You ain’t seen nothing yet

Lots of discussion of Sue Lowden’s bartering ideas. Add to that the facts that J.D. Hayworth has a shot at taking out McCain, Bob Bennett may lose to an even nuttier conservative, Rand Paul is in the mix in Kentucky, Marco Rubio is the front-runner in Florida…and you’re looking at a 2011-2012 Senate that will likely be much crazier than the one we already have.

I can’t think of an appropriately geeky way to describe this, but there’s no way we see peak wingnut much before 2014. If Senators aren’t beating each other with canes by then, I’ll be a little disappointed.

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April 20, 2010 10:55 pm Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Mayans Now  100 Comments

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  1. Jody - April 20, 2010 | 11:04 pm · Link

    No such thing as peak wingnut. They will never get so bad that they’ll step back from the abyss. They’ll just dive right in, screaming that it’s the fault of the traitorous liberals, fags, and brown people who are the real racists anyway.

  2. beltane - April 20, 2010 | 11:06 pm · Link

    Peak wingnut will be accompanied by lots of people getting killed or hurt. That is the direction they’re heading in.

  3. Jager - April 20, 2010 | 11:07 pm · Link

    If they both get in, I’m hoping Rubio grows a pencil thin mustache and slicks back his hair and Paul shows up dressed like Howard Roark, feet apart, flowing shirt, wide tightly cinched belt with the wind blowing in his hair and a maiden wrapped around his legs!

  4. Martin - April 20, 2010 | 11:08 pm · Link

    Peak wingnut was a lie.

  5. Alex - April 20, 2010 | 11:08 pm · Link

    Who’s to say that they’ll all win? Americans don’t understand much, but I can’t imagine “trade you 5 chickens for a prescription” will resonate much. Who do the Dems have in these races?

  6. beltane - April 20, 2010 | 11:09 pm · Link

    There is a Politico story up now about possible indictments against the Florida GOP and Rubio’s cronies. It is, of course, good news for Republicans.

  7. Mike Kay - April 20, 2010 | 11:10 pm · Link

    remember how the beltway media had a case of the vapors when lamont beat loserman. how the base was killing the center and punishing bipartisanship.

    Will the fainting spell come back if Maverick goes down?

  8. lamh31 - April 20, 2010 | 11:10 pm · Link

    I posted this in that other thread, but this is obviously better.

    Possible game changer?

    U.S. attorney, IRS and FBI investigating Florida GOP credit card use

    Federal law enforcement agencies have launched a criminal investigation into the use of American Express cards issued by the Republican Party of Florida to elected officials and staff, according to sources familiar with the probe.

    The U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are all involved in the probe, which grew out of the state investigation into former House Speaker Ray Sansom. He was indicted on criminal charges that he stashed $6 million in the state budget for an airplane hangar for a friend and campaign donor…

    Meanwhile, in a separate inquiry, the IRS is also looking at the tax records of at least three former party credit card holders — former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, ex-state party chairman Jim Greer and ex-party executive director Delmar Johnson — to determine whether they misused their party credit cards for personal expenses, according to a source familiar with the preliminary inquiry…

    The IRS opened the so-called “primary’’ investigation into Rubio, the leading Republican candidate for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat, and the two state GOP ex-officials to see if there’s enough evidence to support a full-fledged criminal probe, according to a source familiar with the IRS examination.

  9. Church Lady - April 20, 2010 | 11:10 pm · Link

    I wish there was still dueling in this country.

  10. GambitRF - April 20, 2010 | 11:11 pm · Link

    They said they wanted market based solutions. Bartering is a market, right?

  11. Martin - April 20, 2010 | 11:12 pm · Link

    Holy fuck. Watching NOVA on CAs energy plan, and who’s the first legislator they interview after Arnold – Chuck Fucking DeVore. He’s right up there with Rubio and Hayworth.

