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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Raise Up you are the man! Theocrapolis or whatever that windbag adorns himself with as a posting name equates volulme to value. Here's a test for Theocorpulent: try a haiku. Here's mine for Telelogicus:
A dude wrote a highfallootin screed. Fuck him.
When I was s kid we didn't have Barbi dolls, we had paper cutout dolls; but the idea was the same. You dressed her up any way you wanted and Presto - you had your dream doll. Just like Palin...
When Palin couldn't tell Katie Couric what newspapers she reads the GOP was embarrassed. So a couple of days ago they issued the statement that she reads the New York Times [the Grey Lady the right considers a liberal paper], the Wall Street Journal [politically correct but intelctually out of her league], and the Economist [an English economic magazine that on occasion feels free to bash the US]. I've read all three of these publications at one time or another during my long career and I can assure that I'd remember them if asked what I read. And don't you know, Joe Six-Pack has probably never even heard of them.
Just what kind of Barbi is she anyway?
Lol, which name should be a band name, Teleologicus or Screamaing Steam Hammers of Hate?
Personally I think they both would be great.
"Lol, which name should be a band name, Teleologicus or Screamaing Steam Hammers of Hate"
The Screaming Steam Hammers of Hate: band name.
Teleologicus: label name.
Please don't take offense, Screaming Steam Hammers of Hate.
Sincerely, it's a seriously awesome handle.
By: Jane Hamsher Friday October 3, 2008 7:04 am
Sarah Palin proved last night she's more qualified to host a game show than be Vice President of the United States.
I cannot believe that we are seriously thinking of placing this dodo bird within reach of the Presidency.
washington-post
Seeded by Prudence
Former GOP senator calls Palin a 'cocky wacko'
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee has called vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a 'cocky wacko' and said her selection as John McCain's running mate has energized supporters of Democrat Barack Obama. Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike are sending their money to the Obama campaign to defeat McCain for fear of Sarah.
AnnieW and RaiseUp: I just Googled and Ask.com'd that dude and got this back.
Telelogicus - (1) one who exhibits or relates to a design in nature, especially fond of didactic verbal diarrhea and given to errant flights of narcissitic flatulence. (2) syn., despiser of brief, concise, or well mined prose.
"...that windbag... equates volulme to value."
I think I've got it figured out... it's his/her equivalent to Gov. Palin's muggin' an' winkin'.
As far as I can discern, the content of his/her posts are variations on the following themes:
conason comes off as nothing more then a eastern elite snob. i love how these liberals think that diversification is a great thing and would be so upset if someone made fun of a Hispanic accent but its somehow cool to make fun of a small town american accent conason nothing but a phony snob
"By their potty mouths ye shall know them."
Thank you. Sincerely, thank you. I knew that nerve was in there somewhere... it really was nice of you to show me where to find it.
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I REPLY:
It is easy enough to locate my blistered and bleeding nerves because I have already made it abundantly plain that the yelping and howling and barking of hoi polloi at their betters -that would be McCain & Palin inter mucho alia- is a source of pain and fearful ruminations for me. On the other hand it is inexpressibly comical when such types preen and puff themselves up and parade through the forum proclaiming ex cathedra certitudes and issuing anathemata concerning affairs and people about which they know nothing or indeed less than nothing. It must be acknowledged therefore that the painful abrasive shock resulting from the encounter with militant, vociferous, incorrigible ignorance -that would be with the so-called liberals and progressives and so ons- is offset by the mirth excited by the spectacle they present to the observer.
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Telly ol' pal... I do have "a penchant... for the use of vulgar/scatological/bad language in public and on inappropriate occasions." And although I don't suspect you meant it as a compliment, your classification puts me in company with John McCain, Dick Cheney and ol' rubberbutt Bush Jr. (their own predeliction for potty-mouthed expressiveness is well-documented)... so you can't really fault me for taking your pinky-lifting umbrage as your own queer form of high praise.
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I REPLY:
It should not be necessary to have to say this since my post was perfectly clear and common sense ought to have prevented the confusion above - but of course and obviously and as anyone ought to know without prompting I was speaking, and took care to specify precisely that I was speaking, of the inappropriate public exercise of bad language. The individuals you mention have doubtless like most of us used all sorts of bad language in private and upon appropriate occasions. They do not, however, knowingly, deliberately, gratuitously pollute the public language space by such language. This is a mark of adulthood, prudence, good manners, respect &etc. No talent or skill is required to speak such terms. The mark of maturity is to refrain from gutter language in public and with people one does not know. Children and childish people, however, think that transgressing simple courtesy and good manners will add feathers to their bonnets and are indeed proud of themselves for such graceless crudities that are no more than inconsiderate public flatulence.
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But Sir (or Madam)! You err in your analysis: I'm not "unable to refrain from inserting four letter words into (my) speech and writing..." I just like dropping the f-bomb now and again. It's fun. You should try it.
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I REPLY:
See above. I have tried it. I do not use such language in public nor in the presence of strangers. It is rude and discourteous and a sign of emotional immaturity to do so.
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"Moreover, by speculating that my occasional forays into the deployment of a pungent expletive, here or there, is "the result of heavy cannabis abuse in some cases and of prolonged exposure to bad music in others", you unjustly wound my cultural sensibilities, Sir (or Madam)!
Why just this morning I was relaxing to Monteverdi 's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria on my iPod, while snorting crystallized heroin on the steps of my neighborhood church.
"...we-elll, technically... I was snorting heroin off my girlfiend's naked ass at the time, but I assure you we were both on the front steps of the church!
"Come on, Telly... say it: "Fuck."
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I REPLY:
That one may listen to or even enjoy good music does not exclude the possibility that they also expose themselves to bad music and even that they prefer the bad to the good. Degenerate taste is seldom all or nothing. It is not unusual to discover the most advanced kinds of aesthetic decadence in which high and low tastes are casually, sometimes pretentiously, always destructively commingled. Unfortunately in the aesthetic the bad always overrules the good and a single bad apple spoils the barrel.
My post was by no means as much about YOU as you have made it out to be - but this omnivorous self-centeredness is itself characteristic of the early adolescent mindset I was describing. The immature mind is relentlessly self-referential and correspondingly weak in regard to abstractions, the natural result being the tendency to personalize every disagreement. One usually finds direct personal attacks, insults, slanders and other irrelevant distractions crowding out and taking the place of examination of ideas themselves. This is because the child's mind -of any age- finds it far easier to think and speak in terms of personages than to handle complex abstractions such as ideas. Thus when posters insult McCain, Palin, GWB etc. and others with whom they regard themselves as qualified to disagree, they are actually trying to express disagreement with their political platforms and ideas but generally find it too difficult to address these on the abstract level and quickly lapse into personal vilification instead.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
