Ender’s Game
You know where GorT will be on November 1st: “If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Unintended Consequences: Cuomo’s Asinine Gun Laws Edition
Gov. Cuomo demonstrates the danger offinger guns before Mayor Bloomberg joinshim on stage to introduce their jointlegislative proposal “Fingerguns UnderControl of Kids Kill Us Act,” or as it iswidely known, Cuomo’s FUCKKU Act. ‘Puter’s a casual hunter, and an even … Continue reading →
Mailbag: Correction Edition and More
Professor Mondo writes the shiny robot for the first time in order to correct GorT’s knowledge of children’s literary references: I realize that a busy time-traveling robot such as yourself has little opportunity to reflect on children’s literature, but … Continue reading →
Restaurant Insurance: A Healthcare Allegory
Socialized medicine? The Doctor says, “RUN!” Today, Dr. J. is copying in whole-cloth a post from the now defunct Ideal Medical Practices blog. Written by Megan Lewis, M.D., in February of 2009, this piece flew onto Dr. J.’s radar this week. … Continue reading →
Why Post-Boomers Rock
Bore Patch (yes, the very one!) carved the following into a stick of wood and jammed it through the spokes in Dat Ho’s messenger bicycle. While the latter was riding it of course. Dang, you nailed me in the Post-Boomers … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Fluid Dean-amics Edition
Operative BC writes in regarding Dr. J. playing fast and loose with fluid dynamics in his recent post on clogged arteries in Nashville: Dear Dr. J., In your post you reference Poiseulle and state that halving the diameter of something … Continue reading →
I Don’t Get It
Dr. J. loves the comics, yeah, yeah, including lefty comics like Doonesbury, the late Bloom County and Boondocks. Even Wee Pals, despite being Peanuts joins the Rainbow Coalition has its moments. Funny is funny. As he doesn’t receive a daily newspaper, … Continue reading →
Dean’s Picket
Generational theory, veterans’ benefits and urban planning in the same day. All the more reason why you should tune in everyday to your Gormogons. Nashville is a city of about 500,000 citizens with an additional 1-1.5 million living in the surrounding … Continue reading →
Veteran Welfare?
Island Dweller puts this on the table for us to consider: Not far in the recent past some members of our illustrious Senate/HOR (which we shouldn’t knock, since we’ve got the finest Senate/HOR money can buy) seriously defended efforts they … Continue reading →
Czar’s Guide to Generation Gaps
As if they could not be any more self-centered in their stupidity, the Boomers have declared war on the Millennials, and have finally realized the source of All Their Problems is, once again, Someone Else. Thats right, the Boomers have … Continue reading →
If An E.J. Dionne (Metaphorically) Fellates Obama In WaPo’s Op-eds, Does He Make A Sound?
‘Puter believes the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne to be the least intellectually curious, most embarrassingly partisan opinion columnist writing today, bar none. Yes, bar none, including but not limited to crass, foul-mouthed New York Times “treasure” Maureen Dowd. To deride … Continue reading →
Memorial Year
Island Dweller condemns us all to a fiery future with today’s letter, which arrived yesterday but we were too busy being busy: Your majesty: Today is (legally) Memorial Day. I have not as yet seen any postings on your site … Continue reading →
Stop Thinking like Brinker* and Start Being a Phoenix
GorT has many years of experience in working in and around the federal government and if there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that when the government faces a problem it generally puts the same people in change of fixing … Continue reading →
Island Dweller and the Czar’s Bailmag
Island Dweller writes: Your majestyI have read with interest your latest screed on the intricacies of dyslexia. Your humble subject has had a brush or two with this slight disorder. One of your subject’s genuine pleasures during his past employment … Continue reading →
Holiday weekend Gormogonica — GorT’s Sleazy Sixties
Very few of you likely know that our staid, dependable, eleven-foot, time-travelling robot, GorT, had a brief déclassé film career. Sure, you all know about his headliner role with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal in The Day the Earth Stood … Continue reading →
Marriage v. Civil Unions: A Way Forward
One of the reasons the same sex marriage debate is not a debate at all, but more of loggerheads is because two different liberal positions have banged into each other. No, this would not be permitted in a civil union. … Continue reading →
Scorecard: Obama v. Bill of Rights
Liberals believe as an article of faith that liberals – and only liberals – support and defend the Bill of Rights. It’s those racist white male conservatives in horrid red flyover states that want keep women in the kitchen and … Continue reading →
Dyslexia Gets More Interesting
The New York Times’ Blake Charlton writes a typical look-at-me piece on dyslexia, which leads off dramatically listing every insult the author endured as a child. Really? The Czar could list many more than three that he was called, and … Continue reading →
’Puter & Elvis Costello’s «Prophéties»
’Puter, You’re attributing too much foresight to Mr. D.P.A. McManus. The “Arabs” in “Oliver’s Army” are not the lumpen Muslims you talk about. The vast majority of that group have always been Subcontinental, the “blacks” or “Pakis” of the unlovely … Continue reading →
Elvis Costello: England’s Nostradamus
This is almost exactly ‘Puter’s beloved2001 Nissan Pathfinder, which really hasvery little to do with the point of this post. ‘Puter’s not a car guy. It’s not that ‘Puter doesn’t like cars, it’s just that he’s not the type that … Continue reading →
What does Dr. J. want?
What do you want, readers? Dr. J. was having lunch the other day with Mr. Morden. He asked, so Dr. J. answered: Dr. J. wants a Superman movie with someone other than Lex Luthor or General Zod as the villain … Continue reading →
The IRS Scandal and Apple’s Taxes Augur Liberalism’s Doom
What do the IRS scandal and the Senate’s hearing on Apple’s tax avoidance have in common? Both events lay bare modern American liberalism’s Achilles’ heel. Just like Prohibition, Liberalism dependson Americans’ willingness to voluntarilycomply with laws requiring Americansto do something … Continue reading →
Czar’s Mail Bag Now Emptier
It’s action-packed half-a-load of kung fu adventure today as we dig down deep in the mailbag, brush aside the shrunken heads that teenager in Olympia keeps sending us (people curry favor in different ways, one presumes) and respond to a … Continue reading →
Change you can believe in!
Dr. J. saw this over at IMAO. They poached it from the original source, Hope n’ Change Cartoons.* Don’t have too many Harvey Wallbangers at the Leaping Peacock… By the way, Dr. J. learned how to do transplant-grade nephrectomies back … Continue reading →
Speech Pattern
The other day, at a commencement speech, michelle Obama stated: And then there’s this guy Barack Obama. … I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but he lost his first race for Congress, and now he … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Dying to Reply
Ewoks, it’s what’s for dinner… Operative BAMF writes: Dr J. While I agree that it is right to wish for the conversion and redemption of Dr. Gosnell I also feel that the death penalty is the best way to accomplish … Continue reading →
Quinn the Idiot
For all the sanctimony that Democrats fly on their recently multi-colored flag, they sure are into theatrics just as much as Republicans. Maybe more so, particularly in matters of good taste. In Illinois, beleagured—and that puts it mildly—governor Pat Quinn … Continue reading →
A Telling Tale
GorT has been busy time-traveling and gathering information…well, ok, really, I’ve been swamped with work and family stuff. So, I thought I’d take a few minutes on a quiet, misty Sunday morning to reflect on the current issues facing the … Continue reading →
Two Ways Tea Party Can Use the IRS Scandal
If the Czar were a Tea Party—and trust us, he would show up with Irish whiskey and call it tea—he would be pretty eager to get up in the morning right about now. This IRS scandal is an untapped gold … Continue reading →
Ethics, or The Lack Thereof
ScottO, distinguished comptroller of time and space, nudges the Czar at the Castle lobby lounge bar and asks: O Dread Czar, I started reading Island Dweller’s missive regarding the subject at hand, and came across the acronym SES. Now, never … Continue reading →
Government Ethics
Using an AN/PRC-77 dipped in ink, no less a personage than LTC Dan writes in on the subject of ethics: Granted, I am now a mere contractor. But after 27 years of military service, I have yet to see (a) … Continue reading →
Czar’s Mom and an Angry Takedown
The Czar’s mother hates to visit the dacha because we make her stay in the guest room (хижины где свинья спит когда он болен, as we call it), so Sunday we went to her place. The Czar has a cousin … Continue reading →
Pride Goeth Before the Fall; Ethics a Bit Sooner
The Island Dweller—who cunningly adopts that name because he dwells on an island—writes the Czar to object: O most magnificent Satrap of the Steppes: Fish don’t realize they swim; they think they can fly. I have retired fairly recently after … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s Scandalicious Roundup: Now With More Schadenfreude!
Yeah, it’s been a bad week for egotistical,hubristic dipsticks everywhere. And it’sabout darned time. ‘Puter’s been off the grid for the past few days, mostly because his work computer got infected with malware.* ‘Puter also learned that his office servers … Continue reading →
The Case for Life for Gosnell
Dr. J. is headed into the wilderness with the Lil Resident and her Jedi Academy classmates. Yeah, we’re going up Spook Hill… While he’s away, please read this Washington Post editorial in which Ashley McGuire of The Catholic Association makes … Continue reading →
Obama in a Nutshell
As you repeatedly hear, the President is sick and tired of people politicizing everything to make him look bad. On the Fast and Furious Scandal: The Department of Justice orders gun dealers in the Southwest to sell weapons to obviously … Continue reading →
A Prescription for Dog Ownership
When Dr. J. was on the road last week, the latest AHA guidelines were published to great media fanfare. Indeed you, Gentle Reader, probably saw something in the news. Dr. J. decided to review the guidelines and share his reflections on … Continue reading →
Why the AP Story Matters
The Czar is taking the latest scandal—or it was the latest at the time of writing; they’ll probably find some new one by the time you read this—involving the Department of Justice and their apparently inappropriate seizing of the Associated … Continue reading →
Headlines from Earth 2 – 2005 Edition
President Starr was equally fetching with his goatee. Gentle Readers, Dr. J. took GorT’s time machine for a spin, and not only went back in time, but shifted a lane or two over to the left to a mirror universe … Continue reading →
Aw Nuts!
Waiting so much for this one. 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 … Continue reading →
Jay Carney’s Version of Events
At last we now know what happened on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi. Press secretary Jay Carney explained it like this, if we put his statements in chronological order. A demonstration gathered outside the embassy, that quickly became a terror … Continue reading →
NRA Tips For Contacting Your Elected Officials
Are you willing to stand by while you hope thatothers are doing something to protect yourrights and freedoms? Your Mandarin is a proud member of the National Rifle Association and appreciates all of the hard work that they do on … Continue reading →
A Gormogon Mother’s Day
An ode to all the Gormogon moms—living, deceased, or otherwise—all over time and space. You know who you are. M is for the Myriad and Manifold ways you taught us world domination.O is for the Onichophagy you beat out of … Continue reading →
Review: The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome
Today, it’s nothing less than a book review: The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure, by Kevin D. Williamson, landed in the Czar’s mailbox a couple … Continue reading →
How’s Your Hindsight? 20/20?
So the Obama Administration campaigned on and self-proclaimed the following (still posted on WhiteHouse.gov): My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system … Continue reading →
A Different Desert Tragedy
In April 1980, President Carter had reached a point he could no longer tolerate—52 Americans were still being held hostage in Tehran, Iran. He ordered a rescue mission. Contrary to popular right-wing culture, Carter did not do this as an … Continue reading →
Skepticism? Or Old-Fashioned Confirmation Bias?
Michael Shermer usually does pretty good analysis, but one of his lesser-effort essays is being circulated around the Facebook these days: *#147;The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea.” Dr. J. forwarded the Czar this essay, … Continue reading →
The Big Lie about Big Skool
Dr. J’s econocrush™ Veronique deRugy posted this Cato Institute chart on the Corner yesterday: Just a friendly reminder in these tight times when your politicians and school board members come along, hat-in-hand asking for more money for teh childrunz that … Continue reading →
Cutting Off Noses
Be thankful the right-wing media is pushing this story out, because God know the rest of the media are hiding this story. An interesting analysis by Pew Research correlated two critical pieces of data: gun homicide rates are down by … Continue reading →
Reagan – Tactical Genius
Also sprach Czar-a-thustra: In the end, the President will be tarnished but not damaged—like Reagan in the Iran-Contra affair (although the level of Obama’s probable involvement and complicity was quite different than Reagan’s). Quite true. Despite the kind but feebleminded … Continue reading →
The Difference, At This Point, Benghazi Makes
The following quote is pretty much the consensus of anybody who knows anything about the Benghazi scandal: We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Obama administration, and the cause is Benghazi. One cannot underestimate the severity of … Continue reading →
All the President’s Messes
Look at poll numbers for pretty much conceivable policy position of the President, and the approval numbers are embarrassing. No one likes his foreign policy, Obamacare, employment outlook, immigration stance, position on gun control, or a couple dozen other things. … Continue reading →
The Czar Reviews Iron Man Three
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? … Continue reading →
Ric Bradshaw: Call Your Office
Dread and Awful Czar, It would seem the illustrious sheriff of Palm Beach (FL) County, one Ric Bradshaw, has stolen a page from the playbook of the Okhrana and seems to want to institute what at first blush (and many … Continue reading →
Mailbag – Aesop Edition
Little Red 1 writes in regarding Dr. J.’s rant against his seniors in the academy: Oh wise Dr. J, Greetings from the frozen steppe! Might I add a small thought to your excellent essay on baby-boomers and academia? Several of … Continue reading →
Gosnell: Abortion Has No Defense
Over at Commentary, the great Jonathan Tobin suspects that an acquitted Kermit Gosnell will be a serious blow to women’s health: If Gosnell’s attorneys manage to convince a jury not to convict him, you can forget about any expectations that … Continue reading →
Mail from @ScottO: Do Airplanes Scare Cubs Fans?
ScottO, whom you would recognize immediately as the awesome and intrepid @gscottoliver on Twitter if you were one of the 800 few followers of us on Twitter, strolled over to our table at the Leaping Peacock, carefully stepping over the … Continue reading →
Hunter vs. Odierno
The following video clip is making the rounds in a few circles, particularly the federal IT contracting world which overlaps heavily with the inside-the-beltway world. GorT is very familiar with both. Let’s put aside the issue that the General and … Continue reading →
Frightening
Have you noticed how much the Presidency has changed Barack Obama? Sure, you see those before and after pictures of Lincoln and Roosevelt, and so on, but the last five years have been pretty rough on the President physically: Obama … Continue reading →
Memo to NYT Editors: Pregnancy Is Not “Punish[ment],” You Craptastic Ass-Monkeys
MoDo, the PoMo Ho and NYTemployee, when reached for comment, told ‘Puter the NYT’seditors must have balls this big to expect its readers to believe that women are so dumb they don’t knowhow babies get inside them. ‘Puter’s hopping mad, having … Continue reading →
NYT: Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure. Quick! Blame Republicans!
Maybe if the NYT made up a fake hate crimeto smear Republicans, they’d finally fall intoline. After all, it worked out so well for liberalfeminist blogger Meg Lanker-Simmons. Pityher poor husband, pictured, whose eyes seemto beg for death’s sweet release. … Continue reading →
Move the Cubs? Why, That’s A Great Idea!
The Czar has always had a less-than-scientific interest in the Chicago Cubs, and has watched their ups and downs over the decades. You know, there was a time when the Cubs were basically the Yankees—you just knew they would make … Continue reading →
Jay Carney now has a Lego Minifig
A long distance dedication to The Czar. You may recall Dr. J.’s nickname for press secreatary Jay Carney. Well, the Mouth of Sauron™ is now a LEGO mini figure. Callou Callay, oh Frabjous Day! Dr. J.
Continue reading →Up the Academy: An Academic’s Response to The Czar
The Ivory Tower’s a nice place to visit, come by, have a spot of tea. Dr. J. loved The Czar’s thoughtful analysis of Big Skool. He is right in that the tides are slowly turning as the Baby Boomers who … Continue reading →
Get Over Yourself: A Thoughtful ‘Puter Response To Czar (Now, With Added RGIII!)
The Media walks home, tornpanties and damaged dignity in hand from the Left’s dorm roomafter a late night booty call. ‘Puter noted Czar included “‘Puter” as a label on his not-totally-lame post immediately below. ‘Puter guesses that his fellow Gormogons now … Continue reading →
Get Over Yourselves
Have you heard that NBA player Jason Collins is gay? Of course, you have. Did you hear that non-Obama administration figures have indeed solved the Benghazi murders of four Americans and know exactly who did it and where they can … Continue reading →