I kinda like where Tbogg is going with this– we should just flood the zone with Moore Award nominees. Here’s my entry:
Apparently John Boehner, when asked what programs he would cut, couldn’t come up with any. I know Republicans can’t cut transportation, because they need the roads so they can get to NASCAR races and Klan rallies, but why not cut education? Clearly they and their supporters have never gotten any benefit from those programs.
Now here’s something that would really make the Sully borg blush (and this is NSFW):
BTW- Don’t forget to write down your nominees for the McCardle Award for Achievements in Math for later on this year.
TR
Oh hells yes.
mikefromArlington
Haha
Very nice.
de stijl
I’d like to pitch “Innumeracy” instead of “Math” for the McArdle award. If you still like “Math”, I’d suggest “Arithmetic” for the alliteration.
Just a suggestion: your blog, your rules.
JGabriel
John Cole:
I have to go with the GOP on that one, John, with a special mention for Paul Ryan: for their claim that cutting taxes doesn’t increase the deficit, plus EXTRA bonus points for the claims that the law that cuts health care costs kills jobs, and that it will bust the budget in the next two decades despite CBO scoring that show the opposite.
Or is this award restricted to bloggers who are NOT in Congress?
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Odie Hugh Manatee
I always thought the reason they wanted to cut education spending was just for that reason. Amazing.
I learn something new every day here!
JGabriel
@de stijl:
I kind of like it the way it is. The consonance of the m’s balances the alliteration of the a’s.
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beltane
When I first heard of the Moore award on Sully’s blog, I thought it had to do with the proto-Tory St. Thomas More, probably one of Sully’s idols. I didn’t understand why he was bestowing this award in a negative context.
Can we have a More award for sanctimonious asshats like Ross Douthat, and sometimes Sully himself?
kdaug
Another Texas treasure, that Mr. Hicks. I guess we just run strong cool or strong asshole down here.
Fucker died way too young, though.
joeyess
I posted that vid to my facebook wall with the comment above reading:
If I lose 100 or so “friends” over it I say good riddance.
Mark S.
Here’s my Moore submission:
Oh wait, that’s actually what Sully writes.
Dave C
God, I love Bill Hicks. If you wanna watch something great, search for “play from your fucking heart” on you tube.
Buck
Cole,
Thanks for the video. Did my heart a world of good.
Buck
@Dave C:
Lewis Black is damn good too. I particularly love “Gay Bandidos“. Funny. As. Hell.
freelancer
Bill Hicks is a personal hero to me. The man I consider to be carrying the standard of social commentary that he achieved actually was a contemporary of Hicks and just got a pretty sweet, and well-deserved profile in the New York Times.
@Dave C:
[clears throat] I am available for children’s parties, by the way.
geg6
Heh. Indeedy.
kdaug
@Buck: Here’s a couple more:
A.
B.
Follow the rest on the right side of the page. The man was a damned genius.
Died at 33.
joeyess
My entry to the Moore Awards?
Jager
@joeyess:
Naw, you “Muffed” that one!
newhavenguy
I can’t quite bring myself to hate Sully, but he is a frustrating columnist. Sort of the way Hitchens is, but less interesting. (Maybe it’s just that Hitch has more brute talent in the way of writing chops, but I am a fan of neither.)
I’ve been reading the New Republic only since the mid ’80s, because I wasn’t a teenager before then. They still publish good writers and sometimes excellent material, but good god, what a job Peretz is doing at destroying what was once a great liberal weekly. (Now, none of the above— still a far cry from Newsmax.)
I was there, at 16, 17, 18, wondering “what the fuck is this Andrew Sullivan guy trying to do to TNR?” The Bell Curve issue, the issue devoted to Betsy McCaughey’s infamous lies about Hilarycare. (“No Exit”, google it Sully lovers.)
Not a friend, Mr. Sullivan. Not quite an enemy either. But even when I agree with him, I remind myself that Andrew Sullivan has judgment that would shame a ‘luded out 8th grader.
I don’t mean to flack for the New Republic, but god damn, go read what that commie rag was saying in the 1930s and ’40s. I judge Sullivan’s ideas on their merits, but it is hard to forgive him for what he helped turn that magazine into.
There are a few good people who write for the Atlantic, also. Another pale shadow, another nightmare of what journalism has turned into, another story altogether.
Sorry to rant, but I’m only drinking the cheap paint these days. I have no choice, because Obama took my penis.
Cheers,
joeyess
@Jager: Brrrrrump-bump-bump!
Blackfrancis
Bill Hicks is awesome. I have no words to explain how incredibly awesome he is, so I leave this comment instead.
