concerning friday's assignment: I haven't read Wolin's book nor am I familiar with Wolin at all. i have read Richard Rorty, the most important contemporary philosopher out there (check out his Contingency, Irony and Solidarity and Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (real beach reading page-turners, both!)). For Rorty (to boil his philosophy down to its bare essentials), philosophy must rejectrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086627472860805962004-06-07T10:45:00.000-06:002004-06-07T10:57:52.860-06:00i once fondly told people, when asked about my employment situation, that a monkey could do my job. this soon changed to a "lobotomized monkey". i think now i'll say that the ass of a lobotomized monkey could do my job. if it had arms and hands, of course.
mondays rock!richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086626451099926452004-06-07T10:24:00.000-06:002004-06-07T10:41:20.470-06:00yo. i got me fried this weekend; burnt by the sun. standing naked in front of my bathroom mirror, i look like a flag. red, white and... red.
some goddamn rudimentary flag. where the lines are distinct and the white is white. and the red parts hurt...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086390392669831792004-06-04T17:05:00.000-06:002004-06-04T17:09:20.356-06:00extra-credit:
compare and contrast
via protein wisdomrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086373468589163432004-06-04T16:23:00.000-06:002004-06-04T18:06:26.300-06:00homework assignment for the weekend
check out richard rorty's review of richard wolin's The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance With Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism.
we'll be discussing it monday.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086387725906323702004-06-04T16:21:00.000-06:002004-06-04T16:28:33.853-06:00'k.
have u ever, for some crazy ass reason, in the midst of having sex with someone who u are very attracted to, imagined that u are having sex with someone else who, in the real world, u find less attractive?
what the...
hell.
is up. with that??!?richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086292763802871212004-06-03T13:57:00.000-06:002004-06-03T13:59:23.803-06:00hell yeah! get rid of it already...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086286528089197912004-06-03T11:18:00.000-06:002004-06-03T12:15:28.090-06:00Catherine Seipp of the Independent Women's Forum slices, dices and thoroughly tenderizes one of the biggest frauds in mainstream journalism today, maureen dowd of the NYT. not only is dowd off the deep end with her insipid rhetoric- she absolutely has no talent as a writer. none whatsoever. most of her verbal constructions and the absurd thoughts driving them are downright embarrassing for richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086281724310038952004-06-03T10:30:00.000-06:002004-06-03T10:57:58.290-06:00movin' on up
a monster shout out to We Are Full of Shit for putting me on their blogroll- and highlighting me, no less! thanks fellas, much appreciated. these guys rock it nu skool, kick it old school and quite possibly could be responsible for a rash of self-mutilations that just might erupt among today's hip youngsters within the next few months; yep, WAFOS really is that cool. i'm inspiredrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086202338823931022004-06-02T12:43:00.000-06:002004-06-02T14:45:25.600-06:00she talks to chickens
wow, speaking of bea arthur, she recently provided the free world with this gem: "Any chicken will tell you that KFC are the corporate terrorists. Not those trying to stop animal abuse."
but if u listen carefully, bea, instead of that selective chicken-hearing u routinely and ruthlessly engage in, u'll also hear them tell ya that silly groups like PETA are really quite richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086197784139420482004-06-02T11:16:00.000-06:002004-06-02T11:36:24.140-06:00protein wisdom, as usual "kickin' it with a tasty groove", is most diligently on poseur alert. rock on...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1086193295828813032004-06-02T09:13:00.000-06:002004-06-02T11:09:47.883-06:00Chappelle’s Show is the funniest thing going on in tvland right now, other than (or perhaps tied with) the odd Kids In the Hall rerun minimarathon Comedy Central randomly throws into the mix (usually sometime deep into the night but seemingly never at the same time nor same weekday nor on any kind of weekly schedule- i think their airings are obscurely synced with either Colorado weather patternsrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085779417392302252004-05-28T15:22:00.000-06:002004-05-28T15:23:37.393-06:00language barriersrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085777806511292782004-05-28T13:58:00.000-06:002004-05-28T15:22:41.296-06:00check it. christopher hitchens defends chalabi in today's slate. i haven't read up on this guy enough and thusly (ever so thusly) have yet to make up my mind on the dude and the supposed scandalous nature of his wheelings and dealings. but it's probably wise and invevitably redeeming to take hitch's word on the situation over that of the pathological whiners calling for chalabi's head. richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085682279352054532004-05-27T12:07:00.000-06:002004-05-27T12:30:03.636-06:00"and if u ask me another dumbass antiamerican question i'm going to stick my boot up your ass and grace u with a forearm-shiver to the throat..."
