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Pig Morals: A Public Debate

Was offered tickets and made my first trip here two days ago:

Meh, I'll spare me the recital of issues why I transformed from a guy who spent 30 days a year in the upper right-field deck of Memorial Stadium in the 80s to a guy who now finds baseball utterly unwatchable, so I'll just say the new stadium is nice enough (though not nearly as nice as Camden Yards) and Metro sucks and leave that there. (Both Earthgirl and Planet turned to me in the second and third innings respectively and said, Boy, are United games so much better. Yes, yes they are.)

But, on the way home, waiting for a train with Earthgirl and Planet at Gallery Place, we were entertained by three Young Republicans, McCain-button emblazoned, loudly debating what constitutes cheating on girlfriends. After three minutes of arguing whether blowjobs from hookers is cheating (they couldn't reach agreement, two insisting it wasn't as long as the hooker didn't swallow), a limit was clearly defined by the most loutish of the three, who declared, so that everyone in Gallery Place could hear, if you put peanut butter on your balls and let your dog lick it off, that isn't cheating.

Thankfully the train came just as they began debating whether letting a male dog lick the peanut butter off your balls makes you gay.

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• Spite works.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Ignatius spurts his McCain circle jerk.
• Photoshop of the day. Or is it this one?
• The minute I start thinking kind thoughts about Hillary Clinton, Lanny Davis up and dashes them.
• On fucktardness.
• On meaningless polling.
• Long bedtime story.
• An argument against Kaine.
• Pig, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Framing and memetic warfare.
• Box turtles are narcs.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Acid reflections.
• Tuesday morning, White Flint Mall.

UPDATES

• Is it Obammukah yet?
• Chirp, or: Frag Dana Milbank.
• Billmon? Billmon!
• The McCain campaign knows it sucks.
• Another voice against Kaine.
• Elric 7 in Vladivostok.
  

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Broderignatiancohen ballad to McCainlove!

Reminder

All Fleabus photos by Planet.

Some People Call Me Maurice, 'Cause I Speak of the Obamapompatus of Love

Suppose Gangster of Love Obamapompatus is elected to the presidency elevated to the throne and immediately orders mandatory faggotry for Toby Keith air-guitaring rednecks, what beyond a dramatic increase in fertilizer and motor oil and detonation-cap sales will be directly affected?

Domestic spying and telephone eavesdropping and infiltration of domestic militias might seem a smidgen less odious once necky-patriots start the American intifada, think?

S'funny how everyone gets what they wanted only when the other side gets it, when what was wanted is suddenly the evilest evil in the evil history of an evil world.

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• Marysurveillanceland.
• Let's play: If I Were a Right Wing Blogger.
• Opiate of the masses?
• News 2012: London as Beijing.
• Balance fetish: not just for shitty newspaper's political coverage.
• 2008 Bookers announced. Someone smart recommended the Barry to me just yesterday (and will be very pissed Tim Winton's new one didn't make it, but then, he mentions Winton and Nobel in the same sentence, don't you GO'B?).
• AOTP has some books for you to read.
• Planet is reading these, dammit.
• I've killed the fucking eaglebay. How do I stop the fucking ooglegay?
• UPDATE: it worked. I removed the picture from that post and now google, which had that image up whenever anyone googled "BEAGLE" (not just for images, just on the word) has the picture up which now links somewhere else. wOOt! I've just turned off 1500 hits a day! What a genius! Um.

UPDATES

• Something Dana Milbank won't turn into a viral meme.
• Litblogs and Newspapers: A Thought Experiment.
• Maryland: Cut Meals-on-Wheels?
• Maryland: White supremacists?
• I live off Beach Drive: need these signs.
• Strange albums from big stars.
• Helluva good playlist (w/mp3).

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Copied from Post webpage at 1015AM today:

McCain's Charge Lacks Evidence

Campaigns dispute the reasons behind Barack Obama's canceled visit to wounded soldiers.
Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz

President Obama Continues Tour

Sketch | Long his party's presumptive nominee, he is now becoming presumptuous nominee. 

Balance: McCain's a liar, but Obama's a presumptuous ass.

Hold you breath until a Washington Post reporter or columnist admits that if McCain wasn't so lame Obama wouldn't seem so awesome, cause they've figured it out, mofos.

I speak of the Obamapomatus of Love not because some people call me Maurice (wOOt-woo), but because every time I think I'm free of the lesser-evil argument, the pig-right drags me back in.

