Comments on: That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:32:57 +0000

@ManchuCandidate: For now. She should be stocking up on rice, beans and wine for the inevitable axe.

By: Prommie

Prommie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:17:09 +0000

Even better, apparently, the entire catalogue of 800 hobo names compiled by John Hedgecomb is available, and illustrated, here: http://e-hobo.com/

Save time, the master list of hobo names is here: http://e-hobo.com/hoboes/list/ It is delightful, full of gems.

Knowledge of matters hobo will soon become a valuable commodity, I think.

By: Prommie

Prommie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:12:47 +0000

Here is a handy-dandy Hobo Name Generator that we can all use to find out our Hobo names: http://www.oregonlive.com/edge/index.ssf?/edge/2007/20070226.frame

Note: its a fucking manual hobo name generator, you actually have to work out the answer like on paper and shit, what the fuck? I guess thats appropriate, we might not have wifi in all of the jungles, huh?

The names were taken from “The Areas of my Expertise, ” a book which anyone who has not read must do now. I think that from a grammarian’s standpoint, that last sentence is what is now called a “palin construction.” Used to be called a “Kerry.”

By: ManchuCandidate

ManchuCandidate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:09:13 +0000

TJ/

Our former overlord Megan is now an editor at Jez.

End TJ.

By: ManchuCandidate

ManchuCandidate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:05:44 +0000

In the “We are truly Fucked” category:

Dow down almost 600.
Europe markets down 8%
Toronto TSX down almost 1000.

Yay deregulation!

By: Lyndon LaDouche

Lyndon LaDouche — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:31:55 +0000

This story is too appalling in too many ways. I have to shower and return to more important things. Like – you guessed it – musical theatre.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:19:59 +0000

Why do we expect anything less from chickenhawks? They are the true traitors, and under my dictatorship, they will have their genitals fried before summary execution.

By: ManchuCandidate

ManchuCandidate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:00:26 +0000

Last night’s Mad Men seemed to be a less than subtle shot at the mental viability of one John Sidney McCain III. It did not help that the actor looked a lot like him.

By: ManchuCandidate

ManchuCandidate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:51:48 +0000

What happened to letting him die a hero?

Would this happen to a flag officer? I somehow doubt it. Rank has its privileges.

There are two MOHs off the top of my head that I can think of that should be handed back under the same criteria.

One belonging to Adm Issac Kidd who died on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. What did he do to earn it? He watched a Japanese 2000lb bomb penetrate the armored decks of the USS Arizona and then was disintegrated when the Arizona blew up. Why did he get it? He was Navy Royalty and the first US Navy flag officer to die in combat in WW2.

The other belongs to Adm Daniel Callahan. He led the US task force at Guadalcanal on Nov 13 1942. He made poor tactical decisions that made a bad situation worse (a desk jockey for two years) instead of letting the more experienced junior admiral take tactical command–5 US cruisers and 8 destroyers vs 2 Japanese Battleships and 13 destroyers. He was among the first to die in the battle and THUS PLAYED NO FURTHER PART IN which the US Navy ultimately won at a heavy cost (in spite of his poor decisions at the beginning of the battle.) Yet they gave him an MOH because, you guessed it, he was an admiral.