aberratchik (noun): an aberrant apparatchik
apparatchic (noun): stylish and fashionable Communist Party official uniforms
Update: I knew I had seen a commercial with a Soviet style show it it, and here it is:
Now that’s apparatchic!
]]>Go to Bethel and sin… Amos 4:4
Huh. Shouldn’t that be Vegas instead?
]]>“I don’t care how long he takes to make his decision, as long as it’s a wise decision.”
Sorry, you’re wrong. But thanks for playing!
The wisest possible decision, made too late, is a disastrous decision.
]]>]]>It all boils down to the fact that Polanski is famous and talented and an Olympian artist, living above the world of mortals. Indeed, if he didn’t rape that girl — and he did — Polanski would still be considered a pig in most normal communities. This is the man who, after all, started dating Nastassja Kinski when she was only 15 and he was in his 40s. His taste for teenage girls is an established fact.
His defenders don’t care. They are above and beyond bourgeois notions of morality, even legality.
And that’s the main reason I am grateful for this controversy. It is a dye marker, “lighting up” a whole archipelago of morally wretched people. With their time, their money, and their craft, these very people routinely lecture America about what is right and wrong. It’s good to know that at the most fundamental level, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
aberratchik (noun): an aberrant apparatchik
apparatchic (noun): stylish and fashionable Communist Party official uniforms
Update: I knew I had seen a commercial with a Soviet style show it it, and here it is:
Now that’s apparatchic!
]]>Increased competition is not increased competition.
Maybe it’s not newspeak; maybe it’s surrealism.
Out of curiosity, I went to Apple website to see if I could get one of them purdy iPhones, and what it would cost me. But after plugging in my address information, I was confronted with this message:
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It says “AT&T does not yet offer wireless service in the area you specified. Please try again using a different address where you will use your phone.”
That is stupid. I live and work at the address I plugged in. “Please try again with a different address?” Am I supposed to enter somebody else’s address?
Does anybody actually read these error messages before they plug them into their system?
]]>So I dug out something I wrote in response to the last stupid chain letter I received, dusted it off a bit, and I offer it here for your edification:
THIS LETTER HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU FOR GOOD LUCK. MINE. The original has been sent to recycling. It has now been around the office once or twice. The luck has now been sent to you. You will receive luck within four days of receiving this letter, provided you do something. Or don’t do something. It doesn’t matter.
This is no joke. You will receive good luck via carrier pigeon. Send no cash (money orders, cashier’s checks and traveler’s checks acceptable), send copies to people you think are as gullible as you are. Send money as fate has no price, but I do. Do not keep this letter; it must leave your hands within 96 hours or before Haley's Comet returns, whichever comes later.
Michael Jackson didn’t get this letter and he’s dead.
John McCain might be president today if he had followed this letter’s instructions. Then again, maybe not.
While vacationing in Chula Vista, CA, John Smurfett didn’t win the California lottery six days after he received this letter. He had failed to circulate this letter. However, before not winning the lottery, he was not struck by any falling satellite debris.
Please send twenty copies (handwritten in crayon on white butcher paper) and see what happens in four days. The chain comes from Terra del Fuego and was dictated by Elvis to the seventh son of a seventh son who wrote it in Magic Marker on the margins of the Book of Kells on Friday the 13th under a full moon. Since the copy must tour the world but can’t afford the airfare, you must make twenty copies and send them to soon-to-be-former friends and total strangers. After a few days, you will get a surprise, but since you’ll be expecting it, it won’t be a surprise anymore, will it? This is true even if you don’t believe that everything published in the Weekly World News has to be true or they wouldn’t print it, would they? (Batboy Lives!)
Do note the following:
Remember, do not send cash (money orders, cashier’s checks and traveler’s checks acceptable). Do not ignore this. If you circulate this letter, something will happen to you, unless you die first. And that’s something, isn’t it?
Who loves ya, baby?
]]>“People say, ‘Well, how can a private company compete against the government?’ My answer is: If the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain and if the public option has to be self-sustaining, meaning tax payers aren’t subsidizing it, but it has to run on charging premiums and providing good services and a good network of doctors, just like any other private insurer would do, then I think private insurers should be able to compete.”
“They do it all the time. ... UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”
The Post Office, which has struggled to keep up with changes in the market and technology? The Post Office, which is constantly asking to raise its rates and still runs in the red? That Post Office?
And we’re supposed to be reassured that the so-called “public insurance option” is going to be like the Post Office?
You need a different analogy, Mr. President. Amtrak, maybe?
Time for some Jedi mind tricks.
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Sounds like it.
Remember: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Except for when we say it isn't."
Hat tip: The Other McCain.
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