I’ve always wondered. Was Liquid Nitrogen Ass one of that bunch of conservative Dartmouth retards who trashed the on-campus mock-up of a homeless encampment in the 80s?

Cue up film of him, Larry and Curly highlighting font manuals as The Way We Were plays on the soundtrack.

Sophisticated! I want to be a “sophisticated person!” Like Hinderaker. I see him in an immaculately tailored tuxedo, sharing a champagne breakfast with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, after a night on the town in one of those nightclubs with the snooty headwaiter and the big orchestra. Assrocket unfolds his newspaper and chuckles. “Did you see this risible item in the Times about Johnny McCain flying to Washington with a blond lobbyist? Not serious news of course, but most jocose.”

That picture is beyond disgusting. And I haven’t had coffee yet. Have some compassion for your East Coast fans and our delicate sensibilities.

Two questions:

Is “sophisticated” the new “serious?”

If you Googled the term “sophisticated,” on which page would that photo turn up?

Jeez.

Whaddya got against corn dogs? They can’t help who chooses to associate with them. You might as well complain about t-shirts. Let’s stop blaming the victims, people!

Sophisticated? Hinderaker has cheered every garbled remark to come out of the mouth of George H.W. Bush’s idiot son. If that’s sophistication then I’m Fred Astaire tap dancing in a morning suit and a high hat.

Quick check on wiki shows he graduated from Dartmouth in the early 70’s, so i guess you could say he was a progenitor of the Nazi youth who ran the Dartmouth Review in the 80’s. Laura Ingraham and Dinesh Desouza were the culprits there.

Wasn’t Buttmissile fired at that spy satellite last night?

I’m with Jude. Corn dogs are our friends. He’s also got a nice big non-wingnutty MN State Fair pop cup in his hand. The MN State Fair tends to attract lots of political stuff because it takes place over the Labor Day weekend when the politicians all want to be out glad-handing. First thing I always do when I arrive is go over to the DFL booth and buy a ‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote Republican’ button and pin it on. The GOP booth tends to give out a lot more free stuff than the DFL booth because the GOPers just believe that they should get stuff without, you know, paying for it.
And no one even pretends to be sophisticated while at the MN State Fair. Another corn dog, please.

Whaddya got against corn dogs? They can’t help who chooses to associate with them. You might as well complain about t-shirts. Let’s stop blaming the victims, people!

Yeah, but even most GOPers don’t mistake them for sex toys, proving that some people are too declasse even for the MN State Fair.

Even as Scarborough bashed the NY TImes on MSNBC this morning, he admitted with a laugh that “I read it cover to cover every morning…”

It’s every right-wing pundits favorite whipping boy paper, but one which I suspect all Bobbing Heads, Politicians and DC insiders read every morning.

It just shows the great power and reach of this paper. Love it or hate it, and I’ve done both, it is still the paper that drives each day’s news cycle…

I can’t wait until Powerline is represented in the Senate by Al Franken. It’ll be time to use that Scanners shot again…

And a note to my wife: See, I told you corn dogs were sophisticated. Mini corn dogs even more so. And cheese on a stick fried in corn batter is the friggin’ Noel Coward of food products.

Because tbogg posts this picture every so often, I’ve looked at it dozens of times. But this time, I noticed: he’s sitting in front of a microphone.

Were people listening to him eat a corn dog? That’s just sick.

Sicker than that…they’re listening to him fellate that corndog.

It WILL be fun to hear those guys squeal when Coleman gets the boot. Can’t wait.

And have you found and tried the Macaronni and Cheese on a stick? Very sophisticated. My personal ultimate is the Scottish Egg: a hardboiled egg wrapped in sausage, rolled in fine breadcrumbs, deep fried on a stick, and served with lots of horseradish sauce. Heaven. (Literally. You die of heart failure immediately after eating one.)

Mmmmm…Scottish Egg….arteries harden as I type.

What’s even better is the Scotch Egg - Glenlivet 18 with breakfast!

Scotch eggs might be the greatest invention in the history of time, though I’ve never seen them on a stick or served with horseradish. Colman’s mustard, baby. Burns the hair off your chest.

And as far as sophistication goes, you can’t beat Jimmy Dean’s Frozen Pancakes and Sausage on a Stick. Them’s good eatin.’

It doesn’t take a Hinderakian level of sophistication to know that the Times is now worthless as anything other than a birdcage liner.

Judy Miller. Tom Friedman. David Brooks. Maureen Dowd. BILL FUCKING KRISTOL.

A rogue’s gallery of dangerously stupid fuckups drowning the once proud Paper of Record with tidal waves of blithering idiocy and blatant dishonesty.

Ya want clogged arteries?
Nothing will get the job done faster than the deep-fried twinkie!

(i live 2 miles from the MN state fair site)

Dave, I’ve only admired the twinkies from afar. Have you had one? There’s so much oil in a twinkie that you’d think they’d become one with the deep fat, but they seem to hold together. The thing that amazes me most about the deep fried twinkies and snickers and milky way bars is that the final step before handing them to the customer is to sprinkle powdered sugar on them. Wow.
My morning fave at the fair is the big cinnamon rolls from the food building… with a huge swath of frosting on the top. Yummm.