Re: Katz’s closing.

GWPDA likely is referring to the other Katz’s deli, in Austin, TX.
Opened by one of the original Katz’s sons, it was not universally admired here with such fervor for it’s food and service.

Though you’d never learn it from the Wikipedia entry, the restaurant eventually imploded in a messy storm of inter-family bankruptcy filings, following bitter public lawsuits with the owner’s own son and accusations of drug abuse, employee mistreatment and familial treachery.

Unlike Master Mencken, I am only good for one successful link, pre-coffee, apparently. obliviously double down.

Wait, did someone say “discovery”? Would Rich Lowry’s career-long background demonstrating a penchant for inflammatory accusations founded on in-depth research into the scent of his own earwax be considered germane to the court’s deliberations?

Then take it away, HTML Mencken!

I especially like the bit where the Hoover Institute was persuaded, after a presumably similar exchange of lawyer letters, to print a retraction of their baseless smears of Al Gore in the USA Today… prompting Lowry (while filling in for Sean Hannity on teh teevee) to obliviously double down on the original, presumably potentially libelous, idiocy. Good times!

Where o where is the Instapundit of old, with his prescient futuristic visions of ROBOTS in our hour of need?

Obviously the True Libertarian answer is to immediately begin an urgent Manhattan Project-scale national effort to arm every American kindergartener with tiny personal defense drones to provide air cover with eensy weensy Hellfire missiles while they smack talk each other in Angry Birds voices. Only thus can we safely preserve our desperate infantile need to clutch our precious precious baby-killing substitute-penis assault weaponry closely.

You keep on being classy now, you hear?

In my defense I’m deliberately choosing descriptives that can’t be Etchasketched here. If I had said I’m a big fan of the one who supports women and promises to bring the troops in Afghanistan home by 2014 while preserving Medicare as it is, you might think I buy the tripe that they’re both the same. But we all know there’s no pretending about which one has the face tint that washes off, the spouse who’s made of plastic, and the progeny with zombie eyes…

No no, this is serious stuff. When the cashier asks me, “paper or plastic” I check myself based on the realization that I am about to make a Hobson’s choice between slaughtering an innocent living cellulose organism and condemning our descendants to a landfill clogged with perpetually nonbiodegradeable waste products.
I always make the pure conscience-salving choice and choose to carefully walk home juggling my honeydew melons, avocados, and pita bread in my bare hands. At least I can sleep with myself, I think, and oh how much better I will feel when I get to lord it over those not-really-hippies at the basset hounds lover’s place!

Harumph. I can only respond by escalation, and hereby pledge to boycott the elections in 49 states (and the District of Colombia!) after I finish early voting for the swarthy CINC with the hot wife and cute kids.

Also too, how does it not count as electoral fraud if there are millions of ineligible-to-vote non-voters participating in the boycott movement? And in locations where they are not even registered!?!!!11one

Mark E. Smith, by joining in the so-called “election boycott movement”, knows they can’t win, so his goal is obviously to perpetuate the genderist stereotypes engendered in the offensively non-gender-neutral patriarchal terminology evidenced by their middle name BOYcott.

That, and he must hate paralyzed people, or he wouldn’t be perpetuating the term “movement” either.

I prayed hard about it, and Jeebus told me it’s time for his ESPN covershot wearing a bridal dress next to Rex Ryan…

Please, Tucker, don’t stop… you’re huuuurting us.

Ah, so it’s meticulous curation that keeps the Basset hair dust bunnies from taking over this temple of snark and flippancy, is it? I had been curious about that.

Let me save you some serious ear-bleeding: do not get off the boat after reading that post on the Godlstein meltdown, instead skip directly to the HTML Mencken classic linked in comments by JDC. What a glorious trip down memory lane, back to those misty days of hundred+ hyperlink dismantlings of wingnuts into their constituent subatomic particles.

Ah so “lightning rod for criticism” is the codephrase for “top of the Koch smear list”. Which means Luke is an idiot since that would happen anyway to whomever is chosen to speak at the DNC.

I just finished one I thought really rockin good: Brasyl by Ian McDonald. It’s part historical, part sciencefictional, but all about Sao Paolo and Rio and a reality-show producer who does capoeira and an admonitory to the Iguapa who licks frogs for the visions.

one of those ten dollar words like “nonce” that you can only buy from Canadians in Canadia

My theory is that most of those wacky socialist Canadians are actually wasting all the free time they have left over due to their freedom-hating 40-hour work weeks drinking beer, but unfortunately I cannot prove it due to their fiendishly clever single-use-only pseudo-random encryption protocols, eh!

Nader was right.

The Pinto *was* unsafe at any speed! If only he had been right once again since that day… sigh.

Circular firing squad, Present! Arms! Ready… Aim…

a stunning new GAO report unearthed by Bernie Sanders

To give credit where due, David, Sen. Sanders did a bit more than unearth this GAO report:

“The most powerful entity in the United States is riddled with conflicts of interest,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said after reviewing the Government Accountability Office report. The study required by a Sanders Amendment to last year’s Wall Street reform law examined Fed practices never before subjected to such independent, expert scrutiny.

Saying half of all Americans “don’t pay any taxes” is exactly like saying vegetarians “don’t eat any food”.

But they’d have to be at least as smart as a 6-year-old to understand the equivalence.