but despite being preposterously inbred, the British Royal family is also appallingly long-tailed. Guess that mad genetic cocktail that makes up their Elite DNA piles on the vapidity and other inherited woes but comes with a lifetime warranty as compensation. Elizabeth II is what seventy eight years old, she can go on for at least another decade sans slacking off one bit.
Her mother lived to a one hundred and two and allegedly had a tipple of gin every night before bedtime without failure.
If this keeps up, Prince Charles, (PoW, the Prince of Wales) may well grab off the throne well into his own dotage.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Predictable...
Joan Vennochi excoriates AG Tom Reilly for “flip-flopping” on the issue of gay marriage. Tom was agin’ it now he is tolerant of the notion if the lege and the people are fine with it blah blah blah. You get the picture, there is a gay vote in the Commonwealth and Tom would rather not lose it en masse to Patrick, Galvin, or Ben Affleck especially if the primary gets feisty.
If there is one cherished myth that the modern punditariat simply adores, it is the legendary indecisive liberal. Every single democratic presidential candidate from Franklin D. Roosevelt on down to the present day has been accused of being indecisive and weak.
That likewise goes for democratic gubernatorial candidates in the Bay State. Tom changed his mind and the mysteriously embittered Ms. Vennochi pounced-you could’ve set your watch to it. Let us not forget though, that never once has Ms. Vennochi taken time out to untangle Governor Romney’s hopelessly incoherent stem cell research policy. This would be a collection of subrational bromides and asinine assumptions designed more to please Lynchburg Virginia and not Bellingham Massachusetts. You’d think Joan might linger over this in her quest for irresolute statewide politicians.
For that fact, she might also recall that Decaf has had some four different positions on abortion over a short four year period running the gamut from No to Yes and two other heretofore unknown points in between. Well, this IS Mitt Romney we are talking about, he DOES have this inexplicable power over the op-ediots of the Boston Globe.
Humble Elias suspects Romney could run his own mother through a wood-chipper and still garner kudos from Morrissey Boulevard for lying down his own mulch.
Tom Reilly on the other hand could start turning water into wine with a wave of his hand and would be bitterly denounced for promoting public drunkeness by the whole Vennochi-Lehigh crowd.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
If there is one cherished myth that the modern punditariat simply adores, it is the legendary indecisive liberal. Every single democratic presidential candidate from Franklin D. Roosevelt on down to the present day has been accused of being indecisive and weak.
That likewise goes for democratic gubernatorial candidates in the Bay State. Tom changed his mind and the mysteriously embittered Ms. Vennochi pounced-you could’ve set your watch to it. Let us not forget though, that never once has Ms. Vennochi taken time out to untangle Governor Romney’s hopelessly incoherent stem cell research policy. This would be a collection of subrational bromides and asinine assumptions designed more to please Lynchburg Virginia and not Bellingham Massachusetts. You’d think Joan might linger over this in her quest for irresolute statewide politicians.
For that fact, she might also recall that Decaf has had some four different positions on abortion over a short four year period running the gamut from No to Yes and two other heretofore unknown points in between. Well, this IS Mitt Romney we are talking about, he DOES have this inexplicable power over the op-ediots of the Boston Globe.
Humble Elias suspects Romney could run his own mother through a wood-chipper and still garner kudos from Morrissey Boulevard for lying down his own mulch.
Tom Reilly on the other hand could start turning water into wine with a wave of his hand and would be bitterly denounced for promoting public drunkeness by the whole Vennochi-Lehigh crowd.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Monday, February 14, 2005
Has Don Imus had any...
plastic surgery done?
And if he has, will he be be suing his croakers for malpractice? The I-Man suddenly has a waxy yellowish pallor on MSNBC this morning. His turkey wattles have been visibly scrunched down into his lime green turtleneck giving his whole apperance a ghastly undead ambiance.
Mike Wallace was on his show this morning, dispiritedly flogging his interview with alleged steroid gobbler Jose Canseco. Despite the story being a legit scoop for "60 Minutes" Mike sounds like an old beaten man in every way. He knows the whole "Network News" thing is on the high road to annihilation. His rivals are all bloggers and ideologues of all stripes with little objectivity to their credit. Moreover, Mike's legit successors are the timid wretched likes of Brian Williams.
Humble Elias thinks Mike Wallace can hear the opening bars of the "Gotterdammerung" quite clearly.
And if he has, will he be be suing his croakers for malpractice? The I-Man suddenly has a waxy yellowish pallor on MSNBC this morning. His turkey wattles have been visibly scrunched down into his lime green turtleneck giving his whole apperance a ghastly undead ambiance.
Mike Wallace was on his show this morning, dispiritedly flogging his interview with alleged steroid gobbler Jose Canseco. Despite the story being a legit scoop for "60 Minutes" Mike sounds like an old beaten man in every way. He knows the whole "Network News" thing is on the high road to annihilation. His rivals are all bloggers and ideologues of all stripes with little objectivity to their credit. Moreover, Mike's legit successors are the timid wretched likes of Brian Williams.
Humble Elias thinks Mike Wallace can hear the opening bars of the "Gotterdammerung" quite clearly.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
This year marks the...
Centenary of that ideologist unto the sophomores, Ayn Rand. Like all great pseudo-theoreticians of the 20th century, Rand had no discernible sense of humor and a monomaniacal sense of personal destiny. Really honestly, she was MADE for the American market in that respect. An embittered refugee from Lenin’s USSR, Rand was the first true “counter-marxist” creating a creed she thought was sufficiently potent to supplant sub-rational marxism-leninism.
What she came up with was called “objectivism” a mish-mash of atheism, market-worship, greed, and quaint 19th century Wagnerian elitism. Thanks to it’s religious skepticism and elitist pretensions, objectivism is just bohemian enough to attract a large following among the autistic and software engineers. Otherwise its a standard counter-marxist cult whose insistant atheism parallels Leninism in some respects.
Objectivists are inexplicably haughty in a EST-like fashion. They think they are “on to something” the serfs just don’t get. Their chronic posturing reaches such an absurd degree one wonders why they bother with politics and political theory at all?
Greed, oligarchy, the secular veneration of the late Ayn Rand, and atheism just isn’t a program destined for mass popularity in America when you think about it. Very little of their ideology contains any discernible public good at all. Somehow shrinking government down to the size of a postage stamp and handing power to a tiny cadre of super intelligent individualists is somehow supposed improve the lives of the masses in some vague indefinite fashion. Clearly for all their revolt against modernity, objectivism is still paradoxically stuck on Jeremy Bentham’s great-good-for-the-greatest-number doctrine.
However, their hyper-libertarian ethos does contain a strong element of personal self transformation. Hard core objectivists regularly write long toadying articles about how that one book by Ms. Rand changed their whole world view at age fourteen. Allegedly, just reading one of Ayn’s unbelievably turgid novels (“Atlas Shrugged” “The Fountainhead”) is enough to turn your life around much akin to being smacked in the face by Jesus’ own personal shovel. They ought to reconfigure the whole mishaugas as a personal self help dogma. Communism and Fascism both required a political context in which to function, but Rand’s objectivism is little more than a humorless self improvement program a’la Dale Carnegie.
Otherwise the only use one has for her long obtuse novels is as a brickbat to toss at your little sister when she takes to filching your comics.
Happy Birthday Ms. Rand. Too bad the cigarettes got you, too bad you couldn’t credit the surgeon general’s report as anything else but bureaucratic snoopery of the worst kind.
What she came up with was called “objectivism” a mish-mash of atheism, market-worship, greed, and quaint 19th century Wagnerian elitism. Thanks to it’s religious skepticism and elitist pretensions, objectivism is just bohemian enough to attract a large following among the autistic and software engineers. Otherwise its a standard counter-marxist cult whose insistant atheism parallels Leninism in some respects.
Objectivists are inexplicably haughty in a EST-like fashion. They think they are “on to something” the serfs just don’t get. Their chronic posturing reaches such an absurd degree one wonders why they bother with politics and political theory at all?
Greed, oligarchy, the secular veneration of the late Ayn Rand, and atheism just isn’t a program destined for mass popularity in America when you think about it. Very little of their ideology contains any discernible public good at all. Somehow shrinking government down to the size of a postage stamp and handing power to a tiny cadre of super intelligent individualists is somehow supposed improve the lives of the masses in some vague indefinite fashion. Clearly for all their revolt against modernity, objectivism is still paradoxically stuck on Jeremy Bentham’s great-good-for-the-greatest-number doctrine.
However, their hyper-libertarian ethos does contain a strong element of personal self transformation. Hard core objectivists regularly write long toadying articles about how that one book by Ms. Rand changed their whole world view at age fourteen. Allegedly, just reading one of Ayn’s unbelievably turgid novels (“Atlas Shrugged” “The Fountainhead”) is enough to turn your life around much akin to being smacked in the face by Jesus’ own personal shovel. They ought to reconfigure the whole mishaugas as a personal self help dogma. Communism and Fascism both required a political context in which to function, but Rand’s objectivism is little more than a humorless self improvement program a’la Dale Carnegie.
Otherwise the only use one has for her long obtuse novels is as a brickbat to toss at your little sister when she takes to filching your comics.
Happy Birthday Ms. Rand. Too bad the cigarettes got you, too bad you couldn’t credit the surgeon general’s report as anything else but bureaucratic snoopery of the worst kind.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Ross Terrill: A Political Strife...
Yowza, who knew that Ross Terrill was a freeper?
Or that all the world’s problems are caused by irresolute liberals?
Or that (John) “Kerry has not approved a major projection of American military power abroad since Vietnam”?
(Note to the Globe’s Ombudsman, didn’t Senator Kerry formally “approve” the Iraq War Resolution? Do those guys even CHECK woozy screeds like this anymore? )
Yipes, until now, Humble Elias just knew Terrill through his biographies of Mao and his wife Jiang Jing. Clearly though, his inner freeper though has come through roaring on today’s op-ed page of the Boston Globe. For such an erudite man, though it is a crude cliché ridden exercise in rightical chic polemics-hardly worthy of even the famously undiscriminating Dartmouth Review.
Back in the 1970’s former Treasury Secretary William Simon set out to create a counter-Marxist political culture in the USA via think tanks, subsidies, political action groups etc. Hence counter-Marxist politics have over time become the norm on the so called “new right”. These are people who hated communism so much they became shrill conspiratorial ideologues of the worst type. Mr. Terrill is well within this tradition with howlers like this “Not so to a left whose eyes bulge with self-entitlement and whose pale hand is estranged from physical labor.”
“Estranged from physical labor” Good God Lavrenty P. Beria couldn’t have put it better! Either the whole of the American Right has gone Bolshevik, or else studying the Chinese Communist Party has unhinged Ross Terrill’s wits such that he is now writing like a grey bearded Stalinist.
Stylistically, there is not much that separates Stalin’s Comintern with Grover Norquist’s Wednesday Group. The old time communist and today’s freeper shares one goal, the destruction of liberalism as the prerequisite to a glittering vista of total power. Given the degraded nature of modern US conservatism with it’s big intrusive government, record deficits, and arrogant sense of entitlement, nothing much holds the ideology together save their relentless hunt for reactionary Kulaks…er…liberals.
Sick
Demented
Typical!
Or that all the world’s problems are caused by irresolute liberals?
Or that (John) “Kerry has not approved a major projection of American military power abroad since Vietnam”?
(Note to the Globe’s Ombudsman, didn’t Senator Kerry formally “approve” the Iraq War Resolution? Do those guys even CHECK woozy screeds like this anymore? )
Yipes, until now, Humble Elias just knew Terrill through his biographies of Mao and his wife Jiang Jing. Clearly though, his inner freeper though has come through roaring on today’s op-ed page of the Boston Globe. For such an erudite man, though it is a crude cliché ridden exercise in rightical chic polemics-hardly worthy of even the famously undiscriminating Dartmouth Review.
Back in the 1970’s former Treasury Secretary William Simon set out to create a counter-Marxist political culture in the USA via think tanks, subsidies, political action groups etc. Hence counter-Marxist politics have over time become the norm on the so called “new right”. These are people who hated communism so much they became shrill conspiratorial ideologues of the worst type. Mr. Terrill is well within this tradition with howlers like this “Not so to a left whose eyes bulge with self-entitlement and whose pale hand is estranged from physical labor.”
“Estranged from physical labor” Good God Lavrenty P. Beria couldn’t have put it better! Either the whole of the American Right has gone Bolshevik, or else studying the Chinese Communist Party has unhinged Ross Terrill’s wits such that he is now writing like a grey bearded Stalinist.
Stylistically, there is not much that separates Stalin’s Comintern with Grover Norquist’s Wednesday Group. The old time communist and today’s freeper shares one goal, the destruction of liberalism as the prerequisite to a glittering vista of total power. Given the degraded nature of modern US conservatism with it’s big intrusive government, record deficits, and arrogant sense of entitlement, nothing much holds the ideology together save their relentless hunt for reactionary Kulaks…er…liberals.
