http://blog.roykirk.com "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:56:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the few times SNL gets seriously funny occurred this past weekend.  Watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pretty much nail Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, and tell me that Tina doesn’t look uncannily like Palin. http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/09/16/palin-vs-hillary-the-reckoning/ Time to hark back to the days of yore, the 1960’s and 70’s, when celebrity vanity was in its infancy, an age of innocence and horror all wrapped up in a cloying “cannot…look…away…” vibe. For your edification and amusement, our first sample.  It was very nice of someone to ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/08/15/be-afraid-be-veryveryafraid/ …the Greater Los Angeles Ministry of Nutrition knows what’s best.  After all, poor people are far too uneducated to know how to eat. And you wonder how King George and his Court can get away with all that they do?  Look at how easily you’re ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/08/01/poor-fat-and-stupid-dont-worry/ Today’s Democrats and neo-conservatives are all cut from the same whole cloth: Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler.  The nanny state is a direct descendant of those things that horrified us all so much in the middle of the last century. And don’t let George Bush and ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/07/29/liberal-fascism-believe-it/ Libertarian candidate (former Republican, enthusiastic Patriot Act pusher, and notorious about-facer) Bob Barr spoke before Netroots Nation this past week (spiritual successor to Yearly Kos), and uttered words which caused InDecision2008’s Cubby Chaser to wonder… “What the fuck ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/07/28/conservative-values-not-in-washington/ Thanks to a few pointed words from my brother, but especially with the example set by the steady exit of dopers from this year’s Tour de France—Ricardo (I actually cheered when I heard the news) Ricco only the latest in what is sure to be a nice little conga line—I ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/07/18/mcquaid-fiddles-while-le-tour-burns/ I never realized that a long-dead dictator had such insight on today's problems, until I saw his feelings regarding the end of the High-Definition War between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (NSFW): But now Der Führer has something to say on the subject of bloody Democratic ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/05/14/rise-fall-of-the-clinton-reich-nsfw/ It seems I'm not the only one who saw Senator Harry Reid on the Daily Show this past week and was struck by how he was one of the worst interviews ever on the show. At the very beginning of the interview, I could barely hear the man, and ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/05/10/bending-like-a-reid-in-the-wind/ All right, it's been a few weeks since I really had something to say, but this last weekend has stirred my muse once more. By now most of my American readers will have heard the accusations leveled at Senator Obama for his alleged "elitism," stemming from a comment he made about ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/04/14/obamas-bitter-pill/ As a long-time subscriber to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory... ...I foolishly allowed this blog to get off the ground with barely any limits on viewer comments other than moderating all comments before they're allowed to go live on the site. Not long after I started the site and allowed ... http://blog.roykirk.com/2008/03/17/the-spectre-of-anonymity/ p-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme. * * @package WordPress */ /** * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it. * * @var bool */ define('WP_USE_THEMES', true); /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */ require('./wp-blog-header.php'); ?>