The Angry Dwarf

Hate Congress; Hate Executive Branch More - Vol II

2007-08-04T21:25:00.000-05:00

This is a letter I sent to my congressperson. Gah! I be so frustrated with them.Dear Congressperson,I am dismayed at the Democratic leadership. It seems strange that I'm using that word so often, but here again I am, dismayed at the Democratic leadership. Caving to the least-liked president in a century (and closing in on the coveted 'worst. president. ever.' award) on illegal spying on

Where've I Been?

2007-07-28T21:13:00.001-05:00

create your own visited states map

I Are Serious Cat

2007-07-23T18:13:00.000-05:00

Your Score: Serious Cat 37% Affectionate, 48% Excitable, 55% Hungry Hungry for knowledge in any internet forum, you demand decorum. Any off-topic remarks, absurd statements, or tomfoolery on the interweb is deeply frowned upon by you. Truth has no room for drollery. Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test

Libertarianism in a Nutshell

2007-07-21T21:35:00.001-05:00

Hunter gets to the heart of it:If a liberal sees a starving child, they want to give them some food. If a conservative sees a starving child, they want to give them a Bible. And if a libertarian sees a starving child, they want to build a privacy fence so they don't have to look at that shit anymore.The rest of it is well worth reading, as well.(Help! Help! How did I get in this nutshell? This

Spolier Free Review of Deathly Hallows

2007-07-21T19:12:00.000-05:00

Wash Dies.Okay, kidding. It was good.

Short Anwers to Hemant's Questions

2007-07-20T17:59:00.000-05:00

From FriendlyAtheist, reposted from my comments there. Why do you not believe in God? I see no evidence or need for such a being to exist. Reality is better explained by leaving such a being out. Where do your morals come from?Selfishness and empathy - that guy is getting mugged. How would I want others to react if it were me being mugged? Etc. What is the meaning of life?I create my own

Blake's Law

2007-07-17T21:29:00.000-05:00

I was there, man, the very day that Blake's Law (or rather, Blake's Corollary to Godwin's Law) was birthed, screaming to wake the dead and desperately clawing to strangle its sire with the umbilical. Alas, it has been irreverently crammed down the tubes into the Pharyngula entry. Too bad, Blake Stacey.

Friday Grog Blogging: Rogue Dead Guy Ale

2007-07-13T18:03:00.000-05:00

Yo Ho Ho and a sack of doubloons. Tonight I'm drinking Rogue's Dead Guy Ale. This is my first official foray into Rogue's extensive catalog. Head downstairs for some Roguery.Dead Guy Ale's a golden, murky amber. Rogue says it's a German-style Maibock, but it's different from other maibock's I've had. A hint of sweet aftertaste. A little hoppy, but good to swish around your mouth. I'd say

Pope Says: Non-Catholic=Non-Christian

2007-07-11T19:02:00.000-05:00

This gave me a little chuckle. A 16-page document, prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Pope Benedict used to head, described Christian Orthodox churches as true churches, but suffering from a "wound" since they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope.But the document said the "wound is still more profound" in the Protestant denominations -- a view likely to further

Lupin/RBF: Hungry Like the Wolf

2007-07-05T18:27:00.000-05:00

If I had time and the skills, I'd do an AMV of their new song "My Imaginary Friend" with scenes from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Unfortunately, the CD's not even out yet.I have it because I saw them in KC on Tuesday.

Cronyism>Rule of Law

2007-07-02T18:36:00.000-05:00

Son of a Fuck. Convicted Felon Libby gets his prison sentence commuted to probation. I should have expected it, but I really was rooting for the rule of law. I guess Scooter really was itching to squeal on the Penguin.Treason: IOKIYAR.

Friday Grog Blogging: Schild Brau

2007-06-29T22:39:00.000-05:00

Yippie Ki Yay, Neddarinos. This week I'm rambling about Millstream's Schild Brau. Here's More Dwarf than you can handle.It's quite an interesting brew, almost sweet. Nice and cold. The head faded quickly; on this beer it's a good thing. Mmmm. A beautiful, clear orange-brown. This really rounds out the trifecta. It's official: Millstream Sample Pack, you rock!Six pints out of Eight. This

Giuliani Tongue-Fucks Pat Robertson's Asshole

2007-06-27T22:05:00.000-05:00

150 graduates of this fourth-tier law schooltheocratic indoctrination facility are members of the Bush Junta. Are you fucking scared yet?

