Blog: Mobtown Shank

TOP 5 LETTERS OF 2011 by Benn Ray 1. JAIL MAIL At Atomic Books, we get a decent amount of mail from prisoners - so much so that we have a staffer who's in charge of our prisoner correspondences (that'd be Dina, of course!). Usually, the letters are from bored inmates looking for catalogs or free publications. Sometimes they are indecipherable rantings from someone who very much seems like they need to be behind bars. But in the case of [...]

"This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger…. It's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us . " Source. ------------------------------ --------------- Many conservatives are under the falty impression that Newt Gingrich is a particularly bright fellow. Newt's own statements suggest otherwise.

by Rep. Ron Paul, Republican dentists can no longer refuse to work on the bloody mouths of AIDS carriers ------------------------------ --------------- This poem was originally published as an article by Ron Paul in his own newsletter in the 1980s/1990s.

by Madam 8-Ball ARE YOU ON THE VERGE OF DOING SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET? AQUARIUS: Outlook good. PISCES: Don't count on it. ARIES: Without a doubt. TAURUS: Very doubtful. GEMINI: It is decidedly so. CANCER: Concentrate and ask again. LEO: Better not tell you now. VIRGO: Cannot predict now. LIBRA: [...]

In 16 Republican Presidential debates, the following names were checked: President Barack Obama (D): 561 times former President Ronald Reagan (R): 221 times former President George W. Bush (R): 56 times Now why would Republicans be so reluctant to discuss the last Republican president? Source: Up With Chris Hayes

Meet Terry Gou. AKA Terry Tai-Ming Gou. AKA Terry Guo. (Interestingly, his name has the same pronunciation as dog.) Terry is the Taiwanese tycoon head of Hon Hai Precision. Hon Hai Precision owns Foxconn. Foxconn is the Chinese electronics manufacturer whose working conditions are so bleak, so hopeless , that it had to install safety nets around the building to catch employees who would rather hurl themselves into oblivion than face another day forced to make our electronic gadgets for pennies an hour. Foxconn makes the Amazon [...]

by Rep. Ron Paul, Republican If our basic rights are lost in the agony of economic upheaval, the future is lost also. The social hysteria that might occur, could drive us into the classic dilemma of anarchistic chaos followed by military dictatorship quelling the tumultuous riot. ------------------------------ --------------- This poem was originally published as an article by Ron Paul in his own newsletter in the 1980s/1990s.

"A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about." Source. ------------------------------ --------------- Many conservatives are under the falty impression that Newt Gingrich is a particularly bright fellow. Newt's own statements suggest otherwise.

TOP 3 MOVIES I SAW IN 2011 by Benn Ray You know what? I saw a lot of shit movies in 2011. Well, not a lot - but I saw as many shit movies as decent movies. But then I didn't go to the theater a whole helluva lot. Movie theaters feel less magical and more hasslely lately. There are three main theaters I go to in Baltimore. The Charles is, I guess, my homefield theater. Then there's the beloved Senator which, after all the hullabaloo, was back in action [...]

by Benn Ray I call it "The Curse of The Twilight Movies". When I have an outing of friends seeing the Twilight movies that I am in anyway involved with, I end up in a fight. I'm not sure why, but I blame the daywalkers. They know what I've been saying about their sparkly asses. When a group of friends went to see the first Twilight movie in the theater, and [...]

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." Source. ------------------------------ --------------- Many conservatives are under the falty impression that Newt Gingrich is a particularly bright fellow. Newt's own statements suggest otherwise.

by Rep. Ron Paul, Republican the true and horrifying story of the witch-lesbo-feminists who are running America ------------------------------ --------------- This poem was originally published as an article by Ron Paul in his own newsletter in the 1980s/1990s.

by former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age, they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American." Source. ------------------------------ --------------- Many conservatives are under the falty impression that Newt Gingrich is a particularly bright fellow. [...]

by Rep. Ron Paul, Republican the victimization mentality created by the civil rights movement, where every black failure is a white crime. If there is indeed this sort of trouble ahead, it is just another reason why every honest American should be armed. ------------------------------ --------------- This poem was originally published as an article by Ron Paul in his own newsletter in the 1980s/1990s.

FAVORITE FOOD 2011 by Howard Yang who posts as 1000yregg at the blog This Is Gonna Be Good Follow the links. a whole tuna collar at Au Pied De Cochon, Montreal Knusperige Schweinshaxe at Schmankerl Stube in Hagerstown, MD Kobe beef liver sashimi and Kobe beef tendon at Abriya Raku, Las Vegas Bacon explosion, brownie with ice cream & bacon- George's in Baltimore, MD pig's head at [...]

overheard by Tara Ream drawn by Jimmy Giegerich (click on strip to see larger version) Look for a new Said What? comic in Wednesday's B: The Paper . Available free around town. You can also follow this strip and others at MutantFunnies.com . ------------------------------ ---------------------- Overhear [...]

The Seven Biggest Orioles Moments of 2011 by Pat Smith, Bugs & Cranks A Less-Than-Happy New Year The very first Big Orioles Moment of 2011 took place only a few minutes into the new year. No one's quite sure how it happened -- or, if they are, they're not saying -- but one guy wound up dead and another wounded when a reportedly drunken Alfredo Simon, showing the kind of control Orioles fans have come to expect from him, [...]

BEST TV OF 2011 by Benn Ray For the past few years I've been more interested in TV than I have film - largely because the quality of television shows has been increasing, and film seemed largely stagnant. This year, as the role film plays in culture seems to be diminishing, so too does the volume of quality TV shows seem to be shrinking. In fact, some of my favorite shows had their season finales/were canceled this year ( Friday Night Lights , Community [...]

If you feel the absence of god in your life, it may just be because the big guy is a little busy these days - helping out Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Yes, he may be omnipotent, but he still has his priorities - whch many Americans seem to think, right now, is the NFL. 43% of Americans believe god is responsible for Tebow's success 54.2% of Republicans believe god is responsible 38.2% of Democrats believe god is responsible 81.3% of Hispancis [...]

This weekend, even after burning up on re-entry, there is still 500 pounds of Russian space junk that will be falling back to Earth sometime between Saturday night and early Monday morning. No one is sure exactly where Phobos-Grunt just yet, so keep your head up this weekend. It is not believed that being hit by this failed satellite will result in giving the victim superpowers. It will most likely just kill you. Source.