Brilliant. Stop on over at Big Hollywood (link on left) for a lot more on Psycho this week. Happy Halloween! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Happy Halloween. (Yeah, it’s not new…) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →We had a beautiful Halloween over at the Castle, much like we do every day. The kids came by in good numbers, which we’re happy to see again. We all took turns manning the door (or, in GorT’s case, monitoring). … Continue reading →
The Czar has found Sleestak’s cell phone. It was in his sleeping pylon. The good news is that this disproves that a character in a Charlie Chaplin film found the phone and is talking on cell phone in 1928. First, … Continue reading →
Here’s ‘Puter’s second post in the same day giving thanks. In this post, ‘Puter would like to say thank you to all the men and women in the United States intelligence community, as well as those of our allies. Working … Continue reading →
Early weekend mornings are a good time for reflection. Lately, as ‘Puter’s been recovering from his back surgery and unable to do much of any exercise, he’s been rising earlier than usual. This morning, ‘Puter wasout of bed with coffee … Continue reading →
Unhappy with President Obama’s failure to get any real laughs on The Daily Show, Democrats are asking Vice-President Biden to appear on Jeopardy. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar … Continue reading →
Regular readers here probably noticed that we have comments turned off. It is a policy that is universally supported by the Gormogons, and you know why? Low signal-to-noise ratio. With comments turned off, people are forced to send us emails, … Continue reading →
When you let Sleestak come along on a time traveling trip? He drops his phone and next we have this. Clean up is going to be a mess. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels … Continue reading →
The next time someone dares to claim in your presence that teachers are woefully underpaid and underappreciated, bust out this little nugget and tell them to STFU and crawl back under their patchouli scented serape with the joint burns in … Continue reading →
Among today’s liberal elite, bad faith in America is a sophistication, a kind of hipness. More importantly, it is the perfect formula for political and governmental power. It rationalizes power in the name of intervening against evil—I will use the … Continue reading →
Hello, readers. Do you remember a recent post in which the Czar predicted that the Tea Party seems to be implementing a new phase of attack? This one, we thought, would be aimed at Republicans, not Democrats, and that the … Continue reading →
President Obama cast his absentee ballot today at the White House. A slightly awkward moment for His Excellency, as he moved to vote for Illinois governor and was shocked to see Harry Reid’s name already filled in. The Czar of … Continue reading →
I saw on the interwebs a blog posting entitled “Eight False Things the Public ‘Knows’ Before Election Day”. It is hosted on a liberal leaning site and the bent can clearly be seen. I thought, for fun, I’d do a … Continue reading →
Ah, always good to get an email from DT of the 1st Myrmidion. Oh Most Hoopy of the Froods, the Czar: This morning, while conducting opposition research as leader of the First Gormogon Myrmidon Division , I came across an … Continue reading →
Posted without comment. At first I thought it was a slow news day at the Sun-Times, when I saw this headline Sunday morning: “State Senator Ricky Hendon calls Republican candidate for Governor Brady “idiotic, racist, sexist and homophobic.” Hmmm, I … Continue reading →
Where are the most woo-woo places in the US? You know, the place where you get all funky with crystal healing, spiritual chakras, and so on? Los Angeles, right? San Francisco? Seattle, maybe? The Czar will shock and delight. His … Continue reading →
Just a wonderfully brutal take down of some sleight-of-hand with charts. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The increasingly shabby New York Times, in an effort to show the world it can reduce news stories ad absurdum like Time or Newsweek, has prepared a pretty good proof that their junior editors can be just as shoddy as … Continue reading →
Amusing, but it stems from what was always a somewhat ugly side of this whole silly ‘shovel-ready’ meme. Basically, what ‘shovel-ready’ was always about was upper-middle-class lefties openly fantasizing about putting armies of peasants to work doing things that…upper-middle-class lefties … Continue reading →
So the Texas Rangers have defeated the New York Yankees. Let us imagine how this could be written up. From CNN: Just when ya think you’ve seen everything! It is October, and baseball is always filled with surprises. The Texas … Continue reading →
