Your humble Oversneer has been doing some traveling this week, and that can only mean one thing: My e-mail overfloweth with Deceiver-worthy ideas from readers like you. But I just don’t have time to explore every one of them in depth.
We’re focusing on prepping the Deceiver Madness tourney, so there’s no shame in taking the lazy way out, right? Right.
Here’s a roundup of what you’ve been sending us.
- The band Phish has apparently forgotten about the Deadhead clones whose free-spirited slacker apathy made them semi-famous. Phish is asking a judge to clamp down on merchandise “bootleggers” in advance of its reunion tour. The court petition complains that people who sell unauthorized Phish t-shirts are ” generally nomadic individuals without a business premises or other connection to the area.” Um … yeah. That’s your audience, guys. Did you think you were the New York Philharmonic?
- President Obama’s “Middle Class Task Force” is missing something rather important: actual middle-class people. TIME magazine reports that every single member of the task force is in the top 5 percent of income-earners. (Next up: A Higher Education Task Force made up of middle-school dropouts.)
- Mega-labor-union the AFL-CIO is really, really worried about the toll the economy is taking on its rank-and-file members. So it’s embracing a strict austerity plan, cutting needless expenses and trimming the same sorts of budget-busting luxuries that it’s encouraging big business to eliminate. Just kidding! The AFL-CIO is having its annual meeting at the ritzy Fontainbleu resort in Miami, where the cheapest rooms start at $400 per night. (More if you actually want an ocean view.)
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the Obama Administration will soon unveil plans to make it harder for companies and wealthy individuals to avoid paying income taxes. (Insert joke and rimshot here.) There’s a mini-movement afoot, by the way, to arm Americans with red rubber stamps reading “Obama’s Tax Cheat”–so they can subtitle Geithner’s signature when it starts appearing on U.S. currency.
- Guess who consumes more pornography than any other group in America? Red-state Bible-thumpers. (So says a University of Michigan economist, anyway)
- French president Nicolas Sarkozy, champion of intellectual property rights and copyright protections, has some ’splaining to do to the indie band MGMT.
(Thanks to all the Deceiver tipsters who make Simon, Holly, and me look smarter than we really are.)
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Guess who consumes more pornography than any other group in America? Red-state Bible-thumpers.
What spurious bullsh*t. On what grounds could possibly presume to know the political leanings of random porn-addicts?
I notice Virginia (#10 in the nation) is supposed to be one of their slam-dunk examples of conservative porn use. Yeah, Virgina is a really, really RED state, what with our democratic governor, two democratic senators and and 6 of 11 democratic representatives.
But naturally it has to be conservative Christians who are surfing porn all day.
Go fug yourself.
How about this low-hanging fruit? Liberal douchebag-moralist Jeffery “Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey” Toobin getting caught with his dick in somebody he’s not married to. Looks like he’s taken a page from John Edwards?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03052009/gossip/pagesix/glad_youre_married__jeffrey__158023.htm
Hmmmm…wonder if he surfs porn? Nah…
I’m not surprised by red states. I go to school in one, and honestly, these sorority girls Sunday – Tuesday are Jesus loving little Republicans, then Wednesday – Saturday, well….I can say with full honesty that I’ve seen soft-core porn that looks mild compared to how they act in the clubs. (Not that I go to any…::cough::)
I was going to send on in about little Hayden Pantateneirre or whatever the hell he name is. Apparently she and that Milo Ventimiglua (again, wtf is his name) broke up over a pregnancy scare. I can see the Candie’s anti-pregnancy ads have helped her in reality…you would think with the money she did to whore out for them, she would at least buy a Trojan or something.
But hey, what do I know? I’m in college getting an education!
Random paying porn-addicts, at that.
I’m not surprised by red states. I go to school in one, and honestly, these sorority girls…
Apparently Meg 2.0 is blessed with the same amazing University of Michigan Economics Department powers of devination to instantly know what people’s beliefs are just by looking at them.
And thank God for that. You keep us safe, Meg.
Ah yes, people making fallacious conclusions from moronic “studies” yet again.
I am not going to jump in and say that this study about the Red states just has to be true, hahaha, but these porn sites DO have the credit card numbers and customer information to back these claims up if they really need to. And it makes sense. In small town America, everyone knows everyone’s business, and if that community is generally conservative, people talk if you miss the damn church picnic. It makes sense that there would be more people doing the online porn thing because it’s private. More power to them if they are so repressed and have found an outlet, bless their little hearts. Surf away, just STFU when it comes to speaking out against it.
I’m seriously cracking up about Phish.
Apparently Meg 2.0 is blessed with the same amazing University of Michigan Economics Department powers of devination to instantly know what people’s beliefs are just by looking at them.
Of course, I can. I’m blessed with divine powers!
Who cares about the porn? It is perfectly legal & if conservatives want to do it, they have just as much right as anyone else. The only problem is the hypocrisy. Do not rail against it publicly then do it behind closed doors. Either agree that it is everyone’s right or shut up about it. Just stop the “do as I say & not as I do” crap. (This is not about political parties or religion either as they are all hypocritical, especially when it comes to sex issues.)
…these porn sites DO have the credit card numbers and customer information to back these claims up if they really need to.
So? What the hell does that prove? Only Christians have credit cards?
These porn sites also have non-disclosure agreements and privacy policies written by their own lawyers.
The AFL-CIO is having its annual meeting at the ritzy Fontainbleu resort in Miami, where the cheapest rooms start at $400 per night.
