Browsing Archive: January, 2012
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 31, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!20h26 UTC; TUESDAY, 31 JANUARY 2012: The dictionary defines "doublethink," a concept originally created by George Orwell for his novel Nineteen Eighty Four (1948), as "illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable." (Orwell himself saw such in the dystopic police-state world of Oceania as is the background of said novel as being one of a seri... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Monday, January 30, 2012,
see more Engrish19h31 UTC; MONDAY, 30 JANUARY 2012: First off, some Appy Polly Loggies are in order for such among you who would normally access this blog through Entrecard, yet have been unable to do so since at least the weekend (what with sign-in attempts being thwarted repeatedly with the "Entrecard is experiencing technical issues," &c., alert--and without the Common Courtesy of a proper or timely explanation behind all). In any event, I did put in a call to one of the support staff behi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Monday, January 30, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!00h50 UTC; MONDAY, 30 JANUARY 2012: Among the more popular specimens of atrocity prolefeed from the likes of so-called "Bible-Believing Christians" (especially such with "Tea Party" connexions or associations) in their Luscious Glory of most pathetic arrogance is their supposed insistence (without any sort of substantiative proof, as seems to be standard practice) that Jews have "unhealthy and disproportionat... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Sunday, January 29, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!15h53 UTC; SUNDAY, 29 JANUARY 2012: To imagine certain elements of the GOP Presidential field in Indecision 2012 epitomising what could best be called Macho Law (an unwritten, common-law code dripping as it is in the Luscious Glory of misogyny and chauvinism) is beyond understatement.
To Your Correspondent, such amounts to the obvious.
Especially given Newt Gingrich "himself" being Indecision 2012's personifica... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Saturday, January 28, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!15h53 UTC; SATURDAY, 28 JANUARY 2012: From that file marked "Prophets Without Honour" comes word that the Pakistani doctor who assisted CIA intelligence agents in locating the premi of al-Qaeda majordomo Usama bin-Laden for to dispatch him last May, notwithstanding "Tea Party Patriots" prolefeed claiming that such was staged for illusory prolefeed ends by the Obama Administration (as if implying that the "rea... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Friday, January 27, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h48 UTC; FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY 2012: It'd be interesting to find out what exactly prompted Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak to go on ESPN2 the other night and explain that, back when he first began hosting the long-running game show alongside Vanna White in 1981, the two used the dinner break during tapings of the show (which, back then, were at the NBC studios in Beautiful Downtown Burbank) to drink margaritas... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Thursday, January 26, 2012,
 17h19 UTC; THURSDAY, 26 JANUARY 2012: The preceding may be out of a "morally suspect" (or so conservative prolefeeders want us to believe) Europe (ultimately via AmyOops.com), but I suppose you regular readers will get the idea. Not to mention bringing back some memories in the process for a generation where computers weren't an important part of the school curriculum and syllabus as presently.
Speaking of Twitter, readers, Your Correspondent urges you to follow moi there (note the link follow... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!17h17 UTC; WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2012: Talk about your Unlikely Convergences as are certain to be fodder for the likes of Ripley and suchlike:
- With today being the day that the Greater Caledonian Diaspora celebrates the birthday of their beloved poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), the Scots First Minister, Alexander Salmond, decided to use the occasion to announce that he plans to call a plebiscite in Scotland for ...
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Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 24, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h48 UTC; TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2012: If the results of newly-released study out of Germany are somehow instructive, anti-semitic attitudes across Reunified Germany--the sort of anti-Semitism, in fact, as propelled Hitler and the Nazi regime to power--are alive and well, not to mention rather blatant.
For which Teh Innerwebz is to blame all the more, come to think of it.
Which recalls remarks from Rev. Fred Phel... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Monday, January 23, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!19h23 UTC; MONDAY, 23 JANUARY 2012: Lest Your Correspondent forgets, he'd like to extend best wishes to his Asian readership (農曆新年快樂) for the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, as happens to be today. I hope all turns out well with you.
