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Category: Pointless blather

  • Happy New Year, dickweeds

    New Year's toast

    Thanks to all of you for making TAH a part of your days throughout the last year. Thanks for your great comments and all of those clicks you made on our ads. Thanks to all of the bloggers who’ve linked to us.

    Thanks to all of the phonies who make this job so easy. Thanks to Joe Bite Me for being such a fool. Thanks to Gordon Duff for being a lunatic. Thanks to VoteVets for being so transparently partisan. Thanks to the trolls who drive the traffic. Thanks to the Washington Post and New York Times for being tools. Thanks to Paul Wickre for being an inept chickenshit clown.

    Thanks to the stable of great co-bloggers who cover for me on my frequent trips to DC. Thanks for all of your tips when I’m too lazy to look for stuff to write about. Thanks to Mary and Scotty for their hard work.

    Thanks to everyone who makes this the best job I’ve ever had. May your 2014 be as satisfying for you as I expect mine to be. See you next year.

  • Merry Christmas, dickweeds

    To those who wear...

    I want to thank those of you who thought of us by sending cards, donating and sending cigars, coins and everything else as well as the mounds of email. I never know how many fans we have until the lurkers send us the seasons’ greetings…and tips. I get up in the morning and wonder WTF I’m going to write about today and there are always enough tips for me get into the mood to think for myself.

    You are this blog, all of you. Without you, I would have quit long ago – and your comments bring in the traffic. I’d drink to each of you, but six thousand shots of rum might be a bit too much. So I’ll drink just one all of you.

    So, here’s your Christmas present; an open thread while I spend the day with my grandson and his Mom.

    Velo

  • The Definitive Answer to an Age-Old Question

    The question: “Where’s Waldo?”

    The definitive answer: “About 10 miles NE of downtown Gainesville, FL.” And here’s the proof, courtesy of Google Maps:

    Wheres Waldo

    Seemed like a nice little town when I passed thru yesterday.

    An early Merry Christmas from the road to all.

  • Yeah, That’s Really “Presidential” Behavior

    Here’s a picture of the POTUS sharing a lighter moment with some other international leaders.

    There’s just one tiny little problem.  The above happened at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

    Way to very publicly reinforce the negative stereotype of the “ugly American”, Mr. President.

    Sheesh.  You think the POTUS would know better than to act like a young teen playing with a Game Boy while attending a freaking state funeral as the senior representative of the United States of America.  Even LBJ – as crude and vulgar a man as we’ve ever had serve as POTUS – had better sense and taste than that.

    Oh well, at least the First Lady apparently acted like an adult with a bit of dignity.  Kudos to her.

    It’s the second major public photographic gaffe for the POTUS in the past three days.  Three days ago, we had this:

    The man with whom the POTUS is shaking hands?  That would be Raul Castro.

    Yeah – that Raul Castro.  As in “Fidel’s brother”.

    That also happened in South Africa at an event connected to Mandela’s funeral.

    Wonderful.  Just freaking wonderful.

  • Yer Sunday Funny – Revenge Thru Art

    In the Detroit, MI, area a marriage ended.  Reportedly the lady involved found someone she liked better than her husband, had an affair, and then moved in with her new paramour.  Somewhere along the way, she and her ex-husband divorced.

    Somewhat understandably, her ex-husband wasn’t exactly thrilled with this turn of events.  He  (a) decided he wanted to get even, and (b) had some spare cash.

    So he did the following:

    • bought the house next-door to his ex and her new beau;
    • moved in next door;
    • purchased a 12’ statue; and
    • had said statue set up in his back yard, with floodlight illumination.

    The statue the ex-husband chose was, shall we say, somewhat interesting.  It was a statue of a human hand – making a gesture using one digit.  It wasn’t the “thumbs-up” gesture, either.  You can probably figure the rest out sans further details.  (smile)

    This article gives a more complete explanation, plus a video.  While neither the article or video is NSFW, discretion is advised around children and prudes.

  • T-Shirt of the Month

    We’re all familiar with the recent brouhaha about NSA telephone/internet monitoring.  We also all know about any number of instances where our “illustrious” Federal government seems to ignore the public and do what it pleases, consequences be damned.  (No, I didn’t say a damn thing about the AHCA.  But if the shoe fits . . . . )

    Well, it seems like one enterprising artist in Minnesota decided to use those things to his advantage commercially – and IMO, hilariously.  Here’s the design on one of his t-shirts.  The image is rather smallish, but expands nicely.

    Predictably, some of our American Royalty apparently “were not amused”. NSA reportedly sent the guy a “cease and desist” letter claiming “violation of intellectual property” in parodying the NSA seal.

    Sheesh.  It’s called parody, guys.  Seems to me what little I remember of the law says that parody generally is considered “fair use” of intellectual property.  And that’s clearly a parody of the actual NSA seal – check out the text used in lieu of the original text along the bottom border of the joke seal. (smile)

    Besides – last time I checked, documents/images/photographs produced by the Federal government cannot be copyrighted.  They can be protected against illicit use by Federal law, but this doesn’t seem to be such a case.  This is an altered version that is obviously a parody of the original vice deceptive use.

    To his credit, the guy didn’t back down. He’s partnered with Public Citizen and plans on taking NSA to court for violating his First Amendment right to free speech.

    I’m guessing this one ends up settled out-of-court pretty soon.

    Given how well the rest of our “esteemed” Federal government listens these days, I’m seriously considering ordering one of those shirts.  If you’re interested in doing so, a link where you can do that is is in the linked article (2nd link).

  • Sweet Jane Mourns

    Lou Reed passed away yesterday.  He was 71.

    A few details and a brief career retrospective are available here.

    RIP, Lou.  I guess you’re now taking the ultimate walk on the wild side.

  • Yer Friday Funny – Truly Unfortunate Names

    Sometimes people just don’t think ahead, or consider how what they do or say will be perceived by others  That’s resulted in countless problems – including some hilarious ones involving names.

    We’ve all heard of the, um, “unfortunately named” late NASCAR driver Richard Trickle.  Well, turns out there are a fair number of others out there with a similar problem.  This article lists a substantial number of such unfortunately-named individuals.  Some are hilarious.

    They missed my personal favorite, though.  (smile)

    So – what’s the most unfortunately-named person you’ve ever heard of?