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You are here: Home / Politics / An Unexamined Scandal / Open Thread: “Pinatas of Benevolence”

Open Thread: “Pinatas of Benevolence”

by Anne Laurie|  March 15, 20117:56 pm| 85 Comments

This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Assholes

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Since I don’t have cable, I always find out about the Really Good Rants a few days late. Gotta love Mr. Maher’s “the rich are like pinatas” riff starting at 3:27… although no doubt it has already been decried as uncivil.
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What other Significant News and/or Excellent Snark have we missed recently?

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  1. 1.

    Loneoak

    March 15, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Lol, HBO has already killed the link.

  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    March 15, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    The video seems to have been pulled. Here is a bowl of gumbo instead.

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    “Pinatas of Benevolence” should be the name of a Cake album.

  4. 4.

    Mark S.

    March 15, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Well, better put up that Friday video again.

  5. 5.

    Anne Laurie

    March 15, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    So, you’ll have to click through to Gawker. I promise it’s worth the effort, or your money back!

  6. 6.

    Ooparts

    March 15, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @jeffreyw: I dunno, I like my gumbo a bit more soup-like and with seafood.

  7. 7.

    Mark S.

    March 15, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Maher’s rant came during the show-ending “New Rules” segment; he introduced the topic by saying, “Television networks have to stop making shows that try and put a happy ending on America’s enormous wealth disparity, and instead make a show called Shine My Shoes, Fuckface!”

    Isn’t that already a show on CNBC?

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Gawker doesn’t work on my blinkenlights. If they can’t be arsed to make a usable web site, I can’t be arsed to turn on javascript.

  9. 9.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Hey Anne Laurie–
    If you have a pc, you can make the squiggle over the n by pressing ALT and 164 at the same time. Which you would want to do if you want to spell pinata correctly.

  10. 10.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @jeffreyw: Laissez les bons temps rouler

  11. 11.

    Comrade Mary

    March 15, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    @MikeJ: The world should be a Cake album. Here’s some Teenage Pregnancy for y’all.

    Oh, and a rant? How about some Rick Mercer?

    There has been a lot of discussion in Ottawa lately about secrets, lying, and withholding the truth. Mainly because it has been suggested by, well, pretty much every newspaper in the country, that this has become the standard operating procedure for the Harper Government. Now to be fair, this is not entirely Stephen Harper’s fault. In fact every government at about the five year mark goes a little crazy and decides that the truth is something they can no longer afford; it’s just too much trouble. And then they start treating Canadians like, what’s the word I’m looking for here? Idiots.
    __
    Now I get this. I mean this government has things they want to do. Big things. They wanna build prisons, buy fighter jets, advertise all over the Super Bowl. And that is their prerogative. The problem arises when the taxpayers get it into their heads that they should have some idea of what this is gonna cost. The Harper Solution? Tell the people nothing.
    __
    Now could you imagine if we all lived our lives like that? Imagine for a minute you want a new truck. Take a page from the Harper playbook. Look your spouse in the eye tonight and say, “I’m gettin’ a new truck. Your job is to pay for the truck, not know what it costs.” And then if your spouse is entirely unreasonable and still demands an answer, pull a Bev Oda. Pull out a contract, but first get a black pen, change the numbers, alter the document, the perfect crime.
    __
    Because at the end of the day, that is the message this Prime Minister is sending to the voters and yes, the children of Canada. The hell with the truth, the lie will set you free. And you know what? It’s not good enough. Because in a free and open society, when it comes to government operations, the people who pay the bills deserve to know the truth. And I know Mr. Harper, sometimes the truth hurts. But the truth will not harm democracy. Only secrets and lies will do that.

  12. 12.

    D. Mason

    March 15, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    Here’s a crazy ass video, maybe already posted. Not political.

  13. 13.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    I just figured out how to do it on a mac. piñata

  14. 14.

    Southern Beale

    March 15, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    Labor Backers Arrested At Tenn. Capitol Protest

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Troopers have forcibly carried out seven union supporters from the Tennessee Capitol after their protest disrupted a Senate committee hearing.
    ___
    The seven were among those who stood up during a committee hearing Tuesday and began chants about “union busting” by the Legislature.
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    Most demonstrators left the hearing room after a half-hour, but a small group tried to lock arms to keep from being removed. Troopers pulled the holdouts out of the room one by one, while lawmakers, lobbyists and other observers looked on. The protesters were arrested and face charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
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    The disruption occurred after hundreds of labor supporters gathered for a midday protest near the Capitol to denounce a bill to strip teachers of their collective bargaining rights.

