I had worked up a head of steam, several head-fulls in fact, over this latest bit of utter bullshit that is the great outrage over President Obama's address to school kids. Yup, it is really nothing more than another excuse for the rabid racist rethugs to show their lily-white racism [...]
I have a new word for folks to learn; futilitarianism. It describes the state of political affairs in the States today- a process by which any action or inaction is rendered desirable only to the extent that it accomplishes nothing meaningfully, and if possible renders the status quo less tenable.
Charles Grassley used to be a mostly quiet Senator from Iowa. He also used to go by "Chuck".
Your Curmudgeon is not sure why, but it does seem like Grassley has been coming unhinged recently. While the reasons for this now-folksy, now-rabid [...]
Okay, so I haven't exactly posted much of anything for a while. Let's just say I was otherwise occupied, life being what happens while making plans and all. We may get into what that has meant for me at another time.
I do have a question for' [...]
File this under "One more reason to await the arrival of outside cooking season": the Bacon Explosion. Bacon stuffed in sausage and wrapped in bacon, then barbecued.
Oh. My. Goodness.
"Cake", in this instance, is an outside temperature above F.
We've been dutiful little Minnesotans- taking the icy slaps with minimal whining. It isn't like we're asking for a THAW, just a temp without a minus sign. And the weather [...]
Sad, sad news today for your Curmudgeon. Peter Freyne- a journalist landmark of Vermont- has passed. I cannot eulogize him any better than has been done at Seven Days, where he did a good deal of his reportage.
When I lived in Vermont, and specifically when [...]
Okay, so we here in Minnesota are heading into what has been billed as the coldest week of the winter so far. Given that this is Minnesota, and it is January, perhaps it is not surprising news. Still, we are deep into winter, and have been long inured to what [...]
If pressed for kind words about Minnesota or Minnesotans, the first thing this Curmudgeon would mention is that the people of this state get hockey. The appetite for the sport is on par with my own, and I do appreciate that.
After the dizzying crush of the holidays, as the [...]
If there is a more sorry sack of spineless shit excuse for a Senate Majority Leader than Harry "I have to borrow my balls from Mitch McConnell's handpurse" Reid, your Curmudgeon isn't sure he even wants to know about it. For entirely too long, the nation has waited for the [...]
Ya gotta love Parliamentary governments.
Take Canada as a shining example. In the time from the end of the RNC atrocity exhibition to the General Election in November, Canada had an entire election cycle. The Prime Minister called for an election there was a SIX WEEK (yes, [...]
I suppose it could have been worse- I could have read my own damn obituary. Given the lack of posting on my part, such speculation would've been mildly warranted.
It was a surprise, I must admit, to have read in my good friend The Mississipifarian's blog that [...]
Make no mistake about it- the US Senate race in Minnesota is heading to a recount. This portends to have all the fun of a long play date with an at-home DIY dentistry kit sans morphine or even nitrous oxide. The 'story' will be just compelling enough to keep ruminating [...]
Can't speak for anywhere else, but the sense I have here is that we're about to get a new alphabet soup goin' on:
We'll be hearing the L word (Landslide), the M word (Mandate), and yes, the N word (NOW), as for the O word- well, I think you get the [...]
I prize our friendship
But if zombies should chase us,
I'll trip your ass up.
From your Curmudgeon, who is planning on celebrating his Halloween by flogging Republicans into submission.
It is not for lack of material that I have fallen mostly silent as of late. Grampy McSame and the MILF who would be VP have come fully unhinged, and in their desperate clamor they create jaw-dropping acts, idiotic and feral. The Breeder Bachmann has chewed through her muzzle and [...]
Your Curmudgeon is a proud hockey fan, and he is also a political junkie. These two spheres have been mutually exclusive for the most part, and this is as it should be. Sure, there will be the occasional political figure, a governor or mayor, who does a ceremonial puck drop. [...]
When I moved into the new place, a prime attraction was the porch. At the time, I mused that it would be a great perch from which to watch it all turn to shit.
I had no idea that we were living on an parabolic curve- and man, [...]
