I absolutely agree with his Guardian piece, as I did with his Salon piece of a year and a half ago, that "speak no ill of the dead" does not apply to public figures. Those who speak well of them are no less politically motivated.

The Guardian essay is in response to the silencing of criticism about the just-deceased Margaret Thatcher (see relevant ( Read more... )

Valerie Aurora:( cut for rabid homophobia, fat-shaming, and a death threat )

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David Brooks: Wimminz ain’t breedin’ enough. But, being Bobo, he says it genteelly, which means that a lot of "civility"-worshipping idiots will deem it a “thoughtful” column rather than the far-right rhetoric that it is.

New fetus-hugger talking point: “Obamacare = $1 abortions." As Roy Edroso writes, it's a deliberate misinterpretation of §156. ( Read more... )

Mobutu & Gen. Ze'evi, on Gawker:Provocateur, website founder and collector of America's largest wads of spittle Andrew Breitbart died last Thursday morning, when some sentient shred of his cardiac organ kamikazed out of an exhausted sense of justice.
     The invertebrate response from journalists was exactly to be expected. Breitbart said, like, ( Read more... )

Daniel Fincke reports that Lee Hirsch's film Bully has received a rating of R from the Motion Picture Association of America, due to profanity in the film. Therefore, children as old as 16 cannot legally go to see Bully without an adult present. Many schools are also forbidden from showing R-rated movies or clips from them ( Read more... )

In the six-odd years he's been blogging, Glenn Greenwald writes, he's seldom written about Christopher Hitchens because he didn't feel much need to. Greenwald's beat is politics, not culture or religion, and he found Hitchens' political output of recent years mostly indistinguishable from that of other fervent neoconservatives ( Read more... )

As one could have predicted, they're pimping out Michelle's miscarriage for publicity, going to far as to tweet the pic. I don't particularly care for that blog in general, but I'll be candid: The nasty snark on that post gladdens my heart.But, but, but! You're taking pleasure in this poor family's tragedy!Yeah, well, I certainly am ( Read more... )

The University of Arizona - which, I might remind you, is smack dab in the middle of Ranting Whackjob Country - has just created a National Institute for Civil DiscourseOh, and get this: Its honorary chairmen are Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush. That would be the Bill Clinton of the notorious temper (unfortunately all the links I can find ( Read more... )