Conservative twitter great, future senator from the great state of South Carolina, and Friend of the Gormogons Bruce Carroll, aka @GayPatriot posted this on his twitter feed: Just when you thought it was safe to go the doctor… #ObamaCareNado: http://t.co/uxEY5HIdYQ— … Continue reading →
Dr. J. would like to thank the readers for indulging him a runner-up. What started out as a parenthetical evolved into a post. Such is the joy that is blogging. Dr. J.’s favorite post also happened to resonate with a … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. was torn between two posts as to which he was going to pick as his ‘Best of’ post. His true ‘Best-of’ article will go up later today. The runner up was his review of the 2012 … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes a nice letter about the Zimmerman trial on the back of a prescription for Clomipramine. Your omniscience: Esteemed Associate and I were discussing the Martin case last evening. I encapsulate our conversation for you. One has to … Continue reading →
Kevin Cronin and REO Speedwagon secretlyadvance the grand plot of the omnipotent WhiteMale Patriarchy to keep Blacks down throughjudicious application of late 1970s rock music. In the immortal words of REO Speedwagon, ‘Puter’s had “enough of the falseness of a … Continue reading →
Hard to believe it finally happened, but the Czar is elated that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is resigning to go into academia. Ironically, she should have been there the entire time, if for no other reason than her threat assessment … Continue reading →
The Huckleberry’s Huckleberry LTC Dan writes: Dear Dr. J., I don’t remember this from the movie TOMBSTONE… Love ya, mean it! LTC Dan We love you too man! Thank you, again, for your service to our country. We thought about … Continue reading →
Our Huckleberry, look upon his works and despair! Gentle Readers, July 24th marks the fifth anniversary of your Gormogons blog site. As you know we’ve been working behind the scenes in our worldwide conspiracy since long before that storied day … Continue reading →
‘Puter hates public sector unions, particularly teachers unions. Teachers unions steal from their members, protect unqualified and predatory teachers and support work rules that have ruined public education. So long as teachers unions keep their ill-advised, asinine policy positions in … Continue reading →
Well, the governor’s race in Illinois just got interesting yesterday, for those of you who wonder why anyone would bother to live here. The interest arises from a glimpse into the Chicago Political Machine. Illinois is a nutty state politically, … Continue reading →
GorT has been lax about posting recently – mostly due to being really busy at work, partially due to enjoying summer with friends & family, and somewhat due to not having much in the world that has really grabbed his … Continue reading →
Yeah, the greatest straight-to-cable cinematic experience since Children of Dune, and you think we weren’t going to comment on it? Dr. J.’s simply been very busy… Any movie where the shark jumps the original shark jumper himself, Robbie ‘Cousin Oliver‘ … Continue reading →
“When you call Jhoon Rhee self-defense,then you too can say … Nobody bothers me!NOBODY BOTHERS ME! Call USA-1000! Jhoon Rhee means might for right!”Our DC readers of a certain age will understand this reference. ‘Puter’s had about enough of liberal … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes in to clarify an earlier point he made: I was referring to the great Detroit riot of 1967, in which 43 people were shot dead, a few by the DPD; the rest of the shooters were fellow … Continue reading →
At least Blacks, Whites, liberals and conservatives can agree that Narragansett Lager is crap. ‘Puter was in scenic Worcester, Massachusetts this weekend attending a reunion for alumni of the college student-run theater and the college choir. As one might imagine, … Continue reading →
Typical mainstream media representative Cenk Uygur stepped in a pile of his own feces yesterday when he tweeted, evidently in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman—who evidently will not be truly not guilty until 2016—the following: Ok, I give … Continue reading →
Arts & Letters Daily links to a Chronicle of Higher Education article called, “When Hollywood Held Hands With Hitler,” hyping a new book claiming Hollywood studios somehow “collaborated” with the Nazi régime in the 1930s to stay in the market. The … Continue reading →
Think you have a bad day from time to time? Imagine the morons at KTVU Channel 2 in San Francisco/Oakland, who read on the air the names of the Asiana airline pilots: allow the Czar to quote, “Sum Ting Wong,” … Continue reading →
As you likely have heard, Illinois became the 50th state to join reality and legalize concealed carry. To be fair, implementation of this law will take a little while yet, but already people are watching to see what happens in … Continue reading →
The great ScottO writes: O Most Powerful and Wise Dr. J., I read your review of the Yelp Dr. J.
