Lucy and her dainty chaplain try to talk Mr. Deity out of Hell.
Also probably the best begging segment ever. Neat-o!
March 31st, 2013 at 12:28pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media Blogging,Mr. Deity,ReligionThis week’s quote is from David Wong’s inexplicably-JDATE-spelling John Dies At The End:
I saw a semi truck zip by, hauling rows of caged turkeys. The thing was hauling ass, going at least eighty miles an hour, a cloud of feathers in its wake. Some kind of turkey emergency.
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s wee pom puppies…
I expected them to be fluffier.
March 29th, 2013 at 11:45am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingFirst and foremost, rich people care about the deficit. More than 85 percent of the survey participants said they considered the nation’s budget deficit to be a “very important” problem facing the country, the researchers found. In addition, nearly one-third of those surveyed said the budget deficit and too much government spending is the nation’s biggest issue.
That stands in contrast to the rest of the country, only 7 percent of which focused on the budget deficit, instead zeroing in on jobs and the economy, according to a 2011 CBS survey cited by the researchers.
“Why did policymakers focus so intently on the deficit issue?” Page and Bartels wrote in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. “One reason may be that the small minority that saw the deficit as the nation’s priority had more clout than the majority that didn’t.”
Rich Americans also have ideas about how to cut that deficit that differ from the less wealthy. Compared to others, the survey found the rich are more likely to want to cut government-subsidized health care and social welfare programs like Social Security. They’re also less supportive of initiatives that help the unemployed and raise the standard of living for low-wage workers than the rest of the country.
Wow, if it weren’t for this study, I would have had no idea that rich people have completely different priorities and far more political influence than everyone else. Thanks, Science!
March 26th, 2013 at 11:25am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Corruption/Cronyism,Economy,Politics,WankersSo would it be more appropriate to say that Cyprus is strengthening its bank deposits, or that it’s reforming its bank deposits?
1 comment March 26th, 2013 at 07:04am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Economy,Social Security,WankersA belated happy 85th birthday to Mr. Rogers.
Mercy.
Also, this.
March 25th, 2013 at 11:31am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingYves makes a good case for calling the billionaires who control our country “oligarchs” instead of “elites” – my only hesitation about endorsing the switch is that it clears the field for the right to continue accusing progressives of being “out-of-touch ivory tower elitists”. I think it’s valuable to point out who the real elites are in this country, but I do agree that “oligarchs” is a better descriptive term, and immediately conjures up all the right overtones of power, avarice and corruption.
March 25th, 2013 at 07:31am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: EconomyThis week’s quote is from the Samuel Delaney classic Dhalgren:
But the six minutes here, the twenty seconds there, the forty-five minutes how-many-weeks later – the real time it takes to commit the “heroic” or “villainous” act – are such a microscopic percentage of my life. Even what can be synopsized from this journal… are things that have happened to me, not that I have done. What you look like you’re doing and what you feel like you’re doing are disparate enough to mute any mouth that might attempt description!
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s wee bulldog puppies…
Cranky!
March 22nd, 2013 at 11:49am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat Blogging
Wow. Just… wow. Okay, admittedly Google’s counsel could have done a better job of explaining that internet advertising isn’t really all that different from traditional advertising, just with better and more dynamic targeting, but in all fairness he probably didn’t think he’d need to. My condensed transcript for those of you who don’t have time for videos or Louie Gohmert:
Gohmert: “Isn’t it true that you sell your Gmail users’ data to your corporate customers so they can send ads to them?”
Salgado: “Well no.”
Gohmert: “So couldn’t you therefore sell the same kind of data to the government BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI?”
Salgado: “Wait… what?”
Gohmert: “HuffPo reporters are simpletons.”
Sensenbrenner: “My son is a HuffPo reporter.”
Gohmert: “Oh. Mumble grumble mumble.”
And one direct quote because there is no way I can do it justice:
Salgado: “Sir, I think those are apples and oranges. The disclosure of the identity-”
Gohmert: “Well, I’m not asking for a fruit comparison.”
Your Congress at work.
1 comment March 21st, 2013 at 07:44pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Politics,Republicans,TechnologyWell, this certainly isn’t the Hell-spawned stuff of nightmares or anything…
March 18th, 2013 at 07:41am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingWouldn’t it be nice if more Republicans could have empathy for gay people without having to have a gay family member first? Sure, it’s great that Rob Portman finally tapped into “the Bible’s overarching themes of love and compassion and [his] belief that we are all children of God,” but he didn’t bother to have that conversation with himself until he had to think about his own kid not being able to get married. As long as it’s someone else’s gay son or daughter, who cares, right?
March 15th, 2013 at 08:39pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Politics,Republicans,Teh GayThis week’s quote is from the Bela Lugosi classic White Zombie, from back in the days when there were only voodoo zombies:
How do you think those eyes will regard you when the brain is able to understand?
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s wee pug puppies…
The constant panting is definitely part of their charm.
March 15th, 2013 at 05:48pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingOur media landscape is now so thoroughly debased that Rupert Murdoch buying up the Tribune Company is apparently the best outcome we can hope for.
March 12th, 2013 at 07:44pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Media,Republicans,WankersBecause Japan.
March 11th, 2013 at 07:05am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingThis week’s quote is from the underrated comedy classic, Ernest Goes To Camp:
No, I can’t eat on an empty stomach.
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s wee kittens…
EPIC STRUGGLE!!!
March 8th, 2013 at 06:28pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingNicolas Cage loves robot pachinko hoedowns.
March 4th, 2013 at 07:57am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingThis week’s quote is from the disappointing low-budget sci-fi Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident:
I’m gonna stab you with your own bones.
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s adorable sleepy kittens…
Aww.
