Wankers of the Week: Riot slops

Crappy weekend, everyone! So, how are we liking all those riots of the past week? Penn State had a real one, for the worst reason imaginable, and everyone involved made out like it was some righteous show of school pride (it wasn’t — school pride does NOT flip TV news vans); Berkeley and Montréal had […]

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Wankers of the Week: Happy Wanksgiving!

Crappy weekend, everyone! And hey howdy, it’s Thanksgiving up here in Canada! Thanks be to Mother Earth for holding up my feet without complaining. I’ve got my yams, my homegrown potatoes, got my cranberries cooked, my turkey stuffed and ready to roast. I’ve got my act together. Meanwhile, here are some other turkeys who should […]

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Wankers of the Week: Crass Warfare, Too

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that occupation of Wall St.? It’s still going on, despite today’s police raid. And it looks like it’s going to go on…how long? Indefinitely? Or just until crapitalism finally crapitulates? Well, that’ll probably be never, so indefinitely it must be. Oh, oh, what a lovely class war. And speaking […]

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Wankers of the Week: Crass Warfare

Crappy weekend, everyone! Wall Street is still occupied, and it looks like that golden calf is definitely ripe for the slaughter. The protesters are there to stay, much to the chagrin of the fuckers within. Well, thank heaven for those stupid old flag-desecrating geezers who mistake capitalism for patriotism (not realizing that it’s out to […]

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Wankers of the Week: Labor Dazed edition

Crappy Labor Day weekend, everyone! So, how’s that jobless “recovery” been treating you? Like shit? No kidding. If it’s jobless, it’s not a recovery, no matter how the media spin it. And speaking of spinning, here are this week’s wankers, unspun, in no particular order: 1. Fucking Dubya. “Why didn’t we know this?” That’s all […]

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Wankers of the Week: Children of the Corn

Oh, Basement Cat. You didn’t! Crappy weekend, everyone! Are we enjoying fairground season yet? No? What, all those windstorms knocking down shoddily constructed stages and killing people getting you down? Shoot, that ain’t nothin’ but that global warming that we all know doesn’t exist. And if it doesn’t exist, then those people must be undead. […]

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Wankers of the Week: London Burning

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well. How about those riots in Merry Old England, eh? Looks like London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…and not just in London, my fair ladies (and gents). Shit is hitting the fan all over the place. And here are some of the choicest turd-nuggets of the past week, goin’ […]

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Wankers of the Week: Oslo Burning edition

Crappy weekend, everyone! And a special shout-out to my dear readers in Norway, which is the 20th most-frequent country of origin for visits here, according to my ClustrMap. Damn, it really IS a crappy weekend for you folks, isn’t it? Oslo looks eerily like Oklahoma City right now. I couldn’t be sadder or more disgusted […]

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Wankers of the Week: Hacks, attacked

Crappy weekend everyone! My, the wankers just keep coming, do they not? And so do the revelations from the world of hacks who hack. And here, in no particular order, come some of the hackingest hacks, and the wankingest wanks… 1. The self-congratulatory “journalists” at News of the World. Yes, all of you. You make […]

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