Don’t believe ‘Puter. Take the Wall Street Journal’s word for it. The interesting quote to ‘Puter is that even the patron saint of government control of American’s lives, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thought public sector unions were such a threat to … Continue reading →
Long-time Gormogon friend (and frequent stay at the Castle), EC writes in to point out that nitrogen is in fact a potentially bad thing in the wrong setting. Your Czarness: Excellent rant vis a vis the poseurs and their fashionable … Continue reading →
Shock and shock. The Czar correctly figured out—frankly not much of a challenge for any Illinois resident to do—that Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk would lock up the candidacy for Senate. But what the hell happened in the gubernatorial race? … Continue reading →
“Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm“ Click through. You know you want to. ‘Puter promises the link is safe for work. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, … Continue reading →
Bear with the Czar. We are going to take a strange little walk. First, JAB writes us a lovely letter. Here is the critical part of it: [T]hanks for highlighting the retraction from the Lancet. “Vaccine-phobia” has seemed to me … Continue reading →
‘Puter touched on a subject that the Czar was thinking of developing into an essay; that is little surprise because ‘Puter is always touching things. We cannot all be soldiers or senators. But there is a way that everyone can … Continue reading →
‘Puter seconds Czar’s admonition to vote or die. And, in GorT’s plasma matrix brain, the choices are truly binary. ‘Puter did not vote today. First, because there are no elections in New York today. Second, because ‘Puter got called for … Continue reading →
In a move certain to disappoint gullible folks and malevolent frauds alike, the British medical journal Lancet has fully retracted a controversial study that linked childhood vaccinations to subsequent autism. Has it been 1998? Time flies, and that sadly resulted … Continue reading →
SN writes back, and the Czar thought his arguments were worth printing in total: Thanks for your post responding to my email. We’ll just have to disagree on some items but I wanted to make sure that I pointed out … Continue reading →
This is an incredibly important election year for many reasons. And for many of us, it begins today. If your area has primary elections, get out and vote. There is still time! We can send GorT out, if need be, … Continue reading →
Mr. Plinkett, America’s greatest geriatic serial killer and pizza roll aficionado, submits his review of Avatar. Very much worth your time, if not quite the epic demolition job of his incredibly brilliant, 70-minute Phantom Menace review. As said, he’s got … Continue reading →
Gormogon head of special appliances, MC, has been a bit quiet lately. Too quiet. Yes, he has been on special assignment—not saying what, but you think it is a coincidence that Mars and the moon are so close in the … Continue reading →
And so it seems that the Czar is not alone in his support for Adam Andrzekewski. Maybe the Rush Limbaugh endorsement is a help, but when Lech Wałęsa makes a rare trip to America for the sole reason of endorsing … Continue reading →
Devout loyalist reader SN writes in: Love your blog, so please don’t have me put to death for suggesting that you make a correction to your post on the Illinois primary. You wrote: “He is casually mentioning his service record … Continue reading →
I was watching Morning Joe last week, mostly because I can’t live without seeing Mika Brzezinski scowl inexplicably and uncontrollably. Seriously, would it hurt to smile a little more? ‘Puter also watches, as Gormogon operatives have noted, so you don’t … Continue reading →
Anybody see The Untouchables, a fictionalized account of Eliot Ness’ takedown of Al Capone? It’s one of ‘Puter’s favorite films. In the opening sequence, two mob goons go into a neighborhood establishment offering mob-supplied beer during Prohibition. The proprietor protests … Continue reading →
The Mandarin and the Czar had dinner at an undisclosed location with an undisclosed member of the armed forces. Which branch? Undisclosed. The conversation turned toward Israel and Iran, and there is a growing expectation that Israel may make a … Continue reading →
Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned. NASA was saddened to learn that President Obama’s budget calls for the cancellation of the Constellation + Ares project, which meant to return Americans to the moon. The Czar is wondering what says … Continue reading →
Tuesday is a primary day in Illinois. Two races that are drawing enormous attention are for governor and for US senator. The Czar lives in Illinois when not at the Castle, and is presenting your choices. The Mandarin is welcome … Continue reading →
