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Affluence- Matt Taibbi
Inaugural
Balls: Increased Freedom Exports Lead to Domestic Shortage
- Allan Uthman
Dr.
Strangefeld - Alexander
Zaitchik
Ripped
from the Headlines: WMD Not Found, Media Coverage Likewise -
Matt Taibbi
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Mooseshit: A Letter to Marshall Wittman -
Matt Taibbi
2004:
The Year in Regret Timeline
Time
Lies: "Person of the Year" Issue Shits in Your Mouth &
Calls it a Chocolate Sundae-
Matt Taibbi
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Offers Heartfelt Apology
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- Ronnie Roscoe
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Age: America Loves a Good Liar-
Allan Uthman
Power
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Michael Manville
Insane
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Taibbi
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Tips
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Area
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Hilton's What Hot & What's Not in 2005
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by Andrew Gullerstein
Aquarius
(January 21 - February 19)
Y'know
Aquarius, I've tried being nice with you and wearing the kid gloves,
because you have no self-esteem and are a genuinely sad person.
Yet every time I attempt to show you some kindness, you turn around
and stick it up my ass with relish. Well, the gloves are off, you
manipulative little asshole, and I don't want you to be surprised
when you no longer have your shield from reality. You see Aquarius,
the reason you have no self-esteem is because you are worthless.
It's just that simple. You've spent your entire life crying publicly
and playing the "poor me" game in order to gain sympathy
just to fuck your sympathizers as soon as you get a chance. You
are a sad, worthless pile of organic matter and the world would
be a better place if your parents had made a smarter assessment
of their genetic value. Much like mixing bleach and ammonia, a combination
from which only nausea and respiratory arrest come. Fuck you, Aquarius,
you're on my cosmic shit list now. Hell, even the stars can't stay
far enough away from your ick.
Pisces
(February 20 - March 20)
Well
Pisces, no one can say that you didn't try. I mean some guys just
fantasize about being able to blow themselves, but you made it your
mission. All those special workouts and years of Yoga classes you
attended just so that you might be the one. Yes, the one man that
could fully pleasure himself and live free of the curse of woman.
Hell, your dedication to this dream alone should have won you a
Nobel Prize. Of course, that would be rather useless now that you're
in traction and the doctors have given you very little hope that
your neck vertebrae will ever heal. Please, Pisces, don't let the
dream die. You may one day walk again; you may one day live your
dream. Unless of course you get a bed sore, those damn things will
kill you. Just ask Superman.
Aries
(March 21 - April 20)
Aires,
for a hardcore lesbian you seemed rather interested in some dick.
Not that it's a bad thing, it's just changes the whole dynamic that
we've been operating under. The whole thing is just kind of weird
and calls for a new set of guidelines to be established. It's sort
of like discovering a new planet and not being sure if the native
species are harmless Fraggles or those damned Ewoks. Yeah, I know
what you're gonna say about the Ewoks but those fuckers were going
to eat Han, Luke and Chewbacca. People like to forget that part.
So, like I said, it's not a bad thing just weird and potentially
cannibalistic.
Taurus
(April 21 - May 20)
Taurus,
let me make this quick: You're an asshole. Just so we're clean on
this. You're an asshole. I simply don't want there to be any confusion
on the subject, you're an asshole and that all there is to it Taurus.
But you should know this, being the asshole that you are. Not much
else to say, asshole; I have to move on to more worthwhile people.
Gemini
(May 21 - June 20)
Gemini,
you know that light switch in your front hall that doesn't seem
to be connected to anything and every time you walk by you flick
it about a dozen times? Well, you should stop that because there
is a dude in Finland who is going to hop on a plane and kick the
shit out of you. Believe me, sleep depravation can do that to you,
and it takes a lot to piss of a Fin. Just because the switch doesn't
do anything for you doesn't mean it doesn't do anything. You might
think it's fun but that poor bastard's house looks like a Poltergeist
frat house every time you can't control your urges. Have a heart
Gemini, enough foreigners hate us without adding Finland to the
list.
Cancer
(June 21 - July 22)
Cancer,
the stars have told me your lucky number and said that it can change
your life for the better if used properly. The number is "Zadnpf."
