Watch with pleasure as Greenwald eviscerates winger hack and Army spokesdroid Stephen Boylan*, who won’t release requested material to TNR, but does leak it to sluttish, pouty-lipped, autocoprographic concentration camp advocate and stalker-of-12-year-olds Michelle Malkin. Assholes.  Read more 

Or, rather, speaking of an enormous, mendacious, disembodied anus: The existential predicament shared by the “assholes” in the Conservative “movement,” the assholes who’d attack a 12-year-old-boy [Down, Mark, dammit!] has been anticipated by—who else—William Burroughs. As always, the lunch is naked:

BENWAY: “Don’t take it so hard, kid…. Jeder macht eine kleine Dummheit.” (Everyone makes a little dumbness. )

SCHAFER: “I tell you I can’t escape a feeling… well, of evil about this.”

BENWAY: “Balderdash, my boy… We’re scientists. …Pure scientists. Disinterested research and damned be him who cries ’Hold,too much !’ Such people are no better than party poops.”

SCHAFER: “Yes, yes, of course… and yet… I can’t get that stench out of my lungs….”

BENWAY (irritably): “None of us can…. Never smelled anything remotely like it…. […]

Schafer is not listening. “You know,” he says impulsively, “I think I’ll go back to plain old- fashioned surgery. The human body is scandalously inefficient. Instead of a mouth and an anus to get out of order why not have one all-purpose hole to eat and eliminate? We could seal up nose and mouth, fill in the stomach, make an air hole direct into the lungs where it should have been in the first place….”

BENWAY: “Why not one all-purpose blob? Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard.

Burroughs was ahead of his time. We’ve heard that sound plenty. You know what it is. It’s the sound of The Mighty Wurlitzer, isn’t it?  Read more 

Via Gizmodo (“Japanese Bra Also Carries Your Melons”), this candidate for bra of the week:

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And no one even set her up.

No, she managed to punk herself. She’s always punking herself. You could say her entire oeuvre is one long exercise in self-punking. What else could you call a nutty revisionist history that seeks to reassure us the internment of Japanese Americans in WW2 was justified, no need for apologies, because “Japs” are “Japs” and even the American ones were a threat, and why are we letting a politically correct version of history keep us from learning the right lesson from that proud moment in our history, so we can apply it to Muslim Americans today?

Of course no one takes that book seriously, except her rightwing brethren, which doesn’t stop Malkin from getting astonishing amounts of media attention.

The punking I have in mind is minor in comparison, but it’s contemporary with the delight she took in holding this blog up to derision, along with other liberal blogs, for getting “punked,“ her word, by a deliberately faked story, complete with photoshopping, and coordination between three different websites.

This little story probably says less about Malkin and more about the dismal state of our free press, from whence she got it, pretty much copying it into her blog, as she so often does, and then running with it by way of a few of her signature flourishes.

Here’s the gist:  Read more