TIME TO PLAY "SUNDAY STUMP THE PANEL"
Two open questions to debate.
1) When Messers. "Ikey-Kikey-I-Got-Your-Bikey" Lieberman and Podhoretz, the WHO-WAAH Ann Coulter, Senator John "Crazy Hands" McCain and America's Mayor Rudolf "That-Lisp-Is-None-Too-Masculine-Son" Giuliani want to demolish Iran, are the 100,000s of Persian Jews and Christians and Atheists (never mind), yes, to be included as part of collateral damage or no, not be included? Have Maxwell Smart, 99 and "The Chief" worked out a secret passage-way for the non-Muslims? A Cone-Of-Protection to be placed over each? That would be a very complicated thing to do given the bustle of downtown Teheran but Halliburton in company with CONTROL ought to be able to get the job done. Maybe Diane Tomlinson, having made her way back from Teheran recently has the answer at http://thedisbrimstone-dailypitchfork.blogspot.com/
Please discuss.
2) We note today that Oprah Winfrey has chosen Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera as her most recent book selection. Lots of topics here. What took you so fucking long, Ms.-50-pounds-of-crack? When was that published anyway, 1986? By its late inclusion are we to infer that she regards this as a lesser (ahem) work than Barack Obama's (ok, Barack Obama's ghostwriter's) The Audacity Of Hope, Augustin Burrows's Running With Scissors, the lastest confessional of child abuse by Barbara Kingsolver, or Britney In Her Own Words? Or does she have some odd Kelso-esque geograpical plan for her choices in which (er) works American are to be followed by works Equatorial? And if so, what was wrong with 100 Years Of Solitude? Or No One Writes To The Colonel? Both preceded today's choice by a number of years. We'll let Ms.-50-lbs-Of-Crack off the hook for not including El Coronel, it does, after all take a positive disposition on cockfighting.
Please discuss.
And be cool about that terrible, terrible thing that happened in Pasadena, mmm-kay?
Late addition: OBAMA WATCH CONTINUES
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071007/ap_on_el_pr/obama_churches_2;_ylt=Avx3EwWOtlFuuBr3iFLYXBEE1vAI
Just how much of a creep can one person be? By the way, Kelso who went to college in New England among these folks don't know how much the reporter knows about religion and social class, but the Church Of Christ is not what's considered "mainline" exactly. That would be Espiscopalian, Presbyterian, Congregationalist and the leftier Methodist churches. And the homilies are hardly of the tub-thumping Obama variety. They are usually about helping the poor and unfortunate. Not that New England artistocrats do THAT exactly, but still...Obama: Rouge on a pig, my friends. Rouge on a pig.
Kelso's Nuts love you
16 comments:
Tovarisch Ser Kelso!
My finest reporter can be reached at tmlnsn_dn@yahoo.co.uk. She, by the way, is killing my coin purse as I lost an AUREUS on UCLA last night and a GUINEA on USC. I either need to leave that rugby like American game alone, learn more about betting or institute an office wide no betting policy.
Yes Ser Kelso I am fully aware that the latter would lead to a full on riot. Alas, I do now have an appreciation for American university football as it were. But give me a good cricket test match any day!
Qu'ul cuda praedex nihil!
Texas Tech, E Mich, Indiana saved things on college grid but NHL was a fucking melt down. Worst single day in 18 years of betting ice!
I love cricket but only limited-overs both from an analysis/betting standpoint and as a fan. Test and county too dependent on weather and managerial decisions in the running. I used to live on corner of Draycott Pl and Sloane Ave and I'd go see Surrey every time they were home on Sunday at Oval. Nice walk.
We, Ser kelso, have trodden the same patches in our considerably divergent Lifetimes.
So in the spirit of good pints and women in sundresses enjoying local matches and men enjoying the scenery I will take up the task of giving an explanatory on how the writers at the Daily Pitchfork came to write therein. For Diane Tomlinson it will be a trip down mammary lane. For everyone else a Cup of Kindness may be needed to ease the sting of wounds opening.
