Archive for the ‘WTF?’ Category
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James Poulos cranked a particularly stinky nugget into Tucker Carlson’s cat box Thursday, a column entitled “What Are Women For?” that was at once so offensive, pretentious, incoherent, clueless and just plain dumb that it attracted hoots of derision from every corner of the internet. Balloon Juice commenter Clark Stooksbury summed it up pithily as [...]
February 18, 2012
· 
Betty Cracker · 
111 Comments
Posted in: Beer Blogging, #dickwhisperer, Assholes, General Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?
Better Run, Better Run, Outrun Mitt’s Gun
I guess the point of this ad is that Romney has rifle that fires Santorum? All I know is that shit is flying everywhere. (h/t Litlebritdifrnt in the comments).
February 15, 2012
· mistermix · 64 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, WTF?
A Grift Supreme
After the US seized file sharing/piracy site Megaupload (which was headquartered in Hong Kong but we were still able to shut down, without SOPA), details began to emerge about its owner, Kim Schmitz, who now goes by the name Kim Dotcom. Ars Technica has an extensive profile of this guy, and it’s a trip down [...]
January 29, 2012
· mistermix · 41 Comments
Posted in: WTF?
It’s A Bit Too Late For That, Ruben
CNN’s Ruben Navarette is warning that the GOP might not do too well among Latino voters in 2012, which is a bit like, well, like Herman Cain warning that the GOP may not do too well with African-American voters like myself. But here’s his opening: On behalf of all those Latino voters who have figured [...]
January 27, 2012
· Zandar · 45 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America, The Brown Enemy Within, WTF?
Humans Make Strange Objects
For some reason this week I ended up with a bunch of pictures of the strange things that humans make. Here’s one example, the “kumato”. It is a brown tomato whose name sounds like one of those sex acts you have to look up on urbandictionary.com. It’s the Cleveland Steamer of the produce department.
January 20, 2012
· mistermix · 45 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, WTF?
Things falling apart
Does anyone have an idea what will happen when Greece runs out of last-minute stopgap tricks? I suppose it means that the major players in Europe all get their bets called at the same time. As I understand from Duncan Black (an actual economist!, but no link because his search function blows) almost everyone ‘hedged’ [...]
December 20, 2011
· Tim F. · 86 Comments
Posted in: Goldman Sachs, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, We Are All Mayans Now, WTF?
WTF, Glenn Beck?
I know—we shouldn’t even bother with Glenn Beck because everything he says and does is a WTF moment. Well, here’s one you didn’t see coming: Glenn Beck Suggests Tea Party is Racist Yeah. I’ll let that sink in a bit. From the article: In a startling admission from a major Tea Party champion, former Fox [...]
December 13, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 86 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Fucksaw, Open Thread, Post-racial America, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, Teabagger Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?
How to Lose Your RIM Job
Two drunken VPs from Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry, caused an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing to divert and land in Vancouver. Here’s how drunk they were (via): One of the men “assaulted a flight attendant and threatened to punch another,” the prosecution told the court. Crew members eventually handcuffed the [...]
December 11, 2011
· mistermix · 60 Comments
Posted in: WTF?
Commenters Behaving Badly
I don’t know why anyone should ever have to mention this or deal with it, but I just deleted a couple of comments in ABL’s Naomi Wolfe thread. Two different commenter names, two different email addresses, both pushing the same theme, the same IP address for both. If you can’t make your point without resorting [...]
November 26, 2011
· Soonergrunt · Comments Closed
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fucked-up-edness, I Hate All of You, Site Maintenance, This is not where you come to do your madness!, WTF?
I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Test, test, test…1,2,3, umm, is this thing on? I know you’re out there, I saw you post in the last thread. When I was fifteen, my parents were at a movie and the keys to the truck were right there by the door. I hope this endeavor ends better than that one did. I feel [...]
November 22, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 288 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Decline and Fall, Green Balloons, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, WTF?
People Are Bugf**k Crazy
I’ve sworn off blogging until the day job relents—I’m hoping for some time during the Century of the Anchovy. But every now and then something comes along that is so fundamentally off—I’d say weird, but really, just plain messed up—that it cries out for both pity and scorn. Given that this is the home to [...]
November 22, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 100 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, WTF?
A Real Impeachable Character
Here’s the thing, folks. If you give fanatical Republicans too much power, they do completely crazy things with it because they are basically insane. Case in point: one Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona. Gov. Jan Brewer and the GOP-controlled state Senate on Tuesday touched off legal and political battles as they took the unprecedented step [...]
November 2, 2011
· Zandar · 38 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, The Brown Enemy Within, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?
A Little Song In Your Heart
So, this just happened. And I got nothin’. I’m just waiting for the credits to roll. The thread, he is open. Commence.
October 31, 2011
· Zandar · 96 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Open Thread, We Are All Mayans Now, WTF?
Tenemos Un Problema
In other news, Francisco Franco and the Catholic Church, echoing the Argentine dirty war, stole babies from ‘undesirable’ families and sold them to families that kept up better on their church donations and Party dues. Apparently collaborating doctors helped arrange the theft and then told a lot of parents that their kids had died. After [...]
October 18, 2011
· Tim F. · 133 Comments
Posted in: Religion, WTF?
also too
We sort of just declared war on Iran. Right? The State Department would not claim that Iran more or less tried to start a terrorist war in DC for no good reason. After all, we do not just toss that sort of casus belli out there without having a hell of a lot of confidence [...]
October 11, 2011
· Tim F. · 179 Comments
Posted in: WTF?