Friday Grog Blogging: Colony Oatmeal Stout

2007-06-22T18:13:00.000-05:00

Avast! Tonight be the series finale of Stargate SG-1, and I'm drinking Millstream's Colony Oatmeal Stout, the second beer from the Sample Pack. You may not want More Dwarf, but you're getting it.Pouring: It's got a nice, thick head that's a darker brown than normal for a stout. Cool.First Sip: It's spicy, and oatmealy, and all in all quite good. It's got a pleasant aftertaste that doesn't

What Digby Said

2007-06-20T18:02:00.001-05:00

This has been another edition of What Digby Said.

AMV: Kiss Me Deadly with FLCL

2007-06-19T22:19:00.000-05:00

This is just really good for AMV. The song kicks ass, too

Friday Grog Blogging: Windmill Wheat

2007-06-15T18:42:00.000-05:00

Ach, ye great galoots! It be time fer the Grog Blog. Windmill Wheat be our grog this night, buckos. If'n ye want me opinion, then head below decks for More Dwarf.Okay, enough of the Scotch-Dwarf-Pirate talk. Tonight we're drinking Millstream's Windmill Wheat, the first beer from our Sample Pack. Previously I had tried their John's Generations White, which was not from the sample pack - I

Oh, Yeah

2007-06-15T10:44:00.000-05:00

The bigots in Massachusetts failed to intimidate the legislature into letting the public vote on who gets civil liberties. Fuck Yeah! The East Coast is looking better and better.

No Bail For Scooter

2007-06-15T10:24:00.000-05:00

Last night I popped open a bottle of sparkling Italian Moscato d'Asti and toasted good cheers and good riddance to Scooter. I hope he serves every second of his sentence. The handwaving by Bork and the Beltway Elitist Fuck contingent is nothing more than an attempt to subvert the rule of law for the benefit of a toadying colleague.

Nowhere to Go, Belonging to No One

2007-06-15T10:23:00.000-05:00

More of the Tossers.

Ladies & Gentlemen,

2007-06-15T10:21:00.000-05:00

Here are the Tossers:They gon' Toss your salad.

I'm on the Fifth Level

2007-06-10T10:28:00.000-05:00

I finally got around to taking the Dante's Inferno Quiz:The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)ModerateLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)Very HighLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)Very

Scooter's Cocksuckers

2007-06-07T20:23:00.000-05:00

Jeebus. How many 'best friends' does this lying fuck have? I've barely skimmed a fifth of the letters, and I'm convinced now more than ever of the lengths people (mostly IOKIYAR dipshits) will go to to excuse a traitor of obstructing justice. I hope the judge denies bail. I hope he rots. Fucking traitor.

Friday Grog Blogging: John's Generations White

2007-06-01T18:29:00.001-05:00

And we're back to the Friday Grog Blogging! Sorry about last week; there was a freak Pirate swarm that dragged me away from my booze.This week is a beer from Millstream Brewing Company, John's Generations White Ale. Head on down to More Dwarf for "The Rest. Of the Story".Well, it's a beer. It's kind of cold. Tastes a little like a belgian white, but more...banal? Mundane? Almost like

And Here I Had Convinced Myself...

2007-05-30T21:43:00.000-05:00

that Montana was a pretty cool place. From teh Dailykos: (get More Dwarf)Last week I heard about a woman in Great Falls, Montana, who went to her local, privately owned pharmacy, Snyder Drug (NOTE: this pharmacy is not part of the the larger Snyder Drug/Katz corporation), to fill her birth control prescription. When she went to the pharmacy counter, she received a slip of paper signed by the

Hate Congress; Hate Executive Branch More

2007-05-26T23:03:00.000-05:00

Congress is a spineless sack of shit. Those worthless gasbags who voted to send yet another blank check into the endless meatgrinder that is our war of choice should resign their positions and seriously consider taking pistol to brain. They don't deserve to represent the American people any longer. They are utter failures, and our military's blood is on their hands.That said, the Bush Junta is

I Have Made It

2007-05-23T17:08:00.000-05:00

Yes! My first word on Urbandictionary.com is the Word of the Day!nonpology May 23An insincere apology or expression of regret, often blaming the aggrieved party for being offended or bringing up an irrelevant topic to distract."Did you hear Don Imus' nonpology the other day? Like his racist remarks are actually the result of rap music.""I really get tired of politicians' nonpologies. All they're

Catch-22 of Punishing Women for Careers

2007-05-22T18:06:00.000-05:00

This needs to be spread wider, even though it's only in a comment at Pandagon. Posted by LisaKS:no matter what you, fertile woman of childbearing age does, you are just so, so WRONG. It’s almost beautiful in its circular totality. You: 1. Get married, get pregnant, have a baby, stay home to take care of it. Leech! Lazy!2. Get married, get pregnant, have a baby, put in in daycare and go to work

Christian Terrorists

2007-05-22T17:57:00.000-05:00

Wow. I had no faith in the sanity of Liberty University students before, but now, well...Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car. The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service. The devices were made of a

Tear Public Schools Down? WTF?

