when the status quo frustrates.

Who does a blog have to blow to get a little recognition around here?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Via Sadly, No!, Americans for Truth have set up a convenient list of pro-homosexual organizations, just in case you was wondering where the gays were at so you could, uhhh…hate them, yes, that’s it. So you’d be aware of where they were as you thought about how much you hate that sin, that throbbing, sweaty, panting, sexy sii….

OK, take a deep breath, and focus on the homos.

I was a bit disappointed by their blog list, though. It’s so short!

Pro-Homosexuality Blogs

* Andrew Sullivan
* Evil Gay Lawyer
* Ex-Gay Watch
* Faggoty-Ass Faggot
* Good As You
* Joe Brummer
* News Fit to Post
* Pam’s House Blend
* Queer Today
* Queerty
* Quench Zine
* Sadly No
* Skinny Little Faggot
* The Angry Fag

That is one short list though. It’s missing at least one entry that I know of…us!

That’s right, PunkAssBlog is pro-homosexual, whatever that means! Now we’re not much of a resource, but then again, I don’t see Sadly, No photoshopping exclusivly for the gays either. And even though we’re only a B-list blog:
B-List Blogger
I think we can make up for it by being extra-pro-gay.

And sexier. I note that some of those so-called “gay resources” do not infact devote any webspace to tantalizing descriptions of gay sex or video from various homosexual orgy parades. Whereas we, on the other hand, have at least one post devoted to Marc’s hot, naked chest complete with an attempt to lure a Christian blogger into the lifestyle via a sneaky chest-off. How’s that for gay, huh? Pretty gay, I think.

Give me a G! Give me an A! Give me a G-A-Y! Yaaaaayyyyyy Gaaaaayyyyyy! Look, I’ve even got pom-poms:


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Can we be on the list now?

Consider helping Americans for Truth out. If you are aware of any gay resources, go ahead and send them a message.

The value of opinionated, decentralized, interconnected information dissemination

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

It’s no secret that Chris Clarke has grown weary of participating in the blogosphere, and maybe of the sphere itself. I’m too new to the format to presume I know exactly what he’s going through, but I do know how it feels to burn out on a writing format or forum. When you’re done, you’re done.

In his last post before taking a hiatus, Chris printed a comment left previously at Creek Running North. The commenter wonders whether blogs have any real value at all:

I’ve had the thought that blogs are “over.”

It’s a question worth posing on every blog:

What has all the good writing, the confirmation that there is really Someone Intelligent and Caring out there, actually accomplished—besides making us feel a little better for a few minutes?

Be honest about that. Even with the really big-time blogs. What real, solid gains—for people other than the big bloggers themselves, who enjoy a quasi-celebrity and a quasi-legitimacy—have been made because of blogs?

I’m not posing the question to put this blog down. It’s thoughtful, it’s well-written. But Chris himself mentions doubt about the real utility of blogs among his reasons to go on hiatus.

I think it’s a doubt worth addressing.

What is this medium for, exactly?

I thought that on this, the day of giving some thanks, I would give my thanks for the blogosphere by answering that question as best I can, albeit from a (relative) n00b’s perspective.

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Conservative media sez, thank god we don’t have to lie to you anymore!

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

From Ace of Spades, we get the following quote from Rush Limbaugh:

‘I FEEL LIBERATED… I NO LONGER HAVE TO CARRY THE WATER FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T DESERVE IT’…

Carry the water? I know Rush lives in Fantasia, and he vaguely reminds people of a rat, but he’s hardly a wizard apprentice. Why does he feel like he has to carry the water for people who don’t deserve it? Last I checked, he was a pundit. A racist hatemonger of a pundit, but still a pundit. No one was telling him what to say (other than the pills), so I don’t believe anyone was requiring him to “carry the water.”

Instead, Rush just admitted he’s been lying to his millions of listeners. By choice. All that vigorous defense of the party and its Congressional leaders has been fraudulent. He didn’t really believe in those jerkoffs at all, but he didn’t admit it until today. After this confession, how could any listener trust him again?

Maybe the admission is the lie. Maybe he still wants to tickle Santorum’s sack while Allen fingers his anus, but he has to act like he dumped them so he can save face with his frat brothers. Even if that’s the case, though, it only means he’s lying now instead of before.

To me, it sounds like Rush is experiencing genuine relief. It was shared by Ace, who added:

Ain’t that the truth.

Hugh Hewitt was right there with them:

The fact is, we thought our country would be better off with a Republican congress. We made a case to the American people. They didn’t buy it because they thought it was a weak case.

And you know what? They were right. In the closing weeks of the campaign season, I felt like I was a lawyer who had a bad client while writing this blog. That client was the Republican Party which had broken its Contract with America from 1994 and had become unmoored from its conservative principles.

