Social scientists claim that coffee makes you openminded. I don’t drink coffee so obviously they’re full of crap.
Release any barbaric yawps built up since the last open thread.
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Krista
Tim, the barbaric yawps are rarely held back between open threads. We just kind of let them fly when the mood strikes us, unfortunately. Interesting about the coffee, though. I’ll take it with a grain of salt, though (the study, not my coffee…)
Brian
How open-minded of you.
Oh, on a minor note, it’s safe to a male chavinist pig again. Feminism is officially dead.
srv
Here’s something to open your mind with:
Real Superman
The Other Steve
This is interesting… saw at dKos, but…
Juan Cole(John Cole’s alter-ego) appointment at Yale rejected under pressure from neocons
I wonder what David Horowitz has to say about this?
The Other Steve
Thank God. I was so tired of hearing Brian bitch about it.
Actually, I think you’re seeing something different. A change in women’s attitudes, and a realization that sex sells. Pure capitalism. if you’ve got an asset, you use it to your advantage.
Brian reminds me of the guy in college who wrote the column demanding women iron his shirts.
Brooks complaining about rap videos is funny, considering from what I’ve seen African culture is more maternal than European culture.
Jim Allen
Proposed: Ann Coulter is the worst excuse for a human being on the planet.
Discuss.
Perry Como
I’ll second the motion:
The Other Steve
Well she is representative of mainstream Republican thought.
Marcus Wellby
Not mainstream, my family is packed to the gills with Republicans, and not one can stomach that raging scumbag tranny.
Her hateful rhetoric does, oddly enough, appeal many who like to think of themselves as Christian.
scs
Since this is an open thread, I would like to issue a warning to be wary of canned tuna. I have now slightly cracked my tooth on glass found in canned tuna, and pierced my gums on bones found in there. A dangerous food, chew gingerly.
Paul Wartenberg
She complains about the 9/11 widows who are making comments about the tragedy they’ve suffered. Meanwhile Ann comments on it all the time, and uses it to back up nearly every argument she makes. I guess in Ann’s opinion if you DIDN’T suffer a loss that day then you have a right to use 9/11 as your shield/crutch/raison d’etre.
Ann also complains that those widows are making money and enjoying themselves off of 9/11. Oh, I’m sorry Ann, how much money are YOU making off 9/11?
srv
After the Dolphin-safe protections were lifted, I hear they started ingesting glass bottles just for this contingency.
VAMark
The give the devil her due, she lost a pretty good friend, uber-opps research publicist Barbara Olson, on the plane that went into the Pentagon. She’s still an unAmerican hag, of course.
capelza
Perry como…she actually said this?
Pb
scs,
If the mercury poisoning doesn’t get ya, the *glass* will–d’oh!
capelza
scs…where is your tuna from? look on the can it will say.
Perry Como
I saw it over on Radley Balko’s site. Third hand, but should be easily verifiable by anyone that can stand covering their hands with the vile shit that is Coulter’s book.
capelza
Thanks Perry…I wish the Kos poster had done some citing when they posted that quote. That’s hammer to beat over the Coulter groupies I know.
ppGaz
The ocean.
Perry Como
You know, as much fun as trolling can be on the Internets, Anne Coulter has stepped it up a notch and trolls real life.
capelza
Smart ass… :)
demimondian
A fish
ppGaz
No, no. With scs, you have to start with the basics.
She (he, it?) probably thinks tuna comes from a can.
capelza
rolls eyes…..
Okay, I was asking because I wnated to know if it was canned in the US or in Asia. If it was regular tuna or albacore. Etc…that kind of stuff literally is my business.
:p
Brian
She is not. She’s getting bitchslapped all over the right side of the blogosphere. You know not what you speak of.
ppGaz
Yeah, I think she was talking about tuna caught by trolling. Wherever that comes from.
Brian
Speaking of Coulter, she’s now involved in a catfight.
My money’s on Coulter. Why Hillary would pick a fight with a marginal character who isn’t running for election, is beyond me. But as an opinion on the catfight, Hillary has no talent for this, and she’ll get beat badly. Besides, why take on Coulter and claim she’s being hateful toward women, when her husband took advantage of women so many times while in elected office?
capelza
Trolling…or…trolling???
demimondian
I think she was concentrating on catching bass with a spoon, myself.
ppGaz
Yes.
