Depressing look at the transition’s published abortion agenda. He concludes: So, buckle up. As the size and scope of government continues to bloat under Obama, look for the size and scale of the abortion industry to follow suit. And evangelicals … Continue reading →
Apparently when a republican president has a exercise routine that most of us are probably envious of, it’s a bad thing. So bad, we get commentary from the media like: “What I mean is the fact that Bush has an … Continue reading →
Meanwhile, the supervillain plots his revenge. Congratulations to the Eagles, whose fan base is in self-loathing withdrawal…. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Sony/Paramount seem to have figured out how to get these movies made, as the Gormogons advised. All this is prologue to recommending this terrific essay on Tintin and Hergé from the Economist. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that … Continue reading →
…from an unlikely though decidedly elfin benefactor. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…his dearest Christmas wish:Via Film Drunk. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Stuart Koehl & Martin Feldstein. Sorry for the light posting. Your Volgi is beat and running around like a madman due to various family obligations. But you need to read these items. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that … Continue reading →
This is a “great” “blog.” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Friend of the Gormogons Claire Berlinski pens a terrific, terrific article on some deep fault lines in Turkish government and society that may be headed for a crisis. Read it now. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass … Continue reading →
How is P.E. Obama going to reconcile his support from the far left with the reality he is facing and the programs he is pitching. Let’s take a specific domain that’s prominent in the news: the auto industry.The auto industry … Continue reading →
…the Great Omelette Maker. Russia begins sinking back into a miasma of lies. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…Mark Helprin fires off another jeremiad on America’s neglect of her own defenses and her political class’s incompetence in prosecuting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Are the same person. Discuss. Here’s what we know about Bob Dylan’s Quinn the Eskimo a/k/a The Mighty Quinn (and don’t even pull that Manfred Mann version crap on ‘Puter): “Ev’rybody’s in despair, Ev’ry girl and boy, But when Quinn … Continue reading →
D.C. has a problem with crime, including muggings? No way! How could that happen now with the dawning of the Obama Change-a-lot era in D.C? Why were we caught unawares that D.C. is a city sharply divided along race and … Continue reading →
The ever delightful Ramirez in the New York Post submits this political cartoon this morning. A picture is truly worth a thousand words. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of … Continue reading →
Sammy Baugh is dead at 94. For those who would doubt the assertion in the subject line, consider the following (insert “arguably” if you want to be a pedant). Baugh invented the modern quarterback position. He led the league in … Continue reading →
‘Puter guesses this is one way for a school PTA’s head of fundraising to raise money in order to “fill the till,” so to speak, in anticipation of Gov. Paterson’s budget cuts. There’s a PTA mom who’s completely committed to … Continue reading →
What has finger guns and loves the Pittsburgh Steelers? These girls. Ah, Kissing Suzy Kolber, is there any site that can take down an entire city’s sports loving populace as thoroughly as you? (Warning: PROFANITY). 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, … Continue reading →
I hate Pennsylvania Nazis. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →(a) Upstate New Yorkers, like Ohioans, ARE Midwesterners, even if it’d crush their remaining aspirations towards East Coast sophistication to admit it. But guess what, folks, if the Great Lakes are your “ocean,” you’re a Midwesterner. (b) You guys went … Continue reading →
You remember the IBM PCjr, right? Well, what you didn’t know is that there’s a Ghettoputerjr, as well. And he’s a chip off the old fatherboard. Mr. & Mrs. ’Puter were at a parent-teacher conference when the -teacher party bushwhacked … Continue reading →
New York is in an awful hole. Years of overspending coupled with a shortsighted reliance on Wall Street revenues has led to New York’s penury. ‘Puter’s no liberal Democrat, but he must respectfully concede that Gov. Paterson has successfully identified … Continue reading →
‘Puter feels badly. He’s always bashing Upstate because of its soul-crushing taxes and intrusive (and omnipresent) government. But there are some really great things about Upstate. The people are fantastic, as nice as Midwesterners for the most part. And, for … Continue reading →
Hard to imagine their brand going down, but look what they did to Yahoo! But here, they admit their search engine’s primary merit, algorithm-based objectivity, is false. Time to move to ask.com? Via Buttle’s World. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
Two explorers have found a dagger-board schooner in Lake Ontario just west of Rochester, NY. It is apparently fairly well intact and sitting upright on the lake floor about 500 feet underwater. The mystery is that there have been no … Continue reading →
Read Jody Bottom’s definitive obituary for Cardinal Dulles in the Times of London. Stephen Hunter’s wonderful tribute to Bettie Page, with just the right tincture of jaundice, in the Washington Post. And, yes, this post may mark the only time … Continue reading →
