You had no idea they were Democrats, didja? ŒV: Good God. RT @heminator: If you’re an ivy league educated woman, motherhood makes you a traitor to feminism? bit.ly/11xjqLL— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) April 23, 2013 Your Gormogons in recent days have been discussing … Continue reading →
So there is a news story going around celebrating today as the 20th anniversary of the first public website: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html I’m sure the link is getting slammed (slashdotted for those in the know), but I wouldn’t waste my time. It’s … Continue reading →
Long before most of you remember, the Czar predicted that the Next Big Thing to blow up on the Left will be academia. Stiff competition from online schools, skyrocketing tuitions, zero-guarantee job placement, and repeated exposure about how stupid the … Continue reading →
After more than four full years in office, the Obama administration is still acting like amateurs. Perhaps a more accurate tag would be the Obama Pathetic Hour. This time, it’s Syria. Watching his State Department deal with a problem is … Continue reading →
Wow, Your Mandarin may have to take a trip to the opera! Your Mandarin’s son was given an assignment for his 5th grade music class the other day. Your Mandarin’s son had stated that some of his friends had started … Continue reading →
I’m a frequent TED Talks watcher so I thought I’d pass along one that is near and dear to me. I can’t tell you how many times I sit with someone and they don’t know some of these tips or … Continue reading →
With nerd-glasses like those, how could he not fix the defect? Pierre ‘Pete’ DuPont IV, Dr. J.’s favorite 1988 presidential hopeful (sorry Poppy), reminds us why a simpler tax code is a better tax code in his WSJ column today: The … Continue reading →
Reader SMR wrote in last week in response to this post: To the Magnificent GorTechie: Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a robot are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, … Continue reading →
Ask any of the character actors, and they will assure you the best part of their jobs is the constant physical harrassment from visitors. As we race into the summer months, many of you and presumably your parents will be … Continue reading →
After a too-long absence, the great and wise The Big Guy, Uncle Jay, himself, writes in: Dread, Awful, etc-Y’all need to institute some serious quality control procedures…You can’t go leaving stuff like this laying around.It will eventually get noticed. TBG … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s teachers in high schoolwere Jesuits. And no Jesuit isas good looking as this fine, younglesbian child rapist. It’s been a long time since ‘Puter posted on America’s “education professionals” in action, too long perhaps. ‘Puter thinks he got bored, … Continue reading →
Does this bother any of you as much as it does the Czar? Items: MSM Stories: Some charges inexplicably dropped in Gosnell murder trial FAA deliberately screws with air traffic at behest of President Tsarnaev: did he have help? What … Continue reading →
The New York Times ran an interesting article today on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s draftsof new consumer mortgage rules. Well, the article interested ‘Puter, anyway. Mostly because the article proved ‘Puter’s longstanding position correct. You see, CFPB’s new regulations … Continue reading →
Castle Gormogon survived its first softball practice last night, and one would be shocked to learn we weren’t that bad; but not nearly as shocked one would be if we had a second practice. Indeed, if there were indeed any … Continue reading →
…since we’ve posted anything My Little Pony or Cthulhu. My Lil Cthulhu…Devoured Souls are Magic! Dr. J.
Continue reading →Imagine the surprise at the Washington Post when they conducted a poll with equally fawning ABC News and discovered that President Obama is tied with or slipping below George W. Bush on a variety of factors. Bush is up on … Continue reading →
A girl’s got to make a living… If you recall, Dr. J. discussed with frustration that there isn’t a good alternative to the ER if a patient needs to get tanked up with IV fluids due to a GI bug. … Continue reading →
“He who controls the spice controls the universe!” Baron Vladimir Haarkonen There is a 200 year old dispute between Tennessee and Georgia with regard to their border. A survey in 1818 placed the border one mile south of the agreed … Continue reading →
‘Puter, like the rest of America, watched the Left and its media comfort women reduced to incoherent sputtering over the last week. Confronted with the Gun Control Failure story, the Boston (Marathon) Massacre story, the Elvis Impersonator Mails Ricin to Obama story and the … Continue reading →
Let your Œc. Vol., offer another explanation. As good minions, you are aware of the Volgi’s Fallacy of Foreign-Policy Egocentrism, in which other countries’ actions are explained deterministically in terms of one’s own. The bottom line of the FFPE is: … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar: No, not him, the other guy. Michael, the one from Billings, Montana. Warmest Regards, Dr. J. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Indeed one of Dr. J.’s IT professional chums has his home network hardwired and uses a ‘dumb phone’ in order to minimize his grid footprint because he’s that paranoid. Doc, are you referring to Ron Muskee, of 1118 Market Street, … Continue reading →
Only Batman can process every Instagram, Facebook and Twitter Account at once! LOLCATZ! Dr. J. was extremely impressed with the impressive detective work brought to bear on the Boston Marathon bombing by the Boston PD, Massachusetts State Police and the … Continue reading →
Lots of folks have compiled examples of the media blaming initial acts of terror, crime, outrage, or basic incivility on “right wing extremists,” a term itself ginned up by the Department of Homeland Security on the persistently underwhelming Secretary Napolitano. … Continue reading →
