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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. Molly Ivins has left us. I had hoped against hope that she could hold the cancer off long enough to see George Bush run out of office and some measure of justice done to counter the last 6 years of political rape of our country. She was our conscience, our common sense and an eloquent, down-home voice for justice. We'll not see her like again for a long, long time, and we're much poorer for her departure. In her last column she wrote: We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"Words to heed. Make some goddamn noise, in Molly's memory. It's the least we can fucking do. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:00:00 PM   | Say It Ain't So, Joe! Joe Biden (D-MBNA) is a dumbass. Not for his support for the bankruptcy "reform" bill - that's a sign of heartlessness and corruption - but for this: In an interview with the New York Observer, he dumped on his potential opponents in the Democratic primary - Clinton ("The result of Mrs. Clinton’s position on Iraq, Mr. Biden says, would be “nothing but disaster.”..."), Edwards (“I don’t think John Edwards knows what the heck he is talking about,”) and Barack Obama. Obama got some seriously backhanded, patronizing praise: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”Amazing. almost 40 years after MLK was assassinated, and Biden (who's said he'd win in the South because Delaware "was a slave state") feels like the best thing he can say about Obama is that he's not like the other blacks in politics. "He's so articulate!" - that's recognized to mean "He doesn't sound black!". The stupid, it BURNS! Does he think he's in Undercover Brother or something? But don't worry - Obama doesn't just sound like a white guy - he's bright and clean and nice-looking, unlike all those other dirty, uppity negroes. I'm willing to concede that Biden didn't mean it like that, but fer chrissakes, man! Think a little about what you're saying. Not likely I was going to vote for Biden anyway, but here's hoping this torpedoes his candidacy. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:38:00 AM | Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Content-Free Blogging The next few days will be relatively content-free - I'll post little placekeepers, but some new stuff going down in the office will make it difficult for any extended entries. * - This was actually posted via email this morning, but stoopid Blogger decided not to publish it. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:32:00 PM | Monday, January 29, 2007
| Sunday, January 28, 2007
Good Movie Saw Pan's Labyrinth last night with Melissa and it's stunning. The cinematography, the acting, the story - they all work to make it a very magical (yet still grittily real) film. Very much worth seeing, and easily the best movie I've seen all year. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 12:37:00 PM | Saturday, January 27, 2007
Draw Your Own Conclusion
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 3:34:00 PM | Friday, January 26, 2007
Oh, For Fuck's Sake! Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates: Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday. My goodness! That's quite an ambitious list. They must've planned on getting up very early in the morning to get through all those names. School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny. MY GOD! The ENERGIZER BUNNY??!!!! THIS MUST BE STOPPED! "I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence," Huth said. "On the other hand, had this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names." Yes, and maybe if you clap your hands hard enough, a fairy will come and grant a wish and we'll ALL HAVE PONIES!!!! There was no evidence that the girls had weapons or that an attack had been imminent, Huth said. No evidence... but there could have been! They did find a pair of tweezers that could possibly have been used to take out that bunny's batteries... The girls, ages 14 and 15, were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide late Wednesday and taken to a juvenile facility. A juvenile court detention hearing was set Friday in Dunlap, about 40 miles northwest of Chattanooga. Thank God those little thugs will be placed where they can learn the error of their ways! Sophomore Lakyn Ledford stayed home Thursday after learning that student-athletes were on the list. Yes, it could happen - but I'm willing to bet that if someone had a list of "people to kill" that included Oprah, Tom Cruise and the Ener-fucking-gizer BUNNY, if they had no weapons and no actual, you know, plans, then you can safely write them off as a real threat. Sure, give them a stern talking-to, maybe suspend them for a few days and possibly even send them to a therapist, but jail time? For that? Yeesh. Grow some stones, people. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:39:00 AM | Thursday, January 25, 2007
Grrr I was cleaning behind the washer and dryer today (there were serious lint rhinos back there) and the cart we keep our detergent and suchlike on tipped over, spilling a bottle of bleach on a basket of my clothes. Total damage: 1 pair black dockers, 1 pair green dockers, 1 denim shirt, 1 hawaiian shirt and the new pair of jeans I was wearing. I am, needless to say, rather upset. Part of the reason I dropped the money I did on the jacket today was because I was finally in a place where I had enough nice work clothes that I didn't need to go out and buy more that fit. In light of the above, you will he happy to know this: You have a 24% chance of going postal!
