Not A Blog Holiday, To My Shame

Some of you will not know that this is my third marriage, and it is in fact charmed.

I am a lucky man in that I robbed the cradle. Ilse was not yet legal when this song--which is, as it happens, our song--was released. I hasten to add that she was legal, in every known jurisdiction, by the time I nailed her. She remains, so far as I know, legal.

So anyway, happy birthday and shit, honey.

It's Really Pretty Simple

It's been an ugly couple of days on the Twitter machine and in the blogs. In general, I'm with Loomis, TBogg (who does an awesome job of calling out the aimless millennial dumbfuck Cali hippie vibe that the Occupy for Romney movement stenches of), Rebecca Solnit, and others (for instance). Here's why: the Occupy for Romney movement will tell you that this makes me a mouthpiece for the Democratic National Corporation, that I'm an Obamabot, that my vote for Obama will be a vote for killing civilians with drones. Uhm...yeah, sure. Fuck you, you tendentious and ignorant pricks, and maybe go back and retake whatever course you learned government in, because--and I know this will surprise you--the government does, in fact, extend beyond the military.

Like most people who want to oversimplify (misogynists), start shrill namecalling (Republicans and middle schoolers) and whimper when it's turned back on them, argue ad reductam and deny the importance of anything that doesn't fit their worldview (Greenwald), and pretend that they're victims (Christians), the Occupy for Romney movement is just a pack of propagandists. Why, exactly, they've so deliberately (in each sense) blinded themselves to principles they claim to hold dear, and why they've decided that whichever issue is most important to them obviates all others, and why they've actually reached the stunning (and remarkably ignorant) conclusion that a Romney presidency would be less bad than an Obama one is beyond me. But they have. And anyone who disagrees is a bully, is telling them to shut up, is a corporate tool. The line of reasoning very quickly devolves into black helicopter madness.

I have no patience for this. I am appalled that people I believe to be of good conscience could reach such stunningly illogical and paranoid conclusions. Speaking of paranoia, I begin to wonder whether the Occupy for Romney movement is every bit as astroturfed, and by the same people, as the Tea Partiers. See? I can do paranoid too. Dipshits.

Most of all, I just get really fucking tired. The left has spent the last four years watching the right tear itself apart. It's the break we've been waiting for as the dialog and the Democratic Party have been reactively drawn to the right. Well, guess what? The not-really-left and not-really-right are the fucking majority. You gotta throw them a few bones. Giant Clinton/Obama bones? Maybe one or two, sure. Not as a way of life.  But if you do it more or less right, you can keep it to that, to what's necessary, and keep the trend in the right direction.Now, instead of building something, instead of figuring out commonalities among those leaning left, the Occupy for Romney movement wants to push anyone less left than them all the way to the right.

Well, that's just monstrously stupid--much like the Republicans of the last four years have been. I sincerely doubt that it'll cause Obama to lose the upcoming election, though I doubted that a self-serving dimwit like Ralph Nader could've cost Al Gore the 2000 election. What I am sure of is that it will guarantee that there's nothing to build if Obama is re-elected, because people who should be on board for the building will be off kicking dirt because they didn't get their personal fucking special pony. Whatever the fuck pony their special one is.

Fucking madness. Fucking Jeffersonianism run fucking wild. Jeebus.

Paul Ryan: Actually Dumb Enough To Drown Himself By Looking Skyward With His Mouth Open When It's Not Raining

Thanks to TBogg and others for this bit of idiot fuckery from union-hating Paul Ryan:

"Did you guys watch that Packer game last night? I mean, give me a break. It is time to get the real refs."

Why, yes, Representative Ryan, it is time to stop locking out the real refs in an effort to bust their union and save the NFL a few pennies. Can we expect you to take a similar position on far more significant union employees, like, say, teachers?

Ryan followed that bite with some incredibly retarded and baldly meretricious analogy to President Obama's handling of the economy. Ryan is an embarrassment to fascism, unable even to do that right. 

The motherfucking scab referees have been awful, it's true. And Roger Goodell shoulders enough of the blame to condemn him to a hell he's already going to. But let's not ignore the cocksucking scab motherfuckers their own selves. No one's making them go out there and do the NFL's union-busting bidding.

As awful as the refs are, and as deeply loathsome, as despicably reprehensible as their scabbiness is, there's one bit of heinous referee fuckery thus far this season that didn't bother me a bit, and that's those scab shitmuffins outright robbing the motherfucking Green Bay Packers last night.

So fuck you, scabs, you amoral sacks of striped toolage. But thanks for buttfucking the Packers. And thanks to you, Paul Ryan, for letting me stretch a meme for one more day.

Mitt Romney: Actually Dumb Enough To Drown Himself By Looking Skyward With His Mouth Open When It's Not Raining

Thanks to Sasha for a tip to this, from The Hill and the LA Times. As you may have heard, Ann Romney's plane had to make an emergency landing last week, because of some electrical issue that may or may not have been a fire. Willard was concerned:

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

That's right. Mitt Romney thinks that: airplane windows should open, and that oxygen puts out fires.

Rock on, Republicans.

Not Too Busy To Say What Must Be Said

Loomis tells you all about Chicago so I don't have to. It's hard to tell, because so many in the media, including a lot of people who know better, are up their own asses about this, but it sounds like there may be a deal soon.

Support CTU. Solidarity forever.

Solidarity Forever

Support the Chicago Teachers Union as they strike for better conditions for Chicago's students. This isn't about salaries, it's about ridiculous class sizes, primitive physical conditions in the city's schools, improving associated social services, and ending the relentless privatization of schools--a goal supported, incredibly, by Democratic Party leadership.

Bonus: your support for CTU will piss off Rahm Emanuel. It doesn't get any better than that, does it?

Seriously, Rahm Emanuel has gone over to the Dark Side on this, assuming he wasn't already there. Which is, I know, quite the assumption. But Democrats trying to bust unions? What a load of fucking horseshit.

Fuck Rahm Emanuel. Support CTU.