Raised Right Indeed

11 08 2010

Clown.

The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and an Arizona Republican candidate for Congress admitted Tuesday night that he did, in fact, post comments on DirtyScottsdale.com, a website devoted to chronicling the trashy side of the Scottsdale nightclub scene… In an interview with Phoenix’s 12News, Quayle, 33, denied Dirty Scottsdale founder Nik Richie’s claim that he posted under the pseudonym “Brock Landers,” a reference to a porn star in the movie “Boogie Nights.”

-Ian





Moran© Nation

11 08 2010

Jebus Christ on a fucking pogo stick.

[A] new CNN poll finds. According to the new survey, 68% of Americans are against building the Cordoba House, a Muslim community center planned to be constructed two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center.

Just when you think we might be pulling out of teh hate and teh stupid, we double down.

-Ian





“Knock the Hell out of the Place”

11 08 2010

Awesome.

It’s mostly a string of non-sequiturs delivered in a tone that suggests a robotized somnolence, but even so you have to admire the effort’s general creepiness, and the little shoulder-dip at the 00:21 mark (he’s standing up off a stool, I think) suggests a balletic quality in line with the stylized unreality of the piece as a whole.

A+

—Jason





QotD: It Doesn’t Matter What I Live

11 08 2010

Everybody’s heard about this by now:

He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused. He’d just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he’d given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.  The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, “How do you give that speech and do what you’re doing?”

“It doesn’t matter what I do,” he answered. “People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”

Obviously, there’s no way that any of this will do anything to tarnish Newt’s rep as a “conservative intellectual” or prevent him from running for president, should he choose to do so.

—Jason





And There’s No End in Sight

11 08 2010

—Jason