Morning Seditionists

Is half a Who better than none? I’m thinking no, but then maybe it’s just ‘cuz it seemed really odd to see Pete and what’s his face reduced to doing a “medley” (not to mention there’s something kinda pathetic about a couple of pensioners singing about “teenage” anything). What’s next? Vegas? Or maybe Roger Daltrey will cut an album of duets with Sarah McLachlan. Otherwise, though, it was a very entertaining football game, though I’d have appreciated it if they’d started (and ended) a little bit earlier. I skipped through all the commercials ’til I caught up to real time toward the end. I saw one commercial that I thought was pretty funny, though. It was something to do with a guy joining a woman’s book club, and one woman asks the guy, “so, do you like Little Women?” And he says, “yeah, I’m not fussy.” (more…)

Today on Press the Meat, it’s Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, on to answer Republicans questions about why Obama never uses the words “war” and “terror.” Then, from the 2010 Nude Economists Calendar, it’s Mr. September Hank Paulson, and Mr. December, big Al Greenspan. Plus there’s a roundtable with Former Chairman of the National Closeted Republicans Committee, Ed Gillespie and Former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. (more…)

If you’re east of, oh, say, Ohio, and south of the NY/PA border down to Virgina or so, you’re probably waking up to a fun-filled day of shoveling snow. Here in the “Miami of the Northeast,” however, there’s nary a flake in sight. We’ve been pretty much screwed out of winter here this year. I was gonna say, “gypped out,” but then I realized that that’s an insensitive ethnic slur against Gypsies, so I can’t say that. After all, Sarah Palin might have a Gypsy relative, and then she’ll get all pissed off at me (if not Rush), and I wouldn’t want that. Plus it might offend Ariana Huffington. (more…)

It was a very frantic and upsetting start to the morning today, as I woke up to find no Internet connection. Of course, my first inclination is to reset the router, and when that didn’t work, I looked at the router DHCP settings, and knew something was wrong, since the router was getting some caca IP address from the cable company. So, I released and renewed the IP address a few times, and finally reset the cable modem, too, in the hopes that that would do some good. Alas, it didn’t, and there was nothing left for me to do but sit on the futon and ping, waiting to see some signs of life. It’s not just that I couldn’t get to Internet, of course, but that Sedition Radio would also be unreachable from the outside, and I feel a responsibility to “the people.” As you may have guessed by now, things finally did come back up. (more…)

OK, I give in. John Edwards is a dirtbag. You just can’t go around punching out your wife, even if you are really, really rich (and even if she hit you first). Too bad. I wonder if he was an asshole all these years, or if he just kinda went nuts somewhere along the line. Must be that mistress of his; I think she must have put one of those Heather Mills, witchy woman spells on him. Or something. Whatever the deal is, I don’t see anybody (other than Dennis Kucinich, who I’m pretty sure won’t be trying to beat up his wife, ‘cuz she’s a lot bigger than he is) out the ready to pick up the mantle of populist hero, so I guess I’ll just have to hope that the scales have fallen from Obama’s eyes, and he’s now going to turn into that closet liberal I keep hearing he is. Sounds like he may be getting ready to kick Larry Summers to the curb, which would be a good start, but I really think it’s time for him to tell Rahm Emmanuel tat it’s time for Rahm to spend more time with his family. (more…)

OK, to everybody out there thinking about getting married, I just wanna say one thing. If you’re going over what your vows are gonna be at the ceremony and your soon-to-be spouse insists that you take out the part where you promise to be faithful to each other, you have no excuse for being surprised when he goes off to “hike the Appalachian Trail.” Now, I don’t honestly remember if my vows contained a fidelity clause or not (I might have kind of assumed it was implied by the whole “getting married” part – I mean, I understand shit happens, but why the hell get married if you’re not gonna at least start out with the goal of not screwing around), but when they go out of their way to say, “nope, uh-uh, no friggin’ way am I agreeing to that,” let’s face it: they’re really just not that into you. If you plan on marrying the bastid anyway, I think it’s time to take up drinking. (more…)

Has anybody ever done a study on the affects of being constantly exposed to the sound frequency of an electronic beep? I mean, if they could come up with money for a study to see if dogs get jealous or cats only purr to get you to do what they want you to do, then you’d think somebody somewhere would pony up a few bucks for a study to see if incessant beeping is detrimental to your physical or mental health. I wonder, because it seem like everything around me beeps, and sometimes I feel like it’s driving me freakin’ crazy. My refrigerator beeps if I leave the door open too long, my stove beeps when the oven is done preheating (among other things), the microwave beeps for all kinds of reasons, the touchpads on all the appliances beep whenever you touch them – as do the buttons on my cellphone, the tv remote, and my Chumby touch screen – my cordless drill battery charger beeps (though I haven’t quite figure out why), and sometimes I hear shit beep, and I don’t even know what the hell it is. But whenever something beeps, I feel compelled to respond in some way shape or form (if for no other reason than to shut it the hell up; the microwave is particularly insistent on attention). Pavlov must be salivating in his grave. (more…)

I didn’t actually watch “This Weak” on the Goebbels network yesterday, so I was spared the ordeal of looking at Roger Ailes in HD. There was one Tweet (that’s what you call it, right?) that said “Roger Ailes on “This Week” looked like he wanted to enslave Arianna in his harem and freeze Paul Krugman in carbonite.” I thought that was pretty funny (I guess you either get that one or don’t). Speaking of Jabba the Hut, I watched “Embedded” last night. It was very well written and staged, and Tim Robbins looked great in his Rush Limbaugh fat suit. (more…)

Is it really Sunday already? Really? God, that sucks.

Speaking of sucking, it’s Laurel and Hardy day on Press the Meat, as David “Ollie” Axelrod and John “Stan” Boehner (because Laurel and hardy were in black and white, most people don’t realize that Stan Laurel was a funky shade of orange) visit with Gilligan Gregory. Then it’s a roundtable with “Douchebag Dave” Brooks, CNBC’s David Faber, the WaPost’s Eugene Robinson, and U.S. News & World Report’s Uncle Mort Zuckerman. (more…)

There’s a full moon tonight. Not just any full moon, though – the biggest, brightest full moon of the year (and not just the year so far, but for the whole year). That’s because the moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical, and tonight its perigee (or low point – closest to the Earth) happens to coincide with the full moon. If you have a decent extension ladder and one of those telescoping roof brush thingies, you might even be able to touch it. Well, not quite, but it will be about 14% wider and almost a third brighter, so it ought to be pretty impressive (assuming it isn’t cloudy). Plus, Mars is in opposition (meaning it’s on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun), so it’ll be big and bright and red, right there to the left of the Moon. What I ought to do is get my telescope out and look at it. But it’s, like, really freakin’ cold out (about ten below at the moment), so that’s probably not gonna happen. I went out last night to knock the snow off the dish (and, no, that’s not a euphemism), and the moon looked really bright then, even though it was cloudy and snowing. And cold. (more…)