Jonah Goldberg’s new joint Liberal Fascism: Words Mean Whatever I Want Them To dropped today, and Dave Neiwert reviews it at The American Prospect. Goldberg, who has no credentials beyond the right-wing nepotism that has enabled his career as a pundit, has drawn a kind of history in absurdly broad and comically wrongheaded strokes. It [...]
Readers, I’m confused. Help me out here: First, Global Warming was refuted by the fact that it snowed in Michigan. In January. But yesterday (Monday, 2008/01/07) it was 65 degrees Fahrenheit here on the East Side of Pittsburgh. According to my trusty digital thermometer, it’s 68.8 degrees Fahrenheit on my front porch right now at [...]
Who among us, readers, can predict the vagaries of the human heart? Rugged French President Nicolas Sarkozy is talking wedding bells with his girlfriend. Crazy Pammy, who has a penchant for tales of romance, makes goo-goo eyes and says she’s “loving dah love.” Ain’t that sweet? But meanwhile, the Costco Coulter hisses that Sarkozy’s girlfriend [...]
Now that Barack Obama has won the Iowa caucus and looks like a safe bet to win the New Hampshire primaries tomorrow, it seems that Clinton Derangement Syndrome has taken a back burner to Obama Derangement Syndrome. Crazy Pammy took a break from trying to involve Obama in the Kenyan unrest to proclaim “Fact: Obama [...]
Could Adam Yoshida already have produced the wingnuttiest blog post of the year? 2008 is only a week old, readers, but Internet wingnuts are going to have their work cut out for them all year long. Look at what they’ll have to compete with: One: Obama Can’t Prove He’s Not A Secret Muslim Both Obama’s [...]
The “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” are now calling themselves “Swift Vets and POWs for Truth”, and they’re showering money on political candidates, Mitt Romney and John McCain in particular. Taking money from the Swift Vets is something of a flip-flop for Sen. “Straight-Talk” McCain; you may recall that he condemned them back in 2004: [...]
Crazy Pammy is struggling to depict the current unrest in Kenya as part of “The Global Jihad.” That’s not at all surprising; she thinks it’s part of “The Global Jihad” every time she gets cut off in traffic or the Mets lose a game. What’s noteworthy is that she’s also trying to drag Barack Obama [...]
Here is a phylogeny of the meme “Dollar Bill Y’All.” If you are aware of an appearance of this meme that I’ve overlooked or omitted, I want to know about it; please leave a reference in the comments. 1983 — Jimmy Spicer, “Money (Dollar Bill Y’All)” (mp3) The single that started it all. It’s extremely [...]
Gordo put up an excellent post about Ben Stein’s foolish War on Science. I was curious to see if any of Ben Stein’s mawkish, lugubrious American Spectator columns were available on the Internet. I haven’t read that magazine since the late 1990s, but I remember Ben Stein used to have a pathetic column in which [...]
