Baby Fatt
- Location
- New Mexico,
- Bio
- Ah... the life and times of an international celebrity spokesmodel--where to begin?
Born in the Big Country of Texas, I fled to Austin just ahead of the local constabulary. Hung out in Austin for many years, eventually matriculating despite my best efforts to the contrary.
I then began my distinguished career as a government clerk. Things in Texas went from bad to worse, and GW was elected governor. I had always understood that I did not like Texas, but a series of encounters with law enforcement convinced me that Texas really did not like me, and so I decamped across the border, to the land of enchantment.
Mi Chante Encantado. Here there is sun and sky and distance. I live on beans and green chili, drink beer and tequila, and smoke homegrown the locals call "Corrales mellow". Theocrats are in the minority, and government clerks are considered well employed. There are mountains and desert, and few fences (Texas: Land of Fences).
La dulce vida.
MY RECENT POSTS
- America the Predator
September 03, 2010 09:02PM - Republicans' War on America
August 23, 2010 09:32PM - America Takes A Massive Dump
May 14, 2010 07:58PM - Only The Left Can Solve The
Illegal Immigration Crisis
May 10, 2010 09:45PM - Where Did All The People In
Arizona Come From?
April 30, 2010 08:17PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “You try to write, and
one agrees with your
sentiments, but
you struggle
mightily…”
March 20, 2010 10:48AM - “The Land of Entrapment
is not for everyone. I've
always
thought a better state
s…”
March 16, 2010 10:36PM
Baby Fatt's Links
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 9:02PM
America the Predator
America is a predator nation--an empire that lives off the lifeblood of other nations and also off the lifeblood of its own working people. As such, the same fate awaits our predatory empire as befell the other great predatory empires in history, including the British, the French, the Spanish, the Du/… Read full post »
AUGUST 23, 2010 9:32PM
Republicans' War on America
Why do Republicans hate America? Mostly because they hate
themselves and they project this hate outward onto their
communities, their fellow citizens, and their country. It's
Psychology 101, but psychodynamic simplicity does nothing to lessen
the pure evil of its effect on our nation.
Right-wing poli… Read full post »
MAY 14, 2010 7:58PM
America Takes A Massive Dump
In the Gulf of Mexico that is. The oil currently spilling from a
deep water well into the Gulf is a massive disaster--gigantic and
profound, difficult to get one's head around. The main thing each
of us needs to remember and understand though is that each gallon,
each barrel, each poisoned… Read full post »
MAY 10, 2010 9:45PM
Only The Left Can Solve The Illegal Immigration Crisis
When it comes to the illegal immigration conundrum, the right and
the left dance around one another in a celebration of
self-fulfilled prophecy. Both sides huff and puff and bloviate and
protest but at base each side understands the deal they have made
with the devil (i.e. each other), because of… Read full post »
APRIL 30, 2010 8:17PM
Where Did All The People In Arizona Come From?
Baby Fatt's scared. Bad scared.
I live in New Mexico (land of mi chante), and I'm frightened about
our unsecured border--the one we have with Arizona. What's with
these Aryans from Arizona (Aryanzonans?)? Me skerred.
Have you ever been to Arizona? I have, and it sucks. The "Mexican
food" is… Read full post »
APRIL 23, 2010 7:50PM
Tea Bagged!
Now the worm turns. Soon we'll see just how much government the tea
baggers can really live without. The Bush economy is doing
everything the extreme right could never get done at the ballot
box. Good luck to all of us.
All over the country state and municipal governments are
cutting… Read full post »
MARCH 19, 2010 8:45PM
Rielle Hunter Is The Perfect Woman
Have you read the interview with Rielle Hunter in GQ? Wow, she's
like the perfect babe. First of all, she did the whole interview
with no pants on (at least that's how it appears in the pictures).
Secondly, she explicates her philosophy of male-female
relationships, which is essentially that a woman'… Read full post »
MARCH 17, 2010 9:34PM
Want Me To De-Friend You From Facebook? Post A Bible Verse.
If you want me to de-friend you from Facebook, it's quite easy: just post a bible verse. I'll put up with a lot of crap from a lot of different folks--some of whom I have not seen since high school--but I'm not taking any crap in the form of a… Read full post »
MARCH 16, 2010 9:30PM
Death To Daylight Saving Time--And Why The "Tea Party" Sucks
There are few modern cultural phenomena that are as completely useless, pernicious, ineffective, and yet resistant to change as daylight saving time. It makes no sense whatsoever. It disrupts sleep cycles (leading, or so the medical data suggest, to increased rates of heart attacks and suicid… Read full post »
MARCH 12, 2010 11:40PM
Dennis Kucinich Does Not Deserve Your Respect
Dennis Kucinich hates working people. Dennis Kucinich cares about political and ideological purity as defined by Dennis Kucinich. He talks a good game, but when it comes to an opportunity to actually affect the lives of millions upon millions of working people for the better, well, Dennis Kuc… Read full post »
MARCH 10, 2010 9:44PM
Rum, Buggery, and Eric Massa
"The real traditions of the British Navy are rum,
buggery and the lash."
