Leonard Pinth Garnell Would Be Proud


Welcome to "Bad Decisions Regarding Funding for the Arts:"

Quality of life and tourism could suffer dramatically if proposed cuts are approved that would "destroy the fabric of our arts community," said Derek Gordon, chief executive of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge...

Total funding for the arts would shrink from $7.3 million to $3.2 million, according to Jindal’s budget proposals.

Gordon said for every $1 the state provides for the grants, it receives $6 in return. "The arts are a proven source of return on the dollar," he said.

Jindal wants to use $50 million to save 1,300 chicken processing jobs in northern Louisiana, Gordon noted. The programs funded by arts grants provide for 18,000 jobs in the state.

Broken Record

From 2Millionth Web Log

It'd be nice if this well of stupid would FINALLY go dry, that is, the wingnut whining about supposed cuts in the military budget...to be fair, Inhofe's very presence in the Senate is proof that some voters have more teeth than IQ points (and not much of either)...however, maybe being reduced to piteous wailing and gnashing of teeth over such a stale issue is a sign that the non-Oklahoman public might finally have had enough.

Well, one can hope.

Code Breaking, With Frank Gaffney

From 2Millionth Web Log

I think Frank's getting his information from the radio people...you know, the ones who implanted a chip in his brain.

I Know This Isn't Exactly News, But...

From 2Millionth Web Log

Lamebone sure is one fat, stupid, narcissitic twit.

Um, Good News...I Guess


Automobile accident fatalities fell to their lowest level since 1961...but they're still the equivalent of a 9/11 casualty count...every month.

Amazing how the public can work themselves into a frenzy over a horrible act of terrorism, but shrug at carnage no less awful on the roads...and, crazier still, refuse to fund alternatives that might actually help reduce accidents, or, at the very least, cut down on traffic, making things a little less stressful for those who do choose to drive...

But that sort of thinking--you know, complex thoughts and all--is, I guess, a little too much for the wingnut brain to handle.

It Must've Been Hell...


Allen Stanford on the indignity of having to fly commercial.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics *


Co-starring Newt Gingrich, Dick, and the Fox Noise media chorus.

*--Richard Hofstadter sure did hit it on the nail, didn't he.

Double Dose of Stupid


They're barely even trying--this stuff will play to the nitwits and dittoheads (but I repeat myself), but I just can't imagine non-droolers falling for such tired tactics.

Friday Cat Blogging With Photoshop

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Tigger goes to Washington.

Caoward *

From 2Millionth Web Log

Representative Cao takes the easy way out.

*--Credit for post title and photo inspiration to Suspect Device.

If You Legalize It, They Will Wed

From 2Millionth Web Log

First, good for Iowa, despite the lunacy of wingnut Steve King...and let's hope this is a sign of real progress.

Increasingly Desperate Cries for Attention

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It's getting harder and harder to tell just who's the most bugfuck insane wingnut of all, but Glenn Beck sure is giving it his best shot.

Tin Foil: Apply Directly to the Forehead


Pete Hoekstra earns his wingnut, um, wings.

And consider...Michele Bachmann is, at this point, pretty much a mainstream Republican...but still nutty as a fruitcake by any rational standard.

Grand Old Potsmoker?

From 2Millionth Web Log

Might explain this amusing but not very logical assertion.

Grand Old Crybabies

From 2Millionth Web Log

Calling them the party of Beavis and Butthead is an insult to Beavis and Butthead.

The Passion of the MiniHulk

From 2Millionth Web Log

A word of advice to Ted Stevens and his enablers--first, to cite of all people, Antonin Scalia: Get Over It.

Second, you want someone to commiserate with or invite to your pity party? A quick search comes up with plenty of people who've been wrongly convicted, only they didn't have the luxury of a generous salary, government pension, and improved "chalet" as a second home.

Most don't even have a first home...because, often for years, they were housed in prison cells smaller than your bathroom, Ted.

Many can't even qualify for compensation absent special acts of the various legislatures in States where they were unjustly imprisoned.

If I were you, Ted, I'd thank my lucky stars that the only people who were bigger lying sacks of shit than yourself were...the people who prosecuted you. Getting off on a technicality is nothing to be proud of.

Insanely Busy This Morning

Non-stop from the moment I got into the office. Back later.

Area of Expertise

From 2Millionth Web Log

Radio's resident pop proctologist.

Hey, C'mon, Fox Noise--We're Talking About the Very Fabric of Space-Time

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First Beck and Bolton, now Beck and Bachmann? Someone needs to tell the Fox executives there's no long term gain in ripping a hole in the Space-Time Continuum. I mean, sure, Murdoch presumably couldn't care less since he's what, almost 90, but doesn't he have kids or grandkids...or at least a younger mistress/trophy wife?

I Suppose It's The Thought That Counts

From 2Millionth Web Log

MiniHulk walks.

He's Soaking in It..."It" Being "Stupid"

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Shorter Eric Erickson: Give me phosphates or give me death!

I swear, they must have to carry written reminders to breathe.