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Bod By Zod

The secret to my success as a sex idol in the blogosphere.

Thank Robot Chicken!

ntodd

The Box Stands By You

Pass the Franzia!

I.  Love.  This.  Woman.  Vlogger.

ntodd

Speaking Of Assholes

Oh great, another post where Thers (if that is his real name) says 'asshole' a lot so that asshole Atrios will link to him.

Fucking assholes.  Is it really so amazing that people are assholes?  Why do we have to blog about assholes all the time?  Why not dicks?  Shitwhistles?  Fucktards?

God.  DAMN.

Now I'm going to go back to blogging in the salt mines.

ntodd

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself

Universally known:

The furor over frotteurism has been an acutely frustrating cultural phenomenon: pregnant with great possibility, touching on vital and fascinating issues, yet initially formulated in a one-sided and merciless manner that will shame my name one of these days. What's important to note, however, is that Dr. Thers M Lout's hatchet jobs share many of the same characteristics. Let us note first of all that Thers is extraordinarily brazen. We've all known that for a long time. However, his willingness to blow the whole situation way out of proportion sets a new record for brazenness. His occasional demonstrations of benevolence are not genuine. Nor are Thers's promises. In fact, he says he's going to popularize a genre of music whose graphic lyrics explicitly urge mentally deficient wonks to palm off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide wowserism in the immediate years ahead. Is he out of his mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that not only does he truck away our freedoms for safekeeping, but he then commands his lieutenants, "Go, and do thou likewise." Thers's notions are evil. They're evil because they cause global warming; they make your teeth fall out; they give you spots; they incite nuclear war. And, as if that weren't enough, if Thers can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that we're supposed to shut up and smile when he says hectoring, subhuman things, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Tendentious Rhetoric. In the meantime, Thers will do everything in his power to demonize my family and friends. No wonder corruption is endemic to our society; Thers is an opportunist. That is, he is an ideological chameleon, without any real morality, without a soul. The end.

I have nothing to add.

ntodd

Fuck You, Carville

Best political advice ever:

Say "FUCK" or "FUCKING" then refuse to apologize. Especially you Obama, you could be the Samuel L. Jackson of this election. Say something like "THIS WAR IS GETTING AMERICANS FUCKING KILLED" make it look like you care. When people die and you actually can do something about it, the natural response is not to produce paperwork. Don't back down either, say you feel strongly about this issue and you feel the language was warranted. Do not confuse this for the Cheney "asshole" line, it has to be about something important. Hillary, stop crying. Drop the Fbomb like you mean it. Ideally you will mean it. FUCKING HELL NOW YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE A HARDASS AND PASSIONATE.
...
Taking a quick scan of the room I observe:

Obama - covered in his own vomit.
Hillary - still crying.
Richardson - in a pool of his own urine, trying to convince Edwards that the Atlantic is worth seven votes.
Dodd - asleep.
Biden and Kucinich - working on their new media angle, they are going to go for a rebellious Dukakis in your face style of campaign.
Gravel - Has ripped off the front two legs of his chair and has used his tie to construct makeshift nun chucks

It isn't pretty but these worthless sobs need to get yelled at. They have the biggest slam dunk of their careers in front of them and they can't get their fucking pants on.

Read the whole thing, especially if you're one of the 18 gajillion Democrats running for preznit.

ntodd

The White House Slut

I would very much like to marry this girl because she's not a dog or a crack ho.

ntodd

You Learn Something New Every Post

The most excellent description of Micks ever, from Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society:

They [are] lazy, dirty, improvident, irresolute, feckless, made menacing only by their numbers and by their doltish allegiance to a sinister and subversive religion.

Now I will add this to the extant "impotent, sterile, ignorant, drunken, loutish" label Thers already enjoys.  Every time I use the john at the House of One Thousand Children here at Liberal Mountain, I learn something from random reading material...

ntodd

Liberal Blogosphere: YOU'RE ON NOTICE!

These people are being unreasonable and mean to my BIFXW(BBE):

You people will never work in this town again!

ntodd

NTodd, You're An Ass

I believe that goes without saying, but sometimes people feel compelled to say it anyway, just in case I didn't get the memo to put the new cover sheet on my TPS reports or something.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I should add this guy to the enemies list or not, but he says smart things a lot of the time--thus, I'm guessing he's an enemy.  Lately he's been trying to remain on the sidelines of some internecine warfare over at Eschaton, wherein people are upset with other people making observations about other people being upset and it's all very confusing and people are taking blogs way too fucking seriously and getting their feelings hurt and telling people they shouldn't be in cults and then those folks get upset and my head hurts.

But seriously, there is some whack shit going on over at Eschaton and a few other sites and yes, I find myself, as I often do, kinda in the middle of it.  I think I can summarize it thus:

1. A regular commenter with a significant following was banned for engaging in violent, potentially dangerous (to himself and the proprietor) rhetoric.
2. Some People were offended by this and asked Bob Dylan to perform at a benefit concert to Free Woody.
3. Other people--including one ass going by the nick NTodd, if that is his real name--observed that maybe doing stupid things over and over again and not learning and getting banned again and again wasn't the wisest thing.
4. Some People took umbrage.
5. One person started a blog purporting to Speak Truth to Power about A-Listers and their communities and how they're all cults.
6. One person--aforementioned ass NTodd--engaged in his usual hyperbolic, snarky, repetitive schtick to demonstrate really how stupid it all was from where he sat.
7. NTodd was then, naturally, called an ass.

The thing is so meta I feel like I'm being drawn into that other dimension where your missing socks end up.  Sadly, I can't link to the anti-blog in question because said person deleted her blog because, you know, the only way to share the truth is to do it for 30 femtoseconds before taking it all back.

I find the whole thing fascinating, as I noted in a variety of threads when people kept yelling at me for making fun of the whole escapade, because it's a great microcosm of humanity, just like trolling and other things online.  There ain't nothing new under the sun, and societies collapse all the time to be replaced--sometimes--by new communities.

In this case, nobody died, nobody lost their job, nobody even lost their dignity (though they may think they have).  They've just left for some other virtual saloon.  Big fucking deal.  But those Some People have gotten pretty wrapped up in it and in my usual charming way I've hit some sensitive nerves so they've gotten rather defensive.

[shrugs]

For my next trick, I'm going to take a pointed stick and poke a caged bear...

ntodd

[Adding: people never seem to get bent out of shape when I direct my Mighty Lightsabre Of Truth at the Bad Guys, but when it's "one of our own" all of a sudden it's not so cool.  Odd, that.]

In The Name Of Z-Listers Everywhere

YOU A-LISTERS ARE ON NOTICE!

Take your kleenex and weep elsewhere.  You make me sick.

ntodd