If I’m not mistaken, that’s also 2 conservative bloggers who admitted they didn’t really believe the manure they’d been slinging about the glory of the Refuckuplican Congress. So, uh, why were they slinging it?

There are plenty of party hacks for the Democrats, but can you imagine any of them expressing genuine relief that they lost? They wouldn’t, because they really believe their own BS. The conservatives, however, confess that they know they’ve been shilling for cobags who’ve led the country astray.

If I ever read a blog or listened to a pundit who admitted their previous commentary was a fabrication, that they didn’t believe what they’d been saying, I’d never sniff their hot air again.

Maybe being a conservative involves telling each other lies to convince yourselves you live in a world neither of you actually believe is real. [The president's sure good at it.] When one of the lies crumbles, though, you feel relieved not to have to continue the taxing charade.

Maybe wingnuts would be a lot happier if they just stopped lying to themselves and others and started saying what they really feel. They might’ve saved this country a lot of headache, heartache, and body bags.

Where for art thou, Oh Reality Based Community?

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Hold up, Hold, the fuck, up lindsay, What the fuck are you talking about?

I am of course referring to this ghastly burkatuter grade evil creature of a paragraph:

Amanda’s insight undercuts ethnocentrism. It’s harder to think of your culture as the measure of all others when you realize that humanity’s most serious problems repeat themselves everywhere under different guises. If you assume that there are commonalities, awareness of an oppressive practice in another culture should lead you to wonder if your own culture might be doing something similar but less obvious to you.

Let us step the fuck back and examine what the fuck it appears Lindsay is accusing Amanda of here: (more…)

Is FDL quickly becoming the Left’s answer to LGF?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

FDL has finally pushed past the Thurmond Barrier of racial insensitivity.

Fuck you FDL, and myself*.

* the bear of racism eats me today, mea culpa, mea culpa, the only thing I can say in my defense is that I didn’t actually make the damn thing, and I hold no shame for remembering the damn thing from a random search for zardoz months ago (something that offensive just stays in your head for wrongness).

What’s shames me is that A) I thought that would be funny at the time, when the implementation was sporked to a fine fucked up paste of nastiness and it’s clearly not, and B) that part of my brain is now going “No! you can still use the O Ry? Owl for good! It’s Just the implementation that you did wrong!”.

I’m slapping it down with the mantra “IN WHAT POSSIBLE UNIVERSE DOES THAT HAVE TO BE USED AT ALL!?” followed by lots of cussing.

I’m So fucking sorry folks.

I was also unable to think of any western patriarchal traditions

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

…Except marriage, obviously.

I love you amanda, but the thing is that while a burka is a handy dandy symbol of patriarchal oppression, it is not Your symbol to use you silly cracker.

You see, one of the ways the islamic patriarchy pushes hijab onto women who would otherwise prefer not to wear head scarfs or burkas or any of that stuff is to use the KultureKampf that western imperialists are waging against muslims as an excuse to guilt trip young muslim women into donning the patriarchy uniform that goes with the particular family’s cultural background.

So many muslim women have been raised and told over and over again by their famlies that they’re betraying their culture and their fellow muslims if they don’t wear the headscarf or dress super modestly that they start to go along with it as they realise how incredibly racist western society is towards them, and you can justify any patriarchal bit of bullshit with that line – way too many of the FGM victims I’ve met (all of whom were fundigelical christians) used the line to justify chopping their daughter’s clits off. (more…)

Jane Hamsher Mildred Speaks: The importance of hating yourself

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Or why you need to hate yourself and how

We all judge people (via), how we dress, the way we comb our hair, little things really, but have you ever noticed how big a deal we can make out of those little things? For instance, a man may walk a certain way or sleep with a certain gender and suddenly people start labeling him “gay”! The reason I bring this up is to highlight the carefully guarded secret that feminists don’t want you to know: Everyone is judging you, that stranger you passed in the street, your parents and loved ones especially.

Now of course a feminazi would suggest that you find a way to have self esteem that didn’t rely on other people’s opinions and judgments of you – but think about that for a second, do you really not want to care whether a stranger thinks you’ve got a fat ass? For one thing, it fails to in anyway deal with the problem at hand – namely your fat ass – and for another, it completely ignores the fact that as a woman you in no way deserve to feel good about yourself.

And that is the most important lesson of all: You are ugly and therefore worthless as a lady. (more…)

10 Things I have learned in the past few hours (in no particular order)

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

1, A white blogger cannot be racist if they can name a single POC blogger.

2, POC bloggers are always the worst racists.

3, Narcissism is the same thing as being gay.

4, The Big Bloggers are all big bloggers through hardwork and writing skill, even Kosimandius and Trexie-bell*, POC bloggers are not Big Bloggers due to their genes.

5, Nitpicking grammar and spelling is the same thing as wit.

