The Eternal Sunshine of the Thoughtless Mind:
Does anyone over at the Boston Herald edit Howie Carr's column for stupidity?
Because if they don't then they should.
This is what Howie wrote on Sunday in regards to gay marriage:
This is the liberal credo: If it happens in Abu Ghraib prison, it's a war crime. If it happens at a rest stop on I-495, it's true love.
Welcome to Massachusetts. The Gay State. Sodom and Begorrah.
I suppose it falls to humble Elias to point out the obvious, that the prisoners of Abu Ghraib were forced to perform demeaning acts under threat whereas the Commonwealth's gay marriages are entirely consensual in nature.
If Howie is too moronic or torpid to tell the difference then surely there must be someone at the Herald with the stature to clue him in.
***
It is an open secret in Boston and beyond that since he helped to depose Governor Dukakis fourteen years ago that Howie has been in a dastardly creative funk.
Oh don't misunderstand, Howie still hustles after a fashion...he got rid of his mentor Jerry Williams and landed a sweet daily talk radio gig...and his commitment to a bumptious social conservatism is as harsh as ever.
However...lets face it...Howie is stuck in a rut-his barbed tongue has gone dull so to speak.
He is hardly ever seen at the Herald's offices anymore. Word is, he doesn't even keep an office there.
Dukakis is gone, Clinton dodged all those bullets effortlessly, people don't seem to care as much about the latest outrage in the state legislature...Carr is reduced to droning on about classic teevee on his radio show and wallowing in tedious fag bashing in his column.
You'd think that the legalization of gay marriage would rouse this fiery conservative populist with his low hatred of all so called political elites.
Nope quite the opposite, Howie can't even muster the energy for a coherent put down.
Maybe it's the embarrassment of the Herald's hiring of his former Boston Globe rival Mike Barnicle....nothing so drains the soul as a setback like that.
Maybe its those adverts in the sports-pages for adult-oriented video stores...most of whom have huge homosexual erotica sections.
Perhaps the veiled conflict of interest is beating poor Howie down.
Who can say?
:)
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
The Miracle of Democracy....
Well as of midnight, gay-residents-of-the-Commonwealth now have the right to marry.
Of course, the measure may not survive the 2006 ballot initiative...but for the moment all is well in Ghod's Country.
And let us stop for a moment however to celebrate the sheer diversity of the current debate.
Rock ribbed conservatives can rejoice that democracy in the Commonwealth is so strong that they can listen to ten hours straight of sneering homophobia courtesy WTKK 96.9 FM talk radio.
Liberals on the other hand can fearlessly spin the dials to...where?
"NPR!" howls a chorus of Howie Carr fans.
Ah yes National Public Radio whose storied integrity extends to interviewing a gay couple and some homo hating wowser as if they were morally equivalent in some murky journalistic fashion.
The cause of democracy and freedom is well served with vigilant guardians like Howie Carr, Jay Severin, and NPR on the job...
So if my rights are being so well defended by these "local" lions of journalistic incorruptibility, why can't I sleep at night?
:)
Well as of midnight, gay-residents-of-the-Commonwealth now have the right to marry.
Of course, the measure may not survive the 2006 ballot initiative...but for the moment all is well in Ghod's Country.
And let us stop for a moment however to celebrate the sheer diversity of the current debate.
Rock ribbed conservatives can rejoice that democracy in the Commonwealth is so strong that they can listen to ten hours straight of sneering homophobia courtesy WTKK 96.9 FM talk radio.
Liberals on the other hand can fearlessly spin the dials to...where?
"NPR!" howls a chorus of Howie Carr fans.
Ah yes National Public Radio whose storied integrity extends to interviewing a gay couple and some homo hating wowser as if they were morally equivalent in some murky journalistic fashion.
The cause of democracy and freedom is well served with vigilant guardians like Howie Carr, Jay Severin, and NPR on the job...
