http://punkassblog.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...lol. Maybe I should consider moving on to something, or someone, a little more challenging. http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/08/its-like-shooting-monkeys-in-a-barrel/ Remember this? According to the Wall Street Journal, Rahm Emanuel called liberal activists who wanted to run ads against conservative Democrats "f------ retarded" in a closed-door meeting at the White House. On her Facebook page, Palin likened Emanuel's "slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities" to using the ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/05/but-you-know-its-really-kind-of-okay-to-call-a-bunch-of-people-who-are-retards-retards-as-long-as-its-rush-limbaugh-doing-it/ I'm sure everybody remembers this: Aww, that's such a romantic pict--! hmm, wait. Isn't that guy about twenty years older than that barely pubescent girl..? I mean, I can see some serious crepe-like flesh going on under that manly-man jawline there--oh, well, it's not like even the most superficial ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/04/time-to-hurl/ Thoughts? http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/03/for-your-consideration-another-one/ ...or something like that. Since the "death panel" strategy didn't work...you know, I don't feel sorry for Trig Palin because he has Down Syndrome. It's always hard to have a disability of any description and I of course do feel compassion for anyone who has to struggle with one, but ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/02/rahm-emmanuel-refers-to-fellow-dems-as-f-ing-douchebags-palin-takes-to-her-facebook-page-to-demand-president-obama-fire-him-for-sexist-slur/ An interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom. A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, "one who stays with") is a child in Haiti who is sent by their parents to work for a host household as a ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/02/01/restavec/ I'm sure you've all heard of this by now: Obama makes appearance at annual GOP retreat Just two days after giving the State of the Union speech, President Obama stepped into the lion's den at the GOP retreat in Baltimore Friday to make a fresh start with House Republican leaders. ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/01/30/wow-did-obama-reely-go-into-the-lions-den-huh-wow/ (Hat tip.) "The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death" of Dr. George R. Tiller. Interesting snippets from the trial: Roeder's attorneys were hoping to get a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/01/29/thank-god-it-turned-out-this-way-rather-than-some-other-way/ ...more accurately, I would say I have been "defunct." (That's a great Scrabble word, by the way--I speak from recent personal experience.) After the third or fourth major thing went wrong in my life last year, I decided (amidst the angst) that this was a great opportunity for ... http://punkassblog.com/2010/01/28/im-not-dead-either/ Not dead, I promise. http://punkassblog.com/2010/01/24/for-your-consideration/