Good news! You're not very likely to kill your coworkers. You seem very well adjusted. You rock! Talk about those feelings! posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:50:00 PM | New Duds! Checking the after-season sales, I found this on sale. Since I've really been needing a new jacket, I bought it. I think I look darn good in it. Too bad I couldn't find this one in the store, though: 
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 4:26:00 PM | Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Pinkeye! Fran's home for the day with a possible case of pinkeye, so we're off to the doctor in a few minutes. Wheeeeeee! posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 12:40:00 PM | Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Can't You Just Smell The Mendacity? It fairly oozes off the page, a tangible stench of lies and evil. Elizabeth Cheney's apple didn't fall far from her father's tree at all. She tells us that "Retreat Isn't An Option, then proceeds to dribble out the same half-baked, idiotic bullshit her father has tried to cram down our throats for the last 6 years. It's enough to gag a goddamn maggot. Sen. Hillary Clinton declared this weekend, " I'm in to win." Anyone who has watched her remarkable trajectory can have no doubt that she'll do whatever it takes to win the presidency. I wish she felt the same way about the war.Sometimes, you blithering ninny, you need to actually, I don't know, have an enemy to fight in a war. Adjectives like "terror" are incredibly useful if you're just after an Orwellian permanent state of war, but damned useless if you're looking for practical results. In fairness, Clinton, with her proposal for arbitrary caps on troop levels and hemming and hawing about her vote for the war resolution, has company on both sides of the aisle. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is the only national Democrat showing any courage on this issue. We Republicans -- with help from senators such as Chuck Hagel -- seem ready to race the Democrats to the bottom.Oh, dearie me! "Joementum" is the only Democrat still acting like your dad's prison bitch! I'm so sorry to hear that, especially since some members of his own party have realized that hitching their wagons to the rapidly plummeting, amazingly incompetent star of Bush and Cheney might not be a good idea. I'd like to ask the politicians in both parties who are heading for the hills to stop and reflect on these basic facts:Facts. Interesting word, coming from Dick Cheney's daughter. You might wish to get to know a few facts before you urge others to reflect upon them - of course, that might make you think, and as the rest of this barely-Freshman-comp-level piece shows, you're not to keen on that. We are at war. America faces an existential threat. This is not, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed, a "situation to be solved." It would be nice if we could wake up tomorrow and say, as Sen. Barack Obama suggested at a Jan. 11 hearing, "Enough is enough." Wishing doesn't make it so. We will have to fight these terrorists to the death somewhere, sometime. We can't negotiate with them or "solve" their jihad. If we quit in Iraq now, we must get ready for a harder, longer, more deadly struggle later.Yes, as a matter of fact, we are at war. We are currently mired in a bloodly, pointless war that your father helped get us into, apparently for the sole purpose of killing tens of thousands of Americans and Iraqis and making his Halliburton stock go up. And I love how you right wing morons throw about the term "existential threat". No, Al Qaeda is not an existential threat to America. Nor is Iran. Now, if you want to talk "existential threats", we can discuss the erosion of civil liberties, the squelching of dissent, repudiation of habeas corpus, torture, illegal detentions, extraordinary rendition, pandering to the totalitarian religious right and all sorts of other things. You, Ms. Cheney, you and your ilk are the existential threat. We don't have to fight the terrorists to the death anywhere. There are all kinds of alternate solutions. The years of hard work it's going to take to even start reversing the damage your father and his cronies have done to our nation's international standing will take years, if not decades. Withdrawing from Iraq now allows us to start that much sooner - and the longer we wait to start, the more work it'll take to get it done. Quitting helps the terrorists. Few politicians want to be known as spokesmen for retreat. Instead we hear such words as "redeployment," "drawdown" or "troop cap." Let's be clear: If we restrict the ability of our troops to fight and win this war, we help the terrorists. Don't take my word for it. Read the plans of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Ayman Zawahiri to drive America from Iraq, establish a base for al-Qaeda and spread jihad across the Middle East. The terrorists are counting on us to lose our will and retreat under pressure. We're in danger of