Per aspera

That’s that, then.  The President said to Congress, “I am not bound by the laws you pass,” and Congress voted to agree with him.
I guess since the Constitution has been pretty much used up as toilet paper by now, Congress found themselves having to wipe their asses with Magna Carta, too.
Every Republican in the House […]

“With things like the Patriot Act, we’d damn well better keep our guns.”
- Jon Tester, Democratic candidate for Senate in Montana, after incumbent Republican Conrad Burns “came back to the subject [of the USA PATRIOT Act] near the end of the debate, when Burns tried to link him to New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, […]

Mother of balls, this thing was fucking up the page layout. If you absolutely must know how I scored on the “Nerd, Geek, or Dork?” test, you may slake your thirst for Steve-Taxonomy after the jump.

I know for a fact there’s a dent in the wall of one of the second-storey rooms in the house in which I grew up that was caused by the hurling of a twenty-sided die.  That’s just how I rolled, as a lad.

I did not love Garden State when I saw it in the theater, at all.  It’s not that I’m immune to trite, sentimental crapola.  I am positively susceptible to it.  Oh, I most definitely am, especially sentimental crapola with a sensitive young thing for a protagonist.  It certainly doesn’t hurt if said crapola features Natalie […]

It cannot be coïncidence* that I’ve spent the entire weekend playing Guitar Hero.
Lauren has been watching a metal documentary, and is clearly no stranger herself to the metal.  From comments, I followed a link to the Wikipedia page for Lemmy Fuckin’ Kilmister.  Imagine my surprise as I learned that “Kilmister” — and a metal-er fuckin’ […]

Arrrrrrrrrrrr!

Baboon penis.
(Via Tom, citizen photojournalist.)

I’ve been watching Bill Hicks on YouTube this evening.
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX (credits)
Stick with it through part eight; that’s where he describes the conception of the antichrist.  It’s perfect.

Someone write a comment, and tell me if the pirate filter I just installed in anticipation of Talk Like a Pirate Day is working.

I was noodling around at Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog (n.b. the Strunk-and-White-approved s-apostrophe-s), clicking on the “best of” links, and came across his post about Count Dante, who used to advertise in the funny books.
Born John Keehan, he changed his name in the mid ’60s to Count Juan Raphael Dante and explained it by saying his […]