Richard Cohen is beneath contempt. In all the years I read the Washington Post, I never saw a column of his that was not cheap and tedious. Sure, I’ll fisk E.J. Dionne, because Dionne is a Dem apparatchik in journalist’s clothing, announcing the party line. His columns thus rise to the level of argument. Cohen’s… Read More Richard Cohen Calls the Tea Party Racist, But He Used the Wrong Words or Something…
I have a daughter. She is young. She won’t be young forever. One day she will leave the nest, to go to college or some other place where she will be around many young people. She will likely ignore the drinking laws of this country with the alacrity and skill that her parents did. What… Read More Apparently Feminists Advise Their Daughters to Get Completely Blotto Whenever Possible
Off the Sidebar at The Other McCain: I liked the cover, and the intro sounded freshly erudite, so I plunked down the price of a cup of coffee for the Kindle edition. I mean, I’ve always figured the Labor Theory of Surplus Value was bunk, but it would be nice to have it systematic.
Like guerrilla warfare, all political protests aim at substituting concentration and passion for actual numbers. The idea is to pretend that your opinions are entirely mainstream, even though they’re so far removed from the mainstream that you have to organize a protest to express them. Of course, if your “protest” involves nothing more than saying… Read More When You Slutwalk in Public, the Public Also Slutwalks in You
Here’s a joke from my old blog: Q: How do you separate the grown-ups from the children at the Huffington Post? A: With a crowbar. This was in response not only to the linked material, but to the centrifugal talking points that accompanied the almost-extradition of Roman Polanski from Switzerland a few years ago. You remember,… Read More Progressives Love Them Some Jailbait
And Outrage becomes cliche. At different points during the day, I had the TV on three different cable channels: Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. None of them have covered themselves in glory — Allah has video of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yammering pointlessly – but Chris Matthews was atrocious beyond description. The worst part of ideological cocooning lies in how… Read More A Bunch of People Violently Died, Which Means It’s Time for Chris Matthews to Beclown Himself.
Abortion is not new. It did not spring fully-formed from the head of the Supreme Court in 1973. It is as old as civilization itself, and the controversy surrounding it is just as old: “Why sow where the ground makes it its care to destroy the fruit? Where there are many efforts at abortion? Where… Read More Kermit Gosnell and the Holy of Holies
A few days ago I tossed off a rather unremarkable post called “Self-Hating Honkies and the War on Easter“. Not much to it, really. In the post, I linked Stacy McCain, who gave me a shout-out on Twitter, as befits a gentleman and scholar. Well, if ‘Islamophobia’ is racist, why isn’t anti-Easter-Bunnyism racist, too? andrewjpatrick.com/2013/03/27/sel…… Read More My Interactions with @REALBROTHER0003 and the Banality of Twitter
A few things to read that other people wrote: Stephen Green points out how Krugman tries to make capitalism pay for the sins of statists. How Richard Nixon forced the North Vietnamese to sign a peace, and why Bob Beckel is mad. RS McCain ponders the ineffable WTF-ness of South Carolina politics. Jeff Goldstein respectfully… Read More Rocking the Links
Roger King wins Twitter: Via Stacy McCain, who’s been beating on the Menendez scandal like it owes him money. Gah! Originally wrote Cruz instead of Rubio. Derp.
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