Fitz!

Fitz! more than ever.

Good for me, I finally got the first fitz. Since I jumped to comment before reading the post, I’ll go OT. Check out the lastest at Unclaimed Territory. Arlen lied on national TV.

Holy smack! A Vivian Stanshall reference, I thought I was the only one who ever heard of him, now if we could just work a Rodney Slater and Legs Larry Smith reference in, my life would be complete.

And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.

So Harry isn’t part of the PNAC twin: The FDD? Good for Harry.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1475

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) has become one of the most prominent and influential in the array of traditionally right-wing and neoconservative think tanks.

In its view, the “major ideological threat to democracies comes from Islamic extremism and rogue states,” which are the “leading supporters of terrorism and totalitarianism.” Although FDD does not define its own ideology, the positions and philosophy it promotes mirror those of neoconservative ideologues and institutes–with respect to the centrality of Israel,

Republican Party insiders dominate FDD’s board, and its president, Clifford May, is the former director of communications for the Republican National Committee (1997-2001) and was the editor of Rising Tide, the party’s official magazine. FDD’s three board members are Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. As a way to achieve widespread acceptance of its positions on counterterrorism and on Middle East affairs, FDD has two bipartisan advisory groups.

Its four “Distinguished Advisers” are Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Louis J. Freeh (former FBI director), and James Woolsey. FDD also has a Board of Advisers, whose members are: Gary Bauer, Donna Brazile, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), Frank Gaffney, Amb. Marc Ginsberg, Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), Charles Jacobs, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Hon. Richard D. Lamm, Richard Perle, Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA), and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).

WTF Schumer?

Harry and I will have to go to a nudist retreat together. I have the sayings of Helen Gurley Brown engraved on my ass.

(Great women of the 20th century and all….)

Wow, I usually don’t catch the start of a thread (although I did get a fitz a while back!) I just wanted to thank you Jane and folks for such a great blog. I’ve really come to rely for sites such as this for reality based information. Rootz!

I’m with you, AnotherBruce. If I didn’t love Jane before now (and I did), I would have become smitten tonight after spotting that Viv Stanshall reference.

fess up, Jane, you’re writing and producing a movie about this guy starring Sean Connery!

Harry appears to have that sense of humor that gets the snot beaten out of oneself. He’s hilarious, but he should probably be more careful.

I know, I know. I should ask for world peace while I’m at it. Well, I want world peace, but in Harry’s case it’s just a suggestion, so I won’t feel nearly as disappointed if he doesn’t take my advice.

AB–

You write that Bonzo Dog Wiki bit, or what?

Way tangential to sloppy drums but….did anyone catch that business about ‘Hedgestock’ being fronted by the windmiller formerly known as Pete?

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It takes a special talent to appreciate Harry. Some might call it a character flaw. I like to think of it as refined taste.

Um. I’m no political strategist, but maybe Minnesota Representative Rod Hamilton could have worded his occupation a little differently…

http://www.house.leg.state.mn……strict=22B

Is “Pork Producer” really what John Q. Voter wants in a politician? Maybe that would get him some high-paying jobs in D.C. though…

Jane,

Thanks for linking to Harry’s weird site. His sense of humor reminds me of a couple of my friends back in junior high, Dave Halford and Craig Mulford. Craig died in Vietnam and Dave died of a lung infection he got while serving there. I keep hoping I’ll make another friend with such stupid jokes and scams.

Um. Uh…

What’s a quim?

Trex dear … it’s something you are not fond of.

Jane,
Let’s make up and be friendly.

Hmmmm. That’s nice, Max.

Quim? It quivers. And I am not talking blancmange.

Did you know Browning thought a twat referred to a nun’s habit? Most embarassing in the end.

Harry sounds like a post-modern version of the protagonist of Greene’s Our Man in Havana.

And maybe a bit too smart-ass for his own good. :) But, that alone is not a mortal sin, nor should it be….

cynic at 8, I like it. I see it now: Only I see it starring Ali G.

You write that Bonzo Dog Wiki bit, or what?

It’s all there on The Intro and the Outro from the Bonzo Dog Band’s great album Gorilla. The entire band is introduced along with the aforementioned Adolf, along with big John Wayne on xylophone, Count Basie Orchestra on triangle ding! Eric Clapton on ukelele and a host of others.

best definition of quim — the female pudendum.

That’s some funny shit.

Harry’s generally funny… but that wasn’t particularly so…

I didn’t find the ripping of Python jokes applied to the violent destruction of a dear person’s house and belongings particularly amusing.

Perhaps if Harry accompanied the humor with a link to the donation site, it would have been a bit better understood and received, yes?

AB–

Ahhhhhh.

You really are long gone there my friend.

Thanks – will have to go find those liner notes in the milk crate under the back porch. I know they’re there somewhere.

okay I’m hooked.