proving them right.Ummmm, no. No it doesn't. Invading Iraq helps the terrorists. Abu Ghraib helps the terrorists. Guantanamo Bay helps the terrorists. Every woman and child killed by an American bomb or American bullet helps the terrorists. The massive corruption your father and his cronies fostered in Iraq helps the terrorists. Hell, even the stunningly inept federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita helps the terrorists. Our military is already pushed to the breaking point, and the time that increased troop levels could have prevented the worst of the bloody chaos we see in Iraq has passed - it passed long ago. Beware the polls. In November the American people expressed serious concerns about Iraq (and about Republican corruption and scandals). They did not say that they want us to lose this war. They did not say that they want us to allow Iraq to become a base for al-Qaeda to conduct global terrorist operations. They did not say that they would rather we fight the terrorists here at home. Until you see a poll that asks those questions, don't use election results as an excuse to retreat.No, the American citizens didn't say they wanted to lose the war. They also didn't say that the moon is made of cheese, or that badgers should be made our supreme overlords. Personally, I'd rather not fight the terrorists at all. I'd rather out-clever them - remove their moral legitimacy in the eyes of the world and then arrest them, give them a fair trial and put them in prison. That seems to work much better. But, you see, I have a fucking brain, something that seems to be somewhat lacking in the Cheney family (along with such trivial things as a sense of empathy or basic morality, but I digress). Retreat from Iraq hurts us in the broader war. We are fighting the war on terrorism with allies across the globe, leaders such as Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan and Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan. Brave activists are also standing with us, fighting for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the empowerment of women. They risk their lives every day to defeat the forces of terrorism. They can't win without us, and many of them won't continue to fight if they believe we're abandoning them. Politicians urging America to quit in Iraq should explain how we win the war on terrorism once we've scared all of our allies away.Whaaaa? The broader "war" is nothing right now. We're losing what progress we'd made in Afghanistan because we shifted our focus to a pointless and unwinnable fight in Iraq. Our troops could have made the difference at Tora Bora, could have captured Osama bin Laden (remember him?) and cut off the head of Al Qaeda at one stroke. Instead we stabbed Hamid Karzai in the back, leaving him the master of the few hundred square miles surrounding Kabul. Musharraf isn't an ally, either. He talks a good game, but his government has effectively ceded control of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan to tribes supportive of Osama bin Laden. He continues to support terrorist attacks against India over the status of Kashmir. His government has spread more nuclear secrets and technology around than any other nation. His nation is a primary conduit for money going to and from Al Qaeda. Right now, we have one real ally in the "war": Great Britain - and even Bush's lapdog Tony Blair has said he's not participating in the "surge". As soon as Blair's gone, Britain's gone. The allies we supported and protected during the Cold War - so-called "Old Europe" - have walked away. They tried to warn us off, but we didn't listen. Your father derided and threatened them, and so they walked away. What about Iran? There is no doubt that an American retreat from Iraq will embolden Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, making it even less likely that the Iranian president will bend to the will of the international community and halt his nuclear weapons program.The more we rattle our sabers at Iran, the more support Ahmadinejad has. Iran is at least a decade away from a bomb, and Ahmadinejad has much, much less time than that remaining in office before the next election. Trying to bully Iran into giving up the program - or worse, invading or bombing - will just make Ahmadinejad's reelection a certainty. Without him in office, we stand a much better chance of halting Iran's nuclear program. There's no incentive otherwise. Saddam Hussein halted his nuclear program, and look what it got him - lynched in a basement by Moqtada al Sadr's thugs. Kim il Sung restarted his program, and the US won't touch him. Pakistan has nukes, and they get respect. Our soldiers will win if we let them. Read their blogs. Talk to them. They know that free people must fight to defend their freedom. No force on Earth -- especially not an army of terrorists and insurgents -- can defeat our soldiers militarily. American troops will win if we show even one-tenth the courage here at home that they show every day on the