--Winston Churchill
Nothing's been quite so entertaining of late than the spectacle of
Eric Massa, recently resigned congressman from New York, trying to
run away from his pitiably repressed sexuality. Massa, an
apparen
… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 22, 2010 8:55PM
Mr. Mellencamp Goes To Washington?
So John Mellencamp is considering a run for US
Senate--you gotta be kiddin' me, right? Actually I don't care much
either way--he certainly could not be any worse than any of the
other idiots Indiana has sent to Washington, like Dan Quayle or the
empty-suited Evan Bayh. Also, I hail… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 1, 2010 10:13PM
But I Thought Mel Gibson Was Dead
Or
maybe it was just that he's been dead to me for so long, because it
turns out he's still alive and just made another movie. What a
waste of space Mel turned out to be. He could go off tomorrow and
make the most beautifully realized perfect movie
possible… Read full post »One of the greatest and most under-rated actors of all time was Donald Pleasence. Donald Pleasence could do it all: from Shakespeare to an episode of Columbo, he brought the same understated panache and elegance to every role.
Which is not to say that he some some sort of stuck-up,… Read full post »
JANUARY 21, 2010 9:12PM
Death Knell To The Last Pretense Of American Democracy
Let's be frank: America has never been a democracy. It was founded
as an oligarchy with the franchise going only to white
property-owning men (much of whose property consisted of other
human beings) and has been run as an oligarchy ever since. Sure the
vote was eventually expanded (after a civil… Read full post »
JANUARY 19, 2010 9:46PM
Memo To Progressives: Hold Your Water, Part II
Democrats have only themselves to blame for the loss of Ted
Kennedy's senate seat in Massachusetts. While progressives were
busy finding fault with one another's ideological purity regarding
issues like Gitmo, domestic spying and, most of all, healthcare
reform, Republicans were busy stoking the fear… Read full post »
JANUARY 8, 2010 8:05PM
Nah, You're Just A Breeder (And That's A Bad Thing)
So some of the breeders are upset that others use that term to describe those who... well... who breed. They want to be seen as nurturing mothers, creative parents, anything but just another animal that spawns a being that will itself go on to eat, shit, and breed, thereby guaranteeing a… Read full post »
JANUARY 6, 2010 8:39PM
Brit Hume Can Suck My Dogma
Brit Hume personifies everything that is wrong with America: a
preening self-righteousness informed by an ignorant religiosity; an
unctuous condescension toward anyone who disagrees with him; and a
bogus sense of persecution by those he deems to be on their way to
hell in any event. Who the hell is h… Read full post »
JANUARY 4, 2010 9:48PM
Rush Limbaugh's Irony-Free Zone
The headline of the SEIU press release says it all: "Hell Freezes
Over: Rush Limbaugh Loves Union Hospitals And Socialized Medicine"
(http://www.seiu.org). Rush apparently had chest pains over the
long holiday weekend (had he read the warning that came in the
bottle of Viagra he might have been more… Read full post »
DECEMBER 28, 2009 9:06PM
The Boorishness Of The American Movie Patron
I dare the innocent reader to attend any movie in any movie theater
in America and not be bothered by some boor talking during the
movie. In fact, it is no longer the boor who stands out, but the
movie patron who is silent and respectful during a movie who
is… Read full post »
DECEMBER 26, 2009 1:37PM
Christmas In The Land Of Enchantment
Growing up in West Texas Christmas was always something less than
joyous. People in the Big Country followed a hard-hearted,
neo-Calvinist strain of Protestantism that allowed for celebration
only if it were yoked tightly to shame. We were exhorted to
"remember the reason for the season" and there wa… Read full post »
DECEMBER 24, 2009 12:19PM
Memo To Progressives: Hold Your Water!
Is there anything more loathsome than the self-righteous whining of
progressives? "Waaah...Obama sent troops to Afghanistan,
waaaah....Obama didn't fight for a public option, waaa...waaah" and
so on ad nauseum. I'm sick of it already, so just shut up and hold
your water.
Progressives are offended tha… Read full post »
DECEMBER 16, 2009 9:08PM
Why Tiger Doesn't Matter (Hint: Sport Is Not A Metaphor)
Of all the many facile attempts at philosophizing that disgust me,
one of the most disgusting is the assertion that sports are somehow
a metaphor for life. No, a sport is a game, nothing more. It is not
a metaphor for life or death or anything else. There is no
value… Read full post »
DECEMBER 8, 2009 8:34PM
Solving the Obama Conundrum
Progressives everywhere are wallowing in agitated condescension
toward Obama's recently announced Afghanistan strategy. They rend
their garments and cry to the heavens "forgive him Lord, he knows
not what he does!". How, they tut tut, can Obama propose to
escalate a war when he promised to bring our… Read full post »
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