1) Teenagers stoked that soon they’ll be able to avoid nosy adults and get their invisible freak on. 2) Marx and Hungary: Controlling the means of duckwalking? 3) Georgia on their mind. 4) The Fisher Queen. 5) The Fisher Queen 2: The Heteronormative Strikes Back 6) Iraq? Please. Like anybody really cares about that place anymore…
August 11, 2008
August 11, 2008
Provocateurism, 6
Longtime readers of this site have frequently encountered arguments in which I fasten identity politics to a form of soft, progressivist totalitarianism “PC” speech (which, we are often told with a wave of the hand and a gourmands’ sniff, is, like, so ’90s — and thus, supposedly antiquated as a legitimate point of ideological friction, current fashion circumscribing the only authentic topics for political complaint, with that fashion decided upon,
Shannon Elizabeth comments on John Edwards’ affair and its potential fallout for the Democratic convention and Dem delegates
Elizabeth: “I met John-John when he was still as Senator, but to be honest, I was so high on X that all I recall from the evening was his inviting me over to ‘the other America,’ where, if memory serves, he was going to dress me up like a naughty asian housekeeper and spank me ‘deliciously’ with a vacuum cleaner cord. Which, that’s okay in the other America, even if