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Hell, yes. If you’ve ever known or lived around someone with serious, psychotic mental illness, it’s awfully hard to argue with this. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Looks like they want to expand out into the Pacific. I wonder what Minister Hamada and the rest of the Japanese government thought of that… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Read the whole thing. Money quote: Sooner or later, however, Barack Obama will also have to make hard decisions about regimes that oppose U.S. policy for reasons deeper than dislike of George W. Bush. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions … Continue reading →
The Gormogons extend a welcome to their newest follower, Felicia Herman, librarian for hire with terrific taste in movies, music, and books. Welcome aboard, Ms. H. You’ll likely hear from the Czar regarding his proposal to shift the Internet from … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →So, President Obama went on YouTube and delivered a message to the leadership of Iran of how he wanted to get together and rap about all the false consciousness that’s harshing our bilateral mellow. Which, of course, led to Iran’s … Continue reading →
Confucius* says, click to enlarge: *For those who came in late, Confucius (孔夫子) is the given name of the Gormogons’ Œcumenical Volgi. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →That the Pyongyang-Damascus-Tehran nuclear axis went undetected and unacknowledged for so long is an intelligence failure of the highest magnitude. It represents a plain unwillingness to allow hard truths to overcome well-entrenched policy views disguised as intelligence findings. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
Here’s the Gormogons’ bracket in toto going into the second round. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The following search terms, apparently. We hope everyone finds what he’s looking for, but we worry about many, many of you. how to make a muumuufat muumuupoland hates obama”round heels””rubbing together””steaming mug”airline whoresb vitamins what is a healthy dosebaby don’t … Continue reading →
And he throws high, nasty heat at the President for…stem cells? Boy, I wouldn’t have predicted either of those. Now let’s look at the things morality has known. The Ten Commandments are holding up pretty well. I suppose the “graven … Continue reading →
It’s just about that painful to watch. No, not our Celebrity-in-Chief’s talk-show yukfest on Leno, but this dreadful piece of PR/public diplomacy performed by the president. Friend of the Gormogons Steve Hayes has the story here. Among other things, Obama … Continue reading →
Two serious upsets in the first round. Check it out, sports fans. Click to embiggen. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Czar’s use of the spurious (though super-witty) Galilean epigram eppur si muove (which actually dates from the 1750s) reminds me to quote Friend of the Gormogons Jonah Goldberg on the Galileo Myth. Robert Nisbet in (probably my favorite book) … Continue reading →
Welcome aboard the S.S. Gormogon, Eric Reasons. He’s a subject, he’s a predicate, he’s a sentence! And an IT guy. So GorT has at least one reader who can get all his propeller-head network-centric nerdery. Woo! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask … Continue reading →
Welcome, David Ferguson! Thanks for signing up, and we hope you enjoy the ride! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Gormogons would like to thank our esteemed colleague Ennuipundit for passing along this amazing story, in which President Obama, amidst a potentially once-a-century economic crisis, with Russia rearming, China staging provocations in the South China Sea, Iran reading nuclear-tipped … Continue reading →
Who knew? Confucius* says: Thanks, guys, for naming that Tianyulongosaurus after me. Conspiracy update: Note that Gormogons have successfully infiltrated Chinese palæontology. Watch what happens next with Russian geologists… *For those who came in late: Confucius (孔夫子) is the given … Continue reading →
I know he and all the other late-night comics have been having the darnedest time finding good material on President Obama, because President Obama is so perfect. He never commits gaffes, and even if he did, he’d never suppress the … Continue reading →
Perhaps that’s an infelicitous metaphor given the ersatz currency of severed human hands that developed in the “Congo Free State” under the nightmarish, dystopian rule of its owner, the Belgian king, Leopold II, but it’s what these scholars seem to … Continue reading →
So says an apparently sane scholar. It’s possible—history is a very tricky enterprise, and the further you go back, the less you have to go on. Of course, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me ever since Ghettoputer proved that the … Continue reading →
So South Park kicked off its new season with a (middling) episode whose point was very well taken: the inappropriate sexualization of young girls. This isn’t the first time that they’ve made the point. But the poison is spreading, as … Continue reading →
Well, maybe this explains the whole “stimulus package.” Ye gods and little fishes. Watch the whole thing. Ok, actually, this is a lot more germane. And almost as head-batteringly stupid. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept … Continue reading →
Subtext: Wisconsin, Home of Acrobatic Lame Typographers. N.B.: Cartwheeling figure is 57 lbs. less than average inhabitant of the Dairyland. The inimitable Louise Brooks Via Warming Glow Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Curious, these items, then: After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them … Continue reading →
