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June 16, 2008

Unity Means Our Unity, You S.O.B.

Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom, foreshadowing Our Savior’s presidency:

It looks like an Obama presidency will give us a frank discussion on the issue of race. If by “frank” we mean, “shut up and quit you’re bitching, whitey. We’ll tell you what racism is.”

Seizing the means of linguistic production. Boutique Marxism enters the mainstream — and once it is accepted, it will most certainly undermine classical liberalism and the idea of free speech.

Or to quote Obama's friend Billy Ayer's former Weather Underground cohort Mark Rudd: "Up against the wall, motherfucker!" I won't delve into the physiological excitement that's bound to be running through all those sensitive emotional lefty psyches. It's way too gross.

By the way, Goldstein is right on about the effects of boutique Marxism--though the term "boutique" belies the lethal danger hidden in the concept. It's been obvious for a while now that Gramsci has been the one to bet on, not Marx himself.

June 01, 2008

The Perfect Rhetorical Question

Peter Robinson gives a perfect example of a rhetorical question when he asks:

Can anybody tell me why, when we possess technology so dazzling that pretty good face recognition is available in cameras that cost less than a hundred and fifty bucks—why does the Transportation Security Authority still insist on herding all air travellers, including such obviously unlikely terrorists as toddlers and little old ladies, through security checks that are slow, cumbersome, and, manifestly, stupid? Why doesn't the federal government get smart? We're in the eighth year of a Republican administration, for goodness's sake. And—really, the most disturbing question—why do we all put up with it?

Okay, maybe not one rhetorical question, but several. I could ask an even dozen more off the top of my head.