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Bauhaus I commented on What Do You Think of the Don Jon Trailer?.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt acting like Marky Mark - all buffy and in his underwear. I'm in.

May 22

Bauhaus I commented on Tornado Truthers.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

May 21

Bauhaus I commented on What President Obama Can and Can't Do.

The other was from my current Atlantic colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates, who criticized the speech for being too hectoring of Obama's Morehouse audience in a way he wouldn't have been at Dartmouth or Stanford: "Barack Obama is, indeed, the president of 'all America,' but he also is singularly the scold of 'black America.'"

But wait...Morehouse is a historically African-American university for men. Dartmouth is not. Would anyone give the same speech at Morehouse he'd/she'd give at Darmouth? You would? Well, then you aren't following one of the primary rules of speech-writing which is - know your audience. This is an unfair criticism. It isn't as if the President used Ebonics and yet that's how the argument sounds. Let's say you're asked to give a commencement speech at, say, your Alma Mater. Would it be the same speech you'd give at, say, Vassar? Howard? University of Oklahoma (now)?

Obama isn't the perfect president. He's disappointed (like they all do). Personally, I think he's been too kind in trying to include the other side of the House. On the whole, there isn't a time I would have ever traded him for McCain or Romney. I get tired of Obama bashing. He gets way more of it than he deserves, and people zoning in on him at graduation ceremonies? Well, that's just being really small.

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May 20

Bauhaus I commented on A Teen's Dream Comes True!.

Yeah, it comes from that Christian thing that believes we have dominion over animals. What that is supposed to mean is that we are the caretakers - providing, or at the very least, not harming wildlife and its environs. What it has come to mean to many people is that it's OK to go out and needlessly blow their brains out with a rifle.

May 20

Bauhaus I commented on Morning News: Tornadoes, Bombs, Hacks, and Trikes.

Wait...only Hader is leaving for now. Seth will be back in the fall. He doesn't take over for Fallon until Fallon goes to Tonight which will be after the Winter Games next year (the closing ceremony is February 23rd). I see Seth leaving when SNL takes it's Christmas break.

May 18

Bauhaus I commented on Where Was Bobby Jindal When the Grand Jury Refusers Were in Prison?.

The real scandal - the one Republicans want to tap dance and twill fire batons to keep you from noticing - is the abundance of Tea Party and Conservative PACs applying for tax-exempt status under 501(c)(4) which is reserved for organizations who do not participate in any way with political causes. Additionally, these groups do not have to specify where their donations come from. So, the IRS got caught investigating this type of abuse and the Republicans are using it to divert attention away from the real crime.

If the IRS had stated months ago that they were going to crack down on these practices, it would have taken all the wind out of the GOP's sails. The Obama administration needs to be first to point fingers and accuse and stop waiting around - in an effort to once more get bi-partisan support (which will never happen). Obama needs to point fingers and tell the American people who the real slimy, slithery crooks are and stop worrying about offending the other side.

Such gall the Right/Tea Party/Conservatives have. So indignant. So abused.

May 18

Bauhaus I commented on Slog Overnight.

5: Yeah, 5 minutes ago that cat was giving himself a rim job, 10 minutes ago, he was making a feast out of fish entrails, and an hour ago he was carrying around a dead mouse in his mouth.

Hope she has a healthy and responsive immune system. I don't wish cats any harm. I'm glad that some have loving homes, but sometimes cat people are just fucking weird.