Perfect Timing...........

Why do this now? Not even the Spanish want to go along with this. How many more new regimes are we going to support?

One of the pantheon

Ibn Warraq: The Atlas Shrugs Interview!

A list that calls our names

Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
- I think it may be time that we collectively (ick) create top movie lists or perhaps top category lists and watch them & also hunt down highly touted films we've not seen.

A true sign of the end times... Kia Motors is using a Whig president to hawk their President's Day sale

But Kia ad execs either don't know or don't care about Mr. Fillmore's party affiliation:

Millard Fillmore was the last U. S. President who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

Sorry, little brother, Whigs looz agin.

Back Again...

CampBlood is now here. Let's hope the crazy homo keeps us updated on queer horror more regularly than he did before. He updates sad pop culture here.

I did win a contest at his original site, after all.

Great Sci-Fi Movie

Cross-posted.

This Could Be Good

Historically, movies based on HP Lovecraft stories fall short. A new one called Cthulhu (based on Shadow Over Innsmouth) looks like it might break the mold. It's very artsy looking, and the trailer is kinda creepy. Plus, the main character is a gay.

Several Posts

Over at my blog, a sort of Week in Review.

These people REALLY need to be in charge of smart bombs.....

Let this kitty be in charge of the bombs because the Air Force is a haven for Christers.

What the @#&!?

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban in order to get them to switch sides

Witless Realpolitik Alert: the British once again demonstrate their utter incomprehension of and disregard of the jihad ideology. Sure, the Taliban will accept their training -- and continue to pursue jihad.

"Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan," by Jerome Starkey in the Independent (thanks to Blue):


Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.

What I'm reading right now

"The product of a lifetime of learning, this spirited book will captivate general readers and spark controversy among historians. Challenging standard accounts, Howe argues that many of those maligned as elitists championed the rights of women, African Americans, and Indians and that the animating principle of Andrew Jackson's mythic Democratic party was the extension of white-male supremacy across the continent. Both a panoramic overview and a vivid, nuanced account of particular individuals and incidents in domains stretching from religious practices and political shenanigans to social reform and technological innovation, What Hath God Wrought reflects Howe's mastery of the sources and his deep engagement with rival interpretations of these pivotal years."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University


This is great! The guy just spent a third of a chapter refuting the so-called "corrupt bargain" charge. This book pees on the face Sean Wilentz and his "Rise of American Democracy."

Middle Management

Probably my favorite:

Super Bowl Commercial Lists - manpill.com & Gawker.

Two Outings

In a recent interview, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad!, said that Stewie is "almost certainly gay." He also added this:

On the Parents Television Council: "They’re literally terrible human beings. I’ve read their newsletter, I’ve visited their website, and they’re just rotten to the core. For an organization that prides itself on Christian values—I mean, I’m an atheist, so what do I know?—they spend their entire day hating people. They can all suck my dick as far as I’m concerned."

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Go see it. Daniel Day-Lewis has a better role and gives a better performance than George C. Scott in Patton.

Send Jesus, Mountebanks, and Money

Kenneth Copeland--the Oral Roberts sectary and televangelist who uses tax-free donations to purchase private jets tax-free--set up a "private meeting" at a televangelist conference to raise funds for Huckabee's campaign. A total of $110,000 was collected, which to me doesn't seem like that much were it not from "people of the cloth." It's all such transpicuous chicanery, especially considering that Huckabee has been on Copeland's laughable TV show during the campaign (not talking about politics, of course).

And I'm happy to see that Copeland won't turn over his ministry's financial records even under subpoena. Maybe they'll be a showdown at Copelands lavish, multi-million dollar family ranch /ministry /airport.