Look, Obama's not perfect....
But all the disability-rights activists looking to make hay off the "Special Olympics" comment need to fuck off.
It was stupid, yes, and possibly a good teachable moment about how certain kinds of oppression become part of our...linguistic canon(I'm sure there is a real word for this, but it's early here...it escapes me) but seriously, unless you can prove there's a pattern, like, while in Springfield, he co-wrote the Screw The Cripples initiative, I think it's really wrong to have such laser-like focus on two seconds on Leno that he already apologized for.
Everyone says things they wouldn't want included in their memoirs.
I called Ann Coulter a whore twice this week(Step *off* my fake boyfriend, bitch) even though I generally agree with the feminist argument against using our imagined sexual pasts against each other. But if I wrote it in a column, I'd probably have to apologize to her. sigh. Even though picking fights for money seems pretty whorey to me.
And, damn if being a feminist doesn't make an insult like "skank" really pop, at least at the moment that I use it. Afterward, I generally feel badly about it.
And I'm still an Edwards populist, but i have to admit, I called someone "white trash" this week. Not exactly the side of the Two Americas I'd put on the press release. Or Leno. Sorry, Sloppy neighbor.
But does that mean those issues aren't important to me? No.
And seriously, ADA Watch? A point-counterpoint with *Sarah Palin*, whom I'm beginning to imagine as a silver-haired old woman still dragging her 30-year-old "baby" around in a giant onesie with duckies on it.(If it'd make her President(shudder) I think she'd do it. Right next to an abattoir, no doubt.)Yeah, she's really objective. Just plain ol', letter-writin' Citizen Sarah, who cuts disability funding every chance she gets. Because her kid won't need it. Except for play therapy to cope with being an even bigger plot device than that poor nameless baby on "Rescue Me,"
It was stupid, yes, and possibly a good teachable moment about how certain kinds of oppression become part of our...linguistic canon(I'm sure there is a real word for this, but it's early here...it escapes me) but seriously, unless you can prove there's a pattern, like, while in Springfield, he co-wrote the Screw The Cripples initiative, I think it's really wrong to have such laser-like focus on two seconds on Leno that he already apologized for.
Everyone says things they wouldn't want included in their memoirs.
I called Ann Coulter a whore twice this week(Step *off* my fake boyfriend, bitch) even though I generally agree with the feminist argument against using our imagined sexual pasts against each other. But if I wrote it in a column, I'd probably have to apologize to her. sigh. Even though picking fights for money seems pretty whorey to me.
And, damn if being a feminist doesn't make an insult like "skank" really pop, at least at the moment that I use it. Afterward, I generally feel badly about it.
And I'm still an Edwards populist, but i have to admit, I called someone "white trash" this week. Not exactly the side of the Two Americas I'd put on the press release. Or Leno. Sorry, Sloppy neighbor.
But does that mean those issues aren't important to me? No.
And seriously, ADA Watch? A point-counterpoint with *Sarah Palin*, whom I'm beginning to imagine as a silver-haired old woman still dragging her 30-year-old "baby" around in a giant onesie with duckies on it.(If it'd make her President(shudder) I think she'd do it. Right next to an abattoir, no doubt.)Yeah, she's really objective. Just plain ol', letter-writin' Citizen Sarah, who cuts disability funding every chance she gets. Because her kid won't need it. Except for play therapy to cope with being an even bigger plot device than that poor nameless baby on "Rescue Me,"