quote o’ the day: Mencken on the presidency

Thanks to Archie for this:

 “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken

the sermon of the tasers on the mount

via Jesus’ General, and relating to our posts about the tastering of a UCLA student here and here.

Republican Jesus Speaks!

handy Pete Doherty arrest report template

Pete, you're looking rode hard and put away wet! 

With a little tweaking this could work for George Michael, too. From commenter Gabe over on Gawker’s post about Doherty’s latest drug bust. Seriously, I think it must be some other dude who got Kate Moss pregnant; surely by now his body is incapable of producing anything but crack-flavoured vomit.

FROM NME.COM
POST DATE __/__/__ __:__ GMT

PETE DOHERTY ARRESTED ON DRUGS CHARGES FOR ________

Pete Doherty was arrested yesterday (______ __) for ________ possession.

Police stopped the Babyshambles singer as he was driving a _______ at __.__am in London’s _______ district

Doherty was arrested on suspicion of possession ______.

There were ____ other passengers in the car who were also arrested and later bailed, reports ____.

All ____ were released from _______ police station pending analysis of “substances recovered”, a spokesman said.

Doherty was released on police bail until ______.

The singer is due in court later this month over a previous drugs sentencing.

quiz: what classic movie are you?

 Ya know, I should probably pretend this was a surprise…but no.

Stolen from Metro, who stole it from Nag on the Lake.


What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

stay gold, Brian Atene, stay gold

Or at least gold-plated.

Here’s the real Brian Atene. He’s alive. He’s not fat. He’s still Over-the-Top and if you liked his cheesy bits here’s more of them. Atene Beat fans are logging onto christopherreeve.org and scooping-up those groovey Superman dogtags. Show support. Go forward! Get tagged and enjoy the unlikely life and madness of Brian Atene.

From the ashes of a now-legendary audition tape flameout rises the real 43-year-old Brian Atene, as overacty as ever and more than willing to make a fool of himself on YouTube if it coaxes the public into following his nerdy Master Plan and making the world a better place by buying dog tags from ChristopherReeve.org.

also stolen from Defamer. What can I say, Gawker sux since they hired the twin Hermiones!