Jubilation! It’s Friday, and the weekend spreads before us, promise looming with brightness of the late February sun. A few brief laughing points for you today:
Matthew Yglesias Plays Fantasy Poker (Or Not)
Yglesias: “I’ve noticed an odd tendency in some quarters to, whenever Obama makes a move to the right and therefore attracts some criticism from the left, turn around and criticize those critics on the left for failing to recognize the brilliance of Obama’s secret left-wing plan. From where I sit, whether or not such a plan exists, its execution actually depends on moves to the right attracting criticism from the left. So rather than speculate as to whether or not this is ‘really’ what the administration is planning to do, I’ll just say I think that would be the right thing to do.“
WTF? This man is paid for this? Again: WTF? Shorter Yglesias: I’m not really sure if there’s a fantasy poker game going on, but I’m all in anyway! Buffoon.(via)
Analogies Guys Can Understand
How patriarchy operates: Men are the owners; women are the baseball players. (via Mr. Peacock)
The Future of Poetry
A little something I’ve been compiling in my spare time…a sort-of-sonnet in links.
I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.
I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.
I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.
I told you so. I especially told YOU so.I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.
I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.
I told you so (there goes Wonder Woman).
I told you so. How was that slumber, buddy?
I told you so. Good fucking grief, wasn’t THIS obvious?
Just a little fun late in the afternoon on Friday. Enjoy!
February 20, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Mr. Peacock is hilarious! That’s exactly the kind of translative language we need in order to get guys to understand the problem.
February 20, 2009 at 6:00 pm
If only Matt’d left it to his first statement:
I’ve noticed an odd tendency in some quarters to, whenever Obama makes a move to the right and therefore attracts some criticism from the left, turn around and criticize those critics on the left for failing to recognize the brilliance of Obama’s secret left-wing plan.
Awesome compilation of ‘i told you so’s….you should have a running list, really.
February 20, 2009 at 6:39 pm
What a lovely thing to read on a Friday afternoon! I have just finished painting my kitchen a lovely shade of yellow and reading this makes my smile even bigger! And the list gets longer……..
February 22, 2009 at 7:56 am
You are surely a sonnet writer in the making!
This is what you will be remembered for, Anna Belle!
LOL.
SYD
February 22, 2009 at 10:38 am
Sunshine, your kitchen sounds lovely. I love yellow kitchens. There isn’t a more perfect color for them in all the world.
Mr. Peacock is a genius sometimes, I admit. Not as great a genius as I am, of course, but ….:)
I couldn’t believe that when I read it, Chev. It was the most ridiculous thing I’d read that day.
It’s that Petrarchan-ish last line that makes that sonnet-ish, SYD. Glad you enjoyed!
February 22, 2009 at 5:51 pm
can we put the i told you so’s to music, i think it definitely needs to be a song