Teh funnies

[sabotabby]

First up, we have this must-read: What Right-Wingers See When They Read the New York Times. It's very helpful, especially for Canuckistanis like me who really do not understand what Americans mean when they talk about the liberal, biased media. The Klimt part is the best.

Next, you will be pleased to find out that Feministe has located a solution for The NiceGuy. Check out Big Bad Chinese Mama. Besides being my hero of the day, BBCM has made some articles of clothing that I covet.*

(Hat tip for both links: Feministe.)

If you needed another reason to mock Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, she's got another post up about how she's still better than everyone else. In this post, she points out that she's particularly better than fat people and poor people. Predictably, members of the lower classes arrive to take issue with this statement, and predictably, Ubermensch RFJason leaps to her defense with:

We know, because we have reasoned it, that a person's reward is the sum of his intelligence, application, perseverence, and cunning. It is darwinism at its finest. We are fit, able-bodied and able-minded, and we are not afraid to use our ability, and to advertise ourselves as such.

For good measure, he inexplicably reminds us about 9-11 OMG NEVAR FORGET!!!one!! with this bizarre comment:

It should be apparent by now that Jacq, nor anyone else of her quality is going to bow down to those would condemn her. You know who else condemns and attacks you when you don't bow down? Dictators. Megalomaniacs. Psycho nutjobs. Yeah ... let's go have relationships with those types of personalities! While we're add it, why don't we up the fun-quotient by watching 9/11 tapes?

Love!

(The best comment is here, and you have to read it in its entirety.)

Finally, I promised that I wouldn't mention it again, so just hop back to the post that dare not speak its name that I made the other day, and read the edit. You won't be disappointed.

* Speaking of my poor abused VISA card, squee! and drool!

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EDIT: This is intriguing. I have no idea what some of these pictures are supposed to be.

Create your own! By ga_woo

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Bit of a sod that RFJ is on my flist - poor chap is setting himself up as a sitting duck by hanging around with Jackie Mackie Poopie Pants or whatever she's called.

Hey, I thought of you the other day; there was a huge cat came into my house, half tabby, half white, with enormous paws and a strangely squeaky miaow. Would that I could spirit him away with my Lilith when I move next month. I saw him and thought immediately of your Marinetti.

[sabotabby]

I think he has a crush. And haven't we all developed unwise internet crushes at some point in our lives?

You should try to snatch that cat. Big, beautiful cats make one's life much better.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

im reading a book now that you will love, if you havent read it already...
its called THE TRUE BELIEVER (A caustic analysis of the nature of mass movements and those who are driven to join them) by eric hoffer...

its awesome... oh, he seems like he mightve been a little bigotted so keep that in mind..

[sabotabby]

This sounds vaguely familiar; I don't think I've read it, but I don't think that this is the first time I've heard it mentioned. Hmmm.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

every aspiring guerrilla leader must read it :)

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

JMPP = a budding Ann Coulter?

NYT from rightwing nuts' POV is really OMG. Their OP, IMHO, is also silly. They need to GTPO and STFU and BOO with Margaret Thatcher's wawa, revirginized by Ayatollah with SBTC, and in the vicinity of JonBenet Ramsey.

[sabotabby]

Well, she's against the Iraq war and pro-reproductive rights, so she's not entirely Ann Coulter.

Only slightly off-topic: Click here.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Jon Stewart subtly alluded to the same joke.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Has anyone in the comments, since you seem to have soul immunity and can't get yours sucked out, mentioned that class is something that isn't always chosen or indicative of much?

[sabotabby]

She acknowledges that by stating:

Clarification: I am talking about the chronically poor over age 25, not children, students and young adults, or people who are temporarily poor for a short period of time.

Once you hit 25, though, you're magically supposed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. After all, there are plenty of Vietnam vets who didn't end up homeless.

Ugh.

[billie0.livejournal.com]

Thanks, my idiot quotient has been met for the day :)

I love how Miss Thing uses Bildungsroman incorrectly as the title of her journal. She is so educated...

What does she say to the working poor who hold down two jobs and still can't get ahead?

[sabotabby]

ERROR 404 NOT FOUND IN AYN RAND NOVELS

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

best response evar.

or at least this week.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

There's a Tom Toles cartoon on that (not linked) from the early 90s. It shows one businessman telling another, "Sure I make a lot of money, but I work really hard for it." There's a cleaning lady scrubbing the floor behind him thinking, "Wow. I'm working two jobs and I still can't make ends meet. He must be working really, really, really hard!"

