Interesting snippet from the opening of the Limbaugh show today.  He was talking about the Repub debate.  He began by saying “there were six guys up on the stage, well five and a half guys actually”  Now either someone up there was very, very short (and I have no idea so forgive me) or there was someone up there who was only half a man for some reason.

HA HA my confirmation word is England!

@Litlebritdifrnt—I’ve been listening but not paying attention. I suspect Rush was mocking Gary Johnson, who whined about not having enough questions directed to him.

Then again, I’m not sure which one of those stammering assholes Rush would consider a “whole man.” It was embarrassing.

Sorry, Strange, but I saw the name Chris Floyd, then Beese and the others in the comments and high-tailed it outta there. Nothing good can come from those keyboards. Sad how digby’s comments became so toxic after the primaries, I’d wondered how bad it could get for her to close them. Now I know. Freaks.

Goddamnit. Is NO ONE man enough to “get out of the boat” anymore?  ;->

...because he’s just the sort of slick-talkin’ sumbitch who gets you all horny by reading Rimbaud, then knocks you up, changes his phone number and joins the Merchant Marine.

You’re my favorite smartass today.

I know you’re anonymous and can’t divulge too much, but confess—you’re a comedy writer aren’t you?

Only in here, Beulahmo. But I’ll take the compliment.

I actually got out of the boat, at least for a while.

It seems to me, those guys are just as nihilistic as the wingnuttiest wingnuts. “No one is perfect, all have failed our holy tests, let the world burn until our perfect savior is finally incarnated.”

That’s pretty much it, Scott. Reading their emo-aggrieved self-serving screeds about how “well, sorry, but I have IDEALS!” just makes me want to either puke or force them all to listen to Don McLean’s “Vincent” on a perpetual loop for the rest of their self-pitying pathetic lives.

Made me laugh,Mr. Strange.

My pleasure, montana. In fact, it’s about the only one left anymore. ;->

@ Beulahmo: We are torn between anticipation and dread for when Strange is discovered and moves on to the Bigs. He being such a tough act to follow, we plan to fill the gap by becoming a straight Sudoku blog.

@Strange, what a nausea-inducing distant ocean you have found! The barnacles in that fetid little tidepool appear not to require oxygen:

I would like to revisit Sarah Palin for a moment. I want to concede that she is wrong about everything. But I also want to say, look, your schematic cultural objections to her winking style of pretended regular-guy-ism is no excuse for judging her to be a greater moron than Barack Obama, who is also wrong about everything.

How unsurprising that the commenter who equates the do-nothing quitter’s twibberish with the president’s utterances links back to Corrente. Non-stop comedy writing since 2008.

Actually, Polly, KK tweeted this Caruso dickhead’s post, and I’ve only just discovered that it’s also been linked by Corrente and Riverchucky.

Apparently, Desert Ocean is the new TimeCube for irrelevant Liberals with cosmic sensibilities.

He being such a tough act to follow, we plan to fill the gap by becoming a straight Sudoku blog.

If you insist on discriminating against gay sudoku I don’t know what I’ll do.  Do you know how hard it is to find homoerotic number games?  Once you get past 6 and 9 it’s not very hot, and a 2x2 grid can’t last the three minutes I need it to.

Oblomova,

“...force them all to listen to Don McLean’s ‘Vincent’ on a perpetual loop for the rest of their self-pitying pathetic lives.”

Holy smoke!  That’s perfect.  Perfect. 

I was about to say that they remind me of emo teenagers.  But, no—I deal with emo teenagers a LOT; these emo progs have such a grandiose self concept, I think even the emo teenagers would find them insufferable.

If you insist on discriminating against gay sudoku I don’t know what I’ll do.

Have all of that crap you want, but don’t make me do the Word Jumble. I hate the Word Jumble.

MikeJ,

Three minutes?  Amateur.

There!  Done in 30 seconds!

Practice, practice, practice.

I accidentally found myself on Corrente a week or so ago, and they were talking about how Donald Trump really had a valid point about Obama’s documents….

Have all of that crap you want, but don’t make me do the Word Jumble. I hate the Word Jumble.

Jumble’s my favorite.  It’s always been easy for me.  I think it’s because I’m so dyslexic and ADHD I can hardly tell there’s anything amiss when I look at a jumbled mess of letters.

Is NO ONE man enough to “get out of the boat” anymore?

As an over 50 woman battling the new chin-hairs, I’m getting closer daily. Le sigh. But no amount of testosterone can make me go for those mangoes. I much prefer the strawberries I find here!

I took one for the team, as did another of our number, who shall remain nameless till the end of his/her* comment over there, which I reproduce below for the faint of heart and perpetually boatbound:

“This parallel-world Bush is who we have now.”

Yes, you’re absolutely right. Just look at who Obama nominated to the Supreme Court: two exact clones of Alito and Roberts. Just look at what he did to reform student loans: clearly exactly the same thing Bush would’ve done. Just look at Obamacare: exactly what Bush would’ve done. Just look at repealing DADT: exactly the same thing Bush would’ve done. Just look at the CFPB: exactly what Bush would’ve done. Bush loved oversight! Just look at what Obama did to save school lunches, WIC, the EIC and tax cuts for the poor. Exactly what Bush would’ve done.

Why vote for anybody? Their names are made up of letters. Just like Bush’s name! They have 22 chromosomes—EXACTLY LIKE BUSH. Wake up, sheeple!

What a sad, pathetic public exhibition of the inability to make critical distinctions we have here.

Posted by: Angry Geometer

* Hedging my bets as I don’t want to be the latest blogger here this week to be smacked upside the head for being culturally insensitive.

Thanks for donning the kevlar and wading boots, YAFB. And congrats on your incipient liberation from the House of Windsor or whatever your election results mean. ;)

And on a serious note—I would take the people who point to the killing of Bin Laden and the imprisonment of Bradley Manning and hell, even Gitmo as proof of Obama’s perfidy more seriously as stainless arbiters of civic morality IF they had shown that they also had a long and established record of protesting the class-and-race-based patterns of imprisonment, torture, and assassination that have been endemic in our “justice” system for the last, oh, 200 years or so.

Thanks for donning the kevlar and wading boots, YAFB.

*hurriedly throws towel over webcam*

But Oblo, Bradley Manning is accessible even if you happen to be monitoring him from Brazil. Investigating the plight of nameless people of color locked away in festering holes in ugly corners of the world would require legwork.

