The essay starts with colloquy between two great conservative intellects, Roger L. Simon and Bryan Preston. Simon basically says that liberals use gay marriage "fairly or not, to paint the right as bigots" to the young people, and maybe conservatives should keep their rage over it on the QT and strictly hush-hush. Preston basically says aargh blargh, fags make Christians take pitchers of their so-called weddings, young people are stupid but will learn to hate gays with age, Sharpton has a "hot young thang," under Gay Hitler "the state will feel free to crush what’s left of Christian faith in America under its boot. Go ahead and scoff. It’s coming," etc. (He also calls himself a "libertarian-leaning social conservative," which hilariously conforms with what we know about libertarians.)
Klavan tries to split the difference:
I don’t think Catholic adoption agencies should have to cater to gay couples, and I certainly don’t think a religious photographer should be forced to photograph a gay wedding.On the other hand:
Either sex is an expression of love that involves the whole person (not just his body parts) or it is a purely mechanical operation. If it is purely mechanical, then you’ll have to explain to me why one robotic sexual action is any more sinful than another. Penises don’t sin, after all; people do.Believe it or not, the penis line is not my line of the week. It's this one, about how conservatives should talk nice about gays so they can get votes:
So often, the left wins debates by a flagrant and self-serving display of compassion.There's something beautiful about this, and applicable to many occasions. Liberals don't want the unemployed to starve? Well, what do you expect -- they're always flaunting their compassion like a bunch of show-offs. Real Americans find it difficult to show empathy; not to say they don't have it, but they have to save it up for the next time someone makes fun of Sarah Palin.
UPDATE. Comments (a joy as always) contain more than a few references to the Piranha Brothers. "He used compassion," scripts Spaghetti Lee. "He knew all the tricks. Empathy, sympathy, love, brotherhood, caring..." Susan of Texas wonders how far up the chain this compassion racket goes: "let's look at Jesus, the flaming compassionista. Throwing his selfish unselfishness in people's faces..." I look forward to the day when conservatives bitch about The Religious Left like it was the Moral Majority, and start referring to Unitarians as "Yoonies."
I've got my own favorite line:
ReplyDeletePlease don’t leave comments comparing this to denying service to black people. Race is a nothing, an invented nonsense. Gay people commit acts that long tradition condemns.
"Acts that long tradition condemns?" Geez Klavan, that faux-Victorian style I used in that post last night was intended as parody.
...a flagrant and self-serving display of compassion.
ReplyDeleteFlagrant compassion is now a two-shot foul, plus possession. That is, you get shot twice and your kids are taken away to be raised by
I'm enjoying Klavan's brief nihilistic streak there. We are but meat machines, messily slapping our components together! Italian Futurism lives!
ReplyDeleteThe other day Orly Taitz complained that Obama supporters are trying to cause "discourse" among the Birthers:
ReplyDelete"These people are trying to cause rift, a discourse between members of the dissident movement against Barack Obama, they are trying to get judges mad, they also are trying to present dissidents as racists."
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He goes on to tell us that " compassion itself is not wrong. In the political sphere, it’s
ReplyDeleterequired. Wherever we stand, we might put some effort into showing a
little bit of that compassion when we make our case." So with Dems to show compassion is flagrant and self-serving but if conservatives fake it (and purely for political purposes of course) it's not only acceptable but necessary? Color me confoozled. But it doesn't matter because the conservative animal doesn't possess the acting skills needed to put that one over on the voters.
"He used compassion. He knew all the tricks. Empathy, sympathy, love, brotherhood, caring. It was brutal."
ReplyDeleteEither sex is some animalistic urge of pleasure that involves people with appropriate holes (not just the birthy bits) or it is a purely battery-powered operation. If it is purely battery-powered, then you’ll have to explain to me how exactly to insert the batteries. Vaginas don’t weep, after all; people do.
ReplyDeleteAn nth-dimensional word salad like this deserves a Klein bottle of dressing.
ReplyDeleteRace is a nothing, an invented nonsense.