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

She would say, as Megan McArdle did in her "Live from the WTC incarnation" (resplendent with a pink background and WWII poster illustrations), that most of the working poor are barely on the clock full-time, and that many of the poor aren't employed at all. This isn't because of the nature of the job market, or unequal access to education and contacts, or even the fact that it is impossible under capitalism for every worker to secure as much paid employment as he or she needs, but is due to their own grievous moral failure. Well, McArdle is hip to the difficulties of extricating oneself from social pressure by other poor people, which is a start, in the sense that walking upstairs brings you closer to the moon, but that's the general idea.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

that most of the working poor are barely on the clock full-time

Riiiight. That's why my student's dad worked 60+ hours a week at a pizza parlor until he was fired because supposedly "customers complained about him" when no such thing occurred, there had just been a change of management and the new management didn't like how he had contracted tuberculosis and had been out one week.

The conditions that inspired "The Jungle" still exist for immigrants.

(I'm yelling at her, not you. ;))

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

So she thinks she understands the causes of poverty because she once slummed? I don't think so. While writing Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell spent a lot of time with tramps passing as one of them, but he understood - and pointed out - that it's quite different from infiltrating a working class family and finding out what their lives are really like, which he said would probably be "next door to impossible." Ms. Libertarian's poverty tourism and poorly chosen boyfriends are hardly representative or a sound basis for macroeconomic analysis.

[sabotabby]

I highly doubt she's ever had a homeless friend (unless it's a case of "I'm squatting...yeah, in my parents' basement"). It sounds suspiciously like a case of "some of my best friends are..."

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Point. I had given her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was simply deluded, but lying is another possibility.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I noticed Nicole's art in the meme collage. Are you sure you two aren't the same person?

BBMC and that long response to Ms. Paisley Passey were awesome.

Will pimp.

[sabotabby]

I promise that Nicole and I aren't the same person, although we may be twins separated at birth or something. You can attest to this, as you've seen us both in the same room together. And I only wish I was as kick-ass an artist as she is (non-New Year's resolution—do more scratchboard illustration).

Yay pimpage!

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

There's multiple things the title changes to.

[sabotabby]

Which title?

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

The NYT masthead changes to:

Socialist Worker Daily
The AQ Newsletter and Coupon Book
Le Monde
Fancy Liberal Filth

[sabotabby]

Really?! I didn't notice. The only one I saw was "Fancy Liberal Filth," which made me convulse with laughter.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

You have to mouse it to get it to change, then again to change back to the NYT, then again to get the next one, and so on.

[sabotabby]

I see it now—thanks! That just increases the awesome, although the Klimt thing is still my favourite.

[ironed_orchid]

It's really awesome, all of it.

[ironed_orchid]

Lego Dr who!

JMPP is fast becoming an internet meme, all on her own. It's a bit like watching a train wreck itself.

[sabotabby]

Her repeated posts (claiming that she did it for the lulz and money, then claiming that well, it is true) are pure hilarity.

I felt a bit bad at first, because really, she's an insecure nobody and a lot of commenters were utterly missing the point of why she deserves to be mocked (making fun of her fivehead, etc.), but since she's ragging on poor people, fat people, and single moms, she pretty much has it coming.

Lego Doctor Who?

[sabotabby]

Oh, I see it now. Weird...the images must have changed, because when I first posted it, there was a nice (but predictable) picture of Ten there.

This is so much better.

[ironed_orchid]

Yeah, I thought some of the pictures changed on another persons collage.

I guess they are linking to (the first?) yahoo image results, no wonder they had to take it down.

[ironed_orchid]

...since she's ragging on poor people, fat people, and single moms, she pretty much has it coming.

Can't argue with that.

[ridemycamel.livejournal.com]

I have banned myself from LJ until I hand in this huge report...but I had to come on here to tell you I have the greatest forward that will brighten up your day...I usually hate lame-ass forwards that have pictures of dogs and cats and other stuff like that, but the pictures are really cool, cheered me up...my address is salimisugly at yahoo dot com, email me so i can forward it to you!

[sabotabby]

Done.

And you are not remotely ugly. Heh.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

I cannot bear to go and read that blog... already feel too much like killing too many people.

NYT page is genius.

[sabotabby]

You know you want to!

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

aw, that interest meme doesnt work anymore! boourns.

[sabotabby]

Really? It didn't work for me at work, but it does at home for whatever reason.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

It took too much bandwidth, I'm sure that it won't work anymore, unless it can work entirely from cache, which would be awesome, and then you would have to save it and send it to us. :]