“Dear Lord, that’s the loudest profanity I’ve ever heard.” – Ned Flanders Noted Air Force veteran George Carlin died last week. Coverage of Carlin’s death invariably focused on the seven dirty words but they’re a minor part of what he was about. Carlin’s whole outlook was that everything sacred needs to be mocked, poked and [...]
Archive for June 2008
Carlin
Dangerous Precedents
“And that pizza delivery truck has been parked across the street for two weeks. How long does it take to deliver a pizza?” – Marge Simpson Over at Salon Glenn Greenwald has been doing his customarily thorough job of exposing the rank stupidity and crass corruption swirling around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill [...]
First Principals
“The only way you’ll get me to talk is through slow, painful torture and I don’t think you’ve got the grapes.” – Stewie Griffin The Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, the ones about the ethical treatment of civilians and prisoners, the ones the current Administration has been so keen to discard, were negotiated into their [...]
Fear Fading Fast Enough?
Puppet Rebellion
“Good Heavens Smithers, they’re not afraid of me anymore!” – C.M. Burns Puppet. There is a wonderful simplicity to that word, especially as it pertains to our sophomoric efforts at imperialism in Iraq. It’s a word which tells you everything you need to know: that there is a local government, headed by a local guy, [...]
Breathing in Beijing
Primary Post Mortem
This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You
“Boy, you’re gonna have to be punished for this.” – Homer Simpson “Dad, you could punish me, but that means you’d have to think of a punishment, sit here and make sure I do it-” – Bart Simpson “Ohhh.” – Homer Simpson “Or, you could let me go play with Milhouse while you spend the [...]
Yeah, Vista Really Does Suck
“They have the internet on computers now.” – Homer Simpson My older sister recently purchased a new Compaq laptop. It came loaded with Windows Vista and I had the dubious pleasure of setting it up for her. Prior to this my direct experience with Vista has been tangential. I’ve used it a little bit on [...]
Try Our New Quotes Page
“I will not celebrate meaningless milestones.” – Bart Simpson (Chalkboard Prisoner) There’s a new page here at Tethered Swimming. It is a chronological list of all previous posts containing links and the cartoon quote that I used for that post. Someday, relatively soon I hope, it will also contain links to episode guides. Some further [...]
