Reader Adam Szczepanski points me to this piece on same sex marriage by Crispin Sartwell, which takes issue with precisely the kind of semantic legal argument I offered Friday.  Writes Sartwell: Of all the issues likely to confront a new justice of the Supreme Court, gay marriage is the easiest to resolve. The “legal” arguments against gay marriage are entirely fraudulent: fallacious and dishonest on their face. That anyone takes

“A lot of what we are doing now is just advising, helping them get the training that they need, among other things,” said International Police Liaison Officer (IPLO) Tom Gorman, a civilian police officer and advisor from Stark, FL. “I think being embedded in the police station like we are here, you’re able to build relationships, able to make a difference and show them what we do back home. These

One of the things that I most vividly remember about being in grade school was that we were all expected to bring Valentine’s cards for everyone else in the class.  So, you’d want to try and save anything not too terribly ghey for the boys in your class (such as puppies or baseball players).  The closer you could get to a message that said, “I don’t think you’re repulsive,” the

”…The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they ‘rested’ on a rock Conveniently low. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…”*

I’ve talked at length on this site about the maneuver, within the structural workings of identity politics, for one subgroup within the larger identity group to push a particular master-narrative which, if and when it becomes the group’s official narrative, is then used to excommunicate heretics.  Generally, this maneuver is easy to pass off to true believers, because it becomes rather simple to frame those ostracized by the guardians of

Claims Dark Lord fears her. Campaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton claimed that she—and her husband, the former president—are the Democrats that Rove and other leading Republican handicappers fear most. “I know what Gingrich tells people privately, I know what DeLay tells people privately, I know what Karl Rove tells people privately,” she said. “I’m the one person they are most afraid of. Bill and I have beaten them before, and

Women have grown their own breast implants through pioneering stem cell treatment, it emerged yesterday. Scientists harvested the stem cells from the women’s own fat and encouraged them to form breast tissue. They say the result gives a more natural look than many of the synthetic implants used by showbusiness stars like Pamela Anderson. God, I love science.  But really, how much encouragement did those little buggers need to form

The other day Tim Blair had a post on Oz’s own lefty nutcase Michael Leunig, and he included some choice quotes from the Great Man, one of which I thought I’d share with you guys.  I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to plagiarize yourself, unless you’re John Fogerty, so I’ll be cribbing from my comment there on this, but here, in all its glory, is the Wisdom of the Left: Faced

Premieres today, 2-12, at Noon. Ask her about bad hair, how uncomfortable cheerleaders make male sports fans, and about the flight of middle-class Venezuelans from Hugo’s Paraiso.