theDirty.com website

TheDirty.com is a controversial website. It allows people to post pictures and comments of people they know. It is usually a vindictive, cruel, and vicious, form of cyber-bullying. Here is a sample from the site:

                                                               

                           

The Dirty Army: Nik, Brenda Dunlopp pictured here is a voracious reader who volunteers twice a week at the soup kitchen. But what people don’t know, is that Brenda sides with Jürgen Habermas in the Foucault-Habermas debate. Brenda maintains that Habermas’ ideas of ‘communicative rationality’ are more valid than Foucault’s ideas of “power analytics”.

Answer: Have to refer to Nancy Fraser’s summation that Foucault’s work is a mixture of “empirical insights and normative confusions.” -but her chin is a little crooked.

Mark Halperin clarifies statement

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Mark Halperin clarified his statement made earlier today. Halperin said that President Obama "acted like a dick yesterday" when asked on an MSNBC show what he thought about President Obama's press conference from the previous day. Halperin released a statement clarifying his comment. "Actually what I meant to say was that President Obama acted like a nut-sack. I apologize for jumbling my metaphors and getting the frank and beans mixed up."

New MLB play-off system

MLB is thinking over a new play-off and league format. Of all the ideas that I have heard, the one I favor is as follows...move a team such as the Houston Astros over to the American league to even the leagues up with 15 teams each. Then get rid of the divisions. This will give a balanced schedule and there will always be an inter-league series going on. The top five teams make the play-offs. It will be easy to visualize and keep track of where your team is as far as the wild-card is concerned. Finally, add the two-point conversion after a touchdown, just kidding. 

Westminster shut out by NFL

The poor bastards who live in Westminster, MD won't be able to host the Ravens this year. The Ravens had to cancel using McDaniel College as their training camp due to the uncertainty of scheduling brought about by the NFL lock-out. It is a done deal even if the lock-out ends tomorrow. It is really great to go see the Ravens practice at McDaniel College in the summer. There is a very collegiate and hometown feel to the experience of driving up 795 and seeing the Ravens run their drills. Hopefully, the Ravens won't see this as a way out of using Westminster as their training site each summer. It would be unfortunate.

Up with People angry with Romney campaign

The musical group "Up with People" has sent a 'cease and desist' order to the Mitt Romney campaign for using the musical number "Sing-out 66" on campaign stops. A spokesperson for UWP explained that the governor's positions are far too progressive to invoke the singing group's work.

Chicago then DC

Well the journey continued through Chicago then here to Union Station in the good old District of Columbia. Ain't that something? Feeding on butterfingers and Coca-Cola I've made it within one last train ride to b-more, train 132.

Beer Town

Hey all you Eastcoastclub people. This is your stalwart blogger blogging from the Amtrak terminal in Milwaukee. This station is now a fully operational weapon, the most powerful weapon in the galaxy commanded by Wilhuff Tarkin., Not really that's from star wars concerning the Death Star. I wonder if this Amtrak station was built with a tiny weak point which, if precisely struck, would cause the whole thing to go ka boom, not unlike the credibility of the Star Wars plot. Anywho, it's all quiet here in Milwaukee. There is a 'muzak' version of Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab' song playing over the sound system. It's true. Believe it...or leave it.

McRegretus

The journey continued up to the land of Medicare killers...err, medicare savers. Near Janesville, Wisconsin. I purchased a Big Mac at a stop near Rockford, Illinois I enjoyed the sandwich but then suffered the seeping bitter letdown of guilt and self-loathing that takes place in the heart of modern man or woman after partaking in a mickey dees meal. Who am I? Why am I here? These are the questions we ask ourselves at such times.

Good-bye Columbus

Good-bye you old Columbus, Indiana. I'll miss your funny ways. I'll miss the way the morning rays struck the wal-mart as seen from the window of the Super8. And so long all you damn architecture, all you goddamned architecture, all you sad modern architecture. Oh yeah, you too you old design. Don't think you can sneak off without a good bye you old dirty design, you. Finally, thanks go to the Super 8 without which none of this would have been possible. Were they cooking meth on your third floor? Next stop in our tour of liberty....Wisconsin!

Some modern architecture

Today I took a tour of the Athens of the prairie, the Mecca of modern architecture, columbus, Indiana. Check it out on wikipedia if you aren't going to visit this place. It's not easy blogging from an iPhone, but it can be done.

President to address the nation

"Hello nation"-
President Obama

Morning in Columbus

Do you love the smell of napalm in the morning? How about the smell of evil? Of bacon? Of elephants? Of time? That was my morning in a place as strange as Columbus. In the distance I see a 'Buffalo Wild wings' outside my window. It lays quiet. Developing.....

Super8 columbus indiana

I am writing this from my iPhone at the super8 in. Columbus, Indiana. It's really great. You would really love it. Good luck to you all.

Clarence Clemons dies

When the change was made uptown
And the big man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When scooter and the big man bust this city in half
With a tenth avenue freeze-out, tenth avenue freeze-out
Tenth avenue freeze-out...

