140 Characters is More Than One Man Can Bear

You know things ain’t going well when you defend yourself against accusations that you’re a souless prick by insisting that you’re actually just a clueless moron.

@Serolf Divad:
Can’t he be both?

And Sandusky a registered GOPer? Color me unsurprised. Not because he’s a molester (although in some ways that too), but because sports and right wing go hand in hand. It’s rarity when you have a librul like Bill Lee or Jim Bouton popping up.

STINQUE DISTANT EARLY WARNING: Westboro Baptist Church to picket at the stadium before Penn State’s game against Nebraska. (That is, before a bunch of drunken, pissed-off fans looking to restore honor of school, immediately.)

I gotta go to the store tonight to stock up on popcorn.

@chicago bureau: very stupid move by fred and his flock. the westboro baptists will be a lightning rod that both husker and penn st fans will be drawn to and shower their common disdain upon. fred and his flock might as well show up at a an eagles game wearing a redskins jersey, a giants hat and waving a cowboys pennant. maybe they’ll show up in oakland one sunday in support of timmie too bogus. (aka tim tebow)

@jwmcsame: Heh

WE ARE
DUMB FUCKS!

WE ARE
DUMB FUCKS!

And damn if that stadium doesn’t give cold a whole new meaning.

@Serolf Divad: +1

@jwmcsame:

The Westboro business model is to draw disdain, hatred, and, ideally, violence and repression down on their head. Then they sue claim persecution/denial of religious freedom, etc.

They’ll be as happy as a pig in shit.

@chicago bureau: Thunderdome!

@jwmcsame: Heh. They will not survive, methinks.

On thread, and not to be a noodge, but Ashton Kutcher the man is not quite the same thing as Aston Kutcher, the multi-national conglomerate. It’s totally reasonable for Kutcherco to outsource the management of brand communcation… in fact, it’s smart. Celebrities tend to forget that they are Brands first and people second…

i found a link earlier this week but can’t now about a mass endorsement by PA celebrities of a significant number of republican’t candidates for state house and senate seats in the 90’s. it was a fairly big to-do featuring joepa as the head liner and sandusky on the under card. no mention was made of santorum being there or not. but it is conceivable that santorum and sandusky probably shared a stage at one time or another. i know that statement is awful foxish, but it sure sounds good don’t it. oh for a picture of sandusky and santorum together or any other currently campaigning republican’t.

check this out about sandusky turning down the temple job in 88 so he could stay down on the second mile farm:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/penn_state/20111111_Temple_wanted_to_hire_Sandusky_in_1988.html

@jwmcsame: There was also a wonderful moment yesterday when GOP Congresscritters suddenly withdrew a request to give Paterno a Medal of Freedom.

@nojo: why? joepa granted sandusky the freedom to pursue happiness in his own twisted way free of government interference. didn’t george tenet get the same for giving w the freedom to pursue his happiness in iraq?

@jwmcsame: You’re right: The only problem besetting Penn State is government regulation.

@nojo: and taxes. and the media. and scantily dressed women crying wolf. if sandusky had been free to sexually harass women in the workplace, none of this shit would have happened.