Plausibly Undeniable
With a hat tip to a new favorite blog Your Philosophy Sucks, this is just awesome.
Pictured: A half-witted Marxist twat
I mean, even a half-witted Marxist twat sounds intelligent with an English accent.
So couple it with sound, biting commentary and you got gold.
Hits theaters April 15. Appropriately enough.
Newt Gingrich is a fat, opportunistic wanker. He may have a point in this op-ed, but I don’t know because I have no interest in anything he has to say.
Two decades ago he showed promise. And he made some good promises.
But he took that promise about as seriously as your typical Republican does his wedding vows. Now he’s nothing more than the bloated face of go-whichever-way-the-wind-blows empty-suited bloviation, and the last thing people who want to shrink the government need is his cheese stink all over their plans.
Oh good idea — let’s have the guy who lost the last government shutdown battle be the face of the new government shutdown battle.
Seriously Newt…
Tomorrow begins a new era on this mighty blog.
Lemme ‘splain.
"You wanna meet the real me now?"
When I haven’t neglected my blog I’ve posted with one hand tied behind my back. For some reason I had in my mind I should tone it down for the sake of respectability. Like a good writer should worry about being reputable.
I have no idea what I was thinking. By offering watered-down, gelded and respectable posts here, I wasn’t doing you any favors. Or me.
And I’m at an age where I really don’t give a crap about people who don’t want to take me as I am, or who need the world made Nerf.
So, starting tomorrow this blog gets its man back on. You get to meet the real me, uncensored and not giving a shit. I don’t care if I offend you, entertain you or make you cry. It’s my name on this shack. You don’t like it, go be a crybaby someplace else.
It’s going to rude, immature, mean and frankly funny as hell. If you like rude, immature and mean humor. Come on back or stay the hell of my lawn, kids.
Remember the prime-time soap opera from the 1980s about a wealthy Texas family in the oil business? “Dallas” has been off the air for 20 years but it’s still considered one of the most successful television shows in history. Studio 360 listener Laura Detre nominated “Dallas†on our American Icons website, and we liked her idea so much, we sent Julia Barton to Southfork Ranch (and beyond) to understand how Dallas changed the way the world sees America.
“We wanted to believe that people live in skyscrapers and have beautiful cars and everything is shiny and glamorous.” — director Jaak Kilmi, on watching “Dallas†in Soviet Estonia
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting erupted into an argument between Commissioner John Wiley Price and a citizen, ending with Price repeatedly telling several citizens to “go to hell.â€
Yes.
My column is up at Guns.com, a new site that I’m writing for now. I look at the new movement for open carry.
Is carrying a gun openly a threat to those around you? Is it a provocation? Should it make people around you uncomfortable? Does Fobus make paddle holsters in colors other than black, because if nothing else, open carry is a threat to my fashion sense?
Read my full column here at Guns.com.
(I’ll be honest, I give this one a low B. I’m out of practice on writing opinion columns so it will take a few to get back in the groove.)
It’s a truism that almost all government-mandated licensing and regulation is codified not for the “protection of the public.” Almost to a rule, the regulations are pushed by players in an industry to create barriers to entry and to quash competition. This is true whether you’re talking about licensing of hair stylists, interior decorators, medical professionals or whatever.
Almost every function, inspection and quality assurance could be carried out by independent, third-party inspectors — think Underwriter’s Lab. Restaurant inspections, certifications and so on — all could be carried out without the force of law and with greater efficiency. The very image of a city restaurant inspector is a fat guy on the take. Competition would keep those giving out seals of approval honest.
That’s why this case out of Austin is so Schadenfraught.
I Believe the Germans Have a Word for This
Radley Balko | February 11, 2011
Incumbent food truck magnate in Austin develops totally-civic-minded-and-not-at-all-protectionist “health, safety and environmental concerns” over a massive increase in the number trucks that have sprung up to compete with him . . .
. . . demands city council pass stricter regulations of his own industry . . .
. . . now faces a bureaucratic nightmare as his own fleet of trucks can’t pass the regulations he insisted were necessary to protect the public.