So suggests Reuben Johnson, a very knowledgeable observer. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →I’m madder than a leprechaun with a crooked shillelagh about St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Day is the stupidest holiday of the year, because the Irish are the craziest people on earth, next to the Paleostynians and those nutcase A-rabs. … Continue reading →
To add to GorT’s point, it should be remembered that Iran has long considered Afghanistan within its sphere of influence and continues to make trouble there. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Hoot’aal bibeehaz’áanii danilinigii. Which is just by the by. Your Volgi has a long-standing interest in American Indian affairs and commends this op-ed in today‘s WSJ, which advocates increased property rights and the extension of state laws on to Indian … Continue reading →
Just a quick reply to XWL at Immodest Proposals: No, you’re not a Gormogon, but feel free to imply you might be, especially if the questioner is a Freemason. We wrong-foot them at every turn! That said, your enthusiasm for … Continue reading →
As always with Steele, a profoundly thoughtful essay. And here is conservatism’s great problem with minorities. In an era when even failed moral activism is redemptive — and thus a source of moral authority and power — conservatism stands flat-footed … Continue reading →
If you like words in the slightest, go immediately to Iowahawk’s brilliant piece, “Orbitron Apocalypto: *Or, How I Became a Death-Cheating Toad in Mexico and Broke the Ancient Aztec Alien Curse Put on My Family by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s … Continue reading →
A quick addendum to the Czar’s post on the scandalously undercovered Mexican strife: it can’t be emphasized enough that the question of American weapons’ importantion into Mexico is problematic at best, and the administration’s use of it smells a lot … Continue reading →
…the revised edition of The Great Terror (buy it now) comes to mind, but I’m not arrogant enough to believe I have anything like Conquest’s authority to say it. But let’s just say that this piece on Iran’s gloating about … Continue reading →
Like a samurai strapping on his katana after long exile in a village, James Lileks has whetted his fisking knife and left Amitai Etizoni in more pieces than Saucy Jack left Mary Kelly. Unlike the Whitechapel horror, this, however, is … Continue reading →
B16 not only mends fences but builds bridges* with the rabbinate. Rabbis after pope meeting: Crisis over “The Jewish people, who were chosen as the elected people, communicate to the whole human family knowledge of and fidelity to the one, … Continue reading →
B16 does a great job in clearing the air of l’affaire Lefebvre (and especially the Richard Williams, Fuckwad, Esq., sub-problem). An unforeseen mishap for me was the fact that the Williamson case came on top of the remission of the … Continue reading →
Anyone follow the North Korean negotiating fiasco? The North Koreans, like the guy swinging a chair in the cafeteria on his first day in jail, do some crazy shit, and we say, “Hey, hey, hey, easy, easy. Let’s negotiate! Here’s … Continue reading →
NOW! DAMMIT! The supposed problem of “nuclear waste” is entirely the result of a the decision in 1976 by President Gerald Ford to suspend reprocessing, which President Jimmy Carter made permanent in 1977. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
In the aspen covered Rockies there’s a legend often toldOf a tenured native shaman with a cougar, grey and goldHe had two fists of fury and a Master of Arts DegreeFrom accredited Sangamon State University CHORUSHe was a Colorado kung … Continue reading →
The ŒV and Czar have spent many a year in the company of high-powered MBAs, and commend to you this brutal takedown by one of their own. I might make a few comments in defense of what I always called … Continue reading →
I was going to write something about the Chinese naval provocations, but my comrades have covered it all pretty well. If you hit the China or foreign-policy tag, you should find more than a few post about China’s destabilizing, hegemonic … Continue reading →
Let’s look at something important. Like the story conference between Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan, for Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was transcribed and is now available online. If you’re not a film-writing geek like myself, you might not … Continue reading →
Ennuipundit clearly gets us. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Volgi (who opposes embryonic stem-cell research for the Czar’s practical reasons—having read about teeth and hair showing up in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain in an ESC experiment—as well as the usual retrograde moral ones) also should note that Bush … Continue reading →
Says the Telegraph—jaw-droppingly. Read every paragraph: Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest. British officials, … Continue reading →
Clearly we need a Daylight Stimulus Time, says Mark Steyn. And, indeed, the Gormogons can report exclusively: “What I don’t think people should do is suddenly stuff photons in their mattresses and pull back completely from sunlight,” President Obama told … Continue reading →
Since we’re doing some Catholic inside baseball*, I keep meaning to mention that the new (and to my mind improved) translation of the New Order of Mass (the Novus Ordo) in English is moving forward. (Why a new translation? Short … Continue reading →