Having testicles is like being chained to the village idiot.

sides-hurt-laughing…

Sorry, way OT – but to LHP and Joy B from a couple posts back re Andrew McCarthy: I am well aware of his knowledge of al-Qaeda and terrorist suspects and Muslim convicted felons and his experience prosecuting them that clearly has a lot of bearing on his attitude toward Islam. But just take a gander, as one example, at this quote from his article titled “The Elephant in the Room: The mainstream media continue to suppress the “Islam” in Islamic terrorism”:

The conspiracy’s leaders, we were told, may have “led prayers” and given “fiery speeches,” but this doesn’t mean they “openly embrace[d] violence.” After all, it’s just Islam (many of whose fiery scriptures openly embrace violence).

To drag out a point made ad nauseum, ever read the Bible? Many, many of its fiery scriptures openly embrace violence too. McCarthy, I imagine being a practicing Catholic, knows this. He may even know that killers of abortion doctors or gays, or maybe even federal judges (are they terrorists? Nope, they’re merely killers…..that’s not nearly as bad) get their inspiration from fiery Bible scriptures.

I guess I just wish he weren’t such an ideologue. He is smart, and he’s a better writer than I remembered, but it’s just so nauseating the way he drags out the rightwing talking points. I hate that more because it shows a lack of creativity than anything else.

I’ve found clear evidence that Harry is indeed “batting for the other side”.

He wrote the following:

CONDI 2008, A LOVE POEM

To me, the President’s a schmuck,
You’re the one I’d like to
Vote for; if only you would run.

You’re hotter than a bowl of chile,
I’d like to let you hold my
Hand, and wander by the river.

The journalists they laugh and mock,
O do not spurn my throbbing
Heart; why won’t you notice me?

They laugh at you, but I don’t mind,
I want to take you from
All this, to somewhere far away.

They say you’re wrong about Iraq;
I’d love to get you in the
Oval Office, and keep you close to me.

Each day the terrorists you hunt;
O how I long to fill your
Ears, with vows of deepest love.

Unlike the others you have class,
And unlike them a shapely
Figure; and unlike them a smile.

I’ll love you till I lose my wits,
Your beauty and your massive
Achievements; I’ll always be your fan.

Now if that ain’t proof….

OT,

I just sent this to the Anchorage Daily News:

“I was surprised to see an article about Ann Coulter’s most recent book below the fold on page A1 of Tuesday’s Anchorage Daily News. She’s hardly a credible author. Time and again she has insulted veterans. She was fired from employment at MSNBC for saying to a paraplegic veteran, according to Coulter, “people like you caused us to lose that war.” She has recently insulted Max Cleland and John Murtha, and has accused John Kerry of inflicting his own wounds in Vietnam.

The book which your article promotes through such prominent placement is now being investigated for plagiarism. She is being investigated for felony fraud in Florida in a separate case. These facts could have been researched before you printed the Associated Press article so prominently.

Where have your editorial standards gone? I could imagine the Voice of the Times promoting this slut, but the Daily News? Good grief.”

Well, Jane, this is quite shocking. Really, don’t you think there are more important issues in the world today? Do we really have to be exposed to this Harry person when there’s net neutrality to defend, black boxes to oppose, and Joe Wilson to adore? When are you watercatpond people going to realize that our democracy, our republic, our very way of life — all are at stake!

Hardly the time for humor, I say. If you call that humor.

Start blogging about the things that are important, damnit!

Strange…..

I previewed the letter, and it didn’t do that silly apostrophe thing then. Sorry.

Oh no, Harry’s in trouble.

How did this take so long to happen?

Kinda OT, but the only baked goods that come to mind are my aunt Borghild’s krum kaga (crumb cake) cookies.

A Norwegian delicacy, they are a thin batter butter cookie baked in a flat mold, and rolled up while hot. The are kind of like the best Pepperidge Farm cookies, only better.

Here’s a secret recipe:

http://www.sprakrad.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=7427

Jane:
You gotta post a “spew” warning on the comments when you put up an article like this. I’ll put my plastic cover over the keyboard. The screen can be cleaned. Family already thinks I’ve lost it. Funny stuff.

Hey, here’s some WaPoO chat for tomorrow — get your fun questions in to the gentlemen tonight, before the earnest Washingtonians wake up and clog the chat with crap:

Milbank’s on at 11 eastern:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00754.html

Miss Dean Broder’s on at noon eastern:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00899.html

if you don’t know by now about your quim, it’s best you never know.

Dday’s post is all about why I seldom go over to Kos anymore unless a trusted site recommends a specific link.

Zulus! Fuck!

For those who haven’t read it, Neal Pollack’s Ow! might be amusing:

http://www.nealpollack.com/cgi…../permalink

Andrew McCarthy quoth: The mainstream media continue to suppress the “Islam” in Islamic terrorism

I hate it when they call it “ic terrorism”. Why don’t we call it “icky terrorism”? Five syllables don’t lend quite the gravitas required.

