A brief reply from an unreconstructed white supremacist to his (self-proclaimed) intellectual superior, over at the protein wisdom pub.
August 13, 2007
August 13, 2007
my twentieth brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick
Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me: “Well, given that such classifications are constructs decided upon by social consensus and transitory cultural norms — not the kinds of fixed categorical universals so conveniently prescribed by patriarchal Enlightenment fetishists bent on defining and controlling thought by way of appealing to an ’empiricism’ whose data is troubled by Heisenberg’s principles of observation, and whose position toward its subject is inscribed by prevailing
August 13, 2007
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on Alyssa Milano’s open letter to Dodgers manager Grady Little
Garrett: “I don’t really follow baseball much anymore — though it seems like only yesterday I would spend three nights a week banging Cyndy Garvey in a hot tub while ex-hubby Steve was down San Diego way picking Graig Nettles throws out of the dirt. ” — Which, sorry, but it serves the bastard right for taking a gig with the Padres after all those years pretending to bleed Dodger
August 13, 2007
Beauchamp fallout, continued
From Bob Owens, via email: Another Beauchamp claim that TNR claimed to have fact checked, debunked in two emails. Why should we still care? Because that is now three fictional claims made by Beauchamp in “Dead of Night,” prior to “Shock Troops.” If TNR’s editors had done their jobs then, they probably wouldn’t have published “Shock Troops,” and wouldn’t be worried about their employment situations now. Perhaps. But such a
August 13, 2007
“Hillary’s Finest Hour” [UDPATE: EDWARDS HYPOCRISY?]
From the WSJ: Hillary Clinton has been catching heat for refusing to swear off campaign cash from lobbyists, with critics accusing her of being a stooge of corporate and special interests. We’d say she deserves some credit. At last week’s YearlyKos event, former Senator John Edwards stooped for an easy applause line by challenging his fellow candidates to refuse donations from “Washington lobbyists.” Mrs. Clinton refused to take the sound-bite
August 13, 2007
Rove to resign
From Breitbart: Karl Rove, President Bush’s close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration. A longtime member of Bush’s inner circle, Rove was nicknamed “the architect” by the president for designing the strategy that twice won him the White House. Bush