Ah, rudeness.

I have to say, the Rude Pundit has occasionally disappointed me in the run-up to and first mostamonth of Mr. Obama's presidency. At the risk of sounding like the vile racist I unquestionably am, I see no reason not to call a spade a spade (where spade = any political creature rich enough in real and rhetorical capital to get elected CEO of USA Inc.). I've been running the 'never trust the government' message ragged since I first bought that Screaming Man T-shirt in Delaware, what? Twenty years ago? (Help me out, old-timers.) And I frankly saw and see no reason to mitigate that message just because the latest Great Liberal Hope Machine has taken the White House.

Case in point: what the blistering FUCK does it matter that you shut Gitmo down if you're allowing rendition to continue unabated? We'll just put those evil terrorists in little Gitmoids the world over, is what you're saying? So, given the question, 'If these prisoners are so obviously, unquestionably terrorists, why can't you make a court case against them?' you really have nothing to say weighing in, huh? You just want to look like you're changing Bushian policy, so boom goes Gitmo? But all the torture suspects just go to places we can't see and don't know about in other countries? Great, great. Carry on!

Anyway, back to the Rude Pundit: he may have sipped ever so slightly at the Obama Kool-Aid, but he's still just dreamy at what he does best. Viz: yesterday's column:

Here's perhaps the greatest couple of sentences ever written by a conservative: "Liberals are long known for light sentences for child molesters, opposition to child rape and child porn laws, and the speedy expediting of 'freedom of speech' protections to pornographers, pedophiles, and male homosexuals who belong to the group NAMBLA. Slightly less well known but easily documented are the sympathies the left has towards lowering the age of consent laws so that it's not really a crime for adults and children to have sex." [Kevin] McCullough does not provide that easy documentation, and the Rude Pundit's 14 year-old male assistant was too "busy" to look it up.

Also, I am tempted to rename my main LJ page, 'The vacuous, demi-coherent masturbatory fantasies of a particularly adept howler monkey'.

Gourdian Life

It was an interesting weekend. Friday night I left the office and headed straight to the Warner Theater, in whose box office I coted the lovely and talented furmuslbulk and his BF, buying tickets for Sunday night's performance of Avenue Q. Rush tickets for Friday's performance were to be sold as of 6 p.m., so at 5:40 I took my place in a line of three (which quickly expanded). Bottom line: after shelling out $80 for a 19th row seat the night before, suddenly I had a third-row (orchestra right) aisle seat for a grand total of $30, no service charges or 'convenience' fees. Pow.( too friggin' verbose, as usual )