ReplyDeleteReeeeeally? Maybe tell some of your fellow rightbloggers. They don't appear to have gotten the message.
All I know is, if they take away our ability to despise people who love people who are the same gender, then Christ walked this earth for nothing.
ReplyDeletePresumably Klavan's next column will be a full-throated denunciation of Charles Murray.
ReplyDeleteYes, let's look at Jesus, the flaming compassionista. Throwing his selfish unselfishness in people's faces. Blatantly and ostentatiously feeding his followers. Recklessly healing the sick, thereby robbing them of the chance to suffer for God and save their souls.
ReplyDeleteWhat an asshole.
Now read that line in Stephen Colbert's voice.
ReplyDeleteTHE LORD shoved compassion down our throats! What about our LIBERTY??
ReplyDeleteOh God no! Not discourse! All our plans ruined by a mere dentist-lawyer.
ReplyDelete"Flagrant, self-serving, compassion." I just wanted to see it in print again.
ReplyDeleteRemember that their specific charge against Sotomayor was that she might be empathetic http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124338457658756731 and empathy was essentially considered anti-intellect and anti-law.
ReplyDeleteChiurgeon.
ReplyDeletePhallacy of the excluded middle bits.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the joke underlying the joke "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...MO-Om!"
ReplyDeleteSo often, the left wins debates by a flagrant and self-serving display of compassion.
ReplyDelete"i was cured, alright."
Shorter all of these fucks: An increasing majority of Americans thinks we're bigoted assholes. Let's discuss ways we can solve this political problem without ever considering simply not being bigoted assholes. (Read the comments to any of these three columns and you'll probably think "bigoted assholes" is too mild. Andrew McCarthy weighs in on this at PJMedia, too. But it's long-winded, incoherent, and you'd get more intellectual stimulation watching The Chew.)
ReplyDeletea flagrant and self-serving display of compassion.
ReplyDeleteOxy with an extra helping of moron.
I would love to see Star Trek: Next Generation as envisioned by these idiots. Just like the actual show, it would depict a perfect future of humanity working in cooperation… because Dr Crusher carries a salt-shaker-with-lightbulb that can instantly de-gay anyone, everyone accepts that whoever has the most money gets to be captain, people relax in Ten Forward because there's a whole exploitable population of Datas to do the unpleasant work, and Worf is so culturally assimilated that he wouldn't dream of disrespectfully wearing his Klingon sash on the bridge. The five-year mission is to secure mining rights, convert heathens to Christ, pay lip service to small business owners, and sow fear and stupidity across the galaxy. The ship will be shaped like a vast fetus.
ReplyDeleteHow'd you get access to Reince Priebus' emails?
ReplyDeleteThis explains Jonah Goldberg's facial hair. In his mind he lives in a mirror world in which he is the exact opposite of reality.
ReplyDeleteI guessed his password on the first try. ("2kAnagrams"!)
ReplyDeleteIf you’ve got it, flaunt it! I always say.
ReplyDelete"Penises don’t sin, after all; people do."
ReplyDeleteThey'll take my penis when they pry it from my cold dead hands!
To the dismay of some on the left.
ReplyDeleteI don’t get these sorts of arguments. If we’re just faking our compassion, then, what, exactly is our aim?
ReplyDeleteWhy does Marxist Jesus want to make Baby Jesus cry?
ReplyDeleteIf you don’t believe Spaghetti, check out one of my latest entries, which got trolled by a bunch of Sailerites. Last I checked it was 800+ comments strong.
ReplyDelete"Quick! Make up some feelings and tell her you have them."
ReplyDelete--Fry advising Dr. Zoidberg on love
Was that the long tradition from ancient Greece? I don't think "condemn" was the verb those guys were using.
ReplyDeleteIn his prime world, normal people love his books, Fascist Liberalism and The Cliches of Tyranny.
ReplyDeleteHe just tickled its balls.
ReplyDeleteOh, so THAT’S what Rush was taking. Explains so much.