…is right twice a day. Imagine your Mandarin’s shock and disbelief when he actually found himself in agreement with HBO host Bill Maher over these comments made about Islam in comparison to other religions. Your Mandarin suggests that you view … Continue reading →
By the title of this post you might think this entry is to document where GorT has been as his post count is lagging a bit. Briefly, GorT has been crazy-busy at work logging 10% overtime on average for the … Continue reading →
The Czar thinks this says it all: THIS. “This week is so bad that an Elvis-impersonating conspiracy theorist sent poison letter to Obama and THAT’S LIKE THE TENTH BIGGEST STORY.” — Laura Mitchell (@ljmabouttown) April 19, 2013 Now, for you … Continue reading →
An interesting quote from millimeter-deep thinker Ezra Klein: The gun vote failed because of the way the Senate is designed. It failed because the Senate wildly overrepresents [sic] small, rural states and, on top of that, requires a 60-vote supermajority … Continue reading →
Seventy-five years ago today, Kal-El, the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton was born. Dr. J. being the comic book geek of old wanted to salute the diamond anniversary of Action Comics #1. While the issue date is … Continue reading →
The US Senate treated foolish, ill-consideredgun control legislation much as Eliot Ness treated Frank Nitti: both are currently waitingin the car. And good riddance. To hear those on the Left tell it, the Senate’s failure to pass gun control legislation yesterday … Continue reading →
Maybe you missed all of this. No one would be surprised. Evidently, a bunch of folks on Reddit got to discussing some of the various photographs of the Boston Marathon crowd, and began to see some suspicious similarities and odd … Continue reading →
So Hillary Clinton is being suggested to run for President right over the cooling embers of the Greatest President Evah, Barack Obama. The latter is evidently happy serving as a doormat to the former, as the only re-elected one-term president … Continue reading →
Several of the Gormogons are Maryland natives (technically GorT was a transplant after a year…at least in this time reality) and GorT maintains his primary residence in the People’s Republic of Maryland. However, the recent course of events in Maryland … Continue reading →
Did you know Hillary Clinton is going to be President in 2016? And did you know that she is such a shoe-in that there is no point even considering a primary? Yes, it is only 2013 but the facts are … Continue reading →
Operative SR Writes: Doc, This was an excellent illustration, except… reading the last panel, I thought, “Wait, Linus is a guy. HE DOESN’T EVEN GET *THAT* CHOICE.” Sigh. And yet, people still vote for this garbage. Teh stupid, it burns! … Continue reading →
Grey and Wrinkly Rights Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who … Continue reading →
Sure, these firemen are South BostonMasshole hockey players, but on mostdays, they are the face of good and salvation to people in grave danger. As most other folks must be doing, ‘Puter’s spent some time thinking about the Boston Marathon … Continue reading →
By the time you read this, you already will have heard 180° changes in the reporting, as to whether things happened or did not, whether certain parties were responsible or not. Predictably, the event was politicized by both sides in … Continue reading →
If it walks like a tyrant, and talks like atyrant, it’s probably a tyrant. ‘Puter woke up this morning in the Castle’s archives, located several planes of existence below the Castle’s library. Or before the Castle’s library. Or among the … Continue reading →
They didn’t call him LearnedHand for nothing. He was oneof America’s greatest jurists, bar none. After ‘Puter, of course. Here’s several things to keep in mind today as we Fifty Three Percenters suck it up and support the freeloading loafers … Continue reading →
And lo, verily does Island Dweller throw down a little jotting: Most illustrious Sultan of the Steppes: Your faithful minion, though he be surrounded by water on all sides, still manages to maintain periodic contact with a former co-laborer for … Continue reading →
Think you know what it takes to put together a Ten Things You Didn’t Know list? After a short, challenging introduction that says really nothing, you decide to see if indeed the author has some arcane bit of trivia you … Continue reading →
This is a particularly embarrassing Tweet: On Gosnell “blackout,” where were conservatives before this week? salon.com/2013/04/12/con… via @salon — Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) April 12, 2013 It is difficult to determine whether CNN’s shockingly clueless Donna Brazile really believes this herself, … Continue reading →
GorT got thinking about the beginning of the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell (see The Czar’s post below) after seeing a segment on Fox News’ The Five. We’ve been through a number of social media trending posts/images with various colored … Continue reading →
Would you like a side of deductions with that? Gentle Readers, President Obama filed his tax returns. When you calculate his rate ‘Dr. J.’ style, that is Total Tax/Total Income, it comes to 16.2% compared against Dr. J.’s 22.3%. Now … Continue reading →
By now, you already know way too much about the Kermit Gosnell horror story—and you heard about it from conservative blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. You certainly have seen or heard little coverage from the MSM. Let us be certain—they are … Continue reading →
Well, you fish for compliments and you get some. Although it is possible there is a large degree of sarcasm in the following: O Dread and Awfully-Humble Awfulness: We the Minions are indeed impressed by your marksmanship. We also hope … Continue reading →
Lucy VanBloomberg Dr. J.’s buddy Jamie Jeffords linked to this American Perspective post in his weekly Blogroll Spotlight. Nothing we haven’t heard before, but just a reminder of the progressive mindset. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Well, you put the Царица in charge of date night, and you gotta expect something like this. After a superb dinner at a nearby Szechuan place, the Czar was asked to drive to our favorite shooting range for an evening … Continue reading →
From, of course, Dr. Boli. 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 … Continue reading →
…literally, as Joe Biden would say. Dr. J. suspects that his progressive drone classmates and colleagues on Facebook are getting marching orders from somewhere. Old and Busted Folks are knocking their pink and red equals signs on their sides, in … Continue reading →
The only thing common to Common Core education standards is that there seems to be something in it to annoy everyone. Forward! Go all loyal student with Common Core teachings to make smart America for all envy of world! Unless … Continue reading →
The President is of course entitled to say any dumb thing he wants. But he lowers himself into idiocy with his speech about gun control. Most damning is his throwaway, cutesy-pie comment that if there was one thing we could … Continue reading →
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 upon the death of … Continue reading →
Stick with the Caribbean vacations, stay away from the politics, girlfriend… Dr. J. has a former colleague who despite her critical care bona fides always struck him as a dim bulb. It might be that she dressed like she was … Continue reading →
Dr. J. was reflecting on the approach that President Obama’s been taking with the public in his second term rather than his first term. During the first term, and on some issues in the second term, he reminds Dr. J. … Continue reading →
The Emergency Room, we’re not just for emergencies anymore… Dr. J. got sleepy when he was typing his last post, so he forgot about getting to his point which was that medicine evolved to the point where the regulations and … Continue reading →
Liberals should ask themselves whether they’d prefer to live next door to low skill,welfare seeking illegal immigrants or degreed, bilingual, taxpaying high skillimmigrants like the ones ‘Puter works with. Imagine ‘Puter’s surprise when he found himself nodding in agreement with … Continue reading →
Excellent views from the upper levels. And they finally got rid of that crane at the top. By the way, for some good laughs, read the reviews. A modest proposal arrives via carrier pterosaur outside yon Castle window: Dear Czar … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Mrs. Dr. J. was battling a GI bug for the better part of last week. By Thursday she was so rundown, and felt sufficiently weak that after discussing her symptoms with her PCP by phone, it was decided … Continue reading →
Long-time brainpowerfulness BG writes in: Your Czariness – Jonah Goldberg initially pointed me in the direction of Castle Gormogon. So it’s immensely satisfying to me when someone responds to a post of mine as below. rulierose @bg • 20 hours … Continue reading →
Conservatives, by and large, seem to be having all sorts of moments of clarity lately. You know—maybe we need to be a little more honest about things. Likewise, it is probably time for liberals to do the same thing. Here … Continue reading →
…well maybe not Puter as he’s a tad ribald. This young lady from the People’s Republic of Maryland area testifies at a hearing of Maryland legislators and decimates the arguments for stricter gunlaws in 3 minutes flat. If you’re not … Continue reading →
Let them eat ice cream! The President’s intransigence with regard to making the sequester budget cuts* as painful as possible for John Q. Publick when he has existing latitude to target so called cuts, and a House that wishes to … Continue reading →
Some people have been kvetching about the Associated Press’ decision to change their descriptions of individuals present in our country illegally. Sure, a lot of the initial criticism ran, use some euphemism that sanitizes what they’re doing! Nice job, AP. … Continue reading →
These came up while the Czar was washing blood off his hands in the men’s room. First up is JAB, who pops up from the Doublewide to tell an awesome story: Dear Mr. Mandarin and Your Czarness: Reading your “Literal … Continue reading →
Remember all the blame that was placed on Wall Street and the nefarious banks who preyed on people with low credit scores for the economic collapse that we have been struggling to overcome? Maybe some of you even remember the … Continue reading →
In other good news, China is massing troops and having air and naval craft patrol their border with North Korea. One Chinese restaurant owner (one wonders what’s on the menu there) in a nearby border town expressed amazement over the … Continue reading →
You weren’t the only one playing brackets this weekend. Take a look at the Mainstream Media’s bracket picks. How many did you call correctly? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The … Continue reading →
And people wonder why the right really question what Planned Parenthood does, does with federal funds, and what they support. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and … Continue reading →
There has been some fair criticism recently that Americans are not taking the North Korean situation seriously. Understandably, Americans kind of tune out the raving idiocy that pops out of that country on borrowed Japanese social media. Additionally, many South … Continue reading →
At least he thinks he’s funny. Apparently President Obama declared April “National Financial Capability Month.” Dr. J. is not amused. With manageable deficits, this sort of thing is funny. As we are approaching a tipping point, this shows that he … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, here are some headlines from around teh interwebz: The British government has appointed a ‘Lights Czar’ to police excessive electricity use in private businesses and homes British Scientists have found the genetic markers that predispose an individual to … Continue reading →
