the defeatists!

This beats...well...do they realize that women having sex with ducks will probably hurt?

It appears that this Argentine Duck has a 42Plus centimenter -- roughly 18 inches -- penis. In the shape of a corkscrew. Thanks Wonkette, and Garfield and Oates for loosing a nightmare on Iowa.

Well, nobody said Christian Existentialists from Ireland were particularly Green...

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The bells of hell

Go ting-a-ling-a-ling

For you but not for me.

Oh death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling

Or grave thy victory?

Fuck 'em all, sings Brendan Behan's Brit soldier kidnapped by the old IRA in The Hostage. . The news David "The Edge" Evans and wifey are planning to build 5 mansions -- 10,000 square feet each -- in the hills overlooking Malibu is a fuck 'em all moment. Yes, rich Malibu people, it's a lovely place and 'tis a shame that the Mick is going to build a colony of "Green" mansions that might spoil the view, or, and this would be sillier, might not. And, for a guy signing autographed Epiphone Les Pauls to help the victims of Katrina, this seems a bit over the top. Since the Edge's style of Catholicism is different from the other Malibu Mackrel Snapping nutbag, Sideshow Mel "you're all Jews!" Gibson, I guess it's a case of overall nuttiness run amuck.

There are tons of fucking huge mansions in Malibu and the rich are very, very obnoxious. How could the Defeatists forget the family that still grieves their dead daughter, killed by Porsche a few years ago. Or, by the parents who gave her a 911 to drive on the Pacific Coast Highway? I referred to it as child abuse at the time, and still consider it a sub-species of that. On the other hand, sign cheap Epis and talk about Katrina, great, we love you man. But, if the lot alone will run $7.5M, wouldn't it be more meaningful to give the folks injured by that storm and your God the price of a couple of the damn things and maybe spread out a little more?

I haven't liked a lot of their stuff since Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. This explains why -- I always thought that there was a fine streak of existential longing in U2. Now I know better...money extinguishes a lot of what's good in people. Bono is probably curing De Valera for ending the Free State, because then he would be in line of a Knighthood. The Edge is doing the Golden Age thing to the environment. Really, Thorsten Verblen ought to be here to consider conspicuous consumption amongs successful rock stars...This is beyond the whole Dylan outhouse debacle...he hasn't made a big deal about politics and charity since 1966; on the other hand, it looks like he writes a lot of checks for things. Maybe he remembers some things from his born-again period. Who knows...

I do know that the video for I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, shot in Glitter Gulch in Vegas, mocked and pushed and expressed a fair amount of angst, doubt and, well, faith in the face of hedonism and greed. Someone might re-shoot the damn thing or do a cover version on the road leading to these homes. Just because something is stunning doesn't make it worth doing.

Hey, it's science and it's American. Let's kill it...Jesus will provide until the rapture!

A billion years ago, on a hill in Worcester, a brilliant professor of Chaucer and rhetoric told me that he believed that an educated American should be able to read The Scientific American and understand it. Well, that hurt. Of course, he was right...and, I have worked not terribly hard but hard enough to be able to do so. I just don't want to most of the time. This article proves I ought to pay a little bit more attention.

You see, every now and then, I do. And when I do, I usually get bitch-slapped by something that I should have been conscious of and just let float by. Trained in philosophy as a yoot, Crusader AXE believes that things are in fact inter-related. Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline -- not the goddamn field books, the actual book -- makes perfect sense to me now, and probably could and should be used as the basis for re-designing our education system. Won't of course -- we're sold on multiple choice testing in basic skills...See Dick run. See Jane run. See Spot hump Dick's leg...

Well, intuitively, we've all known for a while that things could get worse. I just think we haven't thought about how much worse. I recommend laying in a lot of water treatment kits and crates of protein powder and vitamin C because things are getting twitchy out there.

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care. They often lose control of part or all of their territory. When governments lose their monopoly on power, law and order begin to disintegrate. After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted; in Somalia and Afghanistan, deteriorating conditions have already put such programs in jeopardy.

Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees, threatening political stability everywhere. Somalia, number one on the 2008 list of failing states, has become a base for piracy. Iraq, number five, is a hotbed for terrorist training. Afghanistan, number seven, is the world’s leading supplier of heroin. Following the massive genocide of 1994 in Rwanda, refugees from that troubled state, thousands of armed soldiers among them, helped to destabilize neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (number six).

Now, the migrations that led to the proximate cause of the fall of Rome, the whole barbarian at the gates thing, resulted from famines in central Asia. The Great Plague combined with failed crops in Europe made the time one of remaining horror...remaining if you ever visit a church built about that time and see the stuff frescoed on the walls. Famine and plague, famine and plague, disease and hunger. As an Irish American with some First Nation's heritage as well, I understand at a primal level the fear of hunger...

So, a wake-up call. Life can get harder or better -- but if it becomes impossible to feed a hungry world, and we have 1-2-3 a hundred failed states not just in Africa or central Asia but in Latin America and Europe and the United States as well...Louisiana has already elected a fucking witch doctor...we have problems looming that makes the world seem pretty fragile indeed. You know, the goddamn "Environment? What environment?" crowd might get a little bit more with it if we start putting human beings on the endangered species list.