FAFBLOG is back. Yeah, Fafblog.

Some might call it blog-whoring; I call it blog-pimping, which is way more respectible.

Fill it to the brim, with Quim.

-GSD

“This is inedible muck, and there’s not enough of it.”

Conceptual Guerilla (posted at kos) has some interesting projects and tips for Message Board Activism:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/14/20254/3566

Ryan Lizza…..

Christy Hardin Smith says:
June 15th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Of course, what would I know. I was “just glad to be out of the house learning a few things.” *snerk* That’s just pitiful.

That was funny. I had to chuckle.

Oh, and is there gonna be some kind of pie-baking post on Saturday morning? Because I have a fantastic recipe for Karl Rove’s Head Baked Into a Pie. It’s a little messy and it’s hard to keep Karl still, but if it were easy it wouldn’t be gourmet cooking.

Christy Hardin Smith says:
June 15th, 2006 at 6:16 pm

And, just FYI, Rep. Steve Chabot just said that “Saddam’s sons are no doubt roasting in hell” on the floor of the House.

Yeah, right along with Lee Atwater. And so many others…..

Lobstergirl – are you the real Barber of Fleet Street?

So I am stuggling to keep up with FDL comments.

This guy is a Brit, is that correct?

I lived there (England) for quite a while. Brits have more tolerance for eccentricty than Yanks. (You Yanks– that’s how someone always started a sentence when they wanted to bash those on the other side of the pond.) I think the Brits even understand eccentricity. And absurdity. Monty Python, you know.

I have to say this at HH’s blog was… well, apparently just Harry:

URGENT! Please send 300 kilos of white mice. No time to explain.

Vivian Stanshall 1943 – 1995

Baking Karl Rove’s head in a pie — hmmm . . .

Reminds me of a recipe for baked carp. Put the carp between two boards, bake it until done, remove from oven, throw away the carp, and serve the boards.

Lobstergirl – are you the real Barber of Fleet Street?

No….sometimes I just get really inspired by fiery Bible scriptures. Psalms and Proverbs are great for the smite thine enemy motivational blurbs.

URGENT! Please send 300 kilos of white mice. No time to explain.

I’ve heard this before. It’s a really old joke, no?

Gavin M. — Oh no, Harry’s in trouble. How did this take so long to happen?

If you’ve been following Harry’s exploits that is the question, isn’t it?

Harry is, in an odd way, a very good argument for net neutrality. Surely no pay-to-play service would ever tolerate a Harry, would it? How has he stayed out of trouble for this long?

Bionic 18

Thanks to Google, I now recall where I heard the phrase “quivering quim”…

oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_zappa/ learning_penis_dimension.html

ck at 10:44,
LMAO.

OfT:
“‘It’s a number.’ Saying the Names of the 2500″
By Meteor Blades
“In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson set the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Not coincidentally, it was the same weekend that twenty of us chose to read aloud the list of the American dead in Vietnam from the steps of the state capitol building in Denver. There were, at the time, 5000 dead from that murderous, useless war, dating from December 1961 by Army count. ….. Of the 2500 dead, White House press secretary Tony Snow said today: It’s a number.”…”

I don’t know this Harry person, but his brand of humor is so unfiltered I can’t help but appreciate him. Let’s keep him around ahwile.

Does WordPress not like the phrase “q-u-i-v-e-r-i-n-g q-u-i-m”? I submitted a comment that included that phrase, but it disappeared.

Thanks to Google, I now know where I first heard that phrase:

oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_zappa/ learning_penis_dimension.html

Interesting NYT article about voting patterns in inner and outer suburbs.

After years in which Republicans capitalized on rapid growth in outlying areas, Democrats now see an opportunity to make gains in close-in suburbs where changes in the composition of the population are working in their favor. In a dozen or so Congressional districts that are leading battlegrounds in the midterm elections, older, more densely packed suburbs are trending Democratic, helping to offset Republican dominance on the sprawling exurban frontier.

Democratic hopes of retaking the House, party strategists say, could hinge on places like Bellevue, a city of 107,000 just across Lake Washington from Seattle. Here, a fast-growing Asian population and an influx of empty-nesters and singles living in new residential complexes have helped to make this the kind of district that, while continuing to send a Republican to Congress, has turned increasingly Democratic.

(snip)

“Something happens as these suburbs age,” said Robert E. Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, a research body focusing on the factors that shape metropolitan growth. “It’s not, ‘Honey, we’ve got an attached dwelling unit, it’s time to vote Democratic.’ It’s a difference in the type of people who move there. With density, you get more racial diversity, singles and retired people.”

(snip)

And in the aging suburbs outside Chicago, Democrats have gradually made enough gains that they think they can now win the seat being vacated by Representative Henry J. Hyde, a 16-term Republican. The district includes much of DuPage County, still reliably Republican but becoming more Democratic as it grows.

