Link round-up

[sabotabby]

The great Comics Curmudgeon took notice of me! That totally made my day. (Thanks to springheel_jack for pointing it out; I read CC frequently but not regularly and I might have otherwise missed it.) Does this mean that Josh reads mf_roasted?

Also via springheel_jack: Michael Crichton is a dick who can't write and can't take criticism. I heard he also has a tiny penis.

Via threeliesforone: UK unions join the War on Christmas. Solidarity forever and mad props to these folks.

News of the awesome: World's tallest man saves two dolphins. (Hat tip: see_my_glock.) (Much sadder dolphin news.)

Company building a fence to keep undocumented immigrants out gets fined for hiring undocumented immigrants. (Hat tip: seanmonster.)

Comments

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ain't that Michael Crichton a peach? "Oh yeah, criticize me, will ya? Well, I'll just create a character who's a child murderer and name him after you!" You can almost imagine him sticking out his tongue and waving it in Michael Crowley's direction as he was writing.

[sabotabby]

A child rapist! With a tiny penis!

I'm glad that Crowley found it as funny as I do, and took the opportunity to bash Crichton again. Hee.

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I typed a long response to this earlier, and I guess it did not go through before the computer lost its fucking mind.

I can't remember exactly what I said, other than that Michael Crowley is one of the most mild-mannered of all the talking heads that appear regularly on the evening chat shows on MSNBC. He is certainly not an attack dog, and not deserving of being maligned in such a manner. That said, I have almost no use whatsoever for the New Republic.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Crichton is a global warming opponent?!? Holy crap! What a horrendous dork!

Seriousy, I'm quite surprised. Not like I ever admired him or thought he was a particularly good writer, but that's still a surprise to me!

[sabotabby]

I read only one of his books (Jurassic Park) and since the moral of that was apparently "science bad," I can't say I'm terribly surprised.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of watching Jay Leno once and when they were building another fence on the border and he joked about undocumented worker building the fence.

The news these day is seriously reaching Onion porportions, you can't really tell what is fake and what's real anymore.

[sabotabby]

It reminds me of how Palestinians are building the Wall.

*shudder*

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

They employed Palestinians to build that wall?

*sighs*

[sabotabby]

Yeah. If you have a lot of time on your hands, check out Route 181: Fragments of a Journey Through Palestine-Israel. It's not the most well-made film of all time (emphasis on the "fragments") but it has an interesting interview with Palestinian construction workers building the Wall.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I'm sure those who commissioned the building of the wall thought the irony was delicious, like braised liver tips in butter sauce.

It seems that wallsfences are a popular way of keeping people out these days. There's a wall in D-town that separates an 88% black neighbourhood from a 91.5% white suburban neighbourhood that came out of the race riots in the 1960s, and none of the suburbanites seemed interested in breaking down the wall. My class mate reports, "One person from GPP (the suburb) commented, 'Instead of having a wall, we should have a piggy bank where we put in all the money for the beautification of both our neighbourhoods. But you know, someone is bound to break into it and steal all of the money from our collective efforts.'"

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with them? Are they some kind of communist?

[sabotabby]

Yes.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Those communists! They always want to take away our freedom to listen to jolly good kid-friendly music!

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

That story about x-mas music...FUCK YEAH! I'm so fuckng tired of listening to 20 versions of jingle bells. The song sucks and will always suck, no matter how many versions of it are recorded.

[sabotabby]

They keep getting progressively worse, too.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

both carlos mencia and george lopez have bits to the effect of "you want to build a fence between the US and mexico? who do you think is gonna build it?"