back in the saddle

this is where congresswoman giffords belongs. 

probably the only thing that makes gabby giffords' ordeal worse

having to go on tee vee with the loathsome former nixon staffer diane sawyer.  surely, no one deserves that.  well, jerry sandusky, for one, but still, hasn't congresswoman giffords suffered enough?

look yonder mayor richard daley

bill daley's failure as chief of staff is a wonderful thing for the country.  it's not exactly a direct victory for the occupy movement, but when you see a corporatist apparatchik former investment banker crash and burn as one of the most powerful men in the government, it is a fine day for the 99%.  daley is a vile character; choosing him was another colossal fuck-up for obama, but it might work out for the rest of us.

the legion of doomed

is this the best we can do?  i mean, clinton?  jesus, bill's like fucking herpes, and now we'll never get rid of his gods-damned family either.  chelsea?  she of the goldman sachs-felon father-in-law?  we are doomed.  i blame this on hillary.  if she'd only had the good sense to kick that douchebag the fuck out of her bed after a good bang, the whole world would be better off.  nice going, dipshit.

darcy burner, meet elizabeth warren

she is supposedly running in a much better district this year, so darcy burner should have a better shot.  she, along with alan grayson, are two of the highest-profile candidates who should hop on the elizabeth warren express and campaign hard on a common set of ideas and issues.

and you know that people are really rather afraid

at least brooke shields and meg whitman's idiot spawn are no longer the biggest embarrassment for princeton...

pop on, kids

is allen gregory an nfl production?

fox's animated abortion allen gregory must be a national football league production, designed to get people to switch to nbc's prime time game after the simpsons and before family guy to boost the nbc ratings.  sweet fucking jesus that show sucks.

'insane, even for frank miller.'

that's about the best you could say about the man responsible for the movie 300, the most successful gay porn film since the passion of the christ.

today, we are all nebraska

for this week at least, nebraska is the most popular college football team in the galaxy.

baked beans sugar and margerine (and campagnolo electric)

is it here?  is it really here?  an interesting curiosity for sure, like the shimano stuff, but i'm not sure what the point is.  well, that's not true.  i know what the point is.  gee wiz gadgets that cost very little to produce in (relative) quantity but command an excessive retail price are what america is made for.  it's probably a cool thing, but as far from my bag o' tea as no-name chinese carbone garbage with a fancy paintjob.  i look forward to the parking lot crit on the campagnolo electric components just as much as i did the the shimano.  after that, i'm good for a while.

(cyclingnews.com photo showing the shape of the lever)

you know you love it

she turned me into a newt

for once in his life skeezy newt gingrich has a high standard to meet: he must deliver as much delirious hilarity as bachmann, perry and cain have so far this year.  what that means is that the otherwise useless establishment media must mercilessly bait gingrich with his hypocrisy, his vanity, his utter vapidity and his serial adultery and sodomy.  if they do this with the proper vigor, gingrich will lose his mind and could become the most entertaining republican candidate this cycle.

the golden age of matt taibbi

michael moore is not the only good-guy type leftish media denizen to flourish in the glow of the occupy movement.  matt taibbi is another commentator who is doing great work on the subject.  what i've seen with both taibbi and moore, along with a few others, especially keith olbermann on tee vee, is that they are not strictly reporting or condescendingly hectoring but are instead both analyzing the movement and learning from it, broadening their perspective on politics and culture while they work.  this is a good thing--a great thing really--and cannot be dismissed; it is an important development for not only the occupy movement but the american left as a whole.

don't tuck with fexas

this clown is plainly a pathetic closeted chorus-boy, and it's more obvious every day.

looking forward to the last season of primeval

sooooo much better than dr. who or torchwood.  it was better in the first couple of series with that unintelligible scottish guy and that other guy and that woman and the younger woman, but the two kids have stepped up well, and they've all done better than expected considering the perilous production history.  makes just as little sense as terra nova but has about a billion times more style and more life and imagination in it than a thousand episodes of falling skies.