ReplyDeleteFor the full Molly, Susan, always remember, it's "Sheesh, what an asshole." And I couldn't agree more.
ReplyDeleteLet's discuss ways we can solve this political problem without ever considering simply not being bigoted assholes.
ReplyDelete"Sure, we may be bigoted assholes, but you won't catch US making flagrant and self-serving displays of compassion." *haughty sniff*
And Medusa, I mean his mom, would have read him The Borrowers at night instead of The Looters And Moochers.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten! That's right: she might consider how her rulings would affect real people in the actual world, and that would be irresponsible.
ReplyDeleteGod, I miss her work.
ReplyDeleteI did not model my work on hers (she is not to blame, that is) but I loved it.
I had a visit from Mark Steyn's flying monkeys once. It was fun. They seemed to think I would burst into tears and hide my face behind my apron.
ReplyDeleteI notice that internet trolls--especially if they’re conservative--tend to make that assumption about women.
ReplyDeleteWe are pretending to be moral and good so we can grind our morality and goodness in conservatives' faces because we love acting superior. Also we do it to win arguments since facts are not on our side and we can't reason.
ReplyDeleteI trolled a National Review post yesterday. It was very instructive.
Soooooo, we secretly agree with them but are hurting ourselves just so we can argue and feel superior? That makes zero sense. (Probably your point, but wow.)
ReplyDeleteI batted them between my paws for a little and then took a nap in the sunshine.
ReplyDeleteI think they think that we think we are really good but we're not because we're really hurting people not helping them.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the many reasons why I just took 3 months off blogging. My heard hurt.
Mark Steyn, though? Ouch. I bet their smugness was matched only by their inability to discern real humor.
ReplyDeleteThey were also kind of stupid.
ReplyDeleteAdvanced commiseration techniques.
ReplyDeleteNot everyone has a soul, so using yours to gain an advantage over someone who hasn't got one just isn't sporting.
ReplyDeleteSoul redistributionist! You want to take the humanity out of one person and give it to others who have none. You are fostering a culture of moral dependency.
ReplyDeleteAlthough that kind of contradicts the belief that we all need religion in our lives to be moral. If you give moral laws to a person, aren't you preventing them from pulling up their own moral bootstraps?
In bed.
ReplyDelete...am I doing this right?
He'd send the sketch back to the writers for being too over the top.
ReplyDeleteOkay, this is a cheap shot, but one of the commenters said this:
ReplyDeleteAbout once a month I can go to a gay blog and they are talking about teens, who take a pledge to stay virgins and then turn around and have anal sex.
I want to savagely persecute this comment by not stoning someone who deserves it.
ReplyDeleteeveryone accepts that whoever has the most money gets to be captain
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the show took concepts like this... and stuck them onto the new bad guys, the Ferengi. (They kind of ruined it by making them into snarly little clowns, but as with many things Trek, DS9 fixed it.)
Not to get all rubber-glue-I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I, but it seems that there's something kind of psychopathish about assuming that everyone else is just pretending to give a shit. Also kind of libertarianish, but I repeat myself.
ReplyDeleteLike DonadleDouglas I think the vast majority of these right wing loons were basically shown pictures of things evoking empathy, love, generosity, charity and then given electric shock until they squealed like pigs. Kind of a clockwork orange for the right. Because their response to the suffering of another human being is not empathy but fear and revulsion. And if they are made to feel empathy, love, generosity to someone not in the favored tribe? Fear and anger.
ReplyDeleteC.f. Rush Limbaugh's attacks on Michael J. Fox which were two pronged: the guy's a fake and he's appealing to your sympathy so be doubly outraged. Limbaugh's whole job was to innoculate his listeners against their own humane impulse to help another person (in the Fox case a lot of other people because Fox was testifying about a major medical issue that had been politicized.)