Krista
Can we buy tickets and bring popcorn?
chopper
i think it was a joke, brian.
Brian
I wouldn’t know a joke if it slapped me like a bitch.
srv
What, you’re a lawyer?
Perry Como
What, you’re a lawyer?
(sorry, had to)
jaime
Brian just got his talking point hot off the drudge press. Hillary Clinton can’t say someone’s being hateful toward women because her HUSBAND had affairs? How in the fuck does that make any sense?
t. jasper parnell
Barbaric Yawp 1:
Anyone can run for office and most of them ought not not
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A Democratic candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and holds white supremacist views was within striking distance of a prosecutor in Tuesday’s primary.
With most precincts reporting, Larry Darby was trailing, but within a few percentage points of Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.
Party officials learned late in the campaign that Darby, the founder of the Atheist Law Center, was a Holocaust denier, and that he recently gave a speech in New Jersey to a white supremacist group. They said they could not remove him from the ballot because absentee ballots had already been sent.
The Republican incumbent, Troy King, won his primary in a landslide.
Barbaric Yawp 2
Many Christian are driven by purposes less than godly.
Barbaric Yawp 3:
Jan Ulrich will again disappoint.
t. jasper parnell
On the other hand, bicycling does in fact bind us all together. A real road warrior.
Brian
Heh. (I’m not a lawyer, BTW. I’m a male prostitute. My nom de plume is Hugh Chardon.)
Close, but not Drudge.
Regardless, can you take seriously Hillary taking a woman to task for being angry, or mean, or bitchy? Hillary wears mean on her face all the time. She’s the queen of mean. She’s a walking joke if she criticizes another person this way.
jaime
Telling women that they enjoyed and profited from the deaths of their husbands is not being “angry, mean, or bitchy”, it is perverse and hateful. That kind of talk, if I were one of the 9/11 wives would make me want to go American History X on her ass. But I’m not them.
Here’s a part of my favorite review of her book:
Sounds like a party to me.
Krista
jaime – no kidding. Her parties must be a real snore. Except for the trays full of prescription and non-prescription drugs. Notice how her list didn’t mention those.
jaime
To be fair, this was an idiot 19 year old who did this Amazon review. I love how tobacco and cigarettes were differentiated.
capelza
Krista, by the look of her…food isn’t present at her parties either.
Krista
Or estrogen.
Krista
Well, we liberals do love to smoke pipes while wearing our tweedy jackets with the corduroy elbow patches…
demimondian
Krista, that was…masterfully catty.
Krista
Yeah…I’m not sure whether to be proud or ashamed.
Par R
For information and future reference, the Perry Como quote attributed to Coulter about poor soldiers getting killed in Iraq is a complete fabrication. The nasty characterizations attributed to her regarding some of the 9/11 widows is from her new book and is truly revolting.
Tom W.
Can you believe this site sells Ann Coulter books – I’m shocked at John and Tim, I must say – perhaps PajamasMedia is putting one over on them. If so, very unfair indeed.
Ted
I’m a liberal and let me just add agreement with that statement. I read the legitimate and accountable transcripts of the various quotes that DKos commentor attributed to her, at the times they were in the news, and that one is likely entirely made up. Two of the real ones he quoted were doctored by adding entire sentences that were more inflammatory than even Coutler’s bile.
Why someone would bother fabricating revolting Ann Coulter quotes when there are hundreds of her real greatest hits to chose from is beyond me.
Otto Man
“Homer, you’ve ruined that jacket!”
“Correction — I’ve ruined two jackets.”
Otto Man
Agreed. It’s like framing Jeffrey Dahmer for a murder he didn’t commit. There are enough bodies in the freezer already.
ppGaz
Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact that the Democrats Have No Plan to reduce glass in canned tuna?
Rikki
So does vodka.
ppGaz
No, that’s not from The Onion. That’s a real news story.
I think this pretty well proves that Coulter is scs.
Perry Como
3rd source. My bad.
Dave C
Zed is dead, baby.
Not a good week for the head choppers (or moonbats).
At least he wasn’t waterboarded. He was incinerated.
Piss be upon him.
(Waiting for the 1st “I question the timing” post.
5..4..3..2..1….)
Inhumans99
Folks, reports are coming out that Zarqawi has been killed!!!
RonB
Good morning, everyone!
