you go, as you young people used to say the last time I spoke to one of you personally, funny young

James Lileks, who appears to have gained his knowledge on the inner workings of government from the Big Book Of Fucked-Up Comparisons, offers the following mandate for the Pentagon...

...I sometimes wonder what it's like to be James Lileks. Then, I compare my mother's feet to American foreign policy from 1910-1933 while missing World War I, and I know what it's like to be James Lileks.


How do I love Pandagon. Let me count the ways.

you like me... you really like me...

well, they've ignored the jmhm.livejournal.com address (which, parenthetically, is on a much faster server) but then so does the Truth Laid Bear (who actually knows it exists).

Nonetheless, I am absurdly flattered to discover that I have been included in my first URL spam.

I would like to thank Robert Heinlein and libertarians everywhere.

followup

You may recall that yesterday I timorously disagreed with what Joe Conason had to say about the left discussing Prescott Bush's unfortunate financial affiliations (why does Barbara's dad keep getting left out of this?).

This, while not establishing the worth of my point, does prove it, more or less:

from Fox News:

Well, not at all. Actually, he stressed he did not want to compare Bush to Hitler in a genocidal sense. If you can compare someone to Hitler in a non-genocidal sense, I suppose that is what he is doing. But he seemed to firmly believe that the Bush family fortune had indeed come from Nazi investments made by George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush.

And you know, this is something that you normally see on the farthest fringes of the political debate, on both sides. The interesting thing about Drobny's writings is that this is someone who's really quite in the mainstream of what is perhaps the premier liberal outreach effort, which is the talk radio effort. And he's put in a lot of money and has been quite praised by a number of liberal commentators for his work.

via atrios


I'm still open to persuasion on how relevant this history is, but I think it ought to be a red flag that it's being so cavalierly rewritten.

offtopic parent thing

I have discovered a really great way to while away a miserable cold day with a fractious seven year old - get a bag of those disposable wooden barbecue skewers, put them in a biggish ziploc bag with some food coloring, and when they've had a chance to soak and then to dry out on a newspaper, voila. Instant pickup sticks.

Creativity has many mothers. Desperation is one.

mwahHAAAAAAA

I got her! I got her! Happy hop!

HM (whose hands are still coloriffic after the aforementioned pickup stick manufacturing process): I look like I'm polkadotted.

me (I do too): I do too.

(group showing of hands to father)

me: she inherited those from me.

HM: being blue?

me (they're green): they're green.

HM: no they're not, they're blue.

me (indignant. now is my chance): are you trying to tell me you inherited your blue genes from me?

HM: ohwrph (bangs forehead on pile of homework)

I win! I win! Endzone dance!

coughing spasm.

never mind.

but the important thing is: blowjob.

Former US President Bill Clinton has brokered a deal to supply cut-price AIDS drugs to developing countries.

An agreement was reached with four generic drug companies in India and South Africa to provide certain treatments at less than a third of the cost of patented versions.

Nine countries in the Caribbean, as well as Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania will receive the low-cost medication.

Mr Clinton said treatment could begin in places where until now there had been virtually no medicine and no hope.

Aids organisations have hailed the deal as a breakthrough, with the potential to save millions of lives.

The agreement was reached after advisors from the William J Clinton Presidential Foundation worked with the drugs firms to find ways to cut costs.

Few AIDS sufferers in developing countries can afford proper treatment Under the deal, the price of a generic triple-drug regimen will be less than 40 cents a day, as opposed to more than $1.50 for the same patented medicines.


President Bush's anti-AIDS plan for Africa involves going through manufacturers with the highest markup in the world for AIDS drugs which the people of the United States paid to develop, so that the funding he comes through with (if he ever does) will amount to a subsidy for a drug manufacturer which supports him heavily in contributions.

The American People won't have their pockets picked again, and people in Africa may actually live (without access to condoms, but it's not a perfect world).

Spiritual advantage: Bush, because Clinton got his dick sucked by someone who was not his wife (as opposed to letting your kids watch you stay drunk for twenty years and driving a car with your wife in it into a concrete wall).

Moral relativism is easy. Reading the newspaper is hard.

/barbie/ So is math. //barbie/

and which of you can say him nay?

Tommy Chong clears up who between he and Rush Limbaugh has both clarity and class in his arsenal:

Tommy Chong (from prison, where he is serving nine months for conspiring to sell bongs) on Rush Limbaugh: "I feel sorry for Rush. I'm glad I'm not Rush. My vice was pot; you can put it down, it's not addictive at all, though some say it's psychologically addictive. I feel sorry for anybody on heroin. He was on a painkiller called OxyContin that's been called Hillbilly Heroin." Adds that he's not bitter that he's in jail while Limbaugh's in rehab: "Not at all. It's a totally different case. Mine is political, his is medical. Is it unfair? Yes, it is. But I would hate to have Rush Limbaugh change the way they handle addicts. You don't put addicts in jail, you put them in rehab. You put political figures like myself in jail."

edit: Oh, come on, I'm not saying the man isn't completely baked. I'm just saying he was far more gracious about this than he had any good reason to be.