BLCKDGRD

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG

United went to Chicago and beat Chicago using Chicago's ugly disgusting bullying tactics and I sang hallelujah. I'm asked, how do I separate my politics and my soccer and I say, huh?

Obama is suckbucketful. McCain is calling him (and by extension anyone who supports Obama) a traitor as I type this sentence. I expect Obama's nuanced response promptly.

Fleabus?

Fellow Crackerstanis, I knew Obama need avoid Angry-Negro Syndrome, but McCain is rallying the Confederacy without needing to scream NIGGER!, stroking the Necks of Red with the very taunts he'd use against Hillary Kerry Gore, and rube that I am, this pisses me off.

I've long abandoned hope in Obama's .06% chance of exceptionality, but lordy, his bucketsuckfulness astounds as much as frustrates. Four years to prepare for the same Rovian tactics as always, and Obama thinks nuance suddenly sells in America.

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• “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.
• Pastor Gerson and Bill Kristol both mwahaha that John McCain outperformed Obama in the eyes of christers who were never going to vote for Obama in the first place. Jeebus in Crackerstan.
• Frank Rich notes that McCain is a shitty human. But he was tortured, so there.
• PUMAs are morons with martrydom delusions. I mean, don't vote for Obama if you weren't going to vote for HRC, don't vote for Obama because you realize the entire system is rigged, but voting for McCain because Obama isn't HRC?
• Sub-head of this Salon article reads: Busting the myths about cheap and unlimited oil being broadcast by Rush Limbaugh, Jerome Corsi and other ignoramuses. Why assume they're ignoramuses just because they speak gospel to ignoramuses, ignoramus.
• Doom Patrol.
• Dr. Doom says you just think you're fucked.
• Surveillance State.
• Thomas Frank, the Liberal Juvenal?
• 5th calls for restatement of principles.
  
• I won't forbid, but I can wish Planet wouldn't read this dreck. (She does say the latest one sucks.)
• George Martin is still alive and taking credit?
• The question isn't whether Jon Stewart is the most influential person on television, the question is why Michiko Kakutani is writing this article.
• Friday Hope Blogging.
• How to baconfy your bourbon.

Updates later. Or not.

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Buying these old farts' new one today.

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What I've heard on KEXP so far is promising, but I'm old.

Eno is God. His great four are going to that silly island where options are limited.

Hamster Advice!

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Looking for om in August, Fleabus? Hamster advice!

August sucks. Damn August and everyone born in August. Especially bloggers born in August.

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• Memo to HRC presupposes she's bigger than she wasn't.
• Tinfoiled?
• The indestructible core of my rubity is my inability to relax and enjoy the stupid.
• Maybe not, but probably so.
• Krugman: it's 1913 all over again.
• Who's just like Hitler today?
• So much for that trial balloon.
• (Right)Wingman, fuck-buddy.
• America as pedophile priest.
• Savage coward.
• God does play dice, or Elect the Pope: The Game.
• Slots. Meh.
• Kafka's Dick.
• Obama's top-ten list is cynical, McCain's is lame.
• 29 instrumentals by bands that sing, w/mp3!

Updates later. Or not.

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Why should we look for comfort in poetry?

