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October 15, 2013

A reminder from we hostage takers / anarchists / terrorists / racists about why we insist on fighting [updated]

I’m sure I linked this back in August, but I’m going to post it here again, first because it needs repeating, and second because I think the surrender caucus — who is both comprised of, and or advocates on behalf of, the geniuses who have stopped virtually none of this since the TEA Party they so despise propelled them into the House majority — need to be shown yet again

Language, intent, politics, policy: on the “fundamentally unserious” idea that fighting linguistic battles is “fundamentally unserious”

Regular reader and commenter John Bradley sent along this, from Daniel Greenfield, who addresses the “The Battle of the Redskins” in a way that will sound, particularly toward the conclusion of his piece, quite familiar to many longtime readers of this site: […] liberal speech codes emphasize the formalism of offensiveness. It’s not why you say something or what you mean. It’s whether something you say resembles something on the