Foot Foot don't live here no more

[ludickid]

We've waited a long time, but finally, the 2006 Golden Wingnut Awards for excellence in right-wing blowhardery have been awarded by the Poor Man Institute, at a special ceremony hosted by congressional ejaculator Mark Foley. I urge you to investigate immediately, and for God's sake, whatever you do, do not miss the amazing remix of some of the

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[drownedinink]

Or, irrelevant drivel about old dead proto-fascist narratives from a guy who didn't leave the house today.

If only he'd added "from a proto-fascist guy" and then we'd have our first full recorded glimpse of self-awareness from Lileks.

[ortho_bob]

It never fails to amaze me how Dennis Prager can find a new and unexpected way to be a plonker every single week. Other wingnut repeat themselves but Big Den pulls fascinating and original clumps of imbecility out of his pants in every column he does. Having the ability to contradict himself N number of times in a sentence containing N-1 words is a help, I guess.

[ludickid]

A nugget from that article it's easy to miss, couched as it is in all the extraneous nonsense about how Title IX will turn our girls into crypto-Nazis:

all rational people should equally acknowledge that the greater percentage of one's money the state forcefully confiscates, the less liberty the individual has.

So, for example, a man who makes $20 million a year and is taxed at 30%? He is MUCH LESS FREE than a man who makes $18,000 a year and is taxed at 25%! Why, the latter individual is like a wild Indian, cavorting freely in fields of plenty compared to the indentured servitude of the former! All rational people can agree on that!

[picodulce]

that was golden. btw, "forcefully confiscates?" i don't think you can liken the force that the IRS uses to the force the military uses. you can't use the same word. no, no.

(side note-- who pays "half or more" of their earned money? i'm asking seriously, because i don't know. we don't live in sweden.)

i think town hall should at least give lip service to someone's reality and add links to every one of their writers' premises. wtf is prager talking about?!

"most activists on the left feel that they... are morally superior." unlike the right?

[andrewlevine]

"most activists on the left feel that they... are morally superior."

And this, in the middle of a column arguing for the moral superiority of the right.

[ludickid]

Here is a totally unrelated story that I almost wrote in my LJ but it was too boring and only a couple of people, like you, would appreciate it:

When I was in Dallas this weekend, we went to this hipster club, full of hip hipsters. And I was looking around at all the hip hipsters with their hip hipster threads, and it suddenly occurred to me: I am the most metal person in this club. Which, I mean, THAT NEVER HAPPENS, I am never the most metal person in the club. I was wearing a studded leather belt, a Venom "Welcome to Hell" t-shirt and a Terror hoodie, and that was the extent of my metalosity! I totally wasn't even very metal, and yet I was more metal than anyone in the joint. I didn't know what to make of it, and I still don't.

[calamityjon]

It bothers me that one of the key accroutements of metal fashion is a belt. Is it because suspenders are so polka?

It's a metal thing, you wouldn't understand

[ludickid]

Wearing suspenders makes people think you're a fan of RO AIDE and UDA RIES. And how else am I supposed to keep my metal pants up?