The bad news is, the exurbs, where people vote overwhelmingly Republican, are growing faster.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06…..wanted=all

I’m really sorry, but I have to do this….

LETTER TO THE POLITE SOCIETY

To Simon Poole, chairman of the Campaign for Courtesy:

Dear Mr Poole,

Fuck off.

Yours sincerely,

Harry Hutton.

Harry is, in an odd way, a very good argument for net neutrality. Surely no pay-to-play service would ever tolerate a Harry, would it?

Best to keep Harry out of the debate — one look at his twisted humor, and Weepin’ Joe will vote against Net Neutrality — and introduce a Bill of Attainder to kick him off the island.

Teddy 53 — I don’t think he has:

Whether Mr Average Briton is more likely to be punched in the mouth than he was a decade ago is an interesting question. When I’m in the UK I get assaulted, on average, about once a fortnight. But this figure has remained more or less stable since I was fifteen: I continue to get punched in the face at about the same rate as I did under the Thatcher government, so I don’t think a “moral panic” would be justified. And whether this is evidence of a high crime rate, or simple dislike of me, is hard to say. In other lands I tend not to be the victim of drink-fuelled assaults, though it could just be that they don’t speak English.

If the foreigners could understand what I was saying perhaps they too would punch me in the face.

Par for the Harry course, I fear.

MelyPDX @5:

Wow, Donna Brazile gets around.

EPU: Some might call it blog-whoring; I call it blog-pimping, which is way more respectible.

Technically, if it’s your own blog, it’d be blog-whoring, if it’s someone else’s, it’d be blog-pimping, right?

But definitely more respectable. And you get more blog-bling.

So now that we’ve reached 2,500 dead, Ted Koppel’s gonna do one of those Nightlines where he reads everyone’s name, right? Oh wait, nevermind.

Jane
I saw your request for files from the Plame panel. I use wm recorder or rm recorder to capture and record streams. There are probably other programs out there that will do the same.

Getting punched around that often, Harry must not have many teeth left.

Remember how many articles on Delay, Abramoff, Frist and others on cnn.com seemed to fail to mention party affiliation? And remember how the WaPo went out of its way to proclaim that Abramoff directed money to both parties. Well I am happy to report that CNN is finally starting to stand up and take notice of the party affiliation of corrupt lawmakers (snark). Here’s what’s up on their front page right now. Main headline. Huge picture.

Key vote moves Dem’s suspension closer

House Democrats voted Thursday to suspend Rep. William Jefferson from his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pushed the Democratic Caucus to vote to suspend Jefferson after the lawmaker — mired in a federal bribery probe — rebuffed requests to step down voluntarily. The suspension now goes to the full House for approval.

I see “Dem” mentioned once, Democrats once and Democratic once. Thanks CNN. Bitches.

Totally OT, but the funniest movie I’ve ever seen was screened at the (1981) 4th Denver International Film Festival.

It was a French indie film, titled Temroc. I don’t think they found a distributor, because there is nothing about it on the web (although Temroc is the user name of a French blogger — hmmm . . .)

Anyway, the movie is all gibberish — fake, made up language. Some middle class guy goes berserk, becomes a cave man in his flat, and other stuff best left unsaid.

After the screening ended, people were howling with laughter as they left the theater. It would make a great midnight cult film, so it seems odd that it disappeared.

http://apoeticjustice.blogspot…..-sway.html

ANOTHER MEASURE OF SWAY

Lobstergirl at 58: The bad news is, the exurbs, where people vote overwhelmingly Republican, are growing faster.

If I recall correctly, only percentagewise. That is, they’re lower population, so they can, for example, “double in population” and not necessarily add as much population as the inner suburbs and cities. This was the same fallacy that underlay the claims that the future belonged to Republicans because they dominated in the “fastest growing districts”; again, it was the low population ones that grew fastest percentagewise but not in actual numbers of people.

Not to mention that we’ve been killing them in the exurbs of DC lately (dunno about other cities.) That phrase that appears in the article “becoming more Democratic as it grows” doesn’t just apply to inner suburbs.

That’s the problem with most projections of Republican dominance — they’re based on the idea that as time goes on, other than population growth, nothing changes. (Kinda like conservatism in general, eh?)

Sorry if this is a repeat link, but I don’t see it. Last night, Steven Colbert interviewed a Congressman Westmoreland from Georgia. Mr. Westmoreland is cosponsoring a bill to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in the House and Senate. Now, here’s the funny part – he can’t name more than three of them. That’s three commandments, mind you. I tried to do it from memory, and I managed either seven or eight, depending how you feel about my interpretation of the graven images one. Yes, I couldn’t name them all, either, but unlike the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, I’m an atheist.

The interview:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..html#a8728

My attempt at naming the commandments:
http://www.haloscan.com/commen…..53/#121070

H/T to commenter badick at Taylor’s blog.

I am convinced that Josh Bolten has his mothers body stuffed in the fruit cellar.

