Category: Boneheads

Christ no doubt wanted people to have great passion about their faith, but I don’t think this is what he had in mind.

US Airways is probably the crappiest airline on the planet.   Now there’s another reason that’s true.  Bitter and I are driving to Louisville in May, because of how much flying sucks.  Hopefully I won’t be flying again until Reno in October.

… but apparently respect is not one of them.  Just because someone has the constitutional right to do something, doesn’t mean it ought to be done, and doesn’t mean I won’t call you an asshole for doing it.

You have to wonder if Mr. Art Project had to watch his friends getting shot and blown up, had to kill other human beings, and endure psychological stress beyond what most people imagine, all because he thought the piece of cloth disrespectful college kids so casually walk all over was worth all that, whether he might be able to put himself in a shoes of a veteran who had.  I’m not an advocate of legally mandated flag respect, but that doesn’t mean I think these kinds of people aren’t asshats.

Every once in a while you’ll be reading an article, and you’ll come across something that just makes your jaw drop.  This article is about the conversion of my home county of Bucks from a Republican stronghold to a Democrat stronghold.  It’s happening all over the Philadelphia area, thanks to George W. Bush destroying the Republican coalition.  Thanks George!  People like this woman are typical:

This week was the first moment in more than a generation when the number of registered Democrats surpassed Republicans in Bucks county. “This has been a Republican stronghold for as long as I can remember,” says Marilyn Larsen, a former Republican member of the local school board in Newtown, Bucks Country, who recently registered as a Democrat. Mrs Larsen, a retired teacher, says that it was the Bush administration’s “hostility to science” and the spread of evangelical politics that helped push her across.

I can identify with this too, but it’s not enough to make me head over to ally with the socialists.  But maybe the Republicans should be happy to lose people like this woman, and here’s why:

“Let’s be honest about it, Barack Obama is culturally white – that’s why a lot of people round here are prepared to vote for him,” says Mrs Larsen, who has yet to make up her mind whether to vote for Mr Obama or Hillary Clinton, who retains a lead in the opinion polls. “But when they hear Michelle Obama speak they start wavering. She seems more African-American. People haven’t changed as much as they like to think.”

Congratulations Marilyn Larsen, you’re the bonehead of the week for that statement.  So she’ll vote for Obama because he’s white enough for her?   I could care less that Obama is white, black, green or Barney purple; his policies are the stuff nightmares are made of for advocates of smaller, limited government.

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Remember this guy?  Looks like Cam got his attention here:

Why, I know people who would put talk show hosts just below guys who sell night crawlers out of their kitchens, but I’m not one of them. No sir, I rank radio talk show hosts at least as high as telemarketers and bloggers. And if anyone ever doubted your personal sense of “classy,” I recommend they read the Manifesto feature of your blog — particularly that line about how you and your drinking buddies don’t want to talk about Lindsey Lohan anymore “until she eats something and gets her chest back.” Ah, now that’s class.

And how appropriate that Cam and his buds fashioned their blog after their Friday night boozing sessions. I have always felt that conservatives were at their wittiest when they had a few drinks under their belts — in their own minds if nowhere else.

What, what a great guy.  Read the whole thing.  If smug self-satisfaction could be transformed into matter, this guy’s would collapse into a singularity that would stand a pretty good chance of sucking the entire universe down with it.  It doesn’t really amaze me that these type of people exist, but it does amaze me that anyone pays attention to them.  I hate this crap as much when I see it on our side as I do when it comes from guys like this.

I will join Bruce in never buying Absolut.  Real Americans drink whiskey anyway :)

Apparently Alternative News Media in Idaho are run by a bunch of juvenile high school students.  At least that’s about the grade level this editorial is written on.  Actually, strike that.  That’s insulting to high school newspapers everywhere.

… Marion Barry probably wants some too.