Blackfrancis
@joeyess: that is imagery i could have lived my entire life without.
Snarki, child of Loki
You know why there isn’t a Nobel Prize for mathematics?
Because someone in the future invented a time machine, went back and told Alfred Nobel about Megan McCardle, and her “Achievement Award”.
The rest, as they say, is history.
joeyess
@Blackfrancis: Sorry. She just strikes me as the type that likes that wooly-bullyness. And being from Alaska, it would make sense in some weird way, also too.
joeyess
@Blackfrancis: Sorry. She just strikes me as the type that likes that wooly-bullyness. And being from Alaska, it would make sense in some weird way, also too.
Blackfrancis
@joeyess: I don’t get that “salted dicks” thing. Who would waste a perfectly good bag of dicks by salting them?
joeyess
@joeyess: I have no idea how this became a double post. It must have something to do with Sarah’s insulated underwear with extra insulation and a sort of serendipitous redundancy.
freelancer
@Snarki, child of Loki:
Ironically by the time of the origin of the Time Machine, the Nobel for Physics had devolved into the Nobel Prize for Masturbation.
de stijl
Is the Fonzie of Freedom gonna get his own eponymous award for his video of culinary budget balancing, or is he in the running for the McArdle award?
Buck
@kdaug:
Thanks! Will check those out now.
freelancer
@Buck:
It’s rare, and taken from a bootleg, but one of my favorite bits of Hicks’ is a routine he did in the UK about a goofball member of Elvis Presley’s entourage named Charlie Hodge.
Also, his acid trip was pretty great.
freelancer
@Buck:
Oh, and he saw through the mythos of Ronald Reagan way before anyone else did, and called him out publically.
joeyess
@Blackfrancis: Tbogg. If he could make Bill Kristol eat them.
Buck
@freelancer:
Thanks for the links. Will check those out now.
I don’t know how I managed to miss this man’s great work. I just did some research on him and discovered the reason for his early death. Very, very sad.
Elvis Elvisberg
Here is commentary on Jesse Helms, among others, from Todd Rundgren.
(Another version available here.)
(All versions NSFW).
Mike in NC
McArdle, just to be a nitpicker. But then again, my project manager is a workaholic with a bad case of OCD, so I feel the frickin’ pain every day.
kdaug
@freelancer: Yurp.
Hicks dies at 33.
Funny, idnit.
Jager
@joeyess:
and Todd is…..a Bush pilot. I consulted with Mrs J on this and she thinks Palin is an “either all in or all out”kind of girl
…I’d bet it it looks like there is a muskrat sitting in her lap!
Third Eye Open
I prefer the album version of his infamous Grey Gym Sock routine. This may be the funniest damn thing to have ever come out of a human’s mouth, with perhaps the exception of Rush Limbaugh’s penis.
/I am available for children’s parties, by the way.
R.I.P sweet prince…
S. cerevisiae
@Jager: Oh dear dog that is imagery I didn’t need to have. Sancho! My icepicks!
4jkb4ia
Submission:
Be very afraid of those children that looked so cute on the House floor. They are really offspring of the giant vampire squid. They will drink your blood with chocolate milk. David Dreier and Eric Cantor are their cult leaders.
/puppy
4jkb4ia
Also there should be something in the submission about those children being recruiters for the Red Guards.
jibeaux
Just sayin’, TBogg has a tag for “all y’all dumb motherfuckers don’t even know my opinion on shit”, and I think we could find a use for that.
val
@JGabriel: Otherwise known as the “If You Eat Cake on Your Birthday, There Are No Calories” Magical Thinking Award. And I need a carton of brain bleach to get Hicks’ images out of my beautiful mind. No lunch for me today. But that was awesome.
Mark D
Bill Hicks is one of the reasons I gave stand-up a try (and did pretty damn well for a year … until I had a mountain of bills to pay).
We desperately, on so many damn levels, need someone like him right about now. Jon Stewart gets close, but tends to go timid when given a huge stage — just see his Broderian performance at the rally.
Having someone ready, willing, and able to rip new assholes into those who need it* would certainly be a big help in these fucked up times.
(* Blogs have certainly filled this role, but they do not get the run someone like Hicks could have received. Instead, folks like Tbogg, S, N!, WoC, and even those here are called “shrill, foul-mouthed basement dwellers” instead of “genius and brilliant social/political commentators.” It’s sad, really … so very sad. )
EvolutionaryDesign
Count me in as another Bill Hicks fan. Can you imagine how he would have handled Bush 2: The Re-Bushening?
(And god damnit all for taking Carlin recently)