Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Now no fingerpointing! It’s not as if the Governor is the first Arizona Tealoon to turn a tidy profit on her untidy relationship with the truth. So the Governor has managed to massage her encounter with the President into sales: “Scorpions for Breakfast,” her hilarious political fabulation-a-clef,  has zoomed on Amazon from 343,222 to 7. (Thanks TPM) Shall we deny an author the fruits of the sweat of her tongue?

But now to the news I know Roastafarians have been on tenterhooks waiting for: the winner of the Kaption This Kaptious Kook Contest and the valuable, one-of-a-kind Jan Brewer Souvenir Hospitality Bottle Cap:

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 01/30/12 at 01:24 PM
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Did the earth move for you last night? To read the pundits this morning, when our bleary eyes crested the pillow we’d been biting through the dark hours before dawn, a new era greeted them, the like of which has never before been witnessed.

The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.
(Asshole Assholeson)

The unstoppable force that is Newt Gingrich and the immovable object that is Mitt Romney are headed for a collision in Florida.
(Politico)

A more sober observer, the Atlantic’s Robert Wright, asks:

How did Newt do it? How did a candidate who seemed near death only a week ago rise up to win in South Carolina? He did it the way he always does it: By playing the hate card.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

At a minute past the closing of the South Carolina polls, your ace Rumproast Primary coverage team, consisting of Mrs. Polly, her modem, and a 1998 Panasonic (19”, don’t envy!) entirely are certain that MSNBC has forecast the winner: NOT MITT!

The dropsical Speaker is experiencing a surge that may last more than four hours. So much for solid family values in the Palm State~~oh, it’s Palmetto? Dear dear! My mistake.

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Sunday, January 08, 2012

I don’t want to be selfish and pick all the plums out of this Palin interview with Jeanine Pirro in case anyone else wants to join in, but if you can get beyond the gradual evolution into Cousin It, she’s not too screechy in this exchange (new meds?), and there’s plenty of fun as she tells the Republicans how to WIN against Obama. Because SARAH KNOWS JUST SHUT UP!!!! Sample:

Republicans are known for not being sheeple, and not just, um, going along to get along, but really wanting to duke it out in the arena of ideas, and healthy debate, and contested primaries, and that’s good, it’s a good process.

As opposed to, once in a while you see on the Democrat side, you know, you see an Anointed One, and they go forward and they don’t get vetted, and they don’t have to engage in the strong, aggressive debate that helps people understand who these people are, what their experience is, and what their intentions are in leading the country, so I don’t have a problem with aggressive campaigning as long as it’s fair campaigning.

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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Though the headline at The Hill was “Cantor Reveals Kindred Tweeters,” in the course of my initial sideways glance, my brain unveiled what it deemed to be a far more likely scenario. But indeed, the socially media-savvy congressman, following Twitter’s “Here are some horse’s necks just like you” feature, has discovered bosom Tweetbuddies John Thune, Chris Christie, Jim Jordan, and Bobby “Gilligan” Jindal.  I’in’t that sweet?

You know what’s sweeter? Cantor’s gloriously embarrassing 60 minutes interview, just after the jump.

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Thursday, January 05, 2012

From an otherwise excellent profile in the NY Times Magazine:

It wasn’t, in truth, Colbert’s funniest hour

This fascinates me, the ongoing refusal of the beltway media to acknowledge the hit they took. It really is an article of faith to these people that Colbert embarrassed himself that night.

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With plenty of Santorum to go around. (H/T JMG)

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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Where we’re going, you can’t follow. What we’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Michele, we’re no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that our love for manifestly insane, paranoiac God-bothering wingnuts and their deliciously fey, hysterically oblivious, Medicare-defrauding de-gaying spouses don’t amount to a mound of corn in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.

Michele has cancelled her South Carolina appearances, and has an 11AM news conference, which C-Span is carrying.  Oh Marcus, how will I get through the rest of this election cycle without you?

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Hungover and still at the “make the world go away” stage?

Knee-deep in wrapping paper and/or relatives?

Still stumped by the instructions on that new toy?

Once you finally deciphered them and unearthed some batteries, has 2011’s must-have gizmo not lived up to the ad copy hype?

Or even worse, does the damn thing apparently have a mind of its own?

Oh well. Never mind. There’s always strong drink. Let it all hang out.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

NSFW:

Funny, that’s exactly how I feel about the Miami Police Department building too.

[H/T: HuffPo]

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Exhibit A is this story. No way this sort of balls up happened on its own [via Yahoo! News]:

The company behind the film Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is replacing 100,000 title sheets from the film’s newly released DVD and Blue Ray versions because the copy writer incorrectly described the late Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a story of “self-sacrifice.”

Put simply, that’s like calling Michael Moore a tea partier.

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“It’s embarrassing for sure and of course, regardless of how or why it happened, we’re all feeling responsible right now.” said Scott DeSapio, a spokesman for Atlas Productions, which released the movie in theaters earlier this year. “You can imagine how mortified we all were when we saw the DVD but, it was simply too late—the product was already on shelves all over the Country* [sic]. It was certainly no surprise when the incredulous emails ensued. The irony is inescapable.”

You bet the irony is inescapable. The Irony Gremlins really hate self-absorbed wankers. And their thoughts re: Self-absorbed wankers who do unto the novel what the Luftwaffe did unto London? Don’t even go there.

The production company set up a website so people can replace the title sheet that will say, “AYN RAND’s timeless novel of rational self-interest comes to life,” a far more apt description of Rand’s work and philosophy.

Jesus. Does any really give that much of a fuck? Did gibbertarian twatwaffles** blubber in disbelief at the typo before dropping to their knees and roaring “NOOOOOOOOO!!” at the uncaring skies?

I sure do hope so.

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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

George Takei [via Twitter]:

Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 72 days. Another example of how same-sex marriage is destroying the sanctity of the very institution.

Takei has been with his husband, Brad Altman, since Ms. Kardashian was 7 years old.

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