another reason the “greatest generation” was so great: no furries

So remember last week when I blogged about the neocon bloggers who were trying to “prove” that Obama invented a fictitious WWII hero great-uncle?  In a twist that can only be filed under “You can’t make this shit up”, one of the “investigative” bloggers has been revealed as a furry. No, really. Specifically:

a sexual fetishist who regularly commissions artwork of himself as a cigar-chomping skunk getting its knob sucked by a menagerie of voluptuously drawn cartoon rabbits, gophers and other assorted mammalia. If he turned out to be a regular attendee of ‘furry’ gatherings so desperate and noxious in his social interactions that members of that oft-maligned subculture shunned him as a pariah.

You guys, this jerk is so socially repulsive that other furries can’t stand him.

“i have nothing in common with this new world of fashion”: YSL when he retired in 2002

By the time I started reading Vogue in high school, Yves Saint Laurent had already been a legend for decades. Fashion, contrary to what many people who are only passingly familiar with it think, is actually very conservative. It may look outrageous, but the underlying philosophies only change, if at all, very slowly. Someone like YSL, who was part of so many fashion revolutions (dresses with silhouettes that didn’t follow the human form, pants suits for women, pop art and ethnic patterns, the democritization of fashion, pieces that were meant to be worn for years instead of just a season) is a once-a-century figure.

You’ll be missed, YSL. The idiots trying to fill your shoes aren’t worthy of sewing your buttons.

rumors on the internets: michelle obama hates “whitey”

There are a whole bunch of rumors swirling around lately that Hillary and/or the RNC and/or unknown conservative blogger(s) have an audio tape of Michelle Obama ranting against “Whitey”. I don’t believe it, because if such a thing existed, you’d be able to hear the collective orgasm of the entire neocon community around the world. There’s no way that would be a secret for more than 5 minutes, and even that would be pushing it.

Not to mention this rumor is like a game of Telephone and keeps changing and getting more incredible with each iteration. The people rumored to have been joining her have run the gamut from plausible (Jeremiah Wright) to doubtful (Louis Farrakhan) to hallucinatorily impossible (Malcom X).

Michelle Obama probably does have anger towards this country and its government, which is primarily composed of rich old white men, and has been since its inception. I know it’s hard for people coming from a lifetime of white privilege to understand, but that doesn’t make educated, intelligent black people ”black racists”. It makes them people who look at the reality of black infant mortality and rates of black incarceration in this country, and sometimes get emotional. But “whitey”? Please.

Booman Tribune has a plausible theory, in which everyone is getting all het up over a tape in which Michelle Obama is criticizing Bush by saying “Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?”, etc., and it’s being misrepresented as “Whitey”. Which makes sense, because saying “Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason” doesn’t even make grammatical sense. Michelle Obama went to Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She’s not the fucking Hulk. “Whitey let New Orleans drown! MICHELLE SMASH!”

In kind-of-but-not-really-related news, artist Ron English has made a “fusion portrait” combining Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln:

Hee!