  12. beltane - April 20, 2010 | 11:12 pm · Link

    @Alex: Only 5 chickens for a prescription? I purchased my 10 chickens for $3 a piece, which would make a visit to my GP cost 50 chickens. Unless your doctor is Colonel Sanders, they will not have any use for so many chickens. Maybe there will be doctors out there who will accept beer cans and scrap metal.

  13. Tom - April 20, 2010 | 11:12 pm · Link

    Brings to mind Eugene Field’s famous poem, The Duel, concerning a certain Gingham Dog and a Calico Cat. By the time they were done, they completely ate each other up and not a scrap was left.

    The Republican party is going the way of the Whigs.

  14. David - April 20, 2010 | 11:15 pm · Link

    You’re still supposed to pay taxes on profits from bartered goods aren’t you? I know there are laws in Texas to that effect.

  15. bago - April 20, 2010 | 11:17 pm · Link

    I love Seattle. I just stepped off of my bus (with wifi) into a rave at westlake park. Stuff like this would never happen in DC.

  16. Joel - April 20, 2010 | 11:21 pm · Link

    OTOH, Rubio is probably dead in the water once Crist decides to run as the republican Joe Lieberman.

  17. mai naem - April 20, 2010 | 11:21 pm · Link

    I just have a feeling something unforeseen major event is going to happen soon. Just a gut feeling. That is how the teabagger stuff is going to go away. Kind of like how they kept on going on and on about Gary Condit and Chandra Levy before 9/11.

  18. General Egali Tarian Stuck - April 20, 2010 | 11:21 pm · Link

    Peak Wingnut will ocurr the day Sarah Serendipity drives a dumptruck full of Three Stooges into down Pennsylvania Street.

  19. Zuzu's Petals - April 20, 2010 | 11:21 pm · Link

    OT, but Jon Stewart does the most AMAZING smackdown of Bernie Goldberg tonight. I mean I was wheezing and crying with laughter.

    DO NOT MISS IT ! ! ! !

  20. Montysano - April 20, 2010 | 11:21 pm · Link

    If Senators aren’t beating each other with canes by then, I’ll be a little disappointed.

    I’ll look forward to John McCain’s faux-heartfelt speech about the comity of the Senate.

  21. Joel - April 20, 2010 | 11:22 pm · Link

    @bago: Glad I don’t live in Queen Anne anymore.

  22. demimondian - April 20, 2010 | 11:24 pm · Link

    @Mike Kay: It’s already started.

    HowieFineman is already complaining about how the whackos on the extreme left are hurting the center of the Democratic Party.

  23. FoxinSocks - April 20, 2010 | 11:25 pm · Link

    I’m so sleepy, when I read that quote from Sue Lowden, my first thought was, “But I don’t have chickens.”

    I mean, I have an ill-tempered epileptic beagle, but I don’t know what that would get me. Maybe it’d get me some aspirin or something. But really, I’d love for someone to shake some sense into this woman and ask her when was the last time she went to her doctor, and when she did, how many chickens did her doctor visit cost.

  24. GambitRF - April 20, 2010 | 11:26 pm · Link

    @Zuzu’s Petals:
    The gospel singing bit was excellent.

  25. Lovely Rita - April 20, 2010 | 11:27 pm · Link

    @lamh31

    Partisan attacks by CommieFacistObama’s evil government stooges to silence good Christian men! All part of the persecutions that we have been predicting! There are probably some self hating Jews involved in this, too. And ACORN. And photoshop. Also.

  26. MikeBoyScout - April 20, 2010 | 11:28 pm · Link

    For the diligent researcher of WINGNUT, today has given us Sue Lowden’s Henny Penny Health Care Act, but leaves us pondering whether Peak Wingnut is an actuality.

    Just when we thought we had seen unsurpassable prototypes of the Peak Wingnut leader (“Moosilini”, “Bachman-Crazy-Overdrive” “Grandpa MTP Walnuts”...), out of no where comes Sue ‘cluck-cluck’ Lowden.