Apparently it exists between fourteen and fifteen and hasn't been
discovered by mathematicians as of yet. The stars also mentioned
that it wouldn't be discovered for about three hundred years. So
you're kinda fucked on this one Cancer. Have you considered investing
in Cryogenics?
Leo
(July 23 - August 22)
Leo,
what can I say? You were right, the dumb ass was going to break
his neck if he tried blowing himself. You should give him props
because the paramedics told me that he actually did get it in his
mouth just seconds before his neck broke. Basically, what I am saying
is that I'm not really sure if I owe you the $25 because he technically
was blowing himself before his spine snapped and the wording of
the bet was that he would break his neck if he "tried"
to blow himself. We can talk about it later. If you go to visit
Pisces, just be sure to give him the "keep dreaming the dream"
shit. It helps take his mind of being a cripple.
Virgo
(August 23 - September 22)
Virgo,
it takes a man with gigantic balls and a heart of stone to drink
another man's chocolate milk. Did you even think about what you
were doing? Perhaps you just opened the fridge and said, "Hey,
there's some delicious chocolate milk, nobody could be saving that."
I hope you enjoyed every last drop of it before you buried the evidence
in the garbage can like a dead hooker. All the while the true victim
lay in his bed with dreams of sailing upon calm milk chocolate seas
in search of chocolate chunk islands, only to wake to the ugly sting
of betrayal. One day you'll pay for your treachery, Virgo, for the
Devil will have his due.
Libra
(September 23 - October 22)
Libra,
because you are a pain in the ass, the Cosmos and I are in agreement
that from now on people should refer to their hemorrhoids only as
"Libra" and do away with calling them hemorrhoids. That's
all I have for you Libra; now go play on some train tracks.
Scorpio
(October 23 - November 22)
Scorpio,
I know you've been wondering what would happen if you asked out
that really hot chick at the coffee shop. Well, I conferred with
the stars and have your answer. She would say "no," and
you would be emotionally crushed. Then you would start parking outside
the coffee shop every night just to stare at her through the window.
Shortly after that you would begin to follow her home and park near
her house until you saw all the lights go out. This would continue
until you became increasingly bold. I really don't need to finish
this Scorpio; just accept that asking her out is not a good idea.
As for the girl at the deli? Well I have a feeling that her club
foot will dance it's way into your heart. Well, maybe it won't dance.
Sagittarius
(November 23 - December 21)
Sagittarius
my sweet, if you're going to walk around naked in front of your
windows with the curtains open, then please have the decency to
stick to a set schedule. I've wasted three sick days this week and
it's gotten to the point where I am losing sleep trying to lock
down the pattern, but you simply refuse to cooperate. How else am
I going to know when to have the camera set up or my friends over?
Have some decency, Sagittarius, because I really love tits.
Capricorn
(December 22 - January 20)
Capricorn
what the hell are you bitching about? You're the one that took the
shitty job to begin with because you didn't "feel challenged"
or some bullshit along those lines. Why don't you just be honest and
say that you wanted to bring home more money than the pittance you
were bringing home before. Hell, Capricorn, it's a capitalist society
and you were just doing what comes natural. You could not have possibly
known what a total fucking tool your boss was. I mean, he seemed like
a normal guy at the time, beyond the fact that he had the personality
of an unseasoned crouton. You had no way of knowing he wore powdered
wigs, and spoke in an English accent during private "pants optional"
meetings. Sure he makes you mad and often treats you like shit in
front of the entire staff, but you have something he doesn't, Capricorn.
You have a video of him perched naked on the conference table while
shitting on the Founder's portrait and screaming, "This is my
Mission Statement!" Now Capricorn, just give it a second and
it will come
Let's see some capitalism.
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21.
Alan Colmes
Crimes: An angry conservatives wet dream: an effete liberal
dive artist. As a professional doormat, Colmes only tasks are
to serve as a comforting aggregate of Republican stereotypes about
Democrats and a target for the seething derision of his psychotic
guests. Stands idly by while voracious green-blooded co-host utilizes
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Inaugural
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Allan
Uthman
...The
real problem isn't that Bush's vision is vague, or that it signals
an imperialist agenda that has already been in place for years. It
isn't even that he's completely revised his justification for war
in Afghanistan and Iraq for a proudly amnesiac public, or that he's
launching his trial run at Iran. The real problem about Bush's speech
is that it simply isn't true, and doesn't make any sense. It's 100%
manure from start to finish.
