only you, your ghost and everybody with a brain will know

zombie lies never die.  if mittens is a better man than al gore, he could be elected president in 2012.

your 2012 not quite a saab 9-3

it must drive the saab fanboys nuts that general motors is marketing an opel-derived and parts-sourced not quite 2012 saab 9-3 after letting saab blow up last year.  the regal gs is a decent car, with a couple of very obvious good saab ideas in the powertrain and all the looks of poorly designed and cheaply constructed 9-3.  a couple of rewrites from someone who's not a complete fucking dickwad along with the saab-haldex awd for the right price could make this thing a nice alternative to the nasty kraut cars.

happenstance?

great minds and shit?  i was first today, i think.

silver strings

south carolina cleans up the santorum stain

he knows newt's gonna blow up again, and he wants to hang around to get the hot man-on-dog anti-romney love, but after his dismal  showing in south carolina, santorum should just give in to the oxi-clean and go away forever.

too bad about the pats

but when but when jesus is your copilot, how can you lose?

i bet newt gingrich doen't know one thing about saul alinsky

i want to see one of the tee vee douchebags ask newt gingrich about saul alinsky.  does newt know one thing about him?  two?  who was alinsky?  what did he do in his life?  gingrich says alinsky was unamerican?  why exactly?  provide some details, newt.  was alinsky's life's work unamerican or quintessentially american, newt?  there's no way he could sensibly respond.  i doubt gingrich can even spell alinsky.  it's simply a dog-whistle for assholes as ignorant as he is.  if one of these village idiot blowhards had the brains to actually ask a decent question, the gingrich balloon would pop right then and there.

jo pa's last exit strategy

cancer was joe pa's final exit strategy.  watching the tee vee buffoons trying their hardest to polish the shit off the pennsyltucky vatican, you can see the hope that the first lines of history about joe pa will be 'penn state football' and not 'serial child rape enabler'.  fuck them.  paterno was a rock-ribbed traditional conservative and a vile coward of the highest order, and today the only thing we know for sure is that paterno's last terrified thought was a panicky desire that there is not really a hell.

the passion of the mittens

romney looked like he had a rabid honey badger gnawing on his ass while he was giving his speech tonight, but i think that he was smart to focus on obama and do his best to maintain his personal pretense of inevitability.  he will be the nominee unless the republicans are prepared to just give up, split the rock-ribbed oligarchs and the crazy racist teabagger assholes into two parties, and just not run against obama at all this time.  frankly, at that point the rock-ribbed oligarchs would be thrilled to join with their right-wing establishment democratic allies and leave the shit-eating morons behind.  what's really happened tonight is that romney has been given his whale.  gingrich isn't much of an opponent, but he's the best romney has now.  you can start the clock on newt's next major smarmy, conceited fuckup, and between the ex-wives, the serial fornication and sodomy, the self-congratulatory nonsense, the cockamamie ideas, the high crimes and misdemeanors and ethics violations, the vulgar hypocrisy, and the titanic piles of fetid bullshit, gingrich is as big a flabby target as has ever existed in modern electoral history.  unless romney really wants to outdo dear old dad and go down as a latter-day al gore, he's going to have to get his boats in the water, throw every harpoon his millions can buy, and practice his debating bullshit long enough to torment newt and exploit some of those ginormous newt gingrich weaknesses.  otherwise, he'll be such a weak nominee that it might just as well be president-for-life obama.

the obama-gingrich debate would be the most embarrassing thing newt's ever done

debating president obama would be more embarrassing for newt gingrich than his sweaty, viagra-fueled failures in bed with wives two and three.  i'll bet dollars to donuts that gingrich's wives have done more for duracell than even bill o'reilly's vibrating butt-falafel.  republican pundits and republican teabagger assholes are even dumber than i thought if they really believe that obama wouldn't have gingrich blubbering and crying like a greasy bitch about two minutes into any debate.  obama's a cool customer and not completely bugfuck insane and dumb as a rock the way newt gingrich is.  gingrich is only seen as a brilliant, vibrant, deep-thinking intellectual by people who can't tell their lunch from their turds without tasting both.  there's no way obama wouldn't cut off his right left arm to get a chance to run against gingrich.