    The local CBS affiliate said 1,000 people showed up at the capitol today (I couldn’t make it), not hundreds.

  15. 15.

    jeffreyw

    March 15, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @Ooparts: Hmm, I don’t have any seafood gumbo pics. This may do it for you, though.

  16. 16.

    Bill Section 147

    March 15, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    @MikeJ: Good on the Cake. Thanks. Motorcade of Generosity in 3…2…

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    March 15, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    @cathyx: I was just wondering about what key to use to do that on a mac. Will you share?

    Edit: The Google is my friend: piñata

  18. 18.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    @WaterGirl: Certainly. Press option + n then press the letter n. If you want to do accents on a vowel, press option + e then press the vowel you want the accent over.

  19. 19.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    And in more news from idiot-ville

    The sponsor of a “birther” bill that has stalled in the Georgia House made a last-ditch effort Tuesday to get a vote on the proposal.

    Rep. Mark Hatfield, R-Waycross, failed in his attempt to get the powerful Rules Committee to amend a bill setting the date for Georgia’s presidential primary. He tried to add language from House Bill 401, which would force presidential and vice presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before landing on the Georgia ballot.

  20. 20.

    scav

    March 15, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Not as ranty as the best of David Mitchell but there are a few solid bits in David Cameron has even less grasp of how government works than I’d thought. He’s essentially going off about David Cameron calling the civil service the “enemies of enterprise” in an speech to the Conservatives’ spring conference last weekend. Actually, it’s the logic he (David M) points out that puddle -jumps to apply to our local situation.

    He said he was “taking on… the bureaucrats in government departments who concoct those ridiculous rules and regulations that make life impossible for small firms”. On the face of it, this is simple crowd-pleasing stuff. It’s easy to slag off the faceless bureaucrats, who supposedly waste our time and money with all their stupid rules. It’s convenient to forget that bureaucrats, or civil servants as they’re called when they’re not being victimised, don’t actually make rules, they just enforce them. Maybe, sometimes, they enforce them officiously. Maybe, sometimes, the processes they “concoct” for enforcing them are unnecessarily time-consuming. Maybe fewer of them could enforce the rules just as effectively. But they don’t make the rules, Parliament does.
    __
    But in this speech Cameron takes the argument further. By labelling civil servants as enemies of business, he’s trying to make them responsible, not just for the failings of the public sector, but also those of the private. . . .
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    He’s always said that, when the state wastes money, it’s because of the bureaucrats. Now he’s also saying that, if private enterprise fails to grow, prosper or fill the gap that shrinking government creates, that’s not a flaw in George Osborne’s economic policy, that, too, is because of the bureaucrats. In short, whatever goes wrong is the bureaucrats’ fault.

  21. 21.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @stuckinred: Yo. I’ve lived in three states, and the least crazy was far Western North Carolina, where it was all transplants and hillbillies. And the hillbillies were crazier than the rednecks I’ve lived around here in Seneca or in Toccoa. They were sure a lot more interesting.

    I wonder sometimes how I ended up like I did after being born right in the heart of it all and never really leaving. I have come to hate the South a lot more than I love it, and that’s a hard thing to say, you know?

  22. 22.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @cathyx:

    So why didn’t you spell piñata correctly, hmm? Talk about a double standard.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    @cathyx:

    I see you have regularized yourself. Bueno.

  24. 24.

    Southern Beale

    March 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @scav:

    In short, whatever goes wrong is the bureaucrats’ fault.

    Heads they win, tails we lose.

  25. 25.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Huh, that’s funny. I like to say “I’m not from Georgia but I got here as soon as I could”. I guess all that state/region stuff doesn’t fly for me. I was in LA when Watts went down and my family was in Chicago, the most segregated city in the world, for a good part of my life. There’s good and bad everywhere.

  26. 26.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    March 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    What other Significant News and/or Excellent Snark have we missed recently?