If you did just the slightest investigation, you’d find that the AFL-CIO got a discount rate of under $200 / room from the hotel. Better go ask Rush for the next lie he wants you to spread.
One of the biggest flaws in the logic of that study is that *everyone* in a red state is “red.” Uhhhh, who says the porn surfers aren’t the blue ones living in red states trying to cope with living around the red people? Did they match voting records to credit card names? Even so, your vote should be private so the most they can have is what you’re registered as… which doesn’t necessarily constitute who you voted for. My gosh, can we please have some logic in this world?!
However, on a happier note, I am so in on that stamp cause. Yeah, I’m passive-agressive.
Go Jeff!
“So? What the hell does that prove? Only Christians have credit cards?”
You obviously didn’t read the first line of my post.
I hit “submit” before I was ready and wanted to add that it doesn’t necessarily mean that all those porn surfers are “red”. I said that I wasn’t going to just jump in and point fingers. I only said that it would make sense if there is no other outlet for that sort of thing available to a person.
It would be naive to think that Christian conservatives couldn’t possibly look at porn. Of course no one is checking credit card numbers against voter registrations, but if you have a high number of credit card numbers out of a red state, it would be silly to think that it’s just a group of liberals respsonsible for those numbers, just as it would be silly to think that every single one of those people is a conservative.
And remember too, those that scream the loudest in opposition to something, are oftentimes guilty of that very thing themselves. Look at all the televangelist scandals of the 80’s, the “I’m not gay but I like tube steak” politician whose name I can’t recall now that keeps claiming he’s being cured of his gayness.
I personally don’t care who looks at porn and who doesn’t. I have nothing against it myself and I don’t support either political party, never have, and never will, especially now that I don’t even live in the States anymore. I just think that if someone’s going to do it, maybe they shouldn’t protest too much.
“Random PAYING porn-addicts, at that.”
Paying? What idiot pays for porn? What next paying for music downloads?
Man Michigan Professors gotta get better at crusin’ the interwebs or something.
I worked in the porn industry for 7 years, from 1996-2003 (uh…the technical side, if you are curious). We broadcasted 5 XXX porn (I mean Adult Entertainment…porn has no social redeeming value) channels over the C-Band network (that is those 6 ft dishes that people used to have).
Anyway part of my job was to monitor incoming calls and staff appropriately. I know that a vast majority of pay-per view subscribers where in Georgia, Tenessee Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas. Our busiest days for pay-per view where Friday, Sunday, Saturday in order of busiest to slowest.
Subscription traffic was Saturday, Friday, Thursday and came from Minnesota, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Arkanasas and Alabama.
I have no idea what leaning these states are but that was my experience.
I wonder if it’s more an inverse correlation between internet porn subscribers and local porn avalibility rather than voting patterns.
For instance, top state Utah has relatively few outlets to purchase or view porn due to the heavy Mormon population legislatively limiting clubs and stores.
Whereas #41 on the list Michigan, in urban/suburban areas we have public venues available within a 20 minute drive in the more populated lower penninsula.
Red states are usually more rural which translates to fewer businesses per capita. Assuming a constant percentage of porn businesses where they aren’t otherwise legally limited, that means fewer strip clubs or adult bookstores in your average red state.
But nah, it’s so much more fun to imagine pastors in their skivvies licking their computer screen.
I’m guessing they don’t teach Occam’s Razor in the Harvard economics department.
“you’d find that the AFL-CIO got a discount rate of under $200 / room from the hotel”
Yeah. And if they’d picked a hotel with 200$ a night rates, they would have got a 100$ a night rate as a discount.
Taking advice on saving money from an Obamabot is like taking dieting advice from Rosie and Oprah.
And fer Christ’s sake, how much of a loser do you have to be to pay for porn with all the exhibitionists in this world?
**Filling out application to Meg’s school**
Jrod, you rock.
One another thing Jrod – you have to have a crapload of General Education classes to take before you can declare as Divine Powers as a major.
P.S. Haven’t these people heard of PornHub? What are these paid sites hiding??
It just feels better to pay for it. The same reason hookers and hush-money-mistresses are more exciting than wives… (so I have heard)
Not that it matters much, since everybody seems to be focused on red-state porn buffs (I just love that Utah was #1), but I would like to point out that the AFL-CIO negotiated the rooms with the Fontainbleu in Miami three years ago and the rates for AFL-CIO people staying there are under $200 a night (sorce: MSNBC).
Ok, let me be ‘that’ guy.
They were using the room rates to show you what kind of hotel it is, you nincompoops. $400 a night hotels for the people who are complaining about business wasting money on extravagances.
Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go to my company party in Des Moines.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go to my company party in Des Moines.”
Hey, at least you’re not stuck with a staycation in Detroit…
Jeff, that wasn’t a lie. The rooms really do go for $400 a night. And that’s what the tips@deceiver.com address is for- find a Repbulican hypocrite and report him/her if it makes you feel better.
Wow, Jeff. Do you have any logic cells in your brain, I wonder? I know logic isn’t cool in the present society and that the schools do their best to eradicate it wherever they can, but surely maybe a couple could have survived!
Nobody believes that these guys are going to use the $200 discount on the cheapest rooms on the hotel, and thus the point is that instead of “cutting expenses,” they’re going to ritz it up. Even $200/night is kind of unforgivably high.
@Habanada: LALALALALA! Labor unions are holy, we’re not listening to you, lalalalalala, they raise the dead and communicate telepathically with owls, lalalalala…
Learned that in ninth grade, BTW.