Music for a Sunday: A soapy bubble

Ever have this problem of a guy who just can’t seem to hear polite refusals? Oh, haven’t we all! Wash that man right outta yer hair, girls. And crank your volume to full so you can sing along:

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Wankers of the Week: Ben Harper’s Drunken Pool Party

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that drunk chick who stumbled out of a house party at 24 Sussex, needing to be carted off in an ambulance? One would think that the RCMP would be investigating and laying charges for allowing underage drinking and rowdyism, but one would think wrong. 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, for those not in the know, is the official residence of our dear, drecky PM and his fam-damily. So of course, the police won’t be holding anyone there accountable! But hey! Enough about those wankers. Here, have so more wankers!

1. Stephen Fucking Harper. Sorry, Harpo, but you don’t get to ride on your wife’s “popularity”, which isn’t all that much greater than yours, anyway. The entire country only wonders why she still puts up with you. And really: An Internet cat film festival? That scraping and gnawing sound must be someone reaching the bottom of the barrel. PS: Pierre Trudeau put that swimming pool in at 24 Sussex so he (and any subsequent PM) could get some exercise without leaving the premises. NOT so your overprivileged kid and his jackass friends could all get drunk as lords while still underage, AND get away with it. Where the hell were you at the time, and why did you let this happen? Social irresponsibility: It’s a Harper thing.

2 and 3. Neil Fucking Scott and Timothy Fucking Brooks. So, fancy private prep schools “build character”, do they? Damn right. They build the kind of character otherwise known as DRUG LORDS. But hey! They’re white, they’re rich, they’re privileged, they’re patrician, so that makes them better than all those swarthy guys from the ghetto, right?

4. Oscar Fucking Pistorius. Gee, I bet you’re as shocked as I am to hear that his (literally) gut-wrenching performance in the courtroom…is just that. A performance. One that he took acting lessons to hone. Don’t give Oscar an Oscar, though. Give him the penitentiary, and while you’re at it, please take away his castor oil.

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5. Phyllis Fucking Schlafly. You know you’re a mean, horrid, out-of-touch old bat when a very polite 12-year-old girl has to give you lessons in what feminism actually means. Think she’ll get the message?

6. Timothy Fucking Dolan. No, we can’t get the Pill at the corner store. And a dusty, shopworn box of condoms doesn’t inspire much faith in their efficacy, either. I wonder: Do inhabitants of the World’s Largest Pedophile Closet get their Viagra at the corner store? Oh wait, that’s not a mortal sin.

7. Pat Fucking Robertson. Jesus said an asteroid could hit us? Big deal, astronomers are saying THAT all the time. Hey Patwa, how about you listen to what else Jesus said…like about not bearing false witness, for example? Because you do that all the time, and I’m pretty sure Jesus doesn’t like that. PS: Pretty sure Jesus doesn’t want women forced to “put out”, either.

8. Ray Fucking Moore. Dude…are you calling your state and municipal governments an extinct form of Egyptian monarch? You do realize that makes you sound like a fanatical fucking idiot, right? Oh, and denying public funding to impoverished students makes you a hypocrite and a Pharisee. Just so you know!

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9. Joe Fucking Biden. Yay, let’s all support the Banderite fascists who commandeered Kiev! What could possibly go wrong?

10. Chris Fucking Christie. So, he doesn’t want to legalize pot because he doesn’t want “Colorado’s quality of life”? Well, actually, Colorado’s quality of life is pretty good. But that’s Christie for ya…just doing his part to keep New Jersey shitty. And drunk.

11. Tarcisio Fucking Bertone. Whatever happened to the vow of poverty? Oh, that’s for the peons. Princes of the Church actually still get to live like real princes, don’tcha know?

12. David Fucking Cameron. Actually, Britain was never a Christian country. It was a country of many indigenous pre-Christian religions, which all were either suppressed or subsumed under Roman imperialism, and survived only in fragments throughout the Dark Ages, which were Christianity’s real legacy in Europe. But how quickly and conveniently these ill-educated toffs forget…

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13. Derek Fucking Hunter. Yo, stoopid? We already know what cars run on. We just don’t think that cars should be any economy’s top priority. Clean drinking water and uncontaminated air and food don’t come from “unicorn tears” either, you know. Also, we happen to know that environmentally friendly technologies are a growth industry, with lots of potential for job creation. So’s public transportation. Failure to note that we need to invest in that makes you an even bigger fucking idiot.