March 1st, 2013 at 07:49am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingMr. Pierce spots a very simple difference between “Republicans” and pro-Marriage Equality “Prominent Republicans” – can you guess what it is?
P.S. Surely President Obama wouldn’t want to find himself to starboard of so many PROMINENT Republicans, right?
(h/t Teddy)
February 26th, 2013 at 08:23pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Media,Obama,Politics,Republicans,Teh Gay,WankersDid you know that Salvador Dali worked on a cartoon for Disney?
February 25th, 2013 at 07:13am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingNinja battle starts out lame, ramps up to completely incoherent and insane, then turns mournful and contemplative.
February 18th, 2013 at 12:19pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingThis week’s quote is from the Rod-Steiger-as-anti-Hitler-German-sergeant movie Breakthrough, which I have absolutely no recollection of seeing:
I have some doings back at my apartment. There, if you’d like to get drunk, it will not hurt so much.
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s sloths…
Bucket sloths, my favorite kind.
February 15th, 2013 at 07:25am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingThere’s a lot of charts and technical economic talk, but the gist of it is “create enough jobs to satisfy the preferences for work of those who haven’t any” – who knew?
As an aside, excluding the long-term unemployed from the unemployment rate is a huge scam that was almost certainly designed with the specific goal of obscuring the true scope of the problem.
February 13th, 2013 at 07:49am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Economy,Politics,UnemploymentThing X is the entity on which I rely on for all my blah blah something needs.
February 11th, 2013 at 11:14am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingThis week’s quote is from Six Days Seven Nights with Anne Heche and Harrison Ford, which yes, I actually did watch…
Hey, I don’t go to the gym every day just to watch old guys shower!
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s wee pugs…
Now with more exciting bump-n-go action!
2 comments February 8th, 2013 at 11:52am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingWhat Mr. Pierce said. The saner elements of the GOP may recognize that the party has an image problem, but they’ve conditioned their base to believe, expect and demand so much hateful madness that they can’t back away from it.
All they can do is talk about how they’re not really as crazy as all that and they’re going to rein in the loonies, and hope that that sounds enough like responsible maturity that normal people won’t be appalled by them anymore.
February 8th, 2013 at 07:28am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Politics,RepublicansThere’s also up & down, and inside & outside (although they tend to correlate with each other pretty closely). Which is why you can have a bipartisan consensus among the outsiders at the lower income levels that has absolutely zero influence on the bipartisan consensus among the elite insiders at the higher income levels.
Unfortunately, the 1% (or .1%, or .01%) are the ones who get to set policy, and they don’t have much interest in what the rest of us think, except insofar as they desire it to conform more closely with their own Beltway/millionaire worldview.
February 4th, 2013 at 06:10pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Corruption/Cronyism,Democrats,Politics,Republicans,Social Security,TaxesI was actually in an SNL commercial when I was a kid. That’s me right around the 42-second mark, right before the Nixon lookalike:
February 4th, 2013 at 11:23am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingIt’s like the Saw puppet’s much classier cousin…
TOTALLY NOT CREEPY AT ALL
January 28th, 2013 at 11:20am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Monday Media BloggingThis week’s quote is from the lesser-known (but occasionally very trippy) Lars Von Trier film Zentropa:
How would you react, if you received from the cleaning man, a green card filled out like this?
And, of course, there’ll be other people’s pandas…
Adorable.
January 25th, 2013 at 11:35am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Friday Quote & Cat BloggingHarry Reid still hasn’t seen enough obstruction from Senate Republicans to support filibuster reform, saying, “The only way we’ll get rid of the filibuster is if it continues to be abused.” He has either been sound asleep for the past four years, is the most trusting man alive, or he is simply and completely full of the brown stuff.
I believe that what’s going on here is that filibuster reform would actually make life more difficult for Reid and the rest of the Democratic caucus. Their job isn’t to enact progressive economic laws that their corporate donors oppose, it’s to quietly prevent them while avoiding blame. The continued existence of the filibuster makes this easy: They can all declare their undying support for financial reform, or the public option, or tax increases for the rich, and then let the Republicans do all the dirty work of blocking it.
But if there’s no filibuster and all the Democrats need is a simple majority which is easily attainable, Reid must engage in reverse whipping: Finding enough conservative Democrats from the Villain Rotation to vote against Progressive Bill X in pretend defiance of the party leadership. Instead of just exposing one or two at a time to the wrath of their state’s Democratic voters, Reid could find himself forced to burn half his villain pool on every vote.
Worst case for Reid: Conservadems get primaried and replaced by progressives who refuse to join the Villain Rotation. Best case for Reid: Conservadems get primaried and replaced by actual Republicans, making his job even easier than it is now.
1 comment January 24th, 2013 at 09:57pm Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Corruption/Cronyism,Democrats,Politics,Republicans,WankersFun legal fact I learned yesterday: Apparently it’s perfectly okay to outright lie to your customers, as long as there’s some possibility that they’re so “sophisticated” that they know you’re lying.
It’s apparently also okay as long as you have a whole bunch of innocent, hardworking hostages employees that would lose their jobs if your company got prosecuted out of existence. Of course, if you sent the individuals responsible to prison, that wouldn’t put everyone else out on the street. I can only assume that Breuer was worried that aggressive prosecution would drive those delicate souls to suicide like it did to Aaron Swartz.
I’d like to think Breuer is out at DOJ because of gross incompetence, but it’s probably more like he’s completed his mission of escorting the fraudsters safely across the statute of limitations threshold and is now ready to collect his reward.
January 24th, 2013 at 07:22am Posted by Eli Permalink
Entry Filed under: Corruption/Cronyism,Democrats,Economy,Obama,Politics,Wankers
