Unclean! Unclean!
So, two days behind the curve is pretty untimely by blogosphere standards, but I just had to blog this. CNN anchor, xenophobe and sensationalist, Lou Dobbs is under fire this week for, get this, exaggerating leprosy statistics and blaming his reported increases on illegal immigrants. The whole story is here, including a comprehensive debunking of Mr. Dobbs’ fearmongering bridge too far. You know you’ve entered a dark age in politics, when the old “fear the lepers” chestnut makes a comeback. Oh, and is it surprising that Pat Buchanan has Dobbs’ back on this? Maybe it’s time to consider opening “populist pundit colonies” to cleanse our society of this uncleanliness. (Hat Tip: Hit & Run)
June 1st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Don’t fear the lepers (or was it Don’t Fear The Leeper?)
June 1st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Baby, take my hand, don’t fear the leper
We’ll be able to fly, don’t fear the leper
Baby I’m your man.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Personally, I’m much more concerned about the disease that makes grown man act like complete assholes on camera. We really ought to have colonies for them…
June 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
What about the disease that makes girls go wild?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Danimal: They must never know….
June 1st, 2007 at 3:31 pm
>Personally, I’m much more concerned about the disease that makes grown man act like complete assholes on camera. We really ought to have colonies for them…
We already do. It’s called France.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Are you getting your fucking jokes from Ann Coulter now?
June 1st, 2007 at 6:28 pm
You’ve never been to France. I have. Go cry in your beer, anal crevasse.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:35 pm
The tragedy of the internet is that discretion is never the better part of valor.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Excuse me, you stained-shirt motherfucker. I have been to France, actually. I lived in Europe, asshole. Remember? And what the fuck does that have to do with your lame joke? I mean, it doesn’t make any goddamn sense. What, is France filled with a bunch of Mexican-hating Lou Dobbs wannabes, Miles? You comment made absolutely, positively no sense.
Your zinger directed at me made even less sense. Did you actually call me an anal crevasse? Don’t make me go all Spencer Ackerman on your ass, ’cause I will skullfuck you to establish my anti-douchebag bona fides.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Okay, that was harsh. I think I’ve already proven my bona fides – without all this talk of skullfuckery. And my shirt is stained, I just realized, so I must be a hypocrite.
But please, don’t piss me off by saying things that are demonstrably untrue.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:11 pm
The moon is flat!
June 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pm
This is the best thread ever.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 am
Hmm…what else is demonstrably untrue…?
-The Earth revolves around the sun.
-Dead week is actually dead (no assignments or tests) at UO.
-The Student Insurgent makes the most sense, especially when they justifiy and glorify dumpster diving.
-I am sober.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
But none of those things piss me off.
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Anal crevasse? There are glacial features in people’s asses now? What is the world coming too? Glaciers moving into asses, the end is nigh!
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Well, Urban Dictionary doesn’t have an entry for “anal crevasse.” the closest entries are “anal crevice” and “anal crimping.” However, UB directed me to the closest match, tofu nugget.
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
“Hmm…what else is demonstrably untrue…?
-The Earth revolves around the sun.”
Um. Uh. Er.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Shhhhhhhhhh…
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 am
Didn’t you know, Danimal?? You are being lied to.
A highlight: “Once again, picture in your mind a round world. Now imagine that there are two people on this world, one at each pole. For the person at the top of the world, (the North Pole), gravity is pulling him down, towards the South Pole. But for the person at the South Pole, shouldn’t gravity pull him down as well? What keeps our person at the South Pole from falling completely off the face of the “globe”?”
This golden tidbit comes complete with an illustration (which I hope make it), in case you weren’t sure what a globe looks like, since they are so hard to understand:
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 am
Damn, no picture. Where, it’s here, anyway.