6, Racism does not exist in Left Blogistan, that is why Left Blogistan’s Big Bloggers do not need to pay any heed to charges that Left Blogistan is racist from POC bloggers in Left Blogistan, QED.

7, There is no silver spoon.

8, Saying you’re gay makes you immune to all criticisms that you’re a racist misogynistic assbag.

8.5, Especially if you basically accuse your critics of being homophobes in an attempt to shut down their criticism.

9, Real non-racists do not care, to a given amount of care, that the people of color who they use as cheap tokens to protect them from having to actually face any charges that they might possibly have been racist, are people of color.

10, A white blogger cannot be racist if they can name a single POC blogger (via)
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The mighty have fallen, or, blogging for the glory of the LORD

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Remember Ben Domenech?

I started working at Human Events, a capitol hill newsweekly, when I was fifteen…I’ve written for many places, including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Human Events, Citizen Magazine, New York Press, The American Conservative, The Dallas Morning News, and McSweeney’s.

I spent a couple of years working as a speechwriter for several prominent politicians and then as a book editor in Washington D.C. I am currently a writer living in Virginia.

He’s got a hot new project over at Boundless. Remember Boundless?

From college to career to relationships, we at Boundless want to cast a vibrant vision for the single years, helping you navigate this season while preparing for the challenges and responsibilities of the one to come. That requires living intentionally with purpose by bringing your gifts, talents and Christian worldview to bear on your whole life.

Well, a typepad account shared with some spare staff from Focus on the Family is no Washington Post, but if the entire genre of Christian alternative music is any indication, you’ve found the perfect audience. They’ve been conditioned for years to accept whatever drivel is handed to them unquestioningly, so they’ll never once think to google you. And for that you have no one but God, God and a massive Christian corporate machine, to thank. Hallelujah!

Even lamer than IE7: Goldstein on tape

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Poor Jeff Goldstein goes public with his snot-bubble voice in a Hot Air segment he calls the citizen journalist report.

This is the ultimate snorefest. 2 comments down, Allahpundit says he’s “downright giddy at the thought of how much lefty hate-traffic this is going to bring in!” Unfortunately, I’m afraid I can’t muster any hate right now. I’m too groggy and bored. All I can muster is light bemusement over what passes for humor on the right.

Goldstein dresses himself like a redneck flasher and croons hate speech about Israel and Jews, and surprisingly, anyone who passes by him gawks warily at this trainwreck combo of a fake accent and teensy cutoffs and/or wishes they’d never seen him. He alternates this footage with a wannabe liberal who tries to complain about Israel and “zionism” less freakily (though still a little freakily, to be honest).

Somehow the fact that the less racist and frightening of the two losers manages to drive fewer people away is a revelation to the squeaky Goldstein and his cohort(s).

The pacing is uneven and amateur. Better footage could’ve been captured by someone having an aneurysm. The best joke is that liberals have tattoos, which is a really awful thing to say about something that’s supposed to be funny.

If I had to choose a word to describe this piece, it’d be “limp.”

Jeff, I’d just like you to know that Retardo and I are available (albeit at ridiculously high prices) to spiff up your act. No promises we won’t make you look like a self-absorbed poseur with all the wrong opinions and a creepy obsession with touching sisters inappropriately, but we definitely promise it’ll be funny.

Oh, Will you just look at the state of this union?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Before figuring out a solution to a problem, it’s always good to figure out what the problem really is in the first place.

So let’s review: (more…)

It seemed like such a good idea in the Powerpoint presentation

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Sadly, No! delighted us all this weekend, and even after Townhall figures it out and takes it down, the gift will keep on giving. Right there on the banner are two of the most delightful links I could have asked for on subdomain.townhall.com: Blog Directory and Next Blog.

*click*

*click*

*click* (OK, sometimes you have to click it a few times before something good pops up. But when it does!)

*click*
A Unified Control of Gas Prices

The focus of this Blog is on Gas Prices and what we can do to influence the price. I too am aware that WE THE PEOPLE are being ripped off at the pumps. Just as you, I’ve heard the Pros and Cons of why the gas prices fluctuate so much and why it is at $3.00 per gallon and climbing. We have all seen over the past few years how it is remarkable that gas prices increase just before one of our major holidays and goes back down shortly after the holiday…

The Plan is simple, yet effective. The Plan is based on the Last Number of your Social Security Number and the Day of the Week that you should and shouldn’t purchase Gas. See the Table below:

Day of week to purchase Gas Last number of Social Security
Sunday 1 and 2
Monday 3 and 4
Tuesday NO PURCHASE
Wednesday 5 and 6
Thursday NO PURCHASE
Friday 7 and 8
Saturday 9 and 0

We all hate an inconvenience in our lives. We face this inconvenience each time we visit a gas station and pay out our hard earned money. The Plan and Table above can place WE THE PEOPLE in charge of our own lives. Everyone should say, “It Starts With Me” and watch the miracle grow.

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