So, who is Scott Johnson? Never heard of him.

Never want to hear of him.

Glad you read him in my stead. Thanks.

I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can’t keep up and I can’t stand to pay attention

On behalf of those of us who have to clean up the mess, I wish Mr. Johnson and his fellow travelers would just kill themselves. No really. Bullet to the head, noose around the neck, and a couple of tablespoons full of drain cleaner down the throat to make sure. Failing that, maybe he won’t have the energy to eat, and he’ll die from starvation.
Of course, if they just shut the fuck up and sit in the corner in deserved shame, that’s a win for me too.

I can’t keep up and I can’t stand to pay attention

Well, whoopie-ding-dong! I spent 8 years feeling that way–and that was on the good days!

Unsympathetic? Try outright antipathetic. The Powertools should fuck off.

So, who is Scott Johnson? Never heard of him.

He’s better known as “not-Assrocket”. As opposed to “the other one who’s not Assrocket”.

For “fellow” read “[nuh-uh]”, and you’ll get a sense of what not-Assrocket is thinking. As for what other people are thinking, it’s probably the fact that the Bush Presidential Reality Distortion Field has vanished, and the shit-covered porch of the American 21st century has revealed itself in all of its shittiness. Seriously, I’m not an American, but can Americans really, truly grok the fact that George W. Fucking Bush was their president for the last eight years?

Nearly the entire non-RepugnoTard world, circa 2001:

I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile liberalism fascism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people.

Fixed!

Now, if the PoserLine types had the slightest hint of self awareness, they’d slink away and hope no-one notices them. But instead, they generously offer themselves up for our entertainment.

What a stunningly ignorant tool. Do these people really just repeat whatever some carny barker on their TV or radio said without any kind of filtering mechanism in their own head?

I’m sorry I don’t feel any sympathy for the likes of this pissant. Eight years of struggling to cope with the trashing of my country has left me just a bitter old bitch towards wingnuts.

So jerking off to his Three’s Company DVDs doesn’t work as well for Scottie as it does for Asslicker? Ah, well.

Um, what, pray tell, is infantile about Barack’s leftism? I don’t see much of it, but I don’t see much leftism.

After watching Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and the various members of the Bush family preside over what may well prove to be the downfall of global civilization as we know it, they have a hell of a nerve whining about watching somebody try to spray air freshener on their shit. To add to the chorus: Go Galt already! We can’t miss you while you’re still here!

Is johnson the tool who wrote that ‘bush is such a undeserved genius’ crap from a couple of years ago? Or was it one of the other Blog of the Year fools?

Did Johnson ever use infantile and adolescent in his descriptions of the guy with the Oedipus complex who went around giving derogatory nicknames to everyone because he was The Decider and Commander in Chief Sadist Spawn of Barbara Bush, and Tool of Dick Cheney?

That would be Assrocket. I believe that Johnson is the one who used to write as Big Trunk.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Hinderaker? I haven’t heard anything about him in quite a while.

WTFF cares?

Heretic! Have you never heard of the Holy Trinity? They, and only they, write the gospel according to “Blog of the Year”. They’re never wrong, except, you know, most of the time…

But Powertools are they, very strong with the dark side…

Oh, and that Xanax & Cialis smoothie recipe? Laura Bush had a variation on that theme called an Alamo Basement. More kick, less guilt.

Disturbed people always project their own deficiencies on others, don’t they Scott.

assaults on the freedom….of the American people

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: What is it these people can’t do now that they could do on January 19?

I haz a sad today: Dr. Nicholas Farrar Hughes, professor of marine biology at the University of Alaska, potter, fisherman, and son of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and of the late Sylvia Plath, killed himself by hanging on March 16. According to his sister, Frieda Hughes, her brother had a long history of depression.

I can’t keep up and I can’t stand to pay attention.

Translation: I’m not very smart so I’ll just stand in the corner and hold my breath. That’ll show’em. Is this thing on?

I must be depressing to go from thinking you’re on top of the world, only to find out the rest of the country really hates you. That your stupid rants on your stupid blog mean nothing. That a large portion on your readers are there to laugh and make fun.

I see the clever ones have been taken already. Therefore…

Shut the fuck up asshole!

Isn’t Johnson the dipshit with the ponytail?

When your idea of a good Preznit is someone whose administration’s motto is “No brain, no pain,” it’s easy to mistake having the blues for holding your breath until you turn blue. With luck, he’ll get caught in the rain and stare up at it until he drowns.

What is it these people can’t do now that they could do on January 19?

Exactly! And how did Obama accomplish it? People who’ve read the Constitution – and assuming the President acts unBushly in accordance with it – know that the President doesn’t make laws. So he must be “taking away freedom” through sheer force of his socialist will.

Magical thinking is hard to unravel.

Well, there’s this (from the Above the Law blog):

What, you thought you’d be safe from layoffs if you worked in Minnesota? Unfortunately, nobody is safe, at least not today.

We are now able to confirm that Faegre & Benson, one of the most prestigious firms in Minnesota, has informed 29 attorneys that they will be let go. Here is the statement that chairman Tom Morgan released to Above the Law:

We are practicing law in the same challenging economic environment in which our clients are doing business. Like many firms across the country, we are aligning our resources with the anticipated demand for our services and are doing so in a thoughtful and measured manner.
Earlier this month, we offered a voluntary separation package to certain non-lawyer staff. Yesterday, we announced that in the coming months we will be reducing our number of lawyers by 29. We have now met with each of those lawyers.

Hindrocket is a partner, so he’s probably still there, but he’s also likely paying a little more attention to scaring up paying customers and a little less to flapping his gums.

Oooh, nice catch Catstaff. That explains a lot. Still, I think the key to understanding the phrase “can’t stand to pay attention” is that if you *were* pretending to pay attention people might actually expect you to, you know, have some idea of what a good president would do with all those opportunities Obama is supposedly wasting on grandiose socialistic ideas. And I think we can see from watching our actual republican reps that having to have a plan, rather than just sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting “I can’t hear you” is just not possible for Republicans right now. I can well imagine that most of them would prefer to be hiding under the bed until the shit storm known as “cleaning up after Bush’s failures” has passed into unrecorded memory.

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Hindrocket is a partner, so he’s probably still there, but he’s also likely paying a little more attention to scaring up paying customers and a little less to flapping his gums.

Not bloody likely. There was a dust-up, recently, at the ABA website over the issue of salaries and promotions proceeding in lockstep at BigLaw –i.e., where associates and partners of a certain vintage receive the same salary/promotions, regardless of merit. The short of it is that if law firms were run more like meritocracies instead of like ant farms, where the drones support the fat ants who do nothing but screw around, they would be more productive and be run more cost-efectively. (I have yet to encounter a first-year associate who was actually worth $160K per year–I don’t care if they went to Harvard! Law school teaches you virtually nothing about the practice of law. ) But if I were an associate making 25% or Assrocket’s salary, and billing 4 times what he pulled in from clients last year while he blogged for the wingnut cause, I’d be more than a little pissed about being pink-slipped.

I am sad because there are no genuine little guys left on the non-distaff side and in the first session of the distaff second round, a 2 and a 3 have been upset. I am giving South Dakota State a good chance to upset another 2. Sexist language deliberate.

(Not that Rutgers, Arizona State, and Purdue are little guys or anything.)
(This is really wonderful. Back in the day when they first started having 64 in the women’s tournament you could ignore the first weekend and miss nothing. And Ball State beating Tennessee was a fairy tale.)