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Crashing Andrew Sullivan’s Anniversary Party

October 11, 2010 | Comment

As of today, Andrew Sullivan’s blog The Daily Dish is ten years old. His assistants/staffers/co-conspirators/whatever they are have solicited contributions from a host of prominent bloggers, inviting them to “Toast or Roast” their boss. Needless to say, I did not hear from them. No hard feelings, of course — given my lack of attention to SEO and the (in)frequency with which I post, I am sanguine about being (to paraphrase Triumph) a prominent obscure blogger. So here’s my unsolicited Toast or Roast post, for whatever it is worth, a few bucks at most. (Yes, I will stop that.)

One need have only the slightest awareness of the worldwide web’s developmentally hyper-accelerated nature to appreciate how remarkable it is for any web site to have remained in place for a decade. Still more remarkable is for that site to be a blog, one which speaks in the same voice on the same subjects as it did ten years ago. Yet while Sullivan’s voice maintains its distinctive tone and timbre, Read the rest of this entry »


It’s August 26th, Assholes

August 26, 2010 | 3 comments

As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:

xmas-treeIt’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?

Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:

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Be Like Sarah

April 16, 2010 | Permalink

sarah's-choiceGod loves babies, and the women they rode in on. Pure and simple. Too simple, as a matter of fact.

Andrew Sullivan included this image earlier today in a post titled “The Cult of Palin”:

The core and calculated meme behind her appeal to the Christianist base — allegedly carrying a child to term when others might not — is already being propagated.

I’m not sure why he says “already,” since they’ve been trumpeting about this for quite awhile. Nevertheless, the point stands: they’re lionizing Palin for carrying to term a Down’s Syndrome child when she was 44 rather than having an abortion. That was the choice she made.

Which is exactly the point: it was a choice. And look, now they’re even using the c-word in the title of their little straight-to-video propaganda movies. Read the rest of this entry »


Life, Liberty, and the Denial of Benefits

October 16, 2009 | Permalink

Over at Scholars & Rogues, Rick Herschlag has spun out a post so good it gave me one of those moments of “damn, I wish I’d written that!” What’s the word for that — writeolization? Pen envy?

I want to keep the health insurance I have—which is no health insurance. I was dropped when I had a heart attack. My insurance company called it a preexisting condition, and they were right. Heart attacks have been around a very long time. The important thing is that I treasure my insurance company’s free market right to maximize profits at all moral and ethical costs. I would willingly die defending that right. And now, finally, I may get that chance.

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The Blagojevich Pile-on: Missing the Pile

December 10, 2008 | 2 comments

You gotta hand it to Rod Blagojevich. Here we all were thinking Sarah Palin was surely the dumbest state governor in the U.S., when all of a sudden… well, you know.

The Illinois governor’s arrest has been a slow softball down the middle for the news media. No, scratch that – it’s been more like TWO softballs down the middle. The first was the revelation of his corruption itself; the second and more shocking was how much he sucked at being corrupt. The guy just has no gift for graft.

Yet even with this fat pitch lobbed at them, a few conservative commentators have merely fouled it off. Read the rest of this entry »


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