by Smitty
My title is unfair. It takes massive amounts of skill to appear this inept without killing yourself outright. The GOP is merely inept.
via Miss Cellania
Category: humor
Mrs. Other Smitty Got Some Email Newsletter Saying We Should Ween The World’s Youngest Blogger
by Smitty
I heard her say that and I’m all like, ‘Really? Don’t you think they were a little far out there?’
Don’t Let The Garb Distract You. The Bigotry Is Really About His Name.
by Smitty
Won’t someone end the H8 against people named Chris!
Upon reflection, The Chaser here encapsulates Sasha Baron Cohen’s humor in two minutes, without demeaning his unwitting costars or the audience.
GOP Debate, Arguably, Still Going Strong
by Smitty
I met young Ben Shapiro at the blogger awards event Friday morning at CPAC. Crowder was making a running joke on the topic of condoms and a social conservative Presidential candidate. After two or three tries that fell flat, I looked at Shapiro and said “He’s going to keep inflating that joke until it pops.”
Is the last pre-Super Tuesday GOP debate on 01 March in some way similar to a Steven Crowder condom joke? I contend that the topic of the debate informs the question. Sample debate topics for which total collapse of the debate itself is appropriate:
- The economy.
- Every good thing President Obama ever did.
- U.S. credibility in Southwest Asia.
- The Constitutional basis for Progressivism.
- What the Left knows about free market capitalism.
- Courageous bureaucratic acts.
So, no hint as to what the candidates were to have discussed at the onset of March Madness. However, given the relative lack of substantive policy debate in the preceding events, it’s hard to argue that a collapse on 01 March is any worse than what came before.
In fact, it is arguably more honest that that candidates not bother wasting our time, again, rather than stand there for 1-2 hours saying nothing to each other in the most caustic political terms available.
Good news, bad news: who can say?
Separated At Birth? Stacy McCain/Dave Mustaine Edition
by Smitty
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The news today that Dave Mustaine, who may or may not be a loyal reader of this blog, endorsed Rick Santorum today came to me via a print copy of the DC Examiner while attending to a private, non-work-related matter at my job site. |
Isn’t the resemblance striking? But I think the resemblance goes deeper than superficial:
- Talks to God every day? Check.
- Goes to court when he has to? Check.
- Nothing better to do than be prompt at work, broke due to clearing his bills? Check, check, write that frickin’ check!
Guitar case closed, my friends.
a thousand thank-yous to Belvedere for photo support.
Gunny Ermey Triggers The Vote
by Smitty
The Second Amendment, and, by extension, Western Civilization, is at stake:
Trigger the Vote did a fine job here. Things have gone a long way toward the gutter when one actually notices the two kids swapping spit in the video are heterosexual. One is tempted to say ‘viva temptation’ at the sight of passion on display that could lead toward the continuation of society, and not some false, barren, gay future.
Sarah Palin Endorses (M)It(t)?
by Smitty
I’ll get to Sarah’s CPAC12 speech excerpt, but first, a review:
If you have it, you don’t need it.
If you need it, you don’t have it.
If you have it, you need more of it.
If you have more of it, you don’t need less of it.
You need it. . .to get it.
And you certainly need it to get more of it.
But if you don’t already have any of it to begin with, you can’t get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place. Do you?
You can share it. Sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can’t fake it.
Wanting it. . .needing it. . .wishing for it.
The point is: if you’ve never had any of it. . .ever. . .people just seem to know.
One more digression, though. It looks like Old Spice has kind of picked up on the resemblance. If NotMitt gets the GOP nod, I may indulge in a bottle of their product. The subtext is about the only thing making this cold open from 11Feb even sort of funny:
Which gets me, at last, to the point:
Sarah inspires a backronym riff:
Maybe, I think, the
message is that the
most intelligent test to
measure intrinsic trustworthiness takes
more in than truckloadish
money, insurmountable team & Tussaud.
And I think John Hayward was on the same wavelength, though I remarked to Mrs. Other Smitty, when Sarah spoke, words to this effect:
But mostly I think Palin fires up a crowd because of her sincerity. At one point, she said the Republican presidential candidate should be someone “who instinctively turns right to Constitutional conservative principles,” and it’s “too late to teach that.” She has that instinct. She doesn’t have to check off any boxes or carefully plan her oratory to please a conservative audience. She understands. She makes it look easy. She makes you wonder how her countrymen could have been foolish enough to put Barack Obama in the White House, and what he’s still doing there.
It’s possible her observation that it’s too late to teach our presidential candidate how to turn Right was meant as a veiled jab at Mitt Romney. She didn’t endorse anyone, and she repeated her desire for the primary season to continue, because “in America, we believe that competition strengthens us.” Not surprisingly, given her experiences during and after the 2008 campaign, she has a dim view of campaign consultants.
Stacy’s Future Is Grim
by Smitty
Scenes from Stacy’s future:
We sat there in the casino and burned a stogie when Kevin, Stacy and I went to Vegas. For all I don’t mind the very occasional stogie, the thought of being so chained to any habit that I’m going through ritual abuse over it is worse than withdrawal.
Also stupid are public policies that seek people doing ‘sinful’ things like smoking for abuse. You jack the taxes, and people quit, and revenue goes to ash. Governments behave as though stupid policy is nicotine.
Via Collins