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Sunday, April 6, 2008

NEW OUTRAGEOUS SMARTNESS FROM CHALMERS JOHNSON!

posted by Cintra Wilson at 11:46 PM
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Author/ Ex-CIA agent/Chalmers Johnson, possessor of one of the world's sexiest brains, put out an article on TomPaine.com that I missed in January, but it's never too late to hear from a man who is thinking years ahead of anyone else anyway, and writing it clearly enough that even a blonde can understand it.

This is what Chalmers Johnson's brain looks like

I can only compare the joy I feel finding a new Chalmers Johnson article to the extreme, headbanging glee I feel when Rachel Maddow substitutes for Keith Olbermann instead of those yes-very-comely but unfunny and not insightful-enough anchor-chippies.

Sometimes the world just works.

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"As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both."

Yes, this is sadly the label Americans wear now, whether they like it or not.

"Whatever future developments may prove to be, my best guess is that the U.S. will continue to maintain a façade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it...It might, in fact, open the way for an unexpected restoration of the American system—or for military rule, revolution, or simply some new development we cannot yet imagine."

The theories that many racial extremists ( anti-racists and pro racists) on You Tube bandy about is not that much different than the above quote. If we all marched on Washington, general strike for a week we could shut the war down but collectively the US has become too lazy.

Great article, I'll pass it on.

Posted by: Super Amanda Super Amanda at April 7, 2008 1:32 AM

Oh yeah, I thought you'd like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWX1ZG_kTw

"...the world may never know."

Posted by: Super Amanda Super Amanda at April 7, 2008 1:35 AM

the only way to avoid being crushed by the death-throes of The Beast Of Empire is top get off the grid ASAP. But before you do, buy my bookand see my movie:

http://www.amazon.com/Desperado-Journal-Revised-Standard-Vision/dp/1434891151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207607692&sr=8-1

Thanx!

Posted by: DollarMan DollarMan at April 8, 2008 9:49 PM

This guy is right on.
To avoid being crushed by the death-throes of the Beast Of Empire, I recommend getting off the grid ASAP. But before you go, please buy my book and see my movie:

http://www.amazon.com/Desperado-Journal-Revised-Standard-Vision/dp/1434891151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207607692&sr=8-1

Thanx,

see you South of the Border!

Posted by: Joseph Thomas Joseph Thomas at April 8, 2008 9:53 PM

sorry about the duplicate post, but I got an error message the first time and.....

Posted by: DollarMan DollarMan at April 8, 2008 10:02 PM

Check it out Cintra and fire up that Star of David G string!

http://www.playboy.com/blog/2008/04/nudity-trumps-factchecking.html

Posted by: Whirling Dershowitz Whirling Dershowitz at April 10, 2008 10:37 PM

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Why Al Gore Is So Effing Awesome (reason # 816)

posted by Steven Felty at 8:14 AM
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Run already, stop toying with me.

"...while we’re focused on, you know, Britney and KFed and Anna Nicole Smith and all this stuff, meanwhile, very quietly, our country has been making some very serious mistakes that could be avoided if we the people, including the news media, are involved in a full and vigorous discussion of what our choices are.”

(excerpted by way of Good Morning America and Maureen Dowd)

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Dude K Fed is so out! I guess it shows how focused on other stuff the Big G is that he names last year's tabloid ho.

Posted by: Super Cherry Super Cherry at May 23, 2007 1:58 PM

Amanda, you'll be forced to eat your words when KFed is Governor of California!

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 2:11 PM

Oh shite--this fucker can catch an Oscar, but he can't catch a break to save his life.

When I was in Monterey over the past two weeks, a friend gave me his book on the Warmin' Thing-y.

It seemed as if it was written for a twelve year-old audience, but I guess that's what "gets across" these days.

Still, I pretended I was twelve and read the book, looked at the many many pictures(many of which were taken by Tipper), and I got genuinely scared.

I think he may be onto something. I could be wrong.

Posted by: Ian "Full of Global Warmth" Ransom Ian "Full of Global Warmth" Ransom at May 23, 2007 2:14 PM

Considering most newspapers and books are written for people reading at the level of a fourth grader (yes YOU, USA Today), it makes Gore's book for twelve year olds a Doctoral thesis.

Posted by: steven "bearer of bad news" felty steven "bearer of bad news" felty at May 23, 2007 3:06 PM

Okay, I do agree, the USA Today is the McNewsiest of all McNewsies, but there are a few really talented people on their staff, and someone was smart enough to pub one of Our Lady Wilson's pieces in those papery-pages. Uh huh.

Plus, the USA Today (via excellent science writer Dan Vergano) gave fecking worthless *me* my chief claim to even the slightest smidge of writerly "fame" in 2003:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-02-18-israel-antiques-usat_x.htm

Otherwise, obviously, I agree wholeheartedly.

More to the point, Handsome Felty-Person, I would ask you to render your additional thoughts on global-warming (Gore-ish and otherwise), via this commenting forum.

I know you've touched upon it in past "bits," but we can always benefit from an update.

As a bona fide Caretaker of Planet Earth (which the rest of us only dream and lie about being), what have You to say?

(You were WAY onto something with the bees, but I expect that you've got other observations, as well. Go, boy, GO).

Posted by: Ian "Hey Now, Hey Now...Don't DREAM It's Over" Ransom Ian "Hey Now, Hey Now...Don't DREAM It's Over" Ransom at May 23, 2007 4:00 PM

Before we get into a typical digressathon here, the reason old Al is making an appearance today is the subject of his excerpted quote. I don't care if KFed is old news, the fact is Al is right; we're being distracted by whores and trash so that the Bad People can go about the business of Bad Things. Very few people are conversant in the how and why of the Iraq War, but they can quote Chapter and Verse on American Idol and it's a shame.

