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GorT & Mrs. GorT went out to dinner and a movie with friends last night. It was a spur of the moment kind of thing and our friends chose the restaurant and movie. The meal was really good – we … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Yuan As World’s Reserve Currency?
Awesome question from Island Dweller, and one the Czar expects will generate a little bit of mail and, better still, commentary from other brooders within the Castle: Most illustrious majesty, Thanks to the Democrats, the yuan has gone up in … Continue reading →
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!
Dr. J. would like to wish a congratulations to his Philadelphia Eagles for winning the NFC East outright against the hated Dallas Cowboys, and knocking them out of playoff contention in one fell swoop. Come by the Castle for a … Continue reading →
#Krugfail
There is a quote attributed to Bill Gates (although research shows that it isn’t quite accurate) wherein he supposedly stated that 640k of computer memory would be enough. It has become a line that is used to mock Bill Gates … Continue reading →
Dispatches from Indiana
The Czar finds himself in the Crossroads State today, but no matter—your mail finds him wherever. The Retired Spook wants to add one more thing to his observations on the 2008 election: Your Czarosity; As I recall, the NYT endorsed … Continue reading →
Glad We’re Focusing on the Economy
GorT sometimes attends protests Maybe liberals and democrats are focusing on “living wage” arguments so the following doesn’t get much press: A recent CNN poll shows almost 70% of the country believes the economy is generally in poor shape and … Continue reading →
What Is It About Wal-Mart? Well, Actually…
Regarding minimum wage, our own GorT mentions: The argument from one side is with that amount of profit why can’t Walmart (and ostensibly other companies like it, but apparently Walmart is the target of the season) pay its employees more … Continue reading →
Retired Spook Mail
Retired Spook, our favoritest Master Sergeant, writes in on a couple of topics. First, he urges caution on the impending overturn of the Senate: Remember, this is the party that took the NYT-endorsed candidate into the 2008 election. They have … Continue reading →
Holiday Discussions
Well as much as President Obama and #PajamaBoy wanted us to talk about Health Care over the holidays, GorT and his friends and family didn’t touch the subject (aside from the brief jokes about how bad the rollout is going … Continue reading →
Mailbaggage
Christmas stockings were filled with mail here, and the Czar put his unstockinged feet up on the Ottoman to relax rather than respond. Before Mark Spahn, of West Seneca, New York, writes to disabuse the Czar on his capitalization of … Continue reading →
Malpractice
Click to make bigger. 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 →
More Bad News for Democrats
CNN conducted what appears to be the 7,346th straight poll that spells real problem for the Democrats. In this their latest, even CNN is conceding that it’s a rough time to be a Democrat. Worse, CNN—who at worst shills for … Continue reading →
Keeping Them Rolling
Click to make larger. 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 →
Naturally Enough
Click to make bigger, or perish. 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 →
#pajamaboy Takes On Gun Control
Solution for PajamaBoy Ad Disaster? Call Millennials Stupid
Big-time ad exec (and Obama supporter, evidently) Jeff Goodby—whose work you know well—is not a fan of the Pajama Boy ad campaign which you see being spoofed here as well as everywhere else. No, it isn’t because the ad parodies … Continue reading →
Keeping This Going
Click to make bigger. As if you need to make an eight-foot-tall robot bigger. 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, … Continue reading →
Go for the Bronze! OR Actuarial Scroogery
Sexy Actuary is going to be the hot Halloween Costume in 2014. Girls with glasses, meow! Well, Ed Henry, F. Chuck Todd, Major Lt. Col. Garrett and the rest of the White House press corps (not corpses) can stop asking … Continue reading →
Driving Volgi to Drink
What Else Keeps Us Awake
The Царица has odd tastes in television relative to the Czar. Although we cheerfully watch the same firearm shows, often together, she will—when the Czar is out of the room for any length of time—put on something incredibly stupid. Particularly … Continue reading →
After the Drinking at the Castle
Click to embiggen… GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including … Continue reading →
Get Drinking
Click to enlarge, of course. 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 →
Mailbag – Billy the #pajamaboy and Frankie the English Challenged Edition
Quit doodling in the margins and get the translation right! Gentle Readers, Dr. J. got a bunch of mail in the last couple of days. The first was from our friend Mark Spahn. It wasn’t directly to Dr. J. but … Continue reading →
The Mail Was Light Yesterday
What fun! Let’s open up the Czar’s mailbox to see what you all have to say. First up, we have Mark Spahn, of West Seneca, New York, with some questions on our lightbulb guide. Thank you, your Czarosity, for [your … Continue reading →
No Mellow Was Harshed
A certain retired Master Sergeant wants us to consider how bad things might be. Your Immenseness; At the risk of wearing out my welcome here, I’d like to point out something that my grandfather frequently reminded me to consider; A. … Continue reading →
The Czar Explains Light Bulbs
After a few years of grousing about a portion—only a portion—of President Obama’s daily mistakes, we cannot overlook that President Bush had a doozy as well. You know what this is about: the incandescent lightbulb ban. The problem about the … Continue reading →
Meet Billy…
Meet Billy.* Billy is the poster boy for Organizing for Action latest fuck-up-the-holidays-with-political-conversation-that-is-not-welcome-at-the-dinner-table. This risible ad campaign is encouraging its email list to talk up the great success that is Obamacare and the Healthcare.gov website. Has the president signed up, … Continue reading →
Guest Commentary: Dr. Benjamin Carson
This landed smack dab in the middle of Dr. J.’s Facebook feed this morning from none other than Dr. Benjamin Carson: It is going to be increasingly difficult to attract outstanding students to pursuing careers in the medical field. This … Continue reading →
All Your Data Are Belong to Us
GorT has been pretty busy of late with a few big deadlines and projects at work culminating in traveling to Texas for his company’s Christmas Party. He ate well there and had a great time with his co-workers in the … Continue reading →
Scott Walker, We’ll Hardly Know Ye
The Czar thinks Scott Walker, among others, would in particular make a fine president. Too bad, really, because reality doesnt give a hoot about what the Czar thinks, nor what ought to be even were we incorrect. Indeed, realty kind … Continue reading →
Popalicious P.S.
