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<b>PROUDLY SERVING THE SURREALITY-BASED COMMUNITY!</b>van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comBlogger1070125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-13029526244659221132010-05-25T12:52:00.001-07:002010-05-25T12:57:15.061-07:00Farewell Blogger... you were a good ship!This is to announce that the Mojowire has moved... we are now at the mojowire on typepad. Yeah, you may see some ads, and you might even think of clicking through them if there's something there of interest you see... but it will still be the same mojowire you have come to know and love (or perhaps fear and loathe).So come on over and join us at our new digs; and never fear, the old archive will van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-29246296706874593142010-05-24T23:55:00.000-07:002010-05-24T23:57:22.686-07:00Tea Baggers in a Nut ShellHis Rudeness does it again:"The purpose of the Tea Party movement is individualism gone mad, which means "If you fuck off and leave us alone, government, with our god, our guns, our high fructose corn syrup, our Facebook, our shitty jobs and wages, you can go about your business." The Tea Party's "success" is just a clever exploitation of our American nihilism, a march into oblivion, or wheeled van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-74261485016188087912010-05-24T21:38:00.000-07:002010-05-24T21:45:02.361-07:00*fzzt* Hey *crackle* Is Thing On?Wireheads! Your attention please.It has come to the attention of senior management at their oar stations and the editorial monkeys that there has not been much happening on this blog of late, other than the occasional sage ramblings of one Hebisner Feniktorod, a known degenerate peacenik and social malcontent.There are going to be some fairly radical changes here within the next 30 days. I mean, van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-5490545943933870562010-04-07T10:16:00.000-07:002010-04-07T10:50:14.183-07:00Ignorance? You're soaking in it..You have to just love this story:Michael Lewis, the celebrated author of "The Big Short," claims that about 40 or 50 House Republicans skipped a December hearing by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to spend three hours with him talking about the financial crisis. And the lawmakers, who are members of the House Republican book club, were stunningly uninformed about major elements of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-1264390049167925662009-12-30T10:24:00.000-08:002009-12-30T10:29:38.896-08:00This is the smartest piece on Afghanistan military and political issues that I've read in recent memory. There are many memorable paragraphs, such as this one:Meanwhile, Obama's broader strategic argument must not be lost. He has grasped that the foreign policy of the president should not consist in a series of extravagant, brief, Manichaean battles, driven by exaggerated fears, grandiloquent Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-90016032865537041572009-12-22T15:51:00.000-08:002009-12-22T16:10:53.439-08:00Uhhh..What??Mike Konzcal tells us about the new Teabagging meme: FDIC is the devil.Visiting home for the holidays, it’s amazing to me how certain groups of friends, who I mostly considered in the generic Republicans/conservatives camp, have been wading deeper into the Ron Paul territory. “Abolish the Fed” is one thing, but what surprised me the most was when I was at a Christmas party several people Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16789905933933526122009-12-21T13:14:00.000-08:002009-12-21T14:28:48.676-08:00Moral Hazard?Megan McCardle, yes that Megan McCardle, actually gets close to something important in a recent post about moral hazard in economic terms. I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-91711075673121378002009-11-29T19:00:00.000-08:002009-11-29T19:04:21.052-08:00Just Not Feeling ItI've got such a long list of things that are pissing me off lately, that I can't even begin to make progress on narrowing down the field of what to rant about. If I covered everything that's currently getting up my nose, I'd be blogging full time until the end of the year. So, screw that. Instead, here, read this fresh horror. That's only the tippy top of a huge pile of steaming crap.s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-8350839008721944202009-11-17T09:00:00.000-08:002009-11-17T10:00:53.698-08:00Moose bites WomanI haven't watched the Oprah/Sarah lovefest, but I wanted to weigh in on this discussion about Sarah Palin being a 2012 Presidential candidate. I was struck by a desperate statement/plea by David Brooks on ABC news on Sunday claiming that GOP primary voters would never nominate Sarah Palin. You might try whistling louder past that graveyard David...Brooks is wrong of course. GOP voters would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-8410613185675215632009-10-05T10:37:00.000-07:002009-10-05T10:44:58.721-07:00What Atrios SaysApologies to our sole non-U.S. reader for the parochial cultural reference, but something Atrios posted today needs to be memorialized here. I'm just going to reprint it in whole:Looting For ProfitBuy companies, leverage them, pay yourself a dividend, and then go bankrupt.I think we've finally found the secret phase 2 of the underpants gnomes.Phase 1: Collect UnderpantsPhase 2: Use underpants ass9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-67006717855907304232009-09-23T15:07:00.000-07:002009-09-23T15:22:53.262-07:00The AP tells us that somebody in Kentucky has lynched murdered a census worker:AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on bodyBy DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY (AP) – 46 minutes agoWASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-23453577668887196962009-09-18T11:33:00.000-07:002009-09-18T12:44:23.285-07:00Glenn BeckBlogger doesn't seem to be showing me the archives... but I'd like to note for the record, that I was sounding the alarm about Glenn Beck over four years ago, well before he was a television personality. Back when he was only a second-tier talk-radio host.Seriously, people... when it comes to spotting the potential of second-tier doomful assholes, I have mad skillz. Nevertheless, check out s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-63519008962788537552009-09-14T14:56:00.000-07:002009-09-14T15:01:18.255-07:00Know Your Dopefiend!Keep an eye open for the telltale signs.'Know your dopefiend. Your life may depend on it! You will not be able to see his eyes because