Now.. Climate Change? Well.. I'm not a bona fide scientist, but I do have a decent grasp of the theory behind Global Warming and it makes sense to me. Greenhouse gases are being dumped into the atmosphere continually and in the short term it means all sorts of good things like longer growing seasons and milder winters, but long term a three meter rise in sea level is going to make New Orleans look like a messy child's room. Cintra for instance will have to take a gondola from her building to dry land. Nice view though. I don't think we'll be alive to see the worst of it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't TRY to do something about it now.

Posted by: steven "Earth Mother's Baby-Daddy" Felty steven "Earth Mother's Baby-Daddy" Felty at May 23, 2007 4:48 PM

BTW the bees, I haven't seen a European Honeybee in weeks. None. Zero. Zip.

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 5:20 PM

I do like it when you articulate "on" your entries in the comment-section, Felty.

Also, I take you seriously, which probably helps.

But here's the prob:

I know you were lampooning Gore's condescending acknowledgement of the "stupidity within the stupidy" Wheel that Fortuna is apparently, currently spinning for what can be loosely called "American Culture."

Yeah--while the collective consciousness of our nation is out "Dancing With the Stars," the globe is in some sort of danger.

But "Global Warming" has already (sadly) been transformed into a *doctrine*--those who ascribe to said doctrine will always be as convinced of its viability as are those who will remain convinced of its peripheral, near-apocryphal status.

The playing-board has been set--the pieces are in motion; it's diaphanous. It's all a bunch of gossamer.

I guess I'm amazed that (Pervasive) America doesn't really appeciate how utterly STUPID it has become.

Basically...some of us find ourselves a bit startled to be reminded of it--even by the nobly-intentioned Gore.

That being said, I think it's going to be a good year for tomatoes and zucchini, in general ;->

Good on you, though, Steven.

Posted by: Ian "Pseudo-Orgasmically Satisfied" Ransom Ian "Pseudo-Orgasmically Satisfied" Ransom at May 23, 2007 5:50 PM

It's actually going to be a shit year for zucchini if the bees don't show up. It takes somewhere like 20 visits to a female flower by a pollinator for a viable fruit. Hand pollination is an option for a small-scale gardener like myself, but give it a couple seasons with less bees and a lot of big farmers are going to be in trouble.

I don't think Climate Change is a Doctrine just yet, the data is being reviewed and amended still,( I will say that the only scientists that seem to disagree with Climate Change tend to be few and in the pay of a corporation or two) the problem seems to be the people with extreme positions on the issue crying Doomsday or attempting to discredit the science. The End is Near crowd makes for good teevee, but I'm truly puzzled by the people with no scientific background who deny it's happening. I suppose the smugly ignorant have and always will be with us, but this isn't a case being tried in court where the issue is going to be decided on a technicality or reasonable doubt. The data will eventually win and these people's great-great-grandchildren are going to be the losers.

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 6:32 PM

OK, maybe this is totally wishful thinking but I hope to hell it isn't: My Dad, who is an astronomer, has often wondered aloud re: the Global Warming argument why nobody has mentioned that the sun itself has been on a crazy extra-hot jag lately. There's apparently been all kinds of freaky, massive gaseous fireballs leaping all over the solar surface for the last couple of years. It's just been hotter than ever. Who knows why this is so, but it has nothing to do with little tiny earth -- although it would make us hotter.

I'm not saying we're not evil and killing the planet. You only need to look at the filthy dry-rot hunk of fungal shite that is Los Angeles on Google Earth to know that's true.

Posted by: Cintra "Earth Motherf*cker" Wilson Cintra "Earth Motherf*cker" Wilson at May 23, 2007 7:33 PM

Yes, Steven...Global Warming *is* a doctrine. It was a doctrine from the first moment that someone of even the most vague importance said:

"Hey! Global warming is doctrine, I don't believe in it."

Remember the adage: "My mind is already screwed--don't confuse me with facts."

Cintra: Astronomical Dad is quite correct, of course.

Humanity is a current scourge on this planet--yet it is *not* a scourge. Humanity is only doing what it can DO.

Natural Selection will take care of everything (and there *is* a spiritual angle to Natural Selection, but I still have to write the actual book).

Globally Moistened Kisses,

Ian

P.S. (The dearth of bees is ever troubling. I saw *one* a few weeks ago, Steven, but have not seen a single bee since I returned home to the desert--and this in a time when they have hitherto flourished. Nothing. No bees. They are GONE).

Posted by: Ian "In Prophecy Mode" Ransom Ian "In Prophecy Mode" Ransom at May 23, 2007 8:07 PM

Then again..." Natural Selection" is also...just...a...

doctrine.

Posted by: Ian "Fusing With My Isis-Crystal" Ransom Ian "Fusing With My Isis-Crystal" Ransom at May 23, 2007 8:21 PM

Increased solar activity dumps more energy into the system and the stew of greenhouse gases traps the heat. It's like a big 'ol Easy Bake Oven where you replace the light bulb with a sodium lamp from the Walmart parking lot. Ugh it's all so depressing, I need my vagus nerve stimulated with a jackhammer or as resident man-child Brink always suggests; go skate. Brink is the Linus Pauling of Skateboarding, apparently skating all day will cure anything.

