Despite her various and often astounding blind spots, I still read Amanda Marcotte, because she sometimes has keen insights. She almost never does "righteous rants," but today she's got one up about Hank Williams Jr. comparing Obama to Hitler, and it's awesome, though it needs a few paragraph breaks that I'll throw in....I never liked Hank Williams ( Read more... )

mero: In other news, I'm proud of [BF]. I figured he was shy, but he made no bones about [criticizing] every shitty country song that came on the radio. Loudly. He shut off the songs that called for the country "going back the way it once was." Like, he got genuinely pissed...and my admiration for him increased exponentially.

ms_daisy_cutter: :) I tell you, I like ( Read more... )

...or does he just collect royalties from having his picture under the entry for "douche-gargling hamster fucker" in Webster's?


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In the thread to Pam Spaulding's post on the Itawamba County faux prom, Matt T. had this to say:My high school, y’all, my home town.* I won’t even bother trying with the whole “they’re not all like that” or “you’re not getting the whole picture”, because, frankly, it ain’t true. For all but a very, very few, the ones that aren’t active assholes - ( Read more... )

First: Michele Bachmann, R-Fucking Loonyville Minn., will be the keynote speaker at next month's fundraiser for a fundie group that markets itself as "an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools ( Read more... )