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Thanks, Ted.

Dear Mr. Nugent:

Please come back to Michi­gan and help clean up the mess you are par­tially respon­si­ble for making.

Then go home to Texas.

Thanks.

N.

Posted on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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27 responses to
“Thanks, Ted.”

  1. Gasman said on September 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    As a veg­e­tar­ian, I am obvi­ously not a hunter. That said, I do under­stand the need for hunters as we have essen­tially elim­i­nated the nat­ural preda­tors from most ecosys­tems. Ted Nugent, how­ever, is one crazed nut job. He is liv­ing in a blood soaked orgy of killing and death. He seems to wax absolutely orgas­mic over the thought of killing for the sake of killing. He delights in the suf­fer­ing of his prey and in shar­ing his sadis­tic mur­der­ous fan­tasies with pay­ing cus­tomers. This has noth­ing to do with man­ag­ing wildlife pop­u­la­tions or putting meat on the table. This is deviant behav­ior that should cause out­rage. It should be noted that tor­ture of ani­mals is a com­mon behav­ior that has pre­ceded most mass mur­der­ers’ attacks on peo­ple. Ted Nugent rep­re­sents the kind of base cru­elty that humans are capa­ble of. Makes me want to run out and join the NRA.

  2. nancy said on September 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    I have no par­tic­u­lar prob­lem with hunt­ing, and I sus­pect 99 per­cent of Nugent’s gas emis­sions are just hot air that sells well to the feebs who buy it. But canned hunt­ing is chick­en­shit to the bone, and the idea that this some­how couldn’t have been fore­seen is laugh­able. I mean, they’re pigs. Pigs are the best dig­gers in the world. Did it never occur to one of these moron game­keep­ers that one might root out under a fence?

  3. coozledad said on September 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    We have had as many as four spayed and neutered pot-bellied pig res­cues, because of the trash that farms them for pet sales. They are enor­mously destruc­tive and viciously intel­li­gent. They are the ani­mal that reminds me most of humans– incred­i­bly adept at mak­ing use of the path of least resis­tance and incom­pat­i­ble with the nat­ural envi­ron­ment.
    Ted and his canned hunt bud­dies could con­ceiv­ably be levied dam­ages by the state, or you might want to look into a class action law­suit. I always thought he deserved one for his rep­til­ian gui­tar drool alone.
    A lot of the the jug-eared sis­ter­bonkers (or is it the dyslexic splooge­bub­bles?) down here have a habit of repeat­ing the fal­lacy that coy­otes were intro­duced by “uni­mal rights activisss”. The North Car­olina Wildlife Com­mis­sion has a dif­fer­ent take: They were imported so a few lazy-eyed idiots could hunt some­thing that looked like a dog. For­tu­nately, they drag a few of them out of the woods every year on their back, after they’ve mis­taken one another for a deer or a beercan.

  4. Danny said on September 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright is dead at 65.

    RIP, Richard. You were very spe­cial to me.

    How sad. First Syd last sum­mer, now Richard.

    First link­age:

    http://​www​.foxnews​.com/​s​t​o​r​y​/​0​,​2​9​3​3​,​4​2​2​7​6​4​,​0​0.html

    Makes me sad to hear that Pink Floyd was ini­tially name Sigma 6. Too close to that vapid man­age­ment qual­ity cult.

    EDIT: God, I’m sad about this. I was just watch­ing the DVD of the 30th Anniver­sary Mak­ing of Dark Side of the Moon a few weeks back. One of my favorite parts is where Richard is explain­ing the jazz chord pro­gres­sion he remem­bered and used when writ­ing “Great Gig in the Sky.”

  5. alex said on September 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    Speak­ing of you-know-what, a piece in the Sun-Times this date is coun­sel­ing a more sub­tle shade of lip­stick and less gloss.

  6. Kirk said on September 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    That is bad news, Danny. Wright’s work had a huge role in mak­ing the band what it was. I’m a long-time fan. Makes me sad.

  7. caliban said on September 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Paul Ther­oux’ take on Thoreau’s dis­gust with moose hunters:

    http://​www​.latimes​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​o​p​i​n​i​o​n​/​l​a​-​o​e​-​t​h​e​r​o​u​x​1​4​-​2​0​0​8​s​e​p​1​4​,​0​,​1​8​0​9​7​8​4​.​s​t​o​r​y​?​t​r​a​c​k​=​n​t​othtml

    In the actu­al­ity, peo­ple don’t hunt Bull­win­kle, they just gun him down.

    (Man, that pos­ses­sive looks strange, but I swear it’s correct.)

    Regard­ing Mr. Nugent’s claims to have never ingested drugs — Ha, Ha, Ha. I saw him.

