From Dr. Helen.
I’ve never been one, but not because I didn’t want to be (at least when I wasn’t in a relationship). I am, after all, a guy. But other (attractive) women have always governed my urge for promiscuity. It might be because I was never the “bad boy.”
D. J. Drummond explains.
Obviously they have to be, since they’re all over the map. At most, only one of them can be right. Of course, knowing they’re wrong doesn’t tell us what’s right.
[Mid-morning update]
Michael Barone has further thoughts.
…but bad news for those determined to use it as an excuse to impoverish ourselves.
Oh. Sorry. I meant “climate change.”
…that isn’t a code word for “black”? Yes, that’s right, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was just chock full of black folks.
This is a piece by a stupid, stupid man.
Kathy Shaidle has put one together.
The Obama campaign (and its press enablers–I was particularly disappointed to hear Kristen Powers do this Saturday night) treats us like morons by continually repeating the “I was eight years old” mantra. Well Victor Davis Hanson has a question:
…why would anyone in a post-9/11 climate continue to communicate with such a loathsome character for four years, when it was common knowledge that Ayers had approved (no, was proud) of his past terrorist tactics of bombing buildings?
Someone should ask him at a press conference. They should also ask him if he’s going to pardon Tony Rezko.
Oh, wait. He doesn’t do press conferences any more. That’s Sarah Palin’s thing.
Jonah Goldberg has a roundup of links criticizing Jacob Weisberg’s brainless piece about the death of libertarianism.
Stanley Kurtz has been looking more deeply into Barack Obama’s politics and political alliances:
While a small group of bloggers have productively explored Obama’s New Party ties, discussion has often turned on the New Party’s alleged socialism. Was the New Party actually established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Was the New Party’s platform effectively socialist in content? Although these debates are both interesting and important, we needn’t resolve them to conclude that the New Party was far to the left of the American mainstream. Whether formally socialist or not, the New Party and its ACORN backers favored policies of economic redistribution. As Obama would say, they wanted to spread the wealth around. Bracketing the socialism question and simply taking the New Party on its own terms is sufficient to raise serious questions about Obama’s political commitments — questions that cry out for attention from a responsible press.
Yes. Well, as (Democrat) Orson Scott Card points out, we haven’t had a responsible press in quite a while.
…in Saint Barack.
People, wake up.
I’m getting a little tired of things like this.
Let me state, to attempt to prevent any future comments in this vein, that (apparently) unlike many people, there is no one whose opinion I have sufficient respect for who could convince me that Barack Obama would be a better president than John McCain (not to imply, of course, that I think that John McCain will be a great president). Only those who have no time to evaluate the candidates and the issues rely on endorsements, from anyone, and to do so is a short cut and an intrinsic logical fallacy.
I have abundant information on both candidates at this point, and while (in theory) I could be persuaded to change my mind, this seems unlikely. What I will not be persuaded by is an endorsement by anyone, absent new facts. All that I will be convinced of is that the endorser is either an idiot, ignorant, or on the take (e.g., Colin Powell). I would like to think that this is the case with (at least the intelligent) readers of this blog as well. And (I would like to think that this would go without saying, but apparently it doesn’t, because it keeps happening) I will have a similar opinion of the commenter who informs me of the endorser.
I hope I have made myself clear about this, because I have no more to say on the subject.