So if my rights are being so well defended by these "local" lions of journalistic incorruptibility, why can't I sleep at night?
:)
Friday, May 14, 2004
Tommy Too Late:
In a New York Times column dated May 13th 2004 Tom Friedman wrote the following:
Why, in the face of rampant looting in the war's aftermath, which dug us into such a deep and costly hole, wouldn't Mr. Rumsfeld put more troops into Iraq? Politics. First of all, Rummy wanted to crush once and for all the Powell doctrine, which says you fight a war like this only with overwhelming force. I know this is hard to believe, but the Pentagon crew hated Colin Powell, and wanted to see him humiliated 10 times more than Saddam. Second, Rummy wanted to prove to all those U.S. generals whose Army he was intent on downsizing that a small, mobile, high-tech force was all you needed today to take over a country. Third, the White House always knew this was a war of choice — its choice — so it made sure that average Americans never had to pay any price or bear any burden. Thus, it couldn't call up too many reservists, let alone have a draft. Yes, there was a contradiction between the Bush war on taxes and the Bush war on terrorism. But it was resolved: the Bush team decided to lower taxes rather than raise troop levels
NICE TRY TOM!
YER NOT FOOLING ANYONE YOU SPINELESS LACKWIT!
Now...after civilians are getting beheaded, prisoners tortured, and the whole of Iraq run like the Hell's Angels gone amok...NOW Terrible Tom Friedman suddenly decides to change sides and come out against the war.
Anything to get out ahead of the crowd so you can maintain the fiction that you are leading it somewhere.
And not fer nuthin'...but am I the only person in America who recalls Friedman's many many appearances on the Imus in the Morning program in which he fairly defecated himself at the mere mention of Donald Rumsfeld's name?
My Ghod Friedman used to howl and squeak his servile praise for the Secretary of Defense...it got pretty disgusting after a while.
"Th-those t-terrorists weren't counting on good old DON RUMSFELD I-Man!!" cringed the Times columnist.
Now suddenly Rummy is a bad guy.
And then there was the time Tom saw a pile of human skulls in Iraq and proclaimed that revolting sight all the justification for war that he needed.
Good Gawd, what is to be done?!
The only thing worse than having Tom Friedman as an opponent is having him as a ally even a de facto one.
Sick
Demented
Typical!
In a New York Times column dated May 13th 2004 Tom Friedman wrote the following:
Why, in the face of rampant looting in the war's aftermath, which dug us into such a deep and costly hole, wouldn't Mr. Rumsfeld put more troops into Iraq? Politics. First of all, Rummy wanted to crush once and for all the Powell doctrine, which says you fight a war like this only with overwhelming force. I know this is hard to believe, but the Pentagon crew hated Colin Powell, and wanted to see him humiliated 10 times more than Saddam. Second, Rummy wanted to prove to all those U.S. generals whose Army he was intent on downsizing that a small, mobile, high-tech force was all you needed today to take over a country. Third, the White House always knew this was a war of choice — its choice — so it made sure that average Americans never had to pay any price or bear any burden. Thus, it couldn't call up too many reservists, let alone have a draft. Yes, there was a contradiction between the Bush war on taxes and the Bush war on terrorism. But it was resolved: the Bush team decided to lower taxes rather than raise troop levels
NICE TRY TOM!
YER NOT FOOLING ANYONE YOU SPINELESS LACKWIT!
Now...after civilians are getting beheaded, prisoners tortured, and the whole of Iraq run like the Hell's Angels gone amok...NOW Terrible Tom Friedman suddenly decides to change sides and come out against the war.
Anything to get out ahead of the crowd so you can maintain the fiction that you are leading it somewhere.
And not fer nuthin'...but am I the only person in America who recalls Friedman's many many appearances on the Imus in the Morning program in which he fairly defecated himself at the mere mention of Donald Rumsfeld's name?
My Ghod Friedman used to howl and squeak his servile praise for the Secretary of Defense...it got pretty disgusting after a while.