battlefield. And by the way, you cannot wish failure on our soldiers' mission and claim, at the same time, to be supporting the troops. It just doesn't compute.Hey, if you guys really wanted the soldiers to win, perhaps you should've picked a fight that could be won, or at least given them the equipment they needed. Soldiers I know don't see the point of Iraq. Enlistment is down, even though the Army's lowered its acceptance standards. The soldiers there want to come home, and we should do that. Too many Americans have died or been maimed for your father's little vanity project. There's nothing to show for their sacrifice, nothing but Halliburton's balance sheet thanks to your father's no-bid contracts. That, and an ever-widening pool of blood and carnage in Iraq. I suppose Hillary Clinton's announcement was a sign of progress. In 2007, a woman can run for president and show the same level of courage and conviction about this war many of her male colleagues have. Steel in the spine? Not so much.Golly gee, Lizzie! If only everyone had your courage. With people like you fighting for us in Iraq, we'll surely win! Oh, wait. We don't - you're another of the chattering cowards, an honorary member of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders. Like Rice and Rush and Hannity and O'Reilley and the rest of the 82nd Chairborne, you're much happier feeding other peoples' children into the meatgrinder rather than admit you're wrong. America deserves better. It's time for everyone -- Republicans and Democrats -- to stop trying to find ways for America to quit. Victory is the only option. We must have the fortitude and the courage to do what it takes. In the words of Winston Churchill, we must deserve victory.Yes, America does deserve better. That's a large part of the results of the last election - America is tired of a president that thinks he's a king, tired of a vice president that thinks he's a dictator. Tired of corruption, tired of throwing good money down the toilet, tired of young men and women fighting and dying for nothing. We deserve something more than you and your ilk. Victory is not the only option, it's not even an option right now. At this point, all we can do is get out before we make it worse. Now how 'bout you shut your goddamn pie-hole and quit blocking progress, OK? Like your father and your quisling sister and the rest of the Neo-con crime syndicate, you're a parasite - a fat, bloated tick sucking at the lifeblood of our nation. Time to burn the ticks off, I say. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:53:00 AM | Monday, January 22, 2007
Who Didn't See This Coming? In case you missed it, Governor Assbag had his little inaugural party last week, and psychotic bigot Ted Nugent was the headliner. Using machine guns as props, Nugent, 58, appeared onstage as the final act of the inaugural ball wearing a cutoff T-shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and shouting offensive remarks about non-English speakers, according to people who were in attendance.Well, I don't know about you, but I'm shocked.I mean, who could have imagined that a second-rate former star with a reputation for bigotry and flat-out crazy-ass public statements would have ever done something like that? Perry's spokesman, Robert Black, downplayed the Tuesday-night incident.Suuuuuuure he didn't. Perry's reelection depended in large part upon tapping into the xenophobic vein that Nugent represents. Perry knew what he was getting when he tapped Nugent. Lie down with dogs, Governor Assbag, get up with fleas. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 10:21:00 AM | Sunday, January 21, 2007
Yeargh We're a season behind on Battlestar Galactica. It's been hard to catch up just because of schedules, flaky DVD players and a lack of DVDs of Season 2. Finally, we got our hands on Season 2.0 and watched the last 3 episodes in a row, grooving on the thrills and chills. Except. The last season ended on a cliffhanger. So until we get our hands on Season 2.5, we're left in the dark. Argh. In news of the good, Nathan Fillion's going to be in the new Tim Minear series Drive starting in April, and Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver are doing The Riches on FX. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 2:34:00 PM | Friday, January 19, 2007
