Thursday, December 31, 2009

Punk in Indonesia

This podcast's first story - in addition to having a bunch of other good and enlightening stuff - is about Marjinal, Indonesia's top punk band. They speak to and for a lot of poor people there, and one of their projects is to distribute ukeleles so street kids can busk, which is awfully awfully punk, inspiringly so.

Here the crowd is louder than the band.



There's a Marjinal documentary on YouTube but the subtitles are pretty hard to read.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Congratulations, Miss Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management 2009!



Miss University beat out Misses Originality, Friendship, Narhoz.ru, People's Choice, Bikini, Creativity, Media, Sport, Extravagance and one Vice-Miss University.

Western stick-in-the-mud naysayers would do well to note the inclusiveness of the contest, which is open to horrible monsters. Zombies not yet in evidence.

For Mikey



That's not right. Here:



Oops. No, it's this one we want:



I expect to listen to this for about three hours straight.

The Glories of Corporate Christmas

Actual Christmas wishes in my in-box:



Sadly, I drank all my significant gains while weeping.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Your Animal Rights

This has some Tales from the Crypt potential:
BUDA, Texas -- The state constitution doesn't say, in so many words, that Carl Mitz has the absolute right to pry open a horse's mouth, grab hold of the tongue, and commence sawing away at the back molars with a power tool.

But Mr. Mitz and his attorneys are pretty sure that's implied.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Her Heart On Her - Wait, No Sleeves

Orly Taitz:
Seeing targeted destruction of our economy, our security, dissipation of American jobs, massive corruption in the Government, Congress Department of Justice and Judiciary, it might be time to start rallies and protests using our second amendment right to bare arms and organise in militias.

Back With The Coach

Hi sad sissies!!! May a movie star make your closest companion drip gold pain, you mangy madmans! You'll get your free education when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Conservatives!

The fact is, Red Staters who will stop you will never take your gay marriage you commies.

The fact is, Real Americans will never take your estate tax you lobotomized sodden pinhead-scoundrels.

The fact is, your minimum wage is not in the Constitution, you Obamabots.

The fact is, your gays in the military is not in the Constitution, you sloppy ignorant goofball-demons.

Greetings sissies!! May your enemy's spider infect your father, you pathetically stinky maniacal bore-munchers! How's Harry Reid working for you now? Got your cap and trade yet?

Hello cum-guzzling homos!!! You are nothing more than contemptible viper's geese, you cavefish's accusations! How's Bill Clinton working for you now? Got your equal rights yet?

The fact is, your equal rights is not in the Constitution, you socialists.

Greetings homos! You are nothing more than vulgar bust's bloods, you breast's visions! How's B. Hussein Obama working for you now? Got your estate tax yet?

The fact is, your minimum wage is not in the Constitution, you sissies.

The fact is, your equal rights is not in the Constitution, you DemocRATs.

What's happening ugly commies!! May your failure to think of others place obstacles before your dominant hand, you unhurriedly sodden peacock flounder-lovers! You'll get your minimum wage when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Red Staters who will stop you.

What's up hippies! You are nothing more than fanatical nutty sack of neuroses, you mangy morons! How's Obambi working for you now? Got your Afghanistan pullout yet?

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your health care you malodorous inebriated disease-insects.

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your equal rights you socialists.

The fact is, True Conservatives will never take your free education you impotent cum-guzzling alien-bureaucrats.

Mibb moobb moofle, you slovenly Obamabots!!! You are the worst fucking body's things, you sodden madmen! How's Obambi working for you now? Got your Afghanistan pullout yet?

Moorr meerr meeping Obamabots! You disgusting deadly bore-dogs, why don't you go give disease to your dominant hands!!! You'll get your minimum wage when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!!

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your free day care you mangy maladjusted scoundrel-sack of neuroses.

The fact is, Real Americans will never take your gays in the military you grubby rotten sad sack-zipperheads.

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your health care you disgusting DemocRATs.

The fact is, Real Republicans will never take your cap and trade you suffocating stinking idiot-pinheads.

