The article itself is whatever. She establishes her progressive bona fides and then proceeds to marvel at the well-dressed, mannnerly Republican she’s planning on marrying. She closes practically begging to be forgiven: When I talk like this, it’s obvious that there is still a part of me that is a little idealistic, that wants to save… Read More XOJane Writer Dates Republican. Hilarity Ensues.
Dear Mr. Cook, We’re an Apple family. My wife and I have been using Macs exclusively for years (saving the Dell laptop I have from work). We use iPhones. We even have a Time Machine. We’ve all but decided to swap out our old Roku for an Apple TV. We’re not techies; neither of us could… Read More An Open Letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Computer
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
Twitter is not for the slow of wit, nor for the rushed to judgement… It was desegregation that caused white America to believe that the government had stopped “protecting” them, and so they needed guns. The mind scarcely has the courage to boggle. Presumably white Americans slaughtered the Indians with racially-insensitive discourse. And that business… Read More Amanda Marcotte Don’t Know Much About History….UPDATED with More Gob-Smackedness
The reaction of the progressive types to shootings have a quality of ritual to them. It’s rather like starting a witch hunt after a bad harvest or a cholera epidemic. A handful of bogeys are always invoked: We blame the Right. The killer may have been some Tea Party type. Because, you know, they’re so… Read More Gunman Goes Nuts. Progressives Blame Guns. Nothing Changes.
Ladd Ehlinger does what many righties have done over the years with regards to Family Guy, which is get nice and pissed at it and then banish it from his DVR. Which is a perfectly sane and sensible thing to do. But Ladd seems to sound surprised at the crudity of McFarlane’s political satire (it… Read More Why Family Guy Sucks at Political Humor
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