Kid Conversation

Kid: Who invented skin?

Me: Nobody invented skin. You just have it.

Kid: Who invented blood?

Me: Nobody invented blood either.

Kid: SOMEBODY invented blood. ... Vampires invented blood.

Dibs

If that Joker thing pays off I want mine.

In Further, Deeper Discussions of Aesthetics...

G.I. Joe: The After Action Report, pt. 2 [John J. Miller]

Today was a travel day, so I didn't have a chance to say much this morning about the G.I. Joe movie, which I saw last night. But I wanted to expand on one of my points. The movie contains all kinds of military equipment from high-tech fantasyland: nanotech bombs, robocop uniforms, etc. It's the kind of movie that features a vast, secret lair full of bad guys beneath the polar ice cap.

But for all the gee-whiz gadgetry, what's the one thing that nobody seems to have? Missile defense. Yet our country already has built a rudimentary system. It will grow more robust if the Obama administration reverses course on plans to slash its budget.

I guess Hollywood thinks personal accelerator suits are more likely a part of our future than ABMs.

Men may wish to catch their ladies as they faint: GI Joe may not appear plausible to your little boy conservative pundit.

BEWARE.

UPDATE: THE TERRIBLE TRUTH!

It's top secret Barack Obama research.

Don't Tell Simpson!

Gentlehippies, Start Your Bongs!

Not for the fainthearted, man. Getting six going at once kills my browser. But I keep trying...

Outing Pranknet

The Smoking Gun outs various bullies.

Follow the Nuts

They always "wuts".

Some guy at Reason:

...it feels to me, as it did during the campaign, that the art community is not meeting its duty of always questioning those in power. And I say duty because the art community, as a counterpart of the press, has been given special rights written into the Bill of Rights, known broadly as freedom of the press, for the explicit purpose of keeping power in check.

Okay, fine. What sterling example of questioning are we backing here?

Consider the recent flurry of debate over the Obama "Joker" posters that have been appearing in Los Angeles.

Oh. Never mind.

Diet

You'll rarely find
A barracuda
Snacking on
A baga, ruta-.

COOLEST PRESIDENT EVAR!!!

Chickens and Turkeys Remain Stupid and Tasty

Video at the site:

One of Aesop's fables may have been based on fact, scientists report.

In the tale, written more than 2,000 years ago, a crow uses stones to raise the water level in a pitcher so it can reach the liquid to quench its thirst.

Now a study published in Current Biology reveals that rooks, a relative of crows, do just the same when presented with a similar situation.

Condemnation On Sale Cheap!

Mr. Party of Death:

Time to Cash In [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Martinez resigns. Will the people who criticized Palin for not serving out her term go after him?

08/07 11:23 AMShare

Yes.

Mel Martinez is a Hitler, swirled about with little Stalins in a Pol Pot sundae.

The White Man is the Black Man of Liberal Fascism

John T. Simpson, professional victim:

I have to tell you, people. I may not be black. But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South.

We assume that "lately" means "since that black guy got elected".

UPDATARAMA!














I await the legions of Simpson loyalists who will set me straight.

Oh, and BEAT THAT TROLLING, SHACKLEFORD!

Useful Peeing Advice

Go see J—.

Ribbit

Free Stuff

Roy sez the Village Voice's back issues are all on The Google now.

Jokers

Ed Driscoll knows who you are, ya big commie:

On the left (appropriately enough), a parody that ran in the BDS-obsessed Vanity Fair magazine last year, as The Dark Knight played in theaters (and whose subtext was viewed as — very likely unintentionally — sympathetic to President Bush, as Andrew Klavan wrote). On the right, an unknown Photoshop artist apparently living in Los Angeles, or possibly the very city that stood in for Gotham in The Dark Knight:

Okay, clearly they are completely the same because one looks like a mug-shot and the other does not, one is based on a photograph and the other is not, one has a big scary word under it and the other does not, and the word-enhanced one has a word that's completely fucking nuts. Also the guy on the left invaded the wrong country and suchlike; the guy on the right's just trying to make up ground in the war-crime department. I give the Obama smear higher points for graphical punchiness.

Moving on, Ed then points to two of the usual dumbasses getting all huffy at some guy from the LA Weekly I've never heard of but who undoubtedly speaks for you and I, dear reader, on matters of art. We played the race card, yes we did, a leap not so surprising as imagining that giving unsupervised billions to bankers is socialism.

After that, this:

But really, at this point, why be amazed? The left’s hypocrisy in these matters is merely yet another attempt, tacitly in this case, to epater les bourgeois. All the more so, since most leftwing attempts at political satire all too often end up as humorless sledgehammer parodies such as this.

The "such as this" link leads to a discussion of foaming-mouth-leftist duo Cillizza and Milbank and their Mouthpiece Theater.

YOU DO NOT KNOW FROM FUNNY, LEFTIST.

SUFFER:


UPDATE!!!


Mouthpiece Theater killed.

I blame this foul-mouthed gentleman:

This Was Very Entertaining

Alternate or additional soundtrack inspired but not approved by mikey:



A. "Grim Luxuria" by Cathedral.
Q. What is "best use of 'twisted lust on fire' in a song" Alex?

Cold sin and fire, burning wrath and anger,
this crippled splendour of lust so dire yeah!
Insane visions of beauty, groanings so empty,
wriggling in agony, the frail corpse of love that's me.

Hair and eyes limbs and faces,
bending hard in fierce embraces.
Ooh this loveless rage, come give me pain -
arcane exotica, ooh grim luxuria.

[Chorus:]
Twisted lust on fire,
love the bastard liar.

Sick grins of pleasure, warped torsos in heaven,
bending tongues - saliva, licking lifeforms of grotesque.
On the floor bones cracking, like evil dogs mauling,
grunting in this ecstasy, - shaking, screaming, clawing me!

Pleading eyes mangled faces,
torn apart, in growling places.
Ooh this seething cage, white light in vain,
arcane exotica - grim luxuria.

Twisted lust on fire,
love - the bastard liar.
Oh sweet sanctity, -
hell is pouring over me.

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy

Here's a sad little story:

Blue Dog lawmaker has harsh words for conservative group
By Maria Recio
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — An incensed Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., is ready to go to the mat with Grover Norquist, a GOP strongman whose organization, Americans for Tax Reform, sent a news release out this week claiming that Taylor had changed his position on health care.

"Americans for Tax Reform are lying sacks of scum, and anyone who knowingly repeats this false information is also a liar," said Taylor, a conservative Democrat who has been critical of health care plans, even the one agreed to by his fellow Blue Dogs.

THOSE BASTARDS SAY I'M NOT LIKE THEM BUT I AM.

Big Government

50 Palestinians evicted from their Jerusalem homes
By BEN HUBBARD (AP) – 58 minutes ago

JERUSALEM — Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families in east Jerusalem on Sunday, then allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes, drawing criticism from Palestinians, the United Nations and the State Department.

It's one thing to be choked about borders redrawn 40 or 60 years ago and quite another to be choked about borders drawn through your living room right now.

[Chris Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. agency in charge of Palestinian refugees,] said the families had lived in the homes for more than 50 years.

Strangely enough, this is the very reason I yield to the idea that Israel is not going away.