2007-05-19T19:03:00.001-05:00

I see the crazy free marketers have shown up over at PZ's place. I'll reproduce here what I said over there.The major benefit of public schools is they attempt (imperfectly, but better than the invisible handjob which attempts the opposite) to break down class barriers.In short, if the Libertarians get their way, poor kids will have poor educations which get them low paying service and labor

Saturday Slacking - Grog Blog: Lunar Ale

2007-05-19T18:16:00.000-05:00

Hey hey! So it's Saturday, and as I promised, here's my Grog Blog about Boulevard's Lunar Ale. It's late, but I'm ready to have more beer. I'm watching The Lost Room on DVD now, but you deserve my beer ramblings. Head down to More Dwarf.Poured out in the glass, it's a nice, cloudy brown color. Almost more of a dark orange color, with a head of foam that holds up, but isn't an impenetrable

Grog Blog: Delayed

2007-05-18T23:06:00.000-05:00

Sorry, ya'll, no grog blog tonight. I was out way too late with roommate and his podcasting buddy Tee Morris, crawling the bars. Tomorrow, I'll put up a review of Boulevard's Lunar Ale. Here's something to tide you over. Whoever's reading this.

Lolcat Meme

2007-05-18T22:56:00.001-05:00

Curse you, Blake Stacey!!

Libertarian Punchlines

2007-05-18T22:31:00.000-05:00

I had to share this joke:What did the Libertarian say to the kid who took a shortcut through his lawn? KABOOM!! Hey, he initiated the force...

FBI Bullies Palm Beach Sheriff

2007-05-13T09:57:00.000-05:00

How much more fucked up can our system of justice get? From C&L:Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has been cleared of allegations that she falsified her Palm Beach County voter's registration and voted illegally — this, after a high-level FBI agent made unsolicited phone calls to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to vouch for Coulter. The caller wasn't just any G-man. According to PBSO

Big Let-Down

2007-05-13T09:36:00.000-05:00

I got my hopes up, and then they were crushed.From Crooks & Liars. CNN just put up the wrong caption for Lapdog Blair. Boo.

Rudy Snubs Poor Iowa Farmers

2007-05-12T16:47:00.000-05:00

America's Nutjob, Fear-Mongering Mayor really fucks it up in Iowa. From Talking Points Memo and the Des Moines Register:Deborah VonSprecken had looked forward to having former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani photographed with Jack of Diamonds, one of the Texas Longhorns on her family's 80-acre farm near the eastern Iowa town of Olin.Instead VonSprecken and her husband, Jerry, feel they

ThemTube: Silly Walks

2007-05-11T11:29:00.000-05:00

Friday Grog Blogging: Breck's Vanilla Porter

2007-05-11T10:57:00.000-05:00

Welcome to Friday Grog Blogging, the time of the week when I buy beer, drink it, and ramble. This week I'm enjoying Breckenridge Brewery's Vanilla Porter, an "ale brewed with real vanilla beans". Continue on for More Dwarf.First Impressions: There's a strong aftertaste of vanilla. Which is good, because it's supposed to. It's dark and warm, but not too heavy. A mild beeriness spreads out

The Space Pope!

2007-05-10T18:36:00.000-05:00

Hooray for the robit!

Friday Grog Blogging: Great White

2007-05-04T17:33:00.000-05:00

Welcome back to Friday Grog Blogging, in which I buy a new brand of beer, drink it, and then describe it. This week, May 4, is a wheat beer from Lost Coast Brewery that they call Great White Beer. Let's go to More Dwarf, eh?Impressions: poured out in a glass, it's almost as clear as Bell's Lager. Hrm. It claims to be an 'unfiltered beer' but we're approaching American piss-water in color.What