the passion of the newt

sleazy ole newt gingrich has to be in agony these days.  he's been humping and pumping his bullshit for two generations, turning his failed career as an historian and teacher and his even more amazingly failed career as a congressman into an engine to fleece loose change from nursing home residents, paranoid fundamentalists and low-grade morons with his inane books, fake awards and unintelligible speeches.  he's even pretending to run for president every four years in order to get free publicity, but now that's he's huffing and puffing himself into a waxy sweat this year on the campaing trail, he must be all kinds of pissed at the likes of herman cain, sarah palin and mike huckabee.  those assholes have managed to steal most of newt's act recently but haven't had to work nearly as hard.  cain played incompetent godfather to a failing pizza chain, scoped out some opp as a lobbyist in d.c. and did a few hours on local talk radio in his life; sarah palin used the national party credit card and bailed out on being governor of all 14 other people in alaska; huckabee barely punched the clock in arkansas state house and was able to become a fox news millionaire.  each of those three fools have managed to eclipse newt's profile without much effort at all.  on the other hand, newt has had to keep running his con non-stop for years and years with barely a chance to get some illicit pussy on the down-low.  if he had been half the con-artist that cain, palin or huckabee have become, he coulda been relaxing in his ugly senescence with a huge staff and a multi-million payday from rupert murdoch.  so as it turns out, newt's bullshit con-game is something else that is in fact an embarrassing failure.

political song for herman cain to sing

sachs machs lugs, atmo

you know what i thought before i saw the picture of the sax max lugs?  yep, dammit.

matilda

the brothers grunt

rocket science is hard.  they lost another one of these 15 years ago.  it would be pretty funny, except that when you lose a space probe, it often winds up falling on your head.  or someone's head.  or someone's atmosphere.  or someone's ocean.  if china continues with its plan to ramp up space activity, expect to see much more of this keystone-cops-in-orbit shit.

cockburn on clinton

no! not that way, pervs!  he reflects with fondness on that fine man from hope who, even by modern standards, was one of our worst presidents.

hoofing the austerity pony

austerity, it's what's for dinner.  the 99% are recipients of a wonderful gift, austerity.  democracy is not a remedy; in the face of a possible rejection, austerity voids democracy.  in the united states, obama and his merry men are riding the wave of austerity to complete their dream of dismantling the meager social medical and pension benefits in a brazen and massive redistribution of wealth up to the top 1%.  almost the entire federal government is aligned in their wish to destroy those social programs in the belief that they will be rewarded by their masters.  the plan is simple: lie about the national debt; convince enough voters that debt is a problem and 20% real unemployment is not; cut social security and medicare/medicaid and transfer the savings to the richest americans.  the individual suffering and the destruction of the middle-class economy is not their concern.  if it is yours, then don't go for a ride on the austerity pony.

let's be careful out there, folks

i've seen a lot of stoopid shit on the road and in the woods.  i've made some really dumb mistakes and been lucky lucky lucky at times when i had nothing other than luck to get me through.  night riding in the woods alone during the winter, for example--not the best career move.  bad stuff happens, though, no matter how kool we think we are.  have fun but be careful.

calling all demons

the columbus max renaissance

i've been interested in the rare columbus max road frames since i was a wee tot.  back in the dark ages, the big builders didn't seem to know what to do with the tubes, and using the ugly-ass clunky-looking lugs right out of the box was not the greatest idea.  often, the frames looked unfortunately graceless and unfinished.  i do remember seeing a pretty nice looking celeste bianchi in a magazine, a very traditional marinoni pictured somewhere, and a cheesy somec in a shop long before i was in a position to even consider a custom or hand-built frame.  tommasini seemed to do the best job back in the day, contouring the lugs a bit, going with the chrome and usual italian shit.  when i finally saw one in person years later, i really liked it.

the merckx mx leader continued on for years in the lineup and gained the cred of a real pro racing frame, keeping the max tubing ideal alive even though the frame didn't use all the max tubes.  still, it was something; it was enough.

a generation after the original introduction, max bubbled back up lead by some small american builders, with lu edmonds-esque renaissance-madman don ferris howling into the bike tubing wilderness.   he stoked the max frame fire and then stopped building frames to enjoy the b2b stylings of his tooling business.

others hopped on board.   mike zankanto zancan zankon this guy made a big ole splash a couple of years ago with a graceful and stylish modern lugged max frame, actually making the lugs look good, as anvil had done before.

and the lovely and talented hampsten cycles folks have a clean and straight-up take on lugless max-tubed frames.

now, the max tubing is back or not back; columbus has apparently put it back into production using their modern alloys, or possibly it was around in stock all along and just essentially ignored by most of the steel bike frame world.  from the chatter on the interwebs, it looks like the lugs are not so readily available, but there's no need to spool up the time machine in order to get a new, custom max-tubed frame.  excellent.

