Sun Dappled Forest

From MadAtoms (beta):

It’s 2:31 AM. The Democratic Party is sleeping peacefully when it hears its phone buzz on the night stand. It rolls over and sees “Hillary” on the caller ID. It pauses briefly, considering pushing “END” and not dealing with this shit tonight. The thought is appealing but the Democratic Party knows that if it doesn’t take this call, another one is only minutes away.

DEMS: …Hello?

Hillary: Hey baby.

DEMS: C’mon Hillary. Enough with this.

Hillary: Don’t you get it? You NEED me.

DEMS: No, I don’t. It was fun while it lasted but I’m with Barack now. I made my choice, it’s done.

Hillary: You can’t really mean that. How can you say that after all the good times we had?

…

There’s more…

Ensign Crusher Wil Wheaton agrees. Ed’s laughing.

Go read for the comment threads trying to decide if calling Hillary a “psycho ex-girlfriend” is inherently misogynistic or not.

Then remember…there is a more important point here than playing the distraction game. McCain (who is running for a third Bush term according to Wheaton) is the target.

Stay. On. Target!

Hmm, hard on the heels of learning about “Loving Day“, I find that Light-skinned-ed Girl is claiming May as “Mixed Experience History Month“. ‘k. Sure, why not?

Mildred Jeter Loving passed away on Friday May 2, 2008 at the age of 68. Although well-known to some tan folks, many people will need to be reminded that the 1968  “Loving decision” striking down US states’ laws banning marriage between individuals of different apparent “races” was titled for Mildred and Richard Loving.

From the AP:

Mildred Jeter was 11 when she and 17-year-old Richard began courting, according to Phyl Newbeck, a Vermont author who detailed the case in the 2004 book, “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers.”

She became pregnant a few years later, she and Loving got married in Washington in 1958, when she was 18. Mildred told the AP she didn’t realize it was illegal.

“I think my husband knew,” Mildred said. “I think he thought (if) we were married, they couldn’t bother us.”

But they were arrested a few weeks after they returned to Central Point, their hometown in rural Caroline County north of Richmond. They pleaded guilty to charges of “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” according to their indictments.

They avoided jail time by agreeing to leave Virginia — the only home they’d known — for 25 years. They moved to Washington for several years, then launched a legal challenge by writing to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who referred the case to the American Civil Liberties Union.

She was, um, eleven? The BM is not too down with that shit, but, whatever. We can assume society wasn’t forcing this couple into some “spiritual marriage”! This one seemed to have worked out and in the end made a major contribution and for that we honor the Lovings.

The Supreme Court decision was handed down on Jun 12, 1967 and there is an effort afoot by tan guy Ken Tanabe to promote the celebration of June 12 as “Loving Day”. Why not? Any excuse to lift a glass, eh?

Check out the  interactive map at The Loving Day Project from which we find that the first state to permit interracial marriage was Pennsylvania (1780) and most of the rest of New England got a clue 1787-89. Apparently “Masshole” is an old epithet since the Bay State held out until 1843. Traditional libbies Minnesota and Wisconsin have the honor of never having miscegenation laws since statehood!

California, currently home of massive numbers of tan folk, kept it real (bigoted) from 1850-1948. Much of the West fell from 1958-1965 (WY and IN were the last) leaving just the usual suspects holding out until the Loving decision invalidated their bigotry.

Reuters is reporting on a new CBS News/NYT poll:

Among Democratic primary voters, the Illinois senator now leads opponent Hillary Clinton by 12 points — 50 percent to 38 percent — the poll found. Obama led the New York senator by 8 points in a CBS/New York Times poll released just a few days ago.

In other words, nice try. Nice try to Dean-Shriek Obama. Public. Ain’t. Buying. Sorry my friends.

And of course, either one handily smacks Mr. Morton around:

The poll found that in a general election Obama would defeat McCain by 51 percent to 40 percent and Clinton would defeat the Arizona senator by a 53 percent to 41 percent.

Gee, what a shocker. A friend of mine was recently lamenting the decline of his dear auld da’. The man is in his late seventies, starting to get a little forgetful, doesn’t always clue in to what’s going on around him. My friend notes “…and this is my point of reference for McCain. He’s going to be my dad’s age at the end of his first term. McCain is just too damn OLD to be President“.

As the harmless little gaffes stack up…am I the only one who remembers the last old-ass Presidential candidate who made a few mistakes? I mean, he only had Alzheimer’s Disease, right? No biggie.

following a little discussion I’ve been having with the good drdrA..

I think I have some Youtubing to do tonight…

now is it history that repeats or is this guy just a fucking genius?

“He gives the kids free samples, because he knows full well,

That today’s young innocent faces, will be tomorrow’s…..clientele”

-Tom Lehrer (The Old Dope Peddler)

Since the link from Stranger Fruit seems to be sending a few book nuts this way, I thought I’d share a resource. Eric Flint describes the purpose of the Baen Free Library in a way that boils down to good old marketing. Free samples to get you hooked. For the most part you will find the first one or two books from a given author’s multi-work series.

This is Sci Fi / Fantasy schlock for those of you that like that sort of thing. Each book is provided in a variety of formats so it should fit your electronic reading needs.

I’ll also note that Tor (Tor.com) is working a model whereby you sign up for an emailing list and they give you access to a new electronic book every week. Cool beans.

John Lynch pulled a list of 50 “Cult Fiction’ books from The Telegraph which defined the category (in part) as follows.

