Category: The Dish

I still haven’t quite recovered from losing Tab. But I’d forgotten all about Surge. Someone with too much time on their hands documents a love affair with defunct sodas. Pepsi Raging Razzberry? Yep, it existed.

Arlington, Virginia, 12.02 am.

Sandy Levinson wonders whether there is anything to be done about the risk of Dick Cheney becoming president.

Should our defective Constitution be amended to allow the removal of a vice president whenever, in the opinion of Congress, (s)he has demonstrated good cause for doubt about the capacity to fill the Oval Office? Many persons have attacked my argument for bounding a President on a "no-confidence" vote because, among other things, it would be destabilizing. I disagree, but reasonable arguments can be found on both sides. Why would any serious person, though, believe that it would be destabilizing to bounce a demented, delusional, quasi-fascistic vice-president whose habitation of the White House and gain of the vast powers of the presidency with regard to foreign policy and military affairs would quite literally threaten us all?

A more salient question is: what would be the real difference in policy between Dick Cheney being vice-president as he now is and his formally occupying the Oval Office? We may have to wait for history to tell us.

African-Americans are far more homophobic than any other racial grouping in society. That goes for the young as well, according to this new survey, where hostility to gay people is almost double that of young whites and hispanics. Karl Rove was onto something.

It can be tough being emotionally correct on campus:

Friends who know me weren’t surprised to learn that my Zionist boyfriend and I broke up last summer shortly after Israel began dropping bombs on Lebanese children. But the friends who really knew me were surprised to learn that I had even dated a Zionist to begin with.

In my defense, I thought he was just Jewish when it all began – a progressive one who was white but had tendencies for black supremacy. Politically, we aligned well, so I figured that he’d automatically agree with my stance on Israel-Palestine…

But my new progressive boyfriend, who was supposed to help me save the world, would stop short at any criticism of the Israeli government’s racist, oppressive policies. And wha’’s worse, he would sometimes defend them by saying things like that the land was up for grabs because the Palestinians never had an official state to begin with.

Man, you really think you know your white Jewish boyfriend with tendencies for black supremacy.

Tendencies for black supremacy? Is that a euphemism for something?

I’d like to know:

"I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."

Mark Krikorian has not withdrawn the report on the Corner; although others have queried it. It’s a very big story if true – because it higlights the deep faultline in the GOP on immigration. Surely NRO should provide more sourcing or retract it forthwith. Or are they not in the business of fact-based commentary?

Phillip Carter and David Galula provide some helpful recommendations for Iraq. Max Boot seconds here.

If fathers attend playgroups with kids, Islamist mothers might refuse to attend. And so the Netherlands witnesses another small surrender to Sharia.

You want a celebrity interview? This is a celebrity interview. (Warning: Whitney Houston, a drunk frog, and NSFW.)

On this one, I want the church to win. If Christians cannot help the homeless, then religious freedom really is in peril.