Yes, the source material here was also blogged by Lambchop. Corrente is the go-to place for all things unconditionally opposed to the Kenyan usurper.

I try to keep up with Corrente. It’s amusing the same way that characters that show up on David Letterman are amusing. Remember Brother Theodore? Larry Bud Melman? If I had a talk show, Lambert would be one of my regulars. I might have Chris Floyd on, but as he is, he kind of has a stick up his butt.  Maybe if he juggled.

Oh, come on, Polly. What sort of self-styled Liberal pundit with that level of sensitivity to social injustice lives in Brazil?

@AltHippo—Now that you mention it, Lambert really is the Harvey Pekar of meaningless lives that didn’t redeem themselves through a heroic struggle of dogged artistic expression.

Every time I see the GlennSherWheels use Bradley Manning as their cri de coeur, all I can do is re-phrase that line from The Producers, when Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder first visit Roger De Bris:

“White White White is the color of our martyr!

And yes, why hasn’t Glennie Boy devoted any pixels to social injustice in Brazil?

Everthing Glenn knows about Brzil he hears from his cabana boy, who isn’t typical of the repressed masses.

Wow, that was an eye opener - I had no idea these people even existed.  THANKS A LOT STRANGE!!

Then I followed the links to Digby’s column that set it all off.  There were more conspiracy theories in her comments than in Chris Floyd’s.  Did you know that the military off’ed JFK because he wasn’t pliable enough for them?

OK, I got out of the boat but only made it this far into the Dirty Ocean:

Here’s one reason straight from the horse’s mouth (she was writing about one of the 2007 Democratic debates):

OK, if your need for poutrage is so out of control that you have to go back nearly half a fucking decade for something to get mad about, SEEK MEDICAL HELP, STAT.

Further paddling reveals that neither Clinton nor Kerry passed the purity test (and D.O. is STILL MAD ABOUT IT).

Jesus.

Message to Fauxgressives -
If you’re too fucking lazy to vote, fine. We don’t care. Stay home in your jammies and listen to Alanis or whatever. Just stop cluttering the internons with dumbassed reasons why you refuse to vote.

Oh, and in answer to the question posed by the title of this piece:

Probably not. Evilbama’s taking too much delight in his ritual torture of Manning.  Most likely on a daily basis.

Kevin Costner’s otherwise-unwatchable 1987 production of The Untouchables

This part of the post was sarcastic too, right?

Man, I knew I shouldn’t've clicked on that. I’ve been yucking it up all week watching credulous Balloon Juicers fall for that “Joe Beese” guy’s ham-handed spoof-trolling; turns out he means it.

torn between anticipation and dread for when Strange is discovered and moves on to the Bigs

Yeah, ‘cause the MSM gatekeepers reward—and would recognize if bitten on the ass by—excellence.

Seen on teh interwebs from some comedian: this is the only time in history a bunch of white guys are trying to take credit away from a black guy for shooting someone.

Well, yeah, I could watch The Untouchables three or four times a day —like Howard Hughes and Ice Station Zebra —but that wasn’t working with the whole “dismissive” thing. Besides, there’s always someone who wants to start a fight over the “Odessa Steps” sequence, and nobody needs that.

@rdale—Thank you. That’s brilliant.

Hey, is that a picture of the Duke of New York from Escape from New York?  Now there’s a leader for you.  Just sayin.

Seen on teh interwebs from some comedian

Best I’ve seen so far was one about how Obama taking out bin Laden is further proof that immigrants do the jobs Americans don’t want to do.

Strange, you’ve heard they’re remaking ISZ, right? I’m inclined to trust David Gordon Green but just as a matter of expectation management I’m gonna go ahead and assume that Will Forte’s doing the voice of the zebra.

rdale, that made my day.

Sooooooo great, but the best part of this posting is the title, where you treat the Obama administration’s torture of Bradley Manning as a source of humor.  Ha ha ha!  You’re right—fuck Bradley Manning!  Let’s all make jokes at his expense for tarnishing the reputation of this great president we elected!

I’m curious, StrangeAppar8us: do you recommend swallowing when we blow Obama?  I mean, I always want to, but I don’t know if we’re worthy to imbibe his exalted seed.

do you recommend swallowing when we blow Obama?

In your case, you should probably just keep taking it in the ass for the next six years.

What’s with sanctimonious progressiver-than-thou types using metaphors that speak to an underlying homophobia? Seriously, this is getting to be, like, a thing lately. Being insufficiently cynical about the Obama administration invariable gets compared to sucking this or that dick, and it’s always so off-puttingly graphic that it gets into closet-case territory. I understand wingers using the “cramming X down our throats” talking point, because they’re aiming for the gays-are-gross bloc, but this I don’t get.

I just realized I’ve identified a wideranging phenomenon using this place and Balloon Juice as my sample size, and with that realization comes the subrealizations that a) it may well be one guy using different pseuds and b) both blogs’ names are kinda gay if you think about ‘em.

In your case, you should probably just keep taking it in the ass for the next six years.

Yeah, just like Bradley Manning!  He’d better not drop his bar of soap while they’re making him stand naked in front of his cell, right?

It’s totally cool you’re so “out” (ha ha!) with your homophobia.

Hahahaha!

OK, fess up. Which one of you guys is Fellow Obama Fellator? Brilliant satire.

None of you? Really? He’s a genuine firebagger?

Salon is that way, Friendo.

That’s a great point gil mann, because fellatio is sooooo gross and filled with homophobic overtones whereas “keep taking it in the ass” is just a totally funny metaphor.  And it was super clever of StrangeAppar8us to use it in this thread because in addition to being an asshole who’s doing everything he can to make Obama look bad, Bradley Manning is gay!

In fact it’s so funny I think this blog should be renamed “Keep taking it in the ass from Obama, Salon-reading firebaggers!”  Ha ha ha!

in addition to being an asshole who’s doing everything he can to make Obama look bad, Bradley Manning is gay!

That’s just cold, dude. Only one of those was his choice to make.

“Keep taking it in the ass from Obama, Salon-reading firebaggers!”

Well, maybe not the blog name, but we could use a tagline.

Well, it’s not really the “fellatio as stand-in for obsequiousness” that I was picking up on; I don’t give a shit about that, or the historical misogyny behind terms like “pussy” or what-have-you. Pretty much everything’s offensive once you drill down past the common usage excuse. It’s the attention to detail, e.g. seed-imbibing, that makes me wonder.

