Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 7
Better late than never. All was quiet for there was one more denizen of the castle to open a door before we head back to the top of the rotation – Dat Ho. Well, he’s been lying low since the … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 7
You put your peanut butter in my chocolate! No, you put your chocolate in my peanut butter! Wait, they’re two great tastes that taste great together. Just like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, your next selection is a pretty nifty duet. … Continue reading →
An Insulated Boot…
In an effort to keep warm during this cold winter season, your Mandarin has decided to make sure that he gets lots of physical activity. And what better way to warm the body and your Mandarin’s heart than a hearty … Continue reading →
Andrew Klavan: “Wall Street on Trial”
Lovely smackdown of Occupy socialists and corporatist capitalists. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 6
Well, yes, it’s rolled around to you-know-who – GorT. I’m never in much of a rush. Heck, when you can time-travel, why does it matter, right? So I’m a bit later in the day today posting about my token advent … Continue reading →
Media Screws Science Up Again
NBC News reported this morning that astronomers have found a planet capable of supporting life. Why, here is a picture of the happy guy right here. Except, as you can predict by this essay’s very existence, they got every piece … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 6
We hit the halfway point in our Christmas Music list. Dr. J. has been happy to see that his picks have met with great interest, especially on twitter. If you aren’t a follower, check us out, our twitterbuddies alone are … Continue reading →
Confirmation, The Bishop and ‘Puter
As those of you loyal minions who follow your Gormogons on Twitter already know, ‘Puter with family in tow, traveled to the Diocese of Rochester’s cathedral, Sacred Heart, last evening to celebrate ‘Puter, Jr.’s confirmation. For those non-Papist minions, the … Continue reading →
By Any Means Necessary?
A couple of recent essays and editorials caught the Czar’s eye, and there is a strange theme to them: Gingrich is proof the Tea Party is dead. Long live the Tea Party, suckas. Don’t you media types wish. B-b-b-but Czar, … Continue reading →
Another Cooperstown Insult to Santo
Cubs legend Ron Santo was put into the Hall of Fame this week, and the Veterans Committee is composed of jackasses for doing it. You heard me. Ron Santo was totally deserving of a Hall of Fame berth, and he … Continue reading →
Old Time Hockey, eh, Coach?
The NHL announced their realignment today. From the look of things, what’s old is new again. Traditional rivalries are renewed and the conferences look much like what your Gormogons cut their hockey teeth on as yout’s. CONFERENCE (7 TEAMS) New … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Naughty and Nice edition…
Gentle Readers, Today’s song selection, You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch, caused a bit of a dust up with some of our fans. Dr. J. didn’t post the original because it’s mashed together with narration in between. He went with the … Continue reading →
Is conservatism doomed?
Maybe. If this election is the huge, historical deal it’s said to be, with either the ratification of the terminally debt-addicted redistributive, regulatory Leviathan or the last, best hope to reform it, it’s curious that the GOP, as home of … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 5
More nostalgia for our gentle readers. For GenX-ers The Charlie Brown Christmas Special and The Grinch That Stole Christmas (the Chuck Jones/Boris Karloff classic, not that Jim Carrey trainwreck) were appointment television, especially in the years when they were broadcast … Continue reading →
Praising Cain
48 hours after the Cain campaign crawled to a stop, some eulogizing may be in order, as well as some critical commentary. Cain’s biggest problem was himself, not the media. He took the idea of running for President pretty seriously, … Continue reading →
Mongol Hordes at the Castle Gates? Sure!
Borepatch, whom we read every day, writes your Czar: Man, I don’t know where you find those [Help Wanted ads] (must be a local Alt-Weekly that’s not on the ‘Net), but they were filled with win. BTW, Uncle Jay says … Continue reading →
Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 5
Each morning the Czar sits patiently in the corner of the group as others open their advent calendar, but the look on his face tells the tale – he wants it to be his turn so bad that someone’s going … Continue reading →
Inside the toddler’s brain…
All of your Gormogons were toddlers once (and some would posit that ‘Puter still is one), and all of your Gormogons have experienced the joy that is raising toddlers. Their sense of wonder and curiosity, their innocence, and their innate … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 4
For day four, we’re going to borrow GorT’s Time Bubble and go back to Mid-19th Century England. Dickensian images of Christmas are iconic, when one says picture Christmas in their head, all of the sugar plum that dance in your … Continue reading →
Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 4
The Mandy has been patiently waiting for his turn to open a door and sure enough, he drew day 4 of advent. They were a bit smaller than what he expected after a car and huge Chinese toy blocks but … Continue reading →
A Boot In The Groin…
Seeing as how it is the Christmas season, your Mandarin is in the giving mood, and based on the actions of the Boston Public Schools, he would like to send them a special Yuletide themed Boot in the Gut. It … Continue reading →
Hope For Some of You
Dear Occupy perverts and toolbags, The Czar understands you want stuff, and suspects that deep down, perhaps, you might actually be willing to work to deserve your gotten gains. In that spirit, and to help the handful of you still … Continue reading →
Dying well…
Dr. J. first saw this link via Small Dead Animals. He read the article, nodded, and moved on. Then he saw it cropping up all over Facebook. Friends on the left and the right were posting it, so Dr. J. … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Two Hearts Beat As One…
In addition to the legion of letters for The Czar, today’s mailbag brings us a letter from Operative Æ, who you may recall wrote that he wrote in about a month ago regarding Dr. J’s first medical update, stating that … Continue reading →
Answering the Call
Answering the mail call, that is. The Czar has four unread messages. First up is Operative FJR, who etched this onto a small grain of rice and slipped it into the Czar’s Burmese Beef: I do a lot of outdoor … Continue reading →
He Seemed Fine
So what happened to Herman Cain? For this, we turn to Cain spokeswoman Ellen Ripley: 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 … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 3
Day 3 brings us Children, Go Where I Send Thee. This is an African-American spiritual. It’s a counting song, much like the Twelve Days of Christmas, but instead it counts various numbered things in the bible as opposed to someone’s … Continue reading →
Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 3
The Volgi drew Day 3 on the advent calendar. He’s not one to get up early so the rest of us waited for him to come down to the Castle common room. He excitedly opened the four-foot doors on the … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Marching Band Edition
Operative MS writes in: A college or high-school marching band typically plays raucous, low-brow music. But there is no reason why this has to be. For a more highbrow half-time entertainment at you football games, switch from pop music to … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 2
Dr. J. is a child of the ’80s. The local classic rock stations would break out the ‘Rock and Roll’ Christmas Tunes, so they had to dig broadly and deeply to find stuff that would both fit their formatting AND … Continue reading →
More Stimulus Nonsense
Courtesy of an excellent post over at The PJ Tatler by Bryan Preston who teased out the following from a Washington Times article. Click over to read the whole thing, but here are some of the highlights: Hollywood director Robert … Continue reading →
Carrier IQ
If you pay attention to the consumer privacy world or the smartphone world, you might have heard the recent swirl about something called “Carrier IQ”. I figured our readers might like a little info to be informed and understand what’s … Continue reading →
Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 2
Dr. J was the next lucky draw to open the next door on our 30-story advent calendar (I told you, we like gifts and small chocolates just ain’t gonna cut it). He was dancing around like a little schoolkid. So … Continue reading →
An Interview With A Very Drunk Vincent Clements Jeffords
The Czar: What advice would you give the Obama adminstration on stimulating job growth and, assuming there is a relation, bringing down the unemployment rate in an election year? Jeffords: You know what? You think that Kwiatkowski, or Dennis Whash-his-name … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music – Day 1
Christmas music is an important and pervasive aspect of the season. The music at mass thankfully goes up a notch, and Mrs. Dr. J. and the lil resident’s favorite radio station (the maudlin love song station, you know, the one … Continue reading →
The President, Congress and Jobs
While watching the side-splittingly funny adventures of Mitt & Newt, now a series on the Disney Channel (featuring those obnoxious 42 year old “teenaged” twins from Zack and Cody: Obnoxious in Any Setting, or whatever crappy iteration of the tired … Continue reading →
Gormogon Advent Calendar – Day 1
The advent calendar started with German Lutherans who would physically count down the days to Christmas starting on December 1st. It has morphed into the modern ones which are traditionally cardboard/plastic frames with small doors that are opened on each … Continue reading →
Expected Rationale
With news that Barack Obama’s approval ratings are now officially worse than Carter’s, we wondered why the people who voted for him in the first place did so. The question for Obama voters: Fill in the blank. “We voted for … Continue reading →
Excellently Done
This is a little late for Veterans’s Day, but the Czar’s dad sent this to him a while ago and he just got around to it. Anyway, he and the Czar defy you to be unimpressed with this WV salute … Continue reading →