6 months of Aesthetic Stalinism For Dummies! Perhaps my favorite part of the very articulate and persuasive Victoria Jackson rant Glenn mentions:Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas! Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies...
wingnuttery
Good one. I suppose seeing the world-historical importance of Obama eating ice cream while there is any injustice anywhere in the world is a close cousin to warbloggers who believe.
It was a very busy weekend, so when I saw Patterico's compare and contrast post linked I decided to pretend that it was really a critique of media types giving.
If you're an intelligent progressive who challenges particularly silly and immoral arguments made by one of your parade of interchangeable reactionary hacks, at least.[And, whoops, see Paul below. Sorry, end of travel day.]
I had kind of forgotten about him...
Shorter verbatim Jonah Goldberg: "People say, 'well, why should we be neutral on race when people aren't neutral about whose family gave more money to a school and all the.
Shorter Shelby Steele: Because she is a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor is ipso facto unqualified to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Her extremely impressive formal qualifications are beside the point; by definition, only white men and maybe reactionary African-American men can be qualified for the...
Although I regret this particular manifestation highly, it's obviously not surprising that Ed Whelan is a reprehensible, thin-skinned bully. (Who apparently can't use a search engine.) Or as Cole says:For.
Shorter Erin Manning: The superflous amendments tacked onto same-sex marriage legislation to preempt the silly arguments of paranoid cranks prove that the arguments made by paranoid cranks were correct.[Via.]
A group of libertarians seeks refuge from our parasite society by forming some sort of ocean colony. Whether this even puts them above the mean level of craziness among the contemporary American comservative movement is unclear. I mean, beats this, you have to admit...[Link to...
A writer for the Weekly Standard begins with the premise that opposition to same-sex marriage is not always motivated by anti-gay bigotry or fundamentalist nonsense. He then goes on to.
Shorter + Scarily Verbatim Michael Goldfarb: People who engage in illegal torture to obtain information so valuable that it, for example, thwarted plots that had already been thwarted a year.