February 2012

But the son of God sure is looking funny…

Kanye West appears on the cover of this month’s Rolling Stone as Jesus, complete with thorny crown and blood, but the Catholic League’s William Donohue isn’t outraged, he just feels sorry for Kanye. “It’s one thing to rip off Catholic iconography. It’s quite another to exploit a poor soul like Kanye West. Anyone who is this morally and mentally challenged deserves our sympathy not our derision.“

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Hey Mailbox Fans and Hands;

I had my first letter published today, check it out:

no need TO WRITE MORE THAN ONE WORD HIPPOCRITE AGAINST DEATH PENALTY BUT IT IS OKAY FOR BUSH ET AL TO GO IN AND KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN (COLLATERAL DAMAGE ) IN THE OILY NAME OF JEWS .. FORGIVE ME LORD FOR I KNOW NOT WHAT I SAY … LETS HOPE CANADA STAYS WITH MARTIN TODAY OR ANOTHER RED STATE OF IGNORANCE WILL FLOURISH

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You sir, are dead on:

My line was that the war in Iraq was morally right and politically wrong. I said this six months before the war started, and I did not change my mind. Morally right, because it’s always right to overthrow a dictator, one of the bloodiest regimes in the world, but politically wrong because I knew it would produce more chaos, more terrorism. It would make the world even less safe than it was.

What I don’t understand is why you cannot at the same time denounce economic disparity, the anti-abortion movement, religious fundamentalism, the widespread domestic availability of firearms, and so on. An intellectual is someone who is able to count past two. And even three, sometimes. The intellectuals we’re talking about seem only to be able to able to count to one. One — finished. No, please! I want to say. Let’s count to two! I am in favor of the war in Iraq, but I am against economic disparity. I am in favor of prisons to protect the general population, but I am against the death penalty.

I far prefer the neoconservatives, like Kristol, to someone like Pat Buchanan, who is fascist. I far prefer the neoconservative idea of spreading democracy all over the world, to Buchanan, who says that people in the rest of the world don’t deserve democracy.

Political leaders are what they are. Obama and Hillary Clinton are brilliant, charismatic, but they will be exactly what the left will make them be. As long as the Democrats speak money, instead of ideas, as long as they are afraid of their own shadows, they will lose. And as brilliant a leader as Obama or Hillary is, they cannot win with such a party behind them.

It was a shame to see people on the left, in the last days of the election, trying to adopt the platform of the National Rifle Association. They should have said, No — vote against us if you want but we are against the sale of firearms. Instead of, Me too, I’m a hunter! I like weapons! The right expresses itself in America. The left does not. It is a pity.

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The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will host a discussion with William Kristol and Bernard-Henri Lévy on the topic of “American Vertigo” on Tuesday, January 24 at 5:30 p.m.

William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard and one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators. Bernard-Henri Lévy is a renowned French philosopher and best-selling author.

Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of the SAIS International Development Program, will moderate the discussion.

The event, which is open to the public, will be held in Kenney Auditorium located on the first floor of the school’s Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to mclo@jhu.edu or 202.663.5650.

Check out Levy — what an interesting figure!

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MacroEconomically speaking of course.

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i didnt have MLK day off — though for some reason we have presidents day off. in the words of my coworkers ‘that’s racist yo’.

also:

capos326: at chipotle i saw all these fat corporate drones scarffing down burritos, smiling because of there content with mediocrity(burrito and life). right then and there i swore to myself i wouldnt turn into that, then i took a bite of my burrito, and thought….oh my god

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Check out these pictures of me winning a beer chugging contest in Rome during a pub crawl:

Unfortunately all I got was a gift certificate to the Hard Rock Cafe in Rome, plus I had to pay for my own beer. But I guess in the end, showing up those tools was worth it.

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