Stop the “Lynching” of Rod Blagojevich: A Great Governor

The title right there pretty much says it all, no?  The author, one Peter N. Kirstein deploys his considerable, er, intellect in defense of the current frontrunner for Sleazebag of the Year.  You can go read the entire thing if you like (and then come back and explain to me how our nation “gratuitously spills their blood…in emergency rooms,” for fuck’s sake), or you can view his Wikipedia entry and learn everything you need to know.

Kirstein is a progressive known for his antiwar views, dynamic lectures and support of academic freedom.  He claims to be a pacifist.

He is a nationally known advocate of academic freedom and has defended free-speech rights of many scholars who were denied tenure, incarcerated or removed from their position for speech and controversial writings.

It’s simply astonishing, is it not, how often the words “pacifist” and “completely ignorant of history and/or the law” go together, no?  A private company firing someone – or otherwise refusing to grant immutable job security (a bullshit concept if ever there was one) – has (pay attention now) NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Only the GOVERNMENT can infringe on freedom of speech, you cockbiters, not a private company.  Jeebus, you can’t even ACT smart.

And “incarcerated”??  Just where the fuck do you think you live, son?  

Sweartagad, it is my stated goal in life to ensure my children enter University with nothing but wariness for these parasites, these psychic leeches.  There will be no starry-eyed professor worship going on here, I tell you.

Via Pirate Ballerina

Ben Affleck is visiting refugee camps in war-torn eastern Congo, where at least 250,000 people have been displaced by recent fighting, and says more aid money is needed.

The actor has visited the Central African country four times since 2007 and also has made a documentary about its problems.

“I’m not an expert in international affairs or diplomacy, but it doesn’t take that to see the tremendous suffering here,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday in Goma, the regional capital. “It’s not something that we as human beings can, in good conscience, ignore.”

Bennie, Benzo, Bentard…  Son, I used to like you.  You and your heterosexual life partner Mattie made a gorgeous little movie, a shitpot of money, and all of a sudden you’re an expert on international affairs?  I don’t think so.

Yes, almost the entirety of Africa is one huge stinking cesspool of corruption and failure, and we have been pouring money into it by the C-130-full since the dawn of fucking time…kindly notice it hasn’t made one eensy bit of difference.  Hell, the pirates in Somalia are credited with rejuvenating that “country’s” “economy” with the ransom money they bring in.  And honestly, since they’re countrymen, they have a better chance of bootstrapping that shithole than do we over-privileged whities.

So, son, why don’t you recall the fact that you have a tiny child at home, another one on the way, and remove your amateur ass from the firing line.  You want to save Africa?  Well, Africa has to want to save itself first.