this is awesome. from andrewsullivan.com:
HARD ROCK VS. CHOMSKY: Here's a delightful interview with rock star, John Schaffer, of the heavy metal group, Iced Earth, by a young Chomsky-reading Canadian leftist for the online magazine, Brave Words and richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085509694690610882004-05-25T12:19:00.000-06:002004-05-25T12:32:25.066-06:00of course i meant "dickless" in the figurative sense. i guess. in no way am i putting down my sistas, or people involved in horrible industrial accidents that left them sans peter. sin verga; minus peepee...
unless, obviously, your idea of a sustainable, realistic, and noble foreign policy consists of policing someone's pronunciation with a screechy self-important relish and smug rapture. richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085508632803090772004-05-25T12:03:00.000-06:002004-05-25T12:11:38.333-06:00yeah, but what else would u expect from dickless wonders who haven't allowed an original thought to escape their feeble and decaying minds since...well, since?
they have nothing. they are nothing.richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085418207496817202004-05-24T10:45:00.000-06:002004-05-24T11:03:27.496-06:00Smile on Mighty Jesus, Spinal Meningitis got me down...
no, not really, i think it's just a minor cold (sniff sniff). whatever...i'll fight through it. just wanted to shout out a happy monday to y'all...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1085005445417657622004-05-19T16:15:00.000-06:002004-05-19T16:27:38.006-06:00"On you, maybe..."
omigod that's freakin' classic, and it might actually have to last y'all a couple of days cuz i'm pretty busy on my end don't know about your end but it's rather busy busy busy here (in the most tedious, infantile, neurotic and goofy way- i love it!)and i'm keepin the blog here on the back burner under a very slow and low simmer...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084909509832777202004-05-18T10:51:00.000-06:002004-05-18T13:46:17.290-06:00my blogging contribution of the day:JACKIE TREEHORN: Regrettably, it's true, standards have fallen in adult entertainment. It's video, Dude. Now that we're competing with the amateurs, we can't afford to invest that little extra in story, production value, feeling. People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone--
DUDE: On you, maybe.
TREEHORN: Of course, you do get the good with richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084561278698606352004-05-14T12:58:00.000-06:002004-05-14T14:32:05.986-06:00hey, let's see a show of hands! who was foolish, gullible and biased enough to actually post these photos on their website or other publication? c'mon, u little rascals, don't be shy- get 'em up!
suckas...
richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084560651188665922004-05-14T12:44:00.000-06:002004-05-14T12:54:19.516-06:00oh boy, does protein wisdom have a scandalous/informative top 10 for y'all! enough to make me blush and/or learn some fancy jurassic appellations...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084559092969060232004-05-14T12:18:00.000-06:002004-05-14T12:33:20.730-06:00i wonder what giggling maggots look like? nah, not really. giggling maggots streaming out of al franken's swampy ass is probably something i don't need to witness.
instapundit asks, "If you make a death threat on a radio network no one listens to, does it make a sound?" metaphysicalicious!richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084556961949851162004-05-14T11:04:00.000-06:002004-05-14T11:51:18.933-06:00andrew sullivan's quote of the day will also be my quote of the day, muchachos. not only cuz i'm a rather lazy, uninspired sumbitch this morning, but cuz it quite honestly kicks ass..."It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084469179278147872004-05-13T11:20:00.000-06:002004-05-13T11:26:46.673-06:00why do they hate us, dude?They hate us because of our racism. So you still think Americans are tolerant? Tell that to my Egyptian-Syrian neighbor Abdullah. Since the tragedy on September 11, he has suffered dozens of hurtful stares and insensitive comments. He has been so upset over this he has almost abandoned his dream of owning his own crop-dusting business.
dios mio, i'm still lauging my assrichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084407884508032222004-05-12T18:18:00.000-06:002004-05-12T18:26:51.126-06:00and it's snowing here in denver, may 12th 6:20pm. that's awesome. gotta love it. but...
fuck my "accuweather forecast".
"possible evening light drizzle" my ass...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084292416205415132004-05-11T10:04:00.000-06:002004-05-11T10:20:16.206-06:00wow, who knew so many phrases nearly rhyme with this blustering dillhole? fascinating!richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1084218971499601942004-05-10T13:30:00.000-06:002004-05-10T14:02:42.950-06:00seems like this might be a fascinating read, despite the apparent flaws outlined by the reviewer; i especially like the term "liberal imperialism". hell, i might even rename my blog that. it has a certain je ne sais quoi to it that the kaiser finds tantalizing and supersexy... who's gonna freakin' stop me, huh? i also like the melville quote: "We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people, the richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-1083865985913455072004-05-06T11:53:00.000-06:002004-05-06T11:56:18.623-06:00alternate universerichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641516.post-108386518497606862004-05-06T11:39:00.000-06:002004-05-06T11:42:57.856-06:00indeed. no excuses...richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11136696551456195345noreply@blogger.com