Doc, Confucius* has it on good authority that Pope Francis is not and has never been an adherent of Liberation Theology, on which basis he was roundly detested by almost all of his fellow South American Jesuits. That said, Confucius … Continue reading →
Mailbox – Popalicious Edition
Gentle Readers, The Holy Father, Pope Francis continues to make headlines, what with the Time Man of the Year award and all. LTC Dan (@LTCDanR) writes: Dear Dr. J., Thoughts? Comments?, LTC Dan Dear LTC Dan, Thank you for writing … Continue reading →
Narcissist… And Ignorant
President Obama, if there is any doubt even among his most ardent supporters, is a classic narcissist. So much so, an introductory college textbook could use him as its example. The extreme neuroses, the need for constant reassurance, the ability … Continue reading →
A Quartet of Letters
The Czar, as usual, picked up a lot of interesting mail over the weekend. Mark Spahn, he of West Seneca, New York, submitted a clever idea about using text-to-speech applications as an inexpensive and highly effective way to proofread materials … Continue reading →
The All Father Knows When You Are Sleeping…
Eric Brown, came up with this nifty compare and contrast between Odin and Santa. The evidence does not have the same weight as the Amazon as front for the North Pole conspiracy, but it is compelling, nonetheless. The Lil Medstudent … Continue reading →
Sequester Thoughts
We haven’t commented too much on the effective ending of sequestration, but as always, the public seems to misunderstand what really was happening. Too many conservatives are coming out and gnashing their teeth about this. Yes, the sequestration was powerful … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s Best College Prank!
College in the age of the 13th Imam, PBUH! Gentle Reader, The Czar, our self-styled merry prankster has gotten each of us more than once. The cherry in ‘Puter’s Manhattan, hilarious stuff! Dr. J., as an act of revenge, pranked … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
‘Puter more closely resembles Barney Rubble, except ‘Puter’s bald. It’s your Volgi that’s more Flintstone-esque, except bearded. ‘Puter’s jonesing for the five o’clock whistle so he can slide down the dinosaur’s tail and into his eco-friendly foot-powered car, a la … Continue reading →
The Czar Bows To A Master
The Czar, as you might have guessed, is a long-time practical joker, and as you would figured from that, has pulled some massive stunts in his day. But nothing is as awe-inspiring as the guy standing to the right over … Continue reading →
Sour milk from the teat of government
The bad news is that Obamacare negatively affects you, our gentle reader. The good news is that Julia is equally bad off. Remember Julia? We lampooned her here a while back. Someone from the Independent Women’s Voice organization came up … Continue reading →
Estimating a Podesta Munity Destiny
The snow is finally falling here in Muscovy, and the holidays must be fast approaching because all the car commericals on television are written by and for 5-year-olds. Seriously: whoever it was at Honda who greenlit the use of Michael … Continue reading →
ZOMG! SNOWZ!!!!!
