• February 12, 2012
  • Maybe the super-cheap Detroit bailout will finally give Wall Street the shot in the arm it really needs! Or stocks could open slightly higher, then plunge precipitously, then slowly creep back up and bobble around the rest of the day, as is their wont. [AP]
  • Oh good lord. It is “unclear” whether the White House will be able to get enough Republican support to pass the auto bailout. You know, the auto bailout that’s TWO PERCENT of the size of the funds they gave to Hank Paulson to do whatever, for his beloved banks. [New York Times]
  • Whoops, the Greek teen whose death set off five days of rioting appears to have died from a ricocheting bullet. [AFP]
  • People across the country are “calling in gay” today, but your Wonkette editors will honor the occasion by writing about ass-fucking. [Houston Chronicle]
  • Legg Mason’s Bill Miller stands as a sterling example of somebody who looks like a really really smart financial guy until he looks like the biggest dingus on the planet. [Wall Street Journal]
  • So far, it does not appear Barack Obama’s purity has been compromised by this Blagojevich ugliness. [Washington Post]

{ 44 comments }

civan93 December 10, 2008 at 8:25 am

How can BHO’s purity not be compromised. I’VE personally seen [the president-elect] and ROD BLAGOJEVICH in pictures. Together. He is obviously associated with not just known terrorists but also corrupt politicians!!

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 8:34 am

[re=195324]civan93[/re]: Go assfuck yourself, I’m at work today…

4tehlulz December 10, 2008 at 8:34 am

Bill Miller is the biggest dingus on the planet, and will never be fired, as there is no such thing as incompetence in the financial world.

BarthexDeRosa December 10, 2008 at 8:34 am

A day without ass-fucking is like a day without gay people. Or something.

4tehlulz December 10, 2008 at 8:39 am

BTW, I would retrieve any scrap of value left in the stock market before the filibuster begins, as the Dow will lose 543% of its value once they realize that GM is going to Ch. 7.

Nigerian Business Executive December 10, 2008 at 8:40 am

I live in Canada, which is so civilized we don’t need to have a day without guys, but to throw my full support behind my American sisters, I have plans to go take part in as much ass-fucking as possible later today. Revolution!

Servo December 10, 2008 at 8:42 am

I would anticipate nothing less than a full Jack Aubrey raking from the Repukes.

DoctorCulturae December 10, 2008 at 8:45 am

Appropo of the “holiday” yahoo’s headline page states “3 NYPD officers charged in subway sodomy case” then there is neat little video icon with the moniker “Probe.” Indeed.

x111e7thst December 10, 2008 at 8:46 am

[re=195329]Nigerian Business Executive[/re]:
“The news of the parliamentary suspension came after a two-and-a-half hour long meeting in Ottawa between Harper and Michaëlle Jean, the governor general…”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/04/america/05canada.php

One strongly suspects that assfucking did indeed occur.

Pop Socket December 10, 2008 at 8:50 am

Can I be gay just for the day? No ass-fucking necessary. I’ll just offer to blow a cop for twenty bucks or tap my toes extra wide in the toilet stall.

MathewBrooks December 10, 2008 at 8:52 am

Tell me more about this “ass fucking.”

ManchuCandidate December 10, 2008 at 8:53 am

Can we go back in time a month or so and put the Wall St morans and Paulsy through the same grilling and blood oaths that the automakers did?

I don’t like the Big 3, but at least they make real stuff. If you get hit by a GM truck, your Pinto explodes or your K Car catches fire, you know and you really feel it, a connection to hard reality. With finance, the pain feels so ethereal unless my banker decides to ambush me and beat me with bag filled with $500 worth of quarters today.

Bill Miller operated on the principle of the “Last War.” He thought it was like every other “crisis” having not lived through the Great Depression. If anyone should be beaten with a bag full of quarters, it should be him (among others–I see you Jim Cramer). While the observant ones knew this wasn’t going to be a one year clusterfuck (I thought so, but I’m an idiot), he kept yelling “It’s just a little smoke” as the Wall St inferno raged.

Servo December 10, 2008 at 8:56 am

Why doesn’t Big Oil step in to help Detroit? They’ve always given each other nutty bumpers until now.

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 8:58 am

Day without a Gay? Damnit, today I needed some fabulous fashion designs from a boutique full of sassy men, and then I wanted a meal at this trendy little Thai place with that fun waiter with the earring!

Who will we get to replace these jobs the gays have given up? Mexicans?!

Cape Clod December 10, 2008 at 9:02 am

[re=195336]Servo[/re]: Good damn point, Servo.

4tehlulz December 10, 2008 at 9:09 am

[re=195336]Servo[/re]: OH U! Haven’t the past eight years taught you that oil men only care about oil men? As long as there is one car maker on Earth, they don’t give a shit about the others.

Serolf Divad December 10, 2008 at 9:14 am

But can you call in Gay even if you’re not gay? ’cause I really don’t want to be at work today.

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 9:18 am

[re=195349]Serolf Divad[/re]: I was thinking about that. I never really got any when I was still trying to date women. I could just be a gay who doesn’t get any. I’ll have to complain about it, but hey, a day off’s a day off. And becoming gay for a day is a great way to get yourself off.

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 9:20 am

[re=195330]Servo[/re]: Preserved Killick called in gay, I understand. “Let the silver go tarnished!” he said. “And I’ll be straight by Friday, so there’ll be no flogging!”