Be sure to check out ’Puter’s distaff Canuck soulmate in spleen, Kathy Shaidle, who’s as great on the late Ms. Page as I expected she’d be when I considered holding my obit for her post last night. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t … Continue reading →
As Washingtonians, the Gormogons are required to endorse—heartily—this beautiful piece of Baltimore-bashing by Mike “Christmas Ape” Tunison (of Silver Spring) over at KSK. While we all enjoy Old Bay on our fries, loved to watch Homicide, and at least one … Continue reading →
Great interview. Read the whole thing. We just had a reporter kidnapped and then released after four days in captivity with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Our man was moved around during that period of time. What he encountered was … Continue reading →
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., the American Church’s greatest theologian this century—indeed, made a Prince of the Church for his writings—has died at the age of 90. Requiescat in pace. First Things and America both post archives of his work for … Continue reading →
Confucius* says, “Ha.” Sorry, ’Puter, with card-check a-comin’ in the Transformation into Obama Nation, you’re going to see more and more unionization, with more and more parts of public life coming under the sway of the thugs who can pay … Continue reading →
The United Auto Workers reached a new low today. After scotching the Big 3 Bailout, Mr. Gettelfinger, mustachioed union flack, turned around and blamed Republican senators. After all, Republicans must be at fault, because they insisted that UAW members share … Continue reading →
Check out this story from of all places the Washington Post. It is easy to forget our troops and the incredible deeds they do each day to protect us and our freedom. It reads like the script of a Hollywood … Continue reading →
On the thirteenth day of Christmas, my GorT made for me, an animatronic woman substitute because I’m a lonely freakshow Canuck afraid of commitment and completely unattractive to the opposite sex! And a partridge in a pear tree! 'PuterAlways right, … Continue reading →
Along with Forrie Ackerman, another iconic cult figure passes from the scene. Bettie Page 1950s pin-up, Playmate, and under-the-counter-nudie-pix goddess has died at 85. When Page left the public eye in the 1960s and became a devout Baptist, a “whatever … Continue reading →
Courtesy of the Beast. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Thanks for the link, JJV at Potpourri for $500, a stylin’ group blog the Gormogons hereby endorse. And, hey, if you like us too, stick us on your blog and we’ll return the favor. Right over there! Under Blogpimpin’. Unless … Continue reading →
“Subbasement Thirteen, paranoid delusions of seventh-grade-girl conspiracies. Enjoy your stay, Mr. Owens.” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Returning to a familiar, if hackneyed, theme. There’s comfort in familiarity in these trying times. So, kudos to you, seven horndogs at Spirit Creek Middle School outside of Augusta, Georgia! Not content to merely have love triangles with other faculty … Continue reading →
Best bond risk disclosure ever. H/T to ‘Puter’s pretend girlfriend, Megan McArdle. Random ‘Puter thought for the day. How soon will “Blagojevich” become a verb, and what will it mean? 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. … Continue reading →
Looks like one of our favorites, Michelle Malkin, is vibing on the same thread as my earlier post. For a better written and thought-out piece, check her out here. Hat tip to her for pointing out that the 30th annual … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Three month U.S. T-bills traded at a negative rate today. For the first time since 1940. Yup. This is going to end well. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of … Continue reading →
MSNBC certainly knows how to kick up a story with some fancy graphics. At right is the current cover page picture on the Blagojevich saga on MSNBC’s intertube place. ‘Puter will not dignify it with a link. Check out this … Continue reading →
Our correspondent expands: Rodomir and Barack… not the best of pals. In fact, what much of the national media seems to be missing is that Rodomir is almost universally hated by Dems and GOP alike. He is a man, bereft … Continue reading →
Here’s a free one that’s been buzzing around in my head related to the Republic Windows sit-in wackiness. Now with groovy follow up questions! “President Elect Obama, prominent Democrats from your hometown of Chicago support forcing Bank of America to … Continue reading →
One of the Gormogons’ many collaborators on the ground (we’re everywhere) reports in on Rocket Rod Blagojevic’s spectacular flameout, worth of the great corrupt Chicago pols of the past: As you can imagine, it’s a zippity-do-day here for me. Not … Continue reading →
‘Puter was going to post on Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D-IL) ridiculous statements that (1) Illinois will no longer do business with Bank of America (“BoA”)and (2) BoA must pay former Republic Windows workers for lost wages. Gov. Blagojevich’s twisted logic … Continue reading →
As mentioned below by the ‘Puter, all the Chicago / Illinois politicians are making visits on the Republic Doors & Windows sit-in. That is, all but Gov. Blagojevich (D). He’s enjoying a little stay behind bars for trying to sell … Continue reading →