If I was less than clear on this point, it’s because people whose concept of humor never evolved past rank sarcasm bore me to fucking tears. Any-hoo, speaking of closet cases, I’m strapping on my rollerblades to jet out and see “Thor.”

but we could use a tagline

I’m cool with the concept but we need to work Firebagger Swamp in there somewhere too.  Also.

it’s because people whose concept of humor never evolved past rank sarcasm bore me to fucking tears.

Damn, Homes, why it’s got to be all like that? OK, I aint Strange, but damn, you gotta go with the humor you have not the humor you wish you had. 

All this goddamn humor purity shit makes me anxious.  Then again, though I aint Strange neither am I Kevin, so there’s that.

Welp, got to “Thor,” remembered why I never go the first weekend—that’s when families with children go.

@HB

Oh shut up, you know perfectly well you’re legitimately clever. This guy just says the opposite of what he means and puts an exclamation mark on the end. You’re right, though, that was pretty snotty. You really shouldn’t use “rank” unless you’re British, and maybe not then either.

@O (meaning that it’s directed to Oblomova—it’s not a “surprised cyclops” emoticon)

Ha, yeah—and that’s the #1 movie people tell me I’m a bad person for never having seen—but see, I get it when it’s some anti-gay screed that just oozes shameful desire masked as revulsion—the psychology behind that is hardly impenetrable.

It didn’t come up directly, but I can’t imagine FOF is on the wrong side of history gaywise. I dunno, maybe it’s less “blow jobs are nasty” than it is some kind of freaking-out-the-squares deal?

Not sure why I’m latching onto this, it just seems like I see it a lot lately. Maybe it was always there and I’m only now noticing because I’m trying so hard not to face this Manning thing head-on.

“Trying so hard not to face this Manning thing head-on” EVERYTHING SOUNDS GAY NOW

Welcome, humor-starved emoprogs from the Distant Eructation! We’ve been playing a little game ourselves over here:

Oh, goody!  This thread’s still alive.  Gawd y’all are funny!

Say…look at how FOF responded to the title of this post.  This person has no understanding of humor and believes clumsy, crude sarcasm substitutes for humor. (You’re right gil mann—borrringgg.)  Very much reminds me of Glenzilla.  Is it possible that half or more of the people at FDL are Glenn sock puppets?  Or do they all just have the same snotty, condescending, self-absorbed-adolescent, humorless personality?

gil mann, I’m dying to figure out where I can use the “surprised cyclops” emoticon.

@ Mrs. P—I like the Freeper’s Firebagger’s unintentional punchline that follows the graf you quoted:

There’s a foolproof way to tell the difference between a normal liberal and a special liberal: normal liberals are capable of respectfully disagreeing with people whose beliefs are more than nominally different from their own (in any direction).

At least he’s not cursed with self-awareness.

I’m just impressed by the unimpeachable liberalism of a blog that doesn’t auto-censor nyms like “Fellator.” Or do I mean censor nyms like “Auto-Fellator,” which would probably be a more honest description for Ole Self-Gobbler up there?

At least he’s not cursed with self-awareness.

I’d maybe spin a post off it, but I’d have to cite the entire output of, among others, FireDogLake, Greenwald’s Salon screeds, and—obviously—Old Self-Gobbler himself’s barely wiggly and malformed donations to this thread, along with some of the commenters over at Stinky Ocean, as examples.

I see professional wanker John Caruso has attempted to dispatch some flying monkeys herewards, since there is obviously nothing more pressing on his tiny and disheveled mind at the moment.

Oh, and Angry Geometer, you’ll no doubt be pleased to hear that in Caruso’s mind, your two contributions to his earlier mutual backslapfest class as an “influx of petulant Democratic apologists.” FEEL THE POWER!!!1!

I’d imagine his currently zero commenters all agree with him, even those who don’t wander the ‘tubes fantasizing in public about fellatio, auto or otherwise.

I truly didn’t know which self-parodic paragraph to sample! You’ll be happy to hear that he’s up to one commenter who happily grabs his standard* and TOTALLY agrees with him about the dittoheads over here.

*What?

... and then his second commenter totally misses the point.  Making fun of Bradley Manning?  Really?  *sigh*...

@sean—There are days when I despair that I may never be fully comprehended, at least not in my lifetime.

Yes, Sean, coming over here and making a disdainful reference to performing a sexual act on the president is so NOT homophobic, and receiving a reply in kind, although it doesn’t mention Manning at all, is AUTOMATICALLY mocking Manning’s gayness. It’s the same unimpeachable logic that is displayed throughout the shallows at the Murky Ocean.

Huzzah! This just got posted to Wikio News, under “Bradley Manning”...and cross-referenced to “Medicare” and “Kevin Costner.”

Stand by for mayhem!

If the humungous surge in traffic from the Dirty Ocean link is anything to go by, Kevin better upgrade the server plan to cater for the extra dozen views.

Also, I was curious what other aperçus gfod over there had ever come up with. Google’s response?

Did you mean: “god”

At which point I gave up.

I will, however, note that the gazillion-dollar Google Corporation may be able to afford flashy premises, grunty servers, content-sifters, and all the other bangs and whistles, but apparently not a programmer capable of basic punctuation.

For those who’re still not getting off the boat, the flying monkeymaster has spoke:

This is kind of unfair…to freepers and dittoheads.

Really, at least they joke about Bradley Manning because they disagree with what he did and not just because he makes their guy look bad.

Posted by: razortag | Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Actually I’ve often thought that more than half seriously. Right-wingers may say some incredibly vile stuff and base it on a twisted value system, but at least they have a value system, whereas Democrats like these are just pure partisans whose “beliefs” are entirely dependent on who’s calling the shots (not that the right is free of that by a long shot, of course, but I do think it’s more pronounced among these kinds of Democrats). Empty shells of self-interest and self-regard. It’s hard to say which is worse.

And yeah, the Manning bit is spectacularly putrid. And I’m sure more than a few of them would sing the praises of Daniel Ellsberg—in fact I’ve been meaning to collect a few of the many articles I’ve seen where professed liberals like this go through yoga-like contortions trying to square their admiration for Ellsberg with their acceptance or even endorsement of what the Obama administration is doing to Manning. It’s not often you get such a perfect litmus test for partisan hypocrisy.

