More talking points

Here are the recent set of research- based arguments approved by Rash Limbo, Glenn Bleech, et al for their independent thinkers, known as dittoheads.

• Kick 'em in the behind.
• Spit on 'em.
• Call 'em Nazis.

Repeat as necessary.

Beagletarians, including a frequent contributor, suggest a more enlightened way to resolve differences.

photo stolen from Warshigton Past

Be afraid

We are not kidding this time.

"They" have developed a robot that eats biomass and which it cooks in its stomach for the purpose of long-range roboting, for whenever you need to send a robot unassisted into the jungles of Papau New Guinea.

(Seen in a Harper's)

Some respond vehemently to unfounded internet rumors and Fox News.

Watch a robot eat donuts.

Talking points memo

Kouture Korner

Having invented the bikini in 1946, the French think everyone should wear one -- and less of one all the time. It brings to mind how matters of great consequence get trivialized so easily -- as in the notion that the bikini split the atome, ha ha ha. And also the great proto-frog Charlemagne who lopped off the heads of anyone who didn't go to his church.

Contrarians ask, what about the Greeks, hunh?

Tried and true tactics

Boston Tea Party? maybe, but to us the streams of GOSPer "debate teams" hearkens back to the "Bloody Sixth Ward," made famous in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.

The 1863 New York Draft Riots arose from Irish resentment that they were being conscripted to liberate African Americans who were going to move in next door and take their crappy jobs for lower wages.

According to historian Tyler Ansinger, only one Five Points Irisher was drafted and showed up, Hugh Boyle, 27, of 24 Mott St., who served with the 18th New York Cavalry in Gainnie Landing, Louisiana. A true maverick with an independent spirit, he refused to follow the crowd and be an agent of the federal government in occupied Texas, so he absconded back to Mott St. with his Remington.

Admiral Poindexter effect

GoogleCorp peruses the Beagle then slips in a little plug from the dyspeptic Birchers and Birthers at Human Events. Thanks, but no thanks.

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From the Advanced Institute for Conservative Studies

A concise summary of the GOSPer arguments against health care reform.