Monday Morning Mixed Bag
I’ve had the weekend off as I was getting heartily sick of gloom, doom and the bloody internet. S0 I spent the time comfort-gaming. Sometimes you just need to backflip over a pit of fire while splatting crocodiles with exploding crossbow bolts to regain your innate serenity and poise.
Anyway, it’s Monday morning and I’m gloomily contemplating even more death, destruction, corruption and venality as documented by the blogosphere, when my faith in human nature is somewhat restored by one of the most geekily loopy and entertaining ever Sadly No threads. Sexual politics, fisking, forensic accident reconstruction, textual analysis, time travel, asscracks and particle physics – it has everything. Now if we could only harness that force for Good…
And while we’re being so insular and meta, let me also refer you to an amusing little kerfuffle re ‘journalist’ Lee Seigel of the New Republic. The NR is an allegedly leftish US magazine that’s now getting a long-deserved kicking from the actual left. Seigel’s been caught bang to rights being a sockpuppet- ie pretending to be someone else to back himself up – in his own blog comments, a no-no for any blogger. To add a twist, his sockpuppet even accused other commenters of sockpuppetry. There’s something very David Brent-ish about the whole thing:
Siegel is my hero. (12 of 179)
posted by sprezzatura on 2006-02-27 10:15:15 [warn tnr] [respond]
How angry people get when a powerful critic says he doesn?t like their favorite show! Like little babies. Such fragile egos. Siegel accuses Stewart of a ?pandering puerility? and he gets an onslaught of puerile responses from the insecure herd of independent minds. I?m well within Stewart?s target group, and I think he?s about as funny as a wet towel in a locker room. Siegel is brave, brilliant, and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep.
Ah, there’s nothing like a bit of tosserish vanity to ease you into the week. And speaking of vain tossers, there’s the uber-tosser himself, George Bush, tellling a reporter that all Jews are going to hell:
“As he gazed out a hotel hallway at the Superdome and waited for an elevator, Bush — clearly going for a laugh at his own expense — said the first thing he was going to say to Israeli Jews was that they were all ‘going to hell,'” Herman had reported. “Bush, who has both a quick wit and generally good judgment on when to use it, made the comment to the same Austin American-Statesman reporter who had reported his 1993 comments about his religious beliefs.”
Oh dear. That’s not going to play well with the Israel lobby.
This plays well though – more Mitch Benn, especially for Tbogg. When my children ask ‘What did you do in the YouTube wars, Mummy?’ I can say I did my bit for the British radio comedy industry.
Everything Sounds like Coldplay Now:
Indeed it does.
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