Continue reading →Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone! The school cafeteria has been the stuff of derision since time immemorial. When Dr. J. was a yout’ he learned pretty early after a hearty breakfast of oatmeal, orange juice and tea; that a Fluffernutter™, … Continue reading →
A Pew poll was released that surveyed Americans’ attitudes toward various professions. Journalists in particular are not particularly well liked by Americans. Since 2009, attitudes about journalists have dropped in every polling category: men, women, younger, older, education level, and … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. was made hip to this a few weeks ago by one of his hip single urban dwelling (HSUD) classmates from Ivy U. Apparently Yelp*, a website and app used to find stores, restaurants, bars, and to … Continue reading →
Anytime Rep. Roskam (R-IL) wants to send in a guest post, GorT will be happy to share it. Consider this clip from the representative (courtesy of NRO’s Corner) and one could think of it as a brilliant audition tape: mocking, … Continue reading →
‘Puter and Czar frequently rail against government backed student loans, bitching loudly and lengthily at all who will listen. Czar posted about the issue three days ago, and ‘Puter presciently posted on student loans nearly three years ago, on December … Continue reading →
All this and more can be yours for only $19.95! Your imperial majesty: My own царица has fled the aquatic hinterlands and is currently esconsced with the girls in the Big Easy. This leave me with more time on my … Continue reading →
Private universities sued their tax exempt status? WTF? When Dr. J. saw this article last week, it made his eyes pop out of his head, much like those of Aria Stark actress Maisie Williams’s after she watched the Red Wedding … Continue reading →
‘Puter participates in “Toss a Mental Dwarfinto the Manticore Enclosure” Night downat the Leaping Peacock. Pictured, ‘Puter preparing to huck E.J. Dionne. Off camera,Czar wiping the schmaltz off his hands aftersimilarly treating Katrina vanden Heuvel. With apologies to a handful … Continue reading →
Guess what else you are paying for? The feds have decided that despite raging unemployment, a collapsing foreign policy that has weakened America around the world, a new healthcare law about to tank the economy, and a failure of its … Continue reading →
6:00 Uh-Oh, Billy! Sitcom “Hilarr-ity” continues as Bill and Al try to sneak a girl out of the house while Hillary is home; Hillary, thinking Bill forgot their anniversary, is in no mood for explanations. So how did the girl … Continue reading →
The Czar intends to annoy a hell of a lot of people with this post, but conservatives need to stop sucking at the teat of fantasy about a third party. Unless, of course, they want to suck at the teat … Continue reading →
Imagine how things could work if the free market were to handle student loans. Sorry, Drew. The best interest rate you’re getting will be 18.7 percent. Maybe majoring in Klingon Literature at Case Western was a bad idea. Also, bringing … Continue reading →
Insert images of sad puppies in the sweltering heat of teh globul warmyngzes! The Czar and GorT have called a spade a spade with regard to the willful ignorance of liberals when it comes to science. Dr. J. had to … Continue reading →
Nitwittery comes in pints? As you know, when our leaders are trying to show their solidarity with Joe Sixpack, they’re photographed with a beer in their hand. Hillary’s done it. Bill Clinton’s certainly done it (but Dr. J. posits that … Continue reading →
The average temperature on Earth may be changing up or down. We honestly don’t know. Some folks say it is going up a degree, and therefore floods and famine may occur. That’s actually possible. Other folks say it is going … Continue reading →
GorT has been busy over the last few weeks with some family stuff and has been remiss in posting about a number of topics. Thankfully, his fellow Gormogons are on point and tackled many of the issues that were on … Continue reading →
Your Gormogons wish you a happy and safe fourth of July! Defending the Constitution one foreign or domestic enemy at a time…. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Probably the most surprising news on ObamaCare in years happened yesterday with very little fanfare: the White House has realized and tacitly admitted the whole thing is a freaking travesty. In the unlikely event you missed it—despite its near-total absence … Continue reading →
Island Dweller has his usual pair of related observations: Your majesty, Only a “consummate politician” could do this, after all those quaint little strolls on the beach…ID FoxNews home page6-29-13Associated Press Republicans accused New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie of getting … Continue reading →
These are either the ugliest lesbians ‘Puter’sever seen or Czar and Dat Ho are trollingfor sailors during Fleet Week again. Bettermake sure Czar hasn’t drunk his bail fund. ‘Puter received this missive from Island Dweller (by way of Czar who … Continue reading →
