2007-07-20

Hypocrisy on death

Antônio Carlos Magalhães (aka ACM), notoriously corrupt Bahian landowner, has just died. These are headlines from news.google.com.br:

  • “Politicians lament ACM’s death”
  • “ACM created opportunities for young politicians”
  • “ACM was very passionate about his beliefs”
  • “It’s not possible to understand Brazilian politics without knowing about ACM”
  • “ACM is part of the country’s history”

What a bunch of disgusting two-faced bastards! Can’t they be honest at least once? To quote Desciclopédia, ACM is dead, better him than me! Good riddance! Just because the bloodthirsty feudal lord is dead we have to make a saint out of him?

Let me summon the power of Godwin to make a little point here:

  • “Hitler created opportunities for young politicians”
  • “Hitler was very passionate about his beliefs”
  • “It’s not possible to understand German politics without knowing about Hitler”
  • “Hitler is part of German history”

Even people I had some respect for were pathetic:

  • “[Rock musician] Lobão characterizes senator as ‘a national passion’”
  • “I’d like to be at the funeral of the great congressman and very correct human being that was Antônio Carlos Magalhães — said [Green Party politician] Gabeira”

Fucking hypocrite scumbags.

Bonus post: postmortem instructions for my enemies

Am I dead? You used to hate me? Great! Have some balls and expose your grudge to the world! Here, I made you some press statements in case you’re too lazy to think:

  • A ruiner of families, an awful role model for young people. The author of [a book of mine] and [another book of mine] won’t be missed.
  • He was a cold-hearted egoistic creep. How could he do that thing only to put his hands in a few rare comic books?
  • Boiko? He was a goddamn arrogant fag, I couldn’t stand him.

2007-07-19

Things that are cool:

Moths! I mean, what about moths? They’re like butterflies, except not. Butterflies are colorful and lively and loving, but moths are pale with antennæ and fur and they kill themselves on fire and it looks like they’re made out of pieces of velvet and silk — silk actually comes from moths! There are moths mimicking wasps, white jaguar-skin moths, ice-cream–colored moths, poisoned & poison resistant moths, moths that scream and moth with skull designs. And other than your standard nocturnal moth, there are also crepuscular moths! Isn’t that AMAZING? Imagine how it feels like to be an animal especially optimized for late afternoons! When I was a kid I had a little book “Butterflies & Moths” and I’m like totally partial to moths! Moths, w00t!

Fact: moths are butterflies from the moon

Two hundred bad comics

Two hundred bad comics. Whee, I love bad things! Especially when they include Shaman King fanfiction.

(Via Dinosaur Comics.)