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 8:24 PM

Tennis cures a lot of ills, too, BTW.

Posted by: Ian Ian at May 23, 2007 8:55 PM

Brink skates like, hours and hours a day in a totally Disneylandish skate park right outside of his work place.

And he gets his cool typewriter logo inside of shoes, because he rolls that way.

It's damned impressive, really. Also people from the FUEL channel want him on TV.

Brink is to the skate world what Amanda is to YouTube:
The Tits.

Ah, such a lovely, nonviolent Manson-type family. It makes me want to put an X on my forehead and write the word "PIG" on Rupert Murdoch with a dry marker, just to please you all.

Posted by: Cintra "Grindcondo" Wilson Cintra "Grindcondo" Wilson at May 23, 2007 8:59 PM

what bones skating hasn't broken in my arms and wrists, tennis surely would. I am the clumsiest muthafukkah on the planet.

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 9:14 PM

Really there's no need to assault Rupert on our behalf, but if you ever get the chance I'd appreciate it if you messed up Trump's comb-over.

Posted by: steven steven at May 23, 2007 9:27 PM

Hey Ian & Steven!

Why don't you two just makeout and get it overwith already...

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAAHHHAHAH

Posted by: Brinkles Brinkles at May 23, 2007 10:12 PM

I wonder what Al Gore's math grades were throughout school...

Posted by: Brink Brink at May 24, 2007 2:23 AM

Woah, I just realized after comment bombing this beeyotch that there was a whole Brink discussion up there. AWWWWWWWW. They love me! They really love me!!!

Thanks Cintra and Steven. Hugs and bunnies and butterflies and kisses and vunyl babies and fruitful harvests to you!

I'm sorry for everything bad I've ever done...telling Steven and Ian to make out...starting an anti-snark manifesto...talking about poop on here...everything... I take it all back because you, the cintrawilson.commers are my family!

I dunno though...I still think people would rather watch Amanda's rack than all the shennanigans I'm up to...but my shoe is gonna be killer! And you will all get a notice to tune into the Fuel thing...

And skateboarding does cure everything...except arthritis, rickets, shin spints, compound fractures, sprains, broken bones, lacerations, torn acls...that's what insurance is for...

I recommend you all fly out here for one big happy Brink skate therapy session in Laguna Beach. Dinner and drinks on me! It works...

Free shoes for all!

Posted by: Brinkspeare Brinkspeare at May 24, 2007 2:41 AM

"Hey Ian & Steven!

Why don't you two just makeout and get it overwith already..."

Shush! The grown-ups are talking Robert, have another ritalin.

Posted by: steven steven at May 24, 2007 7:57 AM

and ya, we were saying really nice stuff about you too..awk-ward.

Posted by: steven steven at May 24, 2007 8:24 AM

AHhahahahahhaha

I just like when every so often there's a huge back and forth on here between you two...

its kinda cute

Posted by: Brink Brink at May 24, 2007 3:45 PM

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

TIMELY WORDS OF MY #1 HERO

posted by Cintra Wilson at 7:51 PM
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"There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor - both black and white - through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC
(Dr. King was assassinated exactly one year later)

Full text on Truthout.com

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Good one Lady C. Nothing like badass quotes from brilliant people to get the gears turning...

I, myself, happen to be a civil disobedience fan...

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0909663.html

I was always amused when I saw footage of people lying limp on the ground in protest and the police trying to drag them around...

Posted by: Brink King Jr. Brink King Jr. at April 4, 2007 8:25 PM

eerie. prescient. incomparable.

Sacred.

Posted by: Ian Ian at April 4, 2007 8:26 PM

It's so true and a vile travesty that the money being bled in Iraq could have radically reshaped Africa by now. It's all about oil because it will be gone sooner than later and the US will NEVER live without being the guy with the most oil. No one listened to Carter's energy program and everyone needs to drive (though not me, i've never been a driver or a car owner)
i need the fuel to take me back to the UK this year though.

Posted by: Super Amanda Super Amanda at April 4, 2007 8:45 PM

Dr. King had the finest political mind of his generation so it was inevitable that some unreconstructed hick would gun him down.

The sad thing is this; The only lesson Vietnam taught our present leaders is that the lowest common denominator in our society dearly loves to see brown people get fucked up on the evening news and it wins elections.

Posted by: steven steven at April 5, 2007 10:02 AM

EDIT:
Dr. King had the finest political mind of his generation so it was inevitable that some government agency would gun him down and pin it on an unreconstructed hick.

The sad thing is, the only thing Vietnam taught us is that the lowest common denominator in our society is that people like to get fucked up and then see brown people in the slot after the evening news.

Posted by: Godmonkey Godmonkey at April 5, 2007 4:43 PM

There is a McCain campaign ad trying to mack on me!

Posted by: Super Ho Chi Mindy Super Ho Chi Mindy at April 6, 2007 1:12 PM

Look, more robo-commentors! How will feed all of them?

Posted by: steven "I knew I needed a bigger ham" felty steven "I knew I needed a bigger ham" felty at April 7, 2007 4:47 PM

There's only ONE thing big enough to stuff such yawning maws...

Ah, hell. I need to go to church or something foolish like that.

Dr. King was a preacher, a REAL one--so I can't let myself get too sketchy when his name is mentioned. Along with Mother Teresa, Dr. King is one of the only true "saints" of modernity. Sojourner Truth, Ghandi, and Dorothy Day are others.

It pisses me off that the Vat-Cat drag queens have put John Paul II on the fast-track to canonization when Dr. King and Mother-T are far more worthy and "miraculous" than that wily-tho-grandfatherly misogynist.