MARBLE-SIZED SONG

Albert Goldbarth

Does she love you? She says yes, but really
how do you know unless you undress that easy assertion,
undoing its petals and laminae, and going in
below all trace of consciousness, into the neuroelectrical
coffer where self-understanding is storaged away,
and then lifting its uttermost molecule out, to study
in its nakedness as it spins
in a clinical light?—the way
we all, in our various individual versions
of this common human urge, go in,
and in, and in, the physicist down
to the string-vibration underlying matter, and
the Appalachia fiddler getting so
(as she puts it) "into my music," sound becomes
a flesh for her to intimately ("in"-timately)
enter, "its thick and its sweetbreads."
Is he cheating on you? He says no, and feigns
that he's insulted, but for certainty
you'll need to delicately strip the bark away
and drill, and tweeze, until you can smear a microscope slide
of the pith and can augur the chitterlings
—the way the philosopher can't accept a surface
assumption of truth, but needs to peel back
the fatty sheen of the dermis, soak the cambium layer
into a blow-away foam, and then with pick
and lightbeam helmet, inch by inch begin
spelunking through those splayed-out caverns
under the crust, where gems of cogitation are buried
—the way the diver descends for the pearl,
the miner: in, the archaeologist: in, the therapist: down
the snakier roots of us and in, and in, the way
the lone, leg-pretzeled yogi makes
a glowing bathysphere of worldliness and sends it in,
and further in, tinier and heavier and ever in,
the way the man in the opium den is floating forever,
toward a horizon positioned in the center of the center
of his head.... If we could stand beyond the border
of our species and consider us objectively, it might seem
that our purpose in existing is to be a living agency
that balances, or maybe even slows, the universe's
irreversible expansion out, and out ... and each
of us, a contribution to that task.
My friend John's wife received the news: a "growth,"
a "mass," on her pituitary, marble-sized, mysterious.
And the primary-care physician said: Yes,
we must go in and in. That couldn't be the final word!
And the second-opinion physician said: Yes,
my sweet-and-shivering-one,
my fingerprint-and-irisprint-uniqueness,
someone's-dearest, you
who said the prayers at Juliette's grave, who drove
all night from Switzerland with your daughter, you
on this irreplaceable day in your irreplaceable skin
in the scumbled light as it crosses the bay in Corpus Christi,
yes in the shadows, yes in the radiance,
yes we must go in and in.

Saturday is the August of Blogging Days, and August is the February of Summer

I'm going outside to play.

Fine Damnlessness Abounds

Not damnlessness, August's blurry focus.

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• Entertain me. I mean, who's Obama gonna lose, people who won't vote for him under any circumstances? (Which is why McCain will always poll at least 42%, so chill.)
• Ioz reminds you to follow the money.
• Agi reminds you to follow the empire.
• Pastor Gerson wants you to know he's not religiously infantile.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Goat Sleaze.
• Colin McKenzie-GUDE?
• I don't see many movies, but I will see this.
• Lit-linky goodness.

Updates later. Or not.

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When a chickenhawk asks you about the existential threat of al-Q:

Debate Tips

 

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• Send good thoughts to Unqualified Dog and her trained human.
• I don't want to look at Cindy McCain's tits, no matter her husband wants me to.
• On Obama as anti-Christ once, twice, thrice.
• Marty Peretz can write this sentence, "Nicholas D. Kristof has the vanity of the absolutely righteous," without giggling.
• In which I agree w/Drum: chill. 
• I love Julie Doiron. Always have.

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Obama as anti-Christ?

EXCELLENT! I've just sent Obamantichrist $20!

But, Fleabus, you told me you were the anti-Christ?

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Why the hell did you think I was buying you Iams rather than Purina?

And I'd Do It Again

Obamadmiration makes me feel obamasinine, so it's not love when I obamapplaud obamarmy for not just returning fire but opening fire (he says from a completely morally-neutral spectator of game-playing perch, urp).

Obama play the race card? I kinda look like Eisenhower, but a dime's worth shit anyway even if you kept them in your wallet.

If Obama's strategists, my friends, think poking a half-daft ballistically-tempered time bomb is a good idea, I scream POKE! and GOAD! my friends, POKE! and GOAD!

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• Race card? Black man and white skanks is race card? Oh my!
• Pastor Gerson likes Kaine, which disqualifies Kaine in my book.
• The world's second most shitty human (Blanco won) hates Pelosi, which increases Pelosi's points in my book.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• If you haven't read Ed on future of newspapers and litblogs, do.
• Bob Barr will be 44th president?
• Exactly right.
• Ana Popovic?
• Obama's too fit to be elected. No, really.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Today's birthday has chinacat sunflowers on Franklin's Tower.

