Pretty much this:
Anyone else remember when Bob Geldof was just the lead singer for the Boomtown Rats?
Did learn two things today, btw. Watched Bill Maher, and the way that the Fonzi of Freedom treated Rachel Maddow, with his never-ending assumptions, made me actually thing less of him. I did not think that was possible. I also loved the Hulk beating down on th Fonz’s fracking bullshit. HULK SMASH.
Also too, I learned today that there are people who not only have never experienced the miracle of cabbage rolls, but they have never even heard of them. The mind boggles.
Off to spoon he girls.
S. cerevisiae
I can sing this pretty well at karaoke.
skippy
tell me why i don’t like mondays
Comrade Mary
Happy belated birthday, John!
My gift to you is not even trying to make a smartass comment about this.
MikeJ
Not going to be Up All Night?
African jungle
Big city street
The only real difference
Is in the people you meet
Bago
You are missing an e and a t. Apparently spelling the word “the” is becoming tricky.
Hypatia's Momma
Before I forget (again!)”
Happy birthday!
Suffern ACE
Wonder if there is a version of cabbage roll that is made with chicken intestine. Once you learned about that in Chopped, didn’t you think it was worth a try?
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
Good god, I’m watching the replay and Fonzi felt the need to have the word over everyone. I cheered along with the crowd when Rachel finally just said ‘Let me speak’.
trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
For he girls, I recommend Gold’s Gym.
That is all.
M. Bouffant
Anyone else remember when Bob Geldof was just the lead singer for the Boomtown Rats?
Dunno why I’m admitting it, but yup.
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
And of course it’s basically two on one against Rachel anyways because Mr. Zuckerman basically is all ‘Obama and Holder are hiding something illegal, the contempt citation was needed!’ And the laugh that Fonzi himself is ‘not part of the right’.
EDIT: Oh good god. His ‘you’re a mega partisan and you should be completely dismissed, unlike my unimpeachable nonpartisanship’.
Yutsano
Got the okay to start PT as soon as I get back to Seattle. Strength, I needs it.
kamalokitty
Put me down for cabbage rolls, man cause I am all over that shit. I got the best recipe. Perhaps, maybe.
Violet
I want to know what makes John’s dad’s cabbage rolls so great. I’ve had cabbage rolls before they were good, but not so good I’d request them for my birthday dinner.
jl
@Violet:
If we ask for the cabbage roll recipe often enough in the comments, I think Cole’s mom will make him post it.
Edit: BTW, my opinion: cabbage, pepper, any kind of meat baked in veggies with special sauce, is AWESOME!
Violet
@jl: Yeah, good idea! Should we post an open letter to Mama Cole?
Mnemosyne
I probably started liking them because of Band Aid/Live Aid, but I do really like the Boomtown Rats.
Arizona is starting to remind me of “The Elephants’ Graveyard.”
slag
Never heard of or had a cabbage roll before. I am not ashamed.
Glad you got something you wanted for your bday!
David Koch
Gotta give Axelrod alotta props for feeding the Bain outsourcing story to WaPo.
Their oppo operation has been the tits, nailing Rubio’s fake cuban refugee shit, and just this week Christie’s corrupt half-way house crime wave.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I just watched the Maher show for the first time in ages, because Maddow was on, and goddamn, Gillespie is an asshole. He also doesn’t appear understand his own arguments.
Hill Dweller
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: I didn’t even watch it, because I remember how the Fonzi of Freedom acted the last time he was on Maher’s show. His insecurities jump off the screen.
Conservatives believe condescension can compensate for lack of intelligence and/or facts. I’ve seen Dick Armey and Alex Castellanos treat Maddow the exact same way you guys are describing Fonzi’s behavior.
hamletta
I do not understand these cabbage rolls you speak of.
But I’m so old I remember listening to the radio while I was babysitting (for a radio executive) and hearing about the incident in Scotland that inspired “I Don’t Like Mondays.”
It was singularly horrifying enough to inspire a song 15 years before…y’know.
I’m watching Pushing Tin (1999), and it mentions postal workers as scary people. Remember that? Going postal?
Who’s our bogeyman now?
I guess it’s the Muslins.
Violet
@hamletta:
Oh, “Pushing Tin”! That’s got Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie and someone else, is it John Cusak? I remember liking that film. It’s not great, but it’s got some good bits in it. Plus, I think Billy Bob and Angelina were breaking up while filming it or something. There’s definitely some tension.
Mnemosyne
@hamletta:
Actually, the specific incident that inspired the song happened in San Diego, California. There may have been a similar incident in Scotland that happened later than this one was compared to.
Arclite
That was me. Guilty. But it’s not like I’ve been insulated my whole life. I grew up on both west and east coasts. My mother cooked all sorts of ethnic foods: Mexican, French, Indian, Italian, Greek, Russian, Chinese and Japanese, among others. I lived in Japan for 6 years, and have been in Hawaii a decade.
