Category Archives: Foul-Mouthed Demagoguery

“Infinite” Has a Finite Meaning

Shut up. Sit down. Uncle Rob has finished Infinite Jest, and is tired of hearing your whimpering about the ending and the whimpering about “What does it all mean?” So settle in. Pour yourself a drink. And listen to the … Continue reading

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Nerd Prom 2011: Hostage Situation

The San Diego Comic-Con is an exhausting endeavor – four and a half days of non-stop events, panels, celebrity sightings, freak photography, and waiting endlessly on line for the things that a normal American takes for granted as simple sustenance, … Continue reading

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Derp Technician

I defy you to find two pictures where Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker doesn’t look like he’s either about to shyly announce his love of “chokmit chippehs” or playing a rousing game of Duck Duck I Pissed My Pants. If not both simultaneously. Continue reading

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Learning To Flinch

“In South Korea, teachers are known as ‘nation builders.’ That’s what they’re — that’s how they’re described.” Big fucking deal. In South Korea, cocker spaniels are known as “antipasto” Continue reading

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Guess Who’s Back? Shady’s Back

Newt’s past is so checkered, particularly by conservative Republican standards, that it makes me look like a CPAC darling, and I have made life choices that have, more than once, put me in situations where I had to choose between being potentially arrested for either public urination now or wait until it turned into an arson charge. Continue reading

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