Open Thread: Title of the Day
By Anne Laurie September 24th, 2010
The reliably brilliant Roy Edroso at the Village Voice: “Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation, Satanism Remarks”
Sometimes the mark of true artistry is knowing what to leave out… even when it’s just two little letters.
Posted in Clap Louder!, Open Thread
Call me slow, but which two letters?
September 24th, 2010 at 9:57 am
@soonergrunt: Thank you.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@soonergrunt: Oh wait! Maybe it’s “to”?
That is: It could have read “Beat off TO”?
(I’m a little worried that I’m putting this much energy into the question).
September 24th, 2010 at 10:04 am
@soonergrunt:
I’m with soonergrunt. Which two?
Maybe I need to masterbate more to understand it or less so I’m not blind and can see it.
UPDATE: Never mind…I think Emily nailed it
September 24th, 2010 at 10:11 am
@soonergrunt:
morning brain tease…need to get it in the gutter
September 24th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Todd Henderson fail makes page one of the Chicago Tribune.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Also to.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:28 am
@gnomedad:
Wow. Just wow.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Thank you, Emily. It’s a little too early for this level of cognition.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:42 am
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: It’s so nice to have people who
are way smarter than I amhave already had their coffee posting right off the bat on this thread.September 24th, 2010 at 10:46 am
@Ash Can: Hey! I’m sure I’m also way smarter than you are!
No, actually, I’m probably not.
/goes off in search of second cup of coffee.
September 24th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Have you seen this hack of the Teatards website?
September 24th, 2010 at 10:53 am
One night, when I was but a young lad of a reporter, one of my colleagues brought some homemade pizza to the editorial floor to share. It was so good I tried to sneak seconds, only to get chased away.
A few minutes later someone else came along who hadn’t had any of the pizza, and my colleague invited him to try some. She pointed to me and said, “It’s so good, I had to beat him off.”
September 24th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Needed a cup of coffee to figure that out.
BTW, how many times is the smiley face going to tell me he’s not kidding and that I am the 100,000th visitor?
September 24th, 2010 at 10:54 am
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: That had occurred to me, but I thought “no, that’s too obvious.”
September 24th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Already 15 comments in and no one has referenced this classic Archie cover yet? For shame.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Praise Bing Crosby and FTFY!
September 24th, 2010 at 11:11 am
How are you feeling, soonergrunt?
September 24th, 2010 at 11:12 am
The headline practices a little restraint, but one of the sentences in the article goes a little further.
Ah yes, you have to have a gift to pull this off.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Jon Klein fired by CNN.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:17 am
How about this from the New York Post (ugh):
Liberal Media Goes On Attack Against GOP’s Boner
(well, ok, they did have the “e” in there)
September 24th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Maha over at her place points to a telling article on the Salon site.
They don’t often deserve it, but Kudos to Walmart for repeatedly bringing this up.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:25 am
gnomedad:
B-b-but, Todd apologized. He even said he wouldn’t blog anymore, and blamed it on his wife and preemie baby. Twice!
And now it shows up in the Chicago Tribune, which certainly won’t make his wife feel any better. If they split up now, it’ll all be the Trib’s fault! I expect Henderson to take up blogging again so he can tell us all about it.
.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:29 am
My in-laws leave town during summer and winter and my wife and I pick up their mail for them at their home. She pays the bills for them and forwards anything important or personal to their seasonal home.
My question is this, the old man is a staunch rightwinger who gives money to some of the causes and thus is on every loon’s dead tree list that is out there. We just shred the stuff but is there something we could do to aggravate the senders?
September 24th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Sometimes the mark of true artistry is knowing what to leave out…
True.
But sometimes Edroso don’t know Jack.Off topic, Pee Wee Herman has a huge Hand.Job, I doubt, would care much for Ms. O’Donnell.
But I feel the political winds are Turning. Japanese music, again going off topic, has a weird Beat. Off topic for the last time, my car needs a good Buffing.The Banana was once used to prove God did not masturbate, and therein lies the Rub. One Out of two men masturbate and the other man is a liar.
Hey, it’s Friday.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:34 am
@eemom: I’m doing pretty well for someone who makes much less than a college professor married to a doctor, but we all have our crosses to bear.
I’m studying for a certification test and putting some resumes out there. Money’s tight, what with being unemployed and only having my wife’s income to pay the mortgage, student loans, and health insurance deductibles after major surgery, but at least I don’t have to worry about whether or not I’m going to have to let the maid or the gardener go. That would just be HELL.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:38 am
@gnomedad: Ooooooookay.
Guess with my chronically ill husband, crushing medical debt, and Less Than Elastic income; I’m just a whiner.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:38 am
@El Tiburon: Epic.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:39 am
See? Periods make you more funny.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Bloody fucking Christ McMegan is a goddamned moron. I know this isn’t exactly news but it’s still worth pointing out, again, for the millionth time.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:48 am
@WereBear (itouch): and we all thought the princess and the pea was a fairy tale, and here she is now, suing the mattress company for physical and emotional trauma like a good little law professor.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:50 am
@El Tiburon:
Classic Woody Allen on masturbation:
September 24th, 2010 at 11:52 am
@Comrade Mary:
Clap. Clap.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:57 am
The Tea Party Nation convention, already rescheduled once, has been cancelled. Thoughts?
September 24th, 2010 at 11:59 am
@Brachiator:
One of my favorite’s was from Garry Shandling. After slamming his hand under the lid of the washing machine he exclaimed, “Ow! There goes half my sex life.”