The fact is, The Heartland will never take your mortgage cramdown you sodden inane madman-dunces.

The fact is, your minimum wage is not in the Constitution, you grotesque unnatural ogre-idiots.

The fact is, True Conservatives will never take your Afghanistan pullout you simple-minded lying maniac-screw-ups.

Howdy commies!!! May your confusion of money with reality bring curses upon your best bits, you depressing grief-inducing fall-suckers! How's Michael Moore working for you now? Got your equal rights yet?

The fact is, your mortgage cramdown is not in the Constitution, you maniacal ass-raping reptile-madmens.

Foom fum fifle you DemocRATs! You are the worst nutty asininity's busts, you airheads! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots!!!

The fact is, your minimum wage is not in the Constitution, you Obamabots.

The fact is, your cap and trade is not in the Constitution, you disgusting Obamabots.

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your free education you ill-begotten cancerous fake-pirates.

The fact is, your free education is not in the Constitution, you smelly DemocRATs.

Hey depressing communists!!! You grungy grungy dolt-zeros, I hope that your desires will rip up your noses! How's Obama working for you now? Got your Afghanistan pullout yet?

What's up hippies!! May your employer's hope complicate you, you irredeemably pathetic glob of skink's odes! How's Chris Dodd working for you now? Got your carbon tax yet?

Hi maladjusted socialists. May an unnecessarily limiting way of thinking rip up you, you horrifically slovenly bitch-munchers! You'll get your health care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Real Republicans!!!

Raff rooff rely, you hippies!! You unnatural slimy reptile-lugs, I hope that your devils will kill your children's children! You'll get your estate tax when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Red Staters who will stop you.

Hello disease-carrying DemocRATs! You are the ultimate example of omniscient bus's desert tortoises, you self-pitying airheads! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland.

Greetings dishonest socialists. You useless airhead-weirdos, why don't you go exploit your selves!! How's Michael Moore working for you now? Got your gays in the military yet?

The fact is, Real Republicans will never take your free education you bastard loathsome bitch-twerps.

Farr ferr foogly you socialists!!! May an able undertaker make your closest companion drip grotesque dirt, you blabbering creeps! How's Nancy Pelosi working for you now? Got your equal rights yet?

Greetings commies!!! What's up Obamabots!! May being mean to others assassinate a clearly-defined goal, you pathetically incompetent vulgar steer-suckers! How's Joe Lieberman working for you now? Got your gays in the military yet?

The fact is, your Afghanistan pullout is not in the Constitution, you odious stinking airhead-toe nails.

The fact is, Real Americans will never take your free day care you boorish idiotic reptile-sad sacks.

Howdy fags!!! May your understanding eat your fingers, you gibbering rancid slickhead-roanoke basses! How's Hillary Clinton working for you now? Got your estate tax yet?

Gabb gubb goole you cancerous homos. A feeling that you're an unrecognized genius is all you can hope for, you lying bastards! You'll get your mortgage cramdown when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!!!

The fact is, Conservatives will never take your free education you Obamabots.

The fact is, Real Republicans will never take your estate tax you useless decrepit dittohead-disease-carriers.

The fact is, your gays in the military is not in the Constitution, you bald communists.

Boog boog bifle, you homos! Lack of attention is all you can hope for, you debauched scoundrels! You'll get your free education when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!

Tig tug teefle, you homos! May your lizard's best friend puke on your head, you horrifically disgusting pompano dolphinfish-oppressing threadfins! How's Harry Reid working for you now? Got your Iraq pullout yet?

Hello Obamabots! May your nature make you spew depressing brain tissue, you disgusting idiotic scoundrels! How's Chris Dodd working for you now? Got your gay marriage yet?

The fact is, your free day care is not in the Constitution, you idiotic socialists.

The fact is, Red Staters who will stop you will never take your mortgage cramdown you communists.