I'm sorry--I always get a bit scattered during Easter weekend. You can take the boy out of the Catholic...

Posted by: Ian Ian at April 7, 2007 6:12 PM

I wonder who they hire to write the copy for those spams...

Someone has to do it at some point in the chain right? OR decide what the computers will write?

Weird...

Posted by: Brink Brink at April 8, 2007 2:24 AM

I'm a spam connoisseur, I think most of it still gets written in Eastern Europe and Asia with the help of Babelfish; giving us beauties like "I have a bigger cock in the world!"

Posted by: steven "online since Al Gore invented it" felty steven "online since Al Gore invented it" felty at April 8, 2007 11:06 AM

Leslie Bennetts is really annoying, her book needs to come with a foreward by Zoe Baird.

Posted by: Bella Abzug Lives Bella Abzug Lives at April 8, 2007 9:27 PM

http://superamanda.blogspot.com/2007/04/feminine-chauvinist-mistake-part-one.html

Posted by: LiZ Gurley Fynn LiZ Gurley Fynn at April 8, 2007 10:43 PM

Hrrrrrrmmmmmm...so those are the knockers everyone's been raving about...

Posted by: Brink Brink at April 8, 2007 11:16 PM

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

CHRIS ROCK: RIGHT AGAIN

posted by Cintra Wilson at 12:45 AM
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For one, he likes Obama and thinks Gore should get into the race.
[Obama/Gore, I say, dammit]
Oh Rudy Giuliani (on Bill Maher) : "He's like a pit bull. He's great if someone is breaking into your house. If nobody's breaking into your house, he might eat your kids."

Bless you, Mr. Rock. Adoring Photoshop image forthcoming.

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Cintra, you're really serious about "Barry." Have you got a li'l crush on "Barry?" Did you watch the Oprah episode and become ensorcelled by the ululating rays of Denzel Goes to Hollywood mesmerism? Or does this tenderhorn truly impressyouandwhyso?

Rock is funnier, lately. I mean, he's Gary Coleman funny. I totally see them in a buddy picture. Maybe a foreign film. A spaghetti western.

Will Bill-M ever find the redemption he truly deserves? Hasn't he suffered enough? Now he's getting "compliments" from that sassy, saucy Giuliani? Isn't that a Geneva Convention violation, or sumthin?'

Posted by: IanSay"CheckYourPetFood" IanSay"CheckYourPetFood" at March 18, 2007 3:32 AM

Gore Obama, ok, sounds good. Chris Rock. Always good. Bill Maher, hits the nail, then when he misses, he really misses..

But I want to comment on your new global policy. Haliburton is evil, corrupt to the core, etc. Yes. But.

One of America's strength is to form corporations. I just have a small private company in Seattle that I manage long distance with the help of skype/email/online payroll so that's all good and fine for me but publicly traded companies are no longer starting in the States, in fact many, one of which I'm personally involved with, are trying to redomicile, desperatley. They try Dubai, Bermuda, anywhere, but the States.

Here's the gig, Cintra, it's not just the litigious disease that's overtaken our country, in both personal and professional life, but the FCC and SEC, combined with the accountants and laywers make it impossible for corporations to succeed and be good to those pesky shareholders. The States is making is impossible.

Even the conservative FT in London had an article a coupla months ago about how america is trying to deal with the FCC/SEC regulatory mess. Too late, London has already taken over NY as the financial capital, most IPO's occurred in London last year, not NY, etc......well, such a digression, but it's something that's happening under the radar.....america can have the rest of the world do the work by parking their their fleets next to the oil all day long, but there is a tectonic shift occuring....well, just my perception....and another stupid digression....for any of my fellow americans that want to sail across the atlantic and move all their belongings to the other side of the pond, like we did 5 yrs ago, will not be able to, or rather, won't be able to afford to as the senator from NY has already passed a bill that will tax an american on everything they have, should they want to leave...i realize that not everyone is as insane as we two, wanting to re invent their lives somewhere else, but it's crazy stuff...at least to moi.
Bailey

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Posted by: lindiusfn lindiusfn at March 18, 2007 10:10 AM

Gore/Obama vs. McCain/Harris(Katherine)

Okay, the McCain/Harris matchup was just wishful thinking and a desire for juicy posts on Wonkette. I loves me some Walnuts and Kitty.

Posted by: steven steven at March 18, 2007 10:46 AM

Oh another thing, Bailey correct me if I'm wrong, but the IRS assumes that anyone expatriating with a net worth in excess of $2 million is doing so to avoid taxes, right?

Posted by: steven steven at March 18, 2007 12:18 PM

If you knew Kitty like I knew Kitty. She's a right tall, full-to-bursting glass o' Florida sunshine--that's what she is.

The Neo-Anita B.

Get her together with Ann Coulter and you have the fixins for one feisty Two-Gal drag revue!

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 18, 2007 12:20 PM

Oh I know Kitty..Not personally, mind you, but I was in Florida during her ass-fucking of the electoral process.

Posted by: steven steven at March 18, 2007 12:31 PM

The IRS makes plenty of assumptions.

2 Million is the mark, yes, but doesn't apply to the section of the minimum wage bill to which I refer.

Nor does it apply to me as I still carry an American passport, have not expatrated, pay US tax, and pay tax as a US resident even though I spend less than a 2 wks a yr in the States so far....not sure why you asked....

