Your Argument Is Invalid

Evidently, the phrase "Your Argument Is Invalid" is gaining some traction on the Inter-Webs with the young and hip. Since I am neither (and have only ever been one), this would seem to let me out eligibility for use of the term, but I check the patron-saint website (yourargumentisinvalid.com) occasionally and when it makes me laugh -- I give credit.

This made me laugh:


I think I need therapy.

That One, part 2

John Sidney McCain is a racist. He is a rich, white, entitled, contemptuous racist who can't believe that he has to go through the motions of acting like Barack Obama is somehow his equal as a candidate, much less sharing a stage with a black man who is actually beating him in the polls.

As the Pig With Lipstick might put it: "Gollygeewillakers, what has the world come to?"

First, McSnarl said this last night at the debate:



Which gave us this less than 24 hours after he'd said it (goddamn I love me some inter-webs):



Which I think is awesome for incorporating in a mocking & humorous way the Freudian racist gaffe of a stupid, bumbling, short-tempered, muddle-headed old man who doesn't know or understand how the world around him has passed him by, only dimly comprehending (as a barnyard animal dimly comprehends a change in the weather) that for some reason the world is refusing to conform to his will and that as a result he isn't getting what he wants RIGHT NOW and GODDAMMIT HE WAS A P.O.W. (haven't you heard?) and that uppity n*gger is not showing proper respect for the white man!

Or, as the Rude Pundit put it after Grandpa McSimpson refused to make eye-contact with Obama during the last debate:

John McCain looked like nothing so much as a plantation owner just after the end of the Civil War forced to have a conversation with one of his freed slaves. There's no way he was gonna look that nigger in the eye and allow him to think they're equals. Used to be you could lynch a darkie for addressing a white man by his first name. Now, they think they can talk to you like they're humans.

Refusing eye-contact? How about refusing a handshake! (h/t Broadway Carl)



Grandpa McSimpson is a racist motherfucker.

Fuck him and vote for That One.

That One

The Inter-Webs: Not Just For Political Blogging and Porn!

So, via a site that I don't visit nearly often enough (unspeak.net), I found a link to another website called wordle.net where I was able to generate this totally awesome thing called a "Wordle" from the text of my blog:



But you can do it with any text you like. For instance, here's the text of Obama's wonderful speech on race from a few months ago:



And this is from "Hamlet," 'O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!' (Act 2, scene 2, 555-612):



And this is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:



And those are just the one's I made myself, here's a link to their gallery. I found these gems, like "Santeria" by Sublime:



And "Sweet Child O' Mine" by G-n-R:



And the entire text of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy"



And "The Raven":



And, in honor of Billy Joel's performance tonight at Shea (the final music performance ever at Shea - apart from the national anthem at Mets games), and to highlight my friend Broadway Carl having attended the second-to-last show night before last, I give you "We Didn't Start The Fire":



Seriously, go check it out. It's a lot of fun, actually.

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This Just In....

Armadillo Slow here just found The Group News Blog, where former commenters at and contributors to the late, great Steve Gilliard's unrivalled News Blog (including the recently linked at this very site Sara Robinson) soldier on in his name.  

I used to link to The News Blog all the time.  If you are wondering about what it was, or who Steve was, I blogged about it at my old site here and here.

I just added The Group News Blog to my Blog Corral.

You may now resume normal programming.