What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Chairman Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in human history, responsible for the premature deaths of at least 45 million people … Continue reading →
Many years ago, the Czar dated this girl who liked to watch pornography. The Czar asked her why. “Sex is like baseball,” she said. “It is totally fun to play, but it’s also fun to watch on television, too.” “Oh,” … Continue reading →
Borepatch makes an interesting association between recent conservative faux-gaffes and the problem with Smart People. Check it out. As with all things Borepatch, he lays his argument out simply and efficiently. Because you know what we think of the Smart … Continue reading →
Uncle Jay writes in to say… Oh Mighty One— Once again, I cringe and scrape before thee to offer a tidbit for your perusal: President [Obama’s] restructuring of our Essential Documents. For instance, see Whitehouse.gov’s section on the US Constitution … Continue reading →
Ah, Barney Frank: the Congressman everybody loves to hate. If you really needed a stereotype of a Congress member who does everything wrong yet retains his or her job, Frank is a good one. The Boston Herald just discovered something … Continue reading →
Your Gormogons met in plenary session in the rumpus room last evening to debate and decide a pressing issue: whether to waive the well-known Rule of Three. That is, a joke should be retired from The Gormogons’ lexicon after three … Continue reading →
Well, David Zucker’s still got the mojo. Here is his brilliant political ad against Senator Barbara Boxer. The Czar loved it. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born … Continue reading →
Your Gormogons have been benevolently sharing their wisdom and truth with the world for slightly over two years. And this is our 4,000 post. Please stick around for another 4,000 or so. We promise to do better. Or Sleestak and … Continue reading →
Let’s have a little fun playing compare and contrast: 1. Black employee makes statement described as racist. Employer takes quote out of context, goes off half-cocked, fires said employee without permitting employee an opportunity to explain. Employer realizes manifest error … Continue reading →
So the President is maintaining his foreign policy status quo. By that, he will enrage 1.14 billion people in order to attempt to appease 167 million people. Actually a 7:1 enraged-to-unimpressed ratio is better than he does on most days. … Continue reading →
CNN Headline: “Where Vaccine Doubt Persists“ As a karate expert, ‘Puter knows that this, if a question at all, is rhetorical. ‘Puter, however, has ready answers (short and long form). Short answer: In the mind of morons. Longer answer: In … Continue reading →
As a karate expert, ‘Puter has ordered the courtyard flag flown at half-staff today, in honor of the passing of Bob Guccione. Mr. Guccione, aged 79, instilled in young men a love of reading, primarily through his production of high … Continue reading →
As a karate expert, ‘Puter would like to state that NPR is a perfect illustration of political correctness run amok. Aiding and abetting NPR in its fundamentalist jihad are leading “news” organizations such as the Washington Post and the New … Continue reading →
From Slashdot and Got Geoint: Fast Company reports that Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle will soon issue a decision on an intellectual property-related lawsuit that could ground the CIA’s Predator drones. Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) alleges that their Geospatial … Continue reading →
Barack Obama, Monday night at a dinner in Maryland: It has to do with this idea that was started by 13 colonies that decided to throw off the yoke of an empire, and said, “We hold these truths to be … Continue reading →
Yetis are apparently going into the citrus-fruit business. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Whether you’re Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell or Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady, you need to learn to STFU on creationism vs. evolutionism. First off, it isn’t even a debate—creationists cannot engage in a logical rational debate on any matter … Continue reading →
By now you’ve surely head about that horrific woman Ginny Thomas (Mrs. Clarence Thomas) calling Anita Hill and requesting that Professor Hill apologize. Apologize for what? Let ‘Puter take you back to his halcyon days in 1991 as a 1L … Continue reading →
Top Gear is one of the funniest, smartest, most artistic shows put together. Stateside, you will need BBC America to see it, but it is worth going through its 1:20 running time each week. Yes, it is a show about … Continue reading →