Now that this shambling atrocity exhibition of a convention is over, your Curmudgeon heartily encourages all those who came to the area for the event to pack your crap up and go the hell home. To the GOP especially- take the delegates, lackeys, media minions, and whatever ghouls and other [...]
Yes, I know this is photoshopped, but really, it captures an essential part of Palin's qualifications to be one 72-yr-old heartbeat away from the Presidency.
One. Heartbeat. Of. The. Decrepit. Grampy. McSame's. Shriveled-up. Ticker.
The next time a right winger starts [...]
The events of the last week or so, and specifically the last several days, have sparked many remarks of the "we're through the looking glass/down the rabbit hole" variety. Ditto observations about the "the theatre of the absurd". Your Curmudgeon advises to disregard such views; we've already seen the play, [...]
Would you send your wife to a war zone to 'assess' things, especially when the precious little thing sprains her wrist shaking hands?
Cause I don't think I would. I don't think it shows good judgment.
Just sayin'.
Barack Obama named his pick for Vice President today...
AND IT'S YOU!!!!
Of course, you have a decent enough of a pedigree for the position. After all, You were Time's Person of the Year in 2006, and it is nearly a universal truth that when [...]
Yeah- I am posting a LOLcat. Bite me.
I know this cat must be Disco Stoo's- who is THE thin blue line in Minneapolis between all us citizens and the undead brain-eaters.
Complaints will yield a steady stream of images you would rather not see, none [...]
Wanna talk for a brief second about the toxic irony that has defined the 21st century? Cool, so do I.
Let's begin with the Smirking Puppet, back when he was just a lapsed addict and over-entitled dismal failure of a human being. At his coronation ceremony (face [...]
The Curmudgeon offers his thanks to the inimitable Tild~, who graciously created a Crate Label for his blog:
Thanks also goes to T. Hussein Mississippifarian, who came up with the glowing-red eye Ganesha idea.
In case you are wondering, that difficult produce is a durian. Indeed [...]
The Curmudgeon offers his thanks to the inimitable Tild~, who graciously created a Crate Label for his blog:
Thanks also goes to T. Hussein Mississippifarian, who came up with the glowing-red eye Ganesha idea.
In case you are wondering, that difficult produce is a durian. Indeed [...]
It seems that it is not just your Curmudgeon who is noticing the deflating aspirations of "Rollover" Al Franken. T. Hussein Mississippifarian points to a story from the NY Observer which compares the Franken campaign to that of Oliver North in his '94 run in Virginia.
[...]
It seems that it is not just your Curmudgeon who is noticing the deflating aspirations of "Rollover" Al Franken. T. Hussein Mississippifarian points to a story from the NY Observer which compares the Franken campaign to that of Oliver North in his '94 run in Virginia.
[...]
My neighborhood got an infrastructure downgrade yesterday. It must be another manifestation of Pawlenty's Minnesota zeitgeist (along with bridges falling apart) that road surfaces go from cracked blacktop to loose gravel. If this is some intermediate step prior to further blacktop/resealing, the Curmudgeon reckons that the phenomenon could be called [...]
My neighborhood got an infrastructure downgrade yesterday. It must be another manifestation of Pawlenty's Minnesota zeitgeist (along with bridges falling apart) that road surfaces go from cracked blacktop to loose gravel. If this is some intermediate step prior to further blacktop/resealing, the Curmudgeon reckons that the phenomenon could be called [...]
Oh, no- hell no- the Curmudgeon is not about to bullshit you into thinking he's saying anything that hasn't been said previously, that he's breaking some deep hot juicy story of intrigue. I am just saying that for all the bunched bloomers and the hand-wringing that's going on- what with [...]
Oh, no- hell no- the Curmudgeon is not about to bullshit you into thinking he's saying anything that hasn't been said previously, that he's breaking some deep hot juicy story of intrigue. I am just saying that for all the bunched bloomers and the hand-wringing that's going on- what with [...]
Yep, I've been silent. Call it a combination of a REALLY bad mood, apathy, and general distraction. Whatever. But Curmudgeonly goodness later this eve.
