Not here. I said over there. Jesus. It’s like some people just don’t understand English.
March 24, 2009
A Tuesday evening musing that, taken out of context, could conceivably be viewed as a death threat. Or at least a threat of violence. Or perhaps something that, should it be allowed to continue on until it potentially becomes an actual threat of violence would then be, you know, a threat of violence of the actual kind. Or possibly even a death threat.
Never mind. I just wanted to write that headline. Making this whole “post” something of an empty gesture. — Which, if you don’t like the way I run things here, you know where I am. Why not just drop on by and file a complaint? Anytime, anywhere, bitches.
“Lefty Foes Attempt to Bankrupt Palin Family”
It’s a brave new world, people — one where threats are asserted more by partisans and their lawyers than jackbooted thugs breaking down the doors of Cuban refugees. Which, it turns out, wasn’t particularly media friendly, from a standpoint of visual impact, to those who deployed that method. Think of this improved tactic as fascism with a smiley face. (h/t CJ Burch)
“Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney “
From the Hill: Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP efforts to reinvent itself after back-to-back electoral drubbings. The veep, who showed a penchant for secrecy during eight years in the White House,has popped up in media interviews
Intellectual elitism and the case of the missing author
Over at Edge of the West, where SEK’s critically flawed post on my engagement with Patterico has been subsequently removed, there remains a number of comments that I find troubling for a number of reasons. First, there is an peculiar, but obvious, attempt there to try to dismiss my intentionalist argument without addressing it at all; second, there is the desire to strengthen this dismissal by diminishing me, either by