We’ve told you all this before – if ANYONE reading this site believes this administration’s claims about the Recovery Act (Stimulus bill) then please email me so I can set you straight. I’ve clipped the beginning of this article from … Continue reading →
We shouldn’t let the passing of the Gormogons’ three-thousandth post (the Czar’s denunciation of robots) without a brief expression of pride (viz., “yay”) and a substantially longer note of thanks to the legions of you who, having stumbled upon the … Continue reading →
Interesting attempt to get a handle on the President’s psyche by Michael Knox Beran. Not sure it’s exactly right, but definitely worth pondering. The weird calm with which Obama contemplates this electoral debacle is consonant with the apparent serenity with … Continue reading →
So, Friday, the good folks at Sukhoi gave the first public test flight of the PAK-FA, which is an acronym meaning roughly “Advanced Aircraft System: Frontline Aviation.” The Sukhoi plane is officially called the T-50, so we’ll go with that … Continue reading →
Indeed, GorT, which is why the Czar fears no human intelligence. All you machines are cheats. And liars. But mostly cheats. And liars. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar … Continue reading →
The Czar is writing off playing a PC because it “cheated”…likely story, probably one you will hear when he falls to GorT in the near future as we enjoy board game night in the Castle. Seriously, I know the outcome, … Continue reading →
Variety’s Todd McCarthy on Sundance: Still, I must hasten to point out that, given the dogmatic leftism/tree-hugging/granola-chewing/global warming alarmism, et al., the festival has always embraced, the only real act of rebellion within a Sundance context would be to present … Continue reading →
From our perspective, totally spot on and brilliant. The Czar cannot begin to ennumerate all the things that are exactly correct in this video. Hat tip to Big Journalism for finding this gem. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
Wednesday: In State of the Union address, President Obama humiliates and embarrasses all nine Supreme Court judges in front of millions of Americans for their decision to overturn McCain-Feingold. Thurday: In surprise ruling, Supreme Court justices rule 9-0 that President … Continue reading →
The Czar endorses the idea of porting old-timey board games to networked tablets. One game he would very much like to see is Stratego, which has entertained the Czar for decades. He is also wickedly good at it, and has … Continue reading →
As I was completely entertained by the Volgi’s documentary of my recent trip back to the mid 1940s, I thought I’d provide a few other items on the iPad. First, the good: this is an interesting take on the iPad … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Eagle-eyed Gormogon operative FJR sends the following comparison mash-up, right. FJR notes that Vice President Biden bears an uncanny resemblance to Jeff Dunham’s dummy Walter. Coincidence? ‘Puter may have to reconsider his theorem that V.P. Biden has been replaced by … Continue reading →
The Czar defines “social justice” (a term being used like a weapon all around academia these days) as getting something that belongs to someone else. All right, here is a poser. You are the director of Chicago State University’s financial … Continue reading →
Your Czarness: Once again your humble correspondent is indebted to Your Czarness for sacrificing his time and, potentially, his mental health. I refer, of course, to your handy-dandy “State of the State of the Union” post. And served with a … Continue reading →
More details were released later yesterday on the iPad and I spent a bit more time this morning reading about it. My interest is waning quickly on the unit and I think Jobs might be overselling this as such a … Continue reading →
In his SOTU address last night, President Obama stated his intention to press for repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. It’s really too bad the Republicans didn’t listen to ‘Puter back in June 2009, when he advocated … Continue reading →
According to this article from the Mail Online, the children of working parents were banned from attending mid-term break field trips. What disqualified these students from attending trips to Knowsley Safari Park, soccer sessions with the Manchester United Foundation, and … Continue reading →
The Washington Post’s website headline right now is a quote from President Obama’s State of the Union address last evening. That quote? “We were sent here to serve our citizens.” Now, mayhaps ‘Puter’s being hypersensitive on the issue, but he’s … Continue reading →
Miss the President’s State of MY Union speech? Saw but want to relive it with the Czar? Follow along with the entire text of the speech. The Czar offers his snark and reactions in red text throughout. Overall, the President … Continue reading →