Cult books include some of the most cringemaking collections of bilge ever collected between hard covers. But they also include many of the key texts of modern feminism; some of the best journalism and memoirs; some of the most entrancing and original novels in the canon.

I enjoyed the 101 Books of Pretension Meme before so let’s take a run at this one.

The schema is simple, boldface books you’ve read and italics font books you started but never quite finished. Now, on to the list:

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Oh man. The UnionTribune reports a fatal shark attack on a 50-60 year old man just off Fletcher Cove (AP story here). Damn.

stay tuned…

[h/t: steve padilla or jesus sanchez of latimesblogs]

Good Ol’ Joe Lieberman. Used to be a Democrat in Name Only, now just a plain old Asswipe. Is there any depth to which he will not sink?

NAPOLITANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?

LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he’s obviously very smart and he’s a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t…I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.

Oh, the old pregnant pause. The vocal hitch-step.

Here’s the thing Joe-bob. You know damn well Obama isn’t a Marxist or Islamist or any other such crap. And yet you are willing to follow the get-Obama-now talking points. Why?  Because you hate America, that’s why. Fucktard.

Oh, and Joe? You wouldn’t know “mainstream America” if it swept your pasty wrinkled ass away in a flood of Biblical proportion. Old Testament, I mean. You are a right fucking winger and nobody is fooled by this faux Moderate shit. If you drink the rightwing wackaloon douchehound tea and spout demented America-hating bushrovian fucknutisms left and right… you are not a Moderate.

w00t!

Tour of Georgia is on and Rock Racing got a last minute start after Saunier-Duval pulled out. The start list shows we’ll have a  ton of sentimental favorite US riders to root for including Chris Horner, Bobby Julich and GeorgiePorgie Hincapie. Vande Velde is supporting Danielson, unfortunately but you never know!

And, of course. Rock Racing is starting Tyler Hamilton. And yes, it looks like he actually got to start.

I’m not really a motosports fan but you have to Give it UP for Danica Patrick’s first major win.

Patrick became the first woman to win a major auto race by stealing the IndyCar Series’ event at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan.

This was apparently Patrick’s 50th Indy Car start and, of course, everyone knows she was the first woman driver to lead the Indianapolis 500.

You Go, girl.

According to this report on The Raw Story, a Cliff Schecter will be publishing a book on McCain that reports this charming anecdote (h/t Anonymoustache):

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain’s intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.

Bush calling a reporter a “major league asshole” whilst his Veep Cheney chimed in with Ed McMahonian “big time” is one thing. The aforementioned Veep charmster telling a Senator to “go fuck yourself” on the Senate floor was a step up in the unseemly. But still. This strong language doesn’t generalized into the sort of bigotry that is reflected by casual use of “nigger”, “faggot” or…..”cunt”.

That’s right. Think about what would happen if it was alleged that a candidate for Presidency had said “nigger” or “faggot” and really meant it. There would be some shit on. We’d get to the bottom of the matter. There would be a national press explosion. And when this guy calls his own wife a “trollop” and a “cunt”?

Well Bad Johnny was on a program called The View this week. I hear it has a substantial audience. A substantial female audience too. And here is how the hosts schooled him on his gender gap:

McCain got a warm welcome but offered a businesslike greeting: handshakes for the hosts.

“Barack Obama gave us a hug,” co-host Joy Behar told him.

Then he was coaxed into some hugs, a telling lesson for the Republican candidate to embrace a giant challenge: the gender gap.

Say what? How about asking an interesting question like “Did you or did you not call your own wife a trollop and a cunt?”.

Now that would be an interesting answer to hear.

Sometimes you come up with phrases that stick with you as immediately brilliant. Most of the time it sounds like crap on reflections. So before I reflect, I wrote some crack over at Light-skinned-ed Girl’s place that I like. In a completely non-self-aggrandizing way, I swear LOL!!! In response to Light-skinned-ed Girl’s post on the “uppity Negro” analysis of Hillary’s kneecapping of Obama on the gun-rights issue, I said:

The problem for the political status quo is the tan guy who manages to convince A-merry-ca that they are voting for Michael and Tiger (who they ADORE) instead of Jesse and Al (who they do not adore).

And that is it, isn’t it? This is the key to the Obama success and, should it develop, the Obama victory. He has to keep convincing people he is a tan guy (which he is and practically iconic) like Tiger (fer real) or Michael (honorary and de facto) instead of a black guy.

This shit turns my stomach. What the fuck is wrong with people that they would send their 13 year old daughter off for this? What twisted goat 49 year old “man” wants to do this? really. I don’t get it.

Major hat tip to The Field Negro for this find. Light-skinned-ed Girl in. the. house.

• Post on Miss Sweden 2002.”Bet you don’t necessarily think of this when you think of Nordic beauty, but there it is.” You know you’re clicking through on this one!
• Her blog personality. “here are five things that seem true about my blog personality that are not necessarily true about me:” What? “blog person” is not equal to “IRL”???? wTF???!!11??!
• On the recent NYT discovery of tan folk (that I mentioned): “The “new dialogue,” as the New York Times puts it, about Mixed experience may be new to America at-large, but we’ve been having the conversation amongst ourselves for some time now.  It’s just that now, folks are beginning to pay attention–as they should.“  Re-pre-sent!
• How about her family album?: “I am sure they could not have imagined that their photos would be in the same Family Album.  But that’s the story.  That’s the Mixed experience.” Ha, HAH! Gramma, meet Granny!

Get your narrow behind over there and read!