For those who didn’t see this in comments, Last Hussar linked to his fascinating post comparing the Labour Landslide in Great Britain to the Republicon party’s U.S. implosion, and believes we could be looking at a similar moment: Current affairs and politics geeks in the UK will remember the question that was on all their …
Category Archive: discourse
Sep 23 2008
America: You Really Want Us to Love It or Leave It?
Cons have this cute little conversation-stopper they use when liberals and progressives are demanding improvements to America. “Love it or leave it!” they crow. As if wanting to improve something means you don’t love it. As if love means never questioning your country. “Love it or leave it.” All right. What if we did? What …
Sep 04 2008
Fuck the Elevated Discourse – Gimme a Talking Point and a Hammer
Glenn Greenwald has an utterly valid point to make: Somehow, the deep stupidity of our political discourse actually manages to escalate during presidential campaigns, becoming even more vapid and idiotic than normal. But, as I argued continuously when I did my book tour in April and May for Great American Hypocrites, this is the kind …
Aug 18 2008
Fighting Fair
I don’t hang about Conservapedia much, or I wouldn’t have missed this delightful exchange. Y’see, Andy Schlafly, assclown extraordinaire, would lurrrv to debate a stinking librul – except for the fact he can’t. He ran away from Ames like a kicked cur. (Note to Andy: here’s how challenges work. If you make ‘em, you pay …
Aug 04 2008
When More Facts Are In Hand, the Smack-o-Matic Shall Be Unleashed
I’ve spent most of the weekend chasing down news articles on the anthrax case. Some of the information I’ve run across, when pulled together in one place, will make your toes curl. However, I don’t want to open my yawp until more facts are on the ground. Stay tuned…
May 18 2008
Incoherent Bullshit by Kathleen Parker
It’s worse than I thought. I’m gonna need a bigger woodshed. And a paddle made of tungsten carbide. Kathleen Parker, darling of the Washington Post’s op-ed page, is competing hard for the “More Inane than Bill Kristol” title. She’s written two steaming piles of shit served up hot and stinking in just the past few …
May 15 2008
Gas Tax Holidays and the Pathologies of Democracy
FindLaw’s Michael C. Dorf has an interesting column up discussing how the proposed gas tax holiday points up a few of democracy’s flaws. It sounds downright elitist in places: More generally, the mere fact that Senator McCain would propose, and that Senator Clinton would then endorse, an idea that makes such poor policy sense raises …
May 12 2008
Sometimes My Country Makes Me Want to Stab Out My Eyes with a Dessert Fork
I’m so fucking depressed. There’s too much stupid. My arms are tired. I can’t muster the energy to spank. I’m going to have to rely on my fellow bloggers to beat back the hordes of raging fuckwits for tonight. Steve Benen over at the Carpetbagger Report got my day off to a depressing start with …
May 03 2008
Consider the Source
I was all ready to tear Hillary Clinton apart over this one: In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas – using her child development background to help the defendant. Yes, …
May 02 2008
Attention John Derbyshire: the Cantina is Open
Poor John. It’s hard being a conservative in these troubled times. Ben Stein’s fuckwittery knows no bounds: In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. …
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