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Two unrelated blegs

by DougJ|  January 25, 20118:03 pm| 27 Comments

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Everyone’s tuning in right now to see what kind of insightful, civil, moderate things we will say about tonight’s SOTU. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to pimp our store a little bit. The New York Times says coasters are the new throw rugs, so why not pick up one of these bad boys?

We’ve got other stuff too and as far as I know, it’s all for a good cause.

Also too: last time something like a SOTU happened, all the exciting winger action was on twitter, not on the blogs. What teatard types should I be following on twitter?

Update. Here’s the text of SOTU. It’s not searchable but if you scroll down and scan, you should be able to find the phrase “man animal hybrids”.

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    January 25, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    Forget the Twitter. Bachmann’s response could cause mass fatal attraction.

  2. 2.

    de stijl

    January 25, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    For the most amusing twitter feed, I’d go with Breitbart.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    January 25, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Jesus, I need a drink.

    Just finished teaching Titus Andronicus, which seems like light fare compared to having to watch all the asshats at the speech and then Ryan then the MN Whacklady.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    January 25, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    I finally ordered the calendar. Although my mutt is not pictured because she is camera shy, I didn’t want to miss out on having a calendar with all the other b.j. pets. I have two of Lily’s coasters and they are quite special.

    BTW…what’s a bleg?

  5. 5.

    stuckinred

    January 25, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    @JPL: It’s like a meh

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    how masochistic are you feeling? Dennis Miller has a twitter page.

  7. 7.

    de stijl

    January 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    @JPL:

    When a mommy blog and a daddy blog love each other very much…

  8. 8.

    stuckinred

    January 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    Well, if you want to read it here it is.

  9. 9.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    January 25, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    SOTU Drinking Game (via Esquire):

    If the president pulls off a victory Tuesday, it’ll bode well for his 2012 season. If the Republicans can turn the crowd against him, though… oh, for chrissakes. If you’re as sick of this extended metaphor as we are — not to mention as sick of politics — you’re also ready for a drink. And for some real football. But it’s two endless weeks before we’ll have any. So here’s your State of the Union Drinking Game, updated for 2011 — musical chairs and all. Got to get through this drudgery somehow….

  10. 10.

    srv

    January 25, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    DougJ, you might be interested in this.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    January 25, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    What teatard types should I be following on twitter?

    ZOMG you totally do not want to do that. Save yourself a headache and follow @MoronWatch who follows the TeaTards for you and Retweets the most hilarious ones….

  12. 12.

    soonergrunt

    January 25, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    @JPL: Bleg–portmanteau of Blog and beg.
    To beg for something in a blog post.

    Speaking of blegging and fund raising, any comments from the rest here on my suggestion that those actually interested in helping Bradley Manning do a fund raiser here like BJ has done for so many politicians and causes, and donate the money to Manning’s defense, instead of sitting around and bitching about Jane Norquist Hamsher?

  13. 13.

    blogbytom

    January 25, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    @stuckinred: Does that mean I can start my drinking game early?

  14. 14.

    Southern Beale

    January 25, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    @srv:

    Your link is really interesting .. the poster “Prosperity At Home, Prestige Abroad” struck me because with the modern day Teanuts, “prestige abroad” is suddenly a dirty word. Elitist and all that. Real Americans don’t give a crap what those cheese-eaters in Yurp think!

    Only a matter of time before they turn “prosperity at home” into a dirty hippie concept, too.

  15. 15.

    Davis X. Machina

    January 25, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    @Southern Beale: They don’t care about Yurp only because while it’s too big and powerful to be meaningfully bombable, it’s also uninterested interested in bombing us, and hence becoming a bogeyman.

    Non-US states must be either targets, or Manichaean enemies.

    There is no place in their category-poor schema of the world for such a non-target, non-nemesis, so it must be ignored.

    That plus the fact that its existence, never mind its comparative success, in all its social-democratic glory, is problematic.

    Yurp cannot exist, ergo it does not exist — and their women don’t shave.

  16. 16.

    jl

    January 25, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    Where’s the pic of my ant farm? Huh?

  17. 17.

    DougJ DougJson

    January 25, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    @srv:

    I inked to it yesterday.

  18. 18.

    jeffreyw

    January 25, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    @jl:
    More of an ant plantation.

  19. 19.

    stuckinred

    January 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @blogbytom: Not being a dinker, you are on your own, dawg.

  20. 20.

    lamh32

    January 25, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Chris Matthews said on MSNBC before the last commerical break, that “there will be” a special comment from the President on gun control.

    The WH did not want to have the SOTU overshadowed by the gun control debate.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 25, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    and their women don’t shave.

    This is patently untrue.

  22. 22.

    Davis X. Machina

    January 25, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sure. You’ll be telling me next that they bathe regularly, private automobiles are common, and have their own telephones, in their houses.

    You’re not catching me that easy….

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 25, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: Not only that, but most have phones they carry in their pockets and many of the women shave more than American women (if you know what I mean*).

    (*) Or so I have been informed.

  24. 24.

    jl

    January 25, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    @jeffreyw: Well, you take better pics than I do. So I guess Cole chose your ant ‘plantation’ for the calendar. But I am crushed.

  25. 25.

    srv

    January 25, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @DougJ DougJson: I should read you more often

  26. 26.

    jeffreyw

    January 25, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    @jl: Oh, those aren’t my pet ants! My pet plantation ants I keep in tar paper shacks, as is fitting.

  27. 27.

    merrinc

    January 25, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @soonergrunt:

    Sounds like a terrific idea to me.

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