    This UNC-Ashville/Ark-Little Rock game is better than sex.

  27. 27.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @Steeplejack: Because I posted that before I googled how to do it on a mac.

  28. 28.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9: Old UGA assistant is UNCA coach.

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    March 15, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    This moran got fired:

    Every morning, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s press secretary sends to Barbour’s staff and other allies a list of press clippings, along with a daily compendium of birthdays, historical notes, and jokes — which have recently included humor on the topics of the disastrous Japan Tsunami, Janet Reno’s gender, and the Cambodian genocide.

    What the fuck is it about Republicans and Janet Reno jokes — a decade after she left Washington? (Of course: Al Gore is fat still slays them!) What are the odds that a good number of these hilarious jokes circulating among the Boss Hogg gang make prolific use of the N-word?

  30. 30.

    Francis

    March 15, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    And now for something completely different:

    I am very glad to be alive. I woke up last Wednesday with a strange feeling in my chest. It turned out to be atrial fibrillation. I stayed in a. fib. for 12 and 1/2 hours before the cardiologist found the right meds to reset the heartbeat.

    The nice people at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, ER and Cardiac units saved my life. That makes me happy. So, what are you happy about?

  31. 31.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @Francis: March Madness is on and I’m happy to hear of your situation.

  32. 32.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Estoy muy feliz ayudarlos con los accentos de español.

  33. 33.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    @stuckinred: I’m sure you’re right. But why do we have to fucking celebrate it so much? I have no doubt that other places are worse, but at least they keep it in the damn neighborhood. That evangelical thing makes us born proseletysers, I reckon.

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    @stuckinred:

    Just wanted to say I’m still chuckling over “Don’t try to dig what we all say.” Excellent.

  35. 35.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: I’m down

  36. 36.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    This UNC-Ashville/Ark-Little Rock game is better than sex.

    u r doin it rong.

  37. 37.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Steeplejack: I have an “issue” with song lyrics, they pop into my head just like THAT!

  38. 38.

    freelancer

    March 15, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    Jefe? Can we get sticks and beat a plethora of these piñatas?

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Srsly. They still having butthurt over Ruby Ridge? Not to mention, no Republican joke will ever top the excellent Janet Reno Dance Party.

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    Anybody got a link to a page with a comprehensive TV game schedule for lazy ol’ me? I’m off work tomrrow, and I’d love to see two third-tier schools butt heads before one of them gets crushed by a No. 1 seed later this week.

  41. 41.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    March 15, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    And speaking of pinatas, one of our local stores stocks Elmo and Dora pinatas. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the idea of beating the shit out of Elmo and Dora a bit sick?

  42. 42.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @Steeplejack: axe

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @Francis:

    Congratulations! Life looks pretty good from that perspective, doesn’t it?

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    Elmo yes, Dora…I’m there. That kid shouted at me for about three years while mesmerizing my toddler. Enuf.

  45. 45.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    March 15, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @MikeJ:

    u r doin it rong.

    How should I be watching television?

  46. 46.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    @stuckinred: I’ve been doing one of those touchy-feely diversity/social justice things all good university administrators are supposed to do over the last eight weeks, and we recently had to write about one of our “social identities.” I wrote about my ethnicity, and I defined my ethnicity as “Southern.” But, you know, just as a black man or an Asian man can begin to dislike what he is, “his people,” so can a Southern man.

  47. 47.

    Comrade Mary

    March 15, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    @Francis: Nice to know you;re stil with us! (Is staying in fib that long something like being in labour?)

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    March 15, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @stuckinred:

    Cool McCool. Thanks.

  49. 49.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: a self-hating ridge-runner!

    you’ve got the rest of the nation
    to help you along

  50. 50.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: We have a self-paced online ethics course that all University System employees have to take. It’s REALLY hard!

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @Francis:

    Equal parts horrifying/wonderful. Hooray for being here, hope you have your snarkifying mojo back soon.

  52. 52.

    cathyx

    March 15, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    If you want to do accents on the vowels with a pc, press
    alt + 160 for an á
    alt + 130 for an é
    alt + 161 for an í
    alt + 162 for an ó
    alt + 163 for a ú
    alt + 168 for a ¿
    alt +173 for a ¡

  53. 53.

    gene108

    March 15, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    There was a thread earlier today about people with more than a $1 mil in investments not feeling rich. I don’t know why people get surprised by this.

