Le Prix Trudeau for Best Un-American Activity
The Judges began their marathon pizza fest conclave with a quandary: While this category traditionally honors foreign assholes, an abrupt change in nomenclature seemed to invite stateside nominees. After much beer pong spirited debate over whether Jan Brewer merits inclusion here for her institutional racism and Death Panels, the Judges decided to maintain the integrity of the category and censure the Management for harshing their mellow so early in the process.
Punishment meted, the qualifying nominees were duly considered. Julian Assange managed to frighten the shit out of everyone in the American Overlordship, while pissing the shit out of everyone he came into contact with. Tony Hayward was the public face of the BP oil spill and pitiful victim of lost weekends. Kim Jong-il rattled his nukes, which helped revive DVD sales of Team America.
And the winner is…
Tony Hayward. Although really, the award belongs to Joe Barton.
Next hour: Velveteen Vuvuzela for Obnoxiousness in Sport
The 2010 Stinque Awards
Gee whiz — I never thought of transnational corporation heads being eligible for rolling.
All things considered, though, an excellent decision by Fearless Leader and crew. (Introductions for our panel are in order!)
What do you give a man who was a major party in destroying a major body of water?
It gets worse. The NYT has an article based on eyewitness accounts from testimony and interviews with the survivors of the Deepwater Horizon.
Incompetent people. Poor decisions. Poor training. Cost cutting. Denial of Murphy’s Law. Crew complacency. With BP on their ass to do things faster and more efficient. It reads like every engineering failure report I’ve ever read.
Seemed almost fitting that two Transocean execubots were on the rig when it exploded. One was badly injured. The other was in shock.
Assange. I don’t know the man so I don’t have an opinion about his character. I also don’t believe a word anyone says about him right now just as I don’t believe anything reported about Lindsay Lohan, with whom our media seems to have him confused. Bradley Manning is, according to the UN definition of the word, being tortured by our government to get at Assange. So he must have done something right and any friend of the American War Machine is a friend of mine.
@Benedick: Go, Bene, go! I’m loving this!
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.