Better be good...

Consumerism gone wild, in Tibet?

Strictly speaking, this would be a case of cronyism as opposed to abuse of power...

It was probably Todd's doing anyway... Good way to get him to come back to work.  Which the family will need, what with the oil and gas pipeline thing that wasn't built probably never going to be built. According to The Mudflats, the guy breaking the story is a conservative pundit. Well, could we now have found what had become something of an oxymoron -- the principled conservative, hanging out in Anchorage, anchored down as Michelle Shocked put it years ago...

And AXE's nominee for most defeatist country in the world...

Short answer, no.  There are a lot of other possibilities - Pakistan has potential, there's always Myanmar, most of the -stahns are always there, Bosnia and Kosovo are always contenders; China could go utterly south, Bangladesh is certainly a hedge bet on the craps table of countries with minimal luck...hell, Africa south of the Sahara is totally upgefucked, and the only reason we don't know how bad Latin America south of Mexico is remains that we really can't tell the difference between a Mexican and a Chilean...Now, Zimbabwe is definitely an up and coming total clusterfuck, but for totally irrelevance and misery, Somalia is this year's winner. Hell, didn't I read something about the main reason the pirates are so eager is because it helps them get chicks...

Ultimately neither water nor fire...just chickenshit and chicken trucks on HW 65!

Years ago, when I was spending three years in College Station, Texas working with a group of modern day re-enactors, the Army Reserve, one of the officers asked if I would like to take a day and go visit a project he was working on the Extension Service. There was this monstrous Chicken Farm up by Luck, and they were trying to figure out what to do with the methane produced by the chickenshit...they had giant fans, but in east-central Texas, all that chickenshit in the summer was just impossibly odiferous, so to speak, and the ammonia-methane-ambiance was having lots of unintended consequences...among other things, it was killing the chickens. I passed. Actually, the other active duty guy and I looked at each other, looked at our uniforms, and told him to take his straw cowboy hat and go the fuck away...

You know, at times in my life, I've demonstrated the intellectual curiousity of, well, George Bush. I didn't go to the Beijing Opera in Shanghai. I didn't go to the official Catholic services in the old Jesuit church in Shanghai. And, I didn't go to the fucking chicken farm. I've also avoided whorehouses, opium dens, self-help seminars and Mormons. Saw two of the bastards wandering the streets of Barstow yesterday evening...bet they're having some interesting conversations. The problem with not saying,"Yeah, OK, what the fuck..." to every offer of a new experience is that you may avoid social diseases, addiction and Mormons, but you miss out on things you might want to describe to someone as being kinda cool or interesting in a scarey way, or world changing. By passing up Roy Childers invitation to see the chickenshit factory , I missed an opportunity to see something that was going to develop into something ultimately world changing. We're not just drowning in Bullshit a la Twitshit de la Dweeb; it's also bullshit, pigshit and ultimately chicken shit.

The Unified Field Theory...by the French...in English...by a Cover Band

When I saw this in my daily Video dump from the [email protected] website, I thought it was cute and reminded me of the old computer game -- seriously old, pre-dell I think -- Lemmings. Anyway, I forwarded to my brothers and El Serracho realized what the computer-programming-garlic-eating-Jerry-Lewis-worshipping-atheists-with-an-established-church-half-Muslim twits were trying to tell us. They actually understand...and, they are misogynists! So, as a result, and in tribute to our friend Monsieur IOZ, I hereby nominate France as the officially endorsed country of the Defeatists!

Prêts à tout ? - wideo
Pour séduire une femme...

Mots-clés : animation dessins animes humour marrant insolite chute homme femme

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The gooks are taking our oil...err...Iraqui Oil!(Grimmace) Good for them...

We really aren't very good at imperialism, are we?  As I recently explained to someone who use questioned my choice on something after soliciting feedback, Wwell, if you ask people for their opinions, you kinda have to pay attention to what they say." Since we're allowing Mullah Malaiki and the rest to have opinions, we have to listen to what they say; if they are a sovereign nation, they get to do what we want. But, I'm sure Cabal Haliburton of Dubai is burning the ether with satelite calls to their Man at the Bethesda Naval Observatory, deep in the cavernous bowels of the super secret bunker in the super secret mansion demanding answers. What do you bet Dick Cheney is making like Jim Carey in "Series of unfortunate events" and throwing stuff behind the scenes.

Well, it probably alleviates those aggravating clips, but what if something gets caught in the chain?

"It sounds like it's been a good lesson all around." Really? Do you think? You know the main reason for laws against this isn't to impede your civil liberties so much as to keep our eyes from melting. Granted, these folks are not all that aesthetically challenged but what if you bumped into K-Fed and Roseanne Barr doing their thing? Or, the average American... they show the slim, attractive ones, but you know they have the morbidly obese, the deformed and the anorexic just waiting to spring.