Which one of you stinkers POEed this?:
ReplyDelete""... I feel strongly that any move toward gay marriage needs to be accompanied by well-stated protections for religious conscience..." Well, there's the rub. The angry, bitter lavender mafia has no intention of abiding by "live and let live". It should be apparent to anyone paying attention that they are a malevolent force, out to foist their twisted morality on everyone else. The BSA is a perfect example. They can't just start their own version of the Boy Scouts that allows gays. No, they feel they have some right to shove their perverted agenda down that organization's throats. And do you think they'll stop there? I guarantee you every single traditional Judeo-Christian organization is squarely in their sights. For that reason alone, I am not willing to grant them even an inch, because they've demonstrated that the next step is to take a mile."
My Christianist sister in law absolutely believes this to be true. Years ago, before MA had equal marriage, we were arguing about this and I said "no one is coming to your fucking church and demanding your asshole minister marry them." (Well, with a little less swearing but no less emphasis) and she said "But they are." And thats true: the congregation had a couple of out lesbians and their kids attending and no one had any problem with that so long as these women accepted a kind of permanent probationary second class citizenship. But my SIL was truly scared of the notion that those two women might go away, get a civil marriage, and then come back to the church and start murmering politely "why is it that we can't have an official religious marriage as well?" These people can't stand to have to own up to their own pointless bigotry. She was petrified of being forced to take sides in what would be a divisive split within her own church and instead of admitting that what this meant was that she didn't have any good arguments on her side she preferred to just keep the entire discussion off the table. She's scared to talk to me about this and we don't see them that often so I don't know what happened with her church and her ex football player minister in the 9 years since we've had gay marriage in our city halls and gay sex in the streets.
ReplyDeleteAhem, that was probably Klavern before it was changed at Ellis Island.
ReplyDeleteWell, see also Mr "I fucked up and bankrupted the NRO because of my intransigent postings on Global Warming." http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/03/3228411/national-review-defamation/So: stupidity kind of their thing.
ReplyDeleteNo...on the internet!!!!111
ReplyDeleteBecause that would be a direct appeal to the Hoi Polloi.
ReplyDeleteAll joking aside this explains a vague, niggling, feeling of anxiety and nostalgia I've had every time I see Jonah's face fur.
ReplyDeleteSusan, you need to go back to mental bed rest--nothing but kittens and knitting for you for the foreseeable future. This is too dangerous, woman!
ReplyDeleteWell, it goes naturally with imagining that everyone else is just pretending to exist at all, in a universe of one when you know that single really existing person is yourself.
ReplyDeleteI don't even care much if he bankrupts NRO. I'd be satisfied if he had to go back to Canada...and stay there.
ReplyDeleteApologies to any and all Canadian citizens, but we have enough assholes of our own down here.
Simon basically says that liberals use gay marriage "fairly or not, to paint the right as bigots" to the young people, and maybe conservatives should keep their rage over it on the QT
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean DL?
I'm not willing to give them an even an inch, because they've demonstrated that the next step is to take all nine inches.
ReplyDeleteDINSDALE
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not the only one who got a little hot while reading that?
ReplyDeleteMe too. There was just no one like her.
ReplyDeleteThat's why the poor/disabled/unemployed, etc. are always responsible for their plight. If it's their own fault then there is no necessity to feel sympathy or empathy or even provide some help.
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, but then they would have to turn around for that.
ReplyDeleteI also want to point out that no one forced "Catholic Adoption Agencies" to serve gay parents, or non Catholic parents for that matter. Just because it was called Catholic Charities did not mean that the money involved, or the community served, were Catholic. Just like the Holy Roman Empire etc..etc..etc... fill in the jokes yourself. Catholic Charities contracted with the Secular Commonwealth of Massachusetts (god save her!) and took gay gay gay and non christian taxpayer money to serve as an arm of the State in matters pertaining to social work,child welfare, foster care and adoption. Obviously if the Catholic Church had a problem with serving children and families who were not willing to subject themselves to Catholic Dogma it needed to get the fuck out of the paid government social work job and leave it to someone else, maybe the jews and atheists, who were willing to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
ReplyDelete"The BSA is a perfect example. They can't just start ...."
ReplyDeleteI had one that was awful like that.