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Meanwhile, Your Correspondent, observant as he is of how low Indecision 2012 can go in its pandering to the basest and crudest of "patriotic" emotions by es... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Sunday, January 22, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!15h42 UTC; SUNDAY, 22 JANUARY 2012: Make no mistake about it: The way the GOP Presidential field has fared thus far in the caucus/primary season of Indecision 2012 (as in Rick Santorum being declared the winner of the Iowa Caucuses thanks to a recount, Mitt Romney taking the New Hampshire Primary and, last night, Newt Gingrich's victory in the South Carolina Primary) should serve as a clear and present warnin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Saturday, January 21, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!16h25 UTC; SATURDAY, 21 JANUARY 2012: To insist, as certain GOP Presidential wannabes are to the point of holding such as "deeply- and dearly-held" articles of faith, that those of colour are somehow unwilling to find or otherwise hold down decent jobs because of a "latent dependency" on State welfare ... or even to suggest that such perennially on State welfare lack any sort of "moral compass," "healthy and ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Friday, January 20, 2012,
 17h11 UTC; FRIDAY, 20 JANUARY 2012: By now, you've probably heard on the news about that interview on ABC's Nightline show last evening with GOP Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich's second wife, Marianne, contending that he insisted where his now-deceased first wife, Callista, would ensure him the Presidency, all the while engaging in Lewd and Lascivious Acts, Deeds and Exploits which should send a warning to Gingrich's most Good and Loyal Support Base of the so-called "REAL AmeriKKKans", sub... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Thursday, January 19, 2012,
see more animal GIF's17h47 UTC; THURSDAY, 19 JANUARY 2012: We all know, boys and girls, about GOP Presidential wannabe Mitt Romney's infamous crack about "corporations are people, too" (recalling the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling as established, in essence, a new class of personhood for "winning hearts and minds" purposes electorally) ... BUT: Given the Guiding Principle of Jucheism in the North Korean stylee that "Man is the Master of Everything, and d... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Wednesday, January 18, 2012,
see more 18h07 UTC; WEDNESDAY, 18 JANUARY 2012: As you're probably (un)aware of by now, a number of sites on Teh Innerwebz, the most prominent thereof being the English edition of Wikipedia, WordPress and MoveOn.org, have "blacked out" for the day as a protest against two Hollywood-sponsored pieces of legislation known as SOPA ("Stop Online Piracy Act") and PIPA ("Prevent Internet Piracy Act"), which Hollywood sees as necessary to prevent the "rampant and unchecked" spread of online piracy of... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 17, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h06 UTC; TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2012: How do we know that the GOP, in its electoral-related Luscious Glory of claiming that the Federal Government is "mercilessly trampling states' rights underfoot," to use a rather annoying crybaby prolefeed meme among conservative Zealotry and True Belief of late, isn't really using such as code to call for the "complete and final" replacement of the Constitution with its fa... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Monday, January 16, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h45 UTC; MONDAY, 16 JANUARY 2012: You might have heard by now on the news where some petroleum-industry analysts have gone on record as suggesting that American gasoline prices (currently averaging $3.31/gallon for regular unleaded) could be heading for a major climb, with $4/gallon likely by the Easter break and $5/gallon possible by the Memorial Day long weekend, traditionally starting the summer travel s... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Sunday, January 15, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!16h43 UTC; SUNDAY, 15 JANUARY 2012: Following a super-secretive confab rivalling the supposed annual such of super-secretive sects as are the stuff of tasteless conspiracy theories seeking to exploit widespread ignorance excusing a simple, jingoistic even, brand of patriotism outside of Houston, Texas, the Elmer Gantry element of religiopolitical conservatives seeking to recast Our Beloved AmeriKKKa in His Im... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Saturday, January 14, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!17h25 UTC; SATURDAY, 14 JANUARY 2011: Actual "spam" e-mail received today of Your Correspondent (with necessary redactions):Dear Sir/Madam,
This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the seven-member committee to fulfill Chairman Chung Mong-koo's promise to donate One trillion won (US$1.1 billion) to charity, contingent to a suspension early this month of his three-year prison sentence for embezzlement... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Friday, January 13, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h38 UTC; FRIDAY, 13 JANUARY 2012: If there's one thing that the Greater Conservative Prolefeed Masheen can turn to as a means of "winning over hearts and minds"--especially such who are ignorant, weak of mind, vulnerable to the point of manipulation even--it would have to be fanaticism.
Fanaticism to the nth degree, especially.
