RIP: Juan Williams NPR career (1999-2010)

Exactly, what took them soooo long?

Oh right, Bush Admin (2001-2008)…

Is this all still going on? We need some new crazy people. I’m sick of the ones we’ve got.

In more important news… Lion OS, people!!!!!! How awesome is that? Lion!!! That’s like the biggest pussy evah!!!11 Steve Jobs has really done it this time. The first fully-functioning scratch-n-sniff OS. Naturally it will make all my machines obsolete so I will have to buy new ones but that’s why we love Apple. They never let us rest.

I feel so powerful. I wrote NPR another note about their continued employment of Williams just the other day.

In other stupid news, this came as a total surprise to me. I thought Canadians were more sensible than US Murkans.

@Benedick: So Apple is wandering into “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!” territory? How long before Steve Jobs announces that he is indeed the Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

@karen marie wants to know — Fucking integrity, how does it work?:
That’s our RW GOPer lite Prime Minister Fatty, er, Stephen Harper’s doing. The gag order is usually about global warming… which upsets our globular PM as he is a fan of anyone from the oil patch.

@Benedick:
Re: Lion – impressive, but the new Air is more so. If the thing gets any thinner, it might blow away in a strong breeze.

Re: Juan “I didn’t read the AQ training manual about not dressing in traditional garb” Williams – comment sections everywhere are now filled with unreconstructed Reagan-era conservatrolls whining about “why are we paying for NPR”. Apparently they’ve forgotten how they hounded NPR back in the 80s and 90s.

@al2o3cr: That’s right. Torture me. My OLD Air is like so totally OLD (6 months) I’m ashamed to turn it on. I put it in the closet where it belongs. I keep telling people it’s not girly it’s SLEEK. Shit. Now there’s a new one that isn’t OLD. I want it so bad it’s like there’s a hole in my heart where love should be. I must go now and do what my people have done since time out of mind when life became overwhelming: make a nice cup of tea.

@Dave H: Steve leapfrogged the Wizard and is going straight for God.

Lion. OMFG. Who thinks up these names? It’s pure genius.

@Dave H: So far, we;ve had Jaguar, Leopard, Tiger, and Snow Leopard, I think. Now Lion. Steve’s gonna run out of big cats. It’s hard to go from Lion to Caracal. Though their ears are really cool.

@al2o3cr:

“I didn’t read the AQ training manual about not dressing in traditional garb”

No, but that’s the public AQ manual. The top secret private AQ manual tells terr’sts to dress in traditional Islamic garb because the public believes (from reading the fake, public, manual) that they should look out for A-rabs dressed in Western clothing.

It’s all very confusing, which is why JW is scared of even the word “Islam.”

@Mistress Cynica:
As long as he doesn’t call it Civet (SARS.)

@Mistress Cynica: I think next he’s moving on to the names of tyrants past starting with Assurbanipal.

@Benedick: OS Sabertooth will be the transition into prehistoric creatures. By the time we get to Mastodon, we’ll have wi-fi capable cerebellums and Dodger will long have had his windshield with streaming Brazilian beach volleyball nature shows.

ADD: Maybe this guy can go back to his original name of John Williams, whether that is his real name or not. The alliteration always made me gag.

@Nabisco:
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

@Mistress Cynica: Too bad Cougar isn’t a serious option.

Fuck NPR. I quit listening and donating when they rolled over for the Iraq war.

I like the timbre of his speaking voice but the dude really screwed the pooch on this one. Y’know, I have a relative who used to get hassled by black kids in high school and now she gets nervous when she sees a black person walking towards her on the street. Is that OK, Juan?

@redmanlaw: Me, too. Their “reporting” on the lead-up to the Iraq invasion sounded more like they were reading the Powerpoint slides from one of Dumbya’s DC hacks.

Our local station is very good and did as much as it could to combat the Iraq ‘WMD’ madness. I’ve never heard this person on NPR.

@redmanlaw: @¡Andrew!: I haven’t donated since the beginning of the Bush maladministration. The only reason I listen to it at all now is the CD player in my car done broke and it’s the only station w/o commercials I can get on the radio for the entirety of my trip an hour each way twice a month to visit a client north of here.

I’ve been taking Lucy to a dog social group on Sundays in Dartmouth, MA and listen to the Cape & Islands NPR station on that round trip. Surprisingly, it’s way more lefty than WBUR which is what I listen to on the trips north. I find myself shrieking and gritting my teeth far less.

Countdown to martini time – after I buy my hunting license for this weekend and load some cartridges for my two rifles. Still gotta find my extra Buck knife, throw my clothes in a bag, do a final sight in tomorrow AM and take off for my friend’s ranch as soon as I’m done in court tomorrow afternoon.

@redmanlaw: Enjoy yourself out there.

@karen marie: I thoroughly enjoy our local commercial-free oldies station, KMCQ 104.5, now playing songs from the 60s, 70s (and 80s–gulp! Can the 90s be far behind?)

@Mistress Cynica: For the record, from 10.0…

Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion.

Still to come: Sylvester.