Wonderland Rules The Bushistas operate under Wonderland rules. "No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first--verdict afterwards.": If you don't believe me, just ask Jose Padilla, who got his sentence first, and still waits for his verdict. Ask the hundreds of other men tortured in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and dozens of hidden prisons around the world. Ask Maher Arar. The latest example of their insane twisting of the Constitution and the rule of law is from Alberto "The Torturer" Gonzales' appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. "When _I_ use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take it away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus?Let's see that again: "It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended." Gonzales is deliberately engaging in doubletalk here - it's his only hope of avoiding outright perjury. Here's what the Constitution has to say: Article 1, Section 9:: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.Shall not be suspended. As it doesn't mention any other exceptions, that means that Habeas Corpus applies to everyone in the United States. Everyone. Men, women and children. Rich and poor. Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Pagans, Atheists and Agnostics. The descendants of Pilgrims and slaves, immigrants and natives. Everyone. The principle of Habeas Corpus goes back to the 12th Century, when King Henry II of England allowed prisoners to submit themselves to the King's justice rather than the justice of their own lord. It is the bedrock of Western civil rights - the only civil right the Framers specified in the original test of the Constitution. It has been described as "...the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action." Yes, it has been suspended in the United States. Abraham Lincoln suspended it twice, in 1861 and 1862. In 1866, however, the Supreme Court ruled that Lincoln's suspension was unconstitutional. As legal principles go, then, Habeas Corpus is a Big Deal. For Gonzales to claim that the words "shall not be suspended" exist in some sort of contextual vacuum that allows his boss to order the imprisonment and torture of people without charge or trial is insane. Saying "It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended." is much like saying, "The law doesn't say I can't kill someone, just that I can't commit homicide or manslaughter." It's like a Klansman saying, "I'm not anti-semitic! I don't hate Arabs, just Jews." This, and other statements and actions like it (warrantless wiretaps, Pentagon snooping into bank records, the "no-fly list", etc. ad nauseum) are why Bush and his criminal gang need to be thrown out of office and, after a fair trial, into prison. Worst. President. Ever. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:29:00 AM | Thursday, January 18, 2007
Apparently, I have been tagged Adrienne did it. Since it's a slow day for me, I'll play along. So here goes: The Rules: Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you." People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 10:53:00 AM | Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Fuckin' NINJA ACTION, BAYBEEEE!
Those results just make me want to flip out. Like a ninja. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 1:51:00 PM | Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Snow Day No school, no office - though I have had to stay logged in and work from home today. Ye Gods, I hope it eases up tomorrow. I'm almost out of wine. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 3:59:00 PM | Monday, January 15, 2007
Cabin Fever Took today off so I could wrangle the kids on their holiday. The (mild) winter weather (30-32F) has sent Austin into a serious tizzy - the city's supply of eggs, milk and bread has been depleted. (And I've never understood that - what do people think, that they're required to make french toast in the event of inclement weather?) The freezing rain means the kids need to stay inside, so they've been picking at each other all day in an escalating cycle of provocations, reprisals and Time Outs in their rooms. Lord, I hope school's not cancelled tomorrow. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:32:00 PM | Sunday, January 14, 2007
Dancin' With Who Brung Him Hat tip to Mick Arran for this link: IRS going soft on corporations in audits. Top officials at the Internal Revenue Service are pushing agents to prematurely close audits of big companies with agreements to have them pay only a fraction of the additional taxes that could be collected, according to dozens of I.R.S. employees who say that the policy is costing the government billions of dollars a year.For all the noise the GOP makes about the importance of obeying the law, they sure are soft on crime - and corporate tax-cheat schemes are about as criminal as they get. The billions of dollars they siphon out of the economy are dollars that should go to pay down the deficits Bush and his rubber-stamp congress have given us over the last 6 years. They could pay for health care for the millions of Americans that currently lack it. Those dollars could pay for drug rehabilitation programs, educational grants, they could pay to fix the horrible medicare drug plan, for dental care for senior citizens, to fund "No Child Left Behind" - there are so many things that could be funded but aren't, all thanks to Bush's decision to suck up to his corporate masters. Corporations are perhaps the greatest threat to our nation existing today. The corporate media aid and abet the rape of our democracy, corporations protest laws that might cost them money, corporate executives get paid obscene amounts for doing nothing but firing American workers and wrecking the environment. Still think there's not a class war going on? posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 3:34:00 PM | Saturday, January 13, 2007