it really is an embarrassment of max frame riches now.  my own thought is that i'd like to save my green stamps and get a tweaked and simple hampsten max, or maybe a lugged frame from someone known mostly for round-tubed lugged steel road-racing bikes like richard sachs--hah! what are the chances of the likes of me rating that??--peter dreesens, chris kvale or even mike zanconato himself.

don't send your kids to the pennsyltucky vatican

penn state is officially a cesspool.  joe pa and his serial-child-rapist batman have destroyed it.  his idiot children and their disgusting display should be the last straw.  if you graduated from that unfortunate institution, get a shitload of whiteout and change your diploma to devry university.

see ya' in hell, joe pa

fucker's gone.  hope they cut the cords on his golden parachute.  also, as seen on crooks and liars, there is a scary clip from mike francesca's show a couple of days ago with kim jones who is penn state all the way.  it's a half hour long but well worth if for the insight into just how insular and insulated all of penn state, including the football program, was during joe paterno's reign of terror.

well, hermentum is toast

tonight hannity whipped out niger innis and alveda king to fluff herman cain's sexual misconduct.  when fox dusts off these pathetic specimens, well, it's garbage time.

political song for graham spanier to sing

parachute pants

holy joe paterno, i got your exit strategy right here

the preferred exit strategy for that wrinkly old bastard would consist of a hand car, a barrel full of hot tar, a wagonload of feathers and as many shameless ambulance-chasers as required to burn through whatever filthy lucre coach serial-child-rape-enabler managed to carry out when he wasn't protecting his rapist pals.  don't let him retire.  fire him!  don't let him collect any pension.  the university should sue the shit out of him.  in addition, the university should fully support each and every lawsuit that the victims will file.  put the blame where it belongs.  sandusky is the rapist.  paterno and the coaching staff were co-conspirators.  anyone who can't be criminally charged and jailed should be sued by everyone with just cause.  bury them.  this wasn't one sick pervert raping kids, it was paterno's entire fucking pennsyltucky vatican putting child rape a close second behind football as the only things they really cared about.  they might just have to burn that whole dump to the ground to get rid of the stench.

and michigan, too.

the fine folks of michigan kicked the asshole contingent in the nuts last night, too.  a bunch of kicking where it hurt last night.  it was a good night for the 99% in other words.

mississippi? really? ooh, baby!

mississippi, you have renewed my faith in the former confederacy!  for tonight at least...

seriously, mississippi, the forces of evil believed you were a bunch of ignorant, hateful, backward-ass motherfuckers dumb enough to vote for any stupid thing you were told to, and you were not.  so, good for you.  women, babies, and all the good people of america thank you for not helping a bunch of creepy woman-hating perverts fuck us all.

okay. good job maine.

lotsa sketchy weird shit goes on in maine politics-and in maine!--but they did the right thing today, so good on 'em.  good job.

way 2 go oh high oh

sayonara means goodbye.  john kasich is the worst investment the koch brothers made last year.  what's next, john kasich brand discount industrial toilet paper rolls and scott walker extra soft and gentle toilet paper for home use?

james wolcott: chivalry ain't dead

vantity fair's snarkmaster-in-chief james wolcott takes a bit of umbrage at the dimunition of his wife's career achievements and counters with a hale and hearty fuck you.  heh, indeedy.

breaking: child rape enabler joe paterno still has a a job

and odious diaper-pervert and whoremonger david vitter is still in the senate.

dammit

maybe next time, barney.

i hope to hell that al sharpton sends herman cain a christmas card this year and every year

on his msnbc show tonight, there is a gloriously stentorian al sharpton standing tall and proud on the back of his high high horse pouring a shitload of opprobrium all over the greasy head of herman 'hermentum' cain.  what a sight to behold!  he's come a long way...

pssst...the last 'bidness man' in the whitehouse was a brain-damaged orangutan

and that retarded monkey from texas didn't know the meaning of the word baseless either.

but, if herman cain wants to run as successful business man, then let's have a little fun with it, because he was the definition of the word failure at godfather's pizza.  he did his best to sink the whole organization, so he really was every bit the george w. bush of shitty chain pizza.  he couldn't have sucked worse if he was selling obscenely-priced no-name chinese plastic bikes with a fancy paint job out of his mom's garage!

