What is wrong with you people?

11 year old retarded girls are not the problem with your country, Pakistan!

I would argue that accusing little disabled girls of blasphemy might be of a greater concern! Just saying!

Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Phil Ochs

Glenn Kelly and the AV Club were right. . .



You should have to listen to this song 500 times. Just in case you haven't already.

Make up your mind, guys. . .

Which one is it? We throwing fire at the cops?


Or water?


Get it together, guys.

(via the Wall Street Journal.)

On Shutting the Fuck Up

I gotta say as much of a known asshole as Bill Maher, I gotta say, he's right on the money when it comes to this Limbaugh's Slut-gate (nobody's used that one yet, right? Oh, come on, they must have).

Anyways, read this and then let's all shut up--

And through it all, I have defended Rush's right to stay on the air! Not what he said, that was disgusting - but the right to not disappear because people who don't even listen to you don't like what you said. That really bothers me. I never hear Rush Limbaugh unless a guy in the next truck at a stop light has it on; it would be arrogant for me to say "he has to disappear" and deprive the people who do listen to him of what they like. We all have different tastes and different opinions, that's America.

(via ABC.)

Joseph Kony of Mars

There's a lot of talk about Africa recently and as poorly informed about that continent as I am (read: poorly), I think we all need to take a step back and at least view the darkest of continents with a little bit of context.
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Because, hey, that shit don't hurt.

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I've been voting for Kony for years!

There's a lot of scuttlebutt about Joe Kony (as I call him) over the internet recently.

And while a lot of it is either firmly in the sort of savoir-complex a lot of what I've been seeing a lot of knee-jerk anti-Western sentiments sewn into the topic, as well. There's just a lot of emotions for the wrong reasons flying about and most of them can make you into kind of a jerk.

It's an odd subject to have feelings about-- but I read this article that analyzed the situation and the response, and there was one quote in particular that leapt out at me. It seems like it summarized this whole thing much better than I could have (and about as good as I would like to):

This certainly doesn’t mean people shouldn’t watch the video, like it and share it and it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t feel passionate about making a difference. But before you like and share you need to question. Question the organisation and its motives and funding, question the timing and more importantly question what you now know about northern Uganda that you didn’t before watching the video.

In general we should all frown upon murder and torture and the like. I kind of want to get into some of the stupider things I've seen on Al Jazeera's comments page, but I don't have the energy and I think that momentum out of the subject at hand*. We should also do our best not to get sanctimonious about people who want to stop these kinds of things. This isn't an indy band you can claim knowledge about before hand, this is something that actually matters.

Awareness and "Liking" something isn't enough to make a change and it certainly isn't enough to understand the topic at hand. We can all do more in either case to make the world better. To simply take a poor opinion to something is not an acceptable accomplishment.

I don't know. I've probably said to much, so I just just reiterate one of the maxim's I try to live by, which is: Don't be a dick, please.

We can all at least agree on that, right?

*I'm seriously glad that I didn't see a comments page filled with anti-Semitism for once. . . thought it did have a couple of moments of bizarre homophobia.

Who Wants to Get Depressed?

Is it working?

Say what you want about Bradley Manning or wikileaks, but I can't help but see how he's being treated and think that "This isn't us." And it certainly isn't who we're supposed to be.

It's crazy. We live in a world where soldiers can murder people and get a slap on the wrist, yet a guy releases documents that let us know what our government is up to and this happens? It's like a Kafka story.

It's like a Kafka story, especially, because I don't want to stick around for the ending and I resent that I even have to read it in the first place.

White Guys Free the World

We released an episode fairly recently! Two, in fact! Listen to it! Them! Whatever! The first one is honestly one of my favorites. The second one I can kind of take or leave.

To get things started, here is the real truth about the Lizardmen (the Jews)--

Laugh if you will, but I went to college with these people. They graduated.

We started the episode with how nutmeg will getchu high.

I personally remember the moment I learned that. I've never been much on getting high. I like drinking. It works for me and I believe it will continue to work for me. If I was a character in the movie Platoon, I would firmly be in the campy of Tom Berringer in that case. I'm a juicer, not a smoker. I would kill Elias, though. That shit's untoward.

But despite this being in the public sphere for. . .well, probably since forever, that doesn't stop ABC News from doing a weird story on people smoking incense. Or something.

And, in the odd chance that an adult researching nutmeg abuse is reading this blog (or, really, anyone), let me tell you: No one uses nutmeg. No one. Ever. Just like no one licks frogs and no one does whippets and no one gets high with music except maybe the dervishes, but they're into religion and shit, so leave them alone.

People don't do weird and crappy drugs because weird and crappy drugs suck. If your retard kid is huffing paint it's because there are far worse things in his life than there is awesome things in sucking up spray paint. So says I*.

And before I get too far along-- Attaching magnet bombs to the cars of political targets isn't only a move of the Israelis-- It seems that Iran might be following suit, as well.

Now, hold that thought. I'm going to work on some more, smaller entries. These things get out of hand too easy.

VOTE RON PAUL 2012!


*And if anyone does, good of them. It'll make a great Dr. Phil episode.

We Did It, Guys!

Our podcast kicked autocrat Honsi Mubark (AKA "Dirty M") out of office!

Alright, I'll admit, I'm overstating it a bit, but, I think I'm safe in saying-- And I am sure you will all agree-- that our humble podcast helped in deposing one of the Middle East's longest running autocrats.

We made our effort and the deed is done.

So, keep an eye out this week, because we got another episode in the pipeline and a follow up on Egypt and the Moscow airport bombing soon. We, if anything, shall leave no stone unturned-- or made fun of. Or ignored.

We are a consistent paradox, if nothing else.

Lord knows that Egypt's future is as uncertain , but, we think that at very least Egypt has the potential for being a positive force in the region (which is a line we're stealing from Dan Carlin, by the way). There aren't any certainties and getting too excited is silly, but no one can deny the fact that it is pretty cool that you (and me) were witnesses to something your kids are going to learn about in high school. There's a select few of these events that don't involve people dying. This is important.

While White Guys, Square Glasses, as a podcast, didn't quite crack the surface of Egypt's complex political dramas, we'd like to think that we got one or two people interested (besides the tens of thousands we galvanized for the Revolution, I mean). We won't ever get too polemic, but we have no desire to shy away from talking about important, complicated shit that is going on in the world-- even if we are discintly unqualified.

This is exciting times to be podcasting and we're chuffed as nuts to be here.

Now, I'm going to leave The Clash to play us out.

Thanks, Joe.