Sick
Demented
Typical!
Friday, February 11, 2005
The Governor's Line...
Can anyone out there make sense of Mitt Romney’s latest stem cell research policy? Apparently we can use fertility clinic leavings, but cloning human embryos for research purposes is a Bozo no-no. They are both the same sources of genetic material, but one is somehow more morally objectionable in the Viceregal eyes.
Nuanced? Incoherent? Or simply pandering to the awesome power of our of state wowsers? You be the judge...Humble Elias can’t figure this out.
Clearly Decaf is still listlessly tacking to the right in anticipation of his presidential apotheosis in 2008. Nonetheless it is a complicated policy to be sold to a famously uncomplicated GOP base. And how is all this mishaugas gonna play in Massachusetts-or does anyone even care anymore in the Governor’s office?
You’d think he’d clam up about rightical chic hot button issues after the drubbing a year’s worth of fag bashing got him at the polls last November. Alas this is Romney we are talking about. Being a amateur politician he must always be crusading and denouncing and firing....God forbid he should merely govern.
Undoubtedly his fearsome staff has got all kinds of polling that justifies his latest revisions and nuances...what else can explain this pallid and unsustainable policy?
Nuanced? Incoherent? Or simply pandering to the awesome power of our of state wowsers? You be the judge...Humble Elias can’t figure this out.
Clearly Decaf is still listlessly tacking to the right in anticipation of his presidential apotheosis in 2008. Nonetheless it is a complicated policy to be sold to a famously uncomplicated GOP base. And how is all this mishaugas gonna play in Massachusetts-or does anyone even care anymore in the Governor’s office?
You’d think he’d clam up about rightical chic hot button issues after the drubbing a year’s worth of fag bashing got him at the polls last November. Alas this is Romney we are talking about. Being a amateur politician he must always be crusading and denouncing and firing....God forbid he should merely govern.
Undoubtedly his fearsome staff has got all kinds of polling that justifies his latest revisions and nuances...what else can explain this pallid and unsustainable policy?
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Condi's condemnation...
It is appalling to note that Komrade Kim, Supreme Socialist Autocrat of North Korea, is a dyed in the wool member of the "reality based community". What else can explain his perfectly timed of the announcement that North Korea has got the atom bomb? Closemouthed Condi, the U.S. Courtier of State just got done hurling her defiance at Iran and it's alleged nuclear weapons program when Kim that bandy legged bastard shook out his feathers and let out the primal nuclear scream heard round' the world.
Whenever North Korea starts getting its isotopes in a bunch, a strange bumptious senility steals over the Bush Admin. They go from strutting Global State Trooper to a querulous harassed clerk bleating about six power agreements and "consultations". The transformation is both instructive, comical, and frightening.
Kim has the bomb and as usual will play hardball with everyone in sight to keep his shithouse up and running. So far he has done an admirable job of using the alleged warheads to blackmail the world for food and other necessities of life. If he is smart, smart like Castro say, that is all he will do.
Selling one of those sonsabitches to the Young Fanatic (or whoever) is a one way ticket to global catastrophe. Given our low troop levels in South Korea, Kim has to realize any US war plan must include the use of tactical nuclear weapons to forestall an attack by his armies. Still and all that, true pimps are disinclined to cut off the easy money by burning down their own brothels. That much is in our favor-for the moment.
So our best hope on the Korean Peninsula seems to be that we are dealing with a gangster. One that is both rational and corrupt.
Whenever North Korea starts getting its isotopes in a bunch, a strange bumptious senility steals over the Bush Admin. They go from strutting Global State Trooper to a querulous harassed clerk bleating about six power agreements and "consultations". The transformation is both instructive, comical, and frightening.
Kim has the bomb and as usual will play hardball with everyone in sight to keep his shithouse up and running. So far he has done an admirable job of using the alleged warheads to blackmail the world for food and other necessities of life. If he is smart, smart like Castro say, that is all he will do.
Selling one of those sonsabitches to the Young Fanatic (or whoever) is a one way ticket to global catastrophe. Given our low troop levels in South Korea, Kim has to realize any US war plan must include the use of tactical nuclear weapons to forestall an attack by his armies. Still and all that, true pimps are disinclined to cut off the easy money by burning down their own brothels. That much is in our favor-for the moment.
So our best hope on the Korean Peninsula seems to be that we are dealing with a gangster. One that is both rational and corrupt.
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