Happy Birthday!
By Mitch Berg
A belated happy happy to Powerline, celebrated their fifth anniversary Saturday.
It’s hard to believe, sometimes, that:
- …I’ve been doing this longer than Powerline, and
- …we’ve all been doing this so long!
Happy anniversary, John, Paul, Ringo and George and Scott.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Here’s an example of why blogs do well, while old media is dying. When I lived in Superior Wisc, I would read at least two papers a day (Duluth and Superior’s) and occasional buy a third if a headline or event caught my attention. Since then the Duluth paper bought Superior’s and dumbed it down. When I go up there, I purchase neither. Checked their web site today and was reminded why. From today’s Duluth paper:
Our view: Worst president or not, 3,455 died in Bush’s war
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/
…….On Carter’s watch, eight U.S. servicemen lost their lives on an ill-fated mission to rescue the hostages in Iran, who ultimately were released in the first hours of Ronald Reagan’s presidency because of Carter’s diplomatic efforts. Under Bush’s rule, Memorial Day observances accentuate only too painfully the 3,455 lives lost as of yesterday to futile foreign adventurism for which the president never gave diplomacy a fighting chance…….
May 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Facts suck, huh Upchuck? Hey, you gonna go to that new creationist museum outside Cincy that shows humans coexisting with dinosaurs, just like on the Flintstones? Sounds like wingnut Disneyland!
May 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Oooh! We’re playing “extreme strawman!” I can do this!
Vobo! You taking the kids to Leftyworld? Where raising taxes stimulates the economy, where Che Guevara is STILL a hero, where Israel and Hamas are moral equals, and where the media is really balanced?
Sounds like moonbat Knotts Berry farm, but vegan!
May 29th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
It was news to me that Carter was unable to do anything for 443 days, but on that 444th day his great diplomatic skills got the hostages released. It was just a co-incidence that no-nonsense Ronald Reagan was sworn in that same day. Also, apparently the semi-illiterate writers for the Duluth paper missed most of the 1990’s/early 2000’s and many failed UN resolutions.
I like the Flintstones.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
AC, a quick internet search reveals a privatly funded museum celebrating creationism. Now that’s how is should be done.
Let’s see, oh yes, that was Cincinnati where the taxpayers were forced to subsidize Maplethorpe’s gay pornfest.
That’s the difference between my side and yours. We pay our own way, and we pay your way. So if you want an exhibit on gay clown-porn, you would have the taxpayers pay for it.
May 29th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Sure, Mitch, only you just made up “Leftyworld” while you right-wing nutjobs apparently ponied up $27 million in perfectly good US of A cash for a real, honest-to-Jesus museum to brainwash your kids into believing Adam and Eve rode their pet dinos to church every Sunday to pray against the gays and buy ammo. Because while not all Republicans are morons, you’d never win another election without the moron vote.
May 29th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Mitch, only you just made up “Leftyworld”
Don’t get out to many demonstrations, do you?
while you right-wing nutjobs apparently ponied up $27 million
So?
I mean, what if they did? It’s private money. People can spend it on creationist theme parks or CDs or cookbooks or $12 glasses of domestic macrobrew at the Fridays’ off Rockefeller Plaza – what difference does it make?
Because while not all Republicans are morons, you’d never win another election without the moron vote.
And either will the Dems.
Full agreement!
May 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
while not all Republicans are morons
I’m telling Slash, Marsha and Jody!
Nya!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Justg a thought on AC’s dinosaur theme, why do prehistoric societies from South America to England to China all have dragon mythology that is similar?
I’m not sayin’, I’m just wondering.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Well, Kermit, I think it has something to do with petrified dinosaur bones laying out far more exposed than they are today. Today, paleontologists have pretty well picked over those bones that were the most readily available, but back in prehistoric times, they were visible quite a bit, relatively speaking. So, say you’re a prehistoric man out hunting for your next meal, and you come across an exposed tyrannosaurus skull. What would you think it was? And, more importantly, are there still some of whatever this thing is in the general vicinity? And, oh crap, what if this thing can fly? AHHHHHHHH! From there, it’s just a matter of relating the tale around that night’s campfire, embellishing of course, for dramatic effect. Viola, the mythology is born, and I imagine it was probably pretty much the same around the world whenever dinosaur bones were stumbled upon.
May 29th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
That’s a good theory, Yoss. I’ll run it by my pet crocodile while he’s chewing on his coelacanth.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I can’t take credit for the theory. I think I first heard it on the Discovery Channel.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Nah, Col. Cathcart. It’s cause there were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark. And the world’s only 6,000 years old.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Mitch simpered:
“So?
I mean, what if they did? It’s private money. People can spend it on creationist theme parks or CDs or cookbooks or $12 glasses of domestic macrobrew at the Fridays’ off Rockefeller Plaza – what difference does it make?”
Further evidence that you rightwing nutjobs are descending ever deeper into your own little fantasy world. Which Angryclown wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about if us normal clowns didn’t have to share the country with you. At least till you get raptured out of your socks and go to live up in the sky with rightwing Jesus and all those aborted fetuses.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:53 am
angryclown said:
“Further evidence that you rightwing nutjobs are descending ever deeper into your own little fantasy world”
Because to ascend out this “little fantasy world”, “rightwing nutjobs” would do what? Protest and rail and whine against them? Cast our political opponents as one with them? Outlaw them? Send out the police and army against them?
I think most “rightwing nutjobs” will do as they always have and ignore them because they don’t seem to be harming anybody else. “Rightwing nutjobs” will probably leave that other stuff to people like angryclown. 😉
May 30th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Trojan Man queried:
“Because to ascend out this “little fantasy world”, “rightwing nutjobs” would do what?”
Embrace, rather than reject, reality. Thanks for asking Trojan Man!
May 30th, 2007 at 7:39 am
I think you actually take it two steps farther:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
and when applied to reality, that’s just not healthy, angryclown. 🙂
May 30th, 2007 at 8:24 am
“Embrace, rather than reject, reality.”
Somehow this rings hollow coming from someone wearing greasepaint.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:26 am
It is like a zen koan, grasshopper. It takes one whose identity is obscured by clown makeup to perceive the true nature of things.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:18 am
If you can keep it out of your eyes.