The Czar wonders if he is seeing a third phase in the Tea Party movement. The first phase, of course, was to be recognized. And that they were. From a loose collection of small protests called the TEA Party to … Continue reading →
Or, alternatively, the Great State of New York has a gubenatorial candidates’ debate. Watch, and marvel as a plastic-faced prostitute (actually, a madam) extols the virtues of legalized prostitution! Laugh, as a crazily bearded man wearing gloves constantly laments that … Continue reading →
Tom Bosley passed away today at the age of 83. Best known as Howard Cunningham, the beloved father on Happy Days, Bosley also starred in Murder, She Wrote and Father Dowling Mysteries. He was a World War II veteran having … Continue reading →
The Czar produced one of these once, but it was centuries ago before we knew much about the atmosphere. Basically, we had it divided into Oceans of Blood of the Disloyal, Stuff you Breathe, Smoke From Fire of Burning Lands, … Continue reading →
And in response to this: Would he approve of a system of handicapping by which the brighter sort of people, like himself, were held back in order that the dimmer sort should have greater opportunities to shine their light, such … Continue reading →
Over at Armavirumque, he writes: For the undeserving winners of the genetic lottery known as the intelligent have been so flattered and petted and made much of by the official culture of the last half century or so that their … Continue reading →
Here’s a free peek behind the curtain, as we see what Czar does in his off time. Pictured right is Miss Bookbinder, the Castle’s head librarian. She is the only reason ‘Puter even pretends he can read. 'PuterAlways right, unless … Continue reading →
Here’s the new teachers’ union cop out: “Facebook made me bang my student.” Classy. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this. ’Puter … Continue reading →
People give the President a really difficult time about the crappy state of the economy, the incredible surge in poverty, and the sickening unemployment rate. But you guys need to realize that being a President is haaaard. Real hard. Especially … Continue reading →
Go ahead and read the Volgi’s posts today. Still willing to read more? Check out a superbly done piece by Christian Hartsock on five things the conservatives have got to stop doing because, frankly, they fuel MSM fires and make … Continue reading →
…here’s Fred Siegel in City Journal. What Zernike doesn’t grasp is the class dynamics of the Tea Parties—a revolt in the name of self-government against the pretensions and failures of the best and the brightest. The Tea Partiers believe that … Continue reading →
Peter Berkowitz in the WSJ. Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and … Continue reading →
Well, by now you have heard that Barbara Billingsley has died at the age of 94. Dunno about you, but the Czar always liked Leave It To Beaver, and frankly thinks there are two types of people in the world: … Continue reading →
Another useful how-to from the Gormogons. Remove the mandible from main body of the skull by lifting the skull straight up off the rami. Set the mandible aside; no further disassembly of the mandible is necessary. This will expose a … Continue reading →
Did the Czar ever tell you the story of the time his grandfather Молнидвак got into the згогberry wine, and tearfully announced that he was responsible for the schism? That’s when Папочка knew it was time for Gramps to go … Continue reading →
Your Czarness, With the change of seasons, I’ve felt the need to spruce up the Doublewide a bit. You know, maybe get a new throw-rug to match the autumn colors? But, being properly eco-conscious, I thought that, rather than engaging … Continue reading →
When October rolls around, peoples thoughts turn to employee benefits! Not really, they turn to football, the Phillies sweeping the Reds (yeah, it’s Doc-tober boys and girls), pumpkin patches and apple pie. But, it is also open enrollment time, which … Continue reading →
Phil Klein got a chance to talk to Rep. Paul Ryan about ObamaCare. Ryan, who is a very smart cookie, wants us to take a step back and be patient with this ObamaCare thing. No, not to embrace it. We … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →It surely did. If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for … Continue reading →
A researcher in Slovenia is conducting an experiment aimed at identifying and controlling robot-human pain thresholds. How hard can a robot poke, grab, etc. a human? It’s a worthwhile experiment as more and more interaction is liekly in our future. … Continue reading →