"Th-those t-terrorists weren't counting on good old DON RUMSFELD I-Man!!" cringed the Times columnist.
Now suddenly Rummy is a bad guy.
And then there was the time Tom saw a pile of human skulls in Iraq and proclaimed that revolting sight all the justification for war that he needed.
Good Gawd, what is to be done?!
The only thing worse than having Tom Friedman as an opponent is having him as a ally even a de facto one.
Sick
Demented
Typical!
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Madness in the Corner Office?
Governor Decaf has apparently laid the maximum smackdown on Mayor Menino, insisting that Boston's City Clerk refuse to marry out of state gay couples come Monday.
The headline in today's Globe read "Boston adopts stricter stand on Gay Outsiders" (italics mine)
Very frankly, I think the Kolobian Viceroy going insane and none too quietly either.
When it comes to his irrational fixation on gay marriage, Romney is happily countenancing a level of bureaucratic pettifogging that would never be tolerated at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Think of it as passive aggression on a grand embarrassing scale.
Not only is Mitt going mad, but clearly his dementia has infected some of his closest collaborators.
Yesterday, Eric Fehrnstrom, the Governor's grotty overpaid mouthpiece was quoted in the Globe sputtering:
"What next, is Provincetown going to start marrying ten year olds in violation of the law?"
No doubt behind closed doors, the Utah Mafia expresses itself even uglier ways when it comes to gay marriage.
I think we can count on the Governor making one last unpleasant even borderline gesture come Monday.
It may be in the form of more out of state "volunteers" doing civil disobedience at Town Clerk's offices or it may be some desperate judicial intervention-who knows?
So if you are planning on getting hitched Monday keep your eyes peeled for some gubernatorial skullduggery...Romney just can't resist the temptation to posture and pose in the limelight when it comes to this issue.
The miserable opportunistic bastard seems the suppression of the rights of a tiny minority as his ticket to ride.
So much for reform my friends, there are out of state wowsers to be beguiled and god damn any one who says otherwise.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Governor Decaf has apparently laid the maximum smackdown on Mayor Menino, insisting that Boston's City Clerk refuse to marry out of state gay couples come Monday.
The headline in today's Globe read "Boston adopts stricter stand on Gay Outsiders" (italics mine)
Very frankly, I think the Kolobian Viceroy going insane and none too quietly either.
When it comes to his irrational fixation on gay marriage, Romney is happily countenancing a level of bureaucratic pettifogging that would never be tolerated at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Think of it as passive aggression on a grand embarrassing scale.
Not only is Mitt going mad, but clearly his dementia has infected some of his closest collaborators.
Yesterday, Eric Fehrnstrom, the Governor's grotty overpaid mouthpiece was quoted in the Globe sputtering:
"What next, is Provincetown going to start marrying ten year olds in violation of the law?"
No doubt behind closed doors, the Utah Mafia expresses itself even uglier ways when it comes to gay marriage.
I think we can count on the Governor making one last unpleasant even borderline gesture come Monday.
It may be in the form of more out of state "volunteers" doing civil disobedience at Town Clerk's offices or it may be some desperate judicial intervention-who knows?
So if you are planning on getting hitched Monday keep your eyes peeled for some gubernatorial skullduggery...Romney just can't resist the temptation to posture and pose in the limelight when it comes to this issue.
The miserable opportunistic bastard seems the suppression of the rights of a tiny minority as his ticket to ride.
So much for reform my friends, there are out of state wowsers to be beguiled and god damn any one who says otherwise.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Madness in the Corner Office?
Governor Decaf has apparently laid the maximum smackdown on Mayor Menino, insisting that Boston's City Clerk refuse to marry out of state gay couples come Monday.
The headline in today's Globe read "Boston adopts stricter stand on Gay Outsiders" (italics mine)
Very frankly, I think the Kolobian Viceroy going insane and none too quietly either.
