Great leaping Zarquons

New trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The anal retentives are going to have a field day with this.

"But Ford's blaaaaaack! The Heart Of Gold isn't a shooooooe!"

I won't even get into the Zaphod whinging that will undoubtedly happen. Besides, I don't recall the book saying whether Ford was white, black, green, or puce.

Here's a clue-by-four, meatsacks: it's just a movie. I'd rather they get the story right than slavishly pour over every last detail and make sure it matches description by description.

"But there's too much aaaaaaaaction!"

It's a trailer, numbnuts. Either wait until you actually see the movie before you condemn it, or shut the fuck up and let those of us who don't have our heads up our asses enjoy it.

"But the music isn't Journey Of The Sorrrrrrrrrcerer!"

Please don't make me strangle you.

*FACEPALM*

Talk about divorced from reality.. this moron accuses President Carter of being a Jihadist.

Why, you may ask?

"Skeptics of President Bush's attempt to bring democracy to Iraq have been largely silent since Iraqis enthusiastically turned out for Sunday's elections. Billionaire Bush-basher George Soros and left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore were among critics of the administration's Iraq policy who had no comment after millions of Iraqis went to the polls in their nation's first free elections in decades.

The Carter Center determined that the security situation in Iraq was going to be too dangerous to send election monitors, so the Atlanta-based human rights organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter posted its personnel in neighboring Jordan.Asked whether the Carter Center had a comment on the election, spokeswoman Kay Torrance said: "We wouldn't have any 'yea' or 'nay' statement on Iraq."

Mr. Carter told NBC's "Today" show in September that he was confident the elections would not take place. "I personally do not believe they're going to be ready for the election in January ... because there's no security there," he said.

Jimmy Carter isn't just misguided or ill-informed. He's on the other side."

"You must be out of your tiny mind." - Terry Jones

This was, of course, snagged from the wise and holy Eschaton.

One of the replies to Eschaton's post puts it pretty succinctly:

"Carter expresses a belief that the security situation precludes elections, and just believing that is traitorous? Actually, of course, Carter was right -- turnout in Sunni Arab areas ranged from about 2%to 20%, and we now have an assembly in which only two of the three largest ethnic groups in the country are represented. Call me a "traitor" just for pointing that out . . ."

Go read the replies. People are seriously pissed off over this.

"OF COURSE Jimmy Carter's on the "other side."

He's on the side against totalitarian, gay-bashing, religious-fundamentalist, one-party-despotic-rule, hate-mongering fools like the Power Line asses.

And thank God he is.

Fuck'em with a chainsaw."

Amen.

Hypocrisy on the march at Faux News

OLBERMANN: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and, at minimum, midwife to the Social Security system, would have endorsed President Bush's plan to partially privatize it. Our third story on the Countdown -- that is the claim, anyway, of at least three conservative commentators and several Republican congressmen. But it turns out those guys pretty much just made it up. In a moment, FDR's grandson, himself a former associate commissioner for Social Security, joins us to discuss the fraud.

As the wise and holy Eschaton puts it, and I paraphrase for brevity: if Dan Rather had said something like this about Ronald Reagan, then the villagers would be out with pitchforks and torches.

Instead, nothing. Nada. Keith Olbermann and the liberal blogosphere are doing their best, but just about nobody else.

On an entirely more pleasant subject

A site with more cowbell!

I think the phrase "Bad ass" was invented for this guy.

John 'Liver-Eating' Johnson


Wow.