Wonkette
- A massive car bomb in Lahore killed at least 23 people and injured 300, leaving an eight-foot crater and “a vista of flattened concrete and destruction.” [New York Times]
- Republicans will bitch about President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, but in the end they don’t really have the votes to stop her, and she’s replacing a liberal anyhow so it’s not like her addition will radically alter the voting habits of the court. [Reuters]
- GM bondholders failed to leap at a very crappy offer to exchange their bonds for fairly worthless stock, so now the company will go into bankruptcy instead. [Bloomberg]
- A cyclone hit eastern India and Bangladesh, displacing millions, and probably killing a couple hundred tigers in one of the world’s biggest tiger reserves. [Reuters]
- The International Booker Prize is awarded every two years not on the basis of individual books but on a writer’s whole body of work, and this year it went to Alice Munro, the Canadian lady who writes very sort of quiet and subtle short stories that are also revelatory and terrific and perfect in their own non-show-offy way. [BBC News]
- A federal wiretap released yesterday revealed that Roland Burris talked with Rod Blagojevich’s brother about raising money for the governor, but mostly Burris just cleared his throat and danced nervously around The Issue. [Chicago Tribune]
I take it our Barry is unqualifed for the Booker Prize since his body of work has yet to be completed?
Republicans will bitch
You could have stopped right there.
Congrats to Alice Munro for her word thingy prize. A pozitiv stap for Kanata Sity litter-assy and litter-eh-tur.
I thought we could finally put Blago and Burris behind! They just can’t stay out of the news..
W/r/t the tigers; this is not only why we can’t have nice things but also why we don’t deserve nice things. All save-the-wildlife groups should change their mission to wiping out all endangered species. People obviously don’t give a fuck so give ‘em what they deserve: a world whose most exotic animals are the brown squirrel & the starling.
Placing Sotomayer on the court will make a difference. I predict that Scalia will become smitten with her and instead of paying attention in court he’ll be passing notes to Sotomayer that ask “Do you like me? check Yes, No or Maybe”. Scalia will be on the bench giggling like a 3rd grade child with a crush on the teacher while fapping his shriveled dingus under his robe. His entire thought process before voting will consist of asking Sotomayer “Soooooo, how are you voting on this?
It could happen.
So who’s going to hold GM’s fairly worthless stock? The Federal government (mostly) and GM employees health and welfare funds (some). Good luck to them all.
So GM changes its name to GM (Gubbiment Motors) making the old saying “so goes GM so goes US America” literally true.
It was a shitty offer, but the bondholders should have gone on the assumption of something is better than nothing. Barry’s Auto team is nothing but extremely ruthless to stockholders and bond holders alike… Sniff, it’s fucking beautiful.
Anyone cocksuckingly stupid enough to buy GM bonds should be charged with one final purchase; the bullet to be lodged in the back of their skull by their executioner.
Good for Alice Munro! That kind of brightens my day.
Oh God, I hope this doesn’t mean a run on raw seal heart!
Monsieur Grumpe: I think Sotomayor is a fine choice. THIS KIND OF CRITICISM THOUGH makes me just laugh at the GOP/FOX news… http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/05/fox-news-vs-sonia-sotomayor.html
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Seriously, weren’t GM’s bondholders paying attention when Chrysler’s got wiped out? Or were they just staying very still hoping that Barry wouldn’t notice them?
Todd is making Greta Tiger stew and hot dogs as we speak.
hobospacejunkie: I deserve nice things. At least I deserve good drugs. Also
ManchuCandidate: GM = Gimme Money.
Once Latina spitfire Maria shows her green card the Republicans can bitch all they want.This time next year she will have the Supreme Court packed with PR’s, all relatives and the Puerto Rican Parade will be a national holiday.At least Judge Ginsberg will have a girl friend to go shopping with and can pep up her wardrobe and Judge Souter can go home and chop some wood undisturbed.
“also revelatory and terrific and perfect in their own non-show-offy way” — could a review be any smugger? ugh, chick-lit…
On the plus side, Weekend Getaway rates at most hotels in Lahore are at their most attractive levels in months!
hobospacejunkie: One unlooked for result of the tigers being churned around by cyclones is the discovery by authorities of vast quantities of stripey pancake batter.
What about NK, hunh? They’re saying the war with SK is ON. Never ended, in fact. Don’t ya’ll wanna be talking smack about dropping Lahore-style bombs on Pyongyang???
No?