The union-led farce taking place at Republic Windows and Doors mentioned below is quickly metastasizing, and may ultimately threaten our ailing financial system. Every Illinois politician is visiting the barricaded workers to convey support and sympathy, along with every news … Continue reading →
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval … Continue reading →
Is singularly unqualified to be appointed a United States Senator from New York, or from any other state for that matter. The doorman at her swanky Manhattan apartment is at least as qualified. There. Someone had to say it. And … Continue reading →
Goodbye, Buffalo Bills. In part one of the long goodbye, the Bills play their first regular season game in Toronto, Ontario, Canadia (motto: We’ve Got Yer Constitutional Crisis Right Here, Buddy!). On the upside, the Bills will be playing indoors … Continue reading →
Unions. Gotta love them. Down is up and up is down to these folks. In ChicagObama, Republic Windows and Doors shut down its factory after its lender Bank of America refused to make further disbursements on Republic’s operating line of … Continue reading →
A good and, within a tiny subculture, great man has died. I hadn’t even finished the tribute issue of Rue Morgue I picked up just because of the cover with him on it. I was never a devoted FM reader, … Continue reading →
Poor Volgi. The Gormogons wish you a speedy recovery from your unfortunate Malaysian karaoke injury. It’s a little known fact that Volgi’s favorite passtime is to travel to foreign lands, karaoke in the native language, and pick fights with the … Continue reading →
Today, E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post proves once again that he is hitting the pipe. In this lovely piece of work, Mr. Dionne posits that P.E. Obama will be able to recklessly spend on the entire liberal Democrat wish … Continue reading →
…octopuses are freakin’ awesome. *For those who came in late: Confucius (孔夫子) is the given name of the Gormogons’ Œcumenical Volgi. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →And their parents may be the prime cause. This may also be a recurring theme at The Gormogons. At least two genius cheerleaders in scenic Bothell, Washington took pictures of themselves nude and sent them to their boyfriends. The pictures … Continue reading →
According to David Kopel writing in the Wall Street Journal, the answer is both. While admitting that Plaxico Burress displayed an astonishing lack of common sense in drinking alcohol while carrying a loaded handgun in his sweatpants waistband, Mr. Kopel … Continue reading →
A long time poking between the Gormogons is over computer equipment. Back in the day, GorT was sporting a Atari 800 with 64K RAM (non-standard memory cards used) and the Volgi was styling with an Apple ][e. Today I run … Continue reading →
It is being reported today that Israel is preparing plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities without U.S. backing. While this might prove difficult as the U.S. controls the Iraqi airspace through which the Israeli attack fighter/bombers would have to fly, … Continue reading →
“One Arab ambassador told me recently that the Iranians are reminding Arab leaders that America didn’t help Fuad Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon, or Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, when they got into trouble—that in fact Washington left … Continue reading →
More from Holy Taco here, including the First Church of Jesus Christ, Greatest American Hero: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Well, you ask, given the predilection for Cav nostalgia in these parts, what are the Gormogons driving today? Your answer is here. The Œcumenical Volgi, kickin’ it Honda-style: Gort, whom you don’t want to cut off in traffic: And Ghettoputer, … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Is this what President Elect Obama had in mind when he dreamed up his mandatory high school senior service project? It’s been a while since ‘Puter applied to college, but ‘Puter wonders how favorably college admissions officers would view this … Continue reading →
Kansas City has joined New York as a front runner in the governmental dysfunction Olympics. Check out Mayor Funkhouser and his wife, Ms. Squitiro, late of Lawn Guyland. The Mayor is suing the City to overturn an anti-nepotism ordinance preventing … Continue reading →
The New York Post‘s op-ed folks are en fuego today. First, enjoy one George Marlin’s thoughts on how Tom DiNapoli, the New York Comptroller (solely responsible for the $150 billion state pension funds) maintained over 25% of that money in … Continue reading →
Well, arguably because we tell them we’re hateful. Hollywood’s basic trope since c. 1970 is that any American authority figure is likely a villain—or as the Volgi likes to put it, It’s Always the Highest-Ranking White Guy in A Suit … Continue reading →
Beautiful examples right here. *For those who came in late: Click here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…to a vulgar and drunken rabble. Brilliant essay and a signal warning about society’s vulnerability to seemingly harmless or “enlightened” reform. Tradition is the democracy of the dead and is trifled with at one’s peril. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
Even if you haven’t been following the nitty-gritty of this contretemps, this is one of the most entertaining smackdowns you’ll ever read, by the great Mark Steyn. For ’Puter: underage sex and bestiality! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
