Cunningly crafted to appeal to the refined, erudite Wonderchicken sensibilities : monkeys, poop, humping, and random violence, all at the service of sticking it to the corporates. Heavy with goodness.
Not that this won’t be everywhere soon, or isn’t already for all I f–king know, as I really don’t do terribly well at the mental-smooth-muscle-flexing, but I WANT SOME†.
† This should not be taken to indicate that I have any tendency or desire to, or history of or plans to, experiment with medications, legal or otherwise. I deny something similar to that, categorically. [Mr. Kissinger? Steve Felton, Sesame Street Gazette. If you could be any animal…]
What the hell was I talking about?
US defense budget (fiscal 2003) : US$379.3 billion
Amount to be withheld from UN Population Fund : US$34 million
Ratio : 11,155/1
Potential consequences, according to UNFPA officials, of The Resident’s decision to withhold last yearâs UNFPA funds and to zero out the agency in fiscal 2003 : 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions, 4,700 maternal deaths, 77,000 infant and child deaths.
Happy fun! Good times, beautiful people! Keep on rockin’ in the Free World!
Nihilist 1: Vee vant zat money, Lebowski.
Nihilist 2: You think veer kidding und making mit de funny stuff?
I was somewhere wandering around penniless when The Big Lebowski came out, so I didn’t have a chance to see it. Over the next six months or so, about half a dozen old friends felt compelled, independently, to say : “Hey, Bosco! The Coen Brothers made a movie about you! You see it yet?”
Which I can see, now, to a degree, as I have been known at times to exude a long-haired, unkempt, pleasantly befuddled, dissipated-Jeff-Bridges aura. I do enjoy a cocktail or two from time to time. And Wacky Adventures™ are, after all, my stock in trade.
But have to come clean – I don’t smoke dope, I loathe bowling, and I’ve never had a ‘caucasian’.
[Muchas, like, gracias, Speedysnail]
An aside to that annoying bastard (you know who you are) who made me nearly blow a gasket recently when he described Daddy Bush’s incursion in the Gulf a dozen years ago as a justified battle of Good Versus Evil, a righteous mobilization to displace “Saddam Hussein, who was, uhhh, like, a new Hitler” : read this, you clueless propaganda-lapping dipsh-t. And this too, if your attention span can manage it.
Thanks to OnePotMeal for the timely facts, some of which I’d forgotten. Non-dipsh-ts may wish to read his next post, which is marvellous in a completely different way.
There are some great writers around the virtual neighbourhood, and this man is one of them. I recommend you visit him daily…His latest gave me an erection. What higher praise can a wonderchicken give for a writer’s work?
None, I tell you! None! Well, other than offering to buy the author a beer. That too, is wonderchicken kudo-giving most emphatic. Eeksy-peeksy, I owe you one.
This thread at Mefi is worth following. Unfortunately, I am way too drunk at the moment to add anything worth saying to it, or process adequately what’s being said, but I’m also sober enough to want to bookmark it to read tomorrow when I’m more coherent. Please enjoy the words. Linky-dinky.
People (most of whom I dislike, on principle. No, really.) do tend to pooh-pooh Discordianism, and The Church of the Subgenius, and all that fincantabulous hooey. I say let ’em!
That reminds me of a song….
Of course, I didn’t actually say any of that funky sh-t, Chuck Palahniuk did. Or rather, Brad Pitt did, which proves to me at least that he may be a Hollywood pretty boy, go-ash darn it, but he’s no dumm-eh!
That’s an entirely different set of flatware, Sherlock! What I originally mean to say before this all went sideways on me (how the hell did that happen?) was that memepool had a Hail Eris comma Subgenius slash Bob Dobbs post recently (†), and fnord is still amusing to me, even though I am not sixteen any longer (despite the undeniable fact that I’ve still got an unreasonably large number of zits and a tendency to shout things like “Rock and Roll!” in an embarrassingly Wayne’s World sort of way when I hear powerchords or cowbells).
You got a problem with that?
Modest needs. It’s for real. This is the sort of thing I could get behind. Spread the word.
Hi ho! If you can watch all of these without clutching your skull and bellowing like a confused waterbuffalo, you’re a better man/woman/other than I. Go ahead, give it a try, I double-dog dare ya! [evil laugh]
Wintertime Hi Ho!
Food poisoning Hi Ho!
Forest fun Hi Ho !
Too inexplicable to summarize Hi Ho jolly fun!
Hi Ho meets Jaws!
Hi Ho romance!
Hi Ho fishing misadventures!
Hi Ho saves the princess!
It’s a Hi Ho Christmas!
[Japanese ad wackiness via Tom Tomorrow (who rocks) and the ‘pile (which also rocks, in a different, yet equally righteous way (uhh..dude))]
I’m a little surprised that few seem to be interested in kicking Dvorak’s ass about his latest swipe at blogdom, or even paying much attention, really. I wonder if that’s a) because we secretly agree or b) because no one much gives a damn anymore about his odd anti-blog hobbyhorse.
I suspect the answer is b).
People have decided not to feed the troll.
I did find this amusing, though :
f–kin’ a, Johnny-boy! You got my number.
Coffee? Tea? Deconstruction? comments.
This, via this worthwhile Metafilter thread. Funny old world.
And while I’m at it, via American Samizdat : the Hall of Shame. Not really surprising, is it, how those who raise their fists and call for war so often seem to be those who’ve never actually seen it?
And for good measure, how about this?
“Where else could a global reach consulting team, with offices in more than 10 countries, staffed by 20+ experts in a variety of fields and professions, with round the clock continuous operation come into being in under a day with next to zero infrastructure costs?” : I am proud in a preliminary sort of way to be a part of the soon-to-be-more-famous-than-Jesus
Something Meta This Way Comes ‡
‡not an officially sanctioned tagline. Void where prohibited. Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. Some settling may occur during shipment. Seek medical assistance if condition persists. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Guess that would explain the whole one-mouse-button thing, eh?
Thanks to Mike for pointing to Douglas Ord’s work. Light shattering as it shines through a window, but somehow undamaged by the passage. The Korea Postscript (far down the index page) in particular says Important Things, I think, in a way that opens a door for me. Highly recommended, but you may need some patience if you are not sucking down the bits with a wide pipe.
The Guardian : The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources.
“After September 11, these sorts of movements have been occurring all the time,” a US diplomat told the Washington Post. “It allows us to get information from terrorists in a way we can’t do on US soil.”
By torturing them.
