50 Most Loathesome People in America: 2006

[elucidator]

It is the single most cherished and revered myth of the Right: that really, deep down, the vast and overwhelming majority of Americans agree with them, but the Left suceeds by stealth and chicanery to snatch elections away. I’ve hung with lefties all my adult life, and they are stealthy and cunning in the same way that Stephen Hawkings is a ninja.

[saoirse]

@Starving Artist

And sure enough it has. Hardly a day goes by anymore that I don’t hear or read of someone lamenting how crass and belligerent and shitty day-to-day society in this country has become. If your position is “Fuck 'em, Rosie was right to say what she did,” you’re little better than she is…and that’s not a good thing!

But I don’t find anything crass about saying, “I want to have sexwith her,” about an adult. If she’d actually dropped the F-bomb to express herself, it would have been . But you know, adults who are in a relationship have sex. If my future ex-father-in-law had suggested that his daughter and I live apart, after we’d decided to move in together, I may have made a much greater contribution to the crassness of society.

[BrainGlutton]

@Liberal

Michael Moore was a non-factor in 2006. He’d already milked the Democrats for everything he was going to get.

You’ll be hearing from him again – his new film Sicko comes out (probably) this June.

[Yookeroo]

@Starving Artist

As I said above, whether Kelli’s parents were right or wrong in being troubled by her relationship with Kelli, it doesn’t mean the gloves are off in how you deal with them. They were trying to find, and apparently with Kelli’s assistance, some way to deal with the situation that would be a compromise and allow everyone to get some of what they want until the situation could be sorted out. You don’t forfeit your right to be treated with compassion and respect as a parent just because you hold a view that is politically contrary to that of your daughter or anyone else.

But maybe they forfeit that right when they put what the neighbors think over their daughter’s desires and happiness. I have no sympathy for them in this instance.

@Starving Artist

You are a prime example of the belligerence and crassness that has characterized so many of those who have evangelized for social change in this country over the last four or five decades, and you are a prime reason that many of those who would otherwise be open to your POV get their backs up and decide to oppose you because you’re acting like an asshole and they don’t want to support causes championed by assholes for fear that that would become the norm.

:rolleyes: Sometimes you reach the point where the cold glass of water is necessary.

But if not, and you do think Rosie should have handled it more tactfully, the parents still are the worse transgressors here. Far worse. I’ll take Rosie’s “crass” and “belligerent” honesty over the parents’ chickenshit passive aggressive homophobia the parents are giving us.

@Starving Artist

And sure enough it has. Hardly a day goes by anymore that I don’t hear or read of someone lamenting how crass and belligerent and shitty day-to-day society in this country has become.

Anymore? People have been lamenting about this forever. Every generation complains about the following generation.

@Starving Artist

If your position is “Fuck 'em, Rosie was right to say what she did,” you’re little better than she is…and that’s not a good thing!

[BrainGlutton]

Considering that Rosie O’Donnell was not on the list (only obliquely mentioned in the Donald Trump entry, and I don’t think even Starving Artist would dispute that Trump is by far and away the more disgusting of the two, in the sense that maggot-ridden roadkill is more disgusting than toe jam), maybe we should drop this hijack.

[Liberal]

@elucidator

It is the single most cherished and revered myth of the Right: that really, deep down, the vast and overwhelming majority of Americans agree with them, but the Left suceeds by stealth and chicanery to snatch elections away. I’ve hung with lefties all my adult life, and they are stealthy and cunning in the same way that Stephen Hawkings is a ninja.

Hawking.

@BrainGlutton

You’ll be hearing from him again – his new film Sicko comes out (probably) this June.

Interesting. That one actually looks promising.

[saoirse]

@Liberal

Hawking.

Quark, Strangeness & Charm? That Stephen Hawkwind?

[gonzomax]

http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm Heres 2005 . I have been reading the Beast for years. This one covers Stossel too I think.

[mkl12]

@Tupug Anachi

My new favorite word is sitzpinkler. Even if it’s not a real word.

But Sitzpinkler is a real word. It’s German for a guy who pisses sitting down.

[Wee_Bairn]

So Micheal Moore is ripping off Kevin Tredeau for his new film?

[Miller]

@elucidator

I’ve hung with lefties all my adult life, and they are stealthy and cunning in the same way that Stephen Hawkings is a ninja.

You know he only stays in that chair to lull you into a false sense of security.