counterpunch crunch

it is crunch time over at counterpunch, so if you want to be a modern-day superhero and support the genuine professional left, hop on over and give a click.  you'll be glad you did.

i really do like a double-sided entry

anarchists

as seen on the comments at crooks and liars, this is quite well done.

this guy might be an anarchist, too.

old hippies never die

interesting piece on crooks and liars about the ubiquitous asshole problem that all peaceful protest groups have to deal with.  it's never gonna go away, mostly because beyond the genuine and annoying but mostly-harmless assholes, the provocateurs and vandals are almost always police agents fomenting criminal activity on behalf of the state.

bring on the drachma

very sad that the greek pm was such a pussy, but if the whole eurozone starts to crack, as france and italy are threatening to do, then perhaps we'll see a return to some of those funny little currencies like the drachma.  the return of the drachma could also signal a return to a smidge of democracy in yurp and beyond.  europeans and americans alike are being asked to ride the austerity pony under the orders of the clueless and helpless galtian overlords; a return to democracy for the majority and a haircut for those self-styled master-of-the-universe banksters will do much to restore our economic vitality.

wwprd? what will president romney do?

i'm really curious which president romney will slither into the white house in 2013.  i can't believe that he'll be a teabagger poster boy.  he's gotta hate those assholes after all the shit they're making him eat.  his previous public life has shown he is essentially chameleon wallpaper, happy to blend into any political environment lame enough to actually elect him and without any idea or principle to call his own.  he was a boring, relatively useless governor of massachusetts and would have been a totally nondescript senator.  he fancies himself a technocrat and problem solver, even if in reality he's little more than a spoiled brat version of an empty suit.  who is john galt indeed?  one answer is, at least as big a fucking twerp as mitt romney.  regardless, as president will romney want to be a boringly effective chief executive in the face of a moribund american economy, or will he want to be a frothing right-wing ass-clown ideologue?  i can't believe he wants to kiss the ring of the kochs or the mellons or the bastard children of pat robertson.  he has to hate all of those faith and freedom motherfuckers for the anti-mormon bigotry.  if he wants to be an effective president, he will find a huge army of right-wing elected officials ready to further his boring and almost totally ineffective nixonian program as long as he cuts loose the useless teabagger assholes and can bring all of those right-wing democrats on board.  he could consolidate an effective, rock-ribbed republican party for the next three generations and leave the few center-left democrats like elizabeth warren to those of us who know better.

touched by a nittany lion

how do you not report child rape?  how do you not stop a child rape when you witness it?  if you are a grown man and you see another grown man raping a boy in the shower, i'm pretty sure your first thought is not to tell your daddy and then have you and daddy tell coach paterno.  i'm pretty sure you should stop the rape in progress and then call the police.  or stop the rape, beat the rapist into a pulp first and then call the police.  then you call the victims parents.  that is what you would do.  unless you were a fucking moron or some sort of disgusting pervert yourself.  the more you hear about this horrible case, the more it sounds like penn state is the pennsyltucky vatican.  all they need is a little transubstantiation and resurrection and they'll be fucking golden; they've got the child rape part down pat.

late middle age against fascism

way to go ohio

come on, boys and girls, vote no on 2.  delivering a defeat to koch brothers catamite john kasich ain't gonna change the world, but it will be a happy little sting--and a very public one--where it hurts those jerkoffs the most, so get out the vote and vote no.

lying whore number four

that chug-chug-chugging you hear is not the cain train steaming off to the white house.  for fun, read some of the comments here.  those dipshits are having real trouble with this; their misogyny is crashing into their racism, and it's damn funny.

i did not realize penn state was a catholic school

what the fuck is the matter with these people?  we might have to dig a new cirlce in hell special for these monsters.

it's the buzz, hens

getting spooky around here.

what do i get?

ruh roh.  that sound you hear is atrios's fuze priming.  one-half of our vast army of unemployed get no unemployment insurance.  yep, it sucks for them, but it sucks for all the rest of us too.  those people are not out buying our fast-food hamburgers, bath-tub gin, handjobs or no-name chinese plastic bikes with fancy paintjobs.  their stress and suffering infects our whole existence.  there are a shitload of issues ripe for exploitation by political-wannabees with just a hint of balls.  this is just one of them.  a room temperature i.q. and lance armstrong's spare testicle could make any candidate look like noam chomsky crossed with fdr at this point, so have at it you frakking idiots.