Green Lantern Review

Remember when they did a Superman movie in the 70s and the other planet in the galaxy was just a close shot of old guys sitting around large ice balls, then a bunch of big heads yelling to Terrance Stamp that he would have to live inside a plate of glass and float around the universe forever? Now that was a cool piece of film-making, in depicting another technologically advanced planet, compared with what 'magic' they failed to work here. What I saw in the previews of this nightmare of a movie was the actor Ryan Reynolds playing Jarr Haldon.  Never saw the movie actually, but it looks like 2 hours of hooey. Wait , Peter Skaarsgard is in the film, whoop dee doo!  When the promoter of a film has the lead actor get on talk- shows and talk about how he did his own stunts to make the film, get far far away. Oh yeah and the camera guy got his niece to decide what film speed to use for an upcoming shot. Do not go see this movie because I 'can see through dark and night and you don't have to spend money on Green Lantern's light'. Did you also know that one of the criminals in the film is 'Solomon Grundy', a monster who became super-powered when he, a developmentally-disabled gym teacher, was crossing the street and was hit by a radioactive Green Bay Packer team bus? Again, didnt see the movie. I have to admit, if you want to take a girl looking for a ring to make her no longer want a ring...bring her with to see this film. But they should only show this movie on Al Gore's birthday and St Patrick's Day..you know, all that green.

Review of "Hangover II"

"Hangover Part II" is a strange title for a film that is not really another part of the first ‘Hangover’, but rather the "further adventures of..." type film. In the ‘Hangover Part II’, the main characters spend very little time suffering from a hangover, and a great deal of time trying to find out what happened in their black-out. Other inexplicable aspects to the film is how little reaction anyone has to a severed finger, and how little bleeding or pain comes from a severed finger. The kid who has his fingered severed seems to say it was worth it due to all the fun he had and how he also learned an important life lesson. (Next time, try a seminar.) Also, why would the stunning girlfriend of Stu really want to marry Stu? And do you think in a movie like this, where the story is set in Thailand, that there will be a misunderstanding involving a she/male type prostitute? Could be.  The scene where the characters are assembled on a roof-top of a penthouse-type building and things start shaking and a helicopter comes rising over the side of the building at the last possible moment when the heroes are about to be done in...I've seen this scene played out in too many movies this year and that includes the movie about the Lincoln assassination, just kidding. The beautiful exotic scenery and the smoking monkey makes me want to say you should really see this film. Now when I say that the ‘smoking monkey’ makes me want to say you should see this film, I am not saying that a very attractive monkey is threatening me to tell you to see this film. The monkey puffs on cigarettes. How is it that monkeys can smoke in restaurants in Thailand but people can’t smoke on the sidewalks of New York city? Not sure. This could be our second worst endorsement this week including the Gingrich endorsement. In all seriousness, go see "Hangover II" with its smoking monkey, she/he prostitutes, drugs, cruelty, violence, hatred, and mirth. Remember, there are really only three members of the "wolf pack." (The one guy isn't really in it, he just takes phone calls at various plot points.) You might really enjoy this achievement in the cinematic art. (Yeah did you read that last line Hangover producers? You can use it as a blurb on the DVD set!)

Jets lose 'player-run' practice

The New York Jets lost their “player-run” practice today.  Due to the NFL lockout, the Jets were forced to organize a 'player-run' practice in an undisclosed location in New Jersey. Although the Jet’s player taunted the practice session with promises of victory, the team fell short. The players blamed the loss on the struggles of their ‘rookie’ Quarterback Mark Sanchez, now entering his third season. 

Anthony Weiner enters treatment center

Congressman Anthony Weiner entered a treatment facility today carrying only a few articles of clothing, a laptop computer, an iPAD 2, and a blackberry phone. "The congressman is going to be under a strict regiment while at our facility," an on-site counselor said. "In a remarkable step forward, he has volunteered for various menial jobs around the facility including cleaning in the treatment centers' computer lab after hours."

Sarah Palin victory

The lamestream media is at it again. Sarah Palin, while leaving her tour bus, was peppered with a barrage of questions of a familiar quality from reporters from various news outlets. Here is a sample of the questions thrown her way:

"What was the title of a 1985 film starring Anthony Andrews and directed by Jeff Kanew?"

"According to the 'urban dictionary' what six letter word is a way of communicating understanding a friend's reference?"

"What word begins with a 'g' and rhymes with motcha?"

Palin's answer to all three :"gotc*a"....well-done gov'nor.

Gingrich Endorsement

We here at the blog are announcing the endorsement of Newt Gingrich for President of these here United States. Why? The man began his presidential campaign by taking a two week cruise in the Mediterranean. This speaks to the qualities we admire: slothfulness, knowing how to pace oneself, knowing how not to peak too early, comfortable enough with oneself to indulge in luxuriant pleasures at the worst possible moment, and knowing that if one has the opportunity to give speeches and participate in debates or go on a two week Mediterranean cruise, one chooses the cruise. Now, driving around in a bus in Gettysburg, Pa, in the broiling  heat, that's just wrong.

Suns of Hagerstown

The Hagerstown Suns (Class A Washington Nationals) play in a place as awful as it sounds..Hagerstown. But they play in a nice venue. The loudspeaker is cranked up about 3 times the necessary level, but the atmosphere is everything you want in the minor league experience. The Suns lost to the Greensboro Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers is about as original a nickname as you can hope for. I would say that if you have never been to a Hagerstown Suns game then you should consider yourself lucky, just kidding, you should really check out a game in Hagerstown, MD, at Municipal Stadium.