Cory Doctorow, call your office
Maybe it’s just me, but this sort of stuff looks like, potentially, the very earliest days of the bitchun society.
BradSpangler.com
Proudly heralding a “nihilistic orgy of universal guilt”.
Chocolate covered espresso beans
So I was sitting around with someone, introducing them to the unique pleasure of eating chocolate covered espresso beans. First a milk chocolate one. She loved it.
Then a white chocolate one.
Then a dark chocolate one.
Then I pull out another white chocolate espresso bean which happened to have a slightly mottled appearance with several brown spots on it.
“Oh! Is that one coffee flavored?”
[long pause]
“Well, yes dear.”
Giuliani can’t read maps
Get this: Giuliani says Dem victory would leave U.S. ‘to the left of France’. I don’t know what the big deal is. Most maps show the US to the left of France already.
Oh, isn’t she cute?
Rather than choosing to explain why a fifth of Americans can’t find the US on a world map, Miss South Carolina apparently chose to demonstrate why.
This is a perfect example of the sort of person who goes on to a bright future in government or corporate communications departments. They string overtly intelligent-sounding but vapid catch-phrases together regardless of actual semantic content (or lack thereof). Expressing a coherent thought is at best optional and often to risky within the context of jockeying for status within hierarchies.
This is what the US education/indoctrination system produces because this is what the authoritarian US political system demands. We are fast approaching what the late Robert Anton Wilson (Goddess rest his soul) referred to as “Optimum Fuckup” in his discussions of communications theory.
Hat tip: Last Free Voice
UPDATE: We find a relevant factoid in this article that also happens to briefly mention a beauty queen (sort of…), but otherwise is not particularly relevant in toto…
“Miller’s routine is called “Incredible Feats of Stupidity” and highlights Pentagon programs such as the one that provided landlocked Zimbabwe with anti-submarine rockets.”
Not that stupid when you realize a fundamental purpose of the US defense budget is simply to act as an overt rationale to transfer wealth from the productive class to political class defense contractors.
Knowledge of geography is now fucking subversive…
Humor: South Park Brad
If we keep this up, people can collect the whole set. Get yours here.
Open Content: Paul vs Giuliani Political Cartoon
The magnificent Scott Bieser has created the Ron Paul vs Benito Giuliani political cartoon below and given permission for open distribution without alteration apart from resizing. Copy and repost this image. Spread it far and wide.
Giuliani and Ferrets
To funny to not repost. Hat tip to: Last Free Voice
A personal request
Knappster could use some slack. Help him achieve it by showing some compassion (or reciprocity for you partyarchs out there) for his kid’s lonely Bring Back Hamtaro crusade. Just sign the danged petition.
George Bush is an Islamic Fundamentalist
Thanks to Adem Kupi for pointing out another great song — George Bush is an Islamic Fundamentalist. by Casetteboy & DJ Rubbish (and featuring Bill Clinton on sax).
George Bush is an Is-lam-ic fun-da-ment-alist, ob-vi-ous-ly.
Trained by Al Qah-hee-da in the heart of Texas
to fight for the faithful army.He’s now in the process of unit-ing the rest of the world
against the good ole US of A.The land of the free will come crashing down
if he has his way.…
Now at this point, I would ask you all to sing along with the chorus normally,
if it wasn’t for the fact that there are cameras on the premises and the CIA might be requisitioning the tapes at any time.So, I recommend that under all circumstances,
catchy though this number is,
you do not sing along,
you do not even smileI recommend the most you do is tap your feet,
and you do that at your own risk.George Bush is an Is-lam-ic fun-da-ment-alist, ob-vi-ous-ly.
More lyrics here. Download it in WMA format here.
For more on conspiracy theories, consult Roderick Long.
