tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post4699260508725343809..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: THANK YOU, MARK SANFORD. roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-57948864823140696342013-05-13T04:35:00.434-04:002013-05-13T04:35:00.434-04:00To clarify, it's Goldberg who sees Sanford as ...To clarify, it's Goldberg who sees Sanford as morally abhorrent, not you.<br /><br />I see where you're coming from better now, but I'm not sure I really agree. <br /><br />I guess I come from a place where Goldberg's writing style is so much made up of equivocal bullshit that this is what a full-throated endorsement of lesser-evilism would look like from him. Like, he's not so much trying to hide his view as he is just too awful of a writer to ever express any opinion of his much more strongly and coherently than what he does here.Waffle_Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-86144276725123038042013-05-11T17:23:49.910-04:002013-05-11T17:23:49.910-04:00More people have died in Afghanistan under Preside...More people have died in Afghanistan under President Hopey than under evil BushHitler, moron. And the Iraq War ended on Bush's timeline.Krokamonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-63840588630089312512013-05-10T13:18:51.675-04:002013-05-10T13:18:51.675-04:00OT, but your nom de plume fills me with the urge t...OT, but your <i>nom de plume</i> fills me with the urge to divide my kingdom and offer it to the meat sin parsons.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-32806483065783908442013-05-10T04:49:47.642-04:002013-05-10T04:49:47.642-04:00Also, too, it's so cute when Jonah pretends he...<i>Also, too, it's so cute when Jonah pretends he has actual principles</i><br /><br />He does! Multiple sets of them, in fact, depending on the political situation!smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60498945022313795992013-05-10T02:31:08.442-04:002013-05-10T02:31:08.442-04:00Let me say upfront: I would rather we lived in a s...<i>Let me say upfront: I would rather we lived in a society where adultery had a higher social cost.</i><br /><br />Punishment is key to the conservative worldview. Without it, they believe the moral order would collapse (well, <i>their</i> moral order).<br /><br />(Also, too, it's so cute when Jonah pretends he has actual principles and isn't a hyperpartisan hack.)Batocchiohttp://www.vagabondscholar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23897213747111759752013-05-10T01:23:20.558-04:002013-05-10T01:23:20.558-04:00Bottled Anus And The Jonah Sharts, now playing liv...<i>Bottled Anus And The Jonah Sharts</i>, now playing live at the Cornerredoubtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-73874370088788817752013-05-10T01:17:34.415-04:002013-05-10T01:17:34.415-04:00Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a belief it is<i>Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a belief it is</i>redoubtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-2308149423256328582013-05-10T01:14:54.513-04:002013-05-10T01:14:54.513-04:00Liberal "values": honesty, inclusivenes...<i>Liberal "values": honesty, inclusiveness and arugula<br />Conservative "values": hypocrisy, adultery and Cheetos</i>redoubtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-76706446047089918412013-05-09T18:11:47.276-04:002013-05-09T18:11:47.276-04:00I still don't understand why "lesser-evil...I still don't understand why "lesser-evilism" is such a bad thing. What would you prefer, the greater evil? <br /><br /><br />(Oh shit, I'm probably going to regret this.)M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-64375600004916809472013-05-09T17:45:08.337-04:002013-05-09T17:45:08.337-04:00There is no bigger moral flaw than being a liberal...There is no bigger moral flaw than being a liberal.JennOfArknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-73437232213968232912013-05-09T17:33:26.316-04:002013-05-09T17:33:26.316-04:00Or, to borrow from Randy Newman: "No one like...Or, to borrow from Randy Newman: "No one likes us-I don't know why / We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try"...Meanie-meanie, tickle a personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-85188185149484754362013-05-09T17:31:40.239-04:002013-05-09T17:31:40.239-04:00It does seem strange (a) to resent the suggestion ...It does seem strange (a) to resent the suggestion that people should apply to themselves the standards that they dictate for others, and (b) to say so in as many words.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-30446738306433320342013-05-09T17:11:48.033-04:002013-05-09T17:11:48.033-04:00"Hypocrisy is the tribute Vice pays to Virtue..."Hypocrisy is the tribute Vice pays to Virtue."<br /><br /><b><br /><br />François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)<br /><br /></b>The Dark Avengernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-37897008625446146682013-05-09T16:49:35.768-04:002013-05-09T16:49:35.768-04:00I think Glennzilla probably has better things to d...I think Glennzilla probably has better things to do with his time.willfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-12572171683938612692013-05-09T16:44:08.073-04:002013-05-09T16:44:08.073-04:00They still might vote for Gingrich because Romney&...They still might vote for Gingrich because Romney's not a christian.willfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-36424470110986528982013-05-09T16:42:21.348-04:002013-05-09T16:42:21.348-04:00Roman Hruska, our nation turns its lonely eyes to ...Roman Hruska, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.willfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-71054687882762287562013-05-09T16:36:53.499-04:002013-05-09T16:36:53.499-04:00Hah!
That's because he's a walking pylori...Hah!<br /><br />That's because he's a walking pyloric valve.willfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-27281590456555547982013-05-09T16:35:24.435-04:002013-05-09T16:35:24.435-04:00The jig is just so up on "conservatism" ...The jig is just so up on "conservatism" when you have its cheerleaders admitting the whole goal of their movement is massive social engineering. "Transforming society at large" should be anathema to anything called "conservative," unless I woke up in Soviet Krgrgrzristan.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-58743997608950306032013-05-09T16:14:35.661-04:002013-05-09T16:14:35.661-04:00In each column's shapelessness and flaccidity,...In each column's shapelessness and flaccidity, Goldberg's prose reads like segments cut at the desired word length from one continuous extrusