Disgusting

When UCSC Chancellor Denise Denton swan-dived to her death from the 42nd floor of a San Francisco apartment building, the media seemed, well — confused — of what to make of it.
Thankfully, Michelle Malkin has stepped forward to piss all over Denton’s grave — a grave which she may have helped create.
TAP:

You may have missed this story, but it’s worth a look. It appears that Michelle Malkin is taking some heat from her compadres on the right because she failed to apologized after heaping a great deal of vitriol on a woman who subsequently committed suicide.
Well, now Malkin has lashed back at her critics. Her response? She smeared the dead woman again, calling her a “corruptocrat.”
[…]

Vile. What’s next? Ann Coulter, fresh from attacking the 9/11 widows/widowers, plagiarist?
Really, if there is a hell, these people are on the short list…

Stewart takes down Bill Bennett

I never know why Jon Stewart softballs some asshats then smartly annihilates others, but this segment over ‘gay marriage’ with Bill Bennett made my nipples hard.

“I disagree. It’s a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish.”

Stoopid Google

Much hay has been made over Google’s “do no evil” policy vs. China and their zealous censorship fetish.
Oft-cited example: contrast these two image searches for ‘Tiananmen Square’: US; China. No “tank man” in the Chinese version. (FrontLine did a good piece on this recently.)
Funny thing is all you have to do is misspell ‘Tiananmen’ (which I imagine happens rather frequently), and one gets at least some “tank man” pr0n. (Yes, I know I’m searching in English here.)
Look, Google: when you break your own promises, at least be good at it.
Seriously, why does anyone pay Google attention any more… unless you’re insanely wealthy and getting rich on their crap Class B shares? Everything they’ve released in the last 3 years has been ass: gmail (yawn), gCal (Apple circa 2001), Maps (Web 2.0!!!!@@!@!!! d00d! FUCK ACCURACY!), news (company PR IS news!), Finance (Y! circa 98 with an AJAX chart!!!#@!!), Froogle (muddled, repetitive, pointless), local (does anyone know this exists?), blah, blah, blah…
Meanwhile, Yahoo! gets its third Chinese citizen arrested. Hey Terry, you fucknut, gonna throw some of that $174M to that guy’s family or let them starve?

$5000 Bounty

For Penn Jillette. DEAD.
But thems just jokes.
Loves me some wingnuts.

Pimpstar

Wow, something even stupider than the Escalade itself: Pimpstar rims.
“You can even change them while you’re driving!”
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Trackback

So I turned it on for the first time in about, oh, 5 months, and I got 10 trackback spams within 30 minutes.
It’s off again.
Not like I had anything important to say anyway.
[ Note to spammers: Targeting my shit from 2003 — not so effective. Just really annoying. The stupid thing is you spam for almost all the same website. So kindly go fuck yourself. ]

The Abu Ghraib Files

Salon’s got 279 photos and 19 videos from Rummy’s favorite little pet project in Iraq.
If you weren’t disgusted enough, some choice quotes from the nutosphere:

[The US] “does not permit, tolerate, or condone torture under any circumstances”
– Condi Rice
“brilliant!”
– Rush Limbaugh
“more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.”
– Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
“There was underwear on the head of one of them. We’re not raping and killing anybody.”
– Sean Hannity
“hazing”
“fraternity prank”
– Rush Limbaugh
“Clearly, more pictures of Abu Ghraib help the terrorists, as do Geneva Convention protections and civilian lawyers. So there’s no question the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies.”
– Bill O’Reilly

UPDATE 8:02pm: How could I forget the biggest fans?

“We do not torture”
– George W. Bush
“this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.”
– Alberto “Abu” Gonzales

Attention North Carolinans!

You’ve got a winner running for Congress: Vernon Robinson! He apparently starts off each day with a big giant bowl of crazy. C&L’s got a lovely little gem of a campaign commercial:

This is isn’t a joke or a parody commercial. It’s just insane. Robinson is running for Congress in North Carolina and he uses the Twilight Zone theme to attack gays, judges, African Americans and just about anything or anyone else you can think of.

[ hat tip to DT ]

Itchy Fingers…

Let’s all look surprised.
Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas