…who uses post titles such as “Putting Unemployment Numbers Into Prospective.”

Of course, that’s the least of the reasons that the output of “Gribbit” is worthless and a joke. He’s at his worst when he tries to agitate against climate change. He only does this because he sees AGW as a liberal issue and he reflexively hates all things liberal, an interesting perspective given that he’s supported by the federal government.

Here, he cites an article from, of all sources, the UK Daily Mail in an attempt to establish that anthropogenic global warming is sheer fiction. Of course, Gribbit is too ignorant and too sold on his own predetermined conclusions to recognize that this article, and in fact this whole newspaper, is shit, with a rich history of lying about climate change and positioning itself at the forefront of the MMR vaccine/autism scare. He doesn’t have the grounding or the motivation to do the slightest amount of background research, and may as well be referencing WorldNut Daily in this case.

Tim Lambert nicely explains why the article is bullshit. Phil Jones never said what the article implies he did–the average reader has no idea of the difference between “significant” and “statistically significant.” And even if he had, it wouldn’t undermine the huge body of knowledge assembled over the years by climatologists. I am not a climatologist, but I know enough to determine whether something seems trustworthy or not. Gribbit is also not a climatologist or an ologist of any stripe. He’s loud (if all but anonymous) on the Internet and a fifth-degree fuckhead, but that doesn’t generally lend people credibility outside of their own minds.

This concisely details the Mail’s dishonesty and offers links to more information. Then there’s this from NASA. Seriously, if you profess to have any real interest in climate change at all, you’d have to be amazingly stupid to believe the idea that there has been no warming trend in the past 15 years. Blame it on carbon emissions, farting cows, solar activity or the whims of Darth Vader, but everyone has seen the graphs and tables. Of course, if you can’t read them, I suppose they are not helpful.

What I find fascinating about people like Gribbit (whose “I TOLD YOU SO!” is, here and previously, evidence of a grossly mistaken conclusion; when Gribbit “tells people so,” he’s merely demonstrating the darkness inside of his skull) is that they completely mistrust scientists until a scientist who seems to agree with their ideas comes along. Then, suddenly, scientists are no longer mercenary hacks who are in bed with Obama, Gore, et al. They are credible, upstanding citizens with the courage to buck what 99 percent of real scientists actually believe and are therefore right.

Gribbit doesn’t know that he is too dumb to blog about climate-change issues, so he’ll keep doing it and making an ass of himself. It’s always the gullible lunkheads who warn against Wikipedia (except when they use it as a reference themselves) while treating FOX News as a valid source. It’s these types who lap up the most outrageous stories from the most ludicrous outlets that warn that “you can bet the mainstream media won’t report this” or some such. Gee, Gribbit, why do you suppose that is? (Most amazing is that if you try to right-click on one of his post title links, you get a dialog box that reads, “© 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Gribbit’s Word — All Rights Reserved.” Like anyone would steal his stuff. I wonder if he copyrights his turds, too.)

As it happens, the voice actor who served in the offending episode as the voice of Chris Griffin’s love interest, Ellen, herself does have Down syndrome. I think this is the money quote from the NY Times article explaining this:

And when I watched on Channel 4, on “Extra,” and I saw Sarah Palin with her son Trig. I’m like, “I’m not Trig. This is my life.” I was making fun of Sarah Palin, but not her son.

There’s a lot in this piece that is humbling, at least to me. It changes the way in which I think of people with trisomy 21.

(Thanks, hopper3011)

I promise to quit mixing Sarah Palin into every post, but she’s just such a rich source of pointless blogging material that I have to add this one to the pile. Plus, my entire world was shattered when I lost my commenting privileges on her fan page.

Last August, White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel was overheard calling moderate congressional Democrats “fucking retards.” Smart move. Even “fucking dipshits” or just “dipshits” or hell, even “idiots” would have gotten him in trouble. But the use of “retards” (and I actually think “fucktard” would have earned him less flak) brought a lot of angry people out of the woodwork, among them Palin, whose youngest son has Down syndrome. Palin, although merely being her usual opportunistic-infection self, has been rightfully critical of Emmanuel, who has too high a profile to be saying what he did.
Yesterday, Palin, in an appearance on FOX “News”, reiterated her demand that Emmanuel be fired. When Bill O’Reilly lobbed a “question” at her (I use quotes here because the whole conversation was clearly orchestrated) asking what separated Emmanuel’s comments from those of Rush Limbaugh–who repeatedly used the word “retard” in a recent radio broadcast when discussing an upcoming White House summit–Palin responded by asserting that Limbaugh was merely satirizing Emmanuel.

First of all, even if this were true, would it really make a difference? Isn’t it the maintenance of the word itself in the vernacular the real problem? Second of all, I heard the audio of Rush’s show on The Daily show the other night, and if Rush was merely being satirical, he sounded awfully gleeful about it. It’s not as though he doesn’t have a long history of using words like “feminazi.” Palin is a sap if she really believes what she told O’Reilly, and I don’t think that she does.

But now, with the Family Guy shitstorm in the news, I can’t help but point out the obvious. Rush gets a pass because he was merely exercising satire, whereas MacFarlane & Co. should be kicked off the FOX network because Family Guy is hard news…oh, wait, it’s the epitome of SATIRE.

The comment field under Palin’s complaint about Family Guy on her Facebook fan page is littered with exactly the same kind of crap: Rush was just kidding around, but everyone else should be fired. I suppose it’s no surprise that any supporter of Palin would have to possess as a central trait the willingness to swallow any amount of bullshit, or, more to the point, lack the capacity to not march in lock step with plainly hyopocritical and often insane ideas.

One theme running rampant among Sarah Palin fans is that the chief reason the media and liberal types make Palin a frequent target of derision is because they are afraid of her.

Even in the shriveled minds of anyone who could possibly view Palin as anything more than a sick joke, the failure of this idea should be evident at once. If someone runs around from event to event, constantly placing herself in the spotlight and serving as a grade-A dimbulb lying hypocrite with a bad version of the accent of Frances McDormand’s character in Fargo, then of course the press is going to have a field day with her, and liberal blogger types are going to shred her with regularity.

People regularly deride celebrities, athletes, and other public figures when they get to behaving badly. Does this translate into being afraid of them? Okay, so these people aren’t politicians, who are a breed unto themselves, but at this point neither is Sarah Palin. She quit the governorship of Alaska so she could embark on a whirlwind tour of speaking to groups that include some of the most blinkered people in the country. That’s her job: to feed into the delusions and galactic ignorance of the thousands of botlike individuals who show up at “Tea Party” rallies waving signs around that say things–unironically–like NO PUBIC OPTION. She makes a lot of coin at this because of the distressingly bloated size of Moron America, but she doesn’t have the support of even her own party.

People tossing around the “libs fear Palin” trope actually have it completely backward. Liberals are eternally grateful that John McCain chose her as his running mate in 2008, because this amounted to political suicide. Had McCain selected someone capable of speaking English in interviews an not prone to hurling out vacuous slogans in babblespeak in lieu of intelligent answers to questions from reporters, McCain may well have won the election. The existence of Palin has been nothing but a boon to Democrats. However, she’s constantly embarrassing herself in speeches, on CNN, at wackaloon functions (as with her reading from notes scribbled on her hand last weekend, and not for the first time). Of course people are going to notice and make unkind and otherwise critical comments.

So, to sum up this lesson in social dynamics for Palin fans: You don’t have to be afraid of something in order to point at it and laugh and maybe scream “ASSHOLE!” Think really, really hard and you might be able to produce examples of having done this in your own lives.

Nah. You can’t. So keep cheering while the rest of the world keeps jeering and enjoying the show.

…then you need to take a look at the results of this creation vs. evolution poll.

First of all, the validity of evolution does not hinge on public opinion. If 90% of Americans voted to classify baboons as reptiles or birds, it wouldn’t change the biological reality.

Secondly, the poll itself, like most offered by the haywire fucktards who operate OneNewsNow.com, is structured so as to exclude anyone standing a chance to send up a meaningful vote. And like most backward religious sites, it conflates cosmology with biology in mentioning the Big Bang.

As of 6 p.m. EST, here was the breakdown:

The first chapter of Genesis says it all – literally – 88.76%
God created the earth, but probably populated the planet through the evolutionary process – 6.80%
Scientific explanation (Big Bang theory, for example) is more believable than Genesis 1 – 1.67%
I do not attend church – 2.77%

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That 89 percent of any group of Americans could believe that the marvelously silly account offered in Genesis 1 is even remotely plausible is frightening. Granted, OneNewsNow.com selects for particularly addled, hilljack Jesus fans who have probably never wandered more than ten miles from their hookworm-belt homes. Nevertheless that’s still absurd. I’d like to gather the respondents to this poll in one huge coliseum and scream through a megaphone, “YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW IGNORANT YOU ARE. IF YOU WON’T AGREE TO DRINK LYE IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE GET STERILIZED PRONTO.”

But naturally, the dumbest people in any society are the most avid breeders, eager to fling their bastardized and broken chromosomes into the gene pool like a sociopath dumping 3000 gallons of LSD into the Quabbin Reservoir. Anyone can figure out how screw, even those who think that the world is 6,000 years old and that a wooden boat 500 feet could both hold a pair of every kind of animal on the planet but survive for over a month in a storm raising the water table 29,000 feet in a remarkably short time.

And to think I only went to the site looking to see if there were any aggrieved screechings about a recent Family Guy episode in which Chris Griffin dates a girl with Down Syndrome who claims to be the offspring of Sarah Palin.

The race goes off at 2 p.m. EST and will feature four Americans. Here are two of them, Lindsey Vonn (L) and Julia Mancuso, deep in the heart of heavy training for the challenging event.

Vonn is the prohibitive favorite. In the race, I mean. She was also on an unjustifiably controversial Sports Illustrated cover lately.

It’s nice to know that these young ladies have already figured out how to market themselves outside of skiing just in case a bad fall results in a blown-out ACL or something and spells the end of competitive skiiing.

Well, you don’t need me to tell you this. But on Thursday morning I bought my first-ever copy of Foster’s Daily Democrat, a newspaper serving the general area of Dover, New Hampshire, a pleasant enough but nondescript city of 30,000 or so in which I live.

Here’s what the local section had to say. There are six headlines on the front page.

“Wentworth-Douglass seeks state OK to expand”

OK, fine. Wentworth-Douglass is a classy facility with 111 beds. They’re trying to make it so that, for example, patients’ relatives have a place to spend the night. They need funding for a 136,000-square-foot addition. All fine. Next:

“Dentistry with a Heart”

This is actually a beautiful story about helping people, which I won’t go into. Then there’s this shit:

“Man gets 8 years for 2008 home-invasion armed robbery”

“One charged, one sought in strong-arm robbery”

“Teen charged in burglary; additional charges expected”

“Dover police seek man they say beat pregnant wife”

I would think that small-town New Hampshire could do better. Apparently not. A letter to the editor indicates that the nearby town of Durham (home of the University of New Hampshire) has at least one landlord who thinks it’s OK to serve up tap water with three to four times the legal level of arsenic. Arsenic, for fuck’s sake. Then there’s a letter noting that there are suddenly four branches of government: the judicial branch, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and corporate America. I can’t believe that a supposedly liberal Supreme Court, or any Supreme Court, let this shit happen. They have abandoned every last principle that supposedly made this a wondrous place to live, and I fucking hate them for it.

Then there was a bunch of bullshit about a federal stimulus dollars and some stuff that was actually nice about a Christmas food drive.

This sucks. I think I’ll just retreat into the world of underground blogs, dark as they can be.