When it comes to his irrational fixation on gay marriage, Romney is happily countenancing a level of bureaucratic pettifogging that would never be tolerated at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Think of it as passive aggression on a grand embarrassing scale.
Not only is Mitt going mad, but clearly his dementia has infected some of his closest collaborators.
Yesterday, Eric Fehrnstrom, the Governor's grotty overpaid mouthpiece was quoted in the Globe sputtering:
"What next, is Provincetown going to start marrying ten year olds in violation of the law?"
No doubt behind closed doors, the Utah Mafia expresses itself even uglier ways when it comes to gay marriage.
I think we can count on the Governor making one last unpleasant even borderline gesture come Monday.
It may be in the form of more out of state "volunteers" doing civil disobedience at Town Clerk's offices or it may be some desperate judicial intervention-who knows?
So if you are planning on getting hitched Monday keep your eyes peeled for some gubernatorial skullduggery...Romney just can't resist the temptation to posture and pose in the limelight when it comes to this issue.
The miserable opportunistic bastard seems the suppression of the rights of a tiny minority as his ticket to ride.
So much for reform my friends, there are out of state wowsers to be beguiled and god damn any one who says otherwise.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Governor Decaf has apparently laid the maximum smackdown on Mayor Menino, insisting that Boston's City Clerk refuse to marry out of state gay couples come Monday.
The headline in today's Globe read "Boston adopts stricter stand on Gay Outsiders" (italics mine)
Very frankly, I think the Kolobian Viceroy going insane and none too quietly either.
When it comes to his irrational fixation on gay marriage, Romney is happily countenancing a level of bureaucratic pettifogging that would never be tolerated at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Think of it as passive aggression on a grand embarrassing scale.
Not only is Mitt going mad, but clearly his dementia has infected some of his closest collaborators.
Yesterday, Eric Fehrnstrom, the Governor's grotty overpaid mouthpiece was quoted in the Globe sputtering:
"What next, is Provincetown going to start marrying ten year olds in violation of the law?"
No doubt behind closed doors, the Utah Mafia expresses itself even uglier ways when it comes to gay marriage.
I think we can count on the Governor making one last unpleasant even borderline gesture come Monday.
It may be in the form of more out of state "volunteers" doing civil disobedience at Town Clerk's offices or it may be some desperate judicial intervention-who knows?
So if you are planning on getting hitched Monday keep your eyes peeled for some gubernatorial skullduggery...Romney just can't resist the temptation to posture and pose in the limelight when it comes to this issue.
The miserable opportunistic bastard seems the suppression of the rights of a tiny minority as his ticket to ride.
So much for reform my friends, there are out of state wowsers to be beguiled and god damn any one who says otherwise.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
The politics of torture and the sheer torture of politics:
The ominous part of the whole Abu Ghraib Affair is that back in the United States we are inevitably separating into pro and anti torture factions.
If Abraham Lincoln could just see us now!
This polarization process has been slowed and obscured somewhat by Nick Berg's horrific death by beheading in Iraq....but nonetheless battle lines are being drawn up.
There is that Imus in the Morning clown the bumptious Richard "Bo" Dietl and Senator James Imhofe (R. Oklahoma) both of whom find think torture stuff is jim-dandy and only as much as the scum deserves. Their only regrets are that the whole mess got found out.
***
The funny thing is, the pro-torture faction, bellicose patriots and loud apologists of the President to a man, are themselves at odds with the spirit of administration policy.
Bush "apologized" for the treatment of prisoners in Iraq and promised an investigation of the whole sordid mess.
Of the photos he said he was "horrified" and that these actions were not of the America "he knows".
The President's so called policy in Iraq, is to win Iraqi "hearts and minds" via various good works.
Ghoulish torture photos therefore undermine this policy.
The pro torture faction won't have anything to so with this goody-goody nonsense.