Det dut dading, you socialists!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

A Smoochy Celebrity Gang Bang

James Warren writes an interesting piece on a panel discussion involving Stephen Colbert. It includes some details about the Most Courageous Comic Monologue Ever. And this paragraph:
Meanwhile, and maybe more important, a dwindling minority seems to differentiate between the New York Times and the Onion. Or between Williams and Bill O'Reilly. A dwindling minority seems to appreciate accuracy and endangered species such as newspaper copy desks. A dwindling minority understands the gulf in standards and professional expectations at Bloomberg News and Gawker.
There is also a dwindling minority that understands the gulf in standards and professional expectations at The Atlantic and The Atlantic.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Thanks for the Presence

Hope things are swell for you.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Here Is Iris DeMent



Worth seeing live. She does a great "Mama Tried" but the only available YouTube video has her saddled with a band: she's better solo.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Plus Gary

A fairly primitive one-note Gary, but that's Gary for you.
Greetings commies!! May deathly illness rain evil upon your dreams, you unschooled maniacal mockingbird-torpedos! You'll get your estate tax when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Conservatives!!!

The fact is, your free education is not in the constitution, you commies.

The fact is, your carbon tax is not in the constitution, you disease-carrying homos.

Hi grungy homos!!! You grubby grotesque scoundrel-hoohoos, I hope that your deities will mutilate your desireses! You'll get your Iraq pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!

What's happening socialists!! You batty idiot-drips, why don't you go call down the wrath of the Gods upon your best bitses! You'll get your cap and trade when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots.

The fact is, your Iraq pullout is not in the constitution, you Obamabots.

Hello deadly sissies. May random kindness make you spew pathetic spiny-back's dirt, you decrepit idiots! You'll get your health care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Real Republicans.

Hello bitch hippies. Your confusion of purpose with desire is more than you deserve, you suffocating nuts! How's Chris Dodd working for you now? Got your health care yet?

What's up incompetent Obamabots! May your mother make your loved one ooze glowing vital fluids, you mangy suffocating bimbos! You'll get your Afghanistan pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!

The fact is, your mortage cramdown is not in the constitution, you simple-minded depressing turkey-snakes.

What's happening suffocating sissies!! May your devil's snakes make your skin spew unschooled brain tissue, you grungy cocksucking twits! You'll get your minimum wage when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!

Howdy DemocRATs. May your employer's misunderstandings make your plans for the future drip jolly vital fluids, you idiotic asses! How's Nancy Pelosi working for you now? Got your cap and trade yet?

What's happening fags! May your snotty-nosed child make your father ooze vital fluids, you primitive fakers! How's Barack Hussein Obama working for you now? Got your mortage cramdown yet?

Hey hippies!! Inability to love is too good for you, you preposterous airheads! How's Barry Soetoro working for you now? Got your health care yet?

The fact is, your minimum wage is not in the constitution, you fags.

Howdy preposterous communists!! May blaming others bring displeasure to a new idea, you maniacal inept emperor penguin-followers! You'll get your equal rights when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!

Hi idiotic commies. You mangy wanton dittohead-sack of worm foods, go complicate your busts!!! You'll get your estate tax when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Conservatives!

The fact is, your carbon tax is not in the constitution, you unnatural bald illness-idiots.

What's happening fags! You grotesque deadly snake-twits, why don't you go plague your things! You'll get your gays in the military when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland.

What's happening ass-fucking commies. May trying to be too independent bring zits to you, you frighteningly slimy torrent fish-nourishing walking catfishes! How's Hillary Clinton working for you now? Got your minimum wage yet?

Howdy fags. May developing your own metaphors wreck your lips, you insanely kooky suffocating chunk of lark's finalities! You'll get your gay marriage when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!!

Greetings maladjusted homos!! You accursed flaming dolt-fools, why don't you go consume your screams!!! How's Obambi working for you now? Got your carbon tax yet?

Hello fags. You are the ultimate example of extroverted shortnose greeneye's desires, you space's hips! How's Barry Soetoro working for you now? Got your gay marriage yet?

Howdy homos!!! May your rodent annoy your eye, you idiotic ugly plasma-noses! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots!!

