The proof of being really funny is the ability to make anything funny. George Carlin even had a way of making rape funny: picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. Behold: Byronic makes getting a bee stuck in your ear funny.
…Ace of Spades would be the one still upset that her football-star boyfriend is out of the running for Prom King, due to an academic supsension, even though, like spluh! he’s obviously better looking and cooler than anyone else, and they’re all just jealous for not seeing it. …Other McCain would be the one constantly… Read More If Some of the Blogs I Read Were Teenage Girls and the 2012 GOP Primary were the Senior Prom…
She “hesitates to place blame,” but steels herself for the task anyway. Blood libel doesn’t just spread itself. Now would be a great time to provide links to my old coverage of the Gifford Shooting at Revolutionary Nonsense, since we’re taking that trip down memory lane.
Jobs were added in December. They decreased in January. Our Salvation seems to be late. Unexpectedly.
I have long wearied of the tiresome assertion that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare. This phillipic by Ron Rosenbaum against the cinematic albatross Anonymous is three months old, but punctures the key argument of the Oxford fantasy: In the opening, our fancy-pants British narrator (Derek Jacobi) tells us disdainfully that Shakespeare only had a “grammar school” education,… Read More Oxfordians: The Birthers of the Elizabethan Renaissance
Stacy McCain links this damning comparison of the 2012 primary election to the 2008 primary election. I’m thinking of a Republican primary. It starts with a candidate (John McCain/Mitt Romney) who ran once before, came in second place, and won over the party’s elite class without winning over its base. Other candidates, understandably unwilling to… Read More The Republican Party Returneth, Like a Dog, Unto its Own Vomit. But it Doesn’t Matter.
Just because I’m cynical about the remaining forlorn hope for a Not-Mitt doesn’t mean I’m any more pleased about it than say, the gang at Protein Wisdom. Let’s consider some other possibilities. Either of the Ricks (Perry or Santorum) Might Win South Carolina. New Hampshire has an open primary. That means Democrats and Independents voted.… Read More In Which I Argue Against Every Point I Just Made About the Election
If you’re not reading Stuart Schneiderman’s excellent blog, Had Enough Therapy?, you should be. Today he doesn’t even have to attack “childism” — the preposterous notion that children are unfairly oppressed — because the New York Times does it for him. Until taught to do so, kids can’t dress themselves, control their emotions, or distinguish… Read More What if They Found a New Oppressed Group and Everyone Laughed?
Apparently “Santorum” is Catholic for “Huckabee.” Personally, I don’t expect much to change in South Carolina. Last time ’round, South Carolina was supposed to be the last bastion against John McCain. South Carolina makes a good last bastion. More to the point, Gingrich has once more demonstrated his tactical incompetence. Who the hell told him… Read More The Bearable Tedium of Mitt Romney
Like communism, it worked better in theory than in practice, and like communism, only the sad Old Guard wants it anymore. Bloomberg (h/t Instapundit): Closing gaps in the background-check system would likely have only a modest effect on crime rates. But for gun control advocates struggling to stay relevant, the push for such changes represents… Read More Gun Control is Dead
