December 9, 2005 by s.z.

Live Nude Ann Coulters!  Like I said below, I look at the referer info for the blog most days, and recently have been somewhat troubled by the number of people who found the site while looking for nude photos of Ann Couter.  (Sure, there have been a few of them every day since shortly after I started this blog, but the apparent spike in interest from this type of Internet pervert was rather alarming.) Fortunately for my peace of mind, I learned from Blogenlust (via Pandagon) that it was just a case of Ann being in the news again recently, which apparently makes some people curious about what she looks like nude.  Plus, Brent Bozell and his group have been trying to find naked pictures of Ann -- you know, for the children. But anyway, HeyDave reminded me that it was Ann's birthday yesterday (she turned 44), so I thought we should take a brief look at the news story that got people fired up about the idea of seeing her in her birthday suit: Hecklers Disrupt Coulter's Speech At UConn. Music that seemed to come from somewhere in the raucous audience that packed the Jorgensen Center at the University of Connecticut Wednesday night brought Ann Coulter's speech to an abrupt end about 15 minutes after she started. After waiting with her bodyguard on stage for several minutes for the music to stop while a section of the audience chanted "You suck, you suck," an irritated Coulter said she would not finish her speech. She said she would go straight to questions and answers, suggesting the disruption was the best the liberals could do to counter her.   "I love to engage in repartee with people that are a lot stupider than I am," she said. `We're having a question and answer right now with the little crybabies." [...] Some students were upset that the student government spent $16,000 to bring what they consider a "hateful" speaker to campus. So, what have we learned? That if you pay Ann $16,000 to speak at your campus, you might only get a 15 minute speech, followed by insults. That the pie incident really got to Ann, since she has to have her bodyguard on stage with her now. That Ann's suckitude is apparently obvious to most people at this point. But back to the Hartford Courant, for more details about Ann's appearance at UConn.  Coulter, a well-known, conservative author and commentator, fielded questions ranging from the war in Iraq and Democratic leadership to abortion with the witty, provocative responses that have made her a frequent guest on such TV talk shows as "Hannity & Colmes" and "The O'Reilly Factor." [...] One student asked what she would do if she had a child who came out as gay. Coulter replied: "I'd say, `Did I ever tell you you're adopted?'" Yes, it's witty remarks like that which have made Ann so well-known.  (Which is why it's puzzling that HIndrocket would say, "As happens so often in press coverage of Ms. Coulter, Wong repeats accusations of 'hate speech' against Coulter without citing any examples that could conceivably be so characterized."  Does Hindrocket think that anybody who's heard of Ann Coulter isn't aware of her remarks about Muslims?) Anyway, all this brings us back to HeyDave's communication of yesterday, in which he pointed out that it was both Ann Coulter's and James Thurber's birthday on the 8th.  He added, "I don't know what to make of this; perhaps the yin and yang of the universe gave us wit and goodness once, and now we get a plate of shit.  Kinda gives me hope for the next swing." Take a look at some of the December 8 Birthdays in History, and see what you think of his theory.  (Despite some lingering fondness for David Carradine from his "Kung-Fu" days, it appears to me that the quality of our December 8 birthday kids has gone downhill since Thurber -- of course, I'm basing my opinon just on this list, so if you were born on December 8th, please don't take this personally, unless you're Ann Coulter.) P.S.  I am proud? to learn that World O'Crap is currently number four on the "Ann Coulter + Nude" Google Search. 4:42:52 AM