of tea-shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape-victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your bath.''Know your dopefiend.s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-55893307754898466852009-09-11T09:48:00.001-07:002009-09-11T09:49:15.560-07:00Look On The Bright Side, Congressman Wilson...It could have been so much worse for you. You could have been overheard saying, "Go fuck yourself," to Senator Leahy.s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16504096239183171542009-09-09T20:45:00.000-07:002009-09-09T21:20:46.210-07:00So It Goes...Here is the line in the President's speech tonight that signals where the bodies are buried:...I will not back down on the basic principle that if Americans can’t find affordable coverage, we will provide you with a choice.What he should have said:I will not back down on the basic principle that all Americans have a right to coverage they can afford.See the difference?Here's some context in case s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-31743461293552153072009-09-09T16:25:00.000-07:002010-06-12T12:54:36.156-07:00That was old school...Well, here's my take on what's happening today before the President addresses Congress re: Health Insurance Reform.The speech to school kids was part of it.Maybe I am reaching here (I can easily see how this could be interpreted like this), but I think the Obama people went old school last week.The key to this is the utter predictability of the wingnut-o-sphere regarding nearly anything the van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-66003910884715883382009-09-08T21:42:00.000-07:002009-09-08T22:04:43.703-07:00I Think I Just Failed Another Sanity Roll...with probably about d4 damage.Julia, at Sisyphus Shrugged, decided to go looking for the origins of the new wingnut meme-du-jour, i.e. that the executive branch is crawling with time-traveling Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian emperors. She noticed that the Wikipedia page is a relatively recent creation [its opening timestamp coincides with the circulation of this polemic from the wingnut s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-36880546642198750912009-09-08T10:28:00.000-07:002009-09-08T10:39:21.628-07:00We Will Soon Have Our AnswerWednesday night.We will find out whether my cynicism during last year's election was warranted, or if Change in America is really possible without another revolution. We will know, because President Obama will tell us if he can see a way to overcome the institutional failure in the U.S. Senate and deliver effective reform of our health insurance system. If that can't be done, then you can s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-44034319935056349542009-09-04T10:15:00.000-07:002009-09-04T10:30:01.465-07:00I Should Just Change My Name To Cassandra AlreadyDigby sez This Could Change Everything, and I'm having a hard time arguing otherwise:You’ve probably heard by now that next week the Supreme Court will break up its summer recess to hear argument, for the second time, in Citizens United v. FEC. You may have the sense that this doesn’t happen often and that something important is going on. If so, you’re right and then some.The case involves a films9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-37609169701055763752009-08-28T10:49:00.000-07:002009-08-28T10:58:38.066-07:00Another Foul Gust Of WindThe mighty David Neiwert monitors The Glenn Beck Program so you don't have to watch all of it just to catch the important parts. If, like me, you've been letting others keep an eye on the Hate so you can keep your sanity mostly intact for other uses, then you might want to check in here to see what you've been missing.Obama's 'SS': Glenn Beck sees scary black people[...]Ah, but here's the one s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-62085739928264509042009-08-26T00:09:00.001-07:002009-08-26T11:03:22.079-07:00Ted Kennedy Is DeadReaders interested to see whether I will be able to spit the kind of acid I did recently when Robert Novak's end-of-unlife was announced will probably be disappointed to find that the only truly damning thing I can bring myself to say about Ted Kennedy at this time is that he was a long-time, openly unrepentant U.S. Senator.I trust others on the web and elsewhere will deliver the shellacking of s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-49272887127999850352009-08-25T09:44:00.000-07:002009-08-30T08:44:21.772-07:00Motherfuckers!We can add New Jersey to the list of states I want to see launched into the sun [Update: or, at least, I would have if I had seen this article when it was first published almost 40 years ago...]:[...]Inestimable Privilege. In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes' right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes' "high moral and s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-33011398133647706932009-08-23T17:25:00.000-07:002009-08-23T17:54:14.576-07:00Northern RedneckistanI have family in Weed, California— which is a town not far from Mt. Shasta— and I travel there by automobile from San Francisco several times per year. This story about a health care town hall meeting near Redding is not a surprise to me, but some of you might not be aware of just how deeply damaged the northern California central valley can be.House Rep from northern California sayss9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-39914559074401837322009-08-18T14:35:00.000-07:002009-08-18T18:42:53.409-07:00Hoisted From The Internet Memory HoleNow that the shambling undead horror that was Robert Novak has finally been deanimated, it's time to reprint, in whole, the words of The Mighty Billmon so that we might remember him properly.Network of the Living DeadJuly 18, 2005CNN executives announced today that they will not bury the badly decomposed corpse of columnist and on-air personality Robert Novak, despite complaints from producers s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-30074586104480286932009-08-17T18:26:00.000-07:002009-08-17T22:17:40.353-07:00Wharrgarbl!I'm at my wit's end.First, they removed the end-of-life counseling provisions from the health insurance reform bill because it was important to forget that they were all in support of them until they reliably informed that our White Christian grandmothers would be eaten by space aliens at Area 51 by President Obama's death panels.Then, they shut down the flag@whitehouse.gov email alias because its9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0