Badtux the Snarky Penguin

In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.

The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Reminder

I'm at Wordpress.com now .

Monday, April 23, 2012

Well fuck it

I'ver been attempting to schedule videos, and Blogger promptly doesn't publish them when scheduled. So for the moment, head over to ...

How to lose money

Here's a sure-fired recipe for losing money: Build a business and a brand around a wildly popularly product that has an almost 50% *ne...

Improving the gene pool

Actor re-enacts Judas suicide as part of play, dies. File this under "dumbass". What is it with religion, does it suck the brains...

Sexy sea creature

This is the Brian Jonestown Massacre, "Anemone", off their 1996 album Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request . Groovy, dude....

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Baked penguin

It got *hot* here in the Silly Cone Valley this weekend. It got up to around 95 yesterday, around 85 today. And I was baking out in the sun,...

Dark mile

16 Horsepower, "Hutterite Mile", from their 2002 album Folklore . The Hutterites are a sect of "primitive Christians" ...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Blogger definitely bloggered

Posts are *not* getting published as scheduled. People are whining about this on the Blogger "support" forums, but as usual the Go...

Moonlight Days

Blaze Foley was one of those cantankerous characters who lived a short life full of drama and pain, mostly self-inflicted as he wandered ar...

Friday, April 20, 2012

Smell the fascism

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore . Not wanting to curb stomp some emotionally disturbed kid and/or taser the shit out of him a...

Sweetness

Ponderosa, "Heather". Doesn't appear to be on an album yet... let me check iTunes... nope. Not there yet. Still a neat song. ...

New spelling for "black"

Teabaggers and tighty righties have a new way to spell the word "black". They now spell it "F-R-A-U-D". As in, "our...

The plot!

So "Crazy Joe" Farah at World Nut Daily informed me this morning that Earth Day -- and by extension, environmentalism in general ...

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Young dead

The Black Angels, "Young Men Dead", off their 2006 album Passover . -- Badtux the Music Penguin

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

What could go wrong?

So six cows wandered into a backcountry cabin and froze to death. So what's the U.S. Forest Service's answer to the problem? Blow up...

Bloggered up

Yah, Blogger just forced me to the "new Blogger". Maybe the "new blogger" will actually publish my music videos when I s...

If Lassie had been a cat

"Meow." "Lassie! Where's Timmie?" "Meow." "Is Timmie okay?" "Meow." "Did Tim...

The reality

I've done this one before, but this is a new day, so... James McMurtry, "We can't make it here anymore". -- Badtux the M...

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Rules

Okay, so let's say you're young military men, or sorta-military men, in an exotic foreign locale. Now I'll tell you right now th...

Murder ballad

Americana has a long history of murder ballads, dating all the way to Appalachian hill music and probably back to the Child ballads from w...

The MRAP freakout

Various conspiracy type sites such as Firebagger Waterbody have broke the "news" that the Department of Homeland Security is buyin...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Rocket planet

Teenage Bottlerocket, "Forbidden Planet", off of their 2009 album They Came From The Shadows . Err, yesterday was country, toda...

Disgruntled GOP base

Now that The Romney has pretty much wrapped up the GOP nomination through the power of superior algorithms for gathering money, the GOP base...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

My new offroad vehicle

This one uses a bit less fuel than my other one ;). It's a Scott Scale 29 Comp , it was pretty much the lightest 29" mountain bi...

Bad men

Robert Earl Keen, "Sonora's Death Row", off of 1993's West Textures . -- Badtux the Music Penguin

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BadTux: I am a black and white and yellow multicolored penguin making his way as best he can in a world of monochromic monkeys.

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