Month: August 2008

My reliably unrestrained friend scolds his fellow libs for their Sturgis tut-tutting:

We’re wasting our time beating up on John McCain for suggesting that his leathery ol’ wife should participate in a topless/bottomless beauty pageant. Yes, Obama couldn’t say it—but then Obama isn’t a notorious ladies man and adulterer that dumped his first wife when she went and got all ugly and shit.

More to the point, and setting aside the issue of race, people think it’s cute when the elderly pretend that they’ve still got it and say mildly racy (not racist!) things about their leathery ol’ spouses. These comments would be interpreted very differently if Obama made them not because Obama is black (or a Democrat) but because Obama is young and virile and his wife is a total fucking fox. If Obama had suggested that Michelle enter a topless beauty pageant we would be forced to actually conjure up mental images of Michelle taking part because Michelle could. (And she could win.) When McCain says it about Cindy, we don’t picture Cindy entering the contest because she couldn’t and, on the off chance that she did, she certainly wouldn’t win it.

People don’t perceive sexual heat, or sexual tension, in McCain’s marriage and therefore they don’t perceive any in his comments. The people in that crowd—and the people watching the clip on YouTube—interpret them like this: "Hey, the old dude still thinks his old wife is hot—awww, isn’t that cute?" Democrats and progressives straining to make an issue of this by playing "if Obama said it!" are making a mistake. We’re not the party of idiotic, knee-jerk prudery and we look ridiculous when we pretend that we are.

Make it about Britney Spears.

A fitting end:

Q: In your book My American Years, you recollect that you used to write even while walking in the forest.

Solzhenitsyn: When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

Q: And your strength did not leave you even in moments of desperation?

Solzhenitsyn: Yes. I would often think: whatever the outcome is going to be, let it be. And then things would turn out all right. It looks like some good came out of it.

This is a cool little web tool: it analyzes your recent web wanderings and figures out if you’re male or female. I just did it:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 8%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 92%

Goldberg has 97 percent.

From Egyptian television’s recent interview with the head of the Egyptian Unique Mustache Association:

Interviewer: Do you respect all types of mustaches – regardless of their size, length, or width?

Allam Muhammad Abdel Al-Halim: Of course.

Interviewer: Even Hitler’s mustache?

Captain Sayyed Shahada: By the way, I respect the mustache of this Hitler, because he humiliated the most despicable sect in the world. He subdued the people who subdued the whole world – him with his “11” mustache.

Josh Patashnik elaborates.

Bill O’Reilly asks a guest what a narcissist is.

Yes they still exist – and not only on The View and in the Republican base.

The feds target a medical marijuana dispenser:

His shop scrupulously followed Golden State laws and when he opened his shop in Morro Bay, local officials attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. And that kid he provided medical marijuana to? A high school athlete who had lost a leg to cancer and had a prescription from a Stanford-trained doctor (and in any case, Lynch only dealt with the boy’s parents). Yes, a common drug dealer.

This angers up the blood. Maybe it will prompt a revolt as Nick Gillespie suggests. When are we going to stop taking this crap lying down?

Tenet pushes back.