14. Pamela Fucking Geller. Oh lord, still yattering on about the “Obama is a Muslim” thing? Give it a fucking rest, Pammy.

15 and 16. Jerome Fucking Corsi and Michael Fucking Shrimpton. Edward Snowden has information that could vindicate the Birthers? Um, no. He doesn’t have any such information, because it doesn’t fucking exist.

17. Ergun Fucking Caner. Can’t take criticism? Getting called on your bullshit? Try to censor your critics. There’s just one problem with that: When the truth is on their side, you can’t claim they were violating fair-use laws. Truth is always a defence against libel charges, as is fair comment.

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18. Bryan Fucking Fischer. Oh lord, how did I miss this one? Telling the poor that they should be worshipping the ground on which the rich walk is not only plutocracy, it’s idolatry. Whatever happened to driving the moneychangers out of the temple? Oh yeah…that wasn’t anyone from the Religious Reich. That was some Jewish carpenter’s son.

19. Sandy Fucking Rios. And this one, too! Guess God doesn’t mind being “ignored”, because the latest Boston Marathon went off without a hitch. And was attended with more enthusiasm than it has been for years, on top of it!

20. Stanley Fucking McChrystal. Hooboy. What else is a LinkedIn résumé for, if not for whining, wanking and elaborately playing the victim? Please shut the fuck up and go the hell away, NOW.

21. Mario Fucking Vargas Fucking Llosa. Why the double Fucking? Because that’s how asinine he is for claiming that Venezuela has “stopped being a democracy”. If it’s so “undemocratic”, why are right-wing “democrats” like him still being allowed in to preach bullshit? But he’s right about one thing: The right-wing sectors that he supports, the ones determined to do away with Madurito, are indeed antidemocratic, and those few small parts of Venezuela where they still hold power have indeed ceased to be democratic themselves. So I guess even a stopped clock is right…for about two seconds of any given day!

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22 and 23. Avril Fucking Lavigne and Chad Fucking Kroeger. I never liked either of them in the first place (it’s called having TASTE, people), but together, they’re a steaming mess that you don’t want to end up scraping out of your ears. Don’t press Play, ‘kay?

24. Jeffrey Fucking Chapman. Being on trial for murder is one thing, but to practically have the word written all over your face (or in his case, neck)? Well, that’s one hell of an incriminating wank. PS: That black teardrop on his cheek is also incriminating…it’s a gang tattoo symbolizing murder.

25. Bob Fucking Paulson. Pro tip: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you (and, by extension, the RCMP) in a court of public opinion. You will be tried and found lacking. And really, slamming journalists for asking questions in the public interest about Mike Duffy’s illicit financing? What are you, a cover-up artist? You’re supposed to be investigating a crime, not complicit in it!

26. Cory Fucking Evans. Because it wouldn’t be a real wankapedia without a real wanker, here you go. Florida Man strikes again…and by “strikes”, I mean whacks off behind the wheel, on a busy interstate highway. Wank, wank, WANK.

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27. Frazier Glenn Fucking Miller. So, the Kluker Killer who shot up a Jewish community centre…used to buy black prostitutes? And they were WHAT? Oh gee, I am so shocked. SHOCKED, I tellz ya. I guess this was his way of making it up to the other racists, huh?

28. Cliven Fucking Bundy. No, of course you’re not racist. You only said knee-grow instead of nigger, right? Ain’t nothin’ racist about that. No sir. PS: No, Martin Luther King would not support your neo-slavery position. Idiot.

29. Mona Fucking Charen. Say what? Feminists have made women less happy? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over my autonomy and right to self-determination. And if you’re so against what feminists have accomplished, what the hell are you doing out of your kitchen? Get back in there and cook yourself up some happiness, lady!

30. Matt Fucking Gurney. Yeah, that’s right, National Pest writer…go ahead and make excuses for the Sons of the Rich and Powerful. If you had been to an under-age drinking party so bad that an ambulance had to be called, you’d have a criminal record just for being there. And I doubt that you’d have been hired by that rag, even to write apologia for degenerate rich kids.

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31. Christopher Fucking Verdosci. So, pregnant women and their bellies are, like, SOOOOOO GROSS? Better go tell that to your mama, I’m sure she’d be very interested to hear how you really feel about the person who brought you into this cheap, nasty old world.

