I was bored this morning. Then I saw an internet discussion about a certain movie.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Enjoy.

This one is not funny, and I don't enjoy writing it.

It has to be said though. Jon Hurdle at the New York Times is a sick, twisted man. Let me state, for the record, that I'm not arguing the merits of the Gosnell case here. I'm pretty sure he has another judgment coming. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's a whole other discussion. My point is one of basic English.

Hurdle reported on the story of...

"Dr. Gosnell, who according to prosecutors killed fetuses that were alive after they were aborted."

Kick it around in your brain for a minute, take it from a few different angles, and... shit, I don't know. Whatever. Fetuses that were alive after they were aborted.

Hurdle is referring to babies who were born - alive. Being born alive means, by definition, that they weren't aborted. Where I come from, those babies are called babies, or newborns, or humans, or any of a number of other nouns. I left out the gratuitous descriptions of what happened because I'm not trying to have an emotional discussion here. You have probably heard a few details about the case, despite the efforts of some media to ignore it. The gruesome actions of the doctor speak for themselves. But if you're a reporter, if your job is to report the story, is this really an acceptable twist on the English language? I submit to you that it's not. Otherwise, every run-of-the-mill birth in this country yields nothing more than a fetus that was never aborted.

There are thousands of posts on this blog. You can read them. I typically word things in a way that supports my viewpoint, or sounds amusing to me, or emphasizes whatever aspect of a story I intend to emphasize. This is how the real world works when it comes to writing, and I'm no innocent bystander on that score. I get it. But shit, man. Some of this really has gone too far. This is not a matter of 'pro choice' or 'pro life' being used to put a happy spin on one's chosen viewpoint. This is something else. And it makes me sad to think that we have "news" stories written in this manner.

I decided to have a little fun with this one.

The chick is a bona fide moron if she thinks gun magazines can't be reused, but I hope my little gift at the end will give you a chuckle.

 

Looks like the ole Godfather found the smoking gun

There has been a lot of talk in this country about just what ideology our dear president holds. Is he the most moderate Democrat in the last 70 years? Some would say so, with fancy line graphs to back up their assertion and everything. Then you have others, like the governor of Louisiana, who seem to hold a different view. Then there are the libertarians, who often seem to think that Obama is simply another neo-con in Democrat clothing.

The one thing that we can say with some degree of certainty is that a lot of people like to call the president a socialist, and a lot of other people get pretty pissed when that happens. Until now the 'Obama is a socialist' crowd have had to rely on comparative political analysis, pitting the president's views against those of self-professed socialists in Europe. It's a fair exercise, but most of the Tea Party crowd aren't picturing a European social democracy when they talk about the president. They're talking about a good old fashioned commie. That label is a little more difficult to justify... until now.

I was taking a quiz online a little while ago. There was a list of the U.S. presidents' names, but they were spelled in the Russian form of the Cyrillic alphabet. I got them all right eventually, although I did have to pause the game in order to decode the different characters and relate them to the English names. My score on the quiz is not the point here though. Just take a look at the list and see what stands out to you.



Some of those loony liberal types might try to tell you that this is just an odd coincidence, but I know better. We've had presidents in this country for more than 220 years. None of their names are recognizable in that crazy commie language. None of them except one, that is. They have been planning for the arrival of Comrade Obama for quite some time, it would appear.