Bracelets for Baby Jesus; American Girl Dolls Picket I look at the referer rankings for the blog most days, and sometimes I pick up usual information that way.  For instance, yesterday I noted that several people had found the blog by doing a Google search for "Jennifer Giroux." As you will recall, Jennifer Giroux is the nut who blamed the tsunamis on gay marriage, abortions, and "taking Jesus out of Christmas."  She's also the sister of the former congressional candidate who claimed that "our Israeli run Congress" replaced our basic laws with "Noahide laws" which make it illegal -- under penalty of death -- to celebrate Christmas.  I had blogged about her just last Sunday, in connection with those "Just Say Merry Christmas" bracelets that WorldNetDaily was touting. But I wondered why anyone was interested in Jennifer.  I am used to seeing a daily hit or two from someone Googling "Rachel Marsden" (I suspect that it's Rachel herself).  And there are also the odd searches for "Batman + porn" (for the record, we have no Batman porn here, so move along).  But Jennifer Giroux is hardly a household name, despite my efforts to ensure she found the acclaim in the world of wingnuttery that she deserves. Anyway, it turns out that she was in the news because of those bracelets, which apparently led to all the Googling of her name.   A Cincinnati Enquirer piece claims that Jennifer and her husband have "created a nationwide sensation" with their bracelets after appearing on Fox News last Sunday, and they are "slated for a CNN appearance this week." An AP story says that the demand for the bracelets is now so intense that "the couple's nine children, along with nieces and nephews, are helping keep up with the orders, and they've also hired a woman to help." And WorldNetDaily has devoted another story to Jennifer and her bracelets.  Here are some highlights: A simple idea by a Cincinnati couple to reaffirm the traditional meaning of Christmas and to "swing the pendulum back" from growing secularization of the religious holiday has grown into a national phenomenon in just 17 days. Cincinnati Christian bookstore owner Jennifer Giroux told "Farah Live" listeners yesterday she and her husband were looking for some small way to "take back Christmas for the baby Jesus" in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. She particularly was frustrated when she would take one of her daughters, who is deaf, to the mall and would watch her eyes grow large at all the holiday displays and realize the little girl never saw anything that communicated the real meaning of Christmas. Don't you hate it when the mall fails to do its duty to teach your children about your religion? And isn't it, well, kinda silly to believe that cheap bracelets can take back a holiday, and that baby Jesus would be in favor of this kind of thing? Giroux credits WND with the campaign's meteoric start. "It was on WorldNetDaily before it was anywhere else," she says. "We never dreamed we'd tap into this national frustration," Giroux says. "Our heads are spinning – there are so many bad things coming out in the news. People are saying, 'We're Americans. We just want to say Merry Christmas.'" And until Jennifer's bracelets came out, it was like Soviet Russia around here, what with people being forbidden from saying that phrase (probably by those Noahide laws that Jennifer's brother talked about).  Thank God for those colored rubber bands! The bracelets are not a moneymaker for the Girouxs whose goal is to reclaim Christmas and its meaning. So, the bracelets cost $2 each, the Girouxs are keeping all the profits, but they're not making money from them. Interesting. On sorta the same topic (wingnuttiness),  WorldNetDaily also brings us this story: American Girl dolls to protest company. Yup, the long-dreaded day when the dolls would rise up against their makers has come upon us. Pro-life protesters, including some American Girl dolls, are scheduled to picket the American Girl Place superstore in New York City tomorrow to protest the company's association with a group that promotes abortion rights and lesbianism. Personally, I support a dolls right to choose.  And as somebody who has officiated at many a same-sex doll wedding, I can't see why the Pro-Life Action League (it sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon group, doesn't it?) is poking their noses into the personal lives of dolls.  But yeah, the PLAL is angry at the American Girl company for selling bracelets on its site which benefit a program run by a group which advocated books which mention sexual orientation.  The organization says the protest will include pro-life girls holding signs, many of whom will also hold popular American Girl dolls – such as Samantha, Kit and Molly – who will be hoisting their own miniature picket signs. Aw, won't that be darling!  I just hope the dolls don't get arrested, because, per those "Dolls In Chains" movies, Samantha, Kit, and Molly could be exposed to lesbianism while behind bars. But the thing that really struck me about this story is that the "I CAN" bracelets only cost $1 each, and .70 of that goes to the Girls, Inc. program.  So, how come the Girouxs are selling similar bracelets for $2 each, but not making any profit?  Maybe John Stossel could investigate this for us. 3:38:10 AM

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The War Against Kittens The introduction of the two semi-feral kittens into the s.z. household is proceeding nicely, and I think we will see victory in our lifetimes. The breakthrough was a couple of nights ago, when I heard a crash and went to see what had happened. I found two guilty-looking kittens looking at a broken vase which had formerly been on top of the bookcase (and had formerly been unbroken). I had attempted to kittenproof the room after both kittens spazzed out when first let out of the cat carrier, and had climbed the walls (literally). However, I thought that it was safe to leave stuff on top of an 8-foot tall bookcase. It wasn't. I have no idea how a kitten or two got up there -- levitation, I guess. Anyway, I started cleaning up the glass, and the kittens started crying inconsolably. I didn't know what to do, so I offered them some canned tuna (my one universal fix for ailing cats). In the process, I spilt some tuna juice on my fuzzy bathrobe. The kittens nibbled the tuna from my fingers (the first time they had eaten in my presence, let alone accepted food directly from my hands). Then they snuggled on my lap, purring and eager for affection. I figure that I must have reminded them of their mother (warn; furry; smelling of fish). We've had some minor setbacks since then, like when the vet tech didn't believe me when I said not to let go of either of the kittens while weighing them, and Kitten 1 had a freak-out in the waiting room, crashing into walls and trying to leap through the windows. Fortunately, this veterinary practice just opened recently and doesn't have a lot of customers yet, so there were no other animals in the room. I managed to throw my coat over him, which calmed him down, and both he and his brother were good as gold for the vet. (The kittens each got a shot, a dose of dewormer, and a clean bill of health.) The kittens still run for cover when I open the door to the guest room, but they seem to be getting accustomed to their new home and to the presence of humans.  Phase two of our campaign: introducing them to the other cats, and letting them loose in the rest of the house. This could be where we see a dramatic increase in casualties (possibly some kittens will get swatted; undoubtedly some breakables will get broken). Oh, and here are some photos. Kitten 1 (I'm still contemplating the appropriate moniker for each kitten) looks like a lynx (complete with spots instead of tabby stripes on his body, and tufts of hair in his ears). Kitten 2 is the one with the sweet expression on his face, and the small Hitler mustache.12:59:30 AM