Archive for the ‘Get off my grass you damned kids’ Category
I Don’t Care About Your Invisible Jeebus
I used to be a lot quieter about not believing- hell, ten years ago I remember talking to people about religion and trying to believe. But it just never happened, I never saw the light or whatever, and continued to think that all this invisible Jesus stuff was just a load of crap. But I [...]
January 31, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
426 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Get off my grass you damned kids, Religion
I’m Not Homophobic, I Just Don’t Like Being Around Gays and Their Bathrooms Scare Me
This open letter by a former Paul Staffer is a must read. I can’t tell if he is trying to help or hurt Paul, and maybe some of you know what his deal is, but the results of this letter are going to be devastating to the Paul campaign: Is Ron Paul a “racist.” In [...]
December 26, 2011
· John Cole · 286 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Get off my grass you damned kids
Christmas Parties
This year I’m breaking down my Christmas hate into bite-sized morsels. Today’s topic: Christmas parties. I don’t mind them, generally, if they’re held at a nice place with good food and drink. I don’t even mind an office potluck if it’s during work hours, since you’re eating and playing hooky, both of which are pleasurable [...]
December 16, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 66 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
Google Has Stage 2 Social Networking Cancer
It isn’t often fatal, even though the survival statistics make one pause, but Google is showing all the signs of letting the Google+ tumor metastasize. I reviewed the patient’s history yesterday, when they scheissed up Google Reader. Today’s new symptom is removing the “+” search operator, which was part of Google since it started. That [...]
November 2, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 50 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
Singin’ Dollar Dollar Bill Y’all
This is just weird: Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money. This follows a story in the Huffington Post from a week ago about how Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) introduced a [...]
September 28, 2011
· John Cole · 132 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Get off my grass you damned kids, Hoot-Smalley
Sometime the Lights are Shining on Me
I know I am going to get flamed for this, but I just don’t understand what the goal is for the occupy Wall Street crowd. I confess that I don’t have much use for crowds, so that always has to be factored in as part of my cynicism. And, I suppose, at least these folks [...]
September 25, 2011
· John Cole · 250 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Get off my grass you damned kids, Shitty Cops
Change for the Sake of WTF
Netflix has decided to split their DVD and streaming operations into two sites, “Qwikster” and Netflix. Qwikster is going to get its own web site, and here’s the rub (from the email I got this morning from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings): A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites [...]
September 19, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 171 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
Open Thread
Temperature dropped 30 degrees in the past couple of days, and now I have a headache. Bitch moan complain.
September 15, 2011
· John Cole · 140 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
I’m Begging Now
Front pagers- stop making new categories for every whim. Use tags to be clever. We now have fifty categories with two posts or less in them. Some of the categories don’t even begin to make sense. We have a category titled ‘eh.’ WTF does that mean? What the hell does “Balloon Jobs” mean? Why? Tire [...]
September 9, 2011
· John Cole · 171 Comments
Tags: EVERYONE CAN SEE HOW CLEVER I AM WITH MY PITHY TAGS, Look how fun it is tomake tags, Look I am doing it again, OMG SO MUCH FUN · Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Site Maintenance, This is not where you come to do your madness!
Tonight’s Speech
I gotta admit, I have no desire to watch Obama speak tonight. Not because I don’t like him, but because I’m just feeling sort of fatalistic today and not really sure anything can be done to solve this crisis that has been developing for 3-4 decades. Plus, he’s not crazy, and will give a sober, [...]
September 8, 2011
· John Cole · 291 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Open Thread
I’m so mad about the current state of politics I’m going to write lots of angry blog posts about how Obama sucks and do nothing to change Congress! That will show the Republicans I’m fucking serious. Clearly they didn’t get the message when I chained myself to the WH fence and sent Sheehan money to [...]
September 4, 2011
· John Cole · 185 Comments
Tags: I may be trolling..., Many of you are so stupid you deserve posts like this · Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Open Thread
On Failing to Appreciate Our Technological Good Fortune
It’s the Silly Season, a/k/a Pickled Gherkin Summer, so Slate looks to harvest pageclicks with a “special issue” on The Rise of the Twins. Complete with a scienterrific article on the “skyrocketing” increase in the rate of (surviving) multiple births: According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the U.S. [...]
August 23, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 75 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Science and Technology
HP
When I need to do some calculating, I pull out my 20-year-old HP calculator and calculate the fuck out of whatever needs calculation. When I need some marks on paper, my five-year-old HP laser printer prints the living shit out of that piece of paper, and I expect it will be fusing toner for many [...]
August 19, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 172 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Get off my grass you damned kids
Both sides to a contract understanding the terms of the contract shouldn’t be controversial
I was looking around the Consumer Financial Protection Burea site. The CFPB is the new federal agency that Elizabeth Warren invented and set up, and Rich Cordray has been named to run. Richard Shelby (R, Lenders) has vowed to fight the CFPB, presumably because he’s opposed to the idea of both parties to a contract [...]
August 15, 2011
· Kay · 23 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Crazification Factor, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Get off my grass you damned kids, Grifters Gonna Grift, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
Political Negotiation is Hard and Puzzling
Today it’s being reported that Obama offered up raising the Medicare eligibility age as part of a package deal on the debt ceiling. As ABL posted below, this could be an extremely smart example of offering a sacrifice you know the other side won’t take to get some credibility and to put Boehner in a [...]
July 12, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 203 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
