http://www.thechaff.com Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:27:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Tax cuts! Why did the Republican cross the road? Tax cuts! Why do Republicans wear red suspenders? Tax cuts! Knock-knock! Who's there? Republicans! Republicans who? Tax cuts! I got a million of them! http://www.thechaff.com/2009/02/26/stupid-republican-jokes/ (Another post that started as a long comment at pandagon) Jesse made the following observation: Ideologically, I think it’s also time for us to realize that we were never a center-right nation. We simply had a much stronger conservative machine than a liberal one, which necessarily pushed our policy and politics ... http://www.thechaff.com/2008/11/04/what-good-are-liberals-anyway/ 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 ... http://www.thechaff.com/2008/07/03/un-gaming-the-system/ 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. ... http://www.thechaff.com/2008/05/13/oh-so-thats-what-journalism-looks-like/ 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 ... http://www.thechaff.com/2008/03/31/why-wingnuts-write-wrong-its-not-the-heat-its-the-stupidity/ 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 ... http://www.thechaff.com/2007/12/21/ah-memories/ My very, very long response to a comment over at Sadly, No!: the appalling thing about what I wrote the more i learn about these hideous people the more terrified i become. it’s not as if they’re centralized in one remote spot; they could be living next door or on the next ... http://www.thechaff.com/2007/11/20/when-is-discrimination-ok/ 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 ... http://www.thechaff.com/2007/11/07/when-is-war-justified/ Matt Yglesias has a post about presidential campaigns discussing merit pay for teachers. My response to a comment there got really, really long, so I'm pasting it over here: The underlying logic of merit pay seems perfectly intuitive, of course, I'm just not sure it would work out. It does seem intuitive ... http://www.thechaff.com/2007/07/11/god-save-us-from-merit-pay-for-teachers/ So I'm cleaning out the spam trap, and I see a plug for "drunk teen exploited sex". Whaaa? The "barely legal sex" ones are bad enough. The "hot teen virgins doing it with farm animals" are disgusting. But "drunk teen exploitation" porn? Is there really an audience for date rape videos? Are there ... http://www.thechaff.com/2007/05/30/who-is-the-target-audience/