Not sure why I never ran into them before.
In other news, there’s an epic political battle going on over at Blues News.
Narcissus
Hey John i’m into he girls too we should hit the clubs
hamletta
@Mnemosyne:Thank you for the correction.
I obviously confused it with a much later incident. The Scotland incident was crazy horrifying because of the lack of gun culture; or maybe lack of vendetta culture.
Allegedly.
TheOtherWA
I feel sorry for those people. Even as a finicky child I liked cabbage rolls. My parents probably freaked that I ate cabbage willingly, but were smart enough not to comment on that fact.
RadioOne
I only remember Bob Geldof from the movie version of “The Wall.” His place in politics or rock music otherwise escapes me.
I haven’t seen the latest episode of Real Time, but I can’t imagine Rachel Maddow not holding her own. The reason why other pundits constantly try to interrupt her on other television shows is because she is the most persuasive and honest political pundit in America.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
when your job is to contain, you play with outside leverage.
James E. Powell
I never heard of cabbage rolls until I was in my late 20s. But I had been eating holubky my whole life.
Cap'n Swag
Does Gillespie realize just how freaking ridiculous he looks? Seriously.
West of the Cascades
Bob Geldof was one of the principal organizers for the Live Aid concerts in 1985 which aimed to raise funds to help famine victims in Ethiopia. The live performance of “I Don’t Like Mondays” at Wembley Stadium is one of my all time favorite live clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA-2oXzk10
Powdermonkey
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:
Anyone else notice the “fonzi of freedom” is starting to outgrow his bulshit “young guy talking to the olds” image. Starting to grow a little long in the tooth to pull off the leather jacket everywhere look there nick.
Powdermonkey
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:
Anyone else notice the “fonzi of freedom” is starting to outgrow his bulshit “young guy talking to the olds” image. Starting to grow a little long in the tooth to pull off the leather jacket everywhere look there nick.
quannlace
Forget cabbage rolls, who the hell is the Fonzi of Freedom?
gogol's wife
I missed this discussion yesterday, but by “cabbage rolls,” do you mean cabbage stuffed with a ground beef-rice mixture and baked in a deliciously sweet-sour thin tomato sauce (a Polish and Polish-Jewish specialty)? If so, my ex- (and now dearly departed) mother-in-law made the greatest ones. The food of the gods.
gelfling545
@James E. Powell: We didn’t have cabbage rolls either. But we had golabki a couple of times a month.
Jim C
@quannlace: Look it up.
Two locations:
1. The Balloon Juice Lexicon.
2. Google. First entry explains it all, Clarissa.
3. Three locations! His real name is used in the comments above yours.
dww44
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: I don’t get HBO. Can someone provide a link to a video?
FlipYrWhig
I can imagine stuffed cabbage being fine. I cannot imagine stuffed cabbage being something to ask for and receive with delight.
Schlemizel
I bet the Germans have a word for what I am feeling right now 8-{D
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/13/47402.htm
gogol's wife
@FlipYrWhig:
See #37 above. The food of the gods. My ex-mother-in-law had to bring them with her from Boston to Conn. every time she visited or my ex-husband and I wouldn’t have let her in the house.
Schlemizel
@Jim C:
I went to the lexicon because I wanted to see what sort of snark they would have about l’ll nickey but “Fonzie of Freedom” does not have an entry so the poor guy will not find an answer there
@quannlace: Its Nick Gillepsie from Lack of Reason. He tried to appear hep by wearing a leather jacket for a time. I have no idea if he still does or not
Jim C
@Schlemizel:
Sure it is. Entry number two under the letter F:
It’s after “Firebagger,” and they don’t spell Fonzie with an “e” for whatever reason.
Ed Dunkle
Did learn two things today, btw. Watched Bill Maher, and the way that the Fonzi of Freedom treated Rachel Maddow, with his never-ending assumptions, made me actually thing less of him. I did not think that was possible. I also loved the Hulk beating down on th Fonz’s fracking bullshit. HULK SMASH.
Could somebody please translate this into English for me?
Mnemosyne
@hamletta:
The song was a pretty big international hit, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they referenced it during the news report that you remember. I know I remember news reports about a couple of different later shootings that referenced “I Don’t Like Mondays.”
@Schlemizel:
Could it be “Schadenfreude”?
(Sadly, the sound on most of the ones that actually show the puppets performing is really bad, so this is just the soundtrack version.)
Schlemizel
@Mnemosyne:
That’d be it – Gad I am hoping for fist fights and rolling shouting matches in Tampa this August!
@Jim C: I missed that thanks
Roy G.
Mark Ruffalo pwnd Fonzi, pushing him over the Libertarian fault line and revealing Gillespie’s true pa$$ion – Freedom for Corporate Entities to do whatever the F they want.
Bobby C
“The Fonz” wearing a leather jacket in summer? What a douche! Bill Maher’s take down of radio talking heads was spot on.