You Want To Go Where Everybody Knows You’re Lame

« I Am In Your Vagina Determining Your Fate

You Want To Go Where Everybody Knows You’re Lame
By: TBogg Friday February 4, 2011 10:11 pm	Tweet66

First there was Judith Miller free-falling from a byline at the New York Times to pounding out fodder for NewsMax which, if you are unfamiliar with it, is like My Weekly Reader for adults who think like six year-olds. And who still poop their pants.

Now, presumably because that job at Kinko’s didn’t materialize, we learn that Mickey Kaus (late of Slate, the New Republic, and Newsweek) is taking up residence at Tucker Carlson’s Newsletter Thing That Friends Of His Parents Are Funding To Keep Tucker Off The Street And Out Of Gangs.

Mickey’s career arc is beginning to look like one of those Faces of Meth posters.

28 Comments

28 Responses to “You Want To Go Where Everybody Knows You’re Lame”

UncertaintyVicePrincipal February 4th, 2011 at 10:59 pm

The Daily Choler

Caepan February 4th, 2011 at 11:12 pm

I didn’t know Tucker added a page for goat-fucking fan fiction.

From now on, I shall call him “Tucker the Goat Fucker”. It’s all about the company you keep.

beguiner February 5th, 2011 at 1:15 am

Faces of Meth posters !?! I never even thought of such a thing, and now I’m so intrigued that I’m fighting off the urge to look for more beyond the dozen you show above.

ScrewyCanuck February 5th, 2011 at 6:21 am

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

thingwarbler February 5th, 2011 at 7:16 am

In response to beguiner @ 3

No, fight it, really. That’s not an urge to which you wish to give in…

petesh February 5th, 2011 at 8:00 am

In response to beguiner @ 3

That speaks well of your life. A friend was interviewing for a rural CA public health position, in an area where meth is definitely an issue, and wandering around I saw several of these images posted. Turns out it’s quite the program:
http://www.facesofmeth.us/
Much more accurate than “your brain on drugs” but I have no idea if it has any effect.

MoeLarryAndJesus February 5th, 2011 at 8:38 am

Mickey Kaus? More like the Faces of Meh.

PapaZita February 5th, 2011 at 10:34 am

Ugh. Got out of the boat, and I gotta ask – why is it that every one of the four people pictured in the before/after shots have facial injuries in the after? They could have found a few that didn’t have the shit beaten out of them. Also, Miracle of Manipulative Photography. Having known a few tweakers, you could take three year before/after glamor shots of them and easily scare the crap out of most people.

Marion in Savannah February 5th, 2011 at 11:28 am

In response to Caepan @ 2

[snort] You got here first, but I was going to ask if Tucker had a goat barn…

reallib February 5th, 2011 at 12:42 pm

Judith Miller may be a c-word, but what’s with the working stiff jokes. Haven’t the employees of Kinko’s suffered enough without your piling on?

Dr.BDH February 5th, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Mickey Kaus = …The Daily Caller’s most prominent hire to date. Oooo, Tucker, that’s gotta hurt, coming from POLITICO.

DrDick February 5th, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Quit insulting meth addicts!

JennOfArk February 5th, 2011 at 2:41 pm

In response to PapaZita @ 8

PapaZita – those aren’t facial injuries from fighting – those are meth sores. Meth users get them from obsessively picking at their skin; also, meth causes skin problems itself due to its toxicity.

cbear February 5th, 2011 at 3:24 pm

The Daily Caller, huh?
I suppose all the editorial slots at Animal Husbandry Monthly were already filled.

mmanion February 5th, 2011 at 3:42 pm

I think ‘The Faces of Meth: Wasilla, Walmart and the Men I Have Loved’ would be a great name for Bristol Palin’s soon to be published, as yet unnamed memoir coming June 2011!

http://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Bristol-Palin-Memoir/dp/0062089374/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1296949149&sr=8-13

JuliaGrey February 5th, 2011 at 4:21 pm

I’m so intrigued that I’m fighting off the urge to look for more beyond the dozen you show above.

Are any of them different people? Those all look like the same person to me, showing her physical decline as she goes through a dozen arrests.

It’s pretty compelling stuff, but she doesn’t seem to have gone downhill as fast or as thoroughly as a real meth addict does. Look, she even still has her reasonably clean-looking teeth in the last one. Tweakers’ teeth tend to rot out of their heads as rapidly as their hearts beat.

To me the series looks more like an illustration of the rapid aging that occurs in a life on the game than an object lesson in the ravages of meth, per se.

Sorry, don’t mind me. I have nothing funny to say today.

JuliaGrey February 5th, 2011 at 4:23 pm

In response to JennOfArk @ 13

If they shoot up, they can get staph infections (“impetigo”) from dirty needles, too, even if they don’t share.

Okay, now I will REALLY shut up.

maryellen February 5th, 2011 at 5:50 pm

JuliaGrey – no need to apologize for not being funny about this stuff. It ain’t funny. I just had to back you up on that being all the same girl, as it kind of startled me that some were thinking it was different people. As for how fast she declined – is there any way to tell how far apart those shots were taken? The dates are too small, except for the “97″ at the end, for me to make out.

I saw a thing about an addiction program on public TV years ago – think it was made in the Pacific Northwest, but not sure – in which one of the people in the program was a woman who had to permanently wear a dressing on her forearm, as she had actually picked a hole all the way down to bone level in her arm under the influence of meth. What a plague.

maryellen February 5th, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Having delivered myself of that delightful message, I just want to say that I come here every week for bassetts, bassetts, bassetts. That video of Fenway and Mr. Ball a few days back was an antidote for, well, lots of stuff!
Thank you, BassettParents, for sharing the boys, not to mention all the other stuff you share with us! (I used to comment here occasionally, IIRC under the nick of “Li’l Innocent”, but my account got screwed up somehow, so I’ve been loorking.)

Lesley February 6th, 2011 at 12:01 am

That photo line up inspired me to check out meth faces. Holy crap, I didn’t realize the severe deformities it can cause. But then I checked the ingredients of a typical shithouse lab. Draino and battery acid?

BOHICA February 6th, 2011 at 5:00 am

Is that Amphetamine Annie?

UncertaintyVicePrincipal February 6th, 2011 at 5:13 am

In response to JuliaGrey @ 16

Those are the McJohansen Duoduplets, winners of the Wasilla Meth Tournament 2010. From left: Twill, Twicker, Tammy…

Mauimom February 6th, 2011 at 8:35 am

In response to maryellen @ 18

Hawaii, because it has a huge meth problem,has almost non-stop [and clearly not effective] scare tactic ads on meth. ["This is what you'll look like" + folks straight out of "Plants vs. Zombies."]

BTW, the two comments to the Politico announcement [yes, I did click on the link -- hangs head in shame] accuse Politico of being a leftist mouthpiece.

trbdave February 6th, 2011 at 8:44 am

In response to Caepan @ 2

Tucker fucks ‘em, Mickey blows ‘em!
Interesting version of “tag-team”…

mambotaxi February 6th, 2011 at 9:18 am

In response to JuliaGrey @ 16

I think the series in the post is actually a progression of mugshots of a crack whore, not a tweaker. I’ve seen that series before.

Seems like crack will fuck you up, but not as quickly as meth. And whatever you do, don’t do a Google image search for “meth mouth.”

muldoon February 6th, 2011 at 11:03 am

In response to mambotaxi @ 25

You just had to go and say, “don’t do a Google image search for ‘meth mouth.’”

Aaarrggghh!

beguiner February 6th, 2011 at 11:07 am