Displaying 631 To 660 Of 3,373 Comments Thanks, AD. My personal favorite part is how the ferret is protecting my dignity! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 5, 2011 @ 5:52 pm [img]https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Creation-parody.jpg[/img] » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 5, 2011 @ 5:07 pm Here is my variation on the Sistine Chapel painting above: done for an article that appeared here before the HP Cambrian Explosion » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 5, 2011 @ 5:07 pm Holy Cow, AD, you are definitely in your manic phase of post writing. How do you keep all these different thoughts separate enough to write on so many different subjects all at once? Impressive! I like this post; I’ll read through it more carefully and try to contribute something reasonably intelligent. Well done! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 5, 2011 @ 8:09 am KT, agree. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 8:11 pm Yeah, exactly! How did Tolstoy ever manage to write War and Peace without even so much as a land phone? Those 19th century cave dwellers were pretty amazing, huh? » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 3:23 pm ha ha, the mice ate the cheese, so the king brought in cats to clear them out. The cats were troublemakers, so in came the dogs. It took lions to clear those dudes out, and the king realized he was in trouble. So he brought in the elephants. It was only after the castle was nearly destroyed by the big fellas that the king had to bring the mice back in to scare the elephants away. It’s a nice story, but I doubt that elephants are really afraid of mice. So the real story ends with the castle falling down…..sigh……earth…….. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 2:49 pm Very much agree, Cher. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 2:46 pm It’s economics, plain and simple. Creating markets, and “needs”. It’s a combination of brilliant engineers being given all the toys they need by big companies to just keep cranking out more and more gadgetry before we even have time to learn how to use the ones they just made, and financiers who see the megabucks that come from always replacing technology. Put these guys together, and you know who runs the world we live in. And they’re all nice fellas, mind you. But they should NOT be running the world. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 2:45 pm Hi Cher, So it’s the cell phones that are doing in the bees, huh? Or anyway it might be. Whether or not that is the actual fact, the point is that the “technosphere” we now inhabit is changing the environment. We are conducting an experiment on the biosphere, without a safety net. And still the drive for newer, faster, cheaper, more memory, etc. etc. continues. Without foresight or wisdom. Just hire the engineers to make all these wave emitting devices and see what happens to us, to the planet, to the bees. Smart, we ain’t. And neither are our phones, perhaps. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 6:11 am As Heathcliff said to Louie in that old Warner Bros. cartoon, Well, if I can’t take her with me, I’m not going! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 8:14 am You’re kind, Cher, but I certainly don’t feel terribly “needed” now. The assholes are winning, it seems. Im thinking of doing a little planet shopping. There’s gotta be a saner one than this, because I can’t very well imagine a crazier one. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 6:50 am Great article on Crazy Ayn Rand. And speaking of sociopaths, how about that slimeball head of the IMF, huh? We live in a weird world, people. The Capones and Stalins rise to the top, and weirdos like Ayn Rand get all hot and bothered watching them do so. I’m disgusted, and wish I lived on another world than this one. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 6:34 am Thanks for posting this. I went from the link to the article he talks about in it, on his website, “Rise of the Obamabots”. I like Ted Rall; he pulls no punches, tells it straight and bitingly. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 25, 2011 @ 4:22 am Nevertheless, that is still having it both ways. I have no issue whatsoever with you criticizing Moore, or KO, or Maher, etc. I take issue with the extrapolations you make with nothing other than your own certainty that they are right. Were you to steer clear of the embellishments, the putting of thoughts into the heads of the people you write about (such as what you write about Moore’s view of the 50s), I would not rush to defend those you assault. I have no great love for Moore, or KO, or Huffington or Maher. They don’t speak for me, and I am well aware that they are fallible. But what I am nearly certain of is that not a single one of them would recognize themselves in the pictures that you paint of them in the pieces you write. As they are not here to defend themselves from your ad hominems, the least I can do is voice my disapproval. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 6:24 am Khirad, the only place I’m coming from in the first paragraph is standing up for a commentator’s right to hold a differing, and critical, view of any type of presidential action, without being slammed. It’s beyond ironic that OP uses the same tactic she despises in others. If anyone calls Obama Bush-lite, she’s upset, but then here she is calling Moore Reagan-lite. Sorry. Uh uh. Unfair. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 1:56 am Good points, Kes. I went to Catholic schools in the late sixties and seventies. Granted, Vatican II may account for some of the difference between my experience and what OP describes, but like you point out, it was free for my mom ( a widow on a VA pension) and in high school I attended with numerous AA students, an Asian student and an Iranian student. Furthermore, I find it a little odd that OP seems to hold a double standard for people like Arianna, and others like Moore. If one starts out as a right winger, one HAS to remain one regardless of how one presents oneself, because a leopard doesn’t change its spots, she tells us. However, if one starts out as a left winger, but then criticizes a Democratic president, that person is halfway down the slippery slope that leads to Reagan’s Morning in America! No WONDER it’s so difficult to elect a progressive president! We can’t hold on to our progressive kin, but the righties get new members all the time! We’re scroooooed! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 17, 2011 @ 1:52 am hee hee. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 5:51 pm KT, you’re missing bito’s sarcasm….. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 5:28 pm Well, bito, as you know by now, Marion knows EVERYTHING about the people she doesn’t like – and it’s so weird how none of it is very flattering, isn’t it? But really, one could do this with ANYONE, even her own paragon, Barack Obama. I read an article recently about his mother ( a book about her is coming out), and she confessed that she felt hurt that there was so little devoted to her in “Dreams of My Father”, and that also she was a bit nonplussed to see him embrace his African American-ness over his multicultural upbringing, in her view. Now, in a Marion hit piece, you could easily use that to say that he doesn’t like white people, and that he secretly hates his “white half”. Would it be true? Of course not! It would be a classic ad hominem attack, such as we see so often in these pieces. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 5:27 pm Well, well, well, I see that Marion has written her article again. I pretty much knew this was coming. I mean, the president’s actions must be defended at all costs, and in Marion-world, that means Attack The Messenger. I think it’s great that you know so much about Mr. Moore! His views on abortion, his desire to distance himself from his roots, and even rape! When did he tell you all these things? Over lunch? I doubt he’ll be lunching with you anymore after this piece though…. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 16, 2011 @ 4:31 pm I like it! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 14, 2011 @ 7:48 pm Watching and listening to this, you would swear it goes back fifty years, but it’s actually the Swinging Nineties. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 14, 2011 @ 6:50 pm Those 13 year cicadas are something that Kalima and I have to contend with every summer. For those who didn’t catch the reference in Krugman’s article, “Seniors, Guns and Money” it’s from a classic song from Warren Zevon, “Lawyers, Guns and Money”. I wish the studio version was available, but since it isn’t, this gives a taste: » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 14, 2011 @ 6:48 am Today’s news is practically a historical record of how greed undoes a once-great nation. The Bruce Levine article is excellent, as is the one reprinted from Truthout. Glad you’re back, Cher! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 13, 2011 @ 6:22 am The Personal Journal of Osama Bin Laden, Vol. 1 Absolutely excellent, AD! Funny, smart and topical. Pure gold! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 13, 2011 @ 5:35 am It’s so cute how they all have their own individual forms of pixie-ness! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 12, 2011 @ 10:15 pm Uh-huh! And don’t give her any ideas about the pixie dust, as if she needs any encouragement…. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 12, 2011 @ 9:39 pm Thanks, Jkk. The “comeback critter” has given us a few scares, but she just comes back stronger! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 12, 2011 @ 9:37 pm Opportunistic is their middle name(s)! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 12, 2011 @ 9:36 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Creation-parody.jpg
Can you believe the arrogance of these pricks? And this guy, before he attempted to rape a hotel maid, was on his way to becoming the next president of France.
The first time I ever made a critical comment on one of your pieces was when you asserted that Arianna Huffington, because she was Greek, must therefore be racist because you assured us that Greece is the most racist country in Europe.
Your article was about stereotypes, and there you were stereotyping.
Just a fact; sorry if it’s inconvenient.
Saint Etienne, “Nothing Can Stop Us”
It’s unreal! They all go Meeeep! Meeeep! together, and you really might think it’s an alien invasion. I picked up a little cicada hitchhiker once. He attached himself to my sandal and stayed with me like that all the way home. Cute little guy, and so tragic that his life was so short.
«« Back To Stats Page
Home Stats
