Sunday, March 02, 2008
Deep Thought
Next week in the Post:
Jews: If you prick them they do not bleed, and if you tickle them they do not laugh.
No Bad News For St. McCain
There are a lot of reasons the different treatment of the two stories is telling, but the obvious one is that Donohue going after a liberal or a Democrat is pretty much the definition of a "dog bites man" story, while Donohue going after a conservative or Republican is much more of a "man bites dog story."
Vulcans and Hystericals
You should be congratulated for choosing a candidate after carefully and rationally analyzing the situation.
Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves for letting their irrational emotions dictate their choices.
Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves for letting their irrational emotions dictate their choices.
I Was Wrong
It turns out the Post did have someone on the "other side" of the "are women stupid" debate. It turns out the conflict was not between whether women are stupid or not, it's between whether they're stupid or fickle.
Hopefully Camille Paglia will be along next week to tell us that the answer is, of course, both! Then we can put all this behind us and move on to more important issues. I suggest the inscrutability of Asians, or perhaps the brain/penis size tradeoff men face, but others may have some better ideas.
I can imagine the strategists for the senator from Illinois thinking, "What's that song in Verdi's 'Rigoletto'?" Women are fickle.
Turns out it's true.
Hopefully Camille Paglia will be along next week to tell us that the answer is, of course, both! Then we can put all this behind us and move on to more important issues. I suggest the inscrutability of Asians, or perhaps the brain/penis size tradeoff men face, but others may have some better ideas.
And Speaking Of Insulting 50%+ of Your Potential Readership
Little Debbie Howell wrote this a couple of months back:
It is truly a mystery.
Post editors are concerned that young women with children are not becoming Post readers as they get older. Younger mothers, ages 18 to 34, read The Post daily at about half the rate of men with children. That is true for women who work outside the home and those who are college-educated.
A Post task force is looking at the problem and will make recommendations. I'd love to hear from young mothers about this. If you know anyone who fits this demographic and doesn't read The Post, please send them my way.
It is truly a mystery.
Resolved: Women Are Stupid
One would have hoped that the Post would have least asked someone to address the other side of this controversial topic, but it appears editors will never grow tired of the "women trashing women" genre.
One can and should blame the writer, but really it's the editors who are to blame. There's apparently nothing better than having their fundamental misogyny confirmed to them by women. I suppose there's a tiny chance it's a hoax, but it seems like a fairly standard piece in this genre so I doubt it.
One can and should blame the writer, but really it's the editors who are to blame. There's apparently nothing better than having their fundamental misogyny confirmed to them by women. I suppose there's a tiny chance it's a hoax, but it seems like a fairly standard piece in this genre so I doubt it.
Casual Questions for a Sunday Morning
When is a person or topic "controversial" or "polarizing?" Who decides?
If a president did "unite the country," how would we know? Could we measure that?
If a president did "unite the country," how would we know? Could we measure that?
Bobblehead Thread
Document the atrocities:
--Molly I.
Washington Journal: 7:00 - Viewer calls; 7:30 am - Mark Niquette, Columbus Dispatch, Political Reporter; 8:00 am - Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH) 14th District, McCain Supporter; 8:30 am - Adam Gelb, Pew Center on the States, Prison Report Director; Phone: Texas State Sen. John Whitmire (D), Criminal Justice Cmte. Chairman.
ABC's This Week: Howard Wolfson Clinton Campaign v David Axelrod Obama Campaign. Roundtable: David Brooks, Matthew Dowd, Donna Brazile, George Will.
CBS' Face The Nation: Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM); Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) Obama Surrogate v Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) Clinton Surrogate.
CNN's Late Edition: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NATO Secretary-General; Howard Dean DNC Chairman; Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-CA) Clinton Campaign v Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) Obama Campaign. Rep. Roy Blunt: (R-MO) Minorty Whip. Roundtable: John King, Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley.
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Karl Rove, former White House senior adviser.
NBC's Meet The Press: James Carville (D), Mary Matalin (R), Bob Shrum (D), Mike Murphy (R).
--Molly I.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Generations
The Editors write:
I used to imagine there would be some generational shift in the media, leaving behind the previous baggage, and things might improve. But from what I can tell you have the perpetually lost in the 60s crowd, the 70s anti-partisan crowd, the 80s Reagan is The Awesome crowd, the 90s Republican Revolution and Bill Clinton's Penis is a WMD Crowd, and then the 00s George Bush's crotch looks awesome in that flight suit crowd.