Did I ever tell you what happened when I asked my Dad to buy me a Jaguar XKE?
ReplyDeleteZounds, I was not aware of the Limbaugh attack on Michael J Fox. I just read up -- that is batshit insane.
ReplyDeleteThis part: "So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act." Really, Rush? "If"? You slander a guy with a debilitating disease, and even then go with a non-apology apology? And then you re-attack him along different lines! "He's allowing his illness to be exploited" -- Uh… or he's choosing, as a free adult, to draw attention to the real-life impact of the upcoming election on people with this disease. How is that so hard to understand and not resent?? Jesus.
Is it that seeing a guy who is evidently decent but has met with hand-of-god-style misfortune just doesn't fit the rightwing template -- so the guy must be faking it, cuz no way the template's wrong!?
These people really don't have opinions. They are are all appetite, panic, and violence.
Well, don't forget, all this false compassion makes those very gullible people who are its object (poor, gay, etc) vote Democrat, too! So at best, it's political self-interest. The wing-nuts never do that. In fact their principles are so high they promise to ruin the people whose votes they want. Now, that's honesty!
ReplyDeleteA true Poe would include something about "bending over" backwards" and "taking it lying down".
ReplyDeleteI would indulge in a circle-jerk with that comment!
ReplyDeleteGive Harald Hardrada six feet of English soil and he'll take another six inches.
ReplyDelete"Either sex is an expression of love that involves the whole person (not
ReplyDeletejust his body parts) or it is a purely mechanical operation. If it is
purely mechanical, then you’ll have to explain to me why one robotic
sexual action is any more sinful than another."
Umm, Mr Klavan? There's a Professor Glenn Singularity Reynolds for you on line 2. He says he'd like to meet you for coffee later, after you're done blogging.
"Vaginas don’t weep,"
ReplyDeleteThey roar, in numbers too big to ignore. And they know too much to go back and pretend!
The Right is the Projectionist wing of American politics. Mostly what they project is their lack of Humanity, and their "only natural" assumption that nobody else has any either.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the monologues.
ReplyDeletekittens and knitting
ReplyDeleteNot a good combination.
"These sweaters seem so soft at first, but they're actually a little scratchy..."
ReplyDeleteThere are only 5 days left until McArdle's book comes out. My country needs me.
ReplyDeleteI'd give it a reacharound...
ReplyDeleteDiscourse is a course in which people dis one another.
ReplyDeleteIn a purely mechanical operation, I assume.
ReplyDeletePenises don’t sin, after all...
ReplyDeleteIs that why they call masturbation "polishing the Pope."
Penises don’t sin, after all...
ReplyDeleteWinnebago tradition says otherwise.
His (shouted) "I do NOT have compassion for the poor!" (normally pronounced "the pewer"), and John Kenneth Galbraith's quote about the Republicans' "search for a superior moral justification for selfishness" tell you pretty much all you need to know about the wretches.
ReplyDeleteWho would have thought that lying and libeling could backfire?
ReplyDeleteJesus singlehandedly destroyed the moral character of an entire country. The Right must secretly believe the Romans did the right thing...
ReplyDeletetrolled by a bunch of Sailerites
ReplyDeleteCome now. They were hard-headed unsentimental rationalists, impatient with the romantic wistful thinking which prevails among biologists and psychologists liberals.
Two Hands? What a guy!
ReplyDeleteIt was me own Ludwig Van....
ReplyDeleteIn a just world, it would be titled Are You There, Failure? It's Me, Megan, per the brilliant Gavin of Sadly, No!
ReplyDeleteIf it is purely mechanical, then you’ll have to explain to me why one robotic sexual action is any more sinful than another. Penises don’t sin, after all; people do.