    You don’t get a $1 mil. by being content with what you have. This goes more so for billionaires.

    At some level on the way to a million dollars, you’ll pass several income levels, where many people feel they are financially comfortable and don’t push to make more money.

    The reason people get a million dollars or a billion dollars is because they never feel comfortable with what they have; they keep wanting more money. For some, I guess, this translates to “not feeling rich”.

  54. 54.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Trouble Every Day, Zappa

    Hey, you know something people?
    I’m not black
    But there’s a whole lots a times
    I wish I could say I’m not white

  55. 55.

    The Populist

    March 15, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    Whoever his tea bagger guest was, she decried that very thing if you listen when he sits down to speak with his guests.

    LOL. I found it funny.

  56. 56.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    @cathyx: Or just use the international keyboard. ‘ + vowel = accented letter. ` + vowel, etc.
    á à ñ ç

    Next week: What does AltGr mean?

  57. 57.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    Arguably the first rap song

    Trouble

  58. 58.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    March 15, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    It’s just fascinating seeing the various political debates my FB friends get into with their other friends. It’s surprising how many people just buy into the Galtian Overlords’ bullshit. They know not that some people pay capital gains taxes for their work instead of income and payroll taxes. They don’t realize that non-payroll people often get to report their income to the government, unlike payroll folks. Why is that important? Well, if you are like one Republican in my life, it is because you are only reporting 1/3 of your earnings. And then bitching about the amount of taxes you pay on that resulting in ever more tax cuts for you.

  59. 59.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    What fresh hell is this?

    A fresh fire broke out in the No.4 reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant this morning but reportedly later put itself out, with firefighters unable to approach because of high radiation levels.
    __
    Engineers were also keeping a close eye on the plant’s No. 5 and No. 6 reactors amid fears they could overheat after cooling systems began to fail.
    __
    The No. 4 reactor appears to be the most pressing concern for the plant’s operators. Radiation levels have prevented them from getting close enough to pump water in and spent fuel inside is at risk of overheating and spewing yet more radiation into the atmosphere.
    __
    A proposal for helicopters to dump boric acid into the reactor is one idea being considered as authorities grapple to keep up with the unfolding crisis which followed Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami.

    Are they about to have a six-pack of failed, venting reactors?

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/16/3164949.htm

  60. 60.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    @stuckinred: Maybe not so much a self-hating ridgerunner than one that’s just terminally frustrated with all the otherwise smart and pleasant people who buy into and perpetuate all the most primitive, stupid superstitions that are holding us back. We’re better than we’re acting like. That’s why I like Dennis’s stuff here so well. He’s getting closer to the diagnosis than anyone else I’ve read. Flagpole magazine kicked serious ass when he was over it.

  61. 61.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    @trollhattan: rachel is on it right now

  62. 62.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @trollhattan: Don’t worry citizen, noting can possiblie go wrong.

  63. 63.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: I was just foolin around. Pete does a decent job, I sat with him and his bride at a wedding a couple of weeks back and enjoyed him greatly. He is a bit genteel compared to DG.

  64. 64.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @stuckinred: Oh, no, now, don’t get me wrong, Pete McCommons kicks ass in his own way. Yes, it’s more genteel than Dennis was, but in terms of influence, that’s probably way more effective. Do you remember Ort? Does anyone remember Ort?

  65. 65.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Oh yea, I’m on his facebook but I had to hide him. I really gave up on downtown, I haven’t had a drink in 17 years and I found it less and less appealing. That’s just my way of saying I don’t see him much. Did you know John Seawright?

  66. 66.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    ORT

  67. 67.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:

    No, but I remember the cloud.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

  68. 68.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Holy fucking shit! Yes! I worked for a time as a security guard for UGA’s libraries. I spent most of my watch at the big library and about a quarter of it at the science library.

    John Seawright would come in the library every night – I mean every night – and spend two to four hours downstairs, with the old books, the primary-source history stuff. We never talked. I was in awe of him after having seen “Athens Ga. Inside/Out” and never worked up the courage to speak to him.