Ennuipundit, welcome aboard the S.S. Gormogon! We can’t tell you where we’re going, or where we’ve been, but we’re happy to have you with us! Cast off, Mr. ’Puter! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. … Continue reading →
GorT— Mark Steyn reminds us that movies are a particularly thoughtful gift for someone who can‘t see very well. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius says: Can’t anybody play this game? So, you’ll remember the gift-giving fiascos of late. Guess what. It gets worse. At right is a picture of the “reset” button we gave the Russians in honor of Joe Biden’s immortal epigram. … Continue reading →
Take out a help-wanted ad, for God’s sake. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Welcome to our blogroll, Ennuipundit! (Great Watchmen post, incidentally.) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Commonwealth bows to the Thirteenth Imam. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Jesus, I forgot that the other Gormogons are such freakin’ squishes on soccer.* At least we can all agree on the super-awesomeness that is the gun, right? RIGHT?! This is kinda cute: And there’s decent piece here on the Attorney … Continue reading →
The government of Kyrgyzstan is waffling on kicking us out of Manas AFB. I suspect means we’re doing a good job at saying, “Hey, look, you remember, oh, say, 1862–1991 when the Russians ran things around here? You sure you … Continue reading →
Which is contained in this Roger Kimball column. It also contains this great quote from the late David Stove, a Australian philosopher who was always interesting. [Either a feeling of universal benevolence or an uncompromising moralism] on its own is … Continue reading →
…echoes the Volgi. Flattering for the Volgi, bad for America. “…The markets’ recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial … Continue reading →
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, … Continue reading →
Because of his magnificent, “How Soccer is Ruining America: A Jeremiad.” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Great piece in the WSJ today. One doubts he’s seen the Volgi’s latest screed against Putin and our feckless Russian diplomacy, so it’s gratifying to see him making some of the same points. He goes further, however, in presenting evidence … Continue reading →
Offended by the Volgi’s comments about the low standards of discourse in much of the Muslim world? My bad: Another installment in my “why not let these people have a nuclear weapon, what can possibly go wrong” series. “The Zionists … Continue reading →
I love, love, love this story. Hmm…. but does he really think it means “Samurai” or “Dragon soul”? The story is a bit inconsistent. Or does he really know his tattoo 外人 really means “foreigner” and is he just yanking … Continue reading →
…have a new magazine! Obviously, it’s not just for blacks or conservatives, but Freedom’s Journal is conservatism approached from a distinctly black viewpoint. Very slick—in the good sense—attractive, smart, and well-written. Check it out. May it prosper and last! Update: … Continue reading →
Stephen Schwartz, who’s written for years (not inaccurately) about the tolerant, cosmopolitan Islam of the Balkans may have to insert “historically” before “tolerant,” as he provides evidence that in both Bosnia (subscriber-only for now) and Kosovo, the forces of radical … Continue reading →
With his unique brand of Republican analysis! During our Bermuda summit many gambits were proposed to win back America’s elite electoral precincts from the left; sponsoring various hip hop colloquia at the better Ivies, supporting integration of gays into Nascar, … Continue reading →
So, your Volgi is on record as saying that the Obamas’ sending their kids to Sidwell while opposing school choice is pardonable hypocrisy. I’m starting to rethink. Because apparently the one government program that needs to be cut in the … Continue reading →
I’m shocked that Ghettoputer, in his pointing to a story about a D.C. bus driver’s sucker-punching McGruff the Crime Dog (or, more accurately, the cop in the costume. Tough for you, Busman.), didn’t impress upon the world his long-held theory … Continue reading →
…for the loss of his hero in this one. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…for this remake. Finally, a chance for him to break out the old red jumpsuit… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Gormogons want to thank the lovely and talented Emily Grace of Kick-Boxing Rhinos for linking to us, and we’re returning the favor. Welcome to the blogroll, Emily! Stop by, hit the “follow” button. We need more cute girls around … Continue reading →
So I remember G.H.W. Bush being pilloried for zipping around in a cigarette boat during Desert Storm, and G.W. said he gave up playing golf as it’d look bad during wartime. Now, I understand that only Republicans behave like callous, … Continue reading →
Your Volgi is having trouble rousing himself to write about the Obama Administration‘s apparent, asinine gambit of writing to the Russian government and offering to remove the missile-defense systems we’ve worked so hard to get installed in Poland and the … Continue reading →
Glad they finally fixed this to restore the original soundtrack. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Paul Harvey was a radio great who lived long enough to entertain generations, most of the later of whom tended to cock eyebrows at his old-fashioned style, smoothly segueing through news, hokey stories, and ad copy. He was a titan … Continue reading →
