Er, shouldn't.

It's one thing to be proud of and tout your record, and another thing to say “I'm the best ever.” It's just one thing to say gays should be able to serve openly.

So did you skip the pictures, or did you just not find them outrageously stupid and dishonest? Just wondering.

Solid counterpoint.

If you want to unnecessarily widen the conflict and put at odds people who are actually aligned when it comes to gay rights, sure, put it that way.

Disproportionate response!

One more short note, I'm sorry, to put a point on everything I've said here. Does it make a person stupid to not know any facts about what they speak? To operate strictly on gut instinct, impressions, and (frequently paranoid) conjecture? Yes, I think it does.

They get to be called hypocrites without an ounce of credibility because they go rabid over deficit spending when it's to provide people with health care and unemployment aid, but not when it's to wage spurious wars, inflate the defense budget to ridiculous proportions, and cut the taxes of the wealthy. Had they made a peep when Bush was squandering the surplus and inflating the deficit, I might take them more seriously. And you're right, Obama gave tax cuts to the <$250K people, for which the tax zombies didn't give him any credit (of course Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh didn't tell them about it, so the vast majority of them don't even know).  They get to be called stupid and racist for lionizing stupid, racist and unserious people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin (minus the racism), etc., and placing them so proudly at the fore of their movement. Personally, I think they also get to be called racist for deciding they want “their” country back six months into Obama's presidency, by which time he'd signed, if memory serves, three pieces of legislation. And like I said, “socialist” has taken on new meaning thanks to the idiot demagogues like Beck and the leaders of the tea party movement. I suppose it would be reasonable to call some Democratic policies “socialist” under the old definition. Social Security. Medicare. But that's the nature of American government, and it has been for almost a hundred years. It's not socialist, it's not capitalist, it's a hybrid that leans heavily capitalist. People who don't acknowledge that, people who snarl “socialist” like it's a vile damnation, don't get to be taken any more seriously than the “fascist”-snarling, Che Guevara t-shirt-wearing stoners. And yes, they get to be called stupid.

If there was any way to make this song tolerable to me, this would be it. But there's not.

I should clarify, I don't equate socialism and fascism (though the people calling Obama a socialist do, which was part of my point). Bernie Sanders really is a socialist, and I think he's a great senator with the country's best interests at heart. I can't imagine I'd ever say that about a fascist.

According to polls I've seen, the majority of Republicans either believe Obama was born outside the US or are suspicious. To be fair, some of those don't know Hawaii is part of the US, though. And yes, it really is that stupid to call Obama a socialist. It really, really is. To be fair again, some liberals labeled Bush a fascist, but they were stoned college freshmen who'd just discovered the word. What's the middle-aged teabagger's excuse?

Hopefully this picture will inspire Carly Simon to record some new music! Eh? Hmm? No? Okay. Everybody already made the good penis/arm jokes, so I had to make the best of what I had.

I was just going to say, “or maybe you have an arm penis,” so it's good you got here first.

We would know Glenn Beck forgets how to spell because he has a TV show on which he frequently misspells words on his prop chalkboards, actually. Or maybe he never knew how to spell. And I would posit that there's no outcry on the left over Mike Malloy because most of the left has never heard of him, whereas Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk are figureheads and ideological leaders of the right. What Beck says becomes parroted talking point. What Limbaugh says becomes party platform. What Malloy says becomes YouTube embarrassment.

Here's the definition of the word “jackass” - “a contemptibly foolish or stupid person; dolt; blockhead; ass.” Understand my criteria now?

Get back to me when Mike Malloy starts tearfully confusing Coca Cola commercials with real life, seeing secret messages and patterns in pictures, words, and sculpture, mocking eight year-old girls, and forgets how to spell.

I sense you took the cancellation pretty hard.

Stop trying to take the sky from us, Tanner!!!

On the bright side, the monkey might still be alive.