Pabst Blue Ribbon Is Classy and Expensive in China – TIME NewsFeed

Thanks to Ned for this link.

Apparently in China, PBR is incredibly classy and expensive.

Considering I once spent an evening in Muscatine, Iowa on a throne of stacked beer cases, drinking a case of cold PBRs while wearing a Burger King crown with a beer label slapped on it, I dare you to say that beer is classy.

Drinkable, party worthy, but classy? Nah. And that case didn’t cost us much more than $20 if memory serves.

The right wing’s perversion of patriotism – CSMonitor.com

For some reason it still surprises people that the GOP are disingenuous snakes and liars.

Sure, average Republican voters can be nice enough people. I know quite a few of them. But the asshats in charge sure seem to be complete tools.

Look, we can disagree on a lot of things but questioning people’s patriotism because they might object to bombing brown people indiscriminately is just damn near evil.

Look Sir, droids!

Two stories this week concerning our increasingly mechanized military.

The first one involves self-driving supply trucks that allow the humans riding in it to spend their time looking for roadside bombs.

Personally, I’d reverse the roles but it’s progress I guess.

Next story is a tad scarier. The Brits have basically built a Cylon Raider which they call the Taranis. Read up on it here.

So, um, Skynet may not have been so fictional, eh?

Compassion, my ass

The family of a 87 year old lady used her obituary to attack Harry Reid. That’s nice, huh?

More here.

Some other “compassionate conservatives” in Utah published the names, addresses, and – in the cases of pregnant women – due dates of likely undocumented migrants in their state.

Hey! Nothing like sending your angry tea baggers to kill a brown baby that would be an American if allowed to live. And yes, that is EXACTLY the motive in those cases.

In both those instances, the perps were LDS members. This is not to say every member of that church is an evil, racist prick. You could single out any conservative religious mob for having that ilk in it’s midst. I know plenty of decent human beings that are Mormon that don’t subscribe to that kind of hate. That said, the slush fund for Prop 8 *was* helped by the church.

No, other conservative twits abound, regardless of religious affiliation.

Old-ish news, but there’s a farmer in Missouri who painted a sign on a semi trailer, denouncing Democrats as “parasites”.

Now, some folks lit said trailer on fire – twice. This is wrong, even if this hate is on the side of an interstate. It’s his land and his right to be an a-hole. I guess.

The fun part here is that said angry farmer who is pissed about people taking in below minimum wage welfare payments is himself a leech on the system, for the price of over a million dollars in farm subsidies.

Look, if folks on welfare are parasites, million dollar subsidy babies like him are full-blown leech colonies. Plus, he’s some kind of scam artist that fleeced new parents in a baby crib scheme.

Nice guy. But no worse than the rest of his party really.