    The great moose-skinner seems to have made a seri­ous error in blithely quot­ing the McCarthyite psy­chopath West­wood Pegler. You can lead the gov­er­nor to the teleprompter, but you can’t make her think:

    http://​www​.latimes​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​o​p​i​n​i​o​n​/​l​a​-​o​e​-​t​h​e​r​o​u​x​1​4​-​2​0​0​8​s​e​p​1​4​,​0​,​1​8​0​9​7​8​4​.​s​t​o​r​y​?​t​r​a​c​k​=​n​t​othtml

    Some com­menter on this Huff­post actu­ally asks if this is really more out­ra­geous than Rev­erend Wright Gut­dom­ming Amer­ica. Well, yeah.

  8. brian stouder said on September 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Speak­ing of you-know-what, a piece in the Sun-Times this date is coun­sel­ing a more sub­tle shade of lipstick

    Haha­ha­ha­haha!!! Now THAT was an art­ful way to stay on-topic and still talk about.…you-know-what!

    I read this arti­cle at lunchtime, and laughed out loud

    http://​www​.time​.com/​t​i​m​e​/​m​a​g​a​z​i​n​e​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​0​,​9​1​7​1​,​1​8​3​4​6​7​4​,​0​0.html

    an excerpt:

    In the book world, a sur­prise hit this year has been Not Quite What I Was Plan­ning: Six-Word Mem­oirs by Writ­ers Famous and Obscure. The book, which fea­tures entries culled from more than 25,000 sub­mis­sions on smith​mag​.net begins with children’s advo­cate Robin Templeton’s “After Har­vard, had baby with crack­head” and includes superchef Mario Batali’s “Brought it to a boil often.”

  9. caliban said on September 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    I don’t sup­pose anybody’s got time for all 1070-something pages of “Infi­nite Jest” today, but here’s a David Fos­ter Wal­lace Atlantic artri­cle that comes in under 10 pp. (He left out the foot­notes in favor of an inspired, color-coded inter­ac­tive alter­na­tive, so the digres­sions are less lengthy.)

    http://​www​.the​at​lantic​.com/​d​o​c​/​2​0​0​5​0​4​/​w​allace

    It’s an inter­est­ingly skewed com­men­tary on what passes for Amer­i­can polit­i­cal dis­course in dark times.

    “Infi­nite Jest” is worth the effort, for read­ers that have read “Gravity’s Rain­bow” at least twice.

  10. brian stouder said on September 15th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Say, you know the say­ing “If you talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk”?

    Well, this story kind of turns that one side­ways (or horizontal)

    http://​www​.msnbc​.msn​.com/​i​d​/​2​6​6​76622/

    The open­ing two sentences:

    The way a woman walks might be giv­ing away a lot more about her than she knows, a new study says. “Gait may be asso­ci­ated with orgas­mic abil­ity,” is the title of a study appear­ing in the Sep­tem­ber issue of the Jour­nal of Sex­ual Medicine.”

    But the pas­sage that made me scratch my head (so to speak):

    In order to test a the­ory link­ing blocked mus­cles to sex­ual func­tion, researchers from the Catholic Uni­ver­sity of Lou­vain in Bel­gium and the Uni­ver­sity of West Scot­land in Pais­ley asked stu­dents to com­plete ques­tion­naires on their sex­ual behavior.

    Haha­ha­ha­ha­ha­haha!!! As we all learned long ago, Billy Joel was WRONG about Cathloic girls

  11. coozledad said on September 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    The only mus­cles I know of that are crit­i­cal to female orgasm are the ones in her mid­dle fin­ger. They are also, strangely, directly linked (by super string, as some spec­u­late) to the ego of her part­ner.
    On a slightly related note:
    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​L​c​I​1​W​F​r​e​j​N​o​&​a​m​p​;​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​=​r​elated

  12. moe99 said on September 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    More humor for the day: Hockey moms against Sarah Palin:
    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​U​R​I​y​p​adX3n0

  13. Danny said on September 15th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Any­one catch SNL this week­end? I recorded it. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were great. Sarah Palin remarked that she thought the skit was funny too and that it was espe­cially so because one year she had dressed up for Hal­loween as Tina Fey.

  14. moe99 said on September 15th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Danny, that’s not the offi­cial McCain cam­paign position:

    http://​www​.huff​in​g​ton​post​.com/​2​0​0​8​/​0​9​/​1​5​/​c​a​r​l​y​-​f​i​o​r​i​n​a​-​c​r​i​t​i​c​i​z​e​s​_​n​_​1​2​6​5​3​3.html

    they need to get their sto­ries straight.

  15. Hattie said on September 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Get the pig hunters and pig dogs out there. Even if you don’t like hunt­ing, and I don’t, there is no more destruc­tive (and fecund)creature on the face of the earth, except, of course, for man.