Posted by: John Caruso | Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Christ. If it wasn’t for picking fights with Dems and other lefty purity transgressors, Caruso and his useless ilk would have nothing to do whatsoever.

Strange, even if you are always somewhat misunderstood, you bring us such delightful phrases as “nuclear powered Lamb of God.”  I’m still looking for a way to slip that one into everyday conversation.  I’ll just keep on keeping up when I can.

Polly, it’s always good fun when some emogressive flies off the handle far enough to sign up for an account here and comment.  For every one of them, I can just imagine ten whose outrage doesn’t quite boil over, and who instead just pound on their desks and slink back to their humorless Effluence franchises.

It reminds me of the old joke:

Q: What’s the difference between FreeRepublic and Democratic sites like this?

A: I don’t know either.  Better CSS?

Stupid Left! (whacks Left on head) Be more funny!

Oh, and if HB’s still around, I take my previous take-back. Betty White used the term “rank sarcasm” on NPR this morning so clearly I’ve got nothing to apologize for.

Stupid Left! (whacks Left on head) Be more funny!

Caruso’s entitled to his grievances, but unless he relishes the role of a crank he’ll need to do better than lay them at the feet of an educated, pampered Liberal elite that swoons over any Democrat who reminds them of themselves.

Caruso’s entitled to his grievances

Pah. I’ll just say this:

Those who reflexively criticize every Obama action because they predicted long ago that he would be the same as Bush and want that prediction to be vindicated are but the opposite side of the same irrational coin as those who find ways to justify everything Obama does because they long ago placed the type of faith in him that no political leader should ever enjoy.

I may or may not ever forgive you for posting that link.

Well, then, I’ll say to hell with it and go for broke.

The poor limpet in that little tidepool over there has a PUMAesque lack of comprehension re who exactly is being mocked. The kitties never got that THEY, not Hillary, were providing the material for all the pointing and laughing, just as Caruso is too dull to realize that the post is about fauxgressive purity ponies like himself, not Bradley Manning at all.

I was trying very hard not to shoot my load all at once, Strange:

a vengeful 23-year-old’s favor to the 9/11 mastermind

Hey, Mrs. P, thanks for finally producing a snippet of text that fur-face over here doesn’t want to make out with. I’m sure it’ll be a brief respite, but appreciated all the same.

Wait, what is he… oh God he’s going into the archives to look at your cartoons NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Who is “fur face”?

I could be wrong, but I think that refers to the upstream troll, Fellow Obama Fellator.

Wait, Polly informs me that “fur face” ia actually Mr. Mann, referencing himself in the third person. Apologies.

What a drag.  I was yukkin at all the penis and gay sex references, loving Mrs. Polly’s footnotes (*What?), generally having a nice break from work, and then I got to “Nation Fellates Obama” and “Netanyahu’s Rectum.”  Mrs. Polly, this guy’s lack of self-awareness is sucking away MY joy at this point.  The self-absorption required to render this fucker so obtuse he can’t figure out HE’s the butt of our jokes is starting to bum me out.  And that harshes my chuckle-buzz.  That fucker.  That poor, joyless fucker.

@gil mann’s scratched and smeary monitor: hmmph, a respite for you, perhaps. Just another day of relentless pounding for me, but she’s always sorry afterwards, she says.

The self-absorption required to render this fucker so obtuse he can’t figure out HE’s the butt of our jokes is starting to bum me out.  And that harshes my chuckle-buzz.

Yeah, sorry Beulahmo. Why, given their common pathological stylistic fixation with matters genital and generally Down South, it’s almost as if “Fellow Obama Fellator” were a sockpuppet of the terminally humorless David Caruso.

...terminally humorless David Caruso.

Ha! Busted. One’s a hack widely pillioried for his stilted, overmannered delivery ... and ... Yeah, well. You get the idea.

It’s doubledown time on the boat:

Democrats like these pull out the race card (and others) as predictably and reflexively as Hannity zombies bleat about anti-Americanism—for the same reasons, and with just as little cause or justification. It’s funny how oblivious they are to the fact that they draw from the same playbook. I do at least appreciate them illustrating the point, though.

If whitey[*] had any genuine concern for “thousands of people being held under inhumane conditions in American prisons” s/he’d be absolutely outraged about Clinton’s record on crime, punishment and incarceration. But it’s nothing more than posturing, of course—just a bludgeon to pick up when it’s useful to attack whoever’s currently criticizing the Party, and to discard again when it’s time to elect yet another law-and-order/drug war Democrat.

And yeah, ergo, I think our visitors are in such a tizzy because they can’t figure out which pigeonhole to use, since they can’t imagine having principles that are independent of any political party.

Posted by: John Caruso | Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 06:27 PM

* “Whitey” refers to this comment someone left over there:

Bradley Manning is the Natalee Holloway of imprisoned Americans. None of you give a fuck about any of the other thousands of people being held under inhumane conditions in American prisons. And some of them, unlike Manning, are innocent.

Posted by: Heckuva job, whitey! | Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 02:20 PM

principles that are independent of any political party

Translation: We’re too good for anyone. But we hate special liberals.

Okaayy! That’s an effective way of getting things accomplished!

they can’t imagine having principles that are independent of any political party

This is officially inching into They-Laughed-At-Me-In-Leipzig territory.

He does seem to have an unseemly hard-on for Clinton after all these years, as if this was a Clinton loyalist blog! And for the dim and distant past in general.

And I’m loving being labeled a Democrat (of the SNP Branch, I suppose?) by some overly yappy supercilious loon who “can’t figure out which pigeonhole to use”!

And that old “race card” schtick. It never gets tired, does it?

That fucker.  That poor, joyless fucker.

Ahem, uhhh… may I introduce meself, I’m uhhh… well, nice to meet ya.

ABL is still at the top of the target list but you can be number 2, I mean, number 2 aint as bad as it sounds. Jus’ sayin’.

Stay away from Kevin and we can be friends and I like to take care of me friends.

HB,

I hate to be so uncool, but I’m lost—too newbie to know who Kevin is.

{:-[]

Also—I’m familiar with ABL (adore her), and she’s probably at the top of quite a few target lists.  Can you elaborate a bit?

YAFB,

Oh!  Ooh!  Did I mess up?  I’d assumed we’d progressed to acknowledging that FOF definitely IS Caruso.

I’d assumed we’d progressed to acknowledging that FOF definitely IS Caruso.

