Apparently The New Republic that insists that everyone else should “diversify” would like to be free to make up its own mind about putting any of those filthy minorities on staff. Apparently diversity-efforts are things Other People must do — never people who Dylan Byers works for, or may work for at some point down… Read More Ace Excorciates The White Republic
The time has come for honesty. We cannot continue as we are, pretending to party unity. The schisms are too obvious. We talk of “establishments” and “purists” as though we all want different things. Let me suggest that this is in fact, because we want different things. Let us first talk of the Union. The… Read More The Union and the Confederacy: the Ongoing Civil War in the GOP
At Ace, the failure of putting Space Swashbucklers in a Military Bureaucracy: Space travel in fiction has two major tropes in its depiction. I’m calling these the Institutional Phase, and the Commercial Phase. The beginning of space travel — and this is the same for any previous mode of difficult transportation — is the Institutional… Read More One of the Many Reasons Prometheus, and Prequels, don’t work.
Ace has a nice good long post (which are always the best posts at Ace) on the staggering inanity of deciding that this: is sexual assault. His response, appropriately, is to troll the trollers: Many movements or eras — most, probably — enter a decadent phase at some point. I don’t know of a textbook definition… Read More How Many Rapes Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?: Feminism in Its Decadent Phase
Ace’s Twitter beatdown of Will Saletan is noteworthy for a couple of reasons: It’s a refreshing refutation of the notion that the aesthetic quality of the Muslim troll film is at all relevant. Saletan doesn’t really fight back very hard. I mean, he offers up a few tired equivocations. Poor Salman Rushdie is invoked. But by… Read More Freedom of Speech and Trembling Honkies
Ace links and discusses Zombie’s review of Proggie bellyfeeling goodthinker George Lakoff’s Little Blue Book. The essence of this elegantly fascist tome is that conservatives are mindless scum who do not deserve to be engaged in civil debate. In other words, what most died-in-the-wool, Portlandia-aspring progs already think. Which is why I will quote only… Read More Lakoff’s Paradox: Why Progressives Fail
In the Civil Rights Era, people on either side of the debate understood “access” to refer to being able to enter a place and do business there according to one’s ability. Blacks having “access” to the same public amenities — drinking fountains, bathrooms, luncheon counters, seats on buses, voting booths — as whites did meant… Read More The Falsehood of “Access”
At Ace’s Live Coverage thread, MSNBC has called it for Walker. Of course, the top aggregation on Memeorandum right now is about how the GOP cheated. They must have. Because Walker can’t win. Duh. UPDATE: Fox and CNN have chimed in as well.
Ace fisks Frum on the strained nature of the “Tu Quoque” Fallacy. These are the same points I brought up earlier, when explaining that I did not care about Limbaugh’s outburst. But as Frum points out, Letterman did apologize for what he said about Willow Palin, as did Ed Schultz when he called Laura Ingraham… Read More There’s Always An Excuse For Your Slut
The Left’s pet rightie could not resist tut-tutting about how awful and offensive and poisonous that Andrew Breitbat fellow was. Such is the nature of Frum: always begging his enemies to regard him as a Good Jew. But the timing provokes Ace to some of the finest vitriol I’ve seen from him in quite some… Read More David Frum: Always Reliable, When Republicans are Under Attack, To Rise to the Defense of those Attacks
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