Devil
in an Ice Blue Dress
Matt
Taibbi
Ive
always thought that one of Americas best selling points was
that it never had a king. If there is one thing that defines us as
a people, as opposed to all other peoples, it is this fact. Every
other nation in the world has a dozen or so of those embarrassing
chapters from the past to live down. Not us.
2004
Timeline: The Year in Regret
[sic]
- letters
CHEQUE
YOURSELF
Mr. Uthman,
I
found your magazine online through a link to your '50 Most Loathsome
People' article. Great stuff. However, as a Canadian, I feel the need
to point out a few factual errors in your otherwise insightful 'O
Buffalo' article:
Time
Lies
Matt
Taibbi
...What
was great about Sullivan's "Year of the Insurgents" column
last week was how beautifully it threw the rest of the "Person
of the Year" issue into contrast. Here's Sullivan bitching about
bloggers needing to stay on the margins where they belong; meanwhile,
his "respectable" media company is joyously prancing back
and forth along 190 glossy pages with George Bush's cock wedged firmly
in its mouth.
Disinformation
Age
Allan
Uthman
....The
problem with the left is that our whole model of changing opinionsthat
contrary facts will alter peoples viewsis inherently flawed.
Mundane, oafish Americans, in a national competition to see how many
$3.99 support our troops ribbon magnets they can fit onto
the backs of their Suburbans, simply arent interested in reality...Lets
face it; there is a sizable chunk of the population who deny the validity
of evolutionevolution. Who are we kidding, thinking we
can make them see the errors in Social Security privatization?
Power
1, Truth 0
Michael
Manville
On
December 12th I opened my Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times
and saw in the obituaries that Gary Webb was dead. More specifically,
I saw that Gary Webb had killed himself. He had, it seems, shot himself
in the head. When movers arrived at his house on Saturday they found
a note on the door that said "Please do not enter. Call 911 and
ask for an ambulance."
Drowning
the Scorpion
Stan
Goff
When
I was first invited by Dr. Stephen Smith to speak at Winthrop University
in South Carolina, I was preparing a trip to Haiti and I didn't give
much thought to how I would handle the engagement. I'd just finished
being pole-axed by a bout of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and it was
everything I could do to just pull the Haiti trip together. So I didn't
pay much attention to the person who would appear with me - one Patrick
Clawson - to represent "the other side" in a forum/debate
billed as "What Next in Iraq? A Post-Election Perspective."
The
Top 10 Hacks of the 2004 Election
Matt
Taibbi
10
- GEORGE WILL, NEWSWEEK: Will uses big words and pompous literary
references to dress up what are basically the brutish and vulgar thinking
patterns of a non-union meat-packing plant owner. He is a pig in a
lace hat.
Pick
of the Litter
Pat
Ragpicker
It's
4am on a winter night, and I'm parked on a dead end street near Kaisertown.
Its a secluded corner of the city I found by driving around
aimlessly. I'm new to town, and penniless after buying my van with
$700 I squirreled away the last time I got a paycheck. That was 7
months ago. Over those months, I managed to live off a few hundred
bucks while sleeping in a warehouse closet and helping some friends
make a TV show to try selling to a network.
Tortures-R-Us
Christopher
Lord
Iraqis
wondering what the next phase of the Republicans' invasion of their
country will bring should consider El Aguacate airstrip in Honduras.
In 2001, 185 bodies were dug up there: the victims were the 'terrorists'
and 'enemies of democracy' of the day.
O
Buffalo
Al
Uthman
It's
time to face some unpleasant facts, Buffalo. This country may not
be the best place for us anymore. On November 2nd, we all bore witness
to a terrible turning point in our history; a bad lifestyle choice,
if you will. We had the chance to reject the increasing madness of
our nation's leadership, their blind march to pointless war and craven
desire to take advantage of us in every manner conceivable, and we
blew it. America has spoken, and it said "duh."
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