How Cool Is This? Drew's a big reader - if he had his way, we'd have to go to the library and the bookstore every other day. He finished all his Christmas books, and has been prowling our bookshelves looking for more books. He's got into Andre Norton and I've pimped ERB and RAH at him. Yesterday, Drew was looking for more books. On a hunch, I offered him my copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel. His first rection: "Didn't they make a Looney Tunes of this with Daffy Duck called 'The Scarlet Pumpernickel'?" I explained the basic plot of the novel and he responded enthusiastically. That night, I went to turn off his light when I went to bed and he was asleep on top of the book. Today, I played the Richard Grant/Elizabeth McGovern Scarlet Pimpernel for him on DVD and he loved it. Heh. No doubting he's my son. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 6:35:00 PM | Friday, January 12, 2007
Welcome Back! I'm updating my blogroll again - Mick Arran, erstwhile writer of a number of darn good blogs, political and literary, is back. His new blog is Witness for the Prosecution, and it looks to be a corker. I've missed Mick's no-nonsense analysis, and it's damn good to have him back. Gitcher asses over there and read some, man. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:54:00 AM | Thursday, January 11, 2007
And Yet The Bastard People Are Still Alive Robert Anton Wilson died today. Fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck. I always wanted to get to meet him, and now I can't. From all accounts, he was a fundamentally decent human being, which is more than could be said for a lot of people, including the sociopathic monster that is our president. Farewell to a writer whose words entertained me, annoyed me and made me think. Hail Eris. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:43:00 PM | Melissa's Latest Resolute Imperfection New year, new resolutions. I'm a big believer in goals and I like to make plans; unlike many people, I actually enjoy making New Year's resolutions. But his year I'm trying to scale back. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:39:00 AM | Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Nothing To It Yep, that "global warming" thing is just hype and hysteria! posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 1:07:00 PM | Tuesday, January 09, 2007
No Truce With Kings Rudyard Kipling's words still ring true: ...Trumpets of the Vanguard that have sworn no truce with Kings! The Republicans in the House and Senate, along with their sycophants in the Punditocracy, have begun bleating that now is the time for "civility" and an "end to partisan bickering". How cute - after spending the last 12 years controlling both houses of congress, accusing Bill Clinton of every crime imaginable, from taking bribes to rape and murder, after their impeachment of a sitting president for the horrible crime of not wanting to admit he got a blowjob, after the last 6 years of being a rubber stamp for the worst president ever, after eagerly tarring the Democratic Party with the "treason" brush, after 12 years of unrestrained graft and corruption and sleaze, after all that, now they want to make it all about making nice and being decent to people. Just like a bully - the minute you smack a bully down, he becomes sweetness and light, your best friend ever, sucking up to you like a dog that wants your table scraps. Don't turn your back on him, though, because the minute you let your guard down, he'll do his damndest to take you down. The Republicans in Congress got their asses handed to them in November, and they're running scared - they thought the Democrats were safely neutered, that they were all cowed and compliant and no threat to them. They thought that they'd pulled the wool over the eyes of the American public. More fools they. Needless to say, they were as unprepared for their staggering losses in the last election as a schoolyard bully is for the punch that sends him spinning to the ground. For 12 years, they considered themselves an aristocracy - above the law, bound by no rules of morality or ethics. Now it's time for them to pay the piper, and now they develop a passion for obedience to the rule of law and to fair play? Don't you belive it. It's time to hammer them, and hammer them hard. To teach them that the high crimes and misdemeanors of an out-of-control, sociopathic monster in the White House do not deserve a pardon, that plundering the public treasury is not business as usual, that the least among us deserve to be treated the same as the rich and powerful. It's time to make sure these bullies understand that fair does not mean merciful, and that the Democrats have been merciful for far too long. No truce with kings, no easy way out for Bush and his fellow criminals. They've got a lot coming to them, and I want them to get everything they deserve. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:15:00 PM | Monday, January 08, 2007
