Wonkette
- Barack Obama traded five captured Iranian commando terrorists, Jon Favreau, a nuclear warhead, and a Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card for one (1) journalist. Are you insane, Mr. President? Next time please consult Beckett’s baseball card price guide? [Power Line]
- Here is a story about a fellow named Ace, a man who wakes up every day and leads bayonet charges against the liberal elite, on the internet. But then one day our hero Ace said something TRAITOROUS about America’s favorite quitter, and received a barrage of grapeshot fired from unmerciful Commenter Canons. And then an armada of Confederate Ironclads called him mean names. The End. [True/Slant]
- Good news for white people! In Thailand, “white is in,” and if you move there and get a job, you will be paraded around and fed treats for being so exotic and white. Sorry, not-white-people. Try Laos? [Andrew Sullivan]
- Karl Rove makes an eloquent case for not telling the irresponsible blabbermouth children in Congress about anything, especially not “secret stuff” the CIA does. Best to go straight to John Ensign’s parents. [Think Progress]
- Sarah Palin quit her job so she could spend more time adding her favorite Aristotle quotes to her Facebook profile. But even if she adds two or three new quotes a day, that’s like what, 3 hours? This woman needs to find some extra-curricular activities! The problem: all of the good summer internships have been taken, and uh, nobody wants to be seen with her in public. Thailand beckons! [AMERICAblog]
Palin to Thailand? Are you kidding me? You saw what those malicious brown folk did to Gary Glitter.
“Palin resigned to help her career”? Babble Spass has a career? Doing what? Mixing word salad on the go and singing her special version of the Scarecrow’s song from the Wizard of Oz?
Snarkalicious: Not to mention David Carradine.
No they love the white people in Laos, and Cambodia, and even Viet Nam. Because they are so delicious.
While you’re taking a break from blogging, Ace, look up a couple of words for me…”hoist” and “petard”.
Squishy Romneyites. What an image….
slappypaddy: Copyright that before you get screwed out of the royalties.
Snarkalicious: I agree. No matter what they did to Gary Glitter they have not done anything to the U.S. that would merit that sort of punishment.
Ace of Base (I saw the sign)
Shock!
I got a new life
You would hardly recognize me
I’m so glad
How can a person like me support you
Why do I bother
When you’re not the one for me
Is enough enough
I saw her resign and it opened up my eyes
I saw her resign
Palin’s demanding without understanding
I saw her resign and it opened up my eyes
I saw her resign
Everyone’s beating me up
For saying she should go where she belongs
But where do you belong
In the wingnut world
For many years I’ve been one to
Lead the charge
How can a fool like you be so right
Under the MILFy swoon
While I see a lot of fail
Is enough enough
I saw her resign and it opened up my eyes
I saw her resign
Palin’s demanding without understanding
I saw her resign and it opened up my eyes
I saw her resign
Rove’s an expert on violating statutes and other innocent things. Like the Constitution. Why does he live?
slappypaddy: Sanford resigning to save his career is more believable than Blubber Barbie doing so.
Karl Rove says it’s dangerous to give Congress information. How the hell would he know?
I refuse to comment on anything that Riley the intern posts. On principle.
I only want to be shit on by professionals.
I had checked out Ace’s blog last week when I saw an item about this dust-up over at Sullivan. It was so full of crazy I was depressed for the rest of the day, walking around thinking of it as proof that we as a species do not deserve to survive. The commenters over there are that insane.
imissopus: So Full of Crazy - ha, I had the same response to the comment section of the Washington Post’s Palin op-ed today.
Palin apparently didn’t study too much philosophy at U of Idaho…that’s the second great philosopher in a week that Caribarbie has incorrectly attributed a quote to. No way Aristotle wrote that, and Plato didn’t write the thing about learning about people through play.
Poor Ace. He’s getting it in spades from the trailer trash.
Maybe he’s finally understanding Palin is a moron and her supporters eat a lot of deep fried food.
Karl Rove is a Secret Santa.
Snarkalicious: Gary Glitter shouldn’t have banged so much underaged gong,
Obama wants to look forward.
So do I.
To Rove’s incarceration.
dupontd: I actually tried searching for something like that quote at the Perseus Project website. The closest I came was a discussion in book 2 of the Eudemian Ethics (2.1223a): … praise and blame are not given to things that we possess from necessity or fortune or nature but to things of which we ourselves are the cause … which of course isn’t really the same thing at all.
I then did a web search, and found the quote - except that it was from Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter page! OK, he was also attributing it to Aristotle, but I presume that’s simply modesty.
dupontd: “Sara Palin is an ass.” - Aristotle
Ace will always be etched in my mind by his statement a while back that Woman’s naughty bits had been sculpted by an artist in the medium of Play-Doh and bacon. It’s hard to forget something like that.
qaf: oh thanks a whole effing lot. i hadn’t seen that and didn’t know that and would never ever think that and now it is burned into my brain. that’s what i get for carousing in wonkettie-ville when i should be doing, oh, i dunno, my job, i guess.
dupontd: well, if you are thinking about the Greek philosophers, no but perhaps Plato as in Plato’s Retreat and Aristotle as in Onassis.
Not only do whites get paraded around in Thailand, but they also get all the katoeys they can handle, 24/7.
This was posted below Ace’s quitter spiel:
I’m glad we’re all experts on what it takes for someone to get elected POTUS.
That worked out well the last time didn’t it?
A glimmer of insight….
Speaking of English-language education outside of the English-speaking world, I’d like to send out a group African American vernacular English-teachers. It would be absolutely the shit to hear a group of Chinese youth sounding like Chris Tucker and seeing Phd’ed Japanese executives teleconferencing with their American colleagues with a Magic Johson accent.
dupontd: “Plato didn’t write the thing about learning about people through play.” That would be the Greek Philosopher Montessori.
Jesus Christ…slow news day? How little do you have to have crossing your desk to write a thoughtful, cogent analysis about a collection of reactionary, occasionally misogynistic, and completely speculative posts about Alaska’s most famous hypocrite, and about whether or not she’ll be President in 2012?
Some of these people defend that snowbilly with the same fervor that an abused and bloodied trailer-trash wife implores the arresting officer not to take her husband to jail because “he’s a good man” and “didn’t mean to hit her.” This is wonderfully amusing for me to watch from a distance, but how do you justify actually blogging that noisy, hate-filled mess out on your own site?