On the evidence available—and given that none of the other visitors from Dirty Ocean over the course of the day have bothered to comment here—it would be irresponsible not to speculate that “Fellow Obama Fellator” was indeed John Caruso (got it right that time ...). He’s definitely got a few problems, gratuitously sexual political rhetoric being just one of the most apparent, and the supreme ability to totally miss the fucking point being another. I’d put money on it.

Did I mess up?

Nope. Don’t mind Humboldt. He’ll do you no harm. He’s just messing with ya.

Kevin is the founder of this blog, nowadays in semi-retirement from the fray (except, apparently, weekends). You’ll catch him on the Twitter feed quite often.

@Beulahmo - this was originally Kevin K.‘s blog but the rest of us invaded and kind of took over. OK, not really, he had pressing interests outside the intertoobs that he had to look after so the rest of us have done our best to carry his legacy on.  If you look back through the archives you can see what a brilliant blogger he was (and still could be if you JUST CAME BACK) (sorry, got carried away).  So for now we just carry the banner and, from time to time, reminisce about “the days of Kevin”.  Anyone else, feel free to jump in on this. ;-)

There are old CSS jokes?

There are old CSS jokes?

Another gem of a tribute to add to the collection from The Enlightened over at Dirty Ocean (where I decided enough hypocritical posturing about “civility” in discourse from John Caruso was enough):

YAFB would have better ground to stand on if the site he’s pimping wasn’t more racist than Redstate. You’re late to you’re Klan rally, friend: don’t let us keep you.

Posted by: No One of Consequence | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM

*Yawn* Popcorn’s on the burner.

If he was really your friend and you were running late, wouldn’t he be willing to give you a ride to the Klan rally?  Not cool.

Good point, well made. And so far, no denial from John Caruso that he was indeed “Fellow Obama Fellator” (not that I’d believe him anyway).

Also. 100!

I’m sure there are a few Rumproast readers who aren’t entirely comfortable with the self-satisfied mockery and contempt that seems to be this site’s heart and soul.

Good grief. Have you taken a look at your own blog recently?

Mottes ...

Beyond that: it’s inordinately humorous to me that so many of you feign such dudgeon and offense about fellatio

Speaking for myself, hailing from the land of Benny Hill and the Carry On movies, it’s not so much dudgeon and offense as weary eyebrow-raising leading to derision at such a tired metaphor being trotted out yet again, having weathered the ‘08 campaign and since, when the “Mandingo” element in the opposition to Obama has been all too evident. If you’re not sensitive to that, well ...

As for Strange’s riposte, it was cheap retaliation in kind. Despite your own cheap distractory riposte, it had nothing to do with Manning or his sexuality, and it was dishonest of you to pretend it did when you’d lowered the (sexual) tone in the first place, but then your dual standards toward yourself and your illusions about your own elevated status are too tiresomely apparent by now to be worth commenting on in more depth.

Keep it going, guys. If this gets to 110 comments, I win a free sandwich from Subway.

You mean you haven’t been on Intrade?!

Amateur.

I found the humor here at the expense of Bradley Manning utterly repugnant

You remind me of my wife—she doesn’t know what “expense” means either!

@John Caruso,

“Beyond that: it’s inordinately humorous to me that so many of you feign such dudgeon and offense about fellatio…”

Well, I’ll be damned.  Maybe we’ve been giving you too much credit for intelligence.  I’d be willing to bet a thousand of my own dollars none of the RumpRoasters here is offended by fellatio—either the act or the discussion of it. (Mr. Beulahmo and I happen to LOVE it.)

We’ve been assuming you’ve pretended to be confused.  But, okay, you’ve talked me into it—I’ll just take your words at face value and accept that you’re genuinely too stupid to understand that this isn’t about expressing scorn for Bradley Manning or his sexual orientation or homosexuals in general or specific sexual acts. 

So let me make it crystal-clear:  the only things being mocked in this post and thread are your ridiculous sanctimony and the ridiculous ways you publicly express it.

I can hire one half of the working classes to humorlessly scold the other half to death.

I’d be willing to bet a thousand of my own dollars none of the RumpRoasters here is offended by fellatio—either the act or the discussion of it. (Mr. Beulahmo and I happen to LOVE it.)

Hmmm… I don’t who the fuck MR. Buelahmo is, but you’re getting closer to that number 1 spot. Jus’ sayin’. And yes, we love fellatio at RumpRoast

I’d be willing to bet a thousand of my own dollars none of the RumpRoasters here is offended by fellatio

OK. I’m mortally offended by it. Whatever it is.

Can you do PayPal?

It’s Italian for “drinking straw” or even “slurpee” and we all love our drinking straws and slurpees at
RumpRoast.

I enjoy everything about fellatio, except the part where the woman yells “Yahtzee!” and the cat hides in the dryer.

Oh dear oh dear.

One or two of them over there are going to get RSI and existential hernias after my recent stirrings of the pot if they keep this up. Shame I’ll never bother reading them.

Christ, from what I did bother skimming, I haven’t seen so much wilful “gotcha!” misrepresentation and endless unfollowable ideologically bollocksed screeching into thin air since my old Peace Camp “feelings meetings” days, the usual subject being who hadn’t done the washing up in the past n months AND YOU’RE ALL SPECIAL LEFTISTS IN THE POCKETS OF THE CORPORATISTS NOT LIKE THOSE NICE LEFTISTS OVER THERE WHO DO THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE CHORES

It’s Cognitive Dissonance Day at Dirty Ocean!

And if you ever get tired of being in an echo chamber where mean-spirited snark rules the day, and you’re willing and able to converse with people who disagree with you—even in major and fundamental ways—with respect and consideration, you’re welcome at my blog.

Oh, what a tempting offer:

Let me break it down for these pieces of shit. Your token vote for the black guy makes you a far, far greater bigot than any of the good ol’ boys I ever had to deal with

RESPECT! We are all white heterosexuals who have NEVER voted for one of THOSE people before; that’s why we feel so SPECIAL.

It’s Cognitive Dissonance Day at Dirty Ocean!

I suspect it runs all year. It’s like Groundhog Day, only a lot more verbose, and nothing ever changes.

YAFB, I just took a look at what will no doubt be the Eructation’s one-and-only 60-comment thread. It truly deserves to be called “epic”.*

The inconsequential person’s particularly stunning lack of awareness of how humo(u)r works is quite par for the course over there, isn’t it. I can see him/her making whuffing noises over Duchamp, saying, “But it is a pipe! It is!”