32. Joan Fucking Rivers. And speaking of cheap, nasty and old…how’s about paying the people who write your schtick something besides peanuts, lady?

33. Donald Fucking Sterling. So, lemme see if I got this straight: He’s married, but he still gets to tell his girlfriend who she may or may not appear in pictures with? And he’s racist, but his girlfriend is non-white? Oh myyyyy, I smell one helluva can of worms opening up here!

34. Martin Fucking Ssempa. Remember how he went on TV to rant obsessively over what gay guys allegedly do in an effort to push for the kill-queers law in Uganda? Well, now he’s facing charges for the very thing he’s against: “Promoting homosexuality”. Karma: It strikes in the funniest places.

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35. Lonnie Fucking Stiles. Ever wonder why Johnny can’t read? Well, now we have our answer. It’s prudish parents like this one, trying to ban books over “bad” language, that are behind the problem of youth illiteracy in the US. Here’s a radical thought, not that these sticks-in-the-mud are likely to have any of their own: How about just being glad that kids are reading at all, and not fretting so much about their increasing vocabulary?

36. John Fucking Stone. Look out, we got a badass over here! He’s got a cannon, and he’s not afraid to use it. On what? “Standing up to Obama”. Oh. Okay, then!

37. Moshe Fucking Feiglin. What the hell is a member of the Knesset doing, fundraising for terrorists in Toronto? Oh, I see…if they’re Israeli, they’re not terrorists in Harpolandia, even if they are classified as such back in Israel. Problem solved!

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38. Sharlene Fucking Simon. You don’t get to sue dead people for causing you pain and suffering, and you don’t get any money out of them. Especially if you are responsible for their deaths…and the pain and suffering that preceded them.

39. Dan Fucking Bilzerian. Throw a naked woman off your roof in what might be the dumbest stunt ever, break her foot, don’t even apologize. All in a day’s “work” for an insta-turd. #yolo

40. Sean Fucking Hannity. Pro tip: Never fuck with Jon Stewart. He will pummel you like George Washington did that unfortunate Shays fellow. And he will do it all on TV, without even breaking a sweat.

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And finally, to all those fucking fuckheads who spend a hundred thousand dollars to climb Mount Everest. What are you people, Sir Edmund Fucking Hillary? No, you’re just a bunch of rich fuckwits who kill Sherpas so that you can cross one more stupid item off your pointless bucket list. Just so you know, the people of Nepal are getting mighty sick of your shit. And even your money won’t be enough to make it right. But hey! At least this year, none of you will be getting to the summit, because all the guides are on strike. Which they ought to be permanently, seeing as your vanity is putting their lives at risk.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Just El Ecuadorable, kicking ass on TV

A half-hour talk with Rafael Correa on Spanish TV. In it, he points out how Ecuador prospered while Europe fell into crisis, kicks serious banker butt, and, as an economist by training himself, makes the excellent point that Latin Americans are “experts in crisis”, and know how to survive. And they didn’t get there by giving in to the bankers, either. Or by succumbing to austerity measures, the current prescription of choice (and very limited success) in Europe. What works? A bigger public sector, and socialist rather than capitalist measures. After all, an economy can’t grow on empty pockets.

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El Narco’s dirty war

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If anyone ever had their doubts about El Narco Uribe’s capacity for treachery, get a load of the latest. It looks like his former second-in-command has turned on him…or is it the other way around?

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, denounced the attack against him by the Democratic Centre, party of ex-president Álvaro Uribe, which has intensified during his campaign for re-election.

“That Democratic Centre, which at bottom is extremely right-wing, is turning to something I never imagined: some guys with black shirts trying to sabotage my campaign appearances,” said Santos in an interview with the BBC.

He emphasized that “that is a type of neo-Nazism, of neofascism, and all it causes is polarization and hate.”

Santos recalled that in recent legislative elections, “Uribe hoped to win 40% of the Congress. He got 12%.”

Santos said that with this result, Uribe “won’t have the capacity to block any law, not even to veto a policy. They’ll make noise, but it’s all right that they do so, that’s part of democracy. And that they express their opinions through democratic channels.”

Santos explained that along with actions against him during his campaign leading up to the elections on May 25, Uribe’s party are attacking the peace process underway with the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), in Havana, Cuba.