It's never gonna end.
Louis Farrakhan is a very scary black man who everybody assumed had been dead for twenty years, and denouncing him means about as much these days as denouncing Peter Frampton’s hair. Now, I would say something like that, wouldn’t I just?, being as I am a callow and thoughtless Gen X’er with no appreciation for the heated racial politics of the 1970’s and the pure rock-n-roll awesomeness of listening to some bell-bottom’ed tit warble into a vocoder for 20 minutes.
I used to imagine there would be some generational shift in the media, leaving behind the previous baggage, and things might improve. But from what I can tell you have the perpetually lost in the 60s crowd, the 70s anti-partisan crowd, the 80s Reagan is The Awesome crowd, the 90s Republican Revolution and Bill Clinton's Penis is a WMD Crowd, and then the 00s George Bush's crotch looks awesome in that flight suit crowd.
It's never gonna end.
A Minor Cost of War
New train cars.
New SEPTA Regional Rail cars will be at least four months late, delaying relief for riders on the increasingly crowded rail lines, SEPTA officials said yesterday.
...
Rotem was unable to procure enough of the type of steel specified in the SEPTA contract because the U.S. government has cornered the market; it is using the steel for armoring vehicles bound for Iraq, Nowakowski said.
High Comedy
I have no idea if this person is, as claimed, a friend of Tim Goeglein, but these comments by William Walters are hilarious.
....oy, server hosed. Here they are:
This one by someone else is pretty funny too:
....oy, server hosed. Here they are:
# William Walters Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Nancy you wrote: “Once a charge is made.” Indeed, once a charge is made publicly. And you are the one who gleefully made it public.
Did you bring this to the White House privately? Obviously not. Did you bring this to Tim’s attention privately? Obviously not. You executed him publicly with your own self-serving intentions in mind. Could you have forced his resignation privately - indeed you could have. You are not only in part responsible for Tim’s children being “un-provided for” - the greater collateral damage you intentionally created is solely your responsibility. That’s on you and no one else. Now that names were named you want to wash your hands. As I said before - shameful.
William Walters
...
# William Walters Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
Your gloating belies your trite statement that you “feel bad about what I’m going to do here.” Obviously, you take great pride in being center stage in public. Moreover, and contrary to what you may have expected, Tim Goeglein took immediate and full responsibility for his actions. The White House acted immediately as well. Tim, a husband and father of two, is now jobless. If the issue of plagiarism is so dear, and is the sole core of your intentions in exposing this matter, then you could have handled this privately. Nevertheless, you chose to smear this man publicly. Now that you have assisted in the destruction of his career, are you big enough to step up and offer your support to his family? I do not fault you for holding any public servant’s feet to the fire, but your manner of execution is shameful.
William Walters - a former colleague and friend of Tim Goeglein.
This one by someone else is pretty funny too:
eff Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 10:11 am
Damn, Nall, you’re the epitome of prejudice and hate. You obviously don’t believe that other points of view should be allowed by your first amendment.
Here’s a few of my observations.
• The trash Urinal Gay-zette wouldn’t exist if it were run in the evening.
• Call the Sentinel what you wish, we consider the source.
You slam Tim for his beliefs, his family, his friends and I’m sure nothing is off limits
to a bitter old hag as yourself.
If I chose to read more of your blog, you would also slam his children.
Are you on Hillary’s campaign? You should be. I see many similarities.
As far as the left’s failings, they can be summed up as, well, socialist, communist, and whatever TEARS at the positive social fabric of the family and America. Homosexuals, internet porn, NAMBLA, ACLU, Antichrist, Antichurch, Illegal alien amnesty-votes (for democrats), property tax increases, tax increases.
The muslims hate America only because what the lowlife liberals are exporting here and abroad. They hate the abominations I mentioned above. As far as I’m concerned, I would invite them in this country to take care of the left, if only the muslims were intelligent enough to identify what they hate is NOT all Americans but —Liberal americans.
(P.S. Those of us who saw your article photo in the past know why your web blog picture is blurred….Thank you, Photoshop.)Damn, Nall, you’re the epitome of prejudice and hate. You obviously don’t
believe that other points of view should be allowed by your first amendment.
GOP Daddy Disappoints Again
So the Attorney General doesn't think following the law is especially important.
I'm so old I can remember when this type of thing would upset the Villagers. Perhaps it will again, in 9 months or so.
I'm so old I can remember when this type of thing would upset the Villagers. Perhaps it will again, in 9 months or so.
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