Now they’re blithely asserting that Bradalee Manning is innocent because any laws he’s violated are illegal. Espionage is protected under the First Amendment, evidently.

*Period outside of quotes just for you, Brit!

The inconsequential person’s particularly stunning lack of awareness of how humo(u)r works is quite par for the course over there, isn’t it.

If ever a nym was aptly chosen! The breadth of his (I’m guessing a he) delusion and lack of awareness seems to know no bounds, and he’s happy to parade them at length like a troupe of dancing poodles.

Personally, I think he’s floridly barking mad, and from what he’s let slip earlier, it sounds like those around him IRL have their own suspicions in that regard. The alternative is that he’s drunk, but nobody that drunk would be able to focus, let alone operate a keyboard.

I suspect we’re the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to the nonentity and John Caruso in either of their lives, and the past couple of days will enter groupthink legend as a tremendous coup, like The Outing Of Juan Cole As Insufficiently Knowledgeable And Cynical About Things Unlike Us Special Ones, or The Day Glenn Greenwald Dared To Suggest That Kneejerk Opposition To Obama Was As Bad As Kneejerk Support Of Him The Bastard.

Caruso is apparently proud of his efforts, including his outed exhibitionism here, and those of his five commenters. The jury of public opinion will probably never return a verdict, since too few will ever read it to form a quorum.

*Period outside of quotes just for you, Brit!

You do know how to please a man.

*Period outside of quotes just for you, Brit!

Feckin’ Tories.

I’m sure there are a few Rumproast readers who aren’t entirely comfortable with the self-satisfied mockery and contempt that seems to be this site’s heart and soul,

Well, if you’re so sure about this, then here’s a simple challenge:

NAME them, you fucking twatwaffle.

Now they’re blithely asserting that Bradalee Manning is innocent because any laws he’s violated are illegal. Espionage is protected under the First Amendment, evidently.

Well, um, the whole IDEA of civil disobedience is that one is willing to go to jail in protest of laws one deems unjust. Which is why King didn’t call it “Letter from Birmingham Club Med.”

Oblo, they don’t seem to get the DIS part of the phrase. It’s like setting yourself on fire and complaining that it burns.

Since we now must face our awful future as wearers of the label “Lesser Evillists,”* that makes them “Greater Evillists.” Really, they ought to have thought that one through.

*or “Lesser Evillists”,—see to what lengths I will go to keep our readers comfortable, lest they take offense and desert us for the Greater Evillists at the Murky Tidepool of Unspecialness.

Part of me—the Greater Evillist—would LOVE to see Oblomova let loose over there, just for the unbelievable havoc it would cause to the self-satisfied permanently malcontented superior cabal. Well, that and the popcorn sales.

The Lesser Evillist—in the ascendant—would prefer she conserve her energy and spend time with us instead, as no matter what edge of reality is presented, by the time it’s filtered through the deadender ultra-defensive perpetual victimhood groupthink and protective blank dumb ignorance, the response just translates as fingers in the ears and “WHAAAA” as the tinnitus of nihilism drowns out the threat of dissent.

or “Lesser Evillists”,—

Mrs. P, that’s just ugly. No commas before en rules, please. /fascist

Mrs. P, that’s just ugly

You just can’t win for losing, sometimes. You know I was debasing myself for you, Brit!

Gyad, I tried to pick my way through that thread at Distant Septic Tank, but I was overcome by a sudden onset of situational narcolepsy. I haven’t encountered such a tedious pack of assholes since the old usenet days.

I’m sure there are a few Rumproast readers who aren’t entirely comfortable with the self-satisfied mockery and contempt that seems to be this site’s heart and soul,

I don’t know about anyone else, but that’s why this place is my first stop every morning. Well, that and the fellatio.

That Caruso guy has all of Lambert’s faux outrage, but less playful wit and self-deprecating humor.  Yet somehow his five commenters are driven to an orgasm of world-weariness by his every tedious post.  Now it’s on to “John Kerry is a murderous psychopath.”

Keep it going, guys. If this gets to 110 comments, I win a free sandwich from Subway.

Good morning!  Your sammich, Mr. Appar8us.  Turkey, ham, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, banana peppers, and Obama® brand Dijon mustard—made “special” just for you.  All at Bradley Manning’s expense, just as you requested in the OP.

Would you like to make that a meal?  Free with 150 comments.

Holy smokes! I knew all those checks to WAAGNFNP were going to pay off someday!

50 comments for a bag o’ chips and a small soda? Throw in some free napkins, and you’re on!

All at Bradley Manning’s expense, just as you requested in the OP.

Huh? Reading comprehension, Mr. Bérubé. Only an idiot could confuse Strange and Fellow Obama Fellator up there.

I’m sure there are a few Rumproast readers who aren’t entirely comfortable with the self-satisfied mockery and contempt that seems to be this site’s heart and soul

Umm, sooo, that’s why they keep coming here and reading it?  Because, you know, it’s very SPECIAL self-satisfied mockery and contempt.

The WAAGNFNP thanks you for your support, Mr. Appar8tus.  Unfortunately, as you know, the Party was forced to dissolve in late 2009 when the powerful (yet civil) blogging of the emo-progressive caucus convinced us that we were not sufficiently outraged by Obama’s decision to strangle the public option in its sleep.*  As you no doubt recall, the WAAGNFNP had called for Obama to be officially designated as History’s Greatest Monster, but we stopped short of insisting that he be boiled in a vat of his own toxic self-regard and fed to hungry rats.  Guilty of accommodationism, we tried going to the penalty box and feeling shame, but it was not enough.  So we eventually dissolved in a week-long ritual of self-recrimination.

But I hope you enjoyed your sammich.  You have earned it.

_____
*  We have, however, kept all contributors’ checks so that we can primary that sellout Bernie Sanders in 2012.

Thanks, Michael. I can’t tell you how many times that civil, reasoned criticism from the Godspellian Left has nearly convinced me to upload my unfinished exit post “Obama, You Neo-Wilsonian Bastard!” and run skipping along the streets of Manhattan in face-paint and clown shoes.

Your sammich gives me the strength—and the warm, proteiny goodness—to continue my work, even in the face of supremely articulate challenges from those who earnestly believe that supporting Obama is like gagging yourself on a huge black cock, but then bristle when you urge them to go take a squat on the Steel Commander.

