Rhetorically, it’s called synecdoche, where a part stands in for a whole.  This is a special case in which a hole stands in for a whole. Amongst the responses to Amanda’s “cunt”=asshole post, which is causing consternation between sexual partners everywhere, is an invocation of Inga Muscio, a feminist scribe who opines that the term “cunt” was originally one of approbation and respect before the patriarchy turned it inside-out, as

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From the ever-ridiculous Amanda: Ignore the sexist origins of the word. “Cunts”=assholes. Break something. Set something on fire. Tonight you can find a way to resist. That asshole with a Bush bumper sticker? It can be removed. What is she saying?  Tear the bumpersticker off of someone’s cunt? Morons. RELATED: Read it and weep, boys.  Jackie Mackey Paisley Passey is engaged to be married.  She finally found someone whose quality

Papa Ratzi vs. Paparazzi Papa Ratzi Paparazzi “Knowledge is Power” More continuing education to be had at David Thompson’s.

The Politico reports that some Senators are trying to bring back the immigration bill that stalled in the Senate this week.  While I had not planned to post anything on the immigration debate, the New York Times editorial thereon raises some broader issues that make it worth a fisk. In “A Failure of Leadership,” the Editorial Board charges the foes of the immigration bill with “thwarting bipartisanship”: Republican amendments, designed

Counterclockwise from left: Kukla, Fran, Ollie and George Soros (Photoshop by Serr8d–huge thanks)

Michelle Malkin’s new Vent takes the WSJ editorial board to task over its claim that “the National Review crowd” is engaging in “irrational fear mongering” in its resistance to the Bush Immigration Reform bill—providing the self-satisfied board yet again (for better or worse) the actual arguments against the proposed legislation compromise, arguments the WSJ editorial board pretends do not exist or have never been expressed coherently or sans froth. Instead,

Yet another reason to look quizzically at professional gladhand Trent Lott. Although for me, his hair—which appears to have burbled like pitch up through his follicles before hardening just slightly askew—was already plenty. (h/t CJ Burch) **** update:  from the archives, here’s my 2004 interview with Senator Kennedy.

From Reason’s “Brickbats”: When London police refused even to send an officer to investigate a burglary at his home, Otto Chan put up posters offering a reward for anyone who returned his things.  When police officers saw the posters, they threatened to arrest Chan for trying to buy stolen goods. Of course, it might have been worse:  in China, for instance, rumor has it they’ll execute you and then bill