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TimLehnerer

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:17 AM
Original article: This Modern World

For fuck's sake...

...Can you either post the comic at a legible size or code the page so that clicking on the "Click to Enlarge" link enlarges the comic?

Monday, October 19, 2009 05:26 PM

These two come across as...

...pig-ignorant, toothless, inbred, cousin-fucking, bigoted, child-molesting white trash.

I mean that as a compliment, of course.

Sunday, September 13, 2009 06:26 PM

Anyone remember this from the 365 Day Project?

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/09/365-Days-Project-09-15-j-and-h-productions-tape.mp3

It's a guy who made a demo tape to become a booking agent rather than a singer. And it's completely amazing.

Friday, September 11, 2009 11:53 AM
Original article: Antiabortion activist slain

The Composition of Headlines

This could be the "Man Bites Dog" of the religious-themed-violence-story for this century. I can't remember the last time one of the cracker Taliban got shot.

Monday, August 10, 2009 08:32 AM
Original article: Quote of the morning

Sarah Palin

She was for using bullshit fearmongering scary lies to cripple health care reform before she was against it.

Monday, July 20, 2009 04:28 AM

Is there a reason...

...that "Glenallen Walken" ever got hired? Shitcan him, hire this guy for "Ask a wingnut", and the world will be a slightly better place.

Monday, June 29, 2009 04:28 AM

Since when...

...is forty percent a majority? By your own statistics, sixty percent of Americans call themselves something other than "conservative". By adding self-described "moderates" to the "liberal" category instead of the "conservative" one, we wind up with a 3-to-2 majority of liberals in America.

Sunday, May 3, 2009 06:48 PM

A question for Glenallen...

...If a losing contestant in a nationwide beauty contest said she was against mixed-race marriage, and some people "rose to her defense" for making those comments, would you say that segregation was an American value supported by a majority of American people?

Monday, April 27, 2009 06:45 PM
Original article: Those ignorant atheists

Why is this always from a strict Christian perspective?

I don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Huitzilopochtli, Cthulhu, Allah or JHVH. There are probably a thousand gods I don't think are real. And yet it's always just about the Christian one when people write books.

For that matter, I imagine that I believe in one fewer deity than Terry Eagleton does. He's very nearly an atheist himself.

Monday, April 20, 2009 03:07 AM

And then he lands a triple axel of unintentional irony...

...by saying "These are the same people who, let me suggest, are not so much concerned about how they live their own lives as they are with forcing other people to accept how they live, to validate the lives they have made for themselves."

And he's not talking about himself.

Sorry if this point already got made; I see there are already 109 letters at this point. But I really wanted to say this.

Monday, December 8, 2008 07:27 PM
Original article: Six Words for Obama

How about...

"Autobots, transform and roll out!"

Friday, October 31, 2008 04:04 AM
Original article: Scare-o-ween-apalooza!

Two things:

1) I already liked reading Klytus

Because his poems were really groovy

But I like the dude quite a bit more now

Because he's a fan of some great B movies.

2) No love for "Carnival of Souls" or "Jacob's Ladder" as atmospheric horror movies? I'm a little upset. Also, "Mr. Vampire" is a Cantonese "Evil Dead 2", with a perfect blend of martial arts, creepiness, and slapstick.

Friday, September 26, 2008 03:43 PM
Original article: The debate is on

I hope nobody used this joke yet

McCain is such a maverick that he doesn't even go along with what HE says.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:04 PM

Hold the debate without McCain

I haven't read all the comments, so I don't know if I'm repeating what someone else said yet, but here's my suggestion:

Hold the debate with Obama standing next to an empty podium. Stick to the same format as it would have been WITH McCain, but every time it's McCain's turn to speak, just cut to an empty podium for his minute, or 30 seconds, or whatever the length of time is. Show the country that in times of crisis, you can count of John McCain to want a do-over after he fails to show up to fix the problem.

Friday, August 22, 2008 07:18 AM
Original article: Mittmentum?

@Teresa:

Yes, but Michigan went for Romney in the Republican primary, and Romney's dad used to be governor of Michigan (back in the 60s, before I was alive, and when the Michigan economy reportedly didn't look like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic).

I'm fully aware that there are a lot of black people in Michigan, and that there are a lot of union people in Michigan. There's also a lot of right-wing talk radio in the state, and a vast amount of long-simmering resentment against the (Democratic) governor and the (black) mayor of Detroit. Never underestimate the power of resentful lower-income whites who are given the opportunity to vote against a black guy.

I wish I could agree with you, honestly, but I can't. This is "the reddest blue state I've ever seen", to quote a mass communications professor from Eastern Michigan University. If McCain picks Romney, it's got to be at least partially because he thinks he can grab some electoral votes from Michigan.

Friday, August 22, 2008 05:59 AM
Original article: Mittmentum?

This could be a positive...

If McCain picks Romney, he probably also picks up Michigan's electoral votes (which will be disastrous for the state whether or not McCain wins in November--Republicans don't help this state when they're in power and Obama will have no reason to love Michigan if they don't deliver electoral votes for him).

But if McCain picks Romney, he also alienates the religious right, who can either do as they're told and vote for him anyway (and lose power and influence if McCain wins without doing much of anything to court them), or stay away from the polls because they won't vote for a Mormon. You could get the same result by attaching Joe Lieberman to the ticket, for more or less the same reasons.

Monday, August 11, 2008 06:49 AM

Utica Club had a theme song! Who knew?

http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/2003/023.shtml

Go here for an MP3 of a Utica Club promotional single--something that was apparently trying to convince people that their awful beer was actually good beer.

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:36 PM
Original article: Two Obama developments

Criswell predicts...

McCain takes Romney as a running mate; Michigan votes red rather than blue (with some assistance from GOP operatives "suppressing the Detroit vote").

Obama absolutely shellacks McCain in the general election.

Michigan loses another chance to have a president that might care about their economic situation.

Michirrelevance continues.

Friday, July 25, 2008 06:59 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

Not funny ha-ha, but funny "I feel sick"...

Batman's just like Dubya; both of them did exactly what a terrorist mastermind wanted them to do in order to increase the terrorist's power base and influence. And at least in the Wall Street Journal, they're both heroes for doing it.

Monday, June 30, 2008 08:36 PM

What has science done for us? I mean, really?

You can beg an invisible superhero who lives in outer space all you want, but that won't prevent or cure polio or smallpox. Science is better for the human race than religion, and demonstrably so, because it eradicated these diseases.

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