ReplyDeleteI'll field this one [pushes up glasses on nose]. Andrew, it's OK to call you Andrew, right? Sit down. Please. It's OK [picks up note pad]. Now, this "mechanical...robotic, sexual action" you talk about, is there something you find alienating about human sexuality? You do mention an expression of love that involves "his" "whole person", but you speak about sin in the context of robotic sex [takes a long sip of water]. Let's talk about this in a different way, you understand "consent", right? You understand that in WITHOUT IT, "robotic sexual action" is actually violent, and in this context, "sinful". Whether it's the rape of another human being, or mechanically fucking a dog, these actions are wrong because they don't take place with "consent". You know this right? [puts down note pad and flagrantly serves up a little compassion] Why does sex feel so alienating to you, Andrew?
Let me try and help here. One can clearly have joyless, perfunctory sex with a willing, equally removed partner, so long as you both agree to it. Sin has nothing to do with it, but consent does [blows bubbles from a bubble pipe], but sex also doesn't have to be a pure expression of love. It can be something in between. It can be just about anything -- a release, a moment of pleasure, and yes, a moment of love too. But it's not either love or robots [doodles absent-mindedly for a minute before looking up].
Dude, you need a shrink. [Takes off fake mustache and leaves]
They're just afraid that gays in the scouts will mean a new merit badge in cocksucking. I can picture what that badge would look like, and it would be hilarious.
ReplyDeleteIs it so much to ask vaginas to engage in dialogue?
ReplyDeleteThis is so very right that its scary.
ReplyDeleteHell, they don't even have to meet. They can skype. Or simply upload.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they could ask one of those cab drivers they're always getting quotes from whether race is a nothing.
ReplyDelete"...and then he nailed my conscience to the floor."
ReplyDeleteINT: He nailed your conscience to the floor?
"At first, yeah."
To the dismay of some guy on my left.
ReplyDelete"I don’t think Catholic adoption agencies should have to cater to gay couples"
ReplyDeleteFinally, a point that we can agree on! Of course, "they shouldn't have to cater to anybody because a criminal conspiracy to molest children shouldn't be allowed within ten miles of adoption" is a BIT different than what the author was thinking...
Don't cry for me, Vagintina!
ReplyDeleteThat's not fair. Thanks to cloning technology, there are other entities in the world besides me.
ReplyDeleteI sure wouldn't--not on the evidence from the world around me.
ReplyDeleteThis is news to me that religious photographers are forced to work gay weddings. How do the gays do that? Stuff too much money down the poor photogs throats? I guess all the money that automatically rolls in to married couples gives them that kind of leeway. Unfortunately for poor chuckling, being a straight clown, I used the $100 bills that God gave me for getting married to chase the dragon. Speaking of which, no Hoffaman obit?
ReplyDeleteWell to be fair, the penis is off the hook, shall we say... but the HAND, on the other...umm... hand...
ReplyDeleteBut none that count.
ReplyDelete... robotic sexual action ...
ReplyDeleteI'll just leave this here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZH_gfrnLMg
"In a purely mechanical operation, I assume."
ReplyDeleteTo the dismay of some on the left. They are, admittedly, hard to please.
hard to please
ReplyDeleteBut you repeat yourself.
robotic sexual action
ReplyDeleteNow that's just trolling BBBB.
"Either sex is an expression of love that involves the whole person (not just his body parts) or it is a purely mechanical operation."
ReplyDeleteI like how these are the only two choices. There's nothing else it can ever be. I also love that, for the sake of public policy, we must determine exactly what the one thing is that sex will be to all people always. Then I guess we write that down, laminate it, and carry it everywhere we go? Sure. It's the only way to really live.
Give 10 commandments to a man, and you keep him moral for a year or two...
ReplyDeleteThe problem is trying to find a Republican policy that shows compassion - the best I can do in the past few years is when they broke the Hastert rule and ended the shutdown.
ReplyDeleteIt is for the kitten.
ReplyDelete... but teach him to follow his penis ...
ReplyDeleteGive a man a set of commandments and you've made him miserable for a lifetime; give him the Noble Eightfold Path and you've made him miserable for an eternal cycle of rebirths.
ReplyDeleteYou've had gay sex in the streets for 9 years in Massachusetts? It's changed a lot since the '80s...
ReplyDeleteIt didn't so much frighten the horses as confuse them.
