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Is it... respect? For Chris Matthews??

Last week Bush made some typically retarded speech in the Israeli Knesset calling Obama an "appeaser" and comparing his desire to talk with Iran to Neville Chamberlain turning over Austria and the Sudentenland to Hitler.

Most of the right wing airheads that immediately took up the meme of appeasement and started regurgitating it all over the airwaves have no fucking clue what that actually means. Fundamentally, they're wrong, because talking to your enemies is "diplomacy", not "appeasement". Giving a dictator half of Czechoslovakia so he won't invade Poland is appeasement. (And we all know how well that worked out.)

But not only are they wrong about the definition, they don't even know what specifically Chamberlain did that was so bad. Not that that stops them from running around and making the comparison, because Bush gave them the water to carry and they're going to do it, regardless.

In this recent clip from Hardball, Chris Matthews takes time out from asking Hill if her vagina won't keep her from being an effective President to nail one of them but good. Watch him ask Kevin James over and over again "What specifically did Neville Chamberlain do that was bad?" for several minutes. James hysterically splutters the same ineffective non-answers ad nauseum ("It all goes back to appeasement! It's the exact same thing! It legitimized and energized!") before admitting "I don't know what he did!!" It's a thing of beauty.

No, that's not a metaphor for the Cold War.

we endorse the black guy

Senator Robert Byrd endorsed Senator Obama yesterday, making Senator Clinton's West Virginia primary win a somewhat hollow victory.

Byrd has a cute nickname in the Senate: "Sheets". That's because he used to belong to the Ku Klux Klan.

Hillary, are you paying attention? Even the guy who used to be a Klansmen is throwing his weight behind Obama. Save yourself a shred of dignity and drop out. Sure, you'll probably win Kentucky today; only to have the nation's makers of racist jockey lawn ornaments endorse Obama next week.

Natasha sent me an email earlier saying she wanted to post a video on the site and could I think of anything "ironically awesome"? This came to mind immediately:

Seriously y'all, this video was considered totally dope when I was 8 years old.

p.s. I always thought it was weird that a band named "Asia"'s biggest hit was a song called "Africa".

Bento #35

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Simple bento this week, made with what was on hand. I had a hectic week at work and didn't really have time to plan before I went to the grocery store. I like all the colors in this lunch, it makes it very appealing.

Bottom:

• Soboro, half ground beef and half scrambled egg.

Top:

• Cherries.
• Baby dill pickles (I want to use these up so I can put some sliced lotus root in the brine to flavor).
• White cheddar cheese cubes.
• Sliced radishes.

Lid:

• Fried tofu puffs.

And for dessert off to the side are a couple of white peach jellies. Seaweed extract instead of konjac this week.

Dooced

Radar is currently running an angry screed against the Millenials, the generation that used to be named "Generation Y" until they whined about it sounding like an afterthought to Generation X. Kind of like how Generation X rejected their first moniker, the "Baby Buster" Generation, for sounding like an anticlimax to "Baby Boomers"--but Generation X wasn't something we chose for ourselves, it was an insulting perjorative that we embraced with a hearty "Well, fuck you very much!".

The Millenial Generation is painted here as self-involved, shallow, coddled consumerist whiners who think "think updating a spreadsheet while simultaneously posting to a Twitter account about the latest gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill".

Part of me remembers the accusations of "slacker" and "cynical" that were flung at us by the Baby Boomers and can't help but think that this feels like another spoke in the endlessly turning wheel of "This generation that came immediately after us is nowhere near as awesome as we are, and will bring down the fall of civilization!"

On the other hand, fuck the Millenials. We gave the world anticommercialism, Google, and Johnny Depp. What the hell is going to be The Millenials' legacy, motherfucking MySpace? The claim that anal isn't "real" sex?

I have a ton of work to catch up on for the next couple of weeks, due to circumstances too boring to explain. So in lieu of a real entry, enjoy this photo of Obama playing pool in West Virginia last week:

Behind the back action

BFF!

FUCK YEAH.

Sorry about staring a war 'cuz I got daddy issues. Now watch this drive!

Bush says he's not a golfer in wartime: President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 “in solidarity” with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was “just not worth it anymore” to play the sport in a time of war.

It’s true, very few families who’ve lost loved ones in a horrific bloodbath take the time to walk around a spacious park-like setting and wack little white balls with metal clubs. He’s a saint!

The time he used to devote to golfing will now be spent clearing the brush from his Texas ranch, falling off his Segway, and napping.

Take that, terrorists!

Lisa Frank for veep!

What is the fucking deal with this painting that accompanies the Willamette Weekly endorsement of Obama? They do know he's running for President of the United States, not of 12-year-old girls' fevered daydreams about non-threatening boys, right?

Vote for Obama and he will shoot roses out of his crotch and bring his unicorn over to frolic!