Indeed. England. FSU. US. You grow up in the PR barrio in NYC by any chance? That would truly be freaky.
Ser Kelso,
Nope no barrio for this demon, not in New York a town that lost its lustre for me after '67 and then Chicago in 68 and the end of the coup, but I may be speaking out of turn my friend.
You're preaching to the choir. Pink-diaper baby.
How about this -- did you know any of the crew in London from RISK MAGAZINE and EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: Peter Field, Melvyn Westlake, Peter Eavis, Susan (Hogg) Robinson?
The other hacks I knew well were on the other side of the fence: Aiden Hartley and Anne Applebaum.
Amazing that esoteric financial journals were fully of Socialists, no? That was England in the 90s.
...and an American kid named Paul Hofheinz. Well, Anne's American, too. Paul's grandfather was Judge Roy Hofheinz original owner of the Houston Astros, but Paul's red.
Oprah is a pop psychology spewing, pseudo-spiritualist, pretentious, pandering poser.
And if by the "terrible thing that happened in Pasadena" you mean my beloved Bruins getting their asses handed to them YET AGAIN, then no... I can't be cool about it. I should have gone to Cal. And the basketball pisses me off even more than the football. Can I look forward to another March full of false hopes in 2008? Always a bridesmaid with these guys. There will never be another John Wooden and Lou Alcindor, but c'mon already!
SR: I am a professional gambler. There are only three teams I care about in my heart. THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN BASEBALL CLUB and the UCLA BRUINS FOOTBALL and BASKETBALL teams. On successive weekends I've witnessed UCLA lose as 13 1-2 point favorites to Utah at Utah, the METS blow a 7 1-2 game lead on 9/18 to Philadelphia on the last day, and the capper, UCLA losing AT HOME, AS 20 1-2 POINT FAVORITES TO MY VERY LEAST FAVORITE TEAM IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL -- NOTRE DAME! You KNOW not to expect much from Bruin grids but to lose that way to THEM. Urgh.
U-C-L-A, fight, fight, fight!
YES, SR, I had the very same decision to make for grad school. It was a tough choice which I ultimately made on a change of pace because I had been living in the East Village and Berkeley just wasn't enough of a change. There was really nothing to separate the two schools in quality and I loved the education I got at UCLA. I just wish I didn't also inherit that football team. I can't cry too much about the basketball team. 1995 was sweet but I wasn't living in the US then so I saw approximately none of the games. I may be, however, the only UCLA fan that doesn't mind USC at all.
Okay, I made myself read it, in spite of being so done with Obama. Ugh. At least pigs are honest.
I (finally) heard the "famous" Obama "anti-war" speech of 2002. Z, this was not Joan Baez. This was a speech typical of Obama in which he opposed, yet supported, the war in Iraq. He left himself plenty of room in that speech to position himself right along with Lieberman and McCain.
Obama deserves nothing but vitriol for his Reverend Ike impersonation but we applaud his abandoning the omni-present flag pin.
Don't knock Oprah too much.
Once my book is published, I plan on being on her show.
I'll pretend to give a fuck what middle-aged, smarmy white women think if I can bring in the cheese.
FAIRLANE:
You are one of the few what gets it. Wanting the cheese is NOT ANTI PROGRESSIVE. See George Soros and John Meriwether for details.
Aahhhh... a fellow Bruin. I very much value the undergrad education I received and often feel nostalgia for my college days. I don't really regret not going to Berkeley, although my parents were the ones who forced that choice. UCLA was overall a wonderful experience. Such a great History department, which was my major. Not so great Spanish department, which was my minor. I particularly remember trying to muddle my way through La Celestina in a medieval Spanish lit course taught by an incompetent TA. Ugh.
I've been watching UCLA football and basketball since I was a kid growing up in SoCal. My dad interned at UCLA Med Center and has been a HUGE Bruins fan since the 60's. They're the ONLY team I care about and I just need some satisfaction!
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