Megs and Kerry have both laid into this absurd Sunday Times piece blaming the VA Tech shootings on (and let’s rrrrrrooll the wheel of scapegoats!) “the crisis of young males in a feminised society.” I’m usually wary of inferring exculpation from attempts at explanation, but this line from the piece in particular is especially stomach […]

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You can’t even parody this stuff anymore… Michelle Malkin has written a cute little pledge for people committed to wetting themselves whenever they come within 10 meters of an Arab, which (contrary to what you might have thought) is incredibly bold, manly behavior. Lock the door to mom’s basement, firmly grasp your testicles, and feel […]

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Sully finds this 1994 gem from Rudy Giuliani: We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we […]

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Ruth Rosen at TPMCafe (why is that name familiar? Ah yes!) is gushing about some anti–water privatization documentary she’s just seen. And what’s notable, given that there are surely cases of privatization-gone-wrong to focus on if you’re cherry picking for a polemical film, is how light on actual arguments this rather long post is. Rosen […]

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Valerie Plame asserts that yes, she really was “covert” after all; Andy McCarthy insists she must be confused about what her own status was. Oh, also, “a zillion people a day” saw her go in and out of CIA HQ? This seems… dubious. I was in a car that took a wrong turn at the […]

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D’Souza v. PowerLine catfight.

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So, I did end up going to catch Sir, No Sir earlier this week. Though a little heavy handed, and more than a little Manichean, it was basically a solid and effective documentary, which I hope I’ll get around to giving its own post later. Before the main event, though, there was an amateurish 5–10 […]

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And the winner is: Pete Rollins.

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Duncan Black has concluded that the best way to demonstrate your vast intellectual superiority over your political opponents is to knock out a series of glib one-line responses to serious policy questions, prefacing each with a condescending “Uh,” to indicate how very, very obvious your answers should be to anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex.* […]

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What could possibly be more glib, insufferable, and smug that Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column? Why, Tom Friedman on the radio! Marvel at his noxious Director of Human Resources tic of addressing the host by his first name every fifteen seconds. Wonder at his limitless capacity for self-congratulation. And gape in awe as Friedman […]

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