OK then.
hobospacejunkie: I have not met any tigers but monkeys are mean. A large monkey once slapped me for not giving it my orange. True story. Happened while trekking not to far from Angkor Thom.
x111e7thst: You’re right. You don’t deserve nice things. But we all (i.e., anyone who’s ever spoken out for legalization, fuck the rest) deserve nice, artificial drugs. Except me. I forfeited my share by acting irresponsibly in becoming a junkie.
The only latino the Republicans like is that long-haired hippy Jésus.
ManchuCandidate: They are probably hoping that they will get something from the bankruptcy court–which they will–than equity in a car company that will just go bankrupt a little later and wipe out the equity holders.
Mr Blifil: Those crazy flying tigers. Doing spins and loops and stalls…..
x111e7thst: Yours is not the first report I’ve heard about violent monkeys on the sub-continent. Apparently they make growing fruit an exercise in futility. So add them to the extinct list and hand out monkey cyanide to all humans intending to eat fruit in India and surrounding areas. Offer cyanide-laced fruit to our insolent little primate friends and voila — instant monkey carcass.
Perhaps all those tigers just got whisked off to Munchkin Land and are right now enjoying a delicious buffet, courtesy of the Lollypop Guild.
WickedWitch: North Karolina is at war with South Karolina? Should be a good one.
hobospacejunkie: Violent monkeys? [insert wingnut humor here]
WickedWitch: North Korea is one place where a judicious targeted assassination (or two) is called for.
I’m just sayin’.
Did I miss it? Where is the obligatory “Sonia from the Block” reference? We can’t all be New Yorker writers.
donner_froh: Will it be on pay-per-view?
102415: Yeah, green cards for Puerto Ricans… That’s not racially transcendent! Hopey is president, we’re all supposed to be one big happy rainbow coalition family, against the gheys!
In short… stop making fun of my people or I’ll cut you!
This really does sort of go with this post. David Brooks has taken some sort of LSD drug, and he’s trying to be ironic. And of course he’s doin it rong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&em
Cape Clod:
Communist and Socialist guilds are banned in Republican-controlled Munchkin Land.
With the tiger reserves being depleted I guess we can now expect the cost per barrel to skyrocket.
Custerwolf: It’s true. We must save the tigers, because now, a poacher no longer has a job to feed his heroin habit, and a Chinese man is without his tradition boner medicine, making him less productive at the local toy factory, extracting not as much lead as usual from toy trains.
We’re all connected by the tiger.
vkladchik: You really think Alice Munro writes chick-lit?
So many times, it happens too fast, you change your passion for glory. Don’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past, you must fight just to keep them alive. Face to face, out in the heat, hangin’ tough, stayin’ hungry. They stack the odds ’til we take to the street, for we kill with the skill to survive. What I’m trying to say is…
It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight
Risin’ up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watchin’ us all in the eye of the tiger
4tehlulz: Wow. That was beautifully poetic.
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night.
What enormous douche
Has flooded thy ancestral bush?
Top that, Alice Munro!
As they say in Sri Lanka, “Never catch a tiger by the tail.”
vkladchik: Munro is hardly chick lit. I’ve enjoyed her stories for years and I have a massive pair of red white and blue TruckNutz Human Flesh Edition dangling down there.
Munro’s sort of like Louise Erdritch, only not so overdose-then-blow-your-brains-out depressing. Munro is chick lit like Annie Proulx is chick lit. Or Willa Cather.
Fail.
From yesterday’s MinnPost:
— Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, who represents the 6th District, was more cautious in her statement: “Interpreting our Constitution is a tremendous responsibility, and it’s my hope that the president’s nominee will adhere to a true and original interpretation of our nation’s guiding document…. —
Personally, I’ve alway been troubled by the common interpretation of the while whale in Article III. I hope that Sotomayor will be able to gives us an original interpretation.
donner_froh: Yeah! It’s Nascar Death Match time!
proudgrampa: I was thinking it, but you said it. NICE.
Mr Blifil: I have a tear in my eye. So beautiful!
I say we all pool our cash and buy India one of these:
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/backyardweatherstation.jpg
Guppy06: When you’re a Jet your a Jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day!Dada Dada!Kick step kick step dip jump turn.
Come here a minute: Well, it will be awhile before she does the Supreme! perfume and a line of business jeans and cute tops. Then she will not be a poor any more and she will be Spanish. I think the most important thing to ask her during confirmation will be what are her favorite Ipod selections and to check out her dancing ability. I don’t remember if she was on “In Living Color”??? Please America don’t make the same mistake you did with that lame Roberts guy. Congrats Maria we love you!