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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Un-gaming the system

From comments over at Pandagon regarding whether Hillary Clinton got a “fair shake” in the Democratic Primary:
The system was not gamed against her, since it had been gamed for her by general DNC bubble-headed consensus.
Actually, you need to distinguish between the DNC and the DLC: the hard-core establishment, “run to the center”, “don’t piss [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Oh, so THAT’S what journalism looks like!

It happened again: I saw a piece on TV last night that gave me hope for the Fourth Estate. Last time, it was an investigative report. This time, it was an interview. Both times, it was on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart interviewed Doug Feith last night for over 20 minutes. I only saw the ten [...]

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Monday, March 31st, 2008

Why Wingnuts Write Wrong (It’s not the heat: it’s the stupidity)

Clif over at Sadly, No! thrashes a book review by Brent Bozell, in which Bozell graciously provides an example of How Not To Be Understood:
Alterman argues that conservatives loathe Hollywood because they, like the rich everywhere else, are expected to “embrace the right-wing politics that would benefit their economic self-interest and leave the opinion business [...]

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Friday, December 21st, 2007

Ah, Memories…

Over at Defective Yeti, there’s a post about things you hate to see in the movies. One person complained:
Certain actors use smoking as a way to eeeeeeeeee-mote and show that their character is either edgy or stressed out or both. But [...] you can tell they don’t know the first thing about smoking. They fling [...]

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

When is war justified?

From a comment on this post over at Pandagon
Suppose for a moment that the Bushites were right, that Hussein had WMD and the ability and the will to use them against Americans (preposterous but hang in there for a bit). Would you still oppose war, the killing of people bent on killing us, which would [...]

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Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon, and spam

The comment spam has been really, really bad. Too keep it from crashing the site (like it did before), we’ve set all comments to moderate. I do not reject any actual comments, but I think at least one got deleted by mistake (I’m sorry!). I’ve caught up on the comment queue, though, so if your [...]

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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

It All Makes Perfect Sense Now!

Camile Paglia suggests a very provocative and compelling reason for the recent shooting rampage by a student at Virgina Tech:
The pervasive hook-up culture at college, where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out.
Young women now [...]

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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Mysogynist-to-English Dictionary

Often on various feminist blogs, some poor guy opens up his mouth and makes what he thinks is an innocent statement, only to get verbally shredded by lashing tongues and razor wits.
And the guy sits there thinking, “Hey, Wha Happened?”
Well, it’s possible that the guy has accidentally bumped up against a peculiar language known as [...]

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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Historical Analogy Is a Two-Edged Sword

It’s become pretty popular among various “hawkish” bloggers to bask in the reflected glow of 300. The glorification of war and cartoonish* masculinity has been commented on in detail by people far more qualified than I. But the nit I have to pick with the 300 hawks is the “historical analogy” angle. Because of such [...]

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Monday, March 12th, 2007

Apologies to Ms. Whatzername

My sixth grade science teacher was the bane of my existence. She was mean and snippy and gave me a B minus! Once, she even held me after class and asked if I was acting out because I didn’t get enough attention at home. It was humiliating and infuriating–
–because she was right. She had me [...]

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