“My work has been published in every major newspaper in the country and I have written two books on the subject as well.”

Which makes Bill Watterson an even more expert expert on both tigers and child psychology. I actually believe this to be true, even though I was using it as an example of where her “reasoning” takes her. Bill Watterson is also a decent human being and a thoughtful person, two other differences between the two of them.

A tragic end for a loyal son..

Personally, I prefer National Brotherhood Week, but not for any particular reasons…

Incidentally, I can’t be the only person who heard “oh, Mama..” in the voice of Steve Martin’s dentist, can I?

I still like turning to my (now-)wife with a cucumber and saying “Mine’s bigger”. I just know that eventually she’ll stop punching me when I do that.

I feel your pain. I was so glad to leave I skipped my senior year, graduation and every reunion since. I’m pretty confident that nobody noticed, but still. The only memories I have from High school are awful and/or embarrassing ones and I never wanted to go back and visit with those schmucks again. Unlike Douthat, however, I found stuff and people that feed my few positive aspects rather than just bitter resentment and insecurities. The pay isn’t as good, but I’ve helped a few people over the years, and that’s a nice feeling.

Amazing! That’s exactly how I look all day Thursday when I think about the upcoming Friday *Shakira’s Fantabulous Ass!* gif, which usually has some sort of writing attached. I tend to drool more, of course, but otherwise it’s pretty much spot-on.

Begun the Vagina Wars have? Surrendered before the first shot was fired, I did.

that’s a campaign that I can get behind

Me, too! (As long as she’s not standing in front of Obama, anyway – I can take the full, unadulterated effect!)

Funny thing – when I saw the top picture, my first thought was “She’s kind of cute; I wonder who that is”)

How dare you, Sir! How dare you! Have you at last no shame? That may be the most brutally unfair thing you have ever done; worse even than not posting a ‘Shakira’s Ass’ ([homer]argleargleargleargleargle[/homer]) gif one Friday. Imagine comparing (even if only implicitly) that smarmy toad Romney to one of the great human and humanitarian millionaires, Thurston Howell III. Howell had principles; Howell had class, and Howell had style and the mellifluous, orotund tones of Jim Backus (RIP); not to mention the superlative support of that Rich Man’s Woman, Mrs. “Lovey” Howell. None of that ridiculous, showy “Ann Romney-style” exhibitionism for Lovey. She knew that her place was firmly in the background (or slightly behind at one side, in formal portraits). “Complement, not compete” was her motto, and who among us can but admiringly agree? Compared to the Howells, the Romneys look like a pair who got rich selling used cars; and the Gingriches look like trailer trash. Come to think of it, compared to the Clampetts, they still look like trailer trash.

Near as I can tell, Republican Jesus is an upside-down version of the Jesus of the New Testament. Seems to me I’ve seen something before about ‘upside-down Jesus’. Something associated with goat’s horns and blood and midnight rituals. Oh, yeah – Black Mass! Well, isn’t that special!

“Look at [those] boyish face[s]. Look at [those] sweet smile[s]*. Do you want to talk about physical strength? Do you want to talk about sheer [nobility]? Do you want to talk about the Olympian ideal? You are a [pair of] God[s]!

* Some suspect a dash of poetic license here..

“..pipe in audio books by Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, and George Soros and drive them sane.”

See, that’s what I’ve always said – once it becomes OK to torture people, then before long even we “good people” think it’s OK. If you did that to me, I’d be frothing at the mouth and trying to tear my ears off within a couple hours, I guarantee it, and I like to think of myself as fairly resistant to that sort of abuse after 26 years of marriage.

I’ll bet he wishes he could take back that last line.

His fellow Men of God have already expressed their disapproval in a rather Nietszchean sense. He won’t be making that mistake again. Reminds me; I need to get some new hob-nailed steel-toed work boots; my old pair is about shot.

Nah, you’re missing the point. Purchasing these acts would make them immoral. Using power and domination to get the boys to pretend they’re willing participants makes it all alright. The acts themselves are merely bad publicity. The investigations are witch-hunts by vicious Anti-Catholics attempting to hurt the Holy Church, source of light and exemplar to the world, and so must be stopped before the Image of The Church is further damaged. After all, the Image of the Church is the Image of God. Incidentally, the whole thing about the contraception uproar is based on the good old traditional value that sex with girls is bad and evil and has visible consequences, but sex with boys is good and natural and doesn’t cause embarrassing swellings. The Catholic Church has become so corrupted it’s hard to imagine that it can avoid a Second Reformation. Well, actually it isn’t that hard to imagine, but the last time this happened, it was bad news all around for a long time. I’m thinking it’s time for a Crusade to bring all the faithful together again with the promise of lootage and rapine. Good for the economy, too.

These guys can’t all be stuck at 14 years old, can they? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

For the love of all that is holy (Shakira’s miraculous bottom, for one), T, could you please stop posting that photo of Joker Jack in a blonde wig? A, I just ate, and B, it’s hard to work when I’m spasmodically shuddering every few minutes for the rest of the day. Your karmic balance will thank you, as will those of us with delicate constitutions.

If I was you and you were me, I suspect your point would be:
“Promiscuity?! Orgies?! Why the heck am I not getting an invitation? Or at least a location..”

Oh, and “warmist” – damn, the more these guys speak and write, the more I believe that Satan is real.

Oh, Jeb’s not so bad – he’s smarter than his brother, anyway: keep a low profile, don’t embarrass your “donors”, and don’t be surprised when random pretty Asian women turn up at your hotel door looking for a warm, safe place to spend the night. Really, Jeb’s just too nice a guy – he simply can’t turn away money and women loking for shelter in this harsh, cruel world.

“what you might expect if you were to dump two scoops of over-educated rhetorical flatulence, a half-cup of undercooked thought experiments, a few overly-ripe bon mots, and a soupçon of undeserved self regard into a blender set at ‘blather’.”

Dad-gummit, that’s my schtick! Of course you realize, this means war..

It’s really quite extraordinary to watch the GOP increasingly eagerly embrace religious fascism. It’s like the committee effect gone mad, or as the great demotivator has it “None of us is as crazy as all of us”. They keep doubling down, in the classic “Hitler in the Bunker” manner, but the difference here is that there is a sporting chance they might pull it out. Don’t sell them short – they still control almost all the media and most of the money in this country, and people are as satupid now as they always were. Don’t assume that outrage will do the job – get out and work for the defeat and hopefully the eradication of the GOP; it’s really what they themselves want, after all.

It’s interesting – my wife has been virulently anti-Komen for the better part of a decade now, because she became aware that they were not really interested in _preventing_ breast cancer as much as _profiting off_ it. I suppose it’s like anything else; if your income depends on selling something, you want to make sure that the market keeps getting bigger (or at least doesn’t shrink). The political side of things comes as a surprise to me, but I have to say that it’s not a big surprise. Birds of a feather and all that.