    I’m not much of a scholar, so I don’‘t fully understand big words like epistemic closure, but is it possible the disenfranchised Republicans are just using epistemic closure as a synonym for Peak WINGNUT?

    In any event, don’t count your Peak WINGNUT chickens before you’ve been to the doctor.

  27. lamh31 - April 20, 2010 | 11:28 pm · Link

    BTW, don’t know if there are any “GLEEks” on BJ, but tonight’s Madonna inspired episode of “GLEE” was fan-tab-u-lous!!

    Just had to share that with somebody up this late…LOL!

  28. moe99 - April 20, 2010 | 11:29 pm · Link

    Bet ol’ Sen Lindsey Graham is hitting the sauce tonight:

    http://tinyurl.com/y6a8ke4

    with friends like that, who needs enemies?

  29. beltane - April 20, 2010 | 11:30 pm · Link

    @demimondian: Does David Sirota really have that much power?

  30. Brian J - April 20, 2010 | 11:32 pm · Link

    @Alex:

    That’s the way that I feel. With the exception of Utah, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to field a decent candidate and put everything possible into winning these races.

    It is certainly pathetic, even if it’s understandable, that Harry Reid is fighting for his life in Nevada, but he’s not behind by 30 points. The people of his state have voted for him before, so perhaps they can be convinced to do it again. And even if a high profile candidate isn’t available, as is the case in Arizona, there’s a pretty easy way to raise the eventual candidate’s profile: schedule a visit with the big wigs of the party, like Biden, Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and of course Obama himself.

  31. SIA - April 20, 2010 | 11:34 pm · Link

    OT but Jon Stewart was fucking brilliant tonight.

  32. demimondian - April 20, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link

    @beltane: Sirota certainly has enough power to drive Fineman into full-frontal Broderism.

    But, then again, so does a slug. So that may not be saying much.

  33. Mike Kay - April 20, 2010 | 11:38 pm · Link

    @demimondian: she was joking. tagging shitrota with the whacko tag that he richly earned.

  34. trollhattan - April 20, 2010 | 11:43 pm · Link

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    Lordy, lordy, I was choking from laughing so hard. Bernie’s minions (assuming he’s been assigned some) have their work cut out for them, plumping his ego back into shape.

    (Wasted far too much time on the teabag skippy interview, but JS needed the rest.)

  35. demimondian - April 20, 2010 | 11:43 pm · Link

    @Mike Kay: Oh, of course. How stupid of me—that possibility never even crossed my mind!

    Of course, I’ve never actually seen anyone go into full-frontal Broderism, either.

  36. KG - April 20, 2010 | 11:46 pm · Link

    I thought that we decided that Peak Wingnut was a disproven theory and that the Wingularity was the next viable hypothesis? Hell, I even had a blog about it for a little while.

  37. demimondian - April 20, 2010 | 11:48 pm · Link

    @KG: Nah, we’ve moved on to Wing Theory—it’s a sort of non-deterministic model of string-pulling and brains in 11-dimensional chess.

    Or something like that.

  38. KG - April 20, 2010 | 11:52 pm · Link

    @demimondian: Wingnut fizziks moves fast.

  39. buggy ding dong - April 20, 2010 | 11:55 pm · Link

    Rule changes coming next session if we don’t get 60 or 61 Ds in the Senate.

  40. Awktalk - April 20, 2010 | 11:56 pm · Link

    This is fresh:

    (blockquotes not working, but click on the link above)

    This is where one goat and four chickens came into play.

    Phoebe Sweet, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party, and a few of her barnyard friends who shall remain nameless stopped by Lowden’s campaign headquarters.

    “I tried to trade this goat for some health care, and my doctor looked at me like I’m crazy,” Sweet told a receptionist as she carried the 25-pound goat into the headquarters with a local TV crew tracking her. “So I was just curious if you had any information on her barter plan.”