Posted by: bailey alexander bailey alexander at March 18, 2007 12:42 PM

I'm just doing some reading about expats and taxation of US citizens abroad, I figured you'd know better than the collection of wealth preservation newsletters that a google search produces.

Posted by: steven steven at March 18, 2007 12:49 PM

Cintra.

When are you going to do a rant on Kate Middleton. I wait with baited breathe...I was just in London and got waves of gossip about the Royals...Harry is so obviously Hewitt's son.....why else would Mme Windsor have spent so much time making sure William was as serious as a heart attack, marrying Kate in the next year or two and Harry is sent off to Iraq. He looks exaclty like him....Me and Godot shall wait.

Posted by: bailey alexander bailey alexander at March 18, 2007 1:31 PM

Anyone with Italian ancestry dreads Chris Rock because he'll be calling you're a "quadroon" as soon as you walk in the room so I don't think he's all that great, Maher is better but comedians can't usually deal well with too much power and both are way too popular.

So far the race is shaping up for another four years of Republicans if things don't get more focused and Camille just wrote another really tired and awful "Madonna's great artistic Catholic body cavity displaying legacy is being let down by desperate Britney essay" for Allure.

Hope everyone had a fun weekend!

Posted by: SuperAmanda SuperAmanda at March 18, 2007 8:55 PM

Amanda--not another Madonna paean from Camille!?!

There must have been a particularly bumpy night in the Paglia household of late.

Britney couldn't uphold even the kitschiest Catholic-jack, even if she wanted to. She's a Baptist of the kind that houses their congregations in those build-'em-yourself warehouses in the south, not even in nice white, wooden churchies!

Britney's kind of Baptist had to decide which portion of the King James Version Bible to preserve and which to rip out and hang on a nail in the outhouse every season. Too much is heaped upon Britney's frail shoulders already--she cannot be expected to preserve Madonna's mediocrity AND 2,000 years of papist claptrap, too!

I am totally off Camille for awhile, if she's on Madonna's scent so soon again.

I agree with you on the Republican danger zone, though. I feel something mildly prophetic coming on. It may just be an onset of "tongues," but it might be something worthwhile, too.

I want to hear more from Cintra on these matters. She's been quiet since this past week's scathing Dregulator. Something wicked this way comes. Again.

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 18, 2007 10:12 PM

Amanda, Quadroon? That's nothing, you should hear the shit people in Milan talk about anyone south of Lazio.

Posted by: steven steven at March 19, 2007 1:08 PM

Let's face it: we're all aubergines and mud-persons, or we'd all look like Max von Sydow.

Sorry to be so mum this weekend: it is spring and therefore book pitch season. The typing thumbs were almost as bloodshot as my evil eye.

Posted by: cintra cintra at March 19, 2007 4:37 PM

The only word better than "quadroon" is "octaroon."

Posted by: Brink Brink at March 20, 2007 1:52 AM

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

SEVENTEEN REASONS WHY WE LOVE DANA MILBANK - #2

posted by Cintra Wilson at 8:13 AM
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From Milbank's Washington Sketch, covering Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's addressing of the Justice Department in "fluent scandalese" :

"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), giving the news conference with (Charles) Schumer, was not so bloodthirsty. 'I'm more reserved, in general, than my colleague over here is,' she said of Schumer, who wore a tie featuring pigs, eggs, and turtles."

Ooooh, Seenyor Abogado del Presidente, Loopy Loops knows your Mama, and predicts that boy, she's going to cut your head back to the chorizo-meat.

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I love Dianne--always will. Not in the way that Helen Mirren has been getting love offers lately, but I dig her.

Chuck Schumer's tie must be some trippy, green statement of solidarity with the plight of sea turtles and/or their nests being ruined by greedy humans, as represented by the pigs. That, or his wife let the kids pick-out his Christmas present last year.

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 14, 2007 12:12 PM

I sorta like Dianne, but I'd trade her for Moscone and Milk in a second. I don't think Alberto's going to be around to show Al and Barack's A.G around the building in January 2009, do you?

Posted by: steven steven at March 14, 2007 2:18 PM

No, if he' s still around in 2009, Hillary will have his him tender his resignation ;-*

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 14, 2007 2:28 PM

I can't face Hillary as President, those bulging eyes, the metallic droning voice and the possibility that Maya Angelou would be at the Inauguration again, reciting the Mexico City phone book.

Posted by: steven steven at March 14, 2007 3:02 PM

I kinda feel bad for the poor "besieged" woman with the Xerox box full of "still warm emails."

Also, isn't "wiggling your toes inside your shoes" one of those "liar" pantomimes Dennis Hopper speaks of in his True Romance monologue, right before getting taken out by Christopher "cowbell" Walken?

Posted by: Brink Brink at March 15, 2007 6:54 AM

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Friday, March 9, 2007

STEVEN AND IAN INDOCTRINATED INTO DREGSATIONAL HALL OF GLORY

posted by Cintra Wilson at 9:37 PM
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These bookend geniuses will creep into your blog and steal your heart with their word-fisting magic and their creepily symbiotic brain-powers. It is with outstanding pleasure we present this OFFICIAL DREGSATIONAL SHRINE OF SUPER-EXCELLENCE to Messrs. Felty and Ransom, who keep my blogorhythm-method unsafe at any speed.

Congratulations, fellas, and tip-o'the wig to ye.

OUR BOYS
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I feel proud and thankful for this compliment from a heroine like Cintra Wilson...yet, curiously, I also feel quite tiny and compelled to magically summon the larvae of a gigantic Japanese bug.

Where IS that evil twin o' mine?