The Gormogons express their sympathies to all the Indians and other nationals wounded, or terrorized by the recent attacks in Bombay, and especially to the loved ones of those killed. Requiescant in pace. May the civilized nations of the world … Continue reading →
Merkel speaks the truth: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, turned the tables on her international critics on Wednesday by accusing the US and other governments of making “cheap money” a central tool of their economic management, thus planting the seeds … Continue reading →
Ah, Thanksgiving. The time for gorging ourselves*, bantering with relatives, watching and maybe playing football, and shopping (unless one can avoid it). In preparation for the upcoming holiday (we need to bring the pumpkin pie) and the pending move-in to … Continue reading →
Ah, le Cav. Well, since the ‘Puter has been wallowing in Cavstalgia, your Volgi might as well weigh in. Yeah, my dad had a 1982 Cav with its 1.8L GM 122 engine cranking out a massive eighty-two horses of sheer … Continue reading →
This is change we can all believe in, with the added benefit of adding experience to the P.E. Obama’s team. Ah, Iowahawk, is there anyone quite like you and your yummy, delicious satire? ‘Puter thinks not. And kudos on the … Continue reading →
In 1983 dollars, that is. [That’s $61,689.87 in 2007 dollars. Who wouldn’t drop sixty-two grand on that sweet ride? —ŒV] Popular Mechanics joins Volgi and ‘Puter in their complete and utter loathing of the Cavalier. Actually, PM just says that … Continue reading →
It might behoove the Democrats (and many liberals in general) should read the Constitution. Today, we’ll focus on Article 1, Section 6: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons Jonah Goldberg has a good column today in which he channels both the Volgi: But you know what? Who cares? Personally, I would think less of the Obamas if they sent their kids to bad schools … Continue reading →
Well besides the lovely car pictured on the right (that’s an AMC Gremlin), here is a huge reason not to provide bailouts to the auto industry: Thousands of laid-off auto workers get paid $31 an hour to sit around and … Continue reading →
The New York Times has its undies in a bunch today, claiming that the right of the people of California to amend their Constitution at the ballot box should be subverted by unelected judges. The NYT’s editorial staff uses bizarre … Continue reading →
Be still my beating heart. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Why teenage boys are the dumbest form of life in the known universe, Part MMDCCCLXXVIII. Via With Leather. Where else? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →British teenager overuses deodorant and dies. Hmmm. What was he using to mask his manly scent? Raid? When Grieving Dad says the deceased “took pride in his appearance, using hair gels and deodorants, which he often sprayed all over his … Continue reading →
Anyone who started work for GM after 1982 and thought that they would have a job for life is too stupid to be bailed out. I’m talking to you, Green family. CNN apparently feels for you though, so at least … Continue reading →
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Change is here, we’ve elected hope into office. Such were the sentiments that democrats were cheering in early November. Let’s fast forward to the past few days. 30+ of the 47-some-odd posts in transition team … Continue reading →
“Tenure is the holy grail of teacher unions, but it has no educational value for kids; it only benefits adults.” Quoth ’Puter’s inamorata, Michelle Rhee, chancellor of D.C. public schools. Terrific article on her in the WSJ here. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
…Sidwell! At Sidwell, the Obama girls will be following in the footsteps of Chelsea Clinton…. President Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia went to Sidwell. Vice President Al Gore’s son, Albert Gore III, graduated from there. Three granddaughters of Vice President-elect Joe … Continue reading →
Word is CBS won’t run this because Pelosi’s in it, and she’s on their Sunday show this week. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Makes sense. There’s always money in the banana stand. That’s T-Bone in the middle. He’s a flamer. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Can we actually, you know, see how President Elect Obama does before we start naming public schools after him? And how is this going to look if President Elect Obama’s presidency is reminiscent of the Carter Administration? Oh, and the … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s moving to Canadia, where he can exercise his new legal right to be as fat as he wants to be, to your detriment! Scoot over, gimme one of them seatbelt extenders and pass the poutine and Labatt’s! 'PuterAlways right, … Continue reading →
Two specific examples, then a general example, of the dehumanizing effects of anonymous technological interactions. First, morons egged on a teenager to kill himself as they watched via a webcam. Sadly, the teen succeeded. Second, a woman, her assistant and … Continue reading →
Great magazine this week. For your delectation: Ethan Gutmann’s cover story on the Chinese organ-harvesting complex will give you nightmares. No one lacerates the French like the French. Great piece on Saakashvili’s visit to Paris. Former Colleague of a Gormogon … Continue reading →
The other statistic that emerged from a study of active killers is that they almost exclusively seek out “gun free” zones for their attacks.In most states, concealed handguns are prohibited at schools and on college campuses even for those with … Continue reading →