Obama Thinks You're a Worthless Pile of Shit

2007-05-02T17:43:00.000-05:00

I'm not competent to testify on the legality of this move, but the sheer Dickitude of Obama's campaign is astounding. Micah Sifry lays it all out for us (h/t MyDD)In November 2004, Joe Anthony, a paralegal living in Los Angeles, started a unofficial fan page for then-newly-elected Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) on MySpace.com. Inspired by Obama's keynote address at that summer's Democratic

Friday Grog Blogging: Bell's Lager Beer

2007-04-27T19:00:00.000-05:00

Hello and welcome back to Friday Grog Blogging. This week, the last week of April, I’ll be discussing Bell’s Lager Beer, a "Lager of the Lakes". Continue on to More Dwarf for my review and scoring.I wanted to go for something lighter this week, after last week's 'classic' red/porter. I wasn't disappointed. It's definitely lighter.Impressions: Clear and yellowy, this is just beer. Your grandpa

Dem Primary Debate - Live Comments

2007-04-26T17:59:00.000-05:00

Go watch it yourself. I'm just going to put comments up here so I don't scream at the television.6:02 - Kucinich is a creepy elf.6:03 - Kapow! Lightning Round!!6:05 - Hillary says a good, blanket, bedrock statement.6:08- Biden says we must 'change the fundamental premise' of the occupation. Oh, god. Segregation and partition of the lands probably won't work. Kurdistan is a non-starter in the

Penny Arcade - QFT

2007-04-25T22:41:00.000-05:00

Todd Goldman - Art Thief.Jack Thompson - Crazy Obsessed Lawyer-like Creature.But then again, we already knew those things.

The Future Is Now

2007-04-25T07:06:00.000-05:00

Just a few quick links, one quirky and one utterly amazing.Kryptonite found in SerbiaOkay, cool, just a bit funny, fiction and fact colliding. But wait. There's more.Earthlike 'Squid Planet' discovered around Gliese 581(h/t Pharyngula[sorry, Phil, I read there first])

Monday Miseries

2007-04-23T18:16:00.000-05:00

I'm working on setting up something so I can tuck things 'below the fold'. Continue on to get More Dwarf. Well, here we are. I've never been much of one for programming, but I suppose I'll have to start pulling myself up by the bootstraps. Meh. I bet I'll use it sparingly, but it's pretty nice having the option.

Friday Grog Blogging

2007-04-20T16:57:00.000-05:00

Avast, and ach, and ahoy! Nothing's more dwarfey than a good pint of beer, and so from now on I'll be blogging about a brand of beer I'm drinking this week. Some might say I'll be sampling each week's pick as I blog about it. This is an amateur beer lover's opinions. At this point I'm not going to delve into beer jargon, because I don't know any.For the most part, I'll be talking six packs

SCOTUS Screws Over Women

2007-04-18T20:25:00.000-05:00

Shamelessly stolen and abridged from The Simpsons: "kid: Well why can't we just make a law against [abortion]?Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional.But if we [stacked the Supreme Court with Loyal Bushies who installed Dubya in office in the first place]....kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!Amendment: Door's open, boys! Yee haw!"Short-Ride Lieberman and the

Gonzales

2007-04-18T07:02:00.000-05:00

Disappointed that our friendly neighborhood AG, TortureSnoop, didn't go up before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. With all the 'I don't recall' and 'I have no recollection' in his pre-released opening statements, Gonzales is either Leonard from Memento or the world's worst liar. Either way, he's got to go. Preferably to prison.The only thing Abu Gonzales is good at is loyal toadying.

Over the Edge

2007-04-16T19:05:00.000-05:00

I am beyond rage today. Usually, I can summon up the spark of indignation in response to the latest O'Reilly idiocy, or fascist theocrat talking point, or Malkinizaton of the facts by Reich Blogistan.But today I'm just spinning my wheels. The deaths in western Virginia and the subsequent capitalization on them by pundits and talking heads and gasbags is just too much. "If we all had Uzis and

Late Friday X Blogging

2007-04-13T22:09:00.000-05:00

Well, as people are wont to do hereabouts in Blogtopia (thanks skippy), Fridays are rife with series, such as Friday Cephalopod, Friday dose of Woo, the Friday kick to the face (thanks Chris Sims), and so on. And so forth.Well, I'm hopping the bandwagon, just not this week. I swear, by next week or the week after I'll have come up with my own special Fridayism.Maybe the Friday Dwarf Rant, or

First Impressions of Super Paper Mario

2007-04-12T20:46:00.000-05:00

The lack of turn-based battles makes the game seem, well, quicker.It's still a bunch of fun, don't get me wrong. And I'm constantly low on flipping power because it's totally sweet. But I'd like something, well, longer.Then again, I'm only on world 3. Maybe there's a twist and a second group of Mystical MacGuffins will need to be collected. But probably not.And when will we finally get Super

LiveBlogging TDS

2007-04-11T22:13:00.000-05:00

Paraphrased:McCain: "I'd rather lose a Campaign than a War."Jon 'Don' Stewart: "Luckily for you, Senator, you might not have to choose."Daily Show For The Win!