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 9, 2007 10:15 PM

bwahahahaha! Mosura wirr fry down Eass Riber and fratten Cintla's condoru!

Posted by: steven steven at March 10, 2007 10:28 AM

Ooops I totally promised to never work in dialect again, didn't I?

Posted by: steven steven at March 10, 2007 10:30 AM

I'm a little afraid of what the kanji mean, after that incident with the tramp stamp tattoo that was supposed to read "Bravery and Honor" and ended up meaning "Holland Tunnel This Lane"

Posted by: steven steven at March 10, 2007 10:43 AM

It's too early to be using our powers for a Summoning. Cintra probably went out for coffee anyway. Can't we just go back into that goddamned ornate box and fool around like good twins ought?

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 10, 2007 10:57 AM

Mothra Fairy Twincest? I'll get to work on the hentai manga right away! Funny you should mention Cintra going out for coffee, she called me once from her neighborhood Starbucks, which I thought was odd since she drinks PG Tips tea most of the time, then I remembered Gleason's Gym was across the street. Mmmm fisticuffs.

Posted by: steven steven at March 10, 2007 11:07 AM

I've already eaten four almond fisticuffs this morning, thank you very much, and nearly paid with my life. But I feel fantastic.

Can I summon you guys to wear as earrings? You just look so darn fancy. I promise to put the hook through your little pork-chop hats and not your actual heads.

Posted by: cintra cintra at March 10, 2007 11:56 AM

Earlobe accessory-gigs are *not* in our contract, Miss Smarty-Pants.

But the fine print can be nullified if you sing the proper Summoning Spell. However, that spell is sealed in a mayonnaise-jar beneath Felty's mattress. I put it there myself.

;->

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 10, 2007 2:13 PM

Is that what that jar is? I've got so many things down there, crocks full of homonculi, all that clay for the Golem and of course, a radioactive erector set.

Posted by: steven steven at March 10, 2007 3:25 PM

They look too petite, but still too large to wear as earrings, I think.

But, malheureusement, what is with the splashing of doggy pee headlines across this heirloom and archival photo of the twins, putting the Mandarin word for "dog"emblazoned across the bottom? This defies my eyes, and splits my seems. It is, well, kind of like a slap in the chiselled cheeks. Unless, of course, the attention is intentional, and the coarse effect is added for contrast and exotic cultural content (which is a step in the right direction) .

Yet the pooch or poodle similarity is striking, and I suppose it fits aptly fits the blog entry title of this momentous celebration of induction training into the the dreghall of the framed, this scroll of honor for minutiae hu-men.

The fluffy wrap (shoulder wrap? scarves?) is nice, and the matching hat, and matching outfits for the both of them - what a duo for the duo (or, duet? do they sing?)!

Posted by: chairman dao chairman dao at March 12, 2007 8:54 AM

>do they sing?)!

Apparently, we bark!

Posted by: Ian Ian at March 12, 2007 12:34 PM

" splashing of doggy pee headlines" Chairman Dao is my new hero.

Posted by: steven steven at March 12, 2007 3:21 PM

OK, I made that drunk tattoo-parlor mistake of telling Jan von Sontag: "Hey put some Oriental calligraphy writing on there. It will look cool!"

I guess that was the first .jpg he came across. Typical lame roundeye shiksa error -- my bad. A thousand pardons. We'll try to replace it with something Japanese and complimentary.

Thank you, Chairman, for pointing out this egregious boner.

Posted by: cintra cintra at March 14, 2007 8:33 AM

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

INTRODUCING: SLUNKY! THE TWO-HEADED CALF OF CELEBRITY 2.0

posted by Cintra Wilson at 5:36 PM
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A false idol for your worship, just in time for Oscar night.

And if there was a third head, you can bet your ass it would be Sally Kirkland's.

Tuck your Oscar comments right under here. I'll be watching. And so will SLUNKY!

REPENT
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Dah!

Posted by: Keith Keith at February 25, 2007 5:56 PM

Oh Jebus, Mary and Joseph. I'm scarred for life.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 6:05 PM

Cintra, all we need is a photo-shopped piece of you...descending from a mountain with two Deity-Inscribed tablets ready to smash over the head of Brian Grazer.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 6:24 PM

Just not the scary headshot of Brian Grazer that Defamer uses, the less I see of that nightmare the better.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 7:05 PM

OK, it's 8:38, and I am making my first prediction....

....MARTIN SCORCESE.

Does that make me psychic yet?

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 8:39 PM

Could Ellen's suit get any worse? I suppose it could be plaid.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 8:43 PM

those stripes are so BROAD and POWERFUL, just like these darling children that are on stage now!

--JVS

Posted by: jan von sontag jan von sontag at February 25, 2007 9:02 PM

Those kids are going to be married later this week and split up by Christmas.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 9:04 PM

Ok, it's 8:43.....PETER O'TOOLE.

See? I have magic powers from space, and I'm not even a Scientologist.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 9:15 PM

Hey, is anyone noticing all the incredibly strange "calf" ads Goodle Adsense suddenly horked all over my blog?

It's the BLASPHEMOUS -calf, not the IMPLANT -calf. Morons.

Anyway....hey kids! Interested in Building Big Calfs for Free, or a Seated Calf Unit? OK, of course not, but I'll get 12 cents if you click on the ad.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 9:37 PM

my insides were all tingly when al gore was on

--JVS

Posted by: jan von sontag jan von sontag at February 25, 2007 9:39 PM

You mean Google Adsenseless? I used to get pesticide ads on my organic gardening blog.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 9:40 PM

Is it my imagination or is there little or nothing to lob much snark at tonight?