it's the buzz, cocks

winter's coming and a young man's fancy turns to single speed 29ers

yep, it happens like the end of daylight savings time.  throughout the land, good people of every color and creed contemplate the rigid single speed 29er.  it's a worthwhile pursuit; getting on those things is big fun and quite a different ride than a 26" wheel single speed with a suspension fork.  at the human centipede salon velocipede salon, there was a thread and they brought up 650b, custom vs. stock vs. entry level like the kona unit, but those threads are popping up all over the interwebs these days.  for me, i think the kona is a great deal and konas are sold by all the best bike shops.  but...the eastern woods 29er frame is a sweet frame--and the geometry is pretty wicked good for me.  otherwise, if the entry-level bikes are a little to chintzy for your refined tastes, or you're just a 1% dick with lots o' cash, then custom is the way to go.  curtlos are fantastic frames at any price; waltworks is a godfather; quiring flys under the radar; steve garro is a framebuilding folk hero.  forget the no-name chinese garbage with a fancy paintjob and go for a nice handmade steel bigwheel.

montana vs. mississippi: who really cares about people?

one of these is not like the other.  montana is suddenly looking like one of the most civilized and enlightened places in the united states, while mississippi  is looking like it always does, unfortunately.  mississippi is the highest-profile right now, but the war on women is raging throughout our blighted land.  that war has been especially useful in obfuscating the objectives of the greater class war, with too many of our less cosmopolitan brothers and sisters, but especially brothers, more worried about what whores and sluts and slatterns were doing with their dirty parts and not paying attention to what was happening outside of strange women's undies.  if the ruling elites could keep these morons worried about stupid shit like abortion and birth control, they would be way less likely to be agitating for health care or union representation.  so, as usual, women get screwed in all this.  a sperm/egg cocktail is not a person.  jonah goldberg is not a person.  all the sorry bastards in mississippi should be more worried about their standard of living and literacy rate and much much less about pap smears, condoms and other people's pregnancies.

time to watch hermentum's head explode

hermentum, or as his employees called him 'that disgusting fucker', is not answerin' any more questions about his roaming hands, corporate apartment, women who look like his wife or his love of blow-up sheep.  this could be peggin' my fun-o-meter to falafel!  because he's a joke candidate, and a joke person not worthy of the usual deference shown to republicans like serial adulterer and all-around mutton-head newt gingrich, the otherwise useless establishment media will probably start messing with him big-time and dogging him with the questions he doesn't want to hear.  yep, some of the teabaggers ain't gonna like it, but everyone else is will be popping boehners with glee.

don't hate the game, hate the players

jobs blow around here

last week's jobs report was unfortunately at a totally-precedented technical level known in the industry as sucktastic.  the reported unemployment is at 9% but the effective unemployment rate is really 20%.  between the long-term jobless who receive no unemployment benefits, the underemployed and the new workers who have never had a paying job, 1 out of 5 americans are not able to find proper employment.  this is destroying our society.  for the most part it is quiet suffering, but lives and futures are being corroded, and the culture is crumbling at the same time.  retirement funds are plundered by the markets or raided early to make the bills, shots for the kids or a trip to the dentist get postponed in the hope that doesn't turn out to be a huge mistake down the road, and for too many americans there is a growing unwillingness to swallow all the bullshit we need eat in order to make it through another day in the best of times.  yes, the american-dream nonsense barely lasted a generation, but the last 40 years have been not just a decay but a dissolution of the spare progress america as a whole had achieved.  high uneployment, a symptom of a dying economy, persisting year after year, with no political leadership for well-understood solutions and remedies (and until recently very little recognition) is destroying us.  even the koch-suckers and the teabagger idiots will pay dearly in the end.

the return of the son of the golden age of michael moore part 2

this is a nice little shout-out to michael moore on firedoglake.  moore's really getting a second, third and fourth look from great chunks of the leftish unwashed out there.  he's really done a great job with the occupy thing, learning and teaching as he goes and not hardly overtly pushing his new book.

we are right in all that we distrust

today is a good day to remind you happy campers to do a better job of picking your bank.  there's lots of choices out there and propping up banks who want to screw you harder than the average bank doesn't make sense.  and don't worry about closing old accounts; once you move your direct deposits to another bank and let your old checking account hang around for a while with $1.37 in it, your old bank will very helpfully close it for you.  adios, motherfrakkers.