Greetings commies! You lobotomized lying twit-dipsticks, why don't you go exploit your ancestorses! How's Hillary Clinton working for you now? Got your carbon tax yet?

Greetings scurvy Obamabots!! May your stranger's stranger rain evil upon the concept of 'God', you depressing accursed roosterfish-guitarfishes! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!!

Hey DemocRATs. May your friend's hope tax you, you slimy pathetic admission-addresses! You'll get your free education when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!!!

The fact is, your health care is not in the constitution, you grungy zipperhead-basket cases.

The fact is, your gays in the military is not in the constitution, you maniacal bore-pirates.

The fact is, your gays in the military is not in the constitution, you self-pitying socialists.

Hi nutty socialists!!! You stinky bitch devil-bastards, why don't you go torment your sicknesses!!! How's Bill Clinton working for you now? Got your carbon tax yet?

Howdy socialists!!! May your enemy's dream call down the wrath of the Gods upon you, you smelly twerp-lipses! You'll get your estate tax when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots!!!

What's happening myopic Obamabots!!! May a close friend eat you, you flaming brine shrimp-mustard eels! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!

Howdy stinking sissies! May a maid make your best bits drip spread pain, you depressing grungy snakes! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Conservatives!!

The fact is, your gays in the military is not in the constitution, you ass-raping socialists.

Hello self-pitying Obamabots. You are the ultimate example of cryptic incompetent kooks, you wood's breasts! How's Al Franken working for you now? Got your mortage cramdown yet?

Greetings buttlicking fags! You sloppy twerp-knaves, I hope that your rodents will rain evil upon your most treasured possessions! How's Bill Clinton working for you now? Got your estate tax yet?

What's happening DemocRATs. Selfishness in others is the best you can hope for, you depressing fakers! How's Hillary Clinton working for you now? Got your equal rights yet?

Hi sissies! You are nothing more than omnivorous grotesque dittoheads, you warmth's bandwagons! You'll get your cap and trade when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of The Heartland!!

Nation of Superheroes

Greg Gutfeld:
What’s this have to do with Christmas? Well, I think the world has forgotten that the biggest gift to this planet is America’s industry – and it’s time to remind them where they would be without it.

1. Whenever a horrible disaster hits, they would be dead. Be it an earthquake, a tsunami or a Madonna tour – we’re usually the first and biggest responders – saving the injured, and helping to rebuild. It is because of our tremendous capability to mobilize quickly that makes us a nation of superheroes. It also takes planes, trucks and tractors to do that stuff. Imagine that carbon footprint.
Katrina Katrina Katrina Katrina Katrina.

There are other items on the list and easy cheap shots to take, but there's shopping to do.*

FURTHER BIG HOLLYWOOD NEWS BEFORE THE DREADED MALL:

Stage Right, author of The Great Sesame Street Freakout, has decided to reveal his real name tomorrow. Remind me if I forget. [Sadly, the revelation is entirely boring.]

*I'm a lot like Jonah Goldberg I guess.

Earworm Time



And yet, listening to this another 20 times in a row:



Better and majestic sound:

Monday, December 21, 2009

The Problems of Addiction



Few understand the suffering and humiliation that shark fin soup can engender once a user is hooked.

Stupid Fucking Patents

Hooray Microsoft:
An avatar generator for a virtual environment reflects a physiological characteristic of the user, injecting a degree of reality into the capabilities or appearance. Thereby, many of the incentives of the real world are replicated in a virtual environment. Physiological data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication. Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise. Physiological data that reflect the health and perhaps also mood also improve social interaction in virtual environments. People seeking to meet and become acquainted with particular types of people are not thwarted by the artificiality of avatars. The physiological data can be gleaned from a third party health data collection repository, a healthcare smart card, a real-time physiological sensor (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, peak flow, pedometer, etc.)
Those of us who are outstandingly good looking and healthy need not fear, but what about the hideous troglodytes?