Fifty! Today

Lordy. The self-rummaging.

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:

Did You Know DC Has A Professional Soccer Team?

It's true, though United doesn't play like it. I guess the coach should make the players play harder.

I read that MLS wants to expand to eighteen, twenty, twenty-two teams, as if dozens of Craig Thompsons are tearing up second division American soccer, just waiting to star in a league of MLS' renowned quality of beautiful soccer.

I don't mind being a rube - I gleefully hand over money to be a rube - as long as I'm worked respectfully, as long as there's a chance, just the slightest wonder, that Nature Boy might shoot on The American Dream, but jeebus, it pisses me off when carnies take my markdom for granted.

obamandingo cometh

Reminding myself again why obamagastic over hillaryistic: Would the three major networks have dispatched their anchors to follow Clinton around Eurasia in July?

Listen to Andrew Tyndall school Tom Rosenstiel, who was arguing for some false journalistic morality that McCain coverage 50/50 Obama's, Friday night on News Hour:

The reality is that Obama is speaking to 200,000 people in Germany and John McCain is in an aisle in the supermarket, the 200,000 people are more newsworthy than Obama. And you wouldn't be reflecting reality accurately if you gave those two events equal weight. You'd lose all credibility in the eyes of your audience, because you'd be saying this spectacular phenomenon that's happening in Berlin is no more or less important than a photo-op in a supermarket.

Regardless how Obama reflects your suck and your suckangst, if this is a hexagonal board game and you're playing to win, which side do you want to play, knowing the rules and rules' uselessness, Obama or McCain?

Honestly, when your opponent's current argument is that you are just too awesome, even if that criticism is the early preparatory groundwork for AIIEE! NIGGER! and AIIEE! NIGGER! is just preparatory groundwork for screaming OBAMANDINGO! will take your white daughters, your opponent sucketh pathetically.

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• A list of people Obama has had murdered.
• Audacity of intelligence.
• Read this article from American Conservative magazine (h/t Henley).
• It is true Europe longs for bullshit American idealism.
• But David Ignatius is still one shockingly self-admiring dumbass motherfucker.
• Goosestep through the tulips (and the genius of SCTV).
• McCain lies. And your point?
• Rich is worth reading today.
• Radicalized Libertarians are not a matter of luck.
• Absaroka? The 51st State?
• Elric 7 has Dinamo Moskva schwag.
• The eaglebay ogglegay is ackbay. How do I get rid of it?
• Tofu does not harsh your jizz. Duh.
• Perhaps it's a sign of sucksess when MLS is as willing to flaunt kayfabe as European leagues.
• P.Z. proves his point, hardening the resolve of every person his proof refuted.
• The power of Rush is his ability to produce shitpieces like this.
• Hey, Mocomofos, Weasel interviewed (last one, at the bottom). I'm glad he's got a gig, but sweet MC5, does The Globe suck.   

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It's only July, and Obama wowed Eurasia while McCain floundered in a grocery and the pig-right is only skimming the pigugly to come. Ew! Obama's acting like he wants to be president! The nigbastardger!

Mofos, I begged to be entertained and I will bring down curses, but it's only July. No matter how feeble John McCain is now this show won't get febrile until Obama's shot or October erupts.

fridaymusicsaturday truly digs the new verve single

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• Stream the new PAUL WELLER!
• New NEIL HALSTEAD!
• EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT.
• PARTS AND LABOR.
• NO AGE.
• UNBUNNY.
• BEIRUT. (Doesn't do much for me, but if you dig - and lots do - here's a boatload.)
• DAVID VANDERVELDE.
• MIKE DOUGHTY.
• HOLD STEADY.
• LES SAVY FAV. (LOUD, mofos. LOUD.)
• MOUNT EERIE.(w/Julie Doiron!)
• JULIE DOIRON. (It's love, mofos, love.)
• I said, stream the new PAUL WELLER!

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But then, I've always dug The Verve

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!

When Comparing Obama to Hitler, Remember the Real Hitler

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• Karadzic and Andrew Jackson, kinsmen.
• I'm not sure Obama even exists, much less was born.
• The Itch to Power: Brooks as satire.
• That Nowak (not Piotr) thing.
• Clusterfucked.
• English babe laughs at American soccer hooligans.
• Friend and former professor of mine Dennis gets a mention at MM.
• What you can buy me for Giftmas. Anyone wanna go 10/5 at 930 w/me?

Updates later. Or not.

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In my head (detoxing my aargh), be in yours