Josh Bolten jams with is band ‘The Compassionates’.

They are all fucking nuts.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp…..66604d3226

ck @ 11:10 pm (#68) IMDB has an entry for a german film called Themroc. Do you think that might be it? It was released in 1973. The guy kinda looks like a caveman, and the description says something about a change or transformation (it’s in german). Here’s the IMDB entry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069369/

Another white boy who can’t play bass. Sorry, shouldn’ta said that.

Josh Bolten – idiot.

Okay. I feel better now.

ck @ 38-
I keep telling people to get-a-Mac…
Just spewed Dr. Pepper!

Got an email from Harry. He says thanks. Always good to hear from him. I should’ve asked him where he was.

“At liberty” is always nice.

Wow, wow, Wolcott. I have no idea if this has been noted here in the past few days, but…
http://jameswolcott.com/archiv…..ds_and.php
JFC!

‘The Empire has spoken…Up The Hutton!’

;>)

Cujo359 at 11:19, The Hebrews had a hard time too.
“There are three versions of the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). They are at Exodus 20:2-17, Exodus 34:12-26, and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Exodus 20 is the most commonly used set. ….”

Cujo #71, you might want to check this out then, one of my fave versions ;)

http://www.topplebush.com/humo…..dments.jpg

re: the Wolcott piece –

“word rape”? Oy gevult.

Glad I missed Frau Margaret the other day. But I’m not sure whether Wolcott is being complimentary or not. I tend to think … not.
Hard to imagine Jane as “schoolteacherly”.

My favorite quote on the GWOT resolution in the House today:

“It’s to me rather ironic that at this very moment we have Americans dying to promote democracy, at the very same time we believe we are being shortchanged on democracy in that we’re not permitted to offer any amendments,” said Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican from Texas, at a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday where he joined Democratic critics.

“The closing out of the debate, this really isn’t a debate,” Paul said. “This is just sort of a political event, and it’s very deceptive. It’s something like what we’ve done numerous times, but only it’s going to take longer. We’ve had resolutions like this before designed for political purposes.

“It does a couple things,” Paul said. “It says that we want to fight the war on terrorism, at the same time we support the troops. Who’s against that? Who could vote against this? Very few will vote against this. But the bottom line is the resolution says we support the status quo, we support the current policy, and there is no desire whatsoever to consider an alternative to this.

“So, it’s a political trap that is designed to get everybody to vote for this. And to us, it is not fair. But I wanted to quote a few things here to make my point about the denial of a real debate,” said Paul.

“The first sentence of the H.Res. 861 says, “Declaring that the United States will prevail in the global war on terror” — so this is all about terrorism, ignoring the fact that terrorism is a technique, has nothing to do with fighting a war in Iraq. Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. So are we addressing that subject as well? That’s a cop- out. That is not addressing the real problem.”

from:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribun…..h_tol.html

…Harry reminds me a little of my father-in-law who resides in Asia and recently got his ass blown off for incendiary remarks…never a dull moment with people like that..

ck #33 : soooo disappointed in that recipe
ck #49: much better

…at this point we should probably be saluting harry instead of fitz to start things off…

Okay, finally read the Kos diary in question, since nobody’s here anymore, and I have to say that dday has the most bizarre talent for slippery-slope logic I’ve seen this side of a right-wing blogstorm on terrorism. We go from a tasteless (under the circumstances) joke about coincidences we get all the way to eliminating liberals, and maybe jews, I don’t know.

Does anyone else who’s not here think that’s funny? Actually, I can see how dday could be funny, because irony seems to attach itself to his work like a remora on a great white.

shoephone @ 81
Fuck with Jane @ your peril… I think he was winking.
I was always a sucker for the teacher, though.

hi jane -

thanks for harry’s story -

i loved it…

my cats ran away*

they don’t like it when i just keep laughing….

thanks

kirk

* under the bed

…maybe we should call him Horn-y Harry..bet he’s a Virgo with a dash of Aquarius…

John Casper @ 12:06 am (#79) Yep. Adultery, name of thy god in vain. Always forget those ;-) Could be because those are the ones I’m least good at following …

I’d run into that page once before, I think, or one like it. Apparently, some folk thought there were twelve commandments, IIRC. Anyhow, yes, there’s probably not universal agreement, which seems to be a problem with much of the bible.

It was the utter hypocrisy of that Congressman that got me, though. I’ll bet most folks, Christian or not, couldn’t rattle off ten commandments in order, but if someone seems to think there’s so much wisdom in placing these things in our public buildings, you’d think he’d be able to remember them. Or at least as many as I can.

Cujo,

I’m here on and off – getting ready for a fishing trip.

I think Harry’s very bright, very impatient and has old editions of Mad Magazine from the late 50s and early 60s stashed in his closet. I’m not going to apologize for or rationalize his insensitivity and the racist tendancies in the stereotypes he creates or furthers. But, as opposed to somebody like Coulter who makes similar remarks, he doesn’t truly take himself very seriously.

