This is what many of you come across as on Twitter. Smart choice, because people are totally way more convinced at the merits of your argument when you’re yelling at and belittling them. ‘Puter got in a bit of a … Continue reading →
Operative BJ would like to reply to Operative SMR, which the Czar—because he is a benevolent homicidal maniac Czar—encourages. Getting email from any one of you is rewarding enough, but when the readership starts exchanging ideas, well, then this site … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Operative SMR. We remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either as an email or as a complete essay. Most Dread and Awful Czar, With regard to your … Continue reading →
Operative BJ brings the heat, taking the Czar’s late-night rant on Rights versus Privileges to an even simpler level of clarity: Great and glorious Czar, I plead forgiveness before asking: Does not the Constitution define the powers of the Federal … Continue reading →
Surely by now you have been treated to the unassailable wisdom of Jesse A. Myerson, Super Genius. Mr. Myerson shared his keen economic insights with Americans on the pages of that renowned financial publication, Rolling Stonein an article titled simply … Continue reading →
With the freakishly cold weather that killed everyone on Earth this week, a lot of local news stations are asking some questions. Thousands of air passengers found their flights delayed, cancelled, or rerouted. What are your rights as an airline … Continue reading →
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 →
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 welfare state rewards self-centered freeloaders like Margo Smith, and ObamaCare will only exacerbate America’s free rider problem. Meet Margo Smith. Ms. Smith is a sixty-five year old grandmother. Ms. Smith is also a lazy, greedy, unrepentant self-entitled freeloader. “Gee, ‘Puter, … Continue reading →
Don’ters line up at the front door of America’s very last Doer, looking for all that free crap Uncle Sugar and President Obama promised them. Don’ters are about to be extremely disappointed. Liberal politicians who’ve preyed on Don’ters fantasies for generations … Continue reading →
If anyone’s got a herpetic monkey wang, it’s the drummer for Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution. Good luck with getting your “little problem” treated under ObamaCare, Mr. Drummer! Eugene Robinson, an ever-reliable Obama sycophant, parrots the White House’s ObamaCare talking points in … Continue reading →
Mika has a sad because income inequality. Unfortunately,Mika doesn’t understand that despite her willful ignoranceof basic economic truths, pretending economic truths do notexist does not, in fact, cause those truths to cease existing. ‘Puter’s been watching Morning Joe again, which is … Continue reading →
Maybe if Detroit made cars as awesomeas ‘Puter’s 1972 Dodge Dart Swingeragain, they’d have remained solvent. ‘Puter just got around to reading the New York Times Sunday edition, including Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz’ piece on Detroit’s bankruptcy. Mr. Stiglitz … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Your Gormogons have, since its inception, pilloried against the healthcare timebomb affectionately known as Obamacare. Dr. J. refuses to call it by its Orwellian title, the Affordable Care Act because it is neither affordable, nor caring for the … Continue reading →
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)learned all she needed to know abouteconomic theory selling tax-free boozeand cigarettes on The Rez.Sen. Warren also claims to have watchedaghast as Gen. Whitside slaughtered herpeople at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s your … Continue reading →
‘Puter, the Ecumenical Volgi and GorTechie founded The Gormogons on a whim five years ago, July 24, 2008. We three have been friends since our high school days, and neither time nor distance has diminished our love (fraternal love, Czar, so … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes in: Your most noble immenseness: For some strange reason, given all the really important news that’s breaking lately (TMv.Z, IRS excesses, etc) at least one network has run a story on the “hookup” culture prevalent mostly among … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Failure to recognize the awesomeness of theMillennials results from your lack of perception,not from the fact that this entire generation ofself-entitled, know-nothing jerks sucks out loud. ‘Puter’s been known to heap hate all over Millennials. Sometimes, late at night, amidst … Continue reading →
Liberals count on us not to notice the atfirst small restrictions of our liberties. Once we’re securely bound, that’s whenthey’ll come for our core freedoms. Also,Czar has a Mickey Mouse BDSM fetish. ‘Puter’s been reading his favorite left of center … Continue reading →
‘Puter said this every day for fouryears of Jesuit high school to GorT and OEV. That is, when ‘Puter wasn’tfighting off giant purple spiders, whichis another story entirely. In the immortal words of Eric Cartman, “I. Am. So. Pissed. Off. … Continue reading →
