Happy Saturday, you slugabeds! As you blearily try to shake off the residue of last night's revelries, pour yourself another cuppa joe and treat yourself to a serving of our weekly concatenation of clinking, clanking, caligenous junk from the interwebs that was too stoopid to ignore altogether but that didn't quite merit a full-length post. And we'll even start your descent into hell gently, with a bad-news story that's got a Nice Times kicker. By now, you've probably heard that Guido Barilla, the chairman of Italy's Barilla pasta proudly joined the asshat brigade last week with his vow that the company's ads
Jason Linkins&#039; derp poem (from his TV SoundOff column): <i> I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: This vast and clueless slab of derp Stood in the Senate. Heard him on the stand, Half sunk, in rather ornate lies, his frown And twitching lip and sneer of cold command Tells that this orator of eggs and ham read As to connive, vamped on such senseless things, To the pols that mocked him and the Reps that fled. And on the news chyron these words appear: `My name is Cruzymandias, Bat of Dings: Look on my works, John Boehner, and despair!&#039; Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that abysmal dreck, boundless with blare, The multitude of LOLs stretch far away.</i>
Kudos on the onerous task of keeping out the fucknuts. Popular Science had to <a href="http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/09\/24\/1241188\/-Popular-Science-Shuts-Down-Comments-on-its-Website" target="_blank">shut down comments</a>, on account of the ignorami.
I was leaning toward just letting the Barilla thing go, since G. Barilla&#039;s statement doesn&#039;t come anywhere close to Truett Cathy levels of &uuml;berderpage. But then I saw the classy Bertolli ad and decided fuck him, I&#039;m going with the good guys.
Will is alleged to be a &quot;good writer&quot; because he uses correct grammar and has a fairly large vocabulary. And, to be fair, once in a long while he turns a decent phrase.
But the structural content of his writing is awful. He throws out examples that have no relationship to his thesis. He draws conclusions out of thin air. He is, to paraphrase somebody, a stupid person&#039;s idea of what a good writer is.
It would be tough, but he could maybe sue for being arrested for no actual reason. On the other hand, maybe he just wants to stay out of Missisississsipii.
I was reading about that too. As a pharmacist and well, some who vomits easily, this shit is horrifying beyond words. Between the pictures and reading the comments on the HuffPo article, I had to go eat some ginger and breathe deeply, otherwise ex-whoopie pie everywhere.
Wait til O&#039;Reilly finds out that Jesus <a href="http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Did_Jesus_and_his_apostles_ever_wear_turbans" target="_blank">wore a turban.</a>
and i&#039;m sure there&#039;s so much evidence left. a year after an attack on a cia mission in a volatile part of a barely functioning country with too many militias and too few police.
also, imagine the CIA, FBI, NSA and military intelligence have all...you know... visited.
i don&#039;t thing there a bigger charlatan in congress today than mr. issa. and that&#039;s saying a lot.
you know i&#039;ve always been rather fond of mr. reid and his mobster / NV way of thinking:
&quot;Obamacare has been the law for four years,&quot; he said. &quot;Why don&#039;t they get a life and talk about something else?&quot;
<i> Noonan: World Wants Old America Back</i>
i can&#039;t.
i just can&#039;t. i have no idea what vodka fuelled nonsense she&#039;s spouting but me personally tonight i&#039;m hitting the cabernet and watching the last two episodes of &#039;broadchurch&#039;.
Jason Linkins&#039; derp poem (from his TV SoundOff column): <i> I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: This vast and clueless slab of derp Stood in the Senate. Heard him on the stand, Half sunk, in rather ornate lies, his frown And twitching lip and sneer of cold command Tells that this orator of eggs and ham read As to connive, vamped on such senseless things, To the pols that mocked him and the Reps that fled. And on the news chyron these words appear: `My name is Cruzymandias, Bat of Dings: Look on my works, John Boehner, and despair!&#039; Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that abysmal dreck, boundless with blare, The multitude of LOLs stretch far away.</i>
No no, they were mentioned &#039;in the first place&#039;.
Kudos on the onerous task of keeping out the fucknuts. Popular Science had to <a href="http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/09\/24\/1241188\/-Popular-Science-Shuts-Down-Comments-on-its-Website" target="_blank">shut down comments</a>, on account of the ignorami.
I was leaning toward just letting the Barilla thing go, since G. Barilla&#039;s statement doesn&#039;t come anywhere close to Truett Cathy levels of &uuml;berderpage. But then I saw the classy Bertolli ad and decided fuck him, I&#039;m going with the good guys.
Will is alleged to be a &quot;good writer&quot; because he uses correct grammar and has a fairly large vocabulary. And, to be fair, once in a long while he turns a decent phrase.
But the structural content of his writing is awful. He throws out examples that have no relationship to his thesis. He draws conclusions out of thin air. He is, to paraphrase somebody, a stupid person&#039;s idea of what a good writer is.
This is so clever, it deserves a vortex of upfists.
Needs moar ripped bodice.
It would be tough, but he could maybe sue for being arrested for no actual reason. On the other hand, maybe he just wants to stay out of Missisississsipii.
you know, as Berlusconi (again) throws italy / EU into crisis, it occurs to me he really is JUST a bagger.
well, funnier, but still! asshole bagger.
Better to have mach diamonds than whore diamonds.
I was reading about that too. As a pharmacist and well, some who vomits easily, this shit is horrifying beyond words. Between the pictures and reading the comments on the HuffPo article, I had to go eat some ginger and breathe deeply, otherwise ex-whoopie pie everywhere.
Bertolli has been making very cool ads for a while. In fact, the Barilla guy was probably trying to snark about this ad and it backfired on him: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/wat..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLohF46xeY">https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Wait til O&#039;Reilly finds out that Jesus <a href="http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Did_Jesus_and_his_apostles_ever_wear_turbans" target="_blank">wore a turban.</a>
and i&#039;m sure there&#039;s so much evidence left. a year after an attack on a cia mission in a volatile part of a barely functioning country with too many militias and too few police.
also, imagine the CIA, FBI, NSA and military intelligence have all...you know... visited.
i don&#039;t thing there a bigger charlatan in congress today than mr. issa. and that&#039;s saying a lot.
you know i&#039;ve always been rather fond of mr. reid and his mobster / NV way of thinking:
&quot;Obamacare has been the law for four years,&quot; he said. &quot;Why don&#039;t they get a life and talk about something else?&quot;
<i> Noonan: World Wants Old America Back</i>
i can&#039;t.
i just can&#039;t. i have no idea what vodka fuelled nonsense she&#039;s spouting but me personally tonight i&#039;m hitting the cabernet and watching the last two episodes of &#039;broadchurch&#039;.