Shez @ 12:07 am (#80) – There’s another guy who probably couldn’t name all ten if his life depended on it.

Ed*ard Teller @ 12:27 am (#90) – Well, I agree, basically, although I’ve never met him. I hope there will be a day when we can just laugh at a guy who makes jokes about other kinds of people without assuming he’s just trying to diss them or he’s a racist/sexist/religious bigot/whatever. I’m quite sure I won’t live long enough to see it, though, and I’m assuming I still have several decades.

BTW, what’s wrong with Mad magazine? I’d probably still have mine if my parents hadn’t thrown them out when I went to college. ;)

Cujo,

Sorry, I love Mad, though I haven’t bought one in a while.

A highlight of my life was when, after a concert-lecture in Seattle featuring some of my music a decade ago, my fifth grade teacher came up and re-introduced herself to me. She was in her early 70s. She gave back my October 1956 Mad Magazine, which she had confiscated and saved.

Cujo,

Make that October 1957.

Ed*ard Teller – I haven’t bought a Mad magazine in something like twenty years. It really went downhill in the 80’s, I thought. I still remember a lot of old ones. It was much better when Bill Gaines was still there.

Some priest or minister wrote a book called The Mad Morality, in which he discussed how Mad showed many of the ways people violate the Ten Commandments all the time.

Ironically, Gaines was also an atheist. [scroll down or search for “gaines”]

Cujo,

I just found a link to an image of ther cover of the October ‘57 Mad Mrs. Kellerman returned to me:

http://www.collectmad.com/madc…..overs.html

It has a back too, which they don’t show.

Ed*ard Teller – The fifth anniversary issue? Wonder how many people could identify all the celeberities? Thanks for finding this. I’ll have to see if there are any covers I recognize.

Well, I gotta get out of here. Have a good trip.

Harry’s a live wire all right! But surely this:

Monday, October 17, 2005

NICHOLAS CAGE IS A TIT
Nicholas Cage has called his baby Kal-el. What a tit. On the other hand, as long as it stays in California I doubt anyone will notice that much. They all have names like Gonad and Ramone Dangleberry Jnr. over there. It is a foolish place.

is over the line!

…great covers, thanks for the link #96

…well Harry’s right about California…there’s a little bit of truth in everything he’s been quoted as saying so far…

Hey now!

Starazagora: you must live here too…where nothing seems to be over the line except political incorrectness…

It’s the wild west, spiderpaws. It’s best in the west.

…well that is why we live here darling…

…it could be wilder as far as I’m concerned…

We’re gettin’ there, I think. Goodnight spiderpaws.

Jesus! Wolcott overshot icky urbanity and landed on smarmy-and-subversive [I can’t remember ever using the term sexist.]???

OOORRRR … maybe I am too hopelessly ante-postmodern for the veneereality of y’all’s Brave New World.

Good morning, all.

I was about to say, “It being Friday, here’s my weekly update on Iraq(i) blogging,” but since Preview won’t speak to me, maybe I’ve got too many links and need to break it up. Here’s Part 1:

Today Juan Cole notes the strange-bedfellowism of Zarqawi and the AIPAC crowd (LeDeen et al.) in trying to drum up a U.S.-Iran war. As JC observes, “It is the case that if you did want to see the US completely defeated and humiliated, you could not do better than have Washington open a second conventional front in Iran. … “

Part 2:

Meanwhile, Zeyad, en route to study interactive journalism with Jeff Jarvis at CUNY, on Wednesday described his flight from Baghdad and arrival in Amman. (Remember the train scene in the movie “Reds”?)

Part 3:

As always, the most comprehensive and piquant post of all is Salam Adil’s Friday roundup, which he introduces, “Today I will concentrate on politics. And before you switch off, let me point out that when it comes to politics, Iraqi bloggers will both surprise and entertain and certainly not bore. So on with the show. … ”

Don’t miss his “Beating around the Bush in Baghdad” section, which begins with Farouz:

The media said Iraqi prime minister Al-Maliki was given five-minutes notice before meeting the president. The first thought in my mind when I saw him shake hands with President Bush was, “What if he was at the toilet at the time? Did he have the time to wash his hands before he ran to meet the President?”

At least we know he was still at work after 4 p.m. That’s a good sign.

Next, I realized he had to meet the President at the American embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Does this mean the Americans think the Iraqi government can’t provide security for the American President at Al-Maliki’s office? I thought this is somewhat of an insult. No wait, THIS IS AN INSULT when Iraq is considered an independent country. …

And finally Part 4:

(No fresh news from Riverbend or Chris Allbritton, both of whom last posted on Zarqawi’s demise, while Salam Pax last spoke up on June 2.)

Oh, though he’s neither a blogger nor an Iraqi, I also recommend Eugene Robinson’s WaPo column this morning. You’ll appreciate the headline: “Stay the Course? What Course?”

