Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Consistently wrong since 2002

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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So, who can post the most annoying music videos in recorded human history – Bradrocket? Atrios? The Editors?

Maybe. No doubt these guys have thrown down a formidable gauntlet. Admittedly I only have one pokemon card to pull out of my meager pop culture library, but it’s a doozy.

Sic ’em, Shatner-chu.

***Update***

It looks like my Shatner-podong II blew up on the launchpad. Until dumbass me figures out the code here’s a link.

***Update 2***

Fixed.

***Update 3***

I can handle being dismissed by the big dogs, but this is intolerable.

I didn’t want to have to do this, I really didn’t. You folks have nobody to blame but yourselves.

Via Hilzoy, and apologies if this has been posted already.

***Update 4***

Blogslut’s efforts to disarm me with a flatteringly-imitative post title will not succeed. But regarding her video, holy living shit. If there isn’t a Geneva Convention for that there damn well should be.

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  2. 2.

    Tim F.

    Yes, I’m a total amateur as far as blogging (and pop culture) goes. But you know that somebody had to step up with the Shatner.

  3. 3.

    Krista

    I heard of a contest somewhere where Shatner will record your outgoing voice mail message for you.

    That’d be fun.

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    Nikki

    I’m not sure this tops “America: We Stand as One.” But it’s pretty damned close.

  5. 5.

    Christmas

    Tim F., you’ve made a novice mistake. This video isn’t annoying – it’s genius.

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    Otto Man

    I’ve already armed Brad and friends with this, so I might as well give it to Cole and company too.

    The ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the astrology songs of Harvey Sid Fisher

    May God have mercy on my soul.

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    Punchy

    What’s funny is that Duncan thinks he will win the battle with “The Superbowl Shuffle”…but all of us native Chicagoans LOVE that song, and can probably still sing all the words (I can). Hell, I still have it on VHS.

    Wow, these videos really bring back some memories.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    Wow. Those guys at Sadly, No have just cleaned up. I mean…Shatner doing Elton John, Spock doing…I have no idea what he’s doing…and Billy “Yep, I’m Canadian” Squire having Air Sex on his bedroom floor?

    Tim, you’ll need more ammo. Much more.

  10. 10.

    Richard 23

    Good lord, the war’s going global. Maybe this’ll snap Balloon Juice out of it’s slumber!

    Thankfully I’m immune. I’m using a computer on which I purposely did not install flash. It’s nice to see a blank spot on the page instead of flash ads.

  11. 11.

    fwiffo

    The warmongers of the blogs should have realized somewhere between Stryper and Billy Squier that the collatoral damage is just too great…

    Oh, the horrors of war!

  12. 12.

    demimondian

    I do Richard 23 one better — I remap the CLSID for Flash to an empty ole control.

  13. 13.

    capelza

    Dammit!!!!!! You all beat me to the Billy Squier vid….

    The most career killing video ever made. I was there, I know.

    I don’t have the techno savvy..but Queensryche’s “”Queen of the Ryche” is a good choice.

  14. 14.

    Richard 23

    If I really want to watch Asscroft singing “Let the Eagle Soar,” the other computer is four feet away. But I know better. He lost the Eurovision song contest to a man with no larynx and three buttocks.

  17. 17.

    Nikki

    I am become a casuality of the most annoying video blog wars.

    Xanadu felled me. Shatner and Nimoy issued the coup de grace.

  19. 19.

    Padraig

    Red and Blue to-ge-ether…
    Red and Blue to-ge-ether…
    We shall annoy the hell out of everybody by playing the worst in pop culture detritus as sung by talentless hacks…
    Some Day!!!

  27. 27.

    Otto Man

    I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this one…

    Paris Hilton’s NEW! Music Video!

    Is that the one where she plays the skin flute? Seen it.

  28. 28.

    Punchy

    Snakes on a Plane… bad rap!

    Holy shit, that could be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I think my new bar pickup line will be “See this coat line-ah? Snake Vagin-ah”…

    This YouTube is genius

  33. 33.

    Ross

    shatner is pretty hilarious. and his most recent album “has been” has some genuinely good stuff on it (as well as some of his familiar brand of schlock)

  37. 37.

    Nutcutter

    Yes, TOS, saw that comparison a couple of years ago.

    It is shocking. I’ve also seen an analysis of it by a doctor who specializes in alcoholism. I don’t have the link any more, but his bottom line was, one hundred percent probability that Bush has suffered from permanent brain damage from the years of drinking he did.

    The man is a sad case. Seriously.

  40. 40.

    Andrew

    I, for one, really feel for Jeff “How Do I Choose Between a Dick Slap and a Canine Anus?” Goldstein.

  41. 41.

    The Other Steve

    What a freakin’ mess this has become. And y’all thought THIS board was acrimonious.

    Umm. Goldstein has a history of making shit up to be outraged about. I wouldn’t doubt that the whole thing is a self-created spoof.

  43. 43.

    Punchy

    This is disturbing

    Please, PLEASE tell me that wasn’t real. Can that stuff be edited to look that way? Holy wow.

  44. 44.

    demimondian

    OK, OK. You guys have finally gotten even with me for mentioning…um…yeah, well, I don’t think I’ll mention that previously most loathesome of internet memes.

    I’m afraid of what you all will find next.

  45. 45.

    Catsy

    I think this beats Dschingis Khan

    Great bouncing cherry-flavored gummi christs.

    I had seen clips of that before, but had somehow managed to scrub it from my soul.

  50. 50.

    Chris Johnson

    Oh no no no Andrew.

    Rubber Johnny, also by Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham.

    Honorable mention for “Come To Daddy” but that is too cool to count as a mess-you-up video. And at least I could watch all of those all the way through. i couldn’t keep watching the Shatner L.S.D :)

  51. 51.

    Chris Johnson

    Oh, but I also couldn’t watch Atrios’ Star Wars Christmas Special with Carrie Fisher’s eyes pointing in slightly different directions :) tie!

  54. 54.

    SeesThroughIt

    The ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the astrology songs of Harvey Sid Fisher

    I actually have that record so I can drop the needle on his tone-deaf stylings whenever I want. Which isn’t that often, but it is good for a yuk.

    Also, I heartily endorse the nomination of “America, We Stand as One.” At first, I thought it was a joke. Then I realized it wasn’t. Then I laughed really hard.

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