too stupid to meter

i was happy to see a depressing, totally reality-based wake-up call on the nightmare that is the commercial nuclear power industry hat-tipped at counterpunch.  this is an important discussion to have because our future energy policy is going to depend on how many of our brothers and sisters understand the truth about our energy generation, usage, and pollution.  finishing off the deadly nuclear power welfare queen once and for all would be a fantastic start.

political song for al gore to sing

olbermann's personal election coverage vanity press

not a cenk or a granholm or a gore in sight.  olbermann sez 'fuck you' to al gore, i guess.  i did think that the cenk hire was probably olbermann's idea after the turk got fired from msnbc.  apparently not.  still not sure why olbermann hasn't been agitating for eliot spitzer.  maybe he has, but the cenk, olbermann, granholm lineup is gonna be pretty lame.  olbermann must know that they need solid second and third starters in prime time.  cenk and granholm can play down in the rotation.

update: if maddow watches her network's horrible coverage tonight in comparison with olbermann's vanity press, she's gonna seriously considering hanging herself if keith won't make space for her on his channel.  chris matthews is a shit stain america's soul.

update: nia-malika henderson is the antidote for the hateful village idiot melissa harris-lacewell-perry.

update: what's it gonna take for current (olbermann) tv to get al sharpton?  yes, he's a shameless obama booster, but he's the best host on msnbc.

update: olbermann was on fire tonight.  he ran the show like a 50's deejay, and cutting off gingrich after he started flinging the horseshit was classic.  no jonathan alter.  no howard fineman.  no lawrence o'donnell.  no tweety.  no john mccain apparatchik douchebags.  i hope al gore was watching and learns a lesson.  probably not.

occupy the crossroads

about now we sure do need this nice, level-headed appraisal of the occupy movement.  the energy of the movement has been pretty effectively dissipated by the 1% and their propagandists.  the occupy movement is not magic, so they are just as vulnerable to the ignorance and divisions lovingly cultivated throughout the 99% by the oligarchy.  unless the occupy movement does indeed make progress in their messaging and coordination while mobilizing to take it back and burst back into the public consciousness, then they (and we) are all done.

pat summit has dementia

what's jim calhoun's excuse?  for some reason, the uconn/tennessee game did not look as good on my hdtv as the michigan/arkansas game or the alabama/kentucky even though it was cbs for all of 'em.  that's very weird; it's gotta be the lighting or something in the particular venue.  i'm sure it looked really nice for the big tennessee boosters, though.  and too bad about alabama; john calipari such a fucking dirtbag that any team that beats his squad is almost as beloved as any team that beats duke, even if that team is florida state.

political song for marianne gingrich to sing

scott brown is one dumb motherfucker

how the fuck does he remember how to breath?  people like him, the village idiots, have no idea what reality is like for 99% of america.

the voice in winter

kinda douchey and not really funny

completely unfunny spoof site of the kinda sad and kinda nutty saab fanboys.  a brand new site that's buying ad space on search engines but offers nothing that you can't get on established sites for bashing saab and the true believers is a shitty thing and waste of perfectly good electrons, so fuck them.

pale purple kvale for a winter's evening

i am often less than thrilled with the way some bikes are put together, but this rig with the modernish campagnolo stuff and aero brake levers and simplex retrofriction shifters on an incredible chris kvale frame, well that's right in my wheelhouse.  put on some second-generation time equipe pedals and a flite saddle and yeee haww!  the lovely metallic purple is so pale and delicate that the pictures don't do it justice, i'm sure.  i think i would have added that darker purple from the seat tube to the head tube as well for a bit more contrast, but this is killer in the least ostentatious way possible.  look at the beautiful lug work and another amazing seat cluster from another modern master.