  16. Dexter said on September 15th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Three years Ian Fra­zier wrote a mas­ter­ful arti­cle in The New Yorker about today’s topic, Sus Scrofa…the link is an archived abstract:

    http://​www​.newyorker​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​/​2​0​0​5​/​1​2​/​1​2​/​0​5​1​2​1​2​f​a​_​f​a​c​t​_​f​razier

  17. Dexter said on September 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    I was reared in rural Indi­ana, and the most fright­ened I ever became was when I quite acci­den­tally flushed a covey of quail.
    DAMN!! My heart almost stopped from the commotion.

  18. beb said on September 15th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Sarah Palin remarked that she thought the skit was funny

    Of course she had to say that. She was fly­ing in a plane full of reporters, who were watch­ing the skit. They were laugh­ing. Reports are that the upper cabin (where Palin ride) wasn’t so laugh-filled. But obvi­ously to com­plain about SNL demean­ing her, why that would be whin­ing. Can”t have a VP can­di­date who whines.

  19. Jeff (the mild-mannered one) said on September 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Inter­est­ingly, Harpers ran a piece after 2004 show­ing a tight cor­re­la­tion between coun­ties that saw high par­tic­i­pa­tion rates in pig hunt­ing, and Bush sup­port. You could be geek­ily didac­tic and say it shows the rela­tion­ship between pop­u­la­tion den­sity and vot­ing pat­terns, or you could go all snarky and say …

    Being a geek at heart, i would say that the ten­dency is for folks who like to live in unin­cor­po­rated areas and out away from close neigh­bors to pre­fer less and smaller gov­ern­ment, while ver­ti­cally stacked and closer-in res­i­dents see a stronger value in vig­or­ous gov­ern­men­tal reg­u­la­tion and man­age­ment, not to men­tion safety nets. But if i remem­ber the Harpers piece cor­rectly, it is a bit amus­ingly ironic that of all the pos­si­ble crosstab cor­re­la­tions, pig hunt­ing gave you the best index of coun­ties that voted Dubya.

    My most heart-stopping moment was a Great Blue Heron going from stock-still stick three feet from my canoe all unno­ticed, to seven foot wingspan snapped out and boomed into an ini­tial down­stroke in the blink of an eye, throw­ing a gust of decay­ing swamp and rot­ting fish guts past my upthrown arms, thrash­ing twice more to rise above the trees around us.

  20. basset said on September 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    I thought Pink Floyd was first called “The Archi­tec­tural Abd­abs”… could be wrong, maybe it was a band one of them was in before Floyd.

    Nugent… first pub­lished work I ever did for money was an inter­view with him that I sold to CREEM back in col­lege, looooong time ago.

  21. MaryC said on September 16th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    CREEM! I think I first heard of Ted Nugent from a CREEM arti­cle — maybe it was yours, bas­set. Funny, he didn’t seem like such an ass­hole back then. Was I wrong?

  22. basset said on September 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    might have been mine, was there a pic­ture of a road cut in Mar­tin County with “Amboy Dukes” painted on it?

    I couldn’t tell, really, even the best inter­view­ers can’t always get to the real per­son and I was just a kid, haven’t talked to him since then.

    my take, based on com­ments from peo­ple I’ve worked with who have also worked with him, is that he’s a smart guy who really believes all that stuff and all that over the top act is just part of the brand.

    that said… I was at a hunt­ing lodge a cou­ple years ago not long after he’d done a hunt there and the guides said that when every­one met to social­ize in the evenings he just would not shut up and one of them finally told him off in front of everyone.

  23. Hattie said on September 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Well, the Hawaii pighunters don’t vote.

  24. MaryC said on September 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Too long ago to remem­ber the illus­tra­tion, sorry. But I did have the impres­sion at the time that Ted’s tongue was in his cheek. I see a glimpse of him from time to time when I surf past the Glenn Beck show and I like to think that he knows he’s bull­shit­ting ol’ Glenn.

  25. basset said on September 16th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    could be… can’t stand to watch Glenn Beck long enough to have a good opinion.

    mean­while, I got a junk mail let­ter from Sarah Palin today pro­mot­ing Alaska tourism… we went up there a few years ago, had a huge time and have wanted to go back ever since, keep­ing up with the var­i­ous attrac­tions up there has got­ten us on some mail­ing lists.

    think I will send in the form to get the free day plan­ner and see if it comes with her name on it… or write “Obama voter” across it and see if I get it at all…

  26. brian stouder said on September 16th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    or write “Obama voter” across it and see if I get it at all…

    Sorry, bas­sett. From what I have read, you can only be either 100% FOR Palin, or else you’re a “hater”.

  27. basset said on September 17th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    guess I don’t get to go salmon fish­ing on the Kenai any more, then… noth­ing quite like land­ing one, whip­ping out your knife and impro­vis­ing a lit­tle sashimi while you’re still stand­ing in the water. that and some roe from the same fish, mmmm-good.

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