Pat Rock on Dec 19th, 2008Open Letter To Obama: Throw me a frikkin’ bone
Dear Mr. President Elect,
Honestly, if I was in the same room with you I might throw a shoe at you. Except I’m afraid of being detained and beaten
Should I even bother reminding you that a significant number of people who voted for you are indeed that hoary old cliche, “Leftists” with a capital L?
So [...]
Pat Rock on Dec 9th, 2008Volker Warns of Tough Times Ahead
Paul Volker is Back!
Of course everyone is warning of tough times, its the percentage shot, but Volker is actually talking about something different. Amazingly he is calling a spade a spade and saying that American consumption, which drives 70% of the economy, needs to be reigned in:
A child of the Great Depression and a [...]
Pat Rock on Oct 13th, 2008Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest New Yorker piece Late Bloomers is up.
Pat Rock on Sep 17th, 2008Pulp Fiction as Presidential Campaign
JOHN MCCAIN
Everybody be cool, this is a
robbery!
SARAH PALIN
Any of you fuckin’ pricks move and
I’ll execute every one of you
motherfuckers! Got that?!
Obama looks up, not believing what he’s seeing. Under the
table, Obama’ hand goes to his .45 Automatic. He pulls it
out, COCKING IT.
JOHN MCCAIN
Customers stay seated, waitresses
on the floor.
SARAH PALIN
Now means fuckin’ now! [...]
Pat Rock on Sep 10th, 2008Sarah Palin and Pentecostalism
People keep asking me what the “liberal media elite” means when it says that Sarah Palin is a Pentecostal.
A picture is worth a thousand words:
Some people will click on that and think I’m being unfair. I’m not. I’ve been to Pentecostal services, and I’ve been around Pentecostals of various flavors (its a big [...]
Pat Rock on Sep 5th, 2008The Republican National Convention
An exercise in compare and contrast:
“A lot of prisoners had it much worse — a lot of — a lot of prisoners had it much worse than I did. I’d been mistreated before, but not as badly as many others. I always liked to strut a little after I’d been roughed up to show the [...]
Pat Rock on Aug 26th, 2008Rick Warren and Nominees
When I saw that the candidates were going to appear on TV and be interviewed (interrogated?) by Rick Warren I honestly didn’t think twice about it. We see candidates on Oprah, on Late Night, on Saturday Night Live, and other stranger venues so it didn’t seem unusual to to think about Rick Warren, famous [...]