Fear of Clowns

Read an idiot argue that tax brackets ought to be indexed to inflation.

Labels: conservatism, stranger than fiction, taxes

// posted by Erik @ 7/19/2009 10:49:00 PM
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This tape was found in a tape recorder in a Salvation Army. You probably don't want to listen to it at work or around your kids: it starts out as a diary about the speaker's depression but quickly turns onto a sex diary. The cassette was found by Steve from Slabo and came with an issue of his zine, Slop Hut.

Side 1

Side 2

Side two is crazier.

Labels: fun stuff, music, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 5/23/2009 04:44:00 PM
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My 2009 Stimulus Act tax cut just showed up in my paycheck. Hurray for the muttonhead winger freaks duped by billionaires to protest across-the-board tax cuts for everybody making less than $250K a year! Conservatism at it's finest.

The angry workers, mighty in their numbers, are marching irresistibly against the arrogant. They are shaking their fists at the sons of privilege. They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawood toffs. They are massing at the gates of Mission Hills, hoisting the black flag, and while the millionaires tremble in their mansions, they are bellowing out their terrifying demands. "We are here," they scream, "to cut your taxes."

Thomas Frank
What's the Matter with Kansas? p 109

Labels: conservatism, Republicans, right wingers, stranger than fiction, taxes

// posted by Erik @ 4/15/2009 12:03:00 PM
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And incohairent, I add.

Labels: current events, right wingers, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 4/14/2009 09:03:00 PM
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Couldn't think of a better title for this.

Labels: photos, science, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 2/25/2009 09:41:00 PM
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No lie!

Labels: 2008 elections, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 11/23/2008 10:01:00 PM
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A new Hubble photograph of galaxies that smashed through one another.

Labels: fun stuff, photos, science, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 11/18/2008 11:40:00 AM
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Oh the stupid. Via apostropher.

Labels: economy, religion, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 11/04/2008 04:19:00 PM
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But for free,

Ada Barak's snake spa, in Talmei Elazar, northern Israel, uses California and Florida king snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes for the massages, which cost £40 ($70).

Miss Barak believes that physical contact with the reptiles can be a relaxing experience. She says that she was inspired by her belief that once people get over any initial misgivings, they find physical contact with the snakes to be stress relieving.

Miss Barak began offering the service at the Talmey El'Azar tourist attraction in 2006 and now most of her income comes from exhibiting plants at her carnivorous plant farm, which eat everything from insects to small mammals.

(via). (video).

Labels: carnivorous plants, stranger than fiction, YouTube

// posted by Erik @ 10/23/2008 07:33:00 PM
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Captain Ed, holder of Glen Greenwald's single funniest blog post he ever read title is forced to hand over the cup in little more than a week.

(Greendwald makes the identical point in the Update as was made a few posts down here at approximately the same time, "the Right has become such a sewer of self-parody that they are destroying actual political satire." Certainly there has been been a great disturbance in the Force.)

Labels: mark levin, right wingers, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 9/30/2008 11:31:00 PM
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The tumult in the stock market should come as no surprise to those who realize exceptionally good or bad days are driven by the psychological perceptions of those hoping to make a gain in the sort term, but I think everyone regardless of stripes is shocked by the erratic behavior of the GOP over the last few days. Politics is now finnier than political satire could ever be. Just a few examples follow.

Today, the RNC introduced an ad blaming Democrats for the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill, which of course didn't pass,

They must not have caught wind of McCain campaign's claims of taking credit for the sure passage of the same bill,

McCain attempted to blame Barak and Democrats for shooting down the widely unpopular piece of legislation - who exactly is McCain expecting to appeal to here? Undecideds who were both for the legislation and against the Democrats on the same side of the legislation as McCain? It's too confusing to ponder for very long.

Even better, McCain and Palin attempt to couch a real-time debate between them as ... uh, a "Gotcha" question from a Palin supporter at a rally,

Then again, that's nothing compared to McCain's short debate with himself.

Here's Palin contrasting the choice before voters this presidential election, "I'm the new energy, the new face, the new ideas [vs] ... experience."

If an anonymously penned book about this election got zapped back to, say - July, it would be an immediate best seller --- in the vein of Being There and Dr. Strangelove.

Labels: 2008 elections, economy, stranger than fiction, YouTube

// posted by Erik @ 9/30/2008 07:34:00 PM
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Palin is such a trainwreck, I can only commit so many posts to her since her ascendant star has fallen, but this is to be filed under truth is stranger than fiction: Her latest explanation for why she fired Walt Monegan is he wanted to acquire Federal money to combat sexual assult. Well there's an earmark Alaska can do without. Not.

Alaska leads the nation in reported forcible rapes per capita, according to the FBI, with a rate two and a half times the national average - a ranking it has held for many years.

Labels: 2008 elections, Sarah Palin, stranger than fiction

// posted by Erik @ 9/16/2008 09:00:00 PM
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