The Medicine Man

Who believes someone in the Bush administration would have acted on bogus information?
Working out of a Reno, Nevada, software firm called eTreppid Technologies, Montgomery took in officials in the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology and convinced them that technology he invented -- but could not explain -- was pulling terrorist-produced "bar codes" from Al Jazeera television broadcasts. Using his proprietary technology, those bar codes could be translated into longitudes and latitudes and flight numbers. Terrorist leaders were using that data to direct their compatriots about the next target.
I wonder if Christian fringe maniacs and their pants-pooping about bar codes had any influence on those who took this stuff seriously.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ghosts of War

I suppose if you're going to demolish a war memorial it's only appropriate that you take out some civilians with it.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Wanted: Everything On This Page



Well, at one point...

Friday, December 18, 2009

Historic Tweets

Formerly-respectable-screenwriter-who-apparently-now-cannot-write Robert J. Avrech:
When Obama appears on our TV screens in yet another baffling and tedious speech/lecture/kvetch we sigh, exhausted, because the Obama artifice is, by now, so naked, we marvel that his handlers don’t realize that Obama has become a poison pill for Obamism—a political and social philosophy that is, at best, at odds with classical American Judeo Christain values.

But when Sarah Palin simply Tweets—her death panel Tweet is now historic—people pay attention, people react, ordinary people take to the streets.
Absolutely true. Let us compare tweets Tweets with streeting:
# Upon rtn2 AK glad2hear Legislr fights Fed's"Endangered Species Act"listing w/all-out effort!Fed's efforts 2 stymie r devlpmnt is unaccptable about 15 hours ago



# Amidst Hanukkah&Christmas festivities,don't lose sight:"Trace the universe back 2 God's power&follow His power upstream 2 His wisdom"-Lucado 7:16 PM Dec 15th



# Catching Cpenhagen news:beware disappointing plans 2 cause USA job loss 2 overseas industry,raise cost of living thx 2 radical enviros plans 9:32 AM Dec 11th

Thursday, December 17, 2009

No "The Fact Is" Yet

What's happening nutty socialists!! What you reap is more than you deserve, you preposterous pinheads! How's Obama working for you now? Got your equal rights yet?

Hey myopic socialists! May self-centredness condemn you, you irredeemably boorish unschooled medaka-followings! How's B. Hussein Obama working for you now? Got your Afghanistan pullout yet?

Hello homos! A narrow-minded belief system is too good for you, you stinking idiots! How's Sean Penn working for you now? Got your Iraq pullout yet?

Teeb teey teizzle, Obamabots! You nutsucking obscene cancer-bimbos, I hope that your small furry mammals will damn your bellies! You'll get your mortage cramdown when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Conservatives!!

Geb gus gufle, DemocRATs!! May meaning torment a business idea, you disgusting ignorant sack of koala's debts! You'll get your Afghanistan pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans.

Greetings grungy Obamabots!!! You are the worst nutsucking sack of sacks of flesh, you tetra's shrugs! You'll get your Iraq pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Red Staters who will stop you.

Tev toob tefle, unschooled sissies!! Your inability to like yourself is too good for you, you frightening hosers! You'll get your Afghanistan pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots.

Hello idiotic sissies!! You vulgar malodorous zipperhead-chumps, why don't you go make impossible your lovers!! You'll get your free day care when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots.

Howdy fags!!! You are nothing more than authoritarian debauched vermins, you psychotic scoundrels! How's Michael Moore working for you now? Got your free education yet?

Nan nen noocle, neurotic socialists!!! You are nothing more than envious saury's barbarities, you porcupinefish's cobias! You'll get your equal rights when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Real Americans!!!

Vin vez veeizzle, blabbering fags! May your dream's religious beliefs make your career drip depressing vital organs, you sloppy fakes! How's Hillary Clinton working for you now? Got your free day care yet?

What's happening debauched DemocRATs! May your spider's god make you ooze obscene fresh blood, you sodden punks! You'll get your minimum wage when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of True Patriots!

Les lum looble, insufferable fags!! Your confusion of purpose with money is all you can hope for, you smelly devils! You'll get your Afghanistan pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Tea Party Americans!