Well shoot, Part 4 seems to have gone AWOL. Think I’ll hide ‘n’ watch for it a bit before I try again . . .

Good morning Lotus,

Why did my son wake up at 5:30 this morning — With energy?!

As for Harry, some material just transends polics and taste. I like it (in small and occassional doses). Although Harry has already produced enough to write a novel (memoire?) It’s like when I hear Lisa Lampanelli — I am reminded not to take myself quite so seriously.

Oh well — short graf but with four links. Lemme try a one-link version:

Riverbend, Chris Allbritton, and Salam Pax haven’t piped up since Zarqawi or earlier, so instead of fresh news from them, I’ll offer Eugene Robinson’s new WaPo column. You’ll appreciate the headline: “Stay the Course? What Course?”

Hi there, sleepy imm. Greetin’s also to the ripsnortin’ keed. Who’s Lisa Lampanelli?

I rarely read the comments at Kos any more, just because there are so many humorless, self-righteous prats. I thought it might be safe again now that Armando has made his heartbreaking exit (perhaps second only to the death of Little Nell on the weeping and wailing scale), but alas.

Well come on in and pull up a chair, suspect-device. We do occasionally get a tad self-righteous around here (just a tad, just occasionally), but never ever humorless. Prats don’t last a-tall.

suspect-device

I don’t know who you are, but that Armando comment has endeared me to you forever!!! Wasn’t that pathetic? My eyes were worn out with crying for that poor $200,000.00 per year attorney and his personal tradgedy of being “revealed.” Immanenize has a rule: No one who makes over 100 thousand a year is a victim (unless of violence).” People here get all self-important sometimes (myself included) but we are mostly a self-correcting community.

Lotus, Lisa Lampanelli is a comedian who is dubbed “the Queen of Mean” and has a small small-gig doing race-based diatribes. Aimed directly at the self-righteous. Funny and uncomfortable at the same time. And thanks for the update.

Oh goody — I was pouting, “Just when I finally succeed at hyperlinks, no one’s around to admire ‘em with me. What’d I do, recommend myself right outta bidness?”

Well, imm, you can have ALL my share of La Lampanelli, then . . .

And you’re welcome.

Anyone around? If you need some good reading — and you can get beyond their wall — Krugman is a good read today on inflation:

http://select.nytimes.com/2006…..an.html?hp

Firedoglake hushes for almost a whole hour?

I wouldn’t have believed it, imm. That’s weird.

Wow I thought I was very alone in the feeling about Armando dept. That last fiasco diary concerning truthout et al was like a scene from Hitchcocks the birds with Babs Comstock controlling the bird attacks.

HA!! sppspssttg

Coffee on the new keyboard, Franco.

Please tell me where to send the bill!!

Lotus,

I was worried I had been banned or something…. But then I knew I would be OK until I revealed my pie recipe on Saturday.

:~)

Imm, I tried to get Krugman on the Progressive American link somebody gave us the other day, but June 12 is the latest they have up. Other than LexNex, do you know another non-NYT source?

You bet, imm. Can’t wait for Pie Day!

Lotus,

Atrios has the key graphs front-paged, but not the whole thing….

Okay, thanks.

Interesting grafs, those.

Boy, Repug policies blighted the economies of my youth, and here they are at it again — only worse than ever as all this plays out. The Clinton economy was just a relief — ahhh, how we do miss it . . .

Well, nothing shaking here, so I’m gonna go catch up on some Jesus’ General and d r i f t g l a s s. Wanna come?

Just to fill in a bit, a koan from the trenches:

I had a client once who was charged and convicted for a brutal cross-racial stranger rape crime. Now, for those who do not know, these types of crimes — although th emost hyped — are rare rare rare. My client simply did not present as a person capable of such an act — there were no prior violent crimes in his past, no evidence or even wiff of sexual abuse as a child (almost a prerequisite for such criminal violence) he had good relationships with women, was very close to his mom, had two jobs….

So, for years, when he told be he was innocent, after all my investigation, I believed him. At the very least, I was absolutely convinced rthat HE believed he was innocent. We tested some evidence for DNA and it came back inconclusive. He was hurtling toward his execution and in that posture, you have to really prove a peson is innocent to stop the train. And we couldn’t. But, technology was advancing and at the end of his process, we were able to convince the prosecutor an dthe court to allow us to test this one hair found on the victim for a mitochodrial exclusion. My client and I talked about it numerous times, he asserted his innocence but started worrying about evidence being planted, etc. Not an unrealistic concern, but not testing would have the same effect as testing and getting a bad result — and we would get a stay for a few months while it was being analyzed. I went to the prison three times to make him understand the consequences of testing: if its not you, new trial — if it is, execution.

Well, the testing could not exclude him. As he was getting ready to be executed, he really let me have it — he was furious. I had “killed” him and the key point, “My mother had to read in the paper that I was guilty.”