Yes, yes he does. Welcome to the roll, Professor Mondo. And the Czar aperceyveth wel by certeyne evydences that our honeste webespace lakketh a goode quantitie of Myddel Englysshe. And sith by cause as the Czar stille speketh it, now … Continue reading →
There is much made in the political scene over what could be construed as envy. Specifically, I’m speaking about wealth, income and what people have or don’t have. The rich. The poor. The democrats consistently delve into this socio-economic class … Continue reading →
Astonishing silence appears to the response of the scientific community regarding Harold Lewis’ spectacular resignation letter. Of course, the anti-AGW crowds are eating this up. The Czar thinks that might be too eager a reaction: if the Hadley CRU incident … Continue reading →
The San Francisco Chronicle has this headline: “Judge Orders Military To Stop Discharging Gays.” Out of artillery, or what? This is why people only read headlines. A Pennsylvania school district that installed remote camera control software in student laptops in … Continue reading →
So how close is President Obama to President Jimmy Carter in terms of public perception? Although there are many superficial similarities, many on the Right are attempting to align the two men in order to promote the idea that a … Continue reading →
So, the New York Times has noticed the resurgent Chinese military that’s been weaned on nationalist paranoia: The Pentagon is worried that its increasingly tense relationship with the Chinese military owes itself in part to the rising leaders of Mr. … Continue reading →
Most fun: Charles Krauthammer & Chess. (In the New York Times!) Most important: Islam in Europe Destroyed by Radicalism? by Stephen Schwartz Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →This jives perfectly with what the Mandarin and the Czar were discussing at lunch this week. Pat Sajak nails our mutual opinion perfectly: the GOP had better realize they will not be given a second chance…this is their second chance, … Continue reading →
PRESIDENT OBAMA STREAKED — GORMOGONS DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITYCASTLE GORMOGON, PLATEAU OF LENG, 10/11/10The Gormogons disclaim, immediately and categorically, any responsibility for the puerile streaking stunt at a presidential rally yesterday.We have extensive documentary evidence that Ghettoputer Gormogon was, in fact, nowhere … Continue reading →
A man, claiming he will be paid $1,000,000 for the stunt, streaked fully nude in front of President Obama. No, buddy, you got it exactly backward. It’s the emperor who has no clothes! The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
So the Democrats, fearful that Mark Kirk could win the US Senate seat being rightfully emptied by Roland Burris, are trying to inflate hot air into a non-story. As you know, Democrats are quite obviously doing whatever they can to … Continue reading →
Well, it seems, the LA Times has a story that—whattayaknow—marijuana might not be as harmless as its users keep insisting. Now, that said, the article is pretty ambivalent regarding its own thesis. Sure, some studies say it does not hurt … Continue reading →
Source and interview link here. Ah, the America of your dreams…the only one you actually like… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Global-warming J’accuse?Read the whole thing. Seriously. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →It is rumored that Ridley Scott is back on the TV adaptation of the 1962 Philip K. Dick novel, “Man in the High Castle”. It sounds like it’s going to be a 4-hour event. For those unaware, the Hugo Award … Continue reading →
What an election. And out come the bad moves. Sure, every party makes mistakes during an election: openly false comments are made and disproved just as quickly. Third parties put out advertisements with patently wrong accusations. Words are twisted in … Continue reading →
‘Puter had a thorough piece yesterday on why foreclosure moratoria will do more harm than good to the American economy. Our plant at the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board managed to insert ‘Puter’s post as today’s lead editorial. Witness the … Continue reading →
JAB notes that even meat puppets are getting tired of defending Obama: Your Czarness, I offer an unrelated anecdote to support your observation of the President’s eroding levels of support. We here at The Doublewide are fans of a band … Continue reading →
For a long time people were pointing the finger at “climate change” for the decline in the bee population. The decline is concerning as the ecosystem relies upon them for pollination. There were minor side targets such as cell phone … Continue reading →