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 9:44 PM

it's quite agreeable, just like this charming "writing" montage.

Posted by: jan von sontag jan von sontag at February 25, 2007 9:48 PM

ha,ha,ha writers are alcoholics, it's funny 'cos it's true!

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 9:51 PM

Well, damn it...someone should at least balk at the fact that Will Smith looks like Eddie Murphy's fucking grandfather.

I see through you, Will Smith, and I predict that you will have to drive not one, but FIVE(!) Miss Daisies, before you attempt to just "visually Samuel Jackson your way" to an Oscar.

So shoot me in the head. If I hear one more word from that Jada or the child...Cintra, stop me.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 10:10 PM

Finally, a "best line of the night," from R. Downey Jr. I hope to hell it was unscripted, but doubt it. And more goodies for 'Pan's Labyrinth.' Pan--god of chaos--is saving this hairball-of-a-production.

(OH! Catherine Deneuve looks like a goddess and she just mentioned Fellini...excuse me...I have to leave the room).

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 10:26 PM

I'd like to speak to Will about the laser precision of his receding hairline, mine looks like a goddamn fjord.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 10:26 PM

Holy Hedgehog Pellets! I meant to say that Will Smith could not just "Morgan Freeman his way to an Oscar."

It's the mojitos, blessed souls. Fresh mint, grown in my very own garden. Self-pestled!

Oh--BSA Time!

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 10:34 PM

Jennifer Hudson....AWWWWWW. That was everything Halle Berry should have been.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 10:37 PM

Awww, the Jennifer Hudson thing was sweet. She was showing actual emotions!

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 10:38 PM

and yes, Steven, how DARE they imply that all writers are half-drunk, pill-addled, and socially retarded.

....Oh, wait.

Sorry, my bad. Carry on. 'nother mojito, Ian?

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 10:41 PM

Are you wondering where Jerry Seinfeld's been? Me neither.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 10:45 PM

Now there are TWO Oscars in the Goldie Hawn family!

Eh, whah? JENNIFER? I say, "Go HUDSON-girl with actual talent!"

So, I was "iffy" on her heretofore. I take it back. She mildly "moved" me with her utter stupefaction at winning an Oscar. Now, I can revel in the fact that American Idol has, in some fashion, permeated virtually every facet of our iconic, cultural standing-stones.

I surrender all.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 10:48 PM

Oh goody, Celine Dion. My life is complete.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 10:56 PM

Cintra, I believe this is one of your cues. C'mon now, find the steering wheel.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 10:56 PM

Ian, she's not going to waste good Celine material on the likes of us. Salon is a paying gig.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 10:58 PM

Gotta say this: I grew up being very familiar with La Dion. I was born five miles from the border of Quebec, and Celine's family lived only fifty miles away. She was endlessly on the CBC-Broadcasted kids' shows, talent shows, you name it. Just a malnourished kid.

Look at her now. Only her hair is malnourished.

(I ask forgiveness, Jesus).

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:06 PM

Celine who? I thought it was one of those touching postmortem tributes to Barbaro. I wondered why the horse wasn't moving very much, but I thought it was because he was dead.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 11:09 PM

Who's the old woman pretending to be Kirsten Dunst?

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:13 PM

Ellen could be an orangutan and it wouldn't make a shred of diff. Why is it such a remarkable accomplishment for her to host? I don't seek to demean Ellen as a person, but what, exactly, is the great "gift" that the Industry has supposedly bestowed upon her? Her nanoseconds of humor could be pulled-off by anyone with any modicum of talent, or any sexual preference.

Why don't they have seasoned actors hosting this "thang?" Meryl would SLAY them all.

Oh, golly..., Arendt, the guy-who-had-to-give-up-assisting-Matthew Broderick just won for LMSunshine. Is that a career-step forward?

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:18 PM

Oh look, J-Lo found some of the wardrobe from Cleopatra.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:21 PM

I'd sacrifice my Dostoyevsky collection if Celine ran out between those two ladies and swore--swore to all of us--that only HER heart would go on.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:26 PM

Yes, Melissa...you deserve this. Nice moment.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:30 PM

Will Smith's ears are eating his head.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:36 PM

One time, at band camp, someone said I looked like a white Will Smith. I think it was the ears. I had a crew-cut.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:40 PM

Hey! Kate Winslet talks just like Madonna!

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:41 PM

Where are you, posse? Is it the time zone or just me?

Posted by: at February 25, 2007 11:43 PM

these are like the longest oscars ever...

Posted by: jan von sontag jan von sontag at February 25, 2007 11:43 PM

Thank God, the Dead People Reel.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:45 PM

BTW, I envy the dead at this point, this is root-canal long.

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:47 PM

Oh...Jodie was called out to sound the 'Death Nell.'

I punned it first!

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:48 PM

Hey, it's Jody Foster's All-Girl Army -night.

What, did they have a sale on lipstick lesbians at the Rodeo Drive Neiman Marcus? That L-Word is a run-on sentence all by itself tonight. Thesbians are this years minority-elect.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 25, 2007 11:48 PM

So where the fuck is kd lang?

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:51 PM

(And I know it's 'knell'--damn...gotta cover your ass with new friends, constantly).

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 25, 2007 11:51 PM

Did Phillip Seymour Hoffman style his hair with tuna fish salad?

Posted by: steven steven at February 25, 2007 11:53 PM

that's the new "thing," don't you know?

