Big dumb boy
Wow. Lindsey Graham is a hard man to caricature. Turns out, if you exaggerate any of his features, the result looks less like him. Fundamentally, everything about the guy is squish.
So I just made him shiiiiiiny.
Dear future visitors to this post: Lindsey Graham has said that free speech should have limitations.
Dear Republicans of South Carolina: DO BETTER NEXT TIME. KTHXBAI.
Though, if I’m reading it right, “next time” is 2014? Oof!
While we’re on the topic of speech, you do realize if the crowded theater really is on fire, you have every right to shout “FIRE!” in a crowded theater — and, in some places, a legal obligation to do so? Which makes shouting “FIRE!” in a theater you do not believe to be on fire less of a speech issue and more of a fraud issue, as far as I’m concerned. Like saying, “I’m a doctor; let me give you a breast exam” or “will you assassinate my wife for $10,000” aren’t really First Amendment issues.
Sorry for the digression, but that whole “FIRE!” thing gets on my nerves. It’s lazy and sloppy.
April 5, 2011 — 10:35 pm
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Terry Jones has a kind of “faces of meth” thing going, hasn’t he?
Seriously, why was this even reported? Burning a Koran is both stupid and legal in this country, if not as stupid as giving a cracker attention whore nobody preacherman just what he’s begging for. Way to reward bad behavior!
Next thing you know, you got the United Nations, the European Union, Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, General Petraeus and who knows who else wringing their hands about it. Oh, way to signal that we think this is a big fucking deal, too.
We don’t. And pretending we do was exactly the wrong thing.
Asking rednecks not to do stupid things is like expecting water to flow up. Does the United Nations think Ray-Ray should buy those sweet-ass alligator boots if he can’t make his truck payment this month? Does Angela Merkel think Darlene should leave her kids in the car while she drops in for a couple of beers at the Lucky Seven?
So why make this bonehead a superstar?
Burning a book had not the slightest interest to an American audience. Even our Muslims didn’t seem all that wadded up about it. The only interested constituency was the excitable, primitive boo-boos in the back of nowhere.
So why does our media choose to serve THAT audience? It’s bizarre.
I have a theory. The MSM can no longer keep things hidden from us, so they’ve gone into the business of revealing things that we all agree would be better hidden.
What do you think? Too paranoid?
April 4, 2011 — 5:14 pm
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I see Moammar dressed himself today
Seriously, world? How have we all, collectively, let this homicidal nutcake run around loose all these years?
When I saw this, all I could think of was this.
February 22, 2011 — 7:16 pm
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A Public Service Announcement from Paul Krugman
Yep. Because restoring civility begins with accusing your opponents of mass murder.
I’m gonna have an outbreak of Tourettes over this. I swears.
January 11, 2011 — 6:57 pm
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GIMME!
They’re always telling us that things cost more in the UK (when they’re not denying that things cost more in the UK) because operating costs are so high. Gas is expensive, so moving things around is expensive, heating a shop is expensive, storing things in warehouses is expensive, personnel is expensive.
So how come it costs about $300 more to download Photoshop off the internet in the UK, compared to the US.
I don’t know, but I’m guessing it has to do with VAT. For fuck’s sake, people, don’t let them impose one on the Land of the Free. It’s invisible; it depresses commerce insidiously. Silent but deadly.
So! I’ve ordered my fabulous new dedicated Photoshop machine. It would’ve been here by now, if it weren’t for this stupid snowfall combined with the Christmas rush. It is entirely spec’ed to run one program — Photoshop CS5. The latest and greatest version with the 64-bits and he multiple cores and all that other modern shit I don’t understand.
And it turns out my version of Photoshop is one rev too old to be upgraded.
Well. Huh. Ouch.
What’s this going to cost me? Using today’s exchange rate of $1.53 to the pound, the price of a full Adobe CS5 license from Amazon.co.uk is $928.50. From Amazon.com? $624.99.
As an upgrade, UK $278.55, US $161.19. (The student version, they just fucking stand in the cafeteria and throw it at people).
So the difference between an upgrade in Rhode Island and a full download in Sussex is $767.31. I kind of get the reason software companies approach it this way, but if they ever wonder why people don’t respect their intellectual property rights dot-dot-dot
Oh, yeah…sorry the illustration is lame. My version of Photoshop is old and retarded.
December 22, 2010 — 11:04 pm
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Because I can is why…
Jes’ playing around with ImageReady’s .gif animation tools. Because that’s the only animation tool I got.
Yep, my desktop machine is still busted and I haven’t QUITE talked myself into a new one, on account of every time I tot up the bare minimum things I need to enter the multi-core world where all the cool kids hang out, the bottom line makes my eyes water.
And then I see a sidebar ad for Photoshop’s Extended version. It has 3D bits. Droooool.
$999.
Times like this, I really miss my old faceless evil American corporation and her magical bottomless pockets.
December 1, 2010 — 7:39 pm
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Do you smell something?
Ha! Just kidding! You have to have some degree of self-awareness to produce flop-sweat. This guy will go to his grave thinking he’s bestest president that ever was.
A whole forest of swinging clue-bats wouldn’t help this one “get it.”
Still, I’m stonked that there are already calls for him to stand down in 2012. I can smell the FAIL from over here.
November 15, 2010 — 11:15 pm
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It’s not easy being green
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. But we won’t see the Incredible Sulk for another couple of weeks.
For those too young to remember — once upon a time, if you pissed off Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno turned green and ruined his trousers.
October 19, 2010 — 10:39 pm
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No matter how lack of experience you have
Well, I speak as a 26-year-old woman. And my problem is that, no matter what, Christine O’Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how lack of experience you have. And it scares me for a lot of reasons, and I just know in my group of friends it just turns people off, because she’s seen as a nutjob.
Ohhhhhhhh…savor it, my friends. Let that roll around on your cerebral cortex for a while. Its rarity. Its purity. That there is the sweetest, strongest, melt-in-your-skull stupid you’re likely to see in this whole delightfulfully moronic political season.
Shame on Christiane Amanpour, whoring out this chubby retard for cheap ratings points.
Somebody — somebody who loves her — must sit Meghan McCain down and show her how to diagram a sentence. Then make her watch Mr Smith Goes to Washington until her eyes bleed.
At least it’ll keep her busy and off the air for a while.
Don’t remember the source image? Enjoy.
Now with AUDIO!
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October 18, 2010 — 7:38 pm
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Vote Barack
…or Michelle will give you a Big Hug.
Just fold you right up in the giant mutant embrace of those…holy shit, lady, what have you been doing to yourself? It looks like she’s been benchpressing Barack’s ego.
My Google news search juxtaposed the source picture with the caption Democrats bring in heavy hitter: Michelle Obama.
‘Tcha! I guess!
October 13, 2010 — 9:45 pm
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