Hobo Wars.

Valu-Rite Vodka and hot lesbo midget pr0n not included.

stein hoist: The blogger formerly known as Beth.

Posted by: Open Blog at 06:19 PM | Comments (6)
Post contains 25 words, total size 1 kb.

Well our friends at the premiere lefty blog Daily Kos have once again decided to show their Stalinist tendency by erasing an entry that shows them to be the fools they are. This diary purported to have information on an upcoming US attack on Iran from an active duty US Navy officer.

Sorry. I canÂ’t seem to find that story.
Tags: Iran, Iran war, Recommended, troll diary (all tags)
Permalink | 1350 comments

The story attracted the attention of a number of dextrosphere bloggers because the details weren’t even up to the Franklin Foer ‘smell test’.

HereÂ’s one passage from the now hidden diary establishing the bona fides of the diarists active duty source:

She started in the Marines and after 8 years her term was up. She had served on a smaller Marine carrier, and found out through a friend knew there was an opening for a junior grade LSO in a training position on a supercarrier. She used the reference and the information and applied for a transfer to the United States Navy. Since she had experience landing F-18Cs and Cobra Gunships, and an unblemished combat record, she was ratcheted into the job, successfully changing from the Marines to the Navy. Her role is still aligned with the Marines since she generally is assigned to liason with the Marine units deploying off her carrier group.

Well that struck Lex of Neptunus Lex (an active duty US Navy Captain and F/A 18 pilot) as not quite kosher:

more...

Posted by: DrewM. at 05:19 PM | Comments (66)
Post contains 565 words, total size 4 kb.

Disillusioned Liberal Andrew Anthony has written a book with the interesting conclusion that misplaced guilt is the fuel that keeps Liberalism sputtering along the road of hypocrisy.

“Liberal leftism, by contrast, is a state of mind, a social marker, a moral attitude. It is thus more difficult to hold up to the light, to examine what should be retained, what jettisoned.”

“It has no party, no country, nothing that can tie it down and nothing for which it can be blamed.”

more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 03:18 PM | Comments (34)
Post contains 266 words, total size 2 kb.

Go here to see such wondrous things as "Infant's First Gas Mask", "Toddler Taser", and a video demonstration of the bullet-proof baby pram.

I'm almost certain that this is a spoof.

Update: Yeah, it's viral marketing for the movie Shoot 'Em Up.

However, here is a fellow making fun of over-protective parents. He runs a website about school safety, but seems to have been pushed over the edge by bullet-proof backpacks now for sale. His list is called "The Complete Guide to Bulletproofing Your Child."

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 03:17 PM | Comments (7)
Post contains 89 words, total size 1 kb.

Fluff piece about the biggest house in all of Connecticut being built in West Hartford (you sure as shit wouldn't see that thing being planted north of Burnside), an almost 51,000 square foot extravaganza that will force Bill Gates to add a guest room.

It seems absurd to note, but the AP writer does feel compelled to bring up "moral issues", and quotes some nobody sociologist about whether it's right to consume so conspicuously.

"Do you actually need to have that amount of space to live a good life?" said Susan A. Eisenhandler, a sociology professor at the University of Connecticut. "There are homeless people. There are impoverished people. There are serious social concerns, and we're not addressing that."

No. We're not. Not only are we not "addressing" them, we don't care about them. We're not even thinking about them, and the writer certainly gave it a shot.

Buried in there was this little gem though:

The average U.S. home measures about 2,500 square feet — up from 1,995 square feet in 1988

Average home size is 500 more square feet, since 1988? How the hell did that happen? Wasn't Reagan messing something up?

So anyway, shocker, wealthy people spend their money on things they want... blah blah blah. Like I don't.

Oh, wait. I forgot. I'm wealthy too.

Incidentally, (ok yes it's a complete non sequitor but I already wrote about this here) I didn't think Geraldo could embarrass himself anymore than he already has. I was wrong (again!). In a Boston Globe "lifestyles" article, the moustache says if he saw Michelle Malkin on the street in NYC, he'd spit on her.

Classy. Tough.

All that hate's gonna burn you up kid.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 12:46 PM | Comments (57)
Post contains 305 words, total size 2 kb.

We morons are more than perfectly capable of coming up with the sequel to Brian De Palma's insult Redacted.

After all, you did a magnificent job of re-working the original.

My suggestions for sequels:

Redacted II: An in depth look at Islamic honor killings.

Redacted II: 21 South Korean hostages taken, 19 freed.

Redacted II: The true story of Christians in Saudi Arabia.

Redacted II: Che Guevara, not so cool after all.

Redacted II: Prominent blogger flees to France after Boston police figure out dead hobo - Valu-Rite Vodka connection.

Leave your sequels in the comments. I hear Sundays are slow around here.

Posted by: Open Blog at 08:00 PM | Comments (54)
Post contains 115 words, total size 1 kb.

Oh, dear. It looks like I just struck a nerve. A big one, judging from the troll barrage in my earlier post .

Evidently, the folks over at Sadly, No! are fighting back the best way they know how:
more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 07:34 PM | Comments (143)
Post contains 136 words, total size 1 kb.

Well, it seems playwright Arthur Miller was a phony. The man hailed as the conscience of a generation, whose writings told America how it should behave, put his own son into an institution because the boy had Downs Syndrome. Miller even cut his son out of his will, until actor Daniel Day-Lewis convinced him otherwise.

Sure, it could be argued that many of his generation would have done the same, but Miller - we're told - was different. The New York Times extolled his "fierce belief in man's responsibility to his fellow man." I guess that responsibility ended, though, with having a son whose condition made him either an inconvenience or an embarrassment.

I should admit - I've always hated Miller's two best-known plays - "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman." The heavy-handed, pedantic moralism contained in both of those works smothers any story Miller was trying to tell. It always seemed to me Miller was more interested in message than art, which always made his plays and the adaptations of them seem more like sermons than stories.

When I read this news about Miller, a quote by Nathanial Hawthorne comes to mind: "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." Miller's public face has finally come into conflict with his private behavior, and the end result is not flattering to the playwright.

Posted by: Slublog at 05:39 PM | Comments (89)
Post contains 256 words, total size 2 kb.

Appalachian State sneaks by Michigan.

Wow.

That's almost like dropping your season opener to Ohio State.

Well, ok, no, not really. It's more like dropping your season opener to Aquaman. In a public toilet stall.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 04:21 PM | Comments (62)
Post contains 57 words, total size 1 kb.

We've all been thinking that Ace is out this weekend culling the hobo population of metropolitan Boston. But seeing this article got me wondering: what if he's busy with something else? more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 03:44 PM | Comments (31)
Post contains 45 words, total size 1 kb.