“They are trying to manipulate many sectors, and with lies. With false rumors. For example, they’re telling the military that they will be reduced to their most minimal expression. To the police, they’re saying that their pensions will be taken away and given to the guerrillas,” Santos denounced.

He added that “they’re waging a dirty war. And this is silencing people and doing harm.”

Translation mine.

“Neo-Nazi”. “Neofascist”. Those are quite the accusations to hurl against one’s own former colleague. Especially in ultra-conservative, ultra-murderous Colombia, where people have been killed for less. I wouldn’t do it unless I had an army of bodyguards, like Juan Manuel Santos has.

And I very much doubt that he’s doing so lightly. This is not just overblown campaign rhetoric; it’s a bald statement of fact. Uribe’s a dangerous fascist, with his own private army of paramilitaries and mercenaries. He has no qualms about sending them over the border to Venezuela to “assist” the fascists there in trying to topple the Maduro government. And he is secure in the knowledge that no one in Washington, the OAS, the IACHR, or any other body of international law will touch him. After all, he’s been acting with Washington’s blessing ever since his narcotrafficking days, when he was known as “El Doptor Varito”. That was when the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar Gavíria was still alive, and lending Alvarito his private helicoptor to tool around in. At the same time, he was known to the DEA as “Associate 82”. Escobar got killed, but Uribe escaped with his skin intact. Now what do you suppose the odds of that are, unless someone somewhere in the bowels of Washington had decided that Uribe was worth more to them living than dead, and told the DEA to lay off him?

So we can see that Uribe is operating as an untouchable, and there is nothing he won’t do, because there is nothing Washington will do to stop him. Including a dirty war in which literal blackshirts get sent out to sabotage Santos, his former successor and now prime rival, in any way they can. Including all manner of gruesome and quintessentially Colombian intimidation, no doubt.

Meanwhile, I have to say I’ve been watching Santos ever since he took over as president, and been pleasantly surprised by him. He’s been a good neighbor to Venezuela, playing nicely first with Chavecito and now Madurito. He’s been giving off all the right signs and signals, even engaging the FARC and ELN in good faith. The Havana peace talks are still on, despite numerous efforts at sabotage on the part of the far-right (and, no doubt, their Washington puppetmasters).

My only complaint about Santos is that he doesn’t lock Uribe and all his henchmen up, but that only goes to show that Uribe’s power goes a lot further than Colombia, and that he enjoys protection from outside the country. Enough that even the current president, who ought to have all the power at his disposal, and who could send in the troops on him at any time, is instead limited to denouncing him before the media. And no doubt hoping that things don’t get any worse. It’s enough that even dismal election results don’t seem to faze him. And that bodes worrisomely for democracy in Colombia, if indeed it exists there at all.

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 49

Remember this video? Remember how Ramón Muchacho, the mayor of Chacao, was all for the putsch just a few short weeks ago?

Well, that was then. This is now, and Ramoncito Muchachito is suddenly against what he used to be all for. And no less than the president of the land has made a very pointed note of it:

On his show, “in Contact With Maduro”, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, revealed that the mayor of Chacao, Ramón Muchacho, sought the government’s help to solve the problem he created, and carry out the raids which took place early Monday morning in the municipality.

“There are the people of Chacao, suffering so much that mayor Ramón Muchacho made some puzzling political declarations. He’s been nominated for the Guinness world record for most confusing statements by a mayor in many years. He said he doesn’t understand why the people are protesting. But he promoted that,” said Maduro.

“I’m very worried about the families living in Chacao, who have been victims of their own mayor, who is irresponsible and belongs to these violent groups,” the president said.

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Maduro recalled how in declarations recorded by the residents of Chacao, Muchacho stated that “It’s only a matter of weeks before the government falls”.

“We have had to go and resolve, by request of Ramón Muchacho, the problem he created, because the raids carried out today — Tuesday — were in collaboration with the Chacao Police and the Bolivarian National Police to protect the locals who want to live in peace,” added Maduro.

The minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, explained that the capture of 9 vandals was possible thanks to an intelligence operation carried out over some 20 days, in which videos and recordings were seized that made the raids possible.

“We have advanced in terms of security” after detecting the presence of armed groups in the Santa Fe area in Baruta, in the state of Miranda, said the president.

In Chacao, authorities are still on the trail of 15 citizens. “They will go behind bars. Let them not think they can make a mockery of the law,” warned President Maduro.

Translation mine.