September 24th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Last week Colbert had a bit about O’Donnell and in order to avoid the lust part of masterbating, he married his right hand, only to discover that he also had a left hand. This lead to him telling his right hand that he had to work late.
If, as O’Donnell claimed, adultery is lust and you cannot masterbate without lust, doesn’t this mean that only married people cannot masterbate? Single people, by definition, cannot commit adultery, and therefore can lust away all they want. And what if you masterbate only about your spouse? (C’mon, it can happen…) You are not lusting after someone else and so according to her definition it would be fine. I demand that someone ask her about non-married and spouse-only masterbation! The people want to know!
September 24th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
@NonyNony: LOL There is a prefect summery of that article.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Congrats
toon your Headline shoutout from TNC. High Praise indeed!September 24th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
It’s “Waiting for Superman” day.
Check out some contrarian views of the movie:
http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=4484
http://teacherrevised.org/2010.....-dress-up/
And a review less glowing that I was expecting, although not necessarily contrarian:
http://www.thenation.com/artic.....g-superman
September 24th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
@soonergrunt:
Yep, a little perspective goes a long way. : )
September 24th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Who is the dumb editor at Salon that decided “hey lets psycho analyze why John Stewart is holding his rally. He is on our side, but that has never stopped us before.” “First article is John Stewart Shrill, second article John Stewarts great risk.”
September 24th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
@Ocotillo:
I think the usual thing is to mail back something very heavy
and of negative value in the postage paid return envelope.
Some have tried taping the envelope to a brick.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
The more things change…
1910 L.A. Herald editorial slamming the L.A. Times as rightwing republican tools.
Apparently Taft had railroaded T.R. ’s man at Forestry to appoint his own Brownie.
I was looking for something else when I stumbled across a Library of Congress project. Way to familiar.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc......d-1/seq-4/
September 24th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
@gnomedad: I didn’t realize that douchebag picked up his ball and went Galt, blogging wise. I just knew he deleted his original post. At least he won’t advertise his ignorance anymore for public consumption.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
@El Tiburon:
Is “masturbation” the answer to the famous Zen Koan, “what’s the sound of one hand clapping?
September 24th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
@Craig: Over her Pharma research post?
September 24th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
@ajr22: Ummm!! Wouldn’t that be Joan Walsh’s job?
September 24th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
@Comrade Mary: Once again you’ve crossed the line just to ruin the fun for everyone else. What is it with
womenyou people?September 24th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
@Amir_Khalid: I was at an Ethiopian restaurant once with a bunch of friends, and was encouraging one friend to try (with care) a hot pepper in one of the dishes. He picked one up with the bread and had a bite, thought it was pretty good, and turned and offered it to his wife, who said:
“I may have been dumb enough to marry you, but I’m not putting that thing in your hand in my mouth.”
Talk about a conversation-stopper…
September 24th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
@Ocotillo: As I believe that tampering with someone’s mail is a federal offense, you might not want to discuss this openly. (Though when I had the same problem my father’s mail ended up in some fairly inaccessible places.)
September 24th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Since this is an open thread, I’m going to vent:
It’s so fucking depressing being a Democrat. Every morning I read the news, and every morning I want to hang myself before 10 a.m. I’m thinking of putting a noose in the closet in advance, so as to more easily facilitate the process ;)
I can no longer fight for a goddamn party that won’t fight for me and the people who need help far more than I do. It’s like the fucking assholes want to lose. If I didn’t hate Republicans as much as I do, I’d join ‘em. At least they want to win, and when they do, they go all out to crush their enemies. I feel like crushing more than a few Democrats right about now. I actually hope Harry Reid loses. That wimp has got to go. I knew we were fucked when he told 60 Minutes upon assuming the position of majority leader that he didn’t consider Lyndon Johnson a good role model for the job. Reid apparently thought he’d get more done under the guise of Caspar Milquetoast.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
@Death Panel Truck: I feel your pain.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Looks like the chances for a vote on tax cuts aren’t completely dead.
Now is the time to call Pelosi and Hoyer (and your congressman) and tell them to make it happen. And tell them to cut middle class taxes only, not the “compromise” that punts everything down the road another five years.
September 24th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
True story:
There’s a grocery store near me called Your Market.
For many years their slogan was “You just can’t beat Your Market meat!”.
A generation of schoolboys remembers it fondly.
September 24th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
First Sullivan saying he’d vote for Angle and now this bozo at Dkos giving to her campaign because he’s pissed about the tax cut non-vote:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....rron-Angle
I live in Nevada. Please stop it.
September 24th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
@Amir_Khalid:
Reminds me of a great line from Family Guy. Peter’s going to spend time with Meg teaching her how to be more attractive. He says, “When I’m done with you, you’ll be beating guys off with both hands.”
September 24th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
For the folks who are wondering where the two missing letters should go, I believe this is the answer.
Original Headline:
“Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation, Satanism Remarks”
Likely Insertion of Missing Letters
“Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation to Satanism Remarks”
September 24th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle: No, it was because of her “shouldn’t we make YouTube videos for all the poor picked on smart kids too, and not just the faggots?” post. If that woman had junk I would want her to get punched in it, repeatedly.
September 24th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@gnomedad: Yes. I just wish they hadn’t given him the last word. But the rest of it, spot on.
September 24th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Interesting. My Twitter account feeds into my Facebook page, and one of the articles I linked the other day was flagged as “abusive.” It was a Think Progress article about Koch-backed groups in Wisconsin that helped kill a law “Designed To Prevent Voter Suppression Plot Hatched By Koch-Backed Groups.”
Looks like I’ll have to link to it again…
September 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm