Shorter Dr. Helen: Men are "screwed" by laws preventing domestic violence because they don't have the political power to influence the laws. And a random anecdote about David Letterman provides convincing evidence that many restraining orders are granted just to give women leverage in custody...
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Shorter Glenn Reynolds: It's unconscionable that the government would provide health assistance to families making the austounding sum of $45,000 a year. They'll probably just use it to buy more.
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush's appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can't repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this, they don't.
I certainly agree with Yglesias that "It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani's general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third party candidate. It's generally very difficult to win when you have a spoiler trying to...
Shorter Verbatim Daily Conservative, in re: one of the corporations that Made Milwaukee Famous sponsoring the Folsom Street Fair: "They’re still crappy beer, now they’re crappy gay beer." Oh noes!.
The war on parody proceeds at full speed.UPDATE by bean: . . . and look who's laughing.
The Verizon policy chief behind the selective attempt to stop NARAL from paying Verizon to set up an IM network turns out to be...an anti-choice former Congressman who explicitly endorsed the GOP plank to make abortion 1st degree murder in all 50 states, and not...
This is an exciting time for connoisseurs of wingnuttery. Alec "Skips A Generation" Rawls has finally expanded his profound insights concerning the IslamofascistCommieNazi conspiracy behind the 9/11 memorial in Pennsylvania.
I think this is sufficient: "Podhoretz, remember, is advising Rudy on foreign policy." If that doesn't make a Rudy! presidency scare the living piss out of you, I'm not sure.
The most risibly frivolous lawsuit since Bill O'Reilly's attempt to prevent AL Franken from using the term "fair and balanced" has been dropped. Too bad; the judicial opinion dismissing the case could have been funny...
Seems about right. Still, let there be no doubt than Fred Thompson and John McCain are figures of immense seriousity and gravitude.
Kimblerley A. Strassel argues that the majority of women who vote Democratic are out there for the Republican plucking. What, might you ask, is the strategy? Well, apparently women no.