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In the UK years ago, a politician was widely believed to have had an ex-lover's dog killed, so Auberon Waugh, who didn't like him anyway, started a Dog Lovers' Party. Once Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination, let's have one here.
Jan. 13th, 2012
Melissa McEwen says, "The point of this post is that the video is such a perfect example of what is required of people to maintain a conservative ideology: You must turn your back on every person whose individual experience and circumstance proves wrong your inflexible certitude about any issue." The word conservative is superfluous.
Thanx to Shakesville
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womzilla pointed out that she went on to say that conservative ideology does it a lot more, which I agree with, and she picked a good Horrible Example.
Thanx to Shakesville
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womzilla pointed out that she went on to say that conservative ideology does it a lot more, which I agree with, and she picked a good Horrible Example.The missing man
Jan. 13th, 2012 06:17 amJon Carroll remembers George W. Bush while the Republican candidates try not to.
Liberal blames bad childhoods.
Jan. 13th, 2012 06:31 amWhen Ayn Rand was a little girl, her parents took all her toys away to give to the "less fortunate." Perhaps the memory of that bit of abuse was triggered when people advocated altruism, and that's why she was like that.
When I was a little boy, public school told me that understanding the stuff the first time was (as we would now say) a privilege, and Equality required that I STFU and not act out while they kept repeating things for the slow kids and nothing was offered for me. When people advocate egalitarianism, I try not to be like Ayn Rand, but I don't always succeed.
When I was a little boy, public school told me that understanding the stuff the first time was (as we would now say) a privilege, and Equality required that I STFU and not act out while they kept repeating things for the slow kids and nothing was offered for me. When people advocate egalitarianism, I try not to be like Ayn Rand, but I don't always succeed.
The andrewducker show
Jan. 13th, 2012 06:59 am* Smart people don't have to look like Jean-Paul Sartre
* I don't think you should name your Japanese FRP character Bukkake (NWS)
* If you could pay to skip ads: a dystopia
* I don't think you should name your Japanese FRP character Bukkake (NWS)
* If you could pay to skip ads: a dystopia
Resistance is futile.
Jan. 13th, 2012 09:13 amScience fiction prepares us for the future. In 1974, I read a new book called The Mote in God's Eye. One character was sly, swarthy, and hook-nosed; his sneakiness and greed propelled much of the plot. This sort of character was quite familiar, but this time he was an Arab, instead of a Jew. (In fact, his middle name was Hussein; you can't make this stuff up.)
Nowadays, much of America fears Arabs and/or Muslims, and one thing the latter are expected to do is "assimilate." As I heard that, I thought that some of the methods they could use have been tried and tested: They can change their names and have their noses surgically Christianized. And then I remembered something else.
As a Jew, I came in when things were getting better. I have read about Walter Lippmann, a generation before me, who probably earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for most organizations he was the First Jew in. The price he paid was assimilation: He couldn't be "too Jewish," and he had to join in condemning those who were.
I was born at the time when Adolf Hitler was bringing Jew hating into unprecedented disrepute. He was even nastier to the Jews than genteel gentiles found reasonable, he fought a war against us, and he lost. Finally, Lippmann could condemn him without adding fair and balanced bits about the Jews who did the sociopolitical equivalent of dressing provocatively.
But we weren't equal yet. In the 50s I attended a prep school with a 90% Jewish student body. I got a good education; we provided many of New York's doctors, lawyers, and business leaders. Along with English, math, & science, though, we had to take a course called Speech, which I now realize should have been called Gentile Emulation. Mr Baruth (widely believed to have been born Baruch), told us: Don't make Jew Gestures, avoid the dentalized T, don't sound like a "cloak & suiter." Prepare to be assimilated.
Some Jews say, "We had to do it; they should have to." Some say, "We had to do it; nobody should have to." I am one of the latter.
Nowadays, much of America fears Arabs and/or Muslims, and one thing the latter are expected to do is "assimilate." As I heard that, I thought that some of the methods they could use have been tried and tested: They can change their names and have their noses surgically Christianized. And then I remembered something else.
As a Jew, I came in when things were getting better. I have read about Walter Lippmann, a generation before me, who probably earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for most organizations he was the First Jew in. The price he paid was assimilation: He couldn't be "too Jewish," and he had to join in condemning those who were.
I was born at the time when Adolf Hitler was bringing Jew hating into unprecedented disrepute. He was even nastier to the Jews than genteel gentiles found reasonable, he fought a war against us, and he lost. Finally, Lippmann could condemn him without adding fair and balanced bits about the Jews who did the sociopolitical equivalent of dressing provocatively.
But we weren't equal yet. In the 50s I attended a prep school with a 90% Jewish student body. I got a good education; we provided many of New York's doctors, lawyers, and business leaders. Along with English, math, & science, though, we had to take a course called Speech, which I now realize should have been called Gentile Emulation. Mr Baruth (widely believed to have been born Baruch), told us: Don't make Jew Gestures, avoid the dentalized T, don't sound like a "cloak & suiter." Prepare to be assimilated.
Some Jews say, "We had to do it; they should have to." Some say, "We had to do it; nobody should have to." I am one of the latter.
If the words 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on— Terence McKenna
Va te faire enculer, Newt
Jan. 13th, 2012 06:02 pmGingrich actually attacks Romney for speaking French. I guess the next step is for Rick Perry to point out that his foes are too fancy-pants to say "He don't."