“The main way to support fundamentalist Christians is to protect the institutions of patriarchy. In a Christer world, men carry out instructions from God, and women are men’s docile assistants. Their main job is to have babies, preferably white. Otherwise, they stay in the kitchen, take care of the children, speak when spoken to, and for all intents and purposes remain the property of the husband.” – James Ridgeway, The Village Voice. “Christer?” Dumber?
POSEUR ALERT: “At its most florid, which is frequently, Gore Vidal’s prose style resembles the well-oiled musings of a professional wit on the banquet circuit, who regales his moist, heavily breathing listeners with elegant postprandial tales just outré enough to stir their digestive juices.” – Gary Kamiya, Salon. (The rest of the piece is actually pretty good.)
BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE: “What would the original Bill of Rights look like if George W. Bush and Republican leaders had been with the Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention? Would they have supported freedom of speech and religion? Would they have protected Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures?” – Who else but Terry McAuliffe, last Saturday. Noticed first on Spinsanity.
The Dish 