By Grabthar’s Hammer, WAAGNFNP shall be avenged!

I don’t who the motherfucker was that started calling “peperoncinis” motherfucking “banana peppers” but they need to cut that shit out.

Peperoncini are typically used in sandwiches, salads (particularly Greek salad, tossed salads served in pizzerias and antipasto platters) and as a garnish to lend dishes a crunchy texture and a salty taste. Peperoncini serve as a great change from the common taste people receive in most meals. The taste provides a nice “kick” that can complement many meals, especially for people who like spicy foods.

Peperoncini are sometimes briefly rinsed in cold water before serving to reduce the effects of the pickling brine on the taste. Pickled peperoncini can vary in colour from bright yellow to bright yellow-green.

Motherfuckers.

Just when I think I’m making progress…

@Michael Berube,

(Sorry about the missing accents graves.  I don’t know how to do that on my Mac.)

It’s such a pleasure and an honor to have you here at this thread!  Forgive me for gushing, but I am such a fan and I’m tickled pink that you’ve dropped in.  Please stay awhile.  Can I offer you a sub sandwich?  Fellatio?  Please…make yourself at home.

Beulahmo, that was unseemly and stalkerish.

Saves me from having to do it, though, so thanks!

accents graves acutes

/insufferable pedant ;)

I’m always made a bit uneasy when people refer to peperoncini as fellatio, but I do appreciate the offer, Beulahmo.  Truth is, I drop by here now and then but have been sticking around ever since the weekend, when I laughed my ass off and rolled on the floor upon reading this post.  If only there were a space-saving acronym for that!

Besides, I love a thread where there’s food.  Mr. Appar8tus, I wanted to make sure that sammich had plenty of protein, but here’s a tip.  I’ve found that when I’m dealing with people who get way angrier about stuff we largely agree on than about stuff we don’t (because it makes them have to go back and recalibrate precisely how much better they are than people like me), protein is not enough.  You also need the Mak’tar chant of strength.  On three now:  larak tarath.  larak tarath.  larak tarath.

You may resume denouncing the neo-Wilsonian bastard—now with twice the vigor!

Oh, please, Michael, call me “Strange.”

Is it hot in here?

Well, I’ll join in with the Berube love. Didn’t want to scare him off with groveling, but now I’m pissed that I didn’t offer fellatio immediately. At least someone here remembers manners!

I guess we can finally kiss goodbye to that Net Nanny rating, huh?

@Twinky P,

Wow, and I couldn’t grovel fast enough.  I was in such a hurry I couldn’t take the time to learn the accent aigu (takes a pedant to know a pedant, YAFB) trick for Mac.

I thought the offer of fellatio was appropriate under the circumstances, you know?  Plus, I was kinda hoping it’d evoke another interesting response from HB.  ;-p

Hey…wonder how many comments containing the word “fellatio” we’ll finally total on this thread?

Hey…wonder how many comments containing the word “fellatio” we’ll finally total on this thread?

Actually, the blog host informs me that we’re overlimit on “fellatio,” and suggests that we switch to something like “submissive urination”—at least until the server cools down.

i guess we could do a count. For some reason, the Google ads have taken refuge in literature:

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Austen/Lawrence. They both look so alike in the dark.

Wow, Caruso is really kicking John Kerry’s ass over there. I can’t wait for 2004 to roll around again.

When it does, we will be ready!  I will advise Sen. Kerry to shoot a duck in Ohio and be sure not to mention Abu Ghraib during the debates.  It’s going to be all about the swing voters, I think.

...suggests that we switch to something like “submissive urination”...

Hmmm…well that is sexy…but will it appeal to/enrage John Caruso?

This has been one of the longest, funniest threads in a long, long time.  Thank you so much Mr. Bérubé for stopping by and throwing your 2² cents worth in.  I’m sure I’m not just speaking for myself when I say feel welcome to chime in anytime!

SUBWAY MEAL!!!!!!!!

Phew, I was afraid Strange might miss out on the chips! Yay for us! (not to be confused with USAUSAUSA)

I thought I’d celebrate the hot 150 by concocting a word cloud of the thread so far.

BTW, for the still curious, the fellatio word count was 19.

SUBWAY MEAL!!!!!!!!

Beulahmo, you still around?

Four days ago I wouldn’t've thought you actually would get a chance to use a “surprised cyclops” emoticon, but I’ll be damned if a thread this long doesn’t have a certain “infinite monkeys @ infinite typewriters” quality.

You’re late to you’re Klan rally, friend: don’t let us keep you.

@0

(Is it common knowledge that “Grand Cyclops” is an actual position in the KKK? White supremacists are, among other things, huge dorks)

Well, gil, the latest flying monkey masterstroke might have your eye out:

As Ted Rall wrote this week, with the murder of Osama, Obama has become the Jack Ruby of 9/11.

Genocide-with-a-Smile

Whew! I thought that was going to be about Medicare, which purports to “help” “senior” “citizens” by “keeping” “them” “alive”...when in fact it’s just one more way the man be keepin’ y’all down.

As Ted Rall wrote this week

Did you know that, before Rall became synonymous with “descent into crankdom,” he used to draw?*

That reminds me of a comment I saw on one of the black-armbands-for-OBL blogs recently, left by a Truther (who went unchallenged—didn’t even the Tru-Prog bloggers realize those guys were kooks once upon a time?): “As Rosie O’Donnell says, steel beams don’t melt at that temperature”

Ah yes, noted metallurgist That Shrill Idiot who Makes Joy Behar Sound Like Sue Ellicot.

Okay, I think once the female lead from Exit to Eden makes the cut, you’ve officially exhausted your supply of worthwhile contributions to this thread. PEAS OUT

*you know who else…

Crossposted from my blog, in response to yet another of you lot who toddled over there to embarrass himself:

Hilarious.  Between this buffoon and poor spittle-flecked Angry Geometer up there, I can’t imagine a better illustration not only of the point of my posting, but why I finally decided to head over to Rumproast to give these extraordinarily special liberals a satirical taste not only of their vicious callousness toward Bradley Manning but the 8th grade writing style that’s the best they can muster.  No insult intended to actual 8th graders, by the way, who at least have the excuse of being 14 years old.