UPDATES

• Babs signals she's running for re-election.
• Marysurveillanceland.
• Going through the motions.
• Just because Joe Klein is saying things now one agrees with doesn't mean he isn't the same stooge he was when he was saying things you don't.
• Does enjoying Rachel Maddow slap Pat Buchanan to stuttering rage implicate me in any toxic-stank of complicity?
• Clarksburg Historical District?
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Jack? Shit.
• Like you need another reason to hate Wal-Mart.
• Hey, someone writing about Elkin! (h/t Mark)
• Eclectic bunch of downloads.
  

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OK, click on that to see just how good a photograph that is. It's even more astonishing when downloaded to your desktop and set as your wallpaper. Yes, Planet is a genius. Send me an email if you want it and I'll mail it to you.

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In my head. Be in yours.

Reminder

All Fleabus photos by Planet.

Ask Fleabus!

Fleabus, if a black man wearing a Che-beret and a Malcolm X t-shirt burst into pig-evangelical church and gunned down congregants in the name of hating conservatives, would that effectively end Obama's viability?

It's only July, mofos.

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• Not guests. Not hosts.
• Post editorial board sucks. And?
• Cohen: Obama may be "near-perfect," but he can't chub me like McCain.
• War without end w/...... Obama.
• The re-education of Greenwald or, we are the enemy.
• We are the enemy.
• We are the enemy.
• We are the enemy.
• We are the enemy.
• Goldberg uses proxies to say Obama's blackityblackblackity.
• Moco police don't want to be monitored.
• Dubious social science work.
• Boatload of good music.
• Bolano short story. Good, but my toes didn't curl. It must be me.
• Death of cassette tapes.

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In my head, be in yours:

Polling the Obvious

      

DOGPOLL! Is Charles Krauthammer the shittiest human on the planet? YES, and he should be ground into mulch and fed to goats. NO, but he's a close second to Cuauhtemoc Blanco. YES but since he prides himself on it, my voting YES implicates me in his shittiness. view results

Today's evidence.

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• Getting away w/torture.
• Good thing Obama's double-downed on Afghanistan, yes?
• Packing Fudge.
• The (second) worse reason to support Obama.
• If self-righteousness could kill.
• Liberals and the Cold War.
• Will Christians sell Kaka to Scientologists?
• 25 most modern libraries in the world (h/t Ed)
• Patriotism and the United States of Nike: Perfectly, unintentionally, ironically apt.
• Mean streets of Silver Spring.
• !wOOt! ICC! !wOOt! Adding.

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Fleabus, Kitten Warz?

Oh, it's on again.

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OH! Thurston Moore is 50 today!

No One Reads Blogs on Saturday, But I Know There Will Be At Least Two Posts Tomorrow, So....

Obama is vetting blog-hero Chris Dodd for veep, and Dodd’s interest is confirmed. Next season, in MLS, there likely will be a league-weakening if not league-crippling if not league-destroying labor strike. Mofos, you know how rubystupid I am. 

I need daily reminder that Obama, if elected, will spasm Charles Krauthammer to tongue-biting fury, and until I swear off my benefits as drone in this empire, on bad days that's good enough for me.

Here’s my obamapostasy: I’m too smart to have bought obamartinis and bought them anyway, but I’m not smart enough to enjoy them served over ground glass with a splash of Clorox. 

There’s fun to be had if I just get smart enough to have it.

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• ODB's honorable righteousness.
• American Gulag - someone ask O if he'll order its abolishment on day one.
• Telling it like it is.
• Emerging Left/Libertarian alliance?
• This really says it all.
• On patriotism and photoshopping.
• Top 100 Liberal professor blogs? (h/t Cliopatria)
• Look at the top four. Make vomit noise of choice.
• Snow falls in July.
• Why did the Founding Fathers hate America?
• Fat pig for Fredneck.
• Purple Line: Fuck the Colombia Country Club.
• Greenbelt United.

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Anything?