‘Puter keeps a mental list of things that piss him off, and periodically shares them with his close friends. By close friends, ‘Puter means “anyone standing within earshot when he encounters something that pisses him off.” Here are a few … Continue reading →
This guy and his coworkers, standing inneverending underground rivers of your shit,have saved more lives than Dr. Jonas Salk. ‘Puter’s been observing others’ behavior recently. Generally, ‘Puter concluded that many people are jerks. More specifically, ‘Puter concluded that … Continue reading →
If everybody’s super, no one is. ‘Puter frequently rails against the American education system, for what it has done and what it has failed to do. ‘Puter frequently blames teachers’ unions, teachers and administrators for the system’s problems. Certainly, each … Continue reading →
It is wrong to gloat over the misfortune of another’s tragedies, but to be clear, the Czar can do anything he wants. And he is sated that Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts. And we have some controversial … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been working 70-80 hour weeks of late, living the glamorous life of Obama-proclaimed rich, drafting and reviewing contracts concerning asset acquisition, corporate entity creation, ownership structures and cost sharing/recovery schemes. ‘Puter’s sexy and he knows it. And you’re envious … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman deigns to share his Nobel laureate economic wisdom with us intellectual peons in today’s New York Times. And thank goodness Mr. Krugman shared his truthiness with ‘Puter, because ‘Puter never would’ve been able to figure out the correct answer on … Continue reading →
In today’s Washington Post, we learn that the Vatican has openly reprimanded the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a group that claims as members approximately 80% of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns. The Vatican bluntly stated its investigation “found serious … Continue reading →
Dear Czar, I just happened to think of an analogy that explains why Catholics object to indirectly paying for sterilization, contraception, et al. If someone orders another person to do a crime, they are equally at fault, even though they’re … Continue reading →
Nothing like a Monday-morning-working-on-a-federal-holiday-E.J. Dionne-written-in-feces-on-the-loony-bin-wall submission to set ‘Puter’s blood to boiling. In today’s voyage (courtesy of the Washington Post) into the strange mind of Mr. Dionne, we learn that conservatives are hypocrites because they cannot cut government or rein … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s still fired up about the Obama Administration’s ill-considered decision to cram down its version of morality on the Catholic Church, 2,000 years of carefully considered theological consistency and 224 of American Constitutional law be damned. If anything, ‘Puter’s more … Continue reading →
And ‘Puter chooses freedom. Generations of immigrants have done so, abandoning their old lives, setting off for America’s blessed shores, believing that America’s foundational ideals would enable them, and if not them then certainly their children, to build better lives. … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s back at the keyboard after a well-deserved hiatus with friends and family. In his Christmastide meanderings south of the Mason-Dixon Line, ‘Puter managed to link up with GorT and OEV, as well as with their assembled multitude of spouses … Continue reading →
Welcome to another Gormogon-a-riffic installment of You Make The Call. According to Wikipedia, which, when dealing with know-nothing OWS chuckle-heads is an acceptable reference source, the filthy hippies illegally encamped in Zuccotti Park in Middle Ages squalor seem to hold … Continue reading →
“There is a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day,” The Carousel of Progress, Walt Disney World. About 22 years ago, (to the month, in fact), Dr. J. awoke in a cold sweat at about 3 … Continue reading →
FJR is the author of this guest post. I’m disheartened that several of my friends have posted the quote from Elizabeth Warren and commented with “my hero” and “best quote ever”. I’m stunned at the way “wealthy” people have been … Continue reading →
Focus on E.J. Dionne’s column today. Mr. Dionne writes concerning Obama’s Magic Technicolor Domestic Automaker Bailout and Secured Bondholder Screw-a-thon. There’s just so very many things wrong with this column, ‘Puter’s having a hard time picking a place to start. … Continue reading →
This steaming pile of horseshit quote from Elizabeth Warren has been making the rounds among ‘Puter’s liberal friends. The crappy link to MoveOn won’t allow a cut and paste, so ‘Puter will type it for you here: There is nobody … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s just about had it with so-called educators. ‘Puter has watched as nearly everything that worked in public education has been jettisoned for fads. No fad, in ‘Puter’s humble opinion, has had a larger negative impact on public education than … Continue reading →