    “Tell Lil, Jill and Tina stay away from my house
    I’ve broke my saw, and I cannot come out …”

    I actually have an Ort story from the science library, though it doesn’t involve Ort himself. It involves some Ort graffiti in the downstairs men’s room there. In the grout, someone had written a paean to Ort:

    “Ort CARES about you,
    Ort BARES his soul
    Ort SHARES his knowledge
    Ort ERRS, rarely.”

    And underneath, in pencil, someone had written “Ort is an asshole and a crashing bore.”

    I laughed my ass off.

  69. 69.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: I would sit in the Globe and just listen when other people asked John a question. When I went to Tech I learned that he grew up in Home Park and had tons of stories about the Atlanta Steel works, Buckhead the way it was and other great shit. I mentioned I officiated at Sam Elbert Academy and got a detailed history of Elberton. It was so tragic when he finally found someone and, like a flash, she was gone.

  70. 70.

    tofubo

    March 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    if only i had “(4) was incorporated on July 20, 1981…

    i couldda been classified as a non-profit

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000501—-000-notes.html

  71. 71.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Here’s a very nice piece on John.

    “We have been missing John’s astonishing conversation for eight years now. We miss his resonant deep voice and, Lord, his tickled laugh. Thing about whittling. Sometimes you get to the end, and you have nothing to show, just some little bit to throw in the fire. I love that.”

    Coleman Barks

  72. 72.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    @stuckinred:

    NHK is showing live heli footage of smoke rising from Unit 4. One can hope it’s from the burning building and not from nuclear material.

    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r/movie/

  73. 73.

    stuckinred

    March 15, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    @trollhattan: I’m really struggling to figure out what is “live” and what isn’t. I think the networks fudge with “today” to make things that happened 20 hours ago seem like they are ongoing. Thanks for the immediate linky.

  74. 74.

    MikeJ

    March 15, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @stuckinred: Particularly tricky when they put the word “recorded” over the feed, as that one had when I checked it.

  75. 75.

    srv

    March 15, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    @trollhattan: What is it with this anchorwoman endlessly repeating the helicopter view of the smoke? I kept thinking my player was stuck in a loop. Am I missing some cultural thing?

  76. 76.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    @stuckinred:
    You’re welcome. Feel free to curse me later (this quake/tsunami/nuke pr0n is perversely addictive).

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @srv:

    I haven’t figured them out very well. The Engrish service is surely a bastard stepchild with a high degree of randomness, and sometimes they’re saying “live” when it’s labeled “recorded.” But it’s mo bettah than any other service I’ve found for real time info. ABC and BBC seem to have the best western coverage. While the BBC video is a loop the text is updated every few minutes.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

  78. 78.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    March 15, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @stuckinred: That is a very good remembrance of John. Like I said, I never spoke to him, I just saw him every night. I had actually written Pete to see if “I Broke My Saw” was in print anywhere, and it apparently is not.

    He said that Ort was haunting some microbrewery there now, something with “Copper” in the name, if memory serves. Kind of a shame that his writing is not in some digital niche-shrine somewhere, though for a different reason from John.

    When I think of John, I think of this wonderful, lyrical piece that probably no one else remembers about maypops, as in the weed/flower. It was so wonderful.

    As for Ort, I just remember he was punctilious about including every little place’s ZIP code.

  79. 79.

    Chris Grrr™

    March 15, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    This is my favorite article title of late, despite some great competition.

    pinatasofbenevolence.com is still available.
    My registrar can’t handle the ‘ñ’.

  80. 80.

    Jess

    March 15, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    That’s fucking funny. I still love the rant Maher did about Bush after Katrina. Thing of beauty. Sadly, I can’t find it on YouTube now.

  81. 81.

    Jess

    March 15, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    @Jess:

    Found it: George of the Bungle

  82. 82.

    Anne Laurie

    March 15, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    @Francis: Perspective, u haz it… and u shares!

    Congratulations on being here to do so!

  83. 83.

    burnspbesq

    March 15, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    Kyrie practiced with the team today, and is expected to play limited minutes this weekend.

    Just when you thought it was safe to be a Duke-hater…

  84. 84.

    trollhattan

    March 15, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    Dear lord. How do you explain to dogs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nexofSW4u7Y&feature=player_embedded

  85. 85.

    Donut

    March 16, 2011 at 2:42 pm

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