So yesterday’s raids must be more than a little embarrassing to the Muchacho in question. And more than a little funny to the Bolivarians, who at least get something to chuckle about, what with all this 180-degree opposition spinning and all.

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More violent “protesters” arrested in Venezuela

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Well, well. Looks like Venezuela’s infamous guarimbas are about to be several persons lighter, if a certain highly effective justice minister has anything to say about it:

The Venezuelan minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, informed that a man known as “El Chino” has been captured after paying five thousand bolivars a week to other persons who participated in “protests” in the Chacao sector of eastern Caracas.

Rodríguez Torres added that thanks to the work of the intelligence services, early this morning ten raids were carried out, and nine people were detained, “about whom there is sufficient proof to incriminate them in the organization of terrorist acts in Chacao.”

He added that “15 raids are still to come in the days ahead to close this chapter so that the people of Chacao can return to their habitual life.”

He stated that there is proof that during the violent demonstrations in Chacao, young people consumed “crispy”, or transgenic marijuana, which was distributed in order to “raise their spirits”.

Concerning the raids, Rodríguez stated that three were carried out in Chacao, one in Prados del Este, one in Propatria, one in Caricuao, and the rest in other zones of the capital.

“Not everyone who is there is from the municipality. Among the detained, there are lawyers and some business owners who gave material aid to the insurrections,” he added.

Translation mine.

Recall that I blogged some weeks ago about “young student” putschists receiving 5,000 bolivars a week to “protest”. Where did that money come from? Well, looks like we have a few answers. I don’t kid myself that they have anywhere near all of the culprits, mind you…but at least the denizens of one wealthy and ungrateful part of the capital city will at last be able — or forced? — to live normal lives again.

And I can’t help chuckling about the “crispy” marijuana. I guess that explains this:

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Homemade spike belts…and munchies? What a combination!

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Did Washington try to prevent Bolivia from launching a satellite?

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A Chinese rocket carries the Bolivian satellite, Tupac Katari, into space. And without the help of the Chinese, it’s hard to imagine Bolivia ever getting such a thing off the ground. But they did, and the fact that they did is no thanks to the usual suspects…who, as is their wont, seem to have interfered even here, if what Evo says is true:

Evo Morales announced that he would reveal a “secret” that he “had kept for a long time” in order to put a stop to the “blackmail” by the United States of other countries when it comes to transference of technology.

Morales explained that during the construction of the satellite “Tupac Katari”, China informed Bolivia that, despite signed agreements for technological co-operation with the United States, the US had refused to supply the necessary components for the communications satellite.

“They told us that the US did not want to sell or transfer technology to Bolivia, so we (referring to himself and vice-president Álvaro García Linera) asked ourselves: Now what are we going to do?” Morales said, according to the Bolivian newspaper La Razón.

The Bolivian leader says they decided to take the problem to China, where Tupac Katari was being built. “We told them that they had to give it to us because there was a commitment, but what confidence could Bolivia have in China?

“I don’t know what agreements China has with the United States, but they informed us that they had not completed our communications satellite with US technology, but with French,” Morales concluded.

Morales considers that Washington must be boycotting La Paz, because “if the satellite had been for Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia or other countries, there would not have been any US veto” on selling the technology.

The Bolivian government has already begun designing a project to build a prospecting satellite for natural resources, and has planned to launch a second one for communications, following the success of last December’s launch of Tupac Katari, according to an official source today.

Speaking to the EFE press agency, Iván Zambrana, the director of the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE), emphasized that the Tupac Katari satellite project has been both a commercial and a technical success.

He noted that the launch was “near-perfect” and that later tests demonstrated that the satellite had reached “100 percent of its capacities in orbit and is functioning according to the specifications of its design.”

As for its commercial side, Zambrana noted that its success is “greater” than initially expected, since it was calculated that in the first year it would take up a third of the satellite, but is now using “almost half”.

“This indicates to us that it will reach full capacity in maybe two or three years, and we have to think of a second communications satellite, alongside the project of an observation satellite which is already planned for this year,” said the ABE director.

He added that the project is expected to be completed “on paper” by the end of this year, so that next year negotiations can begin to get the second Bolivian satellite plan off the ground.

Bolivian authorities want the new satellite to be used for natural-resources exploration. It will be operated by the ABE and the data generated will be turned over to those specialized in processing them.