It’s true, that piece of shit sonofabitch is dead.
Vlad
Finally, a piece of news that everybody can love, regardless of political affiliation.
Jim Allen
Hear, hear.
chopper
woohoo! hope the fscker burns in hell. if i believe in hell, which i don’t.
chefrad
I regret to say that, even if true, it won’t make the least bit of difference. He was a big deal in American, but not Iraqi eyes. The war goes on.
I remember when Saddam’s sons were killed. Reading Front Page, you’d have thought the war was over.
RonB
Chefrad, we all know this. Score one for the home team, though. I needed this break in the stream of bad news. If we can take the time to muse over Haditha, surely we can take the time to huzzah when we do what we’re supposed to do over there.
Vlad
Yeah, it won’t make much difference in Iraq, but it’s still good news, in that justice was served.
With everyone here in America being pleased by the news, I guess this means Zarqawi is a uniter and not a divider?
Jim Allen
I missed Bush’s speech about Zarqawi this morning — did they use the old “Mission Accomplished” banner, or did they have a new one printed up for the occasion?
RonB
So fucking cynical.
I love it.
Punchy
I question the timing. I mean…who announces this at 3 AM? Who the hell is awake at 3 in the freakin’ morning? They couldn’t wait until 7, when people are eating breakfast and want to see some dead guy’s head in a B&W photo?
John S.
Waiting for the 1st “liberals must be upset about this because they are pro-terrorist” post in 5..4..3..
Oh, nevermind.
ppGaz
We got him!
It didn’t matter in 2003, and it won’t matter now.
The country is in civil war. If I had to guess, I’d guess that today’s event makes that worse in the next six months, not better. Time will tell. One less cockroach in the world doesn’t make the world safer from cockroaches.
flaime
They mistitled the article. What they should have said is that coffee makes you more gullible. Cause that’s what the article said the scientests said.
Perry Como
Estate tax repeal failed in the Senate. These Republicans are great at pushing their agenda forward.
Jim Allen
But 7:00 AM EDT is still 3:00 AM on the west coast. What about their breakfast?
The Other Steve
So I’m here in Vegas. I went out this morning and walked the strip. Damn it’s sunny and hot.
When I checked the news, they said it was humid out. I got outside, and there was maybe a little humidity, but not much. In Minnesota when it’s humid out you can strain the air with cheese cloth and get a drink of water.
Anyway, sitting in the Hotel right now resting. Watching “We Were Soldiers” on my laptop. One of the best war movies ever made. I watched “Tears of the Sun” on the plane ride here, and I also brought “Blackhawk Down”. Two other good war movies, especially Blackhawk with former Minnesotan Josh Hartnett. Then “Fast and the Furious” and “2 Fast, 2 Furious” for later fun.
scs
Okay well the glass thing happened a while ago, like a year. I got the dentist to look at my tooth soon after I bit down on about a 1/4 inch round piece of glass and he didn’t see a crack, even though I heard the tooth crunch pretty well, so I threw away the can. It was Chicken of the Sea, the cheap kind, I remember that much. But then the tooth starting aching off and on in that spot, and still does upon occassion, and the dentist looked at it again and found a fine crack along the top of it. I was kind of pissed because if he found that in the first place before I threw away the can I could have sued the tuna people. Maybe I should have sued that guy. Anyway, the other day I was chewing tuna, and a needle sized bone got wrenched between my upper and lower teeth and totally dug under my gums. I think some bone got caught under my gums, but I kept digging at it and I think I got it out, so I didn’t save that can either. I think they just take the tuna a grind it up, and you are going to eat whatver the tuna eats, debris and all – so again, caution!
scs
Oh and, since we’re on food dangers, don’t lick the little aluminum foil lids of Swiss Miss pudding. I did that the other day and totally sliced my tongue. That’s some sharp foil there. And I think I said this one before – don’t put canned oysters in your toaster over – the cottonseed oil will burst into flames. Man, so many to sue- so little time…!
slickdpdx
Tim: I appreciate your provocative wrap ups and/or lead ins to post subjects. They are always amusing and really get the conversation going.
The Other Steve
BTW. I saw Joe Wilson this morning. He walked right by me, and I thought… that guy looks familiar. Kind of funny.
I forgot to ask him when he was going to be indicted for espionage. :-)
chefrad
Absinthe makes me VERY open-minded.