political song for kim gordon to sing

i bet corzine wishes that trooper had been going a little bit faster

can't say that any of this is really a surprise, and corzine has been a giant piece of shit for a long time as well as a symbol of everything wrong with not only the democratic party but our diseased american society in general.

brother from ann coulter's black planet

for a time i was concerned that hermentum would not provide as much high-calorie, nausea-inducing amusement as that psycho bitch michele bachmann, but man oh man was i wrong.  he's so frothing right now, he makes santorum look clean and wholesome.  i still get the vibe that he's a full-of-shit grifter like palin and huckabee, but cain is so out there, so stupid and such a fucking creep that he's better than anything else we got going right now.  plus, the cognitive dissonance for the teabaggers caused by a black man pulling a 'hey where are the white women at' at every possible opportunity is gonna cause some very soft, empty, racist asshole heads to explode like dull, wet farts.

high plains invaders movie

i actually watched this a while back with my daughter and she thought it was pretty okay.  it bobbed up again this afternoon.  i can say with all alacrity that it is the finest romanian cowboys and aliens movie made in the last decade.

proof there is no god

there absolutely can't be any sort of god worth shit out there because jeebus or whoever certainly woulda seen fit to smite this fandagno with an especially painful flair.

the stink of fear and a falafel wedged up the bum

watching o'reilly dissemble, sputter and sweat on his show tonight while geraldo rivera kicked him in the balls over and over regarding the occupy movement is pure, corn-fed american entertainment.  seriously, geraldo has to be the most intelligent and sanest fox news personality!  what does that tell you, because geraldo is a fucking lunatic!!  i'm pretty sure that dim-bulb bill is not gonna have geraldo on his show anymore unless he's really so stupid that he can't see how badly geraldo is smacking him around.  still, o'reilly was positively reeking tonight of the powerful fear that not even a vibrating falafel up your ass can sooth.  the occupy movement has him spooked, and he's all too happy to hide behind roger ailes's ginormous ass and parrot any lies he's ordered to.  for a bonus, he came back on after the break and tries to beat up on the non-ann-coulter-approved blacks again, cuz o'reilly may love greasy sex toys violating his various orifices but he hates him those black african americans.

custom carbon is hard to do

custom and small-production carbon bike frames are hard to do well.  this does absolutely nothing for me.  i'm sure it's very nice, but it looks cheap, unfinished and ill-considered construction-wise.  why would anyone pick it instead of appleman, calfee, crumpton or strong?  in general, the luggy carbon frames just look wrong to me; calfee has the history and cred at least, and after all these years the weird look wears you down, so they get a pass kinda'.  parlee keeps it simple and has minimized the luggy look over the years, though the prices for the american-made frames became obscene a while ago.  the sort of integrated-handwrap, smoother look is what says quality to me.  (going fucking crazy will all the carbon bits like appleman does is pretty  neat, too.)  if you try to make your carbon frame look like a lugged steel frame you look like a lesser version of that specialized allez epic carbon frame from 20 years ago.  (and yes i know about those vitus carbone frames.)  i'd ride one of those allez epics before a meivici. maybe not for long after all these years, but i wouldn't feel like a fucktard at least.

this is not a test, it's just an ask

socialist whore loving america haters

elizabeth warren is the most astounding political surprise in a whore's-age.  she could very easily become the most important elected official in the country in two generations.  unlike obama's historic election and subsequent banal failure, warren's rather remarkable campaign and subsequent public service could change the face of american politics.  she has the opportunity to be the first of many intelligent, progressive voices that actually have the guts to engage the dark side of koch-suckers and zombie teabaggers and lead america out of these worst of times.

santorum is caused by the devil

we, as a species, are a bunch of backward-ass dipshits.  between the child-fucking and the child-stealing, how exactly does anybody with more than 2 brain cells to rub together listen to anything these evil pricks have to say?

who is sarah corina?