According to Zambrana, it is expected that construction will begin in 2016 or early 207, with an eye to putting it in orbit within three or four years.

As the project is still in the design phase, there is no cost estimate as yet, but ABE figures that it will be “less than 100 million US dollars.” The Tupac Katari (TKSAT-1) project cost $300 million.

Nor has it yet been decided which country will be in charge of building the satellite, since “there are not many” who have the capacity to build such devices.

“Obviously China is already a partner we have had, and with whom things have gone very well for us, but there are also countries such as France and Russia who traditionally have a great space culture, and even the United States,” said Zambrana.

At the moment, the Tupac Katari satellite has contracted its services to the state-run Bolivian Telecommunications Company (ENTEL), and Bolivia TV, and the private telephone company Viva. There are also negotiations with ten other entities, among them TV channels, oil companies, and state organisms, all interested in using the services of TKSAT-1.

Translation mine.

What? The US is conspiring to keep South American countries poor and backward, the better to trick, blackmail and exploit them? I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you!

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Music for a Sunday: One for Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, boxer and champion of the wrongfully convicted, died today at age 76. I can’t think of a better way to say goodbye and thanks to him than this.

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Wankers of the Week: Easter Bummers

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Crappy weekend, everyone! And crappy Easter to all, and may the bunny poop out only the best chocolate eggs for you, whether you believe in anything or not. And if he doesn’t, well, just be thankful he didn’t leave you any real poop, like this weirdo in Ypsilanti keeps doing on kiddie playgrounds. Meanwhile, here’s who else is full of it this week…and by “it”, I don’t mean yummy Easter treats:

1 and 2. Peter Fucking LaBarbera and Bill Fucking Whatcott. Bad bromance of the year? Looks like it. Making a public nuisance of yourself and getting arrested on a university campus? Textbook example of how NOT to make friends and influence people. Kick the one out, and lock the other up; problem solved!

3. Linda Fucking Harvey. If staying in the closet makes a gay person straight, then staying barefoot and pregnant should turn a woman into a man. Honestly, this idiotess is simply out of ideas by now. “Fake it till you make it” is as old as the hills, and has never worked for anyone.

4. Phyllis Fucking Schlafly. Once again, the question must be asked: Why is this horrid old bat still alive? And why is she out there preaching a return to the 1950s? Maybe all she needs is a pay cut, so she remarries and goes home and shuts the fuck up.

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5. Bill Fucking Donohue. Yeah, I can well believe the Catholic church has “less of a problem” with sexual abuse than any other. After all, it’s been going on for so very long, it’s clear that the hierarchy thinks it’s no problem at all!

6. Kimberley Fucking Davis. If you “just don’t care” that you ran down a cyclist while you were texting behind the wheel, you’re an idiot. Frankly, you should be jailed incommunicado for that.

7. Nahshon Fucking Shelton. Dude. You carry an expensive gun in an expensive bag, and then you get wigged out over a 22-cent tax on your bottle of pop? You have a fucked-up sense of priorities. Take a hard seat!

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8. Kathleen Fucking Parker. Sure it’s crazy to talk about racism in Alabama. That’s because it still exists there, to an inane degree, and not-talking-about-it is the best way to keep perpetuating the problem. And only a complete lunatic would like to see that problem solved, right?

9. Dan Fucking Clevenger. How does one “kind of agree” with an antisemitic white supremacist murderer, unless one is also a Kluker? If you’re going to make statements like that, you might just want to elaborate. And voters might just want never to elect you again, which I suspect is the real problem.

10. Kayvon Fucking Edson. Looks like a promising career in conceptual performance art has just been cut short by a really, REALLY stupid dickweed move. Kind of a shame, really.

11. Rob Fucking Ford. Why?

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That’s why. Dressing up as a sheikh: Not just for skeevy Halloween trick-or-treaters anymore!

12. David Fucking Choe. No, shithead, face-raping a masseuse is NOT “art”. And neither is making up lame stories about it, lying that “she said yes with her eyes”. Whichever way you slice it, you’re nothing but a fucking douchebag. And there is no “art” to that.

13. Rob Fucking Illig. Dude, you’ve got yours. Your head is above water. You are, in fact, better paid than many. Now shut up about “white man’s guilt” and don’t say another word, lest you find your own ass out on the street, looking for work with all the other screwed law grads who have massive student debt to pay off, and no means of paying it. You might just find, in fact, that the job you coulda-woulda-shoulda had, the cushy one where you’d be pulling down the cool millions instead of suffering for the poor sods who studied under you, doesn’t actually exist anymore.