So, my lesson for the day is: never forget or underestimate our love for our mothers.

Now, I am going out into this beautiful day to teach my son how to ride his bike without training wheels.

i’m too old to understand half of the references here but

this is one funny post and comments section.

and harry sounds like jesus’ general on coke.

i’ll have to put this guy in my favorites just for the pleasure offered at the border of humor and insanity.

Wow, imm. That’s some koan.

Good luck and a long, smooth driveway to you and your little sprat this morning.

Hello, orionATL, and welcome.

Soory to be OT and I have not read comments yet this AM, but please go to

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
and vote in the poll.

It asks if we should abandone electronic voting. And we all knw the answer is “yeah, today!”

Anyway the poll was 86% in favor of abandoning electronic machines when I voted, Let’s see if we can’t get that over 90%

Thanks. Remember, if they steal the election nothing else we are doing really will count

LOL! So FDD is a wingnut think-tank? Oh, well. So how is it that I find ideas here and there comprehensible, and not entirely in complete conflict? I am not a particular wingnut, just a nut!?!

Oh well, there I am and here I am.

And http://chasemeladies.blogspot……-time.html by Harry had me laughing until I was out of breath! Thank you for introducing us to Harry!

NEW THREAD

Morning, lhp.

Now it’s 9,661 (84%) to 1,854, YES, so more of us need to hustle over there. (Once again, who the 16% could possible be escapes me.)

The 16% are Diebold employees trying to save their jobs.

Jane,
Thanks for the lift…all pups needed it.
Perhaps we can bring him on FDL as a guest. Now that would truly be a mission accomplished.

I think I want to be Harry when I grow up.

Jane, 13: Special talent? No, I wouldn’t say so. It’s just a sense of humor that understands British comedy. Anyone exposed to enough of the stuff of the past fifty years – to Private Eye, Monty Python, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Blackadder, The Young Ones, The Goons, Alan Partridge, Not Only But Also, The Misty Mr. Wisty, Derek and Clive, (and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, as noted)… recognizes this for what it is.

Laugh out loud funny. Every word. Well, every other word. How about one in five then? Well, whatever.

I just have to weigh belatedly in here and say,

“If I had all the money I’ve spent on drink… I’d spend it on DRINK.”

agree wholeheartedly with comment #116 and am adding Harry to my favorites. Right next to Fark.com. If you can handle Fark, Harry seems tame by comparison. Love his humor.

By now it should be obvious to all that Harry is a comedic master. In the English style he riffs like Colbert, although he is even better at making you think he really is a twit cum curmudgeon. If you still don’t get it, remember that some far-righties linked to Colbert’s site thinking he was on their side, and I regret to say that many comments here are as satire-challenged as the wingnuts were for Colbert.

One of my favourites (sp!) was Harry as Clueless Tourist: “Just went to see the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau island. Very, very nice. If you like monks, they’ve got those; and if you are into giant bronze statues of Buddha, they’ve got those too. They seem to have thought of everything. Hats off to all concerned.”

This guy’s copping a Colbert, but I like it. More.

AnotherBruce at 4 -

Another Bonzos fan! I for one know the Intro and the Outro. Right crook Bruce!

RJJ 107

You said:

“Jesus! Wolcott overshot icky urbanity and landed on smarmy-and-subversive [I can’t remember ever using the term sexist.]???”

Hahaha! There it is. Feel free to use the term sexist in the contest of Wolcott. He is a text-book example of “the sexist.” The night he posted that, on that same page were other posts in which he upbraided two other women for other offenses and managed to reference sex in both cases, which made three including the one linked to here.

He upbraided men too, on the same page (upbraiding is James’s strong suit) and managed to keep the subject of sex completely out of those discussions.

Wolcott almost cannot discuss any woman without resorting to sexist stereotypical nonsense.

I used to think he was so very clever when I only read him once a month or so in Vanity Fair. A daily dose of him is way too much.

Sweet Jesus Jane; F*ckin’ Harry don’t need no stinkin’
defense. The more he is misunderstood the funnier it all
gets; especially for Harry.

So many KOS and other political folk ought to loosen up
there tight as*es. It’s more than a little sweet that so
many of the proles wish to believe that they are
humanities bridge to a better future for one and all. It
would be so wonderful to think so. Especially since it
flies in the face of 5000 f*cking years of history.

Shite…I’m wandering now…must be the chronic.
Oh well….as I was saying, some folks in the
political blogger world are wound way too tight.
Call it the “fog of war”, battle fatigue, whatever!
All this fighting and carrying on with a bunch of
ignorant assholes has an accompanying price. Call it
what you will.

The Harry’s of the world should remind us to
f*cking chill and smell the roses more than just
once in a while. Why? Because one day when we are
all on our deathbeds and everything is still the same
(only the names have changed) we’ll be wishing we
were having a good shag instead of politically
engaging a bunch of sh*t-for-brain c*cksuck*rs.