    “No, thank you,” the unidentified receptionist said politely.

    “No information?” Sweet asked just as politely.

    “No information, thank you,” the receptionist said again.

    Sweet gave up. “OK,” she said with a shrug to the TV camera. “I guess they won’t take our goat.”

  41. Corner Stone - April 20, 2010 | 11:57 pm · Link

    @bago: You live some kind of life. Ever thought about blogging it? These little teasers leave me, for one, wanting to know a little more context.

  42. PeakVT - April 20, 2010 | 11:59 pm · Link

    it’s a sort of non-deterministic model of string-pulling and brains in 11-dimensional chess.

    Huh. I thought it had to do with moving string cheese in 11 dimensions, and whether or not it can be observed. But that sciency stuff always confuses me.

    Speaking of science, I couldn’t find any good volcano pics or vids today. But I did find something kinda similar: a catnip party explosion.

  43. Corner Stone - April 21, 2010 | 12:03 am · Link

    @KG:

    I thought that we decided that Peak Wingnut was a disproven theory

    Listen. This is easy. Just like I teach my 5 yr old about counting numbers. It’s a pattern, and once you learn the pattern you can go forever.
    Wingnuts will always be +1.

  44. KRK - April 21, 2010 | 12:04 am · Link

    @bago:

    Does the SLUT have wifi?

  45. Mike Kay - April 21, 2010 | 12:04 am · Link

    @moe99: why do people say lindsey is gay? Maybe he just hasn’t found the right girl.

  46. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 12:05 am · Link

    @Alex:

    Who do the Dems have in these races?

    Against the chicken lady, that would be our fearless leader Harry Reid (and somehow he’s fucking losing).

    I’m surprised this is the first I’ve ever heard of Sue Lowden. She’s better looking than either Palin or Bachmann, and she might even be crazier. If I worked at National Review, I’d be damn sure I knocked before going into Rich Lowry’s office.

  47. bago - April 21, 2010 | 12:11 am · Link

    @Corner Stone: Here’s some video, just for you!

    http://www.twitvid.com/ON6QZ

  48. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 12:13 am · Link

    @Mark S.: They had their primary already? Also, keep in mind Harry’s back in Washington doing this little thing called HIS JOB and hasn’t done much in the way of campaigning. I’m not quite ready to call Reid dead just yet.

  49. danimal - April 21, 2010 | 12:17 am · Link

    I still believe in Peak Wingnut and at every full moon I walk up to the hilltop and wait in expectation.

  50. demimondian - April 21, 2010 | 12:18 am · Link

    @Yutsano: Reed’s in deep, deep trouble—the polls have him a relatively distant second in a field of three, the craziest of whom is the teabagger, not the chicken lady.

  51. bago - April 21, 2010 | 12:23 am · Link

    @Corner Stone: As for context, today is 4/20, and Seattle stoners are ambitious. Dominic Holden used to put together a 30k person event called hempfest, which was useful in making mj posession the lowest priority crime in the city. He is now an editor at The Stranger, who publishes Dan Savage.
    Michael Manahan owns the soundsystem, and is a local DJ. He got a permit for the park, and put on this event. I work at Microsoft and switch buses at the park where this event is happening. So I literally stepped off of the bus into a rave my friends were throwing.

    Aaaand they just killed the soundsystem.

  52. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link

    @bago: And boom goes the dynamite?

  53. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link

    @Yutsano:

    I agree it’s early. I see the chicken lady has a primary against the son of Jerry Tarkanian.

  54. General Egali Tarian Stuck - April 21, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link

    Now all the wingnuts need is an expert on the Constitution.

    I beg you, Women of Joy, to bring light and be involved, loving America and praying for her. Really, it is our solemn duty. Praying for true spiritual awakening to overcome deterioration. That is where God wants us to be. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

    You go Sarah.

  55. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link

    Oh lordy lordy lordy. Swapping chickens for healthcare? Gah.