Posted by: jan von sontag jan von sontag at February 25, 2007 11:58 PM

I really like Mirren, but protest the award on the basis of the film's premise. It was a Lifetime Movie of the Week...a delving into the COMPLETELY speculative doings of "characters" who happen to still be alive and in thrall.

It strikes me as yet another indication of the cheapening of the cinematic standard. Besides, Judi Dench was MUCH better in a fictional piece (Oh, Gee!) and so was Penny Cruz, who really kicked ass in her native language in Volver. So many people demean Cruz, but for those who speak en espangol, she is a revelation.

Oh well, next time, girls.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 26, 2007 12:03 AM

Knew he was greater than great since 'The Crying Game.'

But Peter was outstanding, too. I'm stunned that he couldn't really share this Oscar.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 26, 2007 12:07 AM

Shit in a HAT! FINALLY!

C for Cintra, C for Crystal Ball.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 26, 2007 12:09 AM

Well kids, thats that, I'm off to bed.

Posted by: steven steven at February 26, 2007 12:16 AM

Well, that sure was another Oscar night.

I would say I can't wait until next year, but I think it already might be next year.

Thank you for your lively participation, Fiends...Good Night, and Good Luck.

Posted by: cintra cintra at February 26, 2007 12:22 AM

Well, M'Lady...you have your work cut out for you.

This will be akin to writing a review of "Silly Putty."

They have succeeded in making the Oscars utterly "witproof."

Then again...*that,* in and of itself, is interesting fodder, in the proper hands. Yours are always proper.

Go to it.

Posted by: Ian Ian at February 26, 2007 12:22 AM

Mommy, Mommy!

Can we see more of those funny looking calves when we go to visit another "after-shocks of war" website?

Please, Mommy, please!

[::Mom to herself: Boy, am I glad it's only a simulation!::]

Posted by: stedawa stedawa at February 26, 2007 5:13 PM

CONTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURAL DOGFIGHT

Sunday, February 4, 2007

O COME, LET US ADORE JAN VON SONTAG

posted by Cintra Wilson at 11:56 PM
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Every once in a while, the Gods bless your boots, and a righteous, illuminating, charm-filled and super-talented young divinity tumbles gracefully into your life by answering your job-posting ad on Craigslist. This noble being teaches you what a "blog" is, and the ancient Runic codes for creating Links in Movable Type, and generally sits at your dining table and with patience and infinite good humor converts your whole website into a vivid, thriving organism you never had any clue it had the potential to be, before.

Ladies and Gentlemen, my esteemed webmaster JAN VON SONTAG is just such a Hero.
And a damned fine musician to boot. And possibly the snappiest dresser I have ever seen.
He should be diefied just for his collection of bicycle racing shirts, alone; especially since he doesn't have a bicycle.

In any case, this is a much deserved shout out, mad prop, and tip-o-the-Hat, Mr. von Sontag, from your endlessly grateful and adoring employer. You are just that slick.
I hereby present you with the very first official TERESA VON FUCHS AWARD for outstanding performance by a savvy young assistant. Amen.

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

DANA MILBANK: IDEAL MAH-JONG PARTNER [17 Reasons Why We Love Dana Milbank, Part 1]

posted by Cintra Wilson at 10:51 AM
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Dana Milbank, in his Washington Sketch, always keeps an eye on the “tells” – the little Congressional tics and fidgets that would definitely give a Senator away in a game of Texas Hold’Em.

From an Article in Men’s Fitness by Joy Davidson

“John Millner… considered one of the nation's foremost experts in forensic uses of body language, points to the nose rub as a common sign of dishonesty - especially when it's combined with breached eye contact and a walling-off hand position…

By and large, Millner says, liars don't give themselves away with large gestures, but with ‘microexpressions’ - unusual movements, head angles and breathing rhythms.”

Cathie Martin: Never Take This Woman to Vegas

During the Scooter Libby trial, former Vice Cheney communications director Cathie Martin, during her testimony,

“…..seemed uncomfortable, shifting in her chair, squinting at her interrogators, stealing quick glances at the jury, and repeatedly touching her cheek, ear, nose, lips and scalp.”

Today, Milbank told us about the unfortunate body language of James Baker, as he tried to endorse Bush’s plans for Iraq:

“Rubbing his fingers together and making motions with his mouth as if sucking on a hard candy, Baker pleaded: ‘Look, the president's plan ought to be given a chance. Give it a chance.’"

Even the bright TV lights of a State of the Union Address can’t conceal deep divisions in a politician’s soul. Mortals, ye canst not hide yer lyin’ eyes from Dana Milbank! :

“Bush called for the United States ‘to succeed in Iraq.’ Cheney again stood and clapped. Pelosi wiped her lips and remained seated, as did most Democrats…”

May Mr. Milbank continue give us all details of future Congressional lip-wiping, nose itching, pencil eating, hair-pulling, sweat-lathering, eyelid-fluttering, chest-beating, etc....with our extreme Dregulatorial gratitude.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

FIRST VICTORIOUS CHAMPIONS TO BE ENSHRINED IN DREGULATORIAL HALL OF GLORY

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For those who doubt that we who are Cintra Wilson are ever sincere, MAY SHARKS EAT YOUR EYES.

Our deep, enduring Love and Gratitude for Inspiring Journalists knows no bounds or reason.

Let us rend and throw our undergarments at Great Scribes.

Profound Dregsational praise-hollering to Keith Olbermann and Dana Milbank for championing Truth and Voice. Shine on, you crazy diamonds of journalistic integrity.

Beautiful Keith of Our Soul