I realized the satire would be entirely lost on people so dense (seriously, they should rename their blog No Comprendo).  And it’s not like they have consciences to shame either.  But hey, I’ve always been quixotic that way.

Y’all truly do embody the worst of everything I’ve seen among self-styled, right-wing-in-all-but-name “liberals”.  Empty minds and even emptier hearts.

Aloha.

This is just eating you alive, isn’t it, John?

Crossposted from my blog

Which barely anyone reads, hence the need to trumpet it abroad!

Seriously, you come over here and embarrass yourself publicly by epicly stupid sockpuppeting that you’re eventually forced by the weight of evidence to finally admit to, then expect to shame us!?

I’ll admit it. That’s good satire.

Let’s hope it’s the final comment, O. That dude seems to be a bigger blog-whore than Not Your Sweetie, so we’ll probably be treated to further squeeees for attention. Kinda sad, really.

Indeed, Betty. I imagine Toxic Seas often finds himself in restaurants bleating “Such bad food! And such small portions!”

Empty minds and even emptier hearts.

And that sonofabitch didn’t even offer us fellatio! Goddamn, man, when you’re on your knees groveling for attention at least mention it, it will capture our attention for a split second and we may have even considered allowing you to hang around the clubhouse on Saturdays.

but nooooooo, you have to take your deflated pig bladder and run home while we stand here with our pants down and expectation draining from our faces.

Motherfucker.

Bless his heart, he came back. It’s no fun spanking someone when they like it.

Well, not as much fun, anyhoo, depending on who’s doing the spanking.

Oh. Mah. Gawd.  I missed this thread because I’ve been stridently avoiding everything Manning-related so as to not have to poke out my eyeballs with a rusty pitchfork.  But, in just skimming it (I will have to go back and read the whole damn thing), I have this to say: 

1. Fellatio, fellatio, fellatio.  And, cunnilingus.

2.  The mockery and irreverence is WHY I visit RR.  That and the merciless trouncing of self-important asshats like JC in this very thread.

3.  Why can’t trolls be more entertaining?  Granted, the hilarity said trolls bring is quality, but the trolls themselves?  Boring.

4.  I finally understand the Michael Berhooooobay joke!  YAY. 

Now, off to read the whole. Damn. Thread.

I need a ciggie now.  You guys are brilliant.  I laughed; I cried; I would read this again and again.  It’s better than Cats.  “Yahtzee!”

I realized the satire would be entirely lost on people so dense (seriously, they should rename their blog No Comprendo) 

Ba-dum-Shishhhhh! He’ll be here all week, try the waiter and tip the veal!

It must be awfully lonely being THE ONLY UNSPECIAL LIBERALS IN THE WORLD.

**Special Tip**

I know this was originally for Somerby, but it also works for JC up there (the elevated one, I mean; the one who is never wro—oh heck, the guy upthre—well Hell’s Bells. The one with the unread blog. That JC):

Problems plowing through the Murky Ocean?  Read him using Comic Books Guy’s voice. Goodness knows I do, and now I can almost get to the end of one of JC’s sentences without yawning and wondering if I should order that Zumba video that suddenly seems so enticing.

but nooooooo, you have to take your deflated pig bladder and run home while we stand here with our pants down and expectation draining from our faces.

I think I love you.

This is impressive. Incomprehensible firebaggery, self-righteous douchetardation, AND SOCKPUPPETRY.

One stop shopping. How convenient.

Don’t know why this ad made me chuckle so hard, but it does fit this cocksucking thread rather nicely.

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Oh, bless his little rock-encased head, JC revived this thread again!

Gil Mann, you’re right—this thread does have an infinite-monkeys-infinite-typewriters quality!  First time I’ve been delighted to see a Klan mention!  @O

Mrs. Polly, you probably won’t believe this, but I was already hearing Comic Book Guy’s voice when I read JC’s comments.  (I sometimes hear it when reading Glenn Greenwald, too.)

And, Humbolt, as an expression of solidarity, I’ll stand around with my pants around my ankles too, even though I’m not equipped to solicit fellatio.

Oh, bless his little rock-encased head, JC revived this thread again!

Yes, but now I’m all out of sammiches and even chips-and-sodas.  It’s nothing but free napkins from this point on, though of course they can double as crying towels for people whose feelings are hurt by the mean vile snarkitude of this nasty thread.

You know, there’s a certain kind of hardcore wingnut who believes that “liberals” (i.e., the ones in their head) are all about being tolerant and sweet and accommodating and making a nice cup of green tea for people who despise them, and when real actual people on the left reply to them with snark and derision instead, their heads asplode with the incivility of it all.  Thank goodness those people are only found in Freeperville.

Professor Bé, it is sad to see someone named “Caruso” who cannot digest delicious multi-layered, savory sammiches with plenty of sauce and peppers. Particularly surprising as JC himself maintains such an acid environment.

And to the diacritically deprived, let me pass on another useful tip that actually I learned from Strange.

How to handle a “Bérubé?” No need to drag out the character map! Copy and Paste, friends!

Yöu’re welcöme!

@Beulahmo: it’s really hard to hear him any other way, isn’t it?

Re the other thing: so I guess we’re all going to have to do it now, aren’t we? Hoookay, but I now I really wish I’d lasered off that Joe Conason tattoo I got in the 90’s. I just couldn’t stop living in hope.

Mrs. Polly, you probably won’t believe this, but I was already hearing Comic Book Guy’s voice when I read JC’s comments.  (I sometimes hear it when reading Glenn Greenwald, too.)

Hehehehe… I thought there was something familiar about him.

No, the liberals I can’t stand are a special kind of liberal.  Truly special.  Quite literally SPECIAL.  By which I mean: smug, patronizing, entitled, condescending, ignorantly-arrogant liberals

I don’t know how I missed that comment, but all I can say is ... nigga, please.

Motherfucker, I am special because I am ridiculously good-looking, the possessor of an outstanding and well-trained baritone (OK, OK, it’s ragged and raspy now, but back in the day? Daaaaaammmmmnnnn) and I recognize that the folks who spend their time typing sentences that are reproduced on this blog not only make you seem simple and dull, but the collective energy, sense and activism are what fuels actual change in society.

You caterwauling fumbledick, it aint about you, buck the fuck up and go help Betty Chinn or whomever it is in your neighborhood who steps outside themselves to actually do something to make someone else’s life a bit better.

That’s all.

(is it whom or who in that particular sentence structure?)