14. Edward Fucking Cocaine. Yes, really — that’s his name, and that’s what he’s been busted for. No, just kidding — it was Xanax. Florida Man just never disappoints, eh?

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15. Chrystal Fucking Hassell. Meanwhile, Florida Woman doesn’t disappoint, either. And hey! A preemie delivery, on crack, in a motel room. With a bitten-off umbilical cord, no less! How much more Florida can it get? Short of gnawing the baby’s face off, I guess not much.

16. Mary Fucking Fallin. Who’s the poverty pimp? SHE is. Because she doesn’t ever want the minimum wage anywhere to catch up to the cost of living. Next up: Slavery will save capitalism!

17. Cliven Fucking Bundy. So, he was there first, was he? Funny, but the Shoshone people have something very different to say about that. And the “militias” that oh-so-bravely stood up to “protect” his “grazing rights” on land that was never really his? Racist as a Nazi’s asshole. Quel surprise!

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18. Richard Fucking Blumenthal. Bud, that big yellow line is there on the train platform for a reason. The reason is that if you don’t stay behind it, you could end up in a world of hurt when a train roars by. But hey! At least you didn’t get kicked in the head by a conductor while taking a selfie, so there’s hope for you yet.

19. James Fucking Mitchell. Just because something’s not technically illegal “at the time” doesn’t mean it’s not immoral, a human rights violation, and massively fucked up. And just because you’re defending it doesn’t mean it’s fucking defensible. But what am I saying: You’re the guy who designed that shit, and waterboarded one of the most infamous al-Q terrorists, so I guess that makes it all okay! Um, no. It totally fucking doesn’t. And you’re just as bad as what you’re claiming to fight. Read your Nietzsche, fuckhead.

20. Valeria Fucking Lukyanova. Yes, dear, we really believe that you’re makeup-free in that selfie. I see lipstick, foundation and winged eyeshadow. But hey! For a “human Barbie”, I guess that’s about as makeup-free as one can realistically expect someone to be, eh?

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And finally, to the antisemitic assholes who planted those phony leaflets in Donetsk. Smooth move, you guys. You just took a leaf out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. That’s the czarist crapaganda tract that was used to justify pogroms, in case you forget. How ironic that it turns out not to be the work of a pro-Russian faction, but the same bunch of Nazis that commandeered Kiev, causing Crimea and the Donbass to distance themselves. I don’t think this is gonna further your cause any better, you guys. Ukraine is falling apart at the seams, and fascism is why.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Adiós, Gabo…

An interview with Gabriel García Márquez, who died yesterday at the age of 87. The great Colombian talks about the influences on his “magical realism” style, especially Faulkner, popular culture, his childhood in Aracataca (“Macondo”), and more. Video in Spanish.

Meanwhile, here’s how Gabo’s old friend, Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay’s national literary treasure and, like him, a leftist journalist, chose to remember him:

The passing of the Nobel literary prizewinner Gabriel García Márquez leads the headlines of the Argentine press today, also opening space for the opinion of another colossus of Latin American letters, Eduardo Galeano. “There are pains that speak silently. They speak silently, but they hurt just the same. How the death of Gabo García Márquez hurts us,” said the distinguished Uruguayan author, in an interview with Argentina’s “Telenoche” show, on the death of his friend.

“What hurts most is in the beautiful words which death has seized and stolen from us. I believe that they, the stolen words, escape at the slightest distractions, they flee the pages of Gabo’s books and sit down beside us in some café in Cartagena, or Buenos Aires, or Montevideo. Or here, in Río de Janeiro,” Galeano added.

Galeano spoke from that Brazilian city with such a knack for words of heavy significance to evoke Gabo: “Damn death, always it leaves us in the lurch and without knowing what to do. Desolate,” he said.

But at the same time the Uruguayan author called for people to confront death stubbornly enjoying the blessings of life: “Together, we drink once more a toast to the health of healthy Gabo to laugh together, because he goes on living so long as his words live and laugh and tell.”

Translation mine.

As for me, I can think of no better way to honor him than re-read the books of his that I already have, and look for others to round out my collection. And get my hands on the Spanish originals, too.

Adiós, Gabo.

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