- A reporter for hot gossip emporium Yeas & Nays was “publicly berated” for asking Sean Penn why he wished a bout of rectal cancer upon her posterior. [Washington Examiner]
- The ACLU is suing a Mississippi high school that canceled its prom as a precautionary measure intended to discourage lesbian girls from attending its prom. The high school will inevitably argue that this is a perfectly legal thing to do, according to the Patriot Act. [Think Progress]
- Did you know that a frightful voice recording occasionally reminds Metro passengers not to smoke, even though everybody already knows smoking on the Metro is against the rules? Did you also know that George Orwell warned of such things in his best-selling book Liberal Fascism? [Weekly Standard]
- The Democrats are a bunch of lousy, bloodsucking zombie autObamatons (and that is why Eric Massa resigned, he prefers sucking other things.) Zing! [RedState]
- Never-ending and probably pointless health care reform negotiations will force the Obama family to reschedule their Islamic pilgrimage-spring break in Guam. [Daily Intel]
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DC Metro A Perfect Example Of Why White People Should Buy Cars
by Riley Waggaman 4:43 pm March 12, 2010
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I thought lesbians were the “acceptable” homosexuals.
A lesbian prom would hawt unless it was a lumberjack theme.
I have not yet been able to resist a link to redstate. I like teh crazy. Imagine those Dems, voting with the party! What kind of unthinking idiot would vote with their party all the time? And what does it say about a party when they all vote “yes” or “no” together, as one solid voting bloc? Democrats, that is. Only the Democrats.
She’s a lumberjack and she’s ok!
Isn’t Guam overrun with poisonous snakes of some sort?
It would be so great if Obama was 1/10th the omnipotent, controlling genius of socialism Redstate thinks he is.
You know, I think Sean Penn is a great actor, and he generally supports the political causes I support, but it sure sounds like he is an A number 1 asshole in real life.
Y’know, not to be all sexist or whatever, but looking at Nikki and Tara and imagining the snide tone with which the question was (
probablycertainly) asked, I’d probably kick their asses out of my event too.Oh dear God. The Metro is inherently liberal and this is apparently a problem over at the Weekly Standard? A suggestion for them: use your free market cars on your free market toll roads. Voila! Problem solved! Too bad you can only hang out around Dulles and maybe some parts of New Jersey, though.
I’m so SICK and TIRED of MY TAX MONEY being wasted so some LIBERAL CITY FAGGOTS can TAKE A RIDE on the METRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRIVE a CAR like a NORMAL HUMAN BEING you PINKOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Barcelona and Copenhagen, where people still smoke like fiends and very few places are off limits for smoking, neither city’s subway system feels obligated to remind people not to smoke aboard a train or at a stop. It’s just common sense that smoking’s not allowed there.
So if you can smoke indoors, what’s so commonsensical about not smoking in a subway car? And why is this guy praising socialist nations — and for not providing information, at that? Oh yeah — because withholding information and not making sense are core Republican values.
Amazes me that people complain about Metro being slow, having annoying announcements, etc., but nobody seems to have noticed that they keep having accidents and near-misses, and they say any lie, no matter how preposterous, to cover them up.
Sorry, can’t think of how to make that funny. Nevermind.
Wait so this guy was in NYC, Copenhagen and Barcelona recently? Sounds like places lazy, nappy, classics majors form Sarah Lawrence would go while the “figure out life.”
Why can’t Ike Brannon get a real job somewhere far away on the Beltway or I-66, so he can drive a big SUV like a REAL AMURICAN?
I am stupider and angrier for having read the Brannon piece.
My favorite quote:
“because like every other sentient being who’s not on the train for the very first time, I long ago stopped paying attention to whatever comes out of Metro’s speakers.”
Because it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE that any of the millions of frigging tourists that are on every frigging Metro train at all times are riding on such a train for the first time. All of these pantsuit-clad, matching-t-shirt wearing, fanny-pack sporting rubes from the provinces, who squint nervously at route maps and do things like point to the Potomac and say to their spawn “look, Billy, it’s the Hudson”* are JUST AS FAMILIAR with the various rules of the Metro as Sr. Brannon. Clearly.
*Actual anecdote from a yellow line train.
@Formerly Preferred: Obviously those people were lost. Real tourists walk or ride tourist buses, carrying pennants. Don’t you read that illustrated documentary, The Family Circus?
[re=529824]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Lesbians are only hot when they let teh boyz join in, or at least watch. Also, when both look and dress like sorority girls.
And Riley, man, didn’t wonkette post this a day or two ago?
