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Picked this up at Crooks&Liars:



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David Gerrold takes a dimwit to task for using Star Trek to prop up his bigotry and ignorance.

William Lehman (whoever the fuck he is) claims that ST was all about the STEM TECH GODDAMMIT and not at all about the "SJW". Gerrold very rightly takes the little shit out back to the woodpile and reddens his ass with a 2x4.

I was there. I know what Gene Roddenberry envisioned. He went on at length about it in almost every meeting. He wasn't about technology, he was about envisioning a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out. Gene Roddenberry was one of the great Social Justice Warriors. You don't get to claim him or his show as a shield of virtue for a cause he would have disdained.


Many, MANY thanks, David. I always knew you were cool.

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Fred Phelps dead at 84.


The monger of hate has finally kicked the bucket. Good riddance, I say. Some people the world is better without.

(Check out the tweet from his daughters about how "there's only heaven or nothing". Yeah, can't stand the idea that your daddy might actually have to pay for his sadism, can you?)


This one's for you, fucker:

The Hell of It - Paul Williams


While we're at it, let's have a chorus, shall we? Maestro Denis, strike up the band!

Asshole - Denis Leary


No, fuckface, you weren't a brave pioneering savior out to save the world from its self-imposed damnation.

You were JUST. AN. ASSHOLE.


(P.S. Today is also the International Day of Happiness. Irony, thou art my bitch.)

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Am watching the Oscar broadcast re-streaming on Hulu. Jesus Christ, what are so many people getting so het up about? The ginned-up pseudo-controversies are ridiculous. This isn't anywhere near as horrible as all the agenda trolls are claiming. In fact, a lot of it is funny.

Too many people on the internet need a life.

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Here's something for the Twitterers among you:


Kansas governor tattles on teen's tweet


Seems Sam Brownback just can't STAND the fact that a kid made a joke about him on Twitter. He got all OFFENDED OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!!! and called her princpal on her. So the kid got in trouble at school just because she made a lame joke. Talk about pathetic!

Here's my proposal: All you here who do Twitter, please go immediately and make a snarky remark about Brownback. Then encourage all your friends to do the same. Spread the word! We'll see how OMG IMPORTAAAAAANT it is to him when his staff has to spend all day tracking down 500,000 tweets!

Christ, the CRAP these people spend their time and the TAXPAYERS' MONEY on. It's disgusting.


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Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance


1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.

2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.

3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

4. People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.

6. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

8. Don’t ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else—a stranger in the street, for example.

9. People gathering in the streets feeling wronged tend to be loud, as it is difficult to make oneself heard on the other side of an impressive edifice.

10. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

12. If you have a large crowd shouting outside your building, there might not be room for a safety net if you’re the one tumbling down when it collapses.

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

-- Robert E. Howard

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So, is anyone else as HEARTILY SICK as I am of all these stupid Facebook links and likes and plug-ins and whatever-shit-stupid-crap invading the web? The fucking site is bleeding members like a stuck pig, but websites all over are still stupidly loading up with all this FB nonsense. Now some really big news sites - like the L.A. TIMES - are restricting their comment pages to people with FB accounts! Can you fucking believe it? Apparently if you're not signed up with Zuckerberg and his bunch of Soul Vampires, you don't count. AT ALL.

Well, they can go FUCK THEMSELVES. I'm not about to spill all my private information for some asshole hacker to rip me off, just so I can post a comment. What are all these sites going to do when FB finally dies the death of a thousand paper cuts it so richly deserves?

Crawler under an Onion video:

POLL: 1 in 3 Americans believe Obama has personally scattered garbage on their lawns.


Heehee.