It snowed in New Atlantis last night. Here, the house elves in J. Abbey take a break from scullery duty to enjoy the view of last nights snowfall. Lady J. can be seen gamboling about the courtyard, hunting for game foul. … Continue reading →
Fomenting Wrath
Island Dweller says a bunch of things here, but seems to touch on the need for term limits: Most dread and awful majesty – Last night, while giving Lobot Ami a rubdown to prepare him for his next flight back … Continue reading →
In Which ‘Puter Gives The Boys The Whole 8.266 Meters
Jeez, ‘Puter actually spends some time working and the guys nearly tear the Castle down fighting about the metric system. Really? The metric system? Had you already exhausted the “Who’s the better musician: Justin Bieber or Katy Perry” debate? Hand … Continue reading →
Religious Freedom: A Reminder
As with Loki, the smile only takes the Lil Medstudent so far at school and nowhere with the family. Dr. J.’s busy with being on the consultation service in the hospital this week and last, and dealing with the Lil … Continue reading →
The Wages of Spin
Operative MR has been working on a secret project for us, the nature of which shall not be revealed, named Project Shoot Down ISON. She takes time out from her busy schedule to write in. Please note especially her first … Continue reading →
Czarish Errata
The lovely and talented Mark Spahn—wait, hold on. We have never seen him. He could be horrifying in appearance. Perhaps. So the monstrous and talented Mark Spahn of West Seneca, New York, sends some thoughts our way on the metric … Continue reading →
Castle Throwdown
Every once in a while a topic comes up that places your Gormogons on differing sides of Castle. However, GorT feels he needs to clear the air regarding the metric system. This post originally was longer but after the Czar … Continue reading →
Last word from me on metric.
Czar, Your point about my argument as (inelegantly) stated is correct, but I was trying to get at the handiness of the units of relative and different size (inch, foot, yard), as opposed to the reduction to numbers of relatively … Continue reading →
Another 2.65cm of Commentary
Well, we Gormogons love infighting. Watching the playful shoving match between Dr. J., GorT, and Volgi over the metric system is a strong reminder to you readers that we Castle men do not march in lockstep. Each of the Czar’s … Continue reading →
All About Unions and Minimum Wage
A Primer on Union Types There are basically three different types of labor unions. There are trade unions, who are the oldest, consisting of your electricians, masons, plumbers, carpenters, and so on. These men and women serve a serious function, … Continue reading →
Pre-human DNA found 400,000 years ago?
Who else is a suitable companion for The ‘Malcolm Tucker’ Doctor! Sounds like ‘Puter was joyriding in GorT’s time machine again. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Forced metricization? Politely, bite me, GorT.
GorT, perhaps spurred on by some weird base-10 bug in his base- processor or a virus picked up passing through the Carter Administration, has made some claim for the superiority of the metric system based on its alleged non-arbitrariness. Because of … Continue reading →
Detroit’s Pensioners Screwed Themselves (And So Are All Other Public Pensioners)
Public sector union members thoughtfully and politely discuss the possible reduction of their pension benefits with the taxpayers footing the outsized and ever-growing bill. Detroit’s public sector unions are squealing like stuck Irish pigs about their pensions being treated as just another unsecured … Continue reading →
America’s Pasttime in 27.432 Meter Increments
GorT’s recent post elicited some interesting responses. First BG writes in regarding flopping and various sports: So basketball and football are better than soccer because the NBA and the NFL are taking steps to deal with the curse of “flopping,” … Continue reading →
Four-Way
Look, everybody knows the Mandarin is the most popular writer here because he can distill total rage in about three short paragraphs, accompanied by either a funny graphic or some utterly bizarre YouTube video never more than a couple minutes … Continue reading →
The Whole 10 Yards
No, the metric system doesn’t go to 11. While GorT will grant Dr. J the evil that is (was) Esperanto, GorT will take a bit of umbrage with his poke at soccer and the metric system. GorT is an engineer … Continue reading →
The Square Wheels Are Falling Off Liberalism’s “Free Crap For Everyone” Bus: Detroit Pension Edition
To liberals, utilizing the political process to thwart public sector union excesses is exactly the same as the wholesale slaughter of millions of innocents. Also, U R HITLER, DAMNED RETHUGLIKKANS! There is nothing more pleasing to ‘Puter than watching courts and legislatures … Continue reading →
Trouble in Workers’ Paradise
Democrat candidates eligible for re-election are carefully stripping any mention of Obamacare from their websites and campaign literature; unfortunately, some Democrats not running for re-election keep trumpeting the disastrous program, and this is already turning the tide. In one ultra-Democratic … Continue reading →
We Warned ISON Not To Come Here…You Heard Us
Funny, huh, how astronomers are all giddy to the gills about comet ISON, named after famed Russian comet hunter Professor Исондровсков, which was promised as the Comet of the Century! Get ready, armchair astronomers, because this bad boy will light … Continue reading →
The Czar Rants A Bit About A Bad Idea
JAB, who deep fries even the turkey stuffing, writes in on Thanksgiving: Your Czarness: With Organizing for America sending out talking points for how to promote Obamacare at the family Thanksgiving table, I propose a competition: For every OFA point-spouting … Continue reading →
The Iron Bowl Finish – WOW!
Dr. J. lives with an Alabama fan (the Lil Medstudent) and an Auburn fan (the Lil Resident). Dr. J. and Mrs. Dr. J. tend to root for the nearest SEC team to New Atlantis, or our host’s team, just to … Continue reading →