Wednesday, September 12, 2012

One Year Ago Today

mittens/michele 2012

after the debate tonight, i still think mittens needs bachmann to slice perry's balls off with the southern, evangelical, insane, racist, teabagger assholes who will decide the southern primaries for the repubs.  romney needs bachmann to be that attack dog and chew on perry's manhood while the idiots watch and also to be the decent jeebus-blowing christian that a vile heathen can never be, so it's gonna be romney/bachmann defeating obama/biden next year. 

richard sachs's nagasawa

when richard sachs got his nagasawa frame, there was talk on the intertube webs that his frame was a special show bike with extra hand work and shit.  at the time, always cranky american framebuilder bruce gordon spoke up against the tide and said that the nagasawa frame in question was nothing special construction-wise, and that it could not compare with the finest modern american bespoke lugged steel frames.  anyway, this is sachs's frame.  the dolphin-grey would not have been my choice.

update: i wonder if this frame has ever been ridden?  nagasawa road frames are so rare and apparently unavailable in the united states now.  if this is a step-up in filing and finishing from that purple metallic nagasawa road frame, it would be so very interesting to see them side by side.  pictures just don't cut it.  i wonder how the dolphin grey looks in person in the sunshine?  it seems the color may have been chosen to highlight the lugwork.  did mr. sachs pick it or mr. nagasawa?  woolgathering...


is this the nicest nagasawa road frame ever?


this beautiful purple nagasawa, as pictured on the yellow jersey website, is one of the nicest looking road frames ever.  i can't get enough of that light purple metallic.  is it the nicest nagasawa road ever?  probably not; i think richard sachs supposedly has a special show-built road frame with extra filing and stuff, but this purple bike was built for a regular customer and painted in a wicked awesome color, so it's the best.  nagasawas are almost impossible to get in the united states anymore; mr. nagasawa has been building with his son these days according to the internets, so seeing many more nagasawa road frames around these parts is prolly not gonna happen.

maddow on nuclear power tonight

it was good to see at least someone on the tee vee talking about the nuclear industry.  ge must be a little twitchy about now.

imagine the mass of '63 strat to the back of the head, knocking you flat

i used think the most embarrassing thing about gibson guitars was that evan dando played 'em.  now their asshole ceo is all over fox news and right-wing radio bitching about the evil gubermint.  idiots. 

krugman's shame is america's shame

paul krugman really got under the skin of donald rumsfeld and tons of other miserable bastards with his little missive against the exploitation of 9/11/2001 by villains like george bush and rudy giuliani and bernie kerik and fools of all stripes.  thank the gods for krugman, who moved from the neoliberal, laissez-faire wilderness to the solid economic and political center, which in this country makes him fucking trotsky.

does perry's ponzi scheme mean romney no longer needs bachmann?

it looks like rick perry is even dumber than everybody thought; he's showing that he not only doesn't know what a ponzi scheme is, he doesn't know how to run a national campaign either.  so, does this mean mittens doesn't need bachmann to slice perry's balls off with the born-again teabagging christian bigots?  will social security checks and medicare scooters do what romney couldn't do on his own, leaving bachmann out in the cold?  now that pawlenty is on-board, romney may be hoping that perry cripples himself so he won't have to turn to that harpy to save his bacon with the morons who vote in republican primaries. 

why is dean baker not treasury secretary?

i mean, we have some half-way intelligent people in this country, but to a person they spend their working hour as critics instead of policy makers.  at some point won't the great unwashed demand someone who is competent in public service?  probably not.

krugman or this idiot

if you were going to listen to either paul krugman or this fucking idiot on economics, foreign policy, horror movies, pizza toppings, which one would you pick?  i mean krugman's really smart and the other guy believes in austrian economics, which is even more embarrassing than believing in astrology or jeebus.  

obama's jobs act

pretty good in january of 2009, but it's a little late now!  it was nice to see the wingnuts all flippy over the teeny tiny tax increases on the wealthiest americans, though.  that obama coulda' really made this country a better place a couple of years ago even his his policy victories were smaller than we would have liked.  as of now, he's looking to get in the game halfway through the 4th quarter.

obama's jobs act

pretty good in january of 2009, but it's a little late now!  it was nice to see the wingnuts all flippy over the teeny tiny tax increases on the wealthiest americans, though.  that obama coulda' really made this country a better place a couple of years ago even his his policy victories were smaller than we would have liked.  as of now, he's looking to get in the game halfway through the 4th quarter. 

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