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 9:21 am

I used up all my gay days, so I called in tranny

Naked Bunny with a Whip December 10, 2008 at 9:22 am

I can’t call in gay. Everyone knows I’m a moody, quiet loner. *polishes his guns*

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 9:23 am

[re=195349]Serolf Divad[/re]: I simply can’t imagine the reaction at my job-dead silence? Or getting ass-raped and losing my job..not sure which would be worse…

Pop Socket December 10, 2008 at 9:32 am

[re=195358]freakishlystrong[/re]: Depends on the severance package.

Servo December 10, 2008 at 9:38 am

[re=195353]Larry McAwful[/re]:
I don’t think JA would mind, since he’s pre-occupied with getting shit-faced, whoring, or dodging debtors prison.

friendlynerd December 10, 2008 at 9:40 am

[re=195356]mattbolt[/re]:
Fierce.

Serolf Divad December 10, 2008 at 9:42 am

[re=195351]Larry McAwful[/re]:

Hmmm… “gay for a day”… sounds promising. But I suspect you’d have to dress the part, and I don’t have any tasteful or fashionable clothes. Maybe I could wear jeans and a flannel shirt and be a lesbian for a day.

scaredofthehoya December 10, 2008 at 9:43 am

Ass fucking in what respect, Charlie?

jagorev December 10, 2008 at 9:45 am

People across the country are “calling in gay” today

Are these people unsatisfied that the unemployment rate is not high enough? I hope they all get laid off.

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 9:47 am

[re=195370]Servo[/re]: Yeah, I’m sure he’d be cool with that. He’s got a ship to run, and I imagine that managing Killick can take a lot out of you.

Seriously, though: I’m currently reading the eighteenth book in that series, and I long ago decided that Killick is totally gay. He’s no dandy, but gay all the same.

Jack and Stephen are not gay, but the way they portrayed Stephen in the movie kind of made him seem like he was.

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 9:49 am

[re=195379]Serolf Divad[/re]: I’ve got the same problem. When I dress up, I wear tweed or corduroy jackets, which isn’t exactly fashionable, but it works for me. I’ve got a gay uncle who’s about my size. He wears a lot of Brooks Brothers, so maybe I could borrow something from him, and if I’m lucky, some of the gayness will wear off from the clothes. That’s how you catch gayness, isn’t it?

Nigerian Business Executive December 10, 2008 at 9:51 am

[re=195332]x111e7thst[/re]: Except that ass-fucking and fun, and there is absolutely nothing fun about that particular situation. In fact, I’d hazard a guess that that one is actually a direct result of erectile dysfunction disorder.

Naked Bunny with a Whip December 10, 2008 at 9:57 am

I hope they all get laid off.

Yeah! Oh, and if your kids get sick and you have to stay home: fired! You didn’t need to have kids, you leech.

Servo December 10, 2008 at 10:07 am

[re=195387]Larry McAwful[/re]:
I’ve only got through three. I took a much-needed breather with Jimmy Buffet. I also thought Stephen was gay until the cock-blocking commenced.

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 10:22 am

If I remember right, there isn’t much cockblocking in the next couple of books. The fourth and fifth are favorites of mine, and they’re both really one long story. The last half of the tenth book is really good, too. So’s the eleventh.

Hell, they’re all good. But I’ve been reading them off and on since 2000 and could have finished long ago if I’d wanted to, but it’s really the kind of series that you need to take breaks from now and again. Reading it all the way through without stopping is kind of like eating your entire birthday cake by yourself in one sitting.

magic titty December 10, 2008 at 10:24 am

[re=195356]mattbolt[/re]: You win. Again.

ella December 10, 2008 at 10:27 am

This is why Washington is seen as out of touch. Here it is, National Buttsecks Day, and the Post is teaching us how to make a sleigh out of cookies to hold other cookies.

Nigerian Business Executive December 10, 2008 at 10:43 am

[re=195389]Nigerian Business Executive[/re]: Correction: Ass-fucking IS fun. Doofus.

Sussemilch December 10, 2008 at 11:26 am

For the first time in weeks, absolutely no one called in sick to work here. Even the sick people showed up to cough all over us healthy people. Even the sick, gay people showed up.

Hostile Michigander December 10, 2008 at 11:34 am

I was supposed to call in gay? Damn, I got confused and called in Republican.

Ah, close enough.

sati demise December 10, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Son of Prominent ‘Yes on 8′ Leader Quits Mormon Church Over Prop 8.

Seems the son of the Mormon guy who lead the fight against teh gay is……GAY!
what a surprise.

http://www.catitics.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=000F88D1EF2C929547D255F8C5D35F05?diaryld=7520

Larry McAwful December 10, 2008 at 1:02 pm

[re=195515]Hostile Michigander[/re]: Not really. Most Republicans have trust funds, not jobs. Or they work for their fathers’ companies and don’t need to call in if they don’t feel like showing up.

groove December 10, 2008 at 2:43 pm

I can see the anti-gay camp instantly throwing their full support behind this and call for more days without teh gays.

Preacher December 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Let the ass fucking fags marry, they have every right to be just as miserable as any other married couple

Borat December 10, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Sara, your market analysis skills are amazing! Check out what the Dow did today.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI#chart1:symbol=^dji;range=1d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

Please give me your predictions for Thursday, I will execute. Would you prefer a $1m commission or shall I buy you a senate seat (assuming you’re a real american)?

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