As you know, Illinois is the last state to prohibit concealed carrying of firearms in public and, thanks to a series of court decisions, is being forced to allow concealed carry. The Illinois legislature was given a limited time to … Continue reading →
The friendly staff here at Gormogons.com (which you really should visit) would like to correct some items from previous posts. In a recent post dealing with liberalism, we indicated that Mr. Tuck Pointer, 42, of Deer Lick Falls was a … Continue reading →
Uh,huh. So this White House Down movie is not doing very well. It opened in fourth place behind two repeat films (it brought in only half as much as Monsters University, now in its second week) and well behind a … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s been out sick with a GI bug on and off since last Wednesday. He’s playing catch up at work today, so rather than write something insightful he will rely on teh interwebz to cover for him. Besides you’ve … Continue reading →
The Czar and the Mandarin went off shooting on Friday, and put rather a lot of rounds down different types of weapons. However, the Czar noted that he has never, somehow, done a review of a rifle. Not sure how … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin put one of these on ‘Puter’s desk this morning.We haven’t seen ‘Puter all day. This thing has him totally preoccupied. Courtesy Uncle Jay. The MandarinThe Mandarin, whose real name is 吏恆, joined the order in 1309, and introduced … Continue reading →
In the wake of the news, you have been hearing the phrase “identity politics” a lot. Due to the overreach of the present political scene, many folks are being forced to get involved in politics for the first time; it … Continue reading →
MLP – Nerdy or Geeky? At the beginning of the month, GorT in true GorTastic style wrote a terrific post on geeks and nerds using the six of us as foils to make his point. Indeed he pretty much had … Continue reading →
Contemplative Dog sadly contemplatesthe state of modern debate and rhetoric,particularly on gay marriage. Shortly aftersitting for this photo, Contemplative Dogassuaged her melancholy, returning to licking herself, Bill the Cat style. To say ‘Puter’s conflicted on gay rights generally and gay … Continue reading →
Could the Czar be any happier than to have not one but two highly respected epistolarians offer sweet prose on different topics, each of which deserves a response. First, in order of arrival, is Borepatch, who delights us with a … Continue reading →
‘Your love is better than ice cream…’ Sarah McLachlan President Obama spake* today regarding the SCOTUS with the MOSTUS: On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, … Continue reading →
Faithful minion @Blacknsam reminded ‘Puter that he has not yet provided his thoughts on today’s rulings. ‘Puter retorted that he had in fact done a write up of the last week’s goings on at the United States Supreme Court, to … Continue reading →
By spice, Dr. J. means energy. Dr. J. has said in the past that cheap and plentiful energy is the heart of a robust economy. It is the engine that drives everything else. Similarly, the economy struggles when energy becomes … Continue reading →
A popular video is shooting around the Internet in which Natalie Foster—a woman, evidently—is advocating two things: that women need to get into shooting because it’s fun, and that male shooters need to be supportive of women when shooting. The … Continue reading →
Earlier this morning in his post on Fisher v. University of Texas, ‘Puter closed by stating “Justice Ginsburg is a laughingstock and no longer should be permitted to take part in Court decisions.” ‘Puter promised to provide an explanation for … Continue reading →
Yeah, pretty much everything stops when LTC(R) Dan writes in. The Gormogons, as you well know, enjoy considerable military acquaintanceship, but we probably all give pause when LTC Dan writes in because, as you know, he is as smart as … Continue reading →
‘Puter finally found some time to read the Supreme Court’s Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin decision. In its decision, a nearly unanimous court stated the lower appellate court (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) failed … Continue reading →
A few years ago, Clan J. was shopping at the New Atlantis Mall, and as we’re walking in the direction of the Godiva store, a couple of older teens, one of whom was blond walked out of the store. The … Continue reading →
There was, back in the early days of the Tea Party, a movement afoot to make incoming Congressional freshman take a half-day seminar on the Constitution. This is probably a very good idea, given how many idiotic comments members of … Continue reading →
Dr. J. received this inter-castle memo over the weekend from Confucius ( 孔夫子), the Œcumenical Volgi (The Notorious ŒV): To: GorT, Ghettoputer, The Czar of Muscovy, The Inscrutable Mandarin, Dr. J. From :孔夫子, the Œcumenical Volgi (The Notorious ŒV) Re: … Continue reading →
