Do they have editing equipment in hell?

Glenn Beck has never changed careers. His one true island of genius is his ability to target and read his audience. He targeted conservatives some time ago and started figuring out precisely how to best serve their interests, honesty and sincerity be damned—because he never gave a shit about them in the first place.

It’s a breathtakingly brilliant con. Only a truly cool-headed psychopath can pull it off. So yeah, he’s the man for the job.

I feel sorry for anyone who went to DC today because they were sincerely motivated by conservative ideology. They’re joyfully buying into the long con, and it’s a little sad to see anyone get so thoroughly and unwittingly fucked.

I don’t mind folks under 18 following any of my blogs, which are all PG-13 (maybe not the language here, I don’t know). But y’all should not expect a followback. And as the parent of teenagers—at least one who blogs quite a bit—you should understand that since I’m now aware of several teens following my various Tumblrs, I’m gonna freaking well act like a parent of teens sometimes and do the blogging equivalent of shaking my finger at you kids these days. I am your parents’ age, after all.

So y’all get off the Internet, go wash a dish and mow the yard. I’ll give you a Werther’s and $5 and you can go play Pokemon with your “homies” at the arcade later, Pac-Man Fever.

*Pops collar, struts off to trim dead skin, stray hairs and take arthritis medicine.*

natashavc:

Reading the youtube comments on opera performances is fun for me! 

It’s like an eternal bad night for someone at La Scala there; relentless and horrible.

ultraprison:

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Re #1: I do hate silence. I don’t necessarily need to be talking (it seems like you’re saying this, too) but yeah. Silence is one of the reasons I don’t live in the suburbs. It’s not snobbery. But one person’s “peaceful” is another person’s “this is the part of the movie where…

Co-sign on everything (follow the link).

I’d add that I kind of wish I didn’t feel like I had to apologize for a basic mode of behavior I’ve had since infancy. But I’ve been in situations where I suddenly became exquisitely aware that what I thought was positive, not even aggressive behavior on my part was just jangling the hell out of another person’s nerves just because it was something they couldn’t imagine doing.

Introverts shouldn’t feel apologetic for how they are, either, though—and I’ve known some who did.

On the Internet, it seems like the balance is in favor of the introverted, so fundamentally extroverted people (we’re all a bit of a mix, really) are often subject to criticism by introverts who finally feel they have a safe venue to blow off steam.

And really, it’s all sort of silly, because if there was no balance in society between people willing to put themselves out there and be forward, reach out, even just be obnoxious sometimes and the people who would rather keep it cool, reserved, detached, things would fall apart.

Like it or not, the Introvert and Extrovert complete each other.

I know everyone Tumbles links to The Oatmeal. But the “Working from home” part of this is so ridiculously spot-on, I don’t even know…

Right off the bat, I’ve done a dumb thing. By calling this um…blog…entry what I have, it looks like I’ve set up a comparison between myself, a joke writer (to be generous), and David Foster Wallace, a guy who was a really real writer to the realest real degree…

Everybody should read everything Caissie writes, always.

Yes, I’m quoting myself. But you know what? I did the post partly because this story pisses me off: “In essence, there shall be no other BOOK but Facebook. You shall have no pokings or Farmville updatings save for in Facebook, forever and ever without end. Thus it is written.”

It’s a terrible tale and I’m fine with the Internet Hate Machine going after this lady, but GODDAMMIT THE WORD IS SPELLED VILLAIN. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SPELLED VILLAIN. THERE IS NO KNOWN ALTERNATE SPELLING IN MOTHERFUCKING ENGLISH. “VILLIAN” IS NOW AND WILL ALWAYS BE INCORRECT. FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOTHERFUCKING DOUBLE INITIALS AND YOUR COPY-EDITOR IF YOU EVEN HAVE ONE HELEN TWO INITIALS POPKIN.

Before you say it: I actually need MORE caffeine at the moment, not less.

Quoth MIB: “I just think we’d all be better served if we gave each other the benefit of the doubt instead of automatically demonizing the other guy. Here’s the thing I am trying to keep in mind: the other guy isn’t automatically the asshole. Whenever I start to think that he is, I have to remind myself, ‘The asshole, perhaps, is I.’”

(via inothernews)

I was just trying that out after not singing it for months yesterday.

But really, most dawns it’s like, “all’alba dormirò.”

I can’t remember the last time a satire site fooled me before yesterday. But I also said yesterday that the funny thing is down here, you’re likely to run into people that hilariously insane about the issue—you’re here too, so you were probably looking at it in a similar way. Atlanta is super gay-friendly, but the rest of Georgia is full of people that will read a Christwire post about gays and just nod vehemently in agreement, never knowing they’re actually the subject of the satire.

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) (via theradblog)

Some things are always worth repeating.

You need this.