With the Occupy Wall Street movement going strong (Radiohead’s apparently joining the movement with a hush-hush show today) here’s a blog filled with testimonials from folks calling themselves “The Other 99%”.
It absolutely merits a look. Here are a few sample posts from their site.
It almost makes you forget that these people can’t find jobs because they’re lazy.
I would’ve been ecstatic about the St. Louis Cardinals’ alleged National League Wild Card victory had ESPN forgotten to remind me that I am, in fact, a Red Sox fan.
Needless to say, after that awful-but-endearing September pants-crapping I was ready to see my heroes redeem themselves tonight. The Nation’s number one, Lestah, going against the O’s in Baltimore, Mass.: easy money, baby!
Alas, it was not to be.
It was heart-breaking – nay, gut-wrenching – to see John Lackey’s fat face jiggle as he mouthed the f-word at Nolan Reimold, who drove in the run that doomed my Sox. A tear came to my eye when I thought of JD Drew, that lovable scamp, hearing the news of Evan Longoria’s walk-off home run in Tampa. Big Papi smashed a cooler, which was but a proxy for my soul.
Gosh darn it, Red Sox! How could you do this to us!
Oh, all of this almost makes me wish I could root for the Cardinals again! Those mysterious kids from that backward land called Not-Massachusetts. But I know better than to fall for their small-market siren song. I’m done with that pathetic little payroll.
I don’t have to watch the Cardinals piddle around the field anymore because, thank God, ESPN knows what guys like me want to see: Boston sports. That’s why the National League is mercifully relegated to the second hour of Baseball Tonight.
Sure, it was a great night for baseball – plenty of drama – but I just can’t help thinking about the tragedy of it all. Without the Red Sox to spice things up, who will even care about the playoffs? People only watched the last World Series in 2007 because the Sox were in it! What a disaster.
Lackey really summed it up best: F*@&!!!
Three diagrams to illustrate why conservative swooning over presidential will-not-be Chris Christie is groundless.
These charts come from OnTheIssues, a website monitoring the various, ever-changing stances of American political figures. The candidates’ opinions are aggregated and turned into handy ideology maps.
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney: Twinsies
Here we have the chart of soon-to-be- former front-runner and current train wreck Rick Perry. Conveniently enough, it is also the chart generated for Mitt Romney. As you can clearly see, both men fall squarely into the conservative zone, with just the tiniest tinge of populism tossed in there for good measure. This is just about where the current Republican status quo lies. Nearly all of the candidates in the field (i.e. Cain, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul, Santorum, et. al.) lie even farther to the right.
Huntsman: Moderate or Communist Infiltrator?
The lone outlier among mainstream Republican candidates is Jon “The Liberal Puppet” Huntsman, who has been consistently pulling down about two percent in the polls. That’s good for last place among the major candidates. He lies just a notch to the right of center, with a touch of libertarian in him. Comfortably in the moderate zone is not a popular place to be.
And then there is Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey. Speculation abounds about him joining the presidential race. A Fox News online editorial today declared that “the GOP – desperate to find the Next Reagan – today thinks Chris Christie is the new Savior.” Christie, known for his frank talk (see video above), is… populist Jon Huntsman?
Christie: Fat Jon Huntsman?
In the same environment in which Rick Perry has been attacked for being too far to the left on immigration and the HPV vaccine fiasco, who exactly is yearning for a Republican candidate who believes that global warming is man made and should be dealt with? If Christie Love were indicative of a greater Republican Party desire to move to the middle, Jon Huntsman wouldn’t be getting quintupled by Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich at the polls.
Beg for him all you want, GOP, but he’s wise to say no. Better to be beloved in New Jersey than booed off stage at the next debate.