FYI... To all friends at home and abroad, I'd like to reassure you that this isn't anywhere near where Melissa or I live or work. Nothing to see here, move along. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 10:01:00 AM | Yet Another Shocking Quiz Result Your results: You are Dr. Doom
Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:15:00 AM | Sunday, January 07, 2007
Woo And Hoo Got a lead on a used beer brewing rig - I think I've got the goods to trade for it, which means Adam's Dubious Home Brewery might be in operation sooner than I thought. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:49:00 PM | Saturday, January 06, 2007
Who You Gonna Believe? Tony Snow, or your lyin' eyes? This is classic - the kind of bullshit we've been getting from the White House and their asslickers (paid and volunteer) for the last 6 years. We constantly hear, "The Democrats don't have a plan! All they want to do is hate on the preznit!" - this, when the Democrats have presented plan after plan, proposal after proposal only to get shut out by the GOP leadership in the House and Senate - and then the lapdog media somehow fails to mention the whole proposal thing and the empty-headed pundits proclaim there is no plan and it goes round and round and round. As I've mentioned everywhere else, any plan - even "cut and run" (which no Democrat has actually proposed) - is better than the current disaster, and is tons better than the McCain/Lieberman "surge". It's like when you're riding in a car that's headed for a cliff. The first thing you have to do is TURN AWAY FROM THE FUCKING CLIFF. Until you're no longer on a beeline for oblivion, it doesn't matter a good goddamn what "plan" you have. PUT ON THE BRAKES OR TURN THE CAR - that's all that matters. So, the White House is acting like a husband that's been caught with his dick in his sister-in-law's mouth and instead of having the decency to admit he's busted, he - without even pulling out or wiping his dick - looks at his wife and says, "Honey? Who you gonna believe - me, or your lyin' eyes?" So. Who're you gonna believe? posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 5:01:00 PM | Friday, January 05, 2007
Real Life Sorting through some job stuff at the moment, which is preventing me from really exercising my spleen the way it needs to be, what with all the conservative/neo-clown stupidity out there. Carry on. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:16:00 AM | Thursday, January 04, 2007
Shocked, SHOCKED!
Later today, why George Will is a teeny-weenied asswipe. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:03:00 AM | Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Seven Years Ago More precisely, seven years and about 6 hours ago, I held a tiny, tightly swaddled baby girl in my arms. Red-faced and crying, she wriggled and kicked in my arms as I carried her to be weighed and measured. I sang to her and let her wrap her tiny hand around my finger and finally got to place her in Melissa's arms to nurse while my mother and our midwife looked on. Seven years later, Francesca is a soccer ace and a Brownie, a creative, clever, active, dramatic, opinionated, enthusiastic little girl. She's not my baby girl any more. Seven years is the blink of an eye to a parent, but it's a lifetime to a child. Happy birthday to my daughter, and many, many more. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:29:00 AM | Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Night At The Museum Took the big kids to see Night At The Museum today. It's not bad - not great, but not bad. Good flick to see with the kids, and it had some good bits - Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs had great roles (although smaller than they should've been). Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan as, respectively, a cowboy and centurion, were entertaining to watch. Robin Williams was, for once, restrained. All in all, nice popcorn fare. I also saw the trailers for Transformers and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The first looks like it might be a halfway decent Blowing Shit Up Real Good Flick, the second like it will be mediocre at best, except for the bits with the Silver Surfer. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:19:00 PM | Monday, January 01, 2007
Slappy New Year! Well, 2007 is here. Meet the new year, same as the old year, eh? Still lots to look forward to - the Democrats are promising investigations of some of the Bushistas' excesses, the new Harry Potter book, a new job for me, that beer and cheese I intend to make, and lots more. Ranty Goodness will pick up in the very near future, so you've got that to look forward to as well. posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:10:00 AM | |
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