“The only group that majority-identifies as “Pro Choice” is women of childbearing age”—Megan McArdle, explaining why Democrats don’t own the future.
Outreach to Blacks, A Republican’s User’s Guide
In the last election, Republicans have noticed that no black people voted for them, and, since they lost, they have started to worry about it. I am not black myself, but I am a sport, and so I have decided to provide a few pointers. Stop trying to prevent black people from voting. They hate…
“What’s the matter, asshole? You oblivious or something?”
New York magazine has a nice bit about execs at Random House and Penguin working out a merger as mighty hurricane Sandy bore down on Gotham. At Random House, communications director Stuart Applebaum stayed at his desk overnight on Sunday to help complete the deal. When he left Monday morning he found the street outside…
Glenn gets one wrong
If you read this blog at all, you know that I’m a huge fan of Glenn Greenwald, who’s worn out half a dozen keyboards recording the countless violations committed by the Obama Administration to truth, civil liberties, the rule of law, and simple common human decency in its endless war on terror, and just about…
Suck on it, Hillbillies
Am I a bad winner? Suck on it. Suck on it, Peggy Noonan. Suck on it, George Will, for predicting a Romney landslide. Suck on it, political “expert” Michael Barone, for doing the same. Suck on it, Charles Krauthammer. Suck on it, William Kristol. Suck on it, Weekly Standard. Suck on it, Bibi Netanyahu. We…
Vote for the Would-Be Murderer, not the Murderer?
Well, it’s a theory. As Glenn Greenwald points out, President Obama has fair claim to be absolutely the worst civil liberties President the U.S.A. has ever seen. The odds are, Romney would be better! That’s a valid inference, even if we simply consider the election a random draw. But, wait, there’s more!—the old “Nixon goes…
Charles Krauthammer, Capitalist Tool
In an unintentionally (I guess) humorous column bearing the all too pretentious title of “The Choice,” Charles Aloysius Krauthammer lays it out for America: Obama second term means that the movement toward European-style social democracy continues, in part by legislation, in part by executive decree. The American experiment — the more individualistic, energetic, innovative, risk-taking…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Sorry, dude, there’s only room for one wise man on this ledge, and you’re looking at him.” “I believe the expression is ‘Forget about it.’” “Listen, buddy, I ain’t the Sphinx and you ain’t Oedipus. You came up the wrong building.” “Unless you’re here to wash the windows, I’m not budging.” “You…
Annals of Republican Hypocrisy No. 47, 314: Vote for Us, or We’ll Fucking Kill You!
William Saletan rounds up the usual suspects, and they’re fucking ugly: Says rational Ramesh Ponnuru, “If Obama wins re-election, the Republican Party will react by moving right, not left. It will become less likely to compromise with Obama … Republicans, especially at the grassroots level, would react to Obama’s re-election by assuming that Romney failed…
Annals of Republican Hypocrisy No. 47,313: Hands across the aisle
Here is Peggy Noonan: “He [Obama] misread his Republican opponents from day one. If he had been large-spirited and conciliatory he would have effectively undercut them, and kept them from uniting. (If he’d been large-spirited with Mr. Romney, he would have undercut him, too.) Instead he was toughly partisan, he shut them out, and positions…