she's easily the most enigmatic mekon.  her wikipedia page is nothing.  she's on linkedin, too--being a mekon is not exactly lucrative,  as the abundance of day-jobs and other gigs will attest.  i remember an article after she first joined the band way back in the pre-interwebs days stating that she was tom greenhalgh's girlfriend, and there is that bit o' banter on one of their records asking how 'a dainty young filly like sarah got on this fucking death-ride to nowhere?', but all of that musta gone by the wayside pretty quickly given the current state of the band's lineup, and it is now pretty much forgotten.  still she's been in the band for 20 fucking years.  when lu and steve and rico and susie all split, she hung on.  perhaps she's painfully shy.  i did read that she took part in the slideshow in chicago this year; that must've been interesting to say the least, and a chance to hear her voice!  she never sings, and pretty much every mekon sings.  is she perhaps secretly rico bell's daughter?  that would be weird.  she is often almost invisible on stage, behind the singers but always heard with her prominent playing.  she's tiny in person; i walked right past her outside the bell house this year, but she looked so cool and little that i didn't have the heart to play creeper fanboy.  as i said before, seeing them rocking out this year, sarah and steve were an unstoppable force; i can't imagine the mekons without sarah corina on bass. 

hilda solis on the sharpton show

good for him.  she was talking up the stimulus effect of unemployment insurance and other fun stuff.  it's great to see her get some air time instead of all of the obama administration duds that stink up our tee vee's.  hilda solis is like the sarah corina of the obama whitehouse.

al sharpton is for sure the best host on msnbc now.  i wonder if olbermann will be able to poach him down the road.

what is the atmo salon?

i am so not cool.

never, ever go to home depot

watching that absolute ignoramus bernie marcus spew bullshit on fox news channel about the economy, the stimulus, regulations is both infuriating and sad.  clearly the guy's in end-stage, full-on, reagan-houseplant alzheimer's disease.  he does not know a single fact or have even the smallest fleck of understanding about any of it.  we have more regulation now than in the 70's, 80's and 90's?  really?  no, you fucking moron.  we don't.  you created  jobs?  thanks for the minimum wage jobs, asshole.  no really, go suck monkey balls.  you are the wal-mart of ugly home supply super stores.  and like our inbred sister-fuckers from bentonville, you did a fantastic job destroying small business--job creators!!  the heart of america!!--where you could actually find and buy the stuff you need without walking through enough low-grade lumber to build all the sets for atlas shrugged 2.

if you need something for your weekend project and you have to visit a horrible super-store, for the love of christ, go to lowe's.  you'll find it right across the street from the home depot probably.  or somewhere nearby.  sure, it's almost as bad as home depot, but at least the lowe's people aren't on fox news smearing shit over themselves and frantically masturbating while spouting american enterprise institute talking points.  and go out and fucking unionize home depot!  sure, wal-mart first, but then get the fucker bernie where it hurts and make his stupid company pay a living wage, motherfrakkers!

occupy a blanket on wall street in the cold

the lovely and talented lee papa, aka rudepundit, has a wonderful idea about giving blankets and supplies to occupiers around the country.  this is a cool deal, and also could actually help raise awareness about chronic homelessness in some of our frostier cities and towns.  no one is saying donate a blanket or coat or fifth of jack to a scuzzy, america-hating hippie instead of the local food pantries and shelters, but maybe just maybe seeing those brave culture warriors out there in new york and boston and chicago will remind some of us dipshits about the other people out there in the cold and encourage some of us to donate blankets or coats or kid's clothes to local homeless outreach groups as well.  yay.

hate is the new love

gavin newsom must be a 1-watt bulb

watching that vapid harpy he used to be married to for more than five seconds says more than five million terrible things about gavin newsom's intellect and judgement.  kimberly guilfoyle was just on hannity's show asserting that hermentum would thrive after his sexual harassment scandal.  what a dipshit.

bicycling magazine is interesting?

how can that be?  but they've almost committed an act of journalism, such as it is, with this.  campagnolo has always been the bestest stuff, but the shimano junk usually works well.  unfortunately, shimano has been all too eager to fuck over their users with inane new standards, no back-compatability, and stupid shit just for stupid's sake.  plus, the newer the stuff, the more super ugly it is.  their latest cranks, road and mountain, are just horrible, and when shimano went to the 4-bolt chainrings on the mountainbike cranks for no good reason, they deserved to be stomped on by godzilla over and over and over again.  the mountain rear derailleurs are stoopid looking, too.  the cold-forged deore, deore xt and even xtr mountainbike components--from the late 80's, early 90's halcyon days--were simple, clean, strong and good-looking, like much of the campagnolo road stuff still is today, plastic carbon parts and all.

would it be okay if herman cain sexually harassed ginny thomas?

would the universe implode?  or would clarence thomas get a boner after all these years imagining a hot three way with ginny and hermentum?  ooh, yeah, baby.  here comes the cain train.  then comes long dong silver.

