MORE SENSELESS ACTS OF BLOGGERY

“Look! Isn't that Samantha Fox jogging topless?”

“What? Where?”

POW!



[Via Pirate Treasure]

Works every time.

TKO,

This is dF

Or at least enough kung fu to take out a mullet guy in a tuxedo.



[Via The Actioneer]

Fists of fury,

This is dF

Wall Street is occupied, if you haven’t heard. And it may be a point of frustration for the occupiers that no one has been taking them seriously – not even the media. Hell, it took close to two weeks for even Michael Moore to decide it was worth checking out, and that was only after some unions threw in their support.

I confess, I was ambivalent about it myself, if only because on the surface, OWS didn’t look all that different from any other left-leaning protest I’ve seen in the last decade – the same wide spectrum of perennial liberal grievances, with little in the way of actual demands apart from “Eat the rich” (which isn’t a demand so much as an 80s hair metal song) and “stop being evil”.

But the fact that it’s been going on for close to three weeks now, and is popping up in other cities around the country, has caught my attention, as has the fact that all this is happening within the context of a crap economy, the country deep in debt, unemployment and foreclosures on the rise, moves by state govts to disenfranchise unions, etc.

Which is why I think the OWS should be taken more seriously than it is.

( And O how I do go on about that ... )

For all that, the Big Question is: will OWS actually accomplish anything?

Personally, I doubt it. The OWS may be great symbolism for the disenfranchised, but the Wall Street bigwigs and the wealthy in general don’t give a rat’s ass about symbolism simply because they don't have to. They have no incentive to reform a system that works in their favor, and – as long as enough of that money is funneled into the right campaign donations and lobbyist slush funds – neither does the US govt. The only way that will change is if the OWS people can come up with a way to show both the 1% and the govt that they have more to gain financially by reforming the system than by keeping it as it is.

Until that happens – or until the turnout numbers start hitting the tens-of-millions mark for at least a month – all the OWS people can really expect in terms of results is exactly what they’re getting: Wall Street playas standing on the balconies drinking champagne and laughing at the hippies.

Desperate but not serious,

This is dF

Beware.



[Via Suicide Watch]

Can he kick it,

This is dF

In these tough economic times, it pays to retrain yrself to increase yr employability.

Having unexplained mystical powers also helps.



The greatest thing about this is, of course, the gratuitous cat. Otherwise, you'd think this was some kind of con.

By invitation only,

This is dF

Yr mainstream political lede of the day:





I can’t possibly add anything to that. Except that she'd better bring a lightsaber.

The full interview is here, if you want to hear Shapiro and Bachmann prove that Obama is the worst president ever AND an honorary member of Hamas.

Dangerous,

This is dF

Bad enough dude,

This is dF

Ever have one of these days?



I just did.

For a few hours, anyway.

Naughty monkey,

This is dF

Yr weekend time-waster for today: LOLsharks.





All this and more at Fuck Yeah Sharks [via Warren Ellis]. Some are funnier than others, but these two made me laugh for five whole minutes.

Jumping the shark,

This is dF

When you absolutely, positively have nothing else to blog, there is always Ninja Cat demonstrating his “coming closer by standing still” technique.


This is waiting for one of you to remix it with the Dramatic Chipmunk sting at the end. I’d do it myself, but I have a deadline to deal with.

Enter the ninja cat,

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