Is he named Peter Ngyuen? Could be. Because this is clearly the background on Walt Whitman that informed his famous analysis of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.” AP English? Hell, yeah! Caption: Walt does not approve. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
Memo to America’s Irresponsible Tea Party Whiners: STFU But through all of it, some of us persevered. We made the hard economic choices. We fought off eviction by keeping Linda Mustaine juiced up with mai tais at Applebee’s happy hour. … Continue reading →
So everyone (on the right, at least) keeps noting that Obama’s “stimulus” package is nothing like an actual stimulus package and won’t help the economy. It’s just the an enormous spending and social-engineering package, the agglomeration of Democrat wish-lists of … Continue reading →
…you should suffer along with me. P.S. Welcome, Czar. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →And have, for inscrutable reasons of their own, likely relating to plans for world domination, granted the Czar of Muscovy full posting privileges. Drop him an e-mail (instructions at left) to welcome him. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Your Œcumenical Volgi runs hot and cold on Ralph Peters, who is often brilliant, and often seems a tad off his rocker. Here, however, he’s in fine form on Afghanistan. Your Volgi shares his skepticism that Afghanistan, never much of … Continue reading →
That‘s what FotG David Frum’s site NewMajority.com is about assembling, and this is the best piece of practical analysis in that direction I’ve seen there. This guy argues you have to start with this fact: That’s right: according to the … Continue reading →
And Ghettoputer on unions. Unions spur unemployment, and “there is no question” about it. “High union wages that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job losses in the unionized sector of the economy.” That is the unvarnished … Continue reading →
Because he’s clearly fallen afoul of an Ironic Faust Clause. You always gotta keep an eye out for those. At least that’s what Profs. Goethe & Marlowe taught. Ghettoputer’s head nearly exploded when the Senator He Voted For started bashing … Continue reading →
…in response to Ghettoputer’s commentary on Mr. Turo, the 700-pound man accused of dealing prescription drugs out of his house, that he’s familiar with Mr. Turo’s attorney in the case, a Mr. B. Fortuna, Esq. (at right in their court … Continue reading →
GorT’s imaginary father, Thomas Sowell,* is imagining some nightmare scenarios for the American-Iranian clash we’re staggering involuntarily towards. And when I say nightmares, I mean my literal waking nightmare of our natal Washington vanishing in a shockwave and fireball. It … Continue reading →
Great piece by Confucius’s former colleague, Reuben Johnson, on some crazy, crazy goings-on on Aeroflot. What makes it brilliant is Reuben’s tying Aeroflot’s cavalier disregard for international regulations with the Russian government’s general conduct. In a larger sense this episode … Continue reading →
Much to Mrs. ’Puter’s relief. It seems that the porn industry’s tidal wave of cash first cresting with the advent of the VCR has finally started ebbing. So we likely won’t see ’Puter’s Vividland or the Penthouse Hotel & Casino … Continue reading →
The WaPo editorial page is on fire with foreign-policy goodness today. (I’m giving Ghettoputer’s sister credit.) First, Professor Baktybek Abdrisaev, former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan, writes that U.S. policy towards Kyrgyzstan became reduced to simply maintaining our airbase at Manas. He … Continue reading →
Max Schulz, who goes way, way back with the Gormogons, has a terrific op-ed on the chimera of alternative energy in the Journal this morning about alternative energies. Read the whole thing, but if clicking through is just too damn … Continue reading →
Rock solid. Also, my Civic is a ’91. Otherwise, I take the Fifth. 本田技研工業株式会社!万歳!万歳!万歳! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →[Continuing his homage au Puter the Czar drops another screed on a topic near and dear to the Ghetto P’s heart. Energy. The Puter knows a lot about energy, actually, and now we’ll all wait with bated breath to see … Continue reading →
…goofiness for some Washingtonian goodness. Oh. My. Lord. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…worrying about whether insufficient F-22 and naval buys are going to inadvertently lead to war with China, it’s stuff like this that’s genuinely terrifying on an individual level. Because what people don’t understand about the “free” medicine they think they’re … Continue reading →
So at the Dorje Drak Lamaist monastery this week, a monk meditates in serene peace when he becomes aware of another monk approaching him from the wind-swept hillside. They nod, and the newcomer says “Didja hear about A-Rod?” “Dude,” says … Continue reading →
Boston College, “a school in the Jesuit tradition,” cleaves to…the Cross? (Great first line.) Clearly the Lord approves. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Or huntin’ or mani-pedi-facialin’ or whatever it is he does. To keep up the posting volume, the Czar of Muscovy has kindly stepped in with some contributions. I’ll be posting them, but if the title begins THE CZAR:, it’s by … Continue reading →
Slate.com, which is to journalism what the G4 cable network is to responsible babysitting, has a typically snarky overview of the recent Federal court decision which pimpslaps the claim that vaccines cause autism spectrum disorders. Slate adds a little analysis … Continue reading →
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