Specifically, the intellectually impoverished, such as the elites holding forth from their perch on the New York Times’ editorial staff. Our noble and wise betters today put forth this nugget of wisdom, in the form of an editorial. You see, … Continue reading →
‘Puter read this New York Times editorial regarding the Minnesota state government shut down and finally lost his ever-loving mind. ‘Puter will quote liberally and at length. Like Republicans in Washington, they have the delusion that they can balance the … Continue reading →
Speaking for the “Catholicism = Whatever My Personal Beliefs Are At Any Given Time” wing of the faith, E.J. Dionne pens another Washington Post op-ed. Regular readers of your Gormogons know ‘Puter’s opinion of Mr. Dionne regarding matters of Catholic … Continue reading →
It’s a dreary, drizzly, 45 degree Monday. His back hurts, and his dreams were haunted all night by the image of Mrs. ‘Puter stepping out on him. Needless to say, ‘Puter’s in a foul mood, with a full-blown case of … Continue reading →
Here’s ‘Puter’s update to this post, as promised. ‘Puter had intended to merely post an update to his earlier post, but in re-reading the letter, ‘Puter decided it required a post of its own. The letter’s author is Mr. Bill … Continue reading →
*** WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. SERIOUSLY. *** In this week’s issue of Time* (Mrs. ‘Puter subscribes. Don’t get ‘Puter started.), there’s a letter from a pro-union reader commenting on Time’s article on the Wisconsin public union showdown. The letter contains the … Continue reading →
Public sector unions generally, and the Wisconsin teachers’ union specifically, have lost the first battle in the emerging war over taxpayer funded salaries and benefits. Despite the unions’ misplaced yet fervent belief, the public was not swayed to their side … Continue reading →
With apologies to President Lincoln, ‘Puter thinks his Gettysburg Address could use a bit of updating: … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the children, by the children, for the … Continue reading →
Via Instapundit, ‘Puter came across this article on the imminent student loan crisis, coming soon to a theater near you. Essentially, students have mortgaged their futures and will be unable to meet (or, inconveniently for them, discharge in bankruptcy) their … Continue reading →
Two Washington Post bloggers write today about the disillusionment of Generation X. You really ought to read the entire thing. It’s enlightening. In the interest of full disclosure, and before commencing the following tirade, each of Your Gormogons is a … Continue reading →
The next time someone dares to claim in your presence that teachers are woefully underpaid and underappreciated, bust out this little nugget and tell them to STFU and crawl back under their patchouli scented serape with the joint burns in … Continue reading →
CNN Headline: “Where Vaccine Doubt Persists“ As a karate expert, ‘Puter knows that this, if a question at all, is rhetorical. ‘Puter, however, has ready answers (short and long form). Short answer: In the mind of morons. Longer answer: In … Continue reading →
‘Puter was confronted with three stark examples of how liberal Democrats are unable to even contemplate that their legislation may have unexpected deleterious consequences. Exhibit 1, Dodd-Frank Financial Reform. A Democrat controlled Congress unites to pass sweeping financial services regulation. … Continue reading →
Our President, Commander in Chief and Supreme Exalted Master of the Obvious had his first press conference since May today. Ever-reliable Obama apologist Reuters headlines its puff piece on the presser thus: “Obama Says Koran Burning Can Badly Damage U.S. … Continue reading →
This is how it is, folks. – Congress and the President are spending us into oblivion, which they will only cure either by taxing us to extremes or letting inflation run amok. – The size of government has swelled to … Continue reading →
Sweet baby Jesus in the manger, what is wrong with men these days? It’s as if we have collectively decided to chuck away any remaining shred of our dignity. First, metrosexuality chipped away at our hairy manliness, with its manscaping … Continue reading →
Everyone loves free stuff. Who wouldn’t? After all, it’s free! At least that’s the belief of ‘Puter’s eleven year old whelp ‘Puter, Jr. This belief also seems to be prevalent among Democrats and others with an eleven year old’s world … Continue reading →
We get letters, especially regarding this rant about modern journalism.Great piece on journalism…I think you could also have mentioned the professionalization of news reporting as a significant contributing factor to its decline. Being a reporter used to be decidedly non-elite … Continue reading →
Your Czar is not one to whine, Andy Rooney-like, about the inconveniences of modern living, but the Czar has just paid some bills, and since the Gormogons have seen fit to reward him with blog-like powers, the Czar shall use … Continue reading →
‘Puter intended to write about this editorial in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, but noting all the hullaballoo on the interwebs about the issue, decided not to do so. Thinking about it last night, though, ‘Puter got good and riled … Continue reading →