So, after having made the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock by awarding it to the barely-inaugurated President Obama because he, um, was, er, so, uh, I mean such a great…peace-making-potential guy, the Norwegians decided to actually make a morally serious … Continue reading →
Oddly, ‘Puter finds a lot to like about Mayor Bloomberg’s jihad against food stamp recipients using taxpayer dollars to purchase soda. To be fair, ‘Puter first heard about this from Nanny State Advocate Number One Mika Brzezinski over at Morning … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s written on populism and the housing/financial/consumer confidence crisis for over a year now. ‘Puter’s been critical of both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration for creating, mishandling and exacerbating the crisis through government intervention. Today, a new low … Continue reading →
We all know that the mainstream media is still in bed with the President. Daily horrors spoken by Joe Biden are ignored as a matter of principle. Stories that make the President look exactly like Bush are obscured. The rise … Continue reading →
This chaps the Czar’s buttocks. Sorry, but it does. For eight years, the Czar (and millions of others) endured continual critical comments about President George Bush, and how he ignored science when it disagreed with his policies, and how he … Continue reading →
What would you say if your Mandarin told you that the Federal government was going to sue a State government for actually having the audacity to enforce existing immigration laws? What if your Mandarin was to go one step further … Continue reading →
It’s in ‘Puter’s kitchen. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia … Continue reading →
Businesses aren’t hiring. Unemployment is stuck at nearly ten percent. Americans believe the recession is still in full swing, regardless of what the pointy heads at NBER say. The Obama Administration is talking about raising taxes. Unintended, though eminnently foreseeable, … Continue reading →
Four years ago this week, the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered execution-style in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. The truth is an increasingly scarce commodity in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Politkovskaya’s murder showed that for those … Continue reading →
Mario Loyola has an excellent essay on the state of North Korea. Therein, he writes that American foreign policy really fails to understand China and her attitudes to North Korea. When the George W. Bush administration first came into office, … Continue reading →
Well, James O’Keefe has issued a statement about whatever the hell it was he was trying to do with his video sting of CNN’s Abbie Boudreau. Go ahead and read it, if you want. Or do not bother—the result is … Continue reading →
So, over at Contentions, J.E. Dyer puts up a bunch of links showing Russian attempts to bully Japan over the Kuril Islands, concluding: Its significance cannot be overemphasized. In approaching this confrontation, Russia is effectively treating Japan — a G-8 … Continue reading →
Okay, so it turns out that photographer Mark Pain was covering the Ryder Cup, and managed—by pure luck—to take a picture a split-second before Tiger Woods hit him with a golf ball. The picture is here. Cool, eh? Okay, but … Continue reading →
There is a great article by Connie Hair regarding the One Nation Rally held this weekend in Washington D.C. Despite the free buses, the demands from union leadership that their members attend – or else – and the admonitions from … Continue reading →
Well, the Mandarin is too humble to say so himself, but this weekend another one of his projects came to a great success. He installed rockets on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. And why not? It will be available for a minimal … Continue reading →
I came across this story a few days ago and sort of wrote it off. But it’s starting to get a bit more play. Gladwell (whose books are excellent) makes a great point that the next revolution isn’t going to … Continue reading →
… can remember better than the WaPo. A new scientific study is out that shows how researchers can rapidly create non-embryonic based stem cells from skin cells. Maybe all those in the country who condemned President Bush’s stance on embryonic … Continue reading →
This is exactly what is so screwed up about the entire Obama administration…from Rahm Emanuel’s farewell speech: [President Obama is] the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has faced. Really. How about “the … Continue reading →
‘Puter is a denizen of Upstate New York, and this year, upstart Tea Party/Republican candidate Carl Paladino is on the ballot. Mr. Paladino rose to stardom based primarily on his sharp invective and anger directed at New York’s entrenched political … Continue reading →
