Shooting Ourselves in the Dick

October 17th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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It pisses me the fuck off. Whenever there is the slight­est chance for an actual pop­ulist move­ment to arise in this coun­try and have a hope in hell of con­nect­ing with the masses the bas­tions of “lib­eral” ide­o­log­i­cal purity rear up and do their fuck­ing best to drive peo­ple away from it. Case in point, this idi­otic piece of dri­vel from Greg Laden.


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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

June 28th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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This story didn’t get much press yes­ter­day — prob­a­bly because the nerdlingers were too a’flutter over the Supreme Court deci­sion for­bid­ding California from ban­ning the sale of “vio­lent” videogames to minors — but there was actu­ally a sec­ond, and far more impor­tant SCOTUS deci­sion handed down yesterday.


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FUCK!!

May 31st, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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Fuck me, I just read what might be the stu­pid­est com­ment of all time. From the usu­ally sane John Gruber com­ment­ing on the idi­otic announce­ment from the World Health Organization cat­e­go­riz­ing cell phone “radi­a­tion” as “pos­si­bly can­cer causing”:


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Missing the Point

May 18th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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First off I want to say that I hold Mike Lee in the utmost respect and bear him absolutely no ill will. That said, I think his call for devel­op­ers to “boy­cott” Apple’s iOS In App Purchase API both misses the point and doesn’t go far enough.


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Dave Winer on Gender Relations

December 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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I hon­estly don’t know what it is about New Media Douchebags that com­pels them to com­ment on shit that they have no busi­ness pon­tif­i­cat­ing about (ok, I lie. I know exactly what com­pels them). Nonetheless, they seem inca­pable of refrain­ing. Today I noticed that one of my favorite know-nothing loud­mouths, Dave “Get Off My Lawn” Winer, decided to bless us with his pow­er­ful wis­dom regard­ing the accu­sa­tions of rape being lev­eled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. I’m not of a mind to debate the ethics of WikiLeaks, and I’m cer­tainly not qual­i­fied to dis­cuss mat­ters of Swedish jurispru­dence. If read­ing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is any indi­ca­tor, Swedish law is fun­da­men­tally weird. However, Dave’s dis­jointed and facile com­ments need addressing.


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Why I Love the Irish

December 10th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Dig this angry mick lay­ing out the rea­sons why Ireland’s econ­omy is bug­gered. Especially the part where he points out that the U.S. is next. “Wankin’ bankers,” indeed.


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Here We Go

December 1st, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Local pol­i­tics too no less — skip this one if that ain’t your bag.

This actu­ally took even less time than I antic­i­pated, but is it in any way shape or form sur­pris­ing? Today Jan Brewer, the daffy bint that Arizona swept into office as Governor, revealed her master-plan for fix­ing the State’s econ­omy. Of course, as any­one with half a brain cell could have pre­dicted, it con­sists of…wait for it…


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Revolutions in New Media Douchebaggery

September 29th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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There was an exam­ple of nar­cis­sis­tic New Media Douchebag fuck­wit­tery this week that actu­ally forced me to pause, take a break to record this weeks Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast, and come back to the fes­ter­ing pit of stu­pid just so that my blood pres­sure didn’t spike so high that my eye­balls popped out of their sock­ets. And what, you might ask, was the dim-witted doltish­ness that caused such a reac­tion? Well, ’twas the infu­ri­at­ingly self-absorbed response by Anil Dash to Malcom Gladwell’s recent arti­cle in The New Yorker titled “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.”


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What New Media Douchebags Know About Economics…

September 28th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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…col­lec­tively couldn’t fill a thim­ble. Witness a recent dose of insi­pid­ity from Seth Grodin, who is some sort of mar­ket­ing guru or some such twad­dle. Seth makes the argu­ment that we are cur­rently expe­ri­enc­ing two reces­sions. One, the cycli­cal eco­nomic one that all sane peo­ple mean when they say “reces­sion,” and one that is noth­ing less than the death of the Industrial Era.


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PZ Is Wrong About the Qur’an Burning

September 9th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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I sadly have to dis­agree with PZ over at Pharyngula regard­ing the con­tro­versy sur­round­ing some bumpkin’s plan to burn a copy of the Qur’an. In a post today PZ essen­tially argues that the only appro­pri­ate to the threat­ened book roast­ing is a hearty, “whatever.”


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