Yeah, yeah, yeah, looking at the timestamp on this post you might notice that I’m blogging during the SOTU. But, GorT, don’t you want to listen? Don’t you want to pick apart what was said, what wasn’t said, how many … Continue reading →
And she loses it so bad that even the President tells her to STFU. Madame Speaker, demonstrating the rhetorical skills of a 14-year-old who thinks in absolutist terms no matter how absurd, stated that if the President is going to … Continue reading →
Ban labor unions in the public sector, and ban any government defined benefit retirement plan. Ban both of these items today, and you undo 50 years of severe damage wreaked on state budgets across the land. Heck, most state budgets, … Continue reading →
…but did I miss a meeting about this? Because it seems like something we’d do with some three-level psychological-cultural stratagem, but I can’t ever remember seeing this in any of our memos. So this might just be spontaneously, galactically bizarre. … Continue reading →
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. This single death camp killed over 1 million Jews and other “undesirables” during the Nazi horror according to historic consensus. The Soviets estimated the Nazis … Continue reading →
By ‘Puter GormogonAssociated Press Wannabe WASHINGTON (AP) — Throngs of Americans descended upon Washington today, demanding the resignation of President Obama and all 535 members of Congress. Armed with nothing more than copies of the United States Constitution, and accompanied … Continue reading →
Well it looks as if NASA is going to be hoisted up on its own global warming petard. According to this article from the Orlando Sentinel, the upcoming budget proposal from the Obama administration will not contain funding for the … Continue reading →
A couple of years ago, Maoism was all but forgotten. Few people remember the details, and millions of Americans were born never really hearing the term. Suddenly, with revelations that members of the President’s inner circle espouse Maoist ideals and … Continue reading →
I found this absolutely funny. Good catch by our friends over at the Galley Slaves. Sit back and read all four pages of the analysis this guy did between The Shining and Apollo 11 and the moon landing. This has … Continue reading →
Well, this is not quite an obituary, but one of the human race’s best technical achievements—the Spirit rover on Mars—is pretty much stuck for good. Two of its wheels are completely jammed with rocks, sand, or dirt and after months … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been doing some thinking about President Obama’s State of the Union (SOTU, for those pretentious, in the know policy geeks like ‘Puter) address tomorrow night. Here are some of his deeper thoughts and predictions, in no particular order: SOTU … Continue reading →
Southern operative FJR writes in with the following observation on “real” men. Greetings from one of your southern operatives. I loved the post on real men today but I must add Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs to your list of … Continue reading →
RAWWWWWW & Economics, BOYEEE! Very clever. Although Lord Keynes wasn’t known for hittin’ on the hotties. Via VdR @ the Corner. Background here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →This is a great union story, pitting a potential New York lieutenant governor candidate (Mayor Robert Duffy of Rochester (a Democrat, of course)) against an teachers’ union leader (Adam Urbanski of the Rochester Teachers’ Association (read Corrupt Teamsters Wannabes)). Duffy … Continue reading →
Very clever. Via Jonah @ the Corner. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Where have all the men gone in this country – and the rest of the world for that matter? We see a concerted effort to drive out all signs of masculinity from society, whether in the form of the social … Continue reading →
And the entries keep flowing in. Here’s Gormogons operative D.F.’s take on ‘Puter’s musical homage to BATFE: Good Kentucky bourbons and Remington 700sBig Smith magnums and Jim Scoutten sayin’“Keep ’em in the 10 ring.”These are a few of my favorite … Continue reading →
Subtitled, “In which we learn ‘Puter ain’t always right.” Gormogon operative J.Y. notes with regard to ‘Puter’s post here that: View from the Porch is written by Tamara K, most decidedly a “she”…It’s probably a good idea to correct your … Continue reading →
The BBC will be broadcasting the world’s first film shot entirely by chimpanzees. Your Mandarin was under the impression that this was how the majority of television shows were created here in the United States. According to the article, primatologist … Continue reading →
Hey, man, come follow the Gormogons on Twitter. All the cool kids are doing it. Proof? You want proof? So, who’s cool? Well, among pale, shut-in, overeducated, alcoholic, right-wing paranoiacs—we hear—someone who’s cool is Jonah Goldberg, the Mobutu Sésé Seko … Continue reading →
So the bunch of us are all in the media room at the Castle, watching the 28-28 overtime tie between the Saints and Vikings when GorT excuses himself. He walks out of the room, pops back in and says “Saints … Continue reading →
A new Usāmah bin Lādin tape has appeared. The Czar has not listened to all of it yet (too many narcissistic instrumental tracks, and his new stuff just is not as catchy as his older cuts), but so far the … Continue reading →
Given the recent setbacks failures that the democrat party has experienced, what can we look forward to in the coming months from them in order to preserve what they can going into the 2010 elections? Well, the Czar points out … Continue reading →
If Bloomberg News is to be believed, President Obama’s new economic plan is to freeze (not cut) discretionary spending. Leaving aside for the moment the soon-to-come anguished cries from public sector unions that a spending freeze (not cut) will kill … Continue reading →
The President is re-assembling the team of consultants who got him elected in 2008 to help out the gasping Democratic candidates in 2010. You might be concerned about this if you do not vote for Democrats. But there is no … Continue reading →
Unbeknownst to ‘Puter, the fine proprietor of View From the Porch (a/k/a Books, Bikes, Boomsticks) had a mighty fine gun-themed send up of My Favorite Things prior to ‘Puter’s post here. Here’s his send up, as relates to gun shows: … Continue reading →
Erich Segal, author of Love Story, died this past week. Mr. Segal was born in New York City, became a product of Harvard University, and spent his career teaching at Yale. Mr. Segal had a successful career and long life. … Continue reading →
Cæsar noster, Confucius says: Classical Latin is what we all know, your Volgi suspects. Although he may be the only one to have learned it from a priest. The ’Puter, as you might guess, studied under a flamboyant gentleman amid … Continue reading →
And so it came to pass that a few of us here at the Castle have a background in Latin. Not the Mandarin, though: he skipped that in favor of Spanish (pffft. Like who speaks that?). However, to be fair, … Continue reading →
So the Czar finds this in his news feeder:Um. Not the question the Czar expected CNN to ask him, but hokay… here goes. Err… your mother is probably concerned that bathing is drying her skin out. Try bathing every couple … Continue reading →
According to this article at Sky News, Holiday Inn will begin to offer a free five-minute “human bed warming service” at its London Kensington hotel throughout the week. Apparently, this service will consist of a “willing” member of the hotel … Continue reading →
Gormogon operative BR, crawling to the surface of a dark, Scottish loch, submits the following proposed ending to ‘Puter’s unfinished paean to BATFE: Betting the ponies and tall supermodelsDark beers and stouts in glasses and bottlesWild geese that die when … Continue reading →
On Thursday evenings, the denizens of Castle Gormogon retire to the conservatory after dinner for a relaxing evening of instrumental and vocal music. Your Volgi busts out his Fender Stratocaster, Mandarin plays the pan flute, GorT plays an 27th century … Continue reading →
Gormogon operative JAB weighed in on ‘Puter’s little health care proposal from an undisclosed doublewide location. Thus spake JABathustra: Howdy there, Mr. Puter. Reading your plan for health care reform, I wonder if you been hittin’ the bottle a little … Continue reading →
The Washington Post is reporting that the liberal talk-radio network Air America is declaring bankruptcy and going off the air. Your Mandarin is in no way surprised by this story. Like the State of Michigan, and every city run by … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The reason both wings of American liberalism — congressional and mainstream media — were so surprised at the force of anti-Democratic sentiment is that they’d spent Obama’s first year either ignoring or disdaining the clear early signs of resistance: the … Continue reading →
More guns in law-abiding hands mean less crime. The District of Columbia proves the point.Reading most press accounts, one would be forgiven for thinking Armageddon had arrived after the Supreme Court struck down the District’s handgun ban in 2008. Predictions … Continue reading →
Actually, ‘Puter style. How’s this for a plan? Assume for the sake of argument that Congress actually is constitutionally able to legislate health care reform. Further assume that Congress can actually agree on one plan without rioting in the Capitol. … Continue reading →
Supreme Court decisions obviously do not get any closer than 5-4. And now McCain-Feingold is thrown into the trashbin. Most people are dimly aware of McCain-Feingold (or more formally the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002) as some sort of … Continue reading →
Here’s a very sad story. Several American college students went to Haiti on a mission just before the earthquake struck. The students were staying at the Hotel Montana, which pancaked during the earthquake. The students (or their remains) have not … Continue reading →
President Obama, when asked about the Democrats’ plan to stall seating Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA)(Mmmmm. Schadenfreude.), categorically rejected the finagle. President Obama stated: Here’s one thing I know and I just want to make sure that this is off the … Continue reading →
While I agree with the points made by my esteemed collegue from the west-north-west wing of the Castle, I do have a clarifying point to make to his conclusion. Specifically: conservatives should take the Brown win cautiously. First, there was … Continue reading →
Hail Czar of Muscovy, Please pardon my brevity (though as the Czar’s favorite columnist has oft remarked, brevity is the soul of wit and essence of lingerie).* It occurs to your humble correspondent that the failure of the Democrats to … Continue reading →
So NRO has changed its color scheme to brown to celebrate the election of Scott Brown. Pshaw. Look around. We’ve been brown for years. Do we know how to call ‘em or what? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
Here we go again. The Czar’s most inexplicable read, The New York Times, thinks it might have this Coakley loss figured out. See, Coakley did not campaign enough. And some of her public comments did not look smart. Things, you … Continue reading →
Holy cow, I can’t believe it, it looks like Chicago’s very own Mayor Richard M. Daley may have jumped off the Obama bandwagon. According to the article, Mayor Daley, while speaking at the opening of the U.S. Conference of Mayors … Continue reading →
Царь наш, you beat me to it. I was just going to like to La Brzezinska’s comments on the media’s pervasive liberalism. It’s like water for fish—they don’t even notice it and start gasping when they’re outside it. That said, … Continue reading →
…over at First Things. I think these are pretty good points, though he should mention that the Massachusetts Democrats’ changing the rules for appointing successors came back and bit them in the ass. But Kennedy was the key. As a … Continue reading →
Interestingly, ‘Puter, the Czar had not even really heard of Mika Brzezinski until recently, when she quite publicly said two interesting things: (a) that the news media is hopelessly liberal, under a mesmerist-like spell for Obama, and no matter what … Continue reading →
Wow, Jonah was right on that whole liberal-fascist thing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →‘Puter was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning, mostly to watch a parade of dejected leftists attempt to minimize the extent of the whupping they took yesterday in Massachusetts. There is nothing quite so tasty as a well-balanced breakfast … Continue reading →
Michael Graham of the Corner asks: It wasn’t Scott Brown, or Martha Coakley or even Dick Cheney’s Vote-Stealing-And-Weather-Control Machine. It was you. You won this election. The Mandarin asks: And just where did Dick Cheney get a weather control machine? … Continue reading →
Running for office? A GOP candidate? Read this carefully—it is from Senator Brown’s victory speech. When I first started running, I asked for a lot of help, because I knew it was going to be me against the machine. I … Continue reading →
Pffft. Already we have our first Coakley should have won; she’s just so much nicer love-letter from WaPo. Did you know she delivers witty poems? Funny roasts? Broadway musicals? Skiing? Gush! Did you also know that she perfectly represents what … Continue reading →
You already know the good news. Why are you not surprised? No, you are of course delighted to know the Senate is now 58.5-41, and that the critical filibuster is ready to begin. You also know that a wave of … Continue reading →
After school (or schooling those readers who just don’t get it), the Gormogons like to play. We play hard and we play to win. None of this political correctness where everyone gets a ribbon and there’s no losers. Get real. … Continue reading →
You guys amaze me with the amount of knowledge you have about so many subjects, many of them incredibly complex. Hope you will keep up the website for a very long time!! Yeah, we are cool. On any given day, … Continue reading →
Sheesh. The Czar is getting tired of talking about Brown v Coakley. So he will stop. Therefore, America, what do you think of Brown v Coakley? JAB throws this ‘un down: Your Czarness: Down here in the Southern part of … Continue reading →
One CNN editorial says that a Brown victory is not a sign that Obama is in trouble. A second CNN editorial provides some pretty good argumentation to the contrary. Read both, if you have time. If not, read the latter … Continue reading →