I love Red State comments. They reinforce every stereotype I have of the right.
The best thing about the Lesbians-Banned-from-Prom brouhaha is that it’s undoubtedly the “grownups” that are causing the the big infamous stink and controversy and the fellow classmates are mostly cool with the lesbian thing. The fellow girl classmates are thinking, hey, feminine solidarity with out sisters here, and y’know, whatever’s cool; and the fellow boy classmates think its pretty hot, two cute girls kissing y’know?
Knowing that the grownups will eventually be replaced by the lesbo girls’ classmates, as time and infirmity carries the olds off to a better place, makes me think things are going to get a little more tolerant over the long haul.
Fifty years from now, Northern Mississippi = Amsterdam.
[re=529861]megs[/re]: “Is this your first time driving a car? Great. Here’s some tips to help you make your tip. Car doors don’t work like elevator doors. Also, you can open the door on either side of the car.” Repeat ad nauseum.
[re=529887]Formerly Preferred[/re]: I agree that it’s a stupid article, but every time I hear one of those newbie announcements, I get mad. I look around me and think “there is no one here who has never rode Metro before!” Not many tourists in Columbia Heights yet, I guess. Also he makes a good point near the end about other train systems not doing that, and also “common sense”.
But no, liberalism is not the same as “constantly reminding people how they should behave”.
[re=529848]gurukalehuru[/re]: Oh, he just reminds me of number 2.
Normally the Weekly Standard is against such nanny nonsense in public transit. They make an exception, however, for the announcements on buses in the South that constantly repeat: “Read the Bible. Please engage the safety on your handgun. Take your dick out of that man’s mouth.”
The DC Metro is exactly like the underground control center of WestWorld.
Having read the Brannon piece, which was aspiring to banality but failed, I conclude that the site should be named The Weakly Standard. The piece could be taught in school under the heading of “how writers write when they have absolutely nothing to say.”
[re=529831]bago[/re]: She works at night and sleeps with women all day!
[re=529936]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: the fellow boy classmates think its pretty hot, two cute girls kissing y’know?
There’s something I don’t understand about straight guys who act out in front of lesbians. This question is not snark, for which I apologize (but snarky answers will be accepted).
When my 16-year-old turns down guys who hit on her, many start with the “You’re not really a lesbian, are you? Aw, c’mon, let me show you how I can change you,” crap. Am I right they’re just getting off harassing a pretty girl about sex, and esp. because she’s lesbian? Do men really think they have a chance in hell at “changing” lesbians?
And, how can she get them to stop without fearing they’ll retaliate at school? I’m asking because Wonketteers are sane about sexuality. And people using my kid to get off without her permission bugs the ever-living shit out of me. Thanks for putting up with a non-snarky question.
[re=530061]Katydid[/re]: I can’t speak for all men, but I’d say most of us just go full retard from puberty on. I grew up in and around San Francisco, not that it matters, but I grew up with a lesbian couple down the block. Never even crossed my mind until about 40 years later what might’ve been going on there! Years later, I had a couple of sekrit lesbian friends, who I of course hit on relentlessly until they came out to me, at which time all my advances ceased and we resumed our friendships. Hope your daughter finds new friends…
[re=530087]Jim89048[/re]: Seriously. Some of my best friends are lesbian couples. You know why? They are honest, forthright and have put up with so much bullshit in their lives that they know how to NOT put up with it anymore.
[re=530061]Katydid[/re]: Your daughter is cool. Obviously, she has a parent who has taught her to be honest about herself. All you can really do is be supportive. I doubt if there will be any “retaliation” as long as she continues that honesty. I know you’re frustrated, but really, I think she’ll be OK.
[re=530087]Jim89048[/re]: [re=530092]proudgrampa[/re]: Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful replies; I do appreciate them.
The kid is getting good at standing up to homophobes, and having to do so upsets her less as she gets older. The problem guys aren’t really homophobic, I think, (toward lesbians at least), their interest is prurient. Most girls don’t care, but the ones who do are, surprise surprise, religious Republicans.
Wingnut see, wingnut do. In fact, my daughter has seen two kids she’s fairly certain are in denial (1 male, 1 female) turn into homophobes as they struggle to repress their sexuality. It’s sad, really, but they’re becoming major assholes too, so my sympathy for them is wearing thin.
problem for boys is this- the higher the percentage of lesbians….the less my chances are of getting some action. that’s the problem.
solution? same as solution for most neuroses- better bordellos.
So sad to see that Andy Rooney had to take a second job at the Weekly Standard due to these Troubling Economic Times.
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