Pardon me. I need to go consult my Krugmanomicon.

And I hear that the ranks of the Order of the Shrill have been greatly enlarged this week as a result of the visit of the Mad Arab Iyad Allawi to Washington...

Why, Professor DeLong. I do declare, I could just kiss you, right here and now.

(One is tempted to posit a possible schism in the ranks of the Order of the Shrill. The two schools might be termed the Derlethians [who believe there yet obtains some elemental balance—between, on the one hand, the Great Old Neoconservative Ones and the Outer Moonbat Gods, and, on the other, the Elder Grown-up Republican Gods—which may yet save us all] and the Lovecraftians [who know rather that there is no balance and all is instead but cosmic indifference; we are left alone to gibber and shriek, shrilly, into the void]. —Or, at least, one is so tempted, until one realizes that no one in the Order of the Shrill really believes the Elder Grown-up Republican Gods exist. At least, not anymore. Saturn's children have devoured him.)

And I do urge people to go and read the extraordinary interview in which Seymour Hersh, the Grand Heresiarch of the Order of the Shrill, prays for the Second Coming of Henry Kissinger...

Perhaps Cthulu could buy Fox News (or just devour the current owners). He could replace "Fair and Balanced" with a more appropriate slogan. Something like, "Sucking Brains Since Before The Dawn Of Time."

Oh wait, maybe He already has....

(I'm sitting here trying to think of an appropriate zinger for squamous and rugose, and all I've got is Rufus T. Firefly waggling his eyebrows, saying "If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder!" —Yeah. Okay. So put me down for speechless, I guess. But not, thank all the stars, unspeakable.)

I'm depressed.

Where west of Crawford the hills rise wild, there is a strange area, with all the brush cleared away unnaturally. It seems after a meteor fell on this ranch strange things began to happen, stock prices sickened and businesses died. Many people lost their jobs never to see them again, with some saying that they had disappeared strangely to a land across the ocean. But nobody could identify the uearthly, kool-aid like sheen to the water from the well of the ranch that seemed to be the very source of the ills of that age.

It was the Deficit out of Space.

Pardon my rugosity.

Is Grover N* is He Who Must Not Be Named?

Scott (who knows that there is naught but chaos lurking beneath...)

I do wonder, too, if the Order of the Shrill has symbols and regalia. I imagine a finger being dragged across a blackboard, dripping blood...

Unless, of course, it was ... someone else's finger!!!

It's like realizing while in the Christian Science Library in Boston that if one grants them their premises, Christian Scientists are perfectly logical (and more so than many Evangelicals). And that many of them are in fact very nice people.

The sad part, of course, is that I'd infinitely rather have Nixon as President than Bush. Nixon was a grownup who understood that actions had consequences, and he knew when he was lying.

CTHULHU IN '04 -- VOTE FOR THE LESSER EVIL

What incredibly bad straits we're in. Oi.

-Catie

http://www.lowercasetee.com/

CTHULHU IN '04 -- VOTE FOR THE LESSER EVIL

Like this one?

Chaosium has other Cthulhu for President products, including an Elder Party pin, an RPG, and a campaign pack. I believe I still have a campaign pack from 1992, and I definitely still have a T-shirt.

If Bush shows up at the debates with two flute playing servitor beasts I won't bat an eye.

Cthaat Limbaughdingen
De Ch'n'y Fragments
Aei Azif
Ledeen Manuscripts
Unaussprechlichen NeoCon
Cultes des Crawford
The Revelations of Coulter
Book of Boykin
D'layeh Text

And if course, the primal chant of those who serve the Great Old NeoCons, "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Bush Crawford naglwagl pretz'l!" (In his great house at Crawford, Bush eats pretzels.)

I used to think there were other terms that could work: Ash nazg dubyatuluk, ashcroft gimbatul...

Although, to be safe, I will renew the offerings to the household ghosts, to keep the family invisible from *that* which stalks the land, specially the battleground states, lately.

Shrillblog: In Which We Answer Your Questions: We are broadcasting from our studio high in the tall steel-and-glass building that is the Hermetic Arts Tower here at Miskatonic University in picturesque Arkham, Massachusetts. Down the hall we have one laboratory where graduate students are trying to make Hands of Glory out of pigeons feet. If we look down into the courtyard we can see the unholy creations that have escaped from the Mechatronic Lab shamble off into the hills. And we? We are here in the small suite of offices that make up the world headquarters of the Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill, here to answer your questions about the Order...

Nobody even noticed the hommage to Stross's Atrocity Archive in the Hands of Glory made out of pigeon feet...*

*And there is a Mechatronic Lab in the basement of Berkeley's Etcheverry Hall. I have never dared enter it.

Use the titles and don't worry about it. That's why I put them up on the Internet.

Alex

I was too overwhelmed with awe to do more than gape. It was a joyous gaping, but not one that permitted coherent response.

My brain needs a washing, or something...

So I did. Never mind, then.

By the way, have you seen this lovely collection of quotes from the Necronomicon?

My favorite is, "By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them."

And wasn't Sarnath located in Iraq?

Do not be tempted to read more or you will be driven into shrill unholy madness!

"You remind me of a Them."
"What Them?"
"The Them without Thubthtance."
"Thubthstance?"
"Which ith Cthulhu."
"Cthulhu?"
"You do."
"Do what?"
"Remind me of a Them . . ."

I saw Cthulhu
Crying hard as he could cry!
What could I do?
It seems George Bush had gone,
And made Cthulhu blue.
What kind of eldritch slime to use?
So Cthulhu wins and the Shrub shall lose?
Thunder and lightning!
Bush is frightening!

Alex

Alex

Matt, Matt, Matt....your characterization of Nixon is slightly naive, or you are very young....

Have your forgotten his rather public, "mental break-down" after losing to JFK? ....and the subsequent famous "checkers" speech?

Grownup????? Understood that his actions had consequences?

Well, if this county's ADD gets any worse and history is continually re-written via blogs like this one...then I guess it will be true....there are "no" consequences for the evil-doers....and by that, I mean Republicans.

The man was insidiously anti-democratic, anti-constitution, psychotic and a worm. Getting credit for "opening China" is another re-write...China came to us...he grabbed the opportunity to divert attention from his "spying on Americans" campaign...sound too familiar?

Nixon, Regan, Bush 1 + 2 (the Kings of suppy-side economics) have kept the same greedy corpses running this country into the ground in power to this day!

Virtually every dollar of debt we owe is due to military spending on their "buddy's" military contracting companies....a "stagnant" investment (Econ 101) that does not give any return.

Nixon was a horrible economist, president, statesman and person. He has more in common with Hitler, than any other leader since....think about it......