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: I hate her with the intensity of a thousand burning flames of Satan’s hellfire.

    @Yutsano: Hi, honey! Sh sh sh, don’t talk. Just smile and look pretty.

  56. TrishB - April 21, 2010 | 12:32 am · Link

    @Mark S.: Sorry, Mark. The Chicken Lady lives in a town called Lebanon, OH. She goes grocery shopping with a bunch of new chicks stuck in the front of her overalls, and she talks to the them frequently while she shops. That’s a true Chicken Lady.

  57. MikeB - April 21, 2010 | 12:33 am · Link

    Long time Vegas resident here. Sue Lowden is a very nice lady,
    although I could never vote for her.
    I’ve known her husband for 30 years and worked in one of
    their hotels for a while. Fact is, the teabaggers hate her as she
    is too moderate for them. While her HC statements are nutty by
    any measure, she is obviously concerned about competition
    from the far right.

    Also, the Las Vegas Review Journal is a right wing rag
    constantly “commissioning” polls that show Harry Reid behind
    by unbelievable margins. Think Fox News polling Fox viewers.

    I think Harry has an admittedly uphill battle, but the teabaggers
    may be his ticket to another term in the end.

  58. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 12:46 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: I can still type dammit. In fact I’m seriously considering going out and buying a laptop tomorrow just so I won’t be completely bored while I’m on the 48 hour sleep vigil. I also need to get me some quick prep stuff so I can just make quick jaunts to the kitchen to eat then right back to bed. I’ve never been in a stupor for 48 hours before, this could be very entertaining. I’m suddenly glad I have two phone chargers now.

    EDIT: I just took a Vicodin. WHEE!!

  59. robertdsc - April 21, 2010 | 12:53 am · Link

    Lowden should be laughed out of the state for this. It’s unconscionable how stupid she is

  60. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 12:54 am · Link

    @TrishB:

    This is a real Chicken Lady.

  61. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:05 am · Link

    @Mark S.: A friend of mine sent me the Chicken Lady in a strip club bit. I almost died laughing.

    @Yutsano: Shhhh shhhh, don’t you worry your pretty little head about anything! Heh. Can’t wait to read your typing as you get progressively loopier.

  62. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 1:07 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: Apparently I’m very funny when I’m high as a kite on this stuff. I made the mistake of taking it while at work. Probably should have gone home but my co-workers were laughing their asses off the cracks were coming out of me so fast. Unfortunately I can’t go to bed until laundry is done so y’all are gonna have to put up with me. WOOOOT!

  63. mclaren - April 21, 2010 | 1:09 am · Link

    By 2014, senators should be beating each other with rubber chickens and speaking in tongues. CSPAN will edge out LOST in the ratings.

  64. C Nelson Reilly - April 21, 2010 | 1:11 am · Link

    Keep fucking that chicken

  65. Wile E. Quixote - April 21, 2010 | 1:11 am · Link

    @Mark S.:

    I love Kids in the Hall, what’s amazing to me is that at the same time he was producing KITH Lorne Michaels was also producing the incredibly unfunny Saturday Night Live of the early 1990s. I remember watching the two shows back to back one night and wondering if Lorne had to surrender all of his funny when he crossed the border from Canada into the US.

    And Dave Foley, Dave Foley, one of the finest straight men ever. I love Dave Foley, but as much as I loved him on KITH my favorite Dave Foley role was his performance as Alan Bean in From the Earth to the Moon.

  66. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:12 am · Link

    @Yutsano: Excellent. I need to be entertained.

  67. Zuzu's Petals - April 21, 2010 | 1:13 am · Link

    @trollhattan:

    He was far to nice to the teabag whack job, IMO.

  68. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 1:14 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: I am also now suddenly and inexplicably thirsty. Of course the loopiness is starting to sink in so Lord only knows what that has to do with the situation.

  69. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 1:19 am · Link

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    Wow, that’s the first I’ve ever heard of these nutbars.