In the meantime, stay off my goddamn lawn.
Yep, I've been silent. Call it a combination of a REALLY bad mood, apathy, and general distraction. Whatever. But Curmudgeonly goodness later this eve.
In the meantime, stay off my goddamn lawn.
So it's the fourth of July, a day in which far too many in the States tell themselves and each other fanciful fairy tales about freedom, liberty, and generally how gawddamn great we have it here. It is an intentionally distracting narrative which keeps folks focused on reinforcing the pollyanna [...]
So it's the fourth of July, a day in which far too many in the States tell themselves and each other fanciful fairy tales about freedom, liberty, and generally how gawddamn great we have it here. It is an intentionally distracting narrative which keeps folks focused on reinforcing the pollyanna [...]
It is a fortunate thing that no god-peddlers have found their way to the Curmudgeon's door at his new residence. I am just NOT in the mood for their brand of bullshit. The more organized the religion gets, the more it sprouts a fundamentalist wing, the more fucked that religion [...]
It is a fortunate thing that no god-peddlers have found their way to the Curmudgeon's door at his new residence. I am just NOT in the mood for their brand of bullshit. The more organized the religion gets, the more it sprouts a fundamentalist wing, the more fucked that religion [...]
Back in the time when local television shows had a greater ability to generate their own programming, WHO-TV in Des Moines broadcast The Floppy Show. Kid-oriented and cartoon-intensive, the show revolved around a puppet dog named, yes, Floppy, and Floppy's human, Duane Ellett.
To be sure, The [...]
Back in the time when local television shows had a greater ability to generate their own programming, WHO-TV in Des Moines broadcast The Floppy Show. Kid-oriented and cartoon-intensive, the show revolved around a puppet dog named, yes, Floppy, and Floppy's human, Duane Ellett.
To be sure, The [...]
It is with no small amount of sad amusement that the Curmudgeon notes that the SCOTUS decision concerning second amendment rights has the bloomers of left blogsylvania in a serious bunch. The biggest twist, around which the larger knot no doubt forms, is that in another topical issue- the [...]
Damnit, what an absolutely sucktastic way to start a week. The news that George Carlin had died was the first bit of news the Curmudgeon got this morning.
A string of profanity followed.
Honestly, though, if one had seen any of his recent stuff, one could tell Carlin was not looking [...]
Yeah, the Curmudgeon knows it is summertime, and summertime is also known as "Slow News Time", which normally culminates in an August where a missing white chick can be a bigger item than the Macarena. The Curmudgeon also recognizes that this August won't be a slow month; it will be [...]
The Curmudgeon sends his warmest regards to all those in California choosing to exercise their rights to get married- gay, straight, and otherwise- today. Marriage is a tougher road than one can possibly imagine, but the risk/reward ratio is nonetheless sufficient.
The 'reward' part of the equation [...]
I'd run an independent- a progressive independent- in the US Senate race. Hell, 7 million might get the job done. At the end of that day, the people of Minnesota may end up with a Senator who would advocate for their interests and would have been able to further send [...]
Well, that extended silence was decidedly not intentional. I'll give you the cliffnotes version, and those who care to inquire further may do so.
-I have been working lots. Long hours, long days, long weeks. This turns out to be fortuitous because
-I am getting divorced. It's sad, [...]
While most of the left blogosphere kept busy yesterday mocking Law Day, or as Bunnypants would have it, Loyalty Day, your Curmudgeon kept the day as May Day, which is what yesterday was. An organized potluck for the people working on the latest project- a communal meal [...]
So, as the HRC campaign continues to march on, the main stream media has come to a startling conclusion: the primary race does seem over. If one does the math and calculates what it will take for Her Royal Clintonness to win the Democratic nomination, HRC would need greater than [...]
So, let me get this straight: the U.S. gives aid, and lots of it, to Israel. Further, the "Israel" issue as it relates to American politics is tantamount to a bloody pissing contest, a race to the toughest, most hawkish talk (Her Royal Clintonness takes that 'honor') and the [...]
