I have to haul my no-insurance-havin' ass to the dentist this morning, which I'm looking forward to about as much as I am my upcoming extradition to Camp X-Ray. Today's posting is therefore dedicated to the morphine and/or Demerol I'm hoping they pump me full of ( Read more... )

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The news from Fuddles, MN: Lileks refrains from scolding an immigrant clerk for her misguided patriotism and a native clerk for her failure to know who took a photograph that appeared on the cover of an issue of Life magazine from 40 years before she was born. He then (rightly) critiques a dumb NYT piece about how Super Bowl ads reflect the ( Read more... )

Lileks today can be broken down, more or less, into sections ( Read more... )

As a life-hating anarchist who can't stand happiness or joy, I've been very cross with James Lileks, who, since his return from vacation, has been mildly amusing and hardly a laughable old right-wing crank at all. Could this be the dawning of a new day? Has Jimbo finally realized what a schmuck he's been since September 11th, and made his New ( Read more... )

Okay, here's the thing. I recognize that, for someone I claim to hate, I spend an awful lot of time reading his work. And I realize that the two of us have an awful lot in common (although not as much as we used to, given that I no longer live in Minnesota with a lovely little girl and a woman who barely tolerates me). And I really don't wish ( Read more... )

I haven't been checking in with Lileks lately, partly because I've been busy, partly because I'm giving the right-wing sites a wide berth so as not to deepen what I'm expecting to be a whale* of a case of seasonal depression, and partly because he's been pretty boring. Apparently, he relentlessly whored for, and subsequently won, some sort of a " ( Read more... )

It's not even any fun to bust on Lileks lately. It's like his Bleats are being cranked out by a bot ( Read more... )

The Second World War, as has often been noted in this space, is the last war that everyone in America felt more or less morally comfortable about. This is why conservatives are constantly invoking it in order to tart up whatever bullshit war they want us to fight at the moment: if they say "Well, we want to knock off this third-world country in ( Read more... )

From the last two days of the Bleat, two excerpts that explain Lileks' character pretty well.

#1 (the Short Form, presented without comment): “I stopped at a Zippo kiosk to reaffirm that they had a lousy selection.”

#2 (the Long Form, presented with comments): “I was going to ignore the Keith Ellison/swearing on the Qu’ran [sic] issue, because I ( Read more... )

I bet the right-wing doofuses will be just as pissed about this as they are about all the kids who they claim can't pray or wear crosses in school. Right? Right, fellas?

Lileks promised me a crazy rant about the imams who got thrown off the airplane, but he lied! Instead he complains about a character in Stephen King's new novel who says " ( Read more... )