The latest chapter in the hilarious misadventures of Concerned Woman for America Matt Barber involves blowing a fuse over an Illinois high school’s addition of the Tony- and Pulitzer-award winning play Angels in America to their curriculum.  Though Barber avers that it “takes a lot” to shock him, he writes (emphasis mine): The book is […]

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Glenn Reynolds: HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes. But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, any […]

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I’m a little put off by the minimization of U.S. abuses in Iraq, but this is a handy reminder (if one were needed) of how obnoxious, annoying and tendentious Naomi Klein is: Update: Ok, the commenters have a point on second viewing: the commentary is approximately as annoying and tendentious as Klein. You can probably […]

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“Today’s Chris Muir cartoon is a must-read.”

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Each time I come across another semi-literate screed by Matt Barber, the male who seems to be the loudest voice of Concerned Women for America, I’m tempted to write a post pointing out how hilariously wrongheaded it is. (And they’re all hilariously wrongheaded.) But I never do, partly because it’s not clear anyone’s paying attention […]

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Pointing out that a claim I find congenial is bullshit is a symptom of class and gender privilege. Pester me not with these “methodological flaws” and “confounding variables”; I need only consult my magic Ouija uterus.

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It seems like there was some sort of competition earlier this week to pen the most idiotic editorial about the late John Rawls, and it’s a photo finish between Linda Hirshman at The New Republic and David Lewis Schaefer in The Wall Street Journal. Read them, then tremble in contemplation the terrifying fact that these […]

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TNR sends a mole on the National Review cruise, and comes back with such an astonishing cargo of crazy that there’s a spit-take lurking in each paragraph. (No word on whether they were following this activity schedule.) At this point, you’d really think it impossible to be surprised anymore by the terrifying self-delusion of conservative […]

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I was naturally repulsed upon reading this post at Feministe about “three ‘pro-life’ organizations” planning to stage some sort of macabre celebration in honor of terrorist and multiple-murderer Paul Jennings Hill. Fortunately, these “organizations” appear to be digital pufferfish: A couple of dudes creating a welter of websites in order to give the appearance of […]

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I realize that the canons of journalistic objectivity preclude interspersing any coverage of the rabid opponents of evolutionary theory with periodic observations that they’re totally fucking crazy, but can we at least get a brief aside when they say something that’s just verifyably gibberish? To wit: “Both Nazism and communism were inspired by Darwinism,” [George […]

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