BlogBites

February 16th, 2005

Having a sugarbush on my own land someday is my maple dream. megnut.com  

It’s like Deliverance has come to American politics and anyone with a brain is on the river, just good targets for the slack-jawed pigfuckers in the hills. RatcliffeBrowse  

But blogs have been so polarized and antagonistic (you’re just like the media you hate) that they’re doing a piss-poor job of persuading. Anil Dash  

Some days I feel like Roddy Piper in They Live. I gotta find me some of those special sunglasses. Pharyngula  

February 15th, 2005

In addition to the handover of Michael Moore, Dr. Rice offered to change the name of “Freedom Fries” back to “French fries” and to order Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to start calling Old Europe “Good Old Europe.” The Borowitz Report .com  

And Gwen, singing her wretchedly bastardized “If I Were A Rich Man” cover, is apparently the pillaging swashbuckler — except she looks like she’s George Washington, rolling in after a night on the moonshine and drunkenly wondering where he left his pantaloons. Go Fug Yourself  

Honestly, what the hell is going on? Buck Hill  

We need to live by a similar rule now — a rule of thumb that pushes for physical closeness to political power through social communities. Personal Democracy Forum  

“Giblets is the enemy of love!” says Giblets with his anti-love arsenal. Fafblog!  

February 14th, 2005

A blog, you see, is a little First Amendment machine. PressThink  

February 12th, 2005

The lesson of the 1930s is that, in a time of encroaching conservatism and creeping repression, the correct response is not to flush your fucking spine down the toilet. Warrenellis.com (via Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent)  

February 11th, 2005

Do you think anyone’s told President Bush that his Daddy’s friends can’t bail him out this time if his “business” (that’d be, you know, America) goes belly up? The Rude Pundit  

Let me get this out of the way first: Howard Dean was right. Jeff Jarvis was wrong. Oliver Willis  

That so few major establishment papers have latched on to the unfolding Manchurian Beefcake story helps explain why major establishment newspapers are losing readers in droves, unable to spot a juicy scandal when it’s doing a lapdance in front of their glazed eyes. James Wolcott  

And isn’t what “freedom” means to Bush summed up in the fact that the person in charge of “the new global democracy campaign” is a criminal? Body and Soul