ReplyDeleteThe wingers are just afraid that people will confuse it with the merit badge for ass-kissing, which is the only one they ever earned.
ReplyDeleteTaking the state's money but not playing by the state's rules was one of the main arguments for Tom Jefferson's ol' wall of separation. Who'd a thunk them founders knew what they were talking about?
ReplyDeleteI would like very much to earn that badge with my admiration for this comment.
ReplyDeleteHey! That there messily slapping meat machine belongs in the previous thread's gay steel mill.
ReplyDeletePenises don’t sin, after all; people vaginas do. Central tenet of conservative thought.
ReplyDeleteNo one who watches Fox news regularly.
ReplyDeletethe penis is off the hook
ReplyDeleteMemo to self: Do not go fishing with satch.
"But you repeat yourself."
ReplyDeleteOh boy, do I!
"Is it so much to ask vaginas to engage in dialogue?"
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! They can't let it degenerate into some sort of cat-fight.
Plus, I contain Legionnaires, or something like that.
ReplyDeleteWell, its true that the new gay marriage laws aren't perfect. My husband is not at all satisfied with his new husband and I don't think they chose the wife they issued me with the care I thought a government issued spouse should have. But you take the rough with the smooth, in this world. All in all the transition to permanent total gay marriage has been pretty straightforward.
ReplyDelete"Race is a nothing, an invented nonsense. Gay people commit acts that long tradition condemns. It’s a much different proposition."
ReplyDeleteWhere to start? Longer Klavan: --not that, as a libertarian, I would deny a person's right to refuse service to a black, yellow, brown, or red person in his or her place of business, but never mind. Race is an invented nonsense NOW, although it wasn't when William F. Buckley was among us.
Being Jewish is something that long tradition condemns, too. So is eating pork. So is robbing another man of his slaves. As Socrates himself said, "When a libertarian starts citing 'long tradition,' check your wallet and count the silverware."
Bravo.
ReplyDeleteBut DAMN is it great to have you back.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe consenting adults can get their freak on and be satisfied without always needing anything deeper, and what's wrong with that? But they can also still be able to fall in love with someone else. It ain't a fucking either/or proposition. I'll never get the conservative religious mindset.
ReplyDeleteWell, Zardoz has a thing to say about that...
ReplyDeleteThere's this.
ReplyDeleteWell it kinda works but I meant it to be not so huge. More of a comment picture than an actual ROAR.
ReplyDeleteHey! I just got off work. Give me a minute, OK?
ReplyDeleteMy Triumph wasn't much better.
ReplyDeleteUmm, if one looked at her legal filings alone, I doubt that anyone would come to the conclusion that she was a mental titan. True, one doesn't have to be an idiot to attract supporters and followers that are idiots, but it helps immensely (otherwise known as the Joe The Plumber Syndrome).
ReplyDeleteAh, but one only need glance in the direction of those present objects of their compassion: rich people. They are nothing if not loyal to those in their perceived tribe. They've just been reticent until recent years to openly show their affection, but after Clinton, they have learned how to feel the pain of the downtrodden wealthy. They are better now at showing their true feelings. They can see from behind the veil of crocodile tears that Tom Perkins is crying out for understanding and acceptance, and, yes, love, "I am a man! I am not an animal!"
ReplyDeleteThey know that only a brute, a communist, a barbarian would deny such a man his corporate jet tax subsidy. They can feel his pain.
Lucas electrics rule!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mez.co.uk/lucas.html
"I don’t think Catholic adoption agencies should have to cater to gay couples"
ReplyDelete-and presumably he agrees that Protestant adoption agencies shouldn't have to cater to Catholic couples.
"A Christian adoption agency that receives money
from Choose Life license plate fees said it does not place children with
Roman Catholic couples because their religion conflicts with the
agency's "Statement of Faith." "
http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050716/news_1n16adopt.html
" I look forward to the day when conservatives bitch about The Religious Left like it was the Moral Majority . . . "
ReplyDeleteWhy wait? You can go to Rod Dreher's blog today for this sort of thing.