Mrs. GorT and I attended a 3D showing of the new Superman movie, Man of Steel last night. It was chosen largely because its timing coincided with the One Direction concert that one of our daughters attended with a friend. … Continue reading →
For a while there, maybe as long as three weeks ago, some people were compiling lists of Obama-era scandals just to keep track of them. Indeed, it seemed every week another insulting or embarrassing leak was happening that showed what … Continue reading →
You can go back in time, but DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING…wait, maybe not touching anything will change the future…I HATE TEMPORAL MECHANICS! The Grandfather Paradox is the idea that if you had a time machine, (like GorT) and you went back … Continue reading →
‘Puter read with jaw fully dropped this account at The Fiscal Times of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on government’s security clearance process. Succinctly, the government has no standard process for granting security clearances, leaving it to the arbitrary … Continue reading →
The Czar has finished reading Glenn Beck’s latest book Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns and wanted to beat the Mandarin (a) to a book review and (b) with a hockey stick. We shall tackle (a) here today. The book … Continue reading →
When We Saw the Dude Nailed to the Plus Sign on the Wall in Math Class…We Knew The Teacher Meant Business! GorT beat Dr. J. to the punch regarding President Obama’s poor choice of words in Northern Ireland, but Dr. … Continue reading →
Obama is in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit and in front of over 2,000 young people many of whom are Catholic, he made the following statement: If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have … Continue reading →
All right, it has come down to this so the Czar pretty much is going to come out and say it: Barack Obama is not fooling anyone anymore. Set aside the polls showing his support collapsing (except in the African-hyphen-American … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers: One could misconstrue The Czar’s posting of the magnificent Operative BG’s transmission as him running his own version of PRISM on your other Gormogons, but the reality is that BG’s communication, like many receive is an open letter … Continue reading →
On the subject of “America the Beautiful,” and whether it would make a good national anthem, Borepatch himself writes in to remind you: Agree 100%. Ray Charles used to do a beautiful rendition of this, and would often open the … Continue reading →
Special secret ghost operative, helpfully named Ghost, writes in from the Mandarin’s Proving Grounds Road Tour: Dread Lord, I was driving through Dallas the other day, and this ad kept replaying on XM radio about a new channel that is … Continue reading →
Long, long-time Operative BG sends this in by home-made satellite transceiver: I keep hearing radio this commercial extolling how tough comprehensive immigration reform will be, telling me I should support it because Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan support it. Big … Continue reading →
A trio from Island Dweller, who now posts here more frequently than our own Confucius,* now concludes: Your immenseness: It would seem we have our lower-level supervisor who, according to the media, was directly responsible for providing guidance to anti-tea … Continue reading →
And another from Island Dweller worth your time: Your most imperial highness, “Politico,” June 13 2013, reports members of both houses of Congress and their staffers are beginning to leave Capitol Hill en masse as their govt-subsidized health plans will … Continue reading →
Island Dweller could pretty well give the Czar a week off with his submissions! Here is one of three: Your illustrious majesty: A recent string-telephone conversation with Esteemed Associate, still in the bowels of the Federal beast, prompted me to … Continue reading →
The Czar has been remiss, and has much mail to go through. Through which to go? Yeah, probably the latter. Anyhow, erc wrote in a while back: Your Czarness: Your post of June 8th reminded me of the old joke: … Continue reading →
The Czar once cut off the entire left side of a guy’s body, but he’s all right now. There are some things the Czar is good at that most folks might not have expected. These include: —Dishwashing. The Czar enjoys … Continue reading →
Happy Fathers Day to all of our readers who are fathers or who have fathers! Let’s take a look around Castle Gormogon to see what the Fathers Day Fairy brought your Gormogon Overlords, Fathers to All, muah ha ha ha … Continue reading →
The Czar’s first job was, well, Czar. The Czar has been around almost 750 years and in that time has learned many languages, worked on many skills, seen considerable amounts of history, and read many books. But there are some … Continue reading →
