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#OWS? Watch This: Louis C.K. on Being White

Posted on November 29, 2011 by | 33 Comments

Summayall need to watch this, and then strip down the comedic aspects, and fucking *think* about it.

Don’t just laugh. Think about it.

I’ll be over here banging my head against the wall.

You’re welcome.

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Happy Birthday Healthcare Reform! Looks Like We Made It!

Posted on March 23, 2011 by | 14 Comments

We ain’t dead yet!

To commemorate the birthday of healthcare reform, Ron Johnson (Asshole-Wisconsin) wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that is so fraught with bullshit, it compelled me to use the word “fraught” in this very blog post.

To put it another way, it’s a crock. It’s a crock of shit with a shit demi-glacé; that’s what I’m sayin’, y’all.

Calling the Affordable Healthcare Act the “single greatest assault on our freedom in his lifetime,”1 Senator Johnson went on to spin some yarn about how his daughter who had a heart condition (she’s alive and well having been treated under her father’s private insurance) would have been murdered by Obama’s Death (Panel) Eaters, and how sad is that?

I don’t even want to think what might have happened if she had been born at a time and place where government defined the limits for most insurance policies and set precedents on what would be covered. Would the life-saving procedures that saved her have been deemed cost-effective by policy makers deciding where to spend increasingly scarce tax dollars?

Carey’s story sounds like a miracle, but America has always been a place where medical miracles happen.

Nice try, dipshit.  The ACA doesn’t set precedents on what will be covered; it sets minimum limits on what private insurers must cover.  I mean, if health insurance companies are going to take your money, shouldn’t they spend it on health care?  I know.  It’s crazy talk.  I must be out of my mind.

From Jonathan Chait over at The New Republic:

That’s the argument. Johnson implies that procedures like this don’t happen elsewhere. Does he have any data? No. Does he have any reason to believe that the Affordable Care Act would prevent private insurance from covering procedures like this? No. That doesn’t happen in countries like Switzerland that have systems like the Affordable Care Act, and it doesn’t happen in the socialist hell of Massachusetts.

Indeed, one of the reasons for the law is that private health insurance often contains lifetime caps on coverage, or arbitrarily throws people who develop expensive conditions off their plans, and therefore keeps people from getting procedures like the one Johnson’s daughter received. But asking someone like him to actually take into consideration the actual needs of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance, as against the completely imaginary threat to his only family, is asking far too much of Johnson’s intellect or moral reasoning.

Pretty much.

But enough talk about Teabilly assholes.

It’s a celebration, bitches! Let’s look back on what Obama said one year ago today: Continue reading →

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Louis CK to Donald Rumsfeld: "Are you a lizard?"

Posted on February 25, 2011 by | 6 Comments

Best interview with Rummy in the history of the land.

“Is he a lizard? Is Dick Cheney a lizard? Have they eaten any Mexican babies?? Have they eaten any human beings?”

WIN.

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Huckleberry Finn: "Slave," "Nigger," "The N Word," and The Daily Show

Posted on January 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

“Who could be offended at the Adventures of Huckleberry Turtle and Nigger Rabbit?”

Last night, The Daily Show took on the Huck Finn controversy, and the whitewashing of our history which, as I mentioned last week in  connection with the failed reading of the Constitution, is merely an attempt to make white folks comfortable with the nasty bits in our history.  Rather than learning from our mistakes, we just ignore them.  In some cases, we completely erase history from the textbooks being read in classrooms across America.  (I’m looking at you, Texas.)

Now a publisher has attempted to whitewash Huck Finn by replacing the word “nigger” with “slave.”  Why?  Because slave is way less offensive and it’s easier for white people to say, obvs; and above all else, we must make white people feel comfortable about the history of this country.  (The publisher has also replaced the term “Injun Joe” with “Indian Joe” — thus transforming the Trail of Tears into the Trail of Tears of Joy.)

