Conor Friedersdorf takes a deep dive into dangerous waters, the furious controversy among the woke folks on the left regarding the culpability of white women for Democratic losses in the recent midterm elections, and particularly the assumption that the failure of (many) white women to vote “correctly” proves that they’re, you know, TOTALLY RACIST! Well,…
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Israel? Is that a country?
I guess I could also call this “The Saga of Jennie” because it’s genesis, so to speak, and center is WashPost pseudo-“Right Turn” gal Jennifer Rubin, about whom I recently wrote in the post “Jennie made her mind up”, noting, with pleasure, that Jennie’s political outlook had made not a right turn but a 180,…
David French, daring to speak the unspeakable, so to speak
“Make no mistake,” the National Review’s sometimes rational (but not this time) David French warns us in light of the recent Manchester bombing, “there is an emerging bipartisan consensus that a certain amount of terrorism is just the price we have to pay to live the way we want to live. Now, to be clear,…
Oh, and another thing: David Gelernter is an idiot
David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale and a major contributor to development of the software used in parallel processing and, I am sure, many other remarkable achievements, not to mention his scruffy beard and hair, looks like what he hates: a damn hippie. So Dave isn’t really an idiot. He’s what happens…
Donald Trump probably not as bad as the Spanish flu, Conor Friedersdorf avers
As World War I was coming to an end, the Spanish1 flu epidemic killed an estimated 675,000 Americans. Would a Trump presidency produce a similar body count? asks the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf. Well, probably not, Conor, but I, in turn, have a question for you. Would the United States recover as quickly, and as completely,…
John Brennan, liar? No, John Brennan, super liar.
Read, if you can, Conor Friedersdorf’s tale of endless hypocrisy and deceit from CIA head John Brennan and his assorted minions and ganifs at the agency. Yes, your tax dollars at work.
Yeah, we’re in California
Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf highlights the latest in Bay Area let them eat radicchio greed/stupidity/self-indulgence: subsidized urban farming, a new way for the wealthy to indulge their liberal guilt, boost their property values, and reduce their real estate taxes all at the same time. Rich liberals can donate the crops they raise to…
Michael Lewis, not really one of America’s finest journalists, takes presidential porn to a new level
If you’re an important blogger on the web, a Felix Salmon, say, or a Conor Friedersdorf, it’s considered good form to compliment Michael Lewis before pointing out obliquely that he’s full of shit. Conor does so in this excellent takedown, more of Obama himself than Mike, “How Obama Ignored Congress, and Misled America, on War…