Yesterday, Senator Imhofe got the ball rolling, using a tried and true GOP play denouncing the so called liberal media's reaction to the torture and spewing hatred and venom towards "humanitarian do gooders".
This is an old trick designed to turn attention away from the mayhem perpetrated and instead focus on the vague undesirability of those who condemn said mayhem.
The late Spiro Agnew was the acknowledged master of this particular ploy.
***
Imhofe ranted on in this Agnewian vein to the effect that the Abu Ghraib prisoners were all terrorists murderers and crooks implying that they somehow deserved to be tortured.
Bo Dietl, said much the same on Imus today and was, if anything, even more preposterously belligerent.
So clearly the pro-torture faction's program is simple, the scum must be ruled by strength....be they liberals here in America or some Baathist paper-pusher picked up in a sweep.
The policy differences within the GOP couldn't be starker, Bush enunciates a soft line whilst Imhofe and Dietl scream for whips and punishment.
:)
I mean, clearly we are headed for a confrontation here, sooner or later the President's soft policy will get in the way of the movement conservatism's newfound taste for blood sports and sexual humiliation games.
***
To the extent that we have an "anti-torture" faction in the US, it is headed by such naive bleeding hearts as ex POW Senator John McCain and his senatorial colleague Lindsey Graham, himself a former Air Force Judge Advocate.
What good these men can do I don't know...it seems like the rest of the GOP is sublimating it's frustration with the occupation of Iraq into a gruesomely queer zest for sadistic interrogation techniques.
The fact that there are serious political playas out there, defending torture is itself a sign of the incremental decline in old time democratic values in the USA.
Sick
Demented
Typical
The ominous part of the whole Abu Ghraib Affair is that back in the United States we are inevitably separating into pro and anti torture factions.
If Abraham Lincoln could just see us now!
This polarization process has been slowed and obscured somewhat by Nick Berg's horrific death by beheading in Iraq....but nonetheless battle lines are being drawn up.
There is that Imus in the Morning clown the bumptious Richard "Bo" Dietl and Senator James Imhofe (R. Oklahoma) both of whom find think torture stuff is jim-dandy and only as much as the scum deserves. Their only regrets are that the whole mess got found out.
***
The funny thing is, the pro-torture faction, bellicose patriots and loud apologists of the President to a man, are themselves at odds with the spirit of administration policy.
Bush "apologized" for the treatment of prisoners in Iraq and promised an investigation of the whole sordid mess.
Of the photos he said he was "horrified" and that these actions were not of the America "he knows".
The President's so called policy in Iraq, is to win Iraqi "hearts and minds" via various good works.
Ghoulish torture photos therefore undermine this policy.
The pro torture faction won't have anything to so with this goody-goody nonsense.
Yesterday, Senator Imhofe got the ball rolling, using a tried and true GOP play denouncing the so called liberal media's reaction to the torture and spewing hatred and venom towards "humanitarian do gooders".
This is an old trick designed to turn attention away from the mayhem perpetrated and instead focus on the vague undesirability of those who condemn said mayhem.
The late Spiro Agnew was the acknowledged master of this particular ploy.
***
Imhofe ranted on in this Agnewian vein to the effect that the Abu Ghraib prisoners were all terrorists murderers and crooks implying that they somehow deserved to be tortured.
Bo Dietl, said much the same on Imus today and was, if anything, even more preposterously belligerent.
So clearly the pro-torture faction's program is simple, the scum must be ruled by strength....be they liberals here in America or some Baathist paper-pusher picked up in a sweep.
The policy differences within the GOP couldn't be starker, Bush enunciates a soft line whilst Imhofe and Dietl scream for whips and punishment.
:)
I mean, clearly we are headed for a confrontation here, sooner or later the President's soft policy will get in the way of the movement conservatism's newfound taste for blood sports and sexual humiliation games.
***
To the extent that we have an "anti-torture" faction in the US, it is headed by such naive bleeding hearts as ex POW Senator John McCain and his senatorial colleague Lindsey Graham, himself a former Air Force Judge Advocate.
