JABbering Stooge

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
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What a year it’s been. And next year promises to be even more eventful. Joy.

See you on the flip side!

…and I’d like to address it to the Meir Kahane Fan Club, also known as the Likud/Kadima-dominated Israeli government.

In order to be free you had to learn to fight. No one questions that, but you have over compensated. You are like abused children, who’ve grown big enough to do it to someone else as if that will somehow balance the scales. It won’t. If you let your anger cloud your judgment, it will destroy you.

Commander Jeffrey Sinclair to Ambassador G’Kar — Babylon 5, “Chrysalis”

I might have more on the subject at a later date. For now, at least, back to the festivities!

Here’s a good candidate for the WTF?! Files:

Das Kapital turned into a manga comic
Karl Marx’s seminal anti-capitalist tome Das Kapital is to be reincarnated ­ as a Japanese manga comic.

By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
Last Updated: 12:04PM GMT 18 Nov 2008

Das Kapital, the manga version, is due to hit bookstores across Japan next month with its complex ideas ambitiously repackaged into digestible comic format.

The appearance of the famous economic treatise in the form of a comic is the latest sign of a resurgence of leftwing literature in Japan as the world’s second largest economy sinks into recession.

The rise of part-time workers and increasing erosion of financial security have fuelled a boom in Communist Party membership in Japan along with a fashionable revival of anti-capitalist literature.

Heh. Mangaka of the world, unite!

Right.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING: For those of you who cannot read the post title (for one reason or another), I’ve updated the post slug to be the Romanized version.

And, irony of ironies, it’s Papa Ratzi!

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Christmas Midnight Mass early Thursday by sending out an appeal for children who are abused, forced to live on the street or serve as soldiers.

Look, Benny, I know you’ve been busy saving the world from T3h Gh3y, but if you’re serious about ending child abuse, you might want to look closer to home… a LOT closer to home.

Thus, I come to bury Caesar Paul Weyrich, not to praise him:

* Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 2 (from the “Firends, Romans, countrymen” soliloquy)

Holy crap, I turn 29 today? Where has the time gone?

Remember how in the wake of the passage of Proposition H8 the gay-bashers promised that it wouldn’t apply to those who had gotten married in the period between the California Supreme Court ruling in May and Nov. 4?

Yeah. It turns out that they were lying their asses off, same as always:

The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief telling the court that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions.

They’re coming for George Takei’s marriage. And if Sulu’s state-sanctioned contract isn’t safe, no one’s is! But wait, whose spooge-stain is that I spy on the amicus brief?

“Proposition 8’s brevity is matched by its clarity. There are no conditional clauses, exceptions, exemptions or exclusions,” reads the brief co-written by Kenneth Starr, dean of Pepperdine University’s law school and a former independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.

Yep, ol’ Ken “Sticky Fingers” Starr himself is throwing his little head behind the effort to rob Ellen Degeneres of her freshly-minted marriage license. Can you say, “obsession?” I knew you could.

I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome bjkeefe to the blogroll. bj is the one who came up with the wonderful Google custom search for wingnut blogs. Thanks, bj!