GorT figured that with all the swirl regarding PRISM, Mr. Snowden, and the other recent leaks about various aspects of the country’s intelligence collection programs, that I’d weigh in on a few things: 1. The initial reports of Snowden being … Continue reading →
Today, as you know, is Flag Day. Although the Czar was born several centuries ago in the steppes of Russia, he was quick to follow the progress of the American Revolution. We came to this country in 1776 and have … Continue reading →
A scene from last year’s birthday celebration. Your own birthday was probably something similar. Today is the Czar’s birthday. He expects nor requires any well wishes from you types, as he is well aware how difficult it is to find … Continue reading →
By now, you all know about little Sally, our sad little dog who is scared of many things. Sally, just the cutest little Shetland Sheepdog We are big proponents of animal rescue. Not just because it saves the lives of … Continue reading →
“Boy, as a really, really observant RomanCatholic, am I looking forward to meetingJesus. He’ll be so proud of me, increasingthe rights of His womyn creatures to indiscriminately slaughter their young.” ‘Puter’s governor, the ever-delightful Andrew Cuomo, has come up with … Continue reading →
Today, we get to know the Царевич, our 8-year-old who celebrated his birthday two days ago. The Czar and the Boy catch up with the Okhrana’s latest and woefully inept gossip. These are the stoops who told us Romney would … Continue reading →
Today we will spend a little time with the Czar’s 10-year-old. Serf’s up! Here we are waiting for the borzois to come out while our neighbors watch. As the elder of the two boys, he receives the special title Цесаревич. … Continue reading →
Cole Porter, who understoodwitch hunts, would not be amusedby our president’s disregard of Americans’ right to be secure fromunwarranted government invasionof our personal lives. ‘Puter loves him some American standards, like Night and Day, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, which … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. stumbled across this over at the Geeks are Sexy blogsite. For those of our readers who have been following the Higgs Boson story (for which not a lot has been going on since the recent ‘discovery’ … Continue reading →
Today, the Czar will tell you all about his beloved Царица, who is better than a queen. A царица is like an empress, but is a much better shot. Here she is, and she is wonderful. The Царица teaches little … Continue reading →
Welcome back. The Czar has, we hope, convinced you that he is a nice enough and ordinary guy like yourself. Or girl. No, the Czar is not a nice and ordinary girl. This introduction is a total failure. All right: … Continue reading →
Novel data presentation has always been something Dr. J. has been fond of. Similarly, regional dialect differences is also a subject of casual study for Dr. J. He largely has his 7th grade linguistics teacher to blame for this, but … Continue reading →
It gets exhausting trying to list the many ways liberals, Democrats, and progressives annoy the Czar and make life difficult for normal folks. The Czar thought he would perhaps take a break from exposing stupid people and spend some time … Continue reading →
Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day when the Allied forces started the push to re-take Europe from the Nazis. It is an event that is worth learning more about to understand the drive, coordination, and perseverance of those involved … Continue reading →
Only Trebek knows the secrets ‘Puterholds deep within his, tiny, shriveled,black heart. And within ‘Puter’sno-no hole, but that’s another story. Wow. ‘Puter gets buried under an avalanche of work for a few days and comes back to find some truly … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s post the other day offering up Colin Salmon as the 12th Doctor caught the eye of a few of readers. It even made GorT and the Czar quip. The first came in a series of tweets from a … Continue reading →
Several friends pointed me at this excellent article that differentiates the terms “nerd” and “geek”, as I circulated it among various nerds and geeks, I got this picture in response: Let me first pull a few salient points from the … Continue reading →
The news that the Obama administration seized millions of ordinary Americans’ phone records for some undisclosed reason has everybody stumped. We thought we would each do a reaction to the story and then select the best one to post. We … Continue reading →
Many of you will remember back in 1999 when the Y2K bug was all the rage. Suddenly, all these retired COBOL programmers were brought back as high-paid consultants to turn -00 into 1900. Reportedly, some programmers made more in 1999 … Continue reading →
Two missives from Island Dweller worth sharing: Most exalted one,It seems the IRS agents who sang so freely about methods employed to harass and stymie conservative tax-exempt organizations in their application or renewal process have declined to identify those high-ranking … Continue reading →