Hear the Good News

2007-04-06T07:46:00.000-05:00

Rejoice! There is no God! What matters are our actions! God is a Fiction, a Shame on our collective intellect. Push him Out The Door, along with oh so many others, too many to name. Isis, and Odin, and Loki, and Anansi, Quetzlcoatl, Ra, Brigit, Camulus, and all the rest of those frickin' goa'uld.

Long Weekend Train Blogging

2006-09-26T18:04:00.000-05:00

I'm riding the rails outta here, off to the West and Adventure! Okay, probably not so much. But at least I won't be at work.

This Be The Day, Buckos

2006-09-19T07:08:00.000-05:00

Avast! Today be the day, buckoes, that landlubbers across the seven seas be thinkin' to pick up some pirate jargon and toss it around like a keg o' black powder. These scurvy codswallops have no respect for our cruel mistress, the sea. No, they'll be keelhauled at the first sign o piracy. I think i'll string the lot of 'em up the mizzenmast, and use their corpses for me mainsail.

An Ideology of Hope?

2006-09-11T07:23:00.000-05:00

Matt Lauer, Katie Couric's (former) resident bootlicker, is talking to the president this morning. Bush has said we're fighting an 'ideology of hate' with an 'ideology of hope'. That sounds good, but are we actually doing that? As I see it, Bush's ideology of hope means everyone bends knee to Jebus Christ, whether they want to or not. This 'ideology of hope' is dog-whistle rhetoric to evoke

Tradeoffs?

2006-09-08T07:18:00.000-05:00

Matt Lauer is talking with Ted Koppel this morning about the tradeoffs between security and personal liberty. There's just one problem, Matt: We didn't trade liberty for security (and we all know what our favorite Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said about that), Matt, we gave up the Constitution so our Chimperor could throw money down a rat hole. Yes, a rat hole, hiding behind which are

ABC's Propaganda

2006-09-07T23:09:00.000-05:00

I have heard almost enough about the ABC whore-out to the right-wing as I want to. The only other news in this vein I want to see is that they've decided not to air it. After Jon Benet Cover-fire, I want the televised media to refocus on the ruling that our Executive Branch has taken the Constitution and ate it, shat it out, fed that shit to us, made us shit it out, and then made us eat the

Thoughts on today's Boycott

2006-05-01T07:13:00.000-05:00

Those in power will always say, "Do not disturb our thoughtless existence, do not make us think about the minority." But I say to you now, They will never give you your rights until you Demand them. No freedoms were ever won, no biases broken down, no barriers were ever overcome by standing off to the side and not making a fuss. As with the struggles for equality and liberty that have gone

Retitled

2006-02-22T17:56:00.000-06:00

I changed the name of this here blog. One day I'll get a Dwarf Mode to rival that of Pirate Mode, but for now, this is The Angry Dwarf.

Inaugural Post, I Guess

2006-02-15T23:18:00.000-06:00

So here I am, throwing my hat into an already bloated ring. Out here, the wheat and chaff are quickly separated. So let's give it a try. I'm not sure what this 'blog' is about, yet, but maybe I'll get there eventually. For now I'm going to vent towards anyone who wanders by.

In Which I Decide to Get Political

2006-02-15T21:54:00.000-06:00

The Washington Post asks us if these new Abu Ghraib pictures surfacing 'wrench us further away from...closure'. You're right they do, and they should. We have no right to closure, not when those who have perpetrated, encouraged, and ordered this degrading treatment still free, unpunished, shooting 78-year-old men in the face, slaughtering innocent civilians and pen-raised pheasants by the

Vent the First (of the Thermal Kind)

2006-02-15T21:21:00.000-06:00

I miss snow. I love to watch it fall. It brings pure, ecstatic joy to my heart. Snow instills a feeling of purity to me, no matter how far behind I have left my provincial religion. Whenever there is snow, I have hope. I can acknowledge that snow drives others crazy. Snow can make travel more difficult, yes, in my mind its benefits outweigh the drawbacks that are largely due to human