Aw come ON... have you never heard the phrase "Close enough for gummint work"?
ReplyDeleteWell, thinking with "the little head" does keep things simpler...
ReplyDeleteThat's actually the one thing I admire about wingers. I often wonder why Congressional Dems didn't have the tenacity to submit forty plus bills for single payer health care even though they knew the bills would be shot down every time.
ReplyDeletePenises don’t sin, after all; people do - to the dismay of some on the left.
ReplyDeleteVaginas don’t weep, after all;
ReplyDelete[Looks up from Carquest Guide to Human Anatomy]
Au contraire.
That's what she said.
ReplyDeleteOr simply upload.
ReplyDeleteIYKWIMAITYD.
Yeshua Christos you take a few hours to avoid reality by the Disqus plugin resolutely refusing to load** and the comment thread has already gone to 100 plus comments.
ReplyDelete**IYKWIMAITYD.
Penises don’t sin, after all; people do.
ReplyDeleteThere goes my best alibi.
Pleased to met you, i.
ReplyDeleteAre you channeling Dennis the troll from Sadly, No!? Because that's his whole shtick, that by hating idiot conservatives we libruls are hypocrites because aren't we all Gods children?
ReplyDeleteThe Right had yet to alienate the US citizens who either suffered from Parkinson's or had friends/family who did. Rush stepped in to correct that oversight.
ReplyDeleteIs there a reason why we don't call him Harcourt Fenton Mudd?
ReplyDeleteThis is an important point. As far as I can tell from their policies the Right does not know any young people, any old people, any women, any sick people, any one with children in public school, any working people, any foreigners, any immigrants, any descendants of immigrants, any black people, any native american people, any asian people, any non christian people and it assumes that every voter in the US doesn't either.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was intercourse that went wrong.
ReplyDeleteUh..wow?
ReplyDeleteOh my god, I'm very good friends with the family pictured at your link, Halloween Jack. This world is very small!
ReplyDeleteHey, the less said about my love life the better.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean phallusy?
ReplyDeleteAh, a Flesh Gordon remake.
ReplyDeleteWell, the Catholic Church does put the "Mass" in masturbation, after all.
ReplyDeleteOh Smut, you eminently quotable thing, you. I have such a crush on your author function!
ReplyDeleteYou're having group sex with Legionnaires? Kinky.
ReplyDelete:) best SF porn ever
ReplyDeleteOh no, no, no, please. Between Stephen Harper and his Harperoids (and Julian "Fail Upward" Fantino), Rob Ford, Justin Bieber, Dave Sim, and that insane blogger dude with the Japanese name, we have more than enough. We're only a country of 32 million, for goodness sakes! There's only so much assholery we can absorb. Have mercy!
ReplyDeleteLike others here, I am partly inspired to comment by the hope of appearing in "You STILL Can't Do That On Slashdot".
ReplyDeleteNo kidding!
ReplyDeleteDiqsuq was suqqing diq last night, so I'm way too late with this, but WTF...
ReplyDeleteIs this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure?
Tonight the light of love
Is in your glowing red LED eyes
But will you love me tomo--
Tomo--
Tomo--
[percussive maintenance applied]
oooorrow?
We been asking this question for a looong time, and we'll--they'll be asking it long after the robot revolution.
The liquid metal T1000s, though, may have shown us the answer. Or theirs, at least. When two T1000s feel the urge to merge, they just, you know, merge, and, like, become one. And then go off looking for another T1000, because that sure was fun. After a while, they--or just one huge *it*--will be hanging around the T1000 plant, grabbing 'em as they come off the assembly line, and the Terminators won't get much terminating done. This will allow mankind to sneak off and arise from the ashes, to start civilation again. I love happy endings...
(indeed, some of us even maintain more than one on-line identity so as to double our chances of being cited).
ReplyDeleteI know that karma is not a Christian concept, but...
ReplyDelete"Is 'desire to screw the lower-middle class' a feeling?"
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