The whole notion is impossibly stupid and cowardly, for all of the reasons explained by Jamelle Bouie in his post on the subject at The Atlantic:

But erasing “nigger” from Huckleberry Finn—or ignoring our failures—doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t provide racial enlightenment, or justice, and it won’t shield anyone from the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination. All it does is feed the American aversion to history and reflection. Which is a shame. If there’s anything great about this country, it’s in our ability to account for and overcome our mistakes. Peddling whitewashed ignorance diminishes America as much as it does our intellect.

“Nigger” really makes our white brothers and sisters uncomfortable.  I had a friend who was so uncomfortable  saying the word “nigger” that he wouldn’t even say it when it came up in a hip hop jam. I bet some of you are a bit envious that I “get to say” nigger without running the risk of being stabbed.  Poor white people.  It must be hard to suffer under the yoke of such lingual oppression.  (I joke, of course.  I know most of you know that, but some of you are prone to pearl clutching, so just stop it.)

My take on saying “n word” as opposed to “nigger” is this: If you’re going to say it, say it.  (If you’re going to say it and it’s directed at me, you better be wearing flame retardant clothes.)

Essentially, (as I’ve said in the past) I subscribe to the Louis C.K. school of thought:

Anyway, if you missed it, here’s The Daily Show‘s take.  It’s hilarious. (Yeah I said it, Louis! Get off my back!)

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[Full transcript after the jump for all you furriners]

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Because This Type of Shit Happens Every Day

Posted on November 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

“If you’re not white, you’re missing out… I’m not saying white people are better, I’m saying being white is clearly better.”

I am reposting this article in full because I think everyone should read it… all of it [and then check out my rally story after the jump].

Dori Maynard writes:

A few hours before the recent Rally to Restore Sanity, the general manager of a Hampton Inn in Washington, D.C. kicked me out of his hotel, forcing me to stand on the street to wait for my colleague in 39-degree weather.

The incident began when I arrived early for a breakfast meeting with a program officer from one of the major foundations that supports the nonprofit I run. We were in town for the Online News Association’s annual convention and wanted to catch up.

After looking around the lobby, I settled on a seat at a table where I could watch the elevators.

Right in front of me was an older white guy wearing a T-shirt with the word “eracism” emblazoned on the back. Given that the tenor of our national conversation these days has me increasingly fearful about where this country is heading, I was touched to see him making such a strong statement and got up to tell him so.

He was in town for the rally, and we discussed that and the general mood in the nation. When the conversation ran its course, I turned to return to my seat.

That’s when the general manager stopped me and asked if I was a guest at the hotel. I explained I was not but was there for a business meeting with a guest. “Ma’am, you’ll have to leave the hotel,” he said, leading me through the lobby and toward the doors.

I thought he had misunderstood, so I repeated that I was in fact there at the invitation of a hotel guest. “Ma’am, you’ll have to leave the hotel,” he repeated. Slowly, I began to realize that this was no case of “mistaken identity.”

The general manager apparently had deemed me so undesirable that he did not think I was fit to sit in the lobby of his Hampton Inn. Continue reading →

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The Intersection of Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Reynolds, Drinking Out of Cups, and Louis C.K.

Posted on October 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

More awesome than your face can handle.

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Mel Gibson Hits the Trifecta: Anti-Semitic, Racist, and Misogynist

Posted on July 1, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Shouldn’t he get some kind of award?

Damnit, Mel!  I used to like you.  Before I realized you were out of your damn mind.  Why can’t you go back to being normal!  Lethal Weapon Mel.  Mad Max Mel.  “Give me back my son!” Mel.  Hell, I’ll even take What Women Want Mel.  The Mel who had a wife and eleventy kids and kept his mouth shut and his alcoholism/drug addiction under wraps, the way Hollywood celebrities are supposed to do.

But noooooooo.  You’re hellbent on being Asshat Mel.  If you recall, Mel got shitcanned and went driving around in Malibu.  When he got arrested, he went on an anti-Semitic rant: “Fucking Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” and he said to a female officer, “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?”

After his shenanigans came to light, Mel was forced to make his public apology tour. 

Well, Mel, I guess your trip to “Asshat Rehab” didn’t really help.  Now that you’re in a custody battle with your ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, you’re acting like a crazyass.  It’s like you’re trying to win the gold medal in the Asshat Olympics:

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