Personal Information

Website

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jollyroger/

Biography

Jollyroger admits that he did work his way through stripper school as a lawyer, but since graduating he has rehabilitated himself, and profits no longer from the misfortune of his brothers, but from the lust of his sisters instead. He is currently on the 60 day DL (too fat); Until he is called back up to the show, he is temping as an inventor.

Favorite Quotes

* Favorite Quotes REX VISIGOTHIS:"I believe in less than enough feed, just enough speed, more than enough weed, and way too much pussy" BERNARD EIBER: "You write like a god" KATHY SISSON: "You fuck like a god" SUZANNE FARRELL: "Someone had to be eliminated, and poor Roger was the most expendable" VANESSA FARRELL: "You have such a pretty dick" MY SISTER: "He wasn't always like this...you should have seen him before all the acid.  My God, he's a Woodrow Wilson Fellow!" MY MOTHER: "So I told his father, 'Look Manny, let's don't kid ourselves.  All he really wants to do is get high and get laid..."

Superpowers

History

Member for

1 year 14 weeks

Blog Posts

The United Semitic Peoples' Kemalist Republic. One Semite, One Vote. One State, No Yahwists!

by jollyroger 2/22/2012 - 1:21 am

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like:

 

An as-yet confidential report submitted by the European consuls in Jerusalem and Ramallah raises urgent concerns over the “forced expulsion” of Palestinians ...from Area C of the West Bank... the report mentions the fertile and strategic Jordan Valley (where the Palestinian population has declined from 250,000 to 50,000 since the start of the Occupation)... [Read more]

• 
• Add new comment
• 14 reads

Security? Security? Yes, we need some people up here right away. Three shifts of 18 please.

by jollyroger 2/21/2012 - 3:07 am

The recent encounter of a vacationing civil servant and a mugger offering deadly force has caused me to revisit a question that had piqued me obliquely when one of his shiftmates, while on his way to work, rear-ended another car. [Read more]

• 
• 4 comments
• 53 reads

In praise of smoke filled rooms. Why can't we have a meritocracy like China?

by jollyroger 2/19/2012 - 5:56 am

If you paid any attention to Xi Jinping, the president-designate (interesting that they even have such a position, rather like scholarly associations) of China, you might have been struck by the efficiency with which the Chinese political system finds and promotes individuals of talent.

Consider, after all, that Xi Jinping was not the product of a democratically premised electoral politics.  He was selected by cadres who themselves were selected from ever wider pools of aspirants.

Let us indulge in a thought experiment.  Exhibit A, the set of all those who were competitors of Xi for his heir-apparant spot.   We need not identify them with particularlity to know that they exist. [Read more]

• 
• 2 comments
• 57 reads

Medicare funds no abortions. Did the "Public Option" die to avoid a Hyde Amendment donnybrook?

by jollyroger 2/11/2012 - 3:28 am

Watching in stark amaze as the issue of contraception coverage (contraception!) proves fraught enough with controversy that it troubles, still in the 21st century, the councils of the great and mighty, I am moved to reconsider some of my prior analysis of the great health care reform fiasco.

I had diligently wrenched reality around to maintain through most of the excruciating process via which Prez (ostensibly) sold out both the policy and the politics of his professed position, a cheerful optimism grounded in the conviction that Prez was letting his opponents overreach so they would fall into his trap.

Yeah, right. [Read more]

• 
• 23 comments
• 260 reads

Giuliani&Kerik, Bloomberg&Kelly. NY Mayors, unlucky in their top cops.

by jollyroger 1/26/2012 - 8:08 pm

We are being priveleged to witness, once again, the down-in-flames destruction of a creepy New York Police Commissioner. (ed note: the last non-creepy one wasTeddy Roosevelt...) [Read more]

• 
• 3 comments
• 98 reads

Mitt's tithe tax fax-Many Millions to the Mormons

by jollyroger 1/22/2012 - 6:47 pm

We are left with only a few hours within which to exercise unrestrained speculation as to "the (tax) horror which dare not speak its name".

 

Level of income, of course, has been bruited as cause for embarassment.

 

Obvious high roller lifestyle deductions will cause the odd blush.

 

But, quaere:

Might the annual act of self-denial represented by parting with many millions of dollars be regarded as so extreme as to make you potentially seen to be a cult-addled and superstition-ridden nutjob?

  [Read more]

• 
• 8 comments
• 166 reads

Gingrich:New, improved.More nimble (Ten years to flip on mandate, less than a week on Ryan)

by jollyroger 1/19/2012 - 9:14 pm

Newt Gingrich, like Tide and Coke is new and  improved.

We learn, inter alia, from this evening's debate that he has raised his performance as a health care policy analyst.

Viz:

When jacked up by Santorum over his decade of support for an individual mandate to buy insurance, Newt credited (and tacitly solicited credit for) the onset of new wisdom. [Read more]

• 
• 5 comments
• 126 reads

Would you park your assets in the Cayman Islands if you had nothing to hide?

by jollyroger 1/18/2012 - 5:58 pm

By now you will have heard that included in the tumble of new disclosures (I pay close to (how close? Are you missing above or below?) 15%) from Romney's cabinet of plutocrat horrors, is the tidbit that his tax planning relies heavily on Cayman Island accounts.

(I fear being tarred forensically with those enemies of freedom who hector those who complain about warrantless surveillance, but, here goes).  I ask Romney (as will we all with one voice),

What have you got to hide? [Read more]

• 
• 28 comments
• 629 reads

Only an abandoned and malignant people treats its children like shit--Section 8 Vouchers are an obscene joke in the face of homeless children

by jollyroger 1/14/2012 - 3:59 am

 We are a country that cheerfully permits over one million of its children to experience in any year the terror, the existential fear, the insecurity, the permanent scars that must of necessity flow from forced eviction from their homes.

Given our collective assent to the nightmare into which these, our children, are plunged, it should, perhaps, not surprize that  when we also, as a society, declare it our firm and considered intention to intervene with a housing program so that the childrens' time of shelter living will be kept to a minimum, we run the program as if it were designed by Franz Kafka. [Read more]

• 
• 2 comments
• 103 reads

Gingrich surrenders to logic, "I'm with Bernie", to register Socialist as soon as primary is fully lost.

by jollyroger 1/12/2012 - 5:03 pm

Talk bout hoist on his own petard!

So vain is Newt about his intellectual aspirations, he actually committed a moment of intellectual honesty.

Once the logjam was broken by his consideration that perhaps 90 instead of 180 million skimmed off the bust out would have been "enough", Newt has gone full tilt Socialist, talking about "common"  goals, and "common" good.

Two words that have been banished from American political discourse for decades are "enough" and "common". [Read more]

• 
• 23 comments
• 392 reads

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• …
• next ›
• last »