The sort invoking the crudest and most pathetic excesses of hyperbole vis-a-vis na... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
see more Engrish17h55 UTC; THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY 2012: The dictionary defineth "nuance" as "a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc." And to conservative prolefeeders in particular, especially the sort wanting to "win hearts and minds" over in simple, easily-understood terms, nuance matters all the more towards such ends as can risk causing confusion or deceit, or sowing its seeds.
Case in point: Think Progress hath it that conservative prolefeed spinmeister Fra... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Wednesday, January 11, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!17h51 UTC; WEDNESDAY, 11 JANUARY 2012: "Power consists of tearing apart existing minds and rebuilding them in new shapes of your own choosing."
Such an observation (via George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, where O'Brien explains to Winston Smith the rationale for being under "preemptive detention," as it were, of the Oceanic Miniluv, replete with the use of pain, fear, intimidation and torture in furtherance ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 10, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!19h30 UTC; TUESDAY, 10 JANUARY 2012: Some of you more linguistically-finnicky readers of this blog are likely to accuse me of poor grammar with respect to the title of this post, as in insisting that "innuendoes" is the correct plural form of the singular "innuendo" (which, as we all know, boys and girls, means "an indirect intimation of a person or thing, especially if of a disparaging or derogatory nature")... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Monday, January 9, 2012,
 17h43 UTC; MONDAY, 9 JANUARY 2012: In spotting the image as leads off this post today in Facebook, and sharing same on my account, Your Correspondent couldn't help but imagine the possibilities thereof as prolefeed for "winning hearts and minds" among the so-called "Tea Party" crowd and its likely base of support among "poor white trash" traditionally likely to harbour religiopolitically and socially conservative articles of faith.
The which, it turns out, having clear and present likelihood f... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Sunday, January 8, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!15h48 UTC; SUNDAY, 8 JANUARY 2012: Doesn't it get on your raw, irritated nerves in the defence of liberty to hear the GOP prolefeeders in service to Indecision 2012 constantly bellyaching about the supposed socioeconomic policies of President Obama unwittingly "posing harm to our economy" as could "endanger our traditional national and sovereign identity", or otherwise "give unconscious aid and comfort to Our... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Saturday, January 7, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h15 UTC; SATURDAY, 7 JANUARY 2012: For such who have to ask about the significance of the titling of posts such as this, readers, it seems as if Your Correspondent was recalling at some length a magazine from the early part of the last century by name of The Smart Set he found once in an antique book shop here in Winona; its subtitle was "A Magazine of Cleverness."
Now you know.
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Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Thursday, January 5, 2012,
see more Engrish19h50 UTC; THURSDAY, 5 JANUARY 2012: A common (and, as it turns out, infamous) meme among White "European-American" nationalists hath it that White Civilisation, Culture and Identity (whatever they are) are in Clear and Present Danger all the more thanks to an increased "acceptance" of diversity, multiculturalism and tolerance of a type seen as "endangering" Racial as much as National Integrity; hence, the need for "any means necessary" to advance their perceived notion encaps... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 3, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!20h22 UTC; TUESDAY, 3 JANUARY 2012: It being a habit of Your Correspondent to embrace the message of the Quasi-National Anthem of the Disney Parks that "it's a small world, after all" in the interest of understanding the greater world view as being of help in understanding the American such, perhaps it was time to call the Notice and Attention of readers to a recent New Year's tradition of late in North Korea... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Tuesday, January 3, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!18h UTC; TUESDAY, 3 JANUARY 2012: To hear certain GOP Presidential wannabes (in particular Ron Paul and Rick Santorum) put it heading into tonight's Iowa Caucuses, recalling all outstanding AmeriKKKan troops as are stationed overseas (not just in combat in Afghanistan, but also in support of NATO in Great Britain, Germany, Italy and elsewhere) is in the Greater Sovereign Interest of Our Dear Beloved Nation, i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Sunday, January 1, 2012,
see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!15h49 UTC; SUNDAY, 1 JANUARY 2012: In the argot of homosexual males, "meat for the poor" (sometimes "meat for days") is a colloquial term referring to abnormally large genitalia.
I bring this up at this time, reader, because certain homophobic "Christian Patriots" of the worst sort seem to enjoy pushing the prolefeed meme suggesting that the increased acceptance of homosexuality and feminism poses Clear and Pr... Continue reading ...
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