No matter how much joy there is in one’s life – and these days, in my little corner of the world, there is a fair bit – one can always find room for more. I find this is especially true when it comes to that most radiant and perfect joy of all Earthly joys: Joy in the Misfortune of Others. Today, the New Republic looks at the latest tear-stained chapter in the sad, sad story of Pajamas Media. Let’s read it together, shall we?
Getting fired is never easy, but the brush-off that bloggers at the Pajamas Media Ad Network received this January was particularly callous. “I just received a Dear John form letter,” says Jeff Goldstein, a libertarian and mixed martial artist who writes on the blog Protein Wisdom.
Aaaaaanyway. All the bloggers who got fired thinks bossman Roger Simon sold out the Punk Rock Revolution, and Simon doesn’t care because he’s got Joe the Plumber, and it’s all BAAAWWWW and butthurt because everyone was supposed to get filthy rich Photoshopping dicks on Obama’s face or whatever because everybody knows the internet turns retarded into gold. I’d pay actual money to see them all Ultimate Fight about it, but I suspect all we’ll get is continued bitching about the ever-expanding pool of enemies denying them their Constitutional right to earn a living doing jack shit.
- The Editors is a liberal and hip hop impresario who writes on the blog The Poor Man.
Curv3ball adding:
This just in: Footage from Goldstein’s first mixed martial arts fight. I believe that’s Jeff sporting the stylish headband. And nunchucks.
He’s gonna be rich. Rich I tell ya.
March 12, 2009 at 6:50 am
So wait, smacking people across the face with your dick is an honest-to-God discipline? I so don’t get the East.
March 12, 2009 at 9:17 am
If you have the patience and stomach for it, scan through this mammoth thread at the mixed martial arts site Bullshido. Guess who’s in there, making friends. One highlight: “I would snap you like a twig.”
March 12, 2009 at 9:23 am
By “mixed,” does that mean that he can use what he passes off as Brazilian jujitsu against elementary school-age girls?
March 12, 2009 at 9:32 am
2: Touchdown.
March 12, 2009 at 9:55 am
I was instantly reminded of this:
March 12, 2009 at 10:25 am
Yeah, but flounder, Goldstein’s version of the “cock punch” has more to do with the implement employed in the attack than the target of said attack.
Just sayin.
March 12, 2009 at 1:50 pm
You are right, I think this master of the Cockpuncher fighting style is more like Godlstein’s style:
March 12, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Wow, I’ve seen some whiny, bitchy shit online, but nothing compares to the epic way Jeffy shits up that MMA thread. For fucks sake, he continually insults the site mods. Obviously they were laughing too hard to banhammer his pathetic ass.
Way to make friends, loser. He literally cannot shut up and take his lumps gracefully, even over something as earth shatteringly trivial as wrestling style lineage. I’d feel sorry for him if he wasn’t such an asshole.
March 12, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Holy god. I just read through that entire bullshido thread, and I think my brain may have spontaneously self-amputated as a result.
I’ll say this: Jeff has finally found his own level.
March 12, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Shorter Jeff:
“Dear, “world”:
I have the master of the fainting squirrel compressed tightly into a solarific explosive power force Eligible to quantify your severe lackage in a quanta-second or even less.
With my foam nunchucks and my homemade ninja stars, (we call them shurikans at the temple), aye’ will sneak into your jobplace only to plop out of your ceiling areas exploding my force. Like John Galt with a Gi I throw sharp fruit at your whole village.”
These are approximate thoughts from a secret dream study we’ve been conducting on for-profit bloggers.
March 12, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Evidently there is a 15-20 Senate Democratic caucus being stated by Bayh-Carper to focus only on spending and deficit reduction. I and others believe we haven’t spent enough and spending too little in the short term will cause more problems. Yes deficit reduction is important, but not a priority when the economy is in the E.R. These Senators would form a very powerful swing because all 40 GOP Senators would be more then happy to help them. They are in fact, creating a new majority Bluish Dog-Sub Party. This is a threat to the recovery. This pushes The Democratic Party the voters sent to Congress to the right, quite Republican in many ways, when that’s not what the voters want. The Democrats, including the Progressive that the voters want to lead in Congress will be blamed by this third party.
March 13, 2009 at 10:00 am
Mixed martial artist?
He’s the fat white hairy guy in the kevlar thong with the guns, isn’t he?
You know the picture I’m talking about.
March 13, 2009 at 11:15 am
For those of you watching at home, click to about page 5 when JeffG gives a long-winded post, and somebody disagrees with him and mildly insults him. From there on he flips the f— out, as the kids say.
Terrible anger management issues. And, no, this is nothing you couldn’t have learned since 2003.
March 13, 2009 at 6:58 pm
More evidence, if any was needed, that “Jeff Goldstein” is actually Dwight Schrute.
March 13, 2009 at 9:05 pm
OT, but, no, Kléber, deficit reduction isn’t even important. In fact, it’s more or less impossible so long as currencies float, there’s international trade, and the dollar remains the world’s primary reserve currency. And during a deep recession, attempting it is positively suicidal.
March 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I knew that Godlstein was a master of bukkake; I didn’t know it was a martial art.
March 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
this is a wierd video but it is a good thing too i think but any way it is so weird