Category: Commentary

Little Green Footballs is a blog run by a guy named Charles Johnson. I found the site shortly before the blog rose to national prominence due to his discovery of the faked documents used by 60 Minutes in a story critical of George W. Bush story on the eve of 2004 presidential election. I was intrigued by the blog, which covered many stories of Islamic extremism that mainstream news outlets seemed to ignore.

Like  most blogs, LGF has a “comments” section. Unlike many, you have to have an LGF account to leave a comment… and Johnson is notorious for keeping a tight grip on the total number of allowed commenters. After several months, I was finally able to sign up and get my own account.

But then Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, and ever since LGF has drifted over to the Left. Where the blog used to attack DailyKos and the Huffington Post, Johnson (for whatever reason) decided to turn on the Right.

After one especially liberal post, I left a comment asking when Keith Olbermann took over LGF. Imagine my surprise (or lack thereof) when I went to log in the past Saturday and got this message:

I guess Charles Johnson can’t handle mild criticism. That’s the only reason for blocking my account. The post didn’t have any foul language or name calling. As best I remember, it said only “Jeez – when did Keith Olbermann take over this blog?” And for that, I’m now no longer an LGF member.

Oh well… but since I’m no longer a member, I guess I can also say this: Charles Johnson has the world’s worst taste in music! Pat Metheny? Steely Dan? The Keith Jarrett Trio? God, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little!

Serious neuropsychiatric events, including, but not limited to depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and completed suicide have been reported in patients taking CHANTIX. Some reported cases may have been complicated by the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal in patients who stopped smoking. Depressed mood may be a symptom of nicotine withdrawal. Depression, rarely including suicidal ideation, has been reported in smokers undergoing a smoking cessation attempt without medication. However, some of these symptoms have occurred in patients taking CHANTIX who continued to smoke.

Eh – no thanks. Sounds safer to just keep smoking!

– Is that a piece of a spoon from Wendy’s in your lung, or are you just happy to see me?

– Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin was once found wandering outside the White House, drunk, in his boxer shorts, trying a hail a cab to get a pizza.

– A bar in the UK has installed a Breathalyzer near the door… but not for the reasons you might think. It’s to make sure that their patrons are smashed! Anyone leaving the bar at 3am with a BAC of less than .08 will have their cover charge refunded, and the person with the highest BAC of the evening wins free cover for a week.

– Rechargeable batteries are expensive. Which devices are better off with plain old alkaline batteries? Click here to find out.

– Megan Fox is beautiful… but the woman is crazy and amazingly stupid.

Environmental protesters dumped a load of manure in Jeremy Clarkson’s driveway… but how was anyone able to notice?

Clarkson, who hosts the show Top Gear in which he and others test out a variety of cars, is known for sticking his foot in his mouth almost as often as Prince Philip. Since Clarkson rarely has anything nice to say about Americans, Germans, Asians, small animals, trees, fat people, non-whites, the poor, truck drivers,  or almost anything else (cite), it would be hard for me to tell when the bullshit stops and where Clarkson begins.

Also, Candus Jane Zanghi is a bitch. Not quite as bitchy as Cintra Wilson, but a bitch all the same.

– A hilarious Twitter feed from a 28 year-old guy who lives with his 73 year-old father: ShitMyDadSays

– MSNBC commentator Helen A.S. Popkin wonders what’s up with Flickr.

– British customers of Lloyd’s TSB are being charged up to £200/month in overdraft fees… unless they’re Muslim, then it’s only £15.

– America is now exporting hate: Greyhound bus service is coming to the UK.

– For four years, there was a US state called Franklin. Made up of several counties in western North Carolina, it eventually became part of Tennessee.

Big Brother, one of Britian’s most popular TV shows in the recent past, has been canceled due to plummeting ratings. Daily Mail commentator Richard Littlejohn compares the death of the show with the death of New Labour in an amusing post:

For most of the show’s 12-year run, Gordon was biting his nails and banging his head against the wall. Whenever there was a scandal in the New Labour house, he hid behind the sofa, away from the cameras.

After Blair was evicted in 2007 and went on to become a global star, earning millions of pounds a year, Gordon attempted to become the main character, but ratings continued to slump and he soon realised there was nowhere to hide.

He resorted to a bizarre act of self-abuse on YouTube, in the belief that the audience had migrated to the internet, but it was too late.

Although I got a good laugh out of the piece, it was sad and unnerving to read all the nasty bits about New Labour. I suppose that any government in power for 12 years will have some scandals, but jeez – these people are just… something!

via Good riddance to the freak show that shamed Britain

Thanks to pecanne log’s Twitter feed, I was able to find this awesome commercial for Atlanta’s Plaza Pharmacy on Downhome Traces.

I have no idea when the commercial was filmed (probably some time in the late 60s or early 70s) but I do remember seeing it on late night TV when I was a kid:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSkNHuHBmw

Ah, memories for the ATL folks… especially for my Dad. Not only did my Pops work close to Plaza, it was the closest 24-hour pharmacy to our house in Snellville when I was growing up (yes, Snellville). My mom tells me that I only liked one particular brand of pacifier when I was a baby, and she sent him out to Plaza one night at 3am (80 minutes round trip!) when she lost one and didn’t have any replacements on hand!

So there was a story in the local news this week about some anti-Obama posters that were put up around the town of China Grove. One lady was so “shocked” and “offended” that she started taking the posters down:

“I almost cried when I got back in the car knowing that it’s 2009 and people in the community put signs up like that. This is wrong, this is the President of the United States.”

The woman said she believed the flyers, some of which include the words “Fascism” and “Socialism,” are also racist.

And it’s not just in China Grove. All over the Internet, liberals are whining about how President Obama isn’t getting “respect” and the “honor” due the President of the  United States (seriously, do a Google News search… the number of “why are they making fun of Obama?” posts is growing by leaps and bounds).

To this, I’ll ask: where the hell have you people been for the past eight years? Are you guys shitting me? Am I missing something here?

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, the people that used to carry these signs:

Are now offended by this sign?

Come now… you people can’t be serious! You don’t see anything the least bit hypocritical about this, hmmmm? Not even just a teeny bit?

Look people, I was no fan of GWB. In fact, had I been offered a “Not Al Gore” or “Not John Kerry” option in the voting booth I would have checked that box instead. But you didn’t hear me whining about all the “Bush is Hitler” posters and bumper stickers of the past eight years. And that’s because demonizing your opponent is at least as old as the Romans, and almost surely the Greeks before them. I promise you that somewhere in Italy you can find an ancient Roman ruin with “Ceasar is a goatfucker” chiseled on the side. And with the rise of the printing press, mass-produced political cartoons came about, and they’ve always been nasty, at least all the way back to Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (to say nothing of similar “cartoons” from ancient Egypt).

The point is, it’s at the very least disingenuous for people that had “End of an Error” bumper stickers on their car, “01-20-09” countdown timers on their blogs, and\or “W is for Worst” t-shirts to start complaining when the opposition does the same thing to your guy. You are more grown up than that, aren’t you?