the universe would implode.  i hope.

olbermann can say asshole on his show

i find this an important development.  i hope that soon all the prime time news commentary shows on current tv will be using the same language that works on south park.  maybe if we call assholes assholes out in the open on our tee vees, then more americans will realize where the assholes are.

nile gardiner = nevel papperman

the heritage foundation is a cesspool.

ok, nile gardiner is right in line after bo dietl

scraping the bottom of the barrel for another consecutive night, nevel papperman lookalike, nile gardiner was building the sexual tension on the o'reilly show while spouting some especially absurd nonsense about the occupy movement and other shit about which he has absolutely no understanding.

more disgusting stuff that gets bill o'reilly hard

why do i get the feeling that this atrocity is exactly the kind of shit--the only kind of shit--that gets bill o'reilly locked and loaded to sexually harass his employees and fit rubber toys up his keester?  if only that girl was andrea mackris and that daddy-o abuser was bill o'reilly, bill wouldn't mind being divorced and having his wife get the high hard one from a real working lawman!

the true flowering of the detroit renaissance?

this is it!  hating nickleback proves that motown is back, motherfrakkers!

michael steele for veep?

now that the hermentum is blowing up like ann coulter's favorite black hindenburg, will rubio be their next favorite toady?  the michael steele muppet?  how little self-respect does colin powell currently have?

smoke 'em if you got 'em

it's up to three liberal sluts who attempted to seduce hermentum caintrain cain.  how many more of these little bimbos are out there to disparage ann coulter's favorite minority member?  if you can't trust the tramps you try to hop on in your corporate apartment, who can you trust?

ancient 'n modern

al sharpton!

sharpton's show is getting better and better.  he's a genuine personality on a channel stuffed with unsubstantial fluff.  it took him a bit to settle in, but now he's rolling and unlike most of the folks on tee vee, he doesn't take shit from conservatives.  who knew?

ann coulter's blacks

they are not too bright, but how the fuck can any of them put up with that treatment from the likes of human refuse like the spawn of this asswipe.

deepak chopra on bill o'reilly

okay, bo dietl is still the biggest fuckhead ever on fox, but deepak chopra is pretty fucking close.  to have those two idiots discussing richard dawkins is like having a couple of dung beetles attempting to deconstruct finnegans wake.  chopra is one of the world's most disgusting people, and he and o'reilly deserve each other.  two morons wallowing in their own filth and ignorance.  and deepak, medical doctors are not scientists.  medicine and science are at best distrustful acquaintances.  asshole.

bo dietl, one dumb cop

jesus fucking christ!  stephen baldwin as bo dietl!  i really can't imagine how heinous this thing has to be...

bo dietl, the dumbest man ever on fox

that's saying something, i know, but it is true.  he is the stupidest man ever to appear on fox news channel.  the happiest day in the life of his commanding officer was when dietl announced he was leaving the nypd.  better than that guy's wedding day.  better than the birth of his first child.  better than his son graduating from medical school.  nope, the best day was the day dietl walked in with the news he was leaving.  thank you jeebus.

goldline gets pinched

finally.  blame anthony weiner for this.  he was all over this shit until his wiener got in the way.  asshole.

tweety needs to get lessons from o'reilly or dick morris

on how to sell his stupid book.  i mean, he's practically begging.  what could a mutton-head like chris matthews add to the story of one of the most written-about figures in american history?

the dublin messiah, scattering crumbs

if you are very very lucky i may share my bit explaining the legacy of u2 in the model of stephen dedalus explaining shakespeare in the library.

achtung baby reissue? ugh. wtf?

why would anyone celebrate the reissue of such a mundane piece of flotsam?  u2 stopped being respectable sometime during the recording of war and stopped being tolerable halfway through joshua tree.  dublin messiah scattering crumbs, hey indeedy.

there's nothing wrong with hating tebow

make no mistake, tim tebow is a creepy, jesus-freak asshole of the highest order, and hating on him and making fun of his football and lifestyle shortcomings is perfectly honorable.  he asked for it.  plus, if he really wanted to be a productive nfl player, he woulda changed positions and not try to be a pro at quarterback.  so fuck him.

greece is the word

there have been lots of props for the hilarious political stunt the greek pm is making, putting the bailout bullshit to a vote in a general referendum.  all decent, right-thinking people should be applauding the greek plan, even if it only winds up being a tweak to those bankster fuckers.