What good these men can do I don't know...it seems like the rest of the GOP is sublimating it's frustration with the occupation of Iraq into a gruesomely queer zest for sadistic interrogation techniques.
The fact that there are serious political playas out there, defending torture is itself a sign of the incremental decline in old time democratic values in the USA.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Joanie Vennochi catches up with The Chimes at Midnight...
Anyone out there read Joan Vennochi's column in the Globe today?
She sneers that Romney's current agenda, composed as it is of lower taxes, the death penalty, and fagbashing is naught but campaign piffle designed to maximize the Kolobian Viceroy's appeal to out of state voters.
Now correct me if I'm wrong here but didn't the Chimes at Midnight assert the same damn thing two week ago?
Didn't the "Little Blog that Cried" also assert that this triune platform would screamed from every rooftop in this fall's legislative races?
OY!
I suppose I should be worried about this, it means the big time columnistas are running only a fortnight behind me at best.
Up until now I thought I had a good six month lead on torpid yo-yos like Scot Lehigh and Brian Mooney.
Just have to ramp things up a notch.
In other news...
The Globe's gossip pages report that Luke Russert, Fat Tim's son is starting Boston College this fall.
I feel for the kid.
Clearly he didn't wanna go to Georgetown or Catholic University and commute from home.
Still if young Luke really wanted to give the old man the slip, he should've opted for Saint Anselm College in (romantic) Goffstown New Hampshire, yer boy Elias' semi alma mater.
Known as "Saint Ay's" to all it's hardy survivors the campus is cold, wretched, windswept and prone to persistent killing snow drifts until mid April.
The Benedictine Monks prowl around in long black cassocks muttering darkly the de-latinization of our youth and the decline in the relevance of the Saints.
In sum it's like Harry Potter's "Hogwarts" leavened with excessive drinking and sans the magic and joy.
As a practical matter it's a perfect place to ditch Dad and simply ski for four glorious years.
Well, young Luke had his chance...now every football season he'll be shoulder deep in ghastly BC alumnae all dressed like they are about to be shot out of a circus cannon.
Poor kid.
Anyone out there read Joan Vennochi's column in the Globe today?
She sneers that Romney's current agenda, composed as it is of lower taxes, the death penalty, and fagbashing is naught but campaign piffle designed to maximize the Kolobian Viceroy's appeal to out of state voters.
Now correct me if I'm wrong here but didn't the Chimes at Midnight assert the same damn thing two week ago?
Didn't the "Little Blog that Cried" also assert that this triune platform would screamed from every rooftop in this fall's legislative races?
OY!
I suppose I should be worried about this, it means the big time columnistas are running only a fortnight behind me at best.
Up until now I thought I had a good six month lead on torpid yo-yos like Scot Lehigh and Brian Mooney.
Just have to ramp things up a notch.
In other news...
The Globe's gossip pages report that Luke Russert, Fat Tim's son is starting Boston College this fall.
I feel for the kid.
Clearly he didn't wanna go to Georgetown or Catholic University and commute from home.
Still if young Luke really wanted to give the old man the slip, he should've opted for Saint Anselm College in (romantic) Goffstown New Hampshire, yer boy Elias' semi alma mater.
Known as "Saint Ay's" to all it's hardy survivors the campus is cold, wretched, windswept and prone to persistent killing snow drifts until mid April.
The Benedictine Monks prowl around in long black cassocks muttering darkly the de-latinization of our youth and the decline in the relevance of the Saints.
In sum it's like Harry Potter's "Hogwarts" leavened with excessive drinking and sans the magic and joy.
As a practical matter it's a perfect place to ditch Dad and simply ski for four glorious years.
Well, young Luke had his chance...now every football season he'll be shoulder deep in ghastly BC alumnae all dressed like they are about to be shot out of a circus cannon.
Poor kid.
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