    NAR’s [New Apostolic Reformation] videos, according to researcher Rachel Tabachnick, “demonstrate the taking control of communities and nations through large networks of ‘prayer warriors’ whose spiritual warfare is used to expel and destroy the demons that cause societal ills. Once the territorial demons, witches, and generational curses are removed, the ‘born-again’ Christians in the videos take control of society.”

    I thought maybe Sarah was just shaking these rubes out for money like she’s prone to do, but she’s been a member since she was 24. Jesus, this makes Todd’s separatist movement ties seem quaint.

  70. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:22 am · Link

    @Yutsano: Hee hee. Go drink something.

    @Mark S.: Yup. I used to read the ‘flats, and her church is absofuckinglutely batshitcrazy.

  71. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 1:24 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: Dammit I still don’t care, I think her traitorous Eskimo husband is doable. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

  72. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:30 am · Link

    @Yutsano: Whoa. Seriously? I hope that’s just the Vicodin talking!

  73. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 1:34 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Eh, I’d do Sarah, but this Lowden gal is better.

    I draw the line at Bachmann, however. She got the crazy eyes.

  74. robertdsc - April 21, 2010 | 1:41 am · Link

    @Mark S.:
    I’ll stick with Sarah, thanks. Lowden does nothing for me. :(

  75. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 1:43 am · Link

    @robertdsc: One MILF limit huh?

  76. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:44 am · Link

    @robertdsc: I wouldn’t do any of them. I don’t fuck crazy, stupid, or venal.

    P.S. That includes the himbo, Scott Brown. He’s just icky.

  77. General Egali Tarian Stuck - April 21, 2010 | 1:47 am · Link

    @Mark S.:

    Well, yea, that’s pretty nutbar alright. And no stranger to anti-witching is the Wasilla Wingnut, per her Kenyan witch hunter pastor. And as we all know any good “prayer warrior” worth her salt has a personal “prayer cave”, sorta like Batman. I reckon.

    An African evangelist, Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.

    The stuff of odd dreams beamed from Planet Wingnut.
    You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
    nite all :-)

  78. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 1:48 am · Link

    @Yutsano:

    My girlfriend has a friend who works for a cable company and gets to listen to complaints from idiots who forget they ordered a bunch of porn movies while they were drunk. She said one of the titles was “MILF: It Does A Body Good.”

  79. robertdsc - April 21, 2010 | 1:49 am · Link

    @Yutsano:
    There is teh Gillibrand, but I like her more for her political positions than her looks. She’s not bad looking, by the way. /swoons

  80. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 1:53 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Man, I got really sick of seeing Brown’s Playgirl spread during that election.

  81. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 1:55 am · Link

    @Mark S.: Cosmo. I don’t think he did a Playgirl one.

    And, just to remind you. You’re welcome.

  82. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 2:01 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: Mmm…I love the smell of deep knife twisting in the evening. Where’s FH #1? He should be witnessing this delicious carnage.

  83. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 2:03 am · Link

    @Yutsano: What? I was afraid the memory of Senator Brown’s glistening, taut, gleaming body might have faded for Mark S. That would be tragic!

    Where IS FH#1?

  84. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 2:09 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN: I think he either got lost in another mind numbing legal brief (in other words he’s read the same sentence three times now and his eyes are glazing over) or he’s in a soul sucking meeting that he’ll need a long shower and kisses from the puppeh to recover from. He was on earlier though.

    Oh BTW I pretty much can’t feel a damn thing right now. :)

  85. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 2:09 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Huh, I don’t know why I thought it was Playgirl, maybe I was thinking of Burt Reynolds.

    And thanks, it never gets old.

  86. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 2:12 am · Link

    @Yutsano: That’s good, though, isn’t it?

    @Mark S.: Heh. I knew you were hankering to see it one more time.

  87. Wile E. Quixote - April 21, 2010 | 2:15 am · Link

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    You know, I keep hearing these morons talk about the end times and like an impatient little kid on a long car trip I keep asking “are we there yet” because I’d I be one seriously happy camper if the Lord God Almighty finally got off His Ass, fired up His trusty RaptureVac™ and got these morons out of here.

  88. Mark S. - April 21, 2010 | 2:17 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN:

    A little music in the background makes it extra special.

  89. Yutsano - April 21, 2010 | 2:18 am · Link

    @Wile E. Quixote: Yeah, but what if he Raptures all the DFHs? I would consider that a delicious irony.

    @Mark S.: Okay, that makes me call out GREEN BALLOONS right there. Not enough drugs on the planet for that.

  90. Tattoosydney - April 21, 2010 | 3:35 am · Link

    @asiangrrlMN:
    @Yutsano:

    I think he either got lost in another mind numbing legal brief (in other words he’s read the same sentence three times now and his eyes are glazing over) or he’s in a soul sucking meeting that he’ll need a long shower and kisses from the puppeh to recover from.

    This. So this.

    Hello. I need a caipirinha.

  91. Steeplejack - April 21, 2010 | 6:45 am · Link

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    That was epic. I liked how backup singer guy morphed into gospel quintet.

  92. mslarry - April 21, 2010 | 6:50 am · Link

    @lamh31:

    i know right? the sue slyvester “vogue” video was priceless and how much am i loving that kurt and mercedes are now a part of the cheerios? Plus, i was really digging the all male version of “for a girl.” Inspired choice and as much as i love rachel and finn, personally i’m thrilled about the chance to hear solos from other kids in the cast.

    Oh… and a sista’ can’t wait for the Neil Patrick Harris episode. The whole damn show is “fiya.”

  93. Svensker - April 21, 2010 | 7:25 am · Link

    @MikeBoyScout:

    Very much win.

  94. Randy P - April 21, 2010 | 7:31 am · Link

    @mclaren: I like this image a LOT. I want to see this ritual as part of cloture rules. Or filibuster rules. Or something.

  95. brantl - April 21, 2010 | 8:17 am · Link

    @Montysano: I look forward to McCain being beaten with a cane…............

  96. David in NY - April 21, 2010 | 9:36 am · Link

    Y’know, beating people with canes in the Senate is so 1856 …
    Or maybe not.

    After Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner unmercifully at his desk on the Senate floor for a “libel on South Carolina,” citizens of South Carolina sent Brooks dozens of canes (and teabags, no doubt) with notes saying, “Hit him again.”

  97. Joel - April 21, 2010 | 11:00 am · Link

    The early 90’s SNL - the one that generated all the stars and still employed Phil Hartman – was as funny as SNL had ever been, which is to say inconsistently. It was hilarious in bits, however.

    I felt that Kids in the Hall and The State were roughly as funny for different reasons.

  98. asiangrrlMN - April 21, 2010 | 11:00 am · Link

    @Tattoosydney: Hi! I hope you got your caipirinha!

    @Mark S.: I hate you. Fortunately, I caught what it was before it started, so I didn’t have to listen to it again.

  99. momus - April 22, 2010 | 6:09 pm · Link

    My grandfather was the town pharmacist during the depression. My father ate a lot of chicken and pork when he was growing up, we ate neither for some reason.

    Since not everyone will have the where-with-all or persistence to raise the 10,000 or so chickens it would take for an MRI, may I suggest a simple alternative, chicken futures. You buy chicken futures but cash them in without taking delivery. That way LaSalle St could get its cut, too, and your medical expenses would only rise by about 50%.

  100. Big Gals Are Sexy, Too | The World According to MEH - April 24, 2010 | 9:31 am · Link

    [...] which I can barter.  Like a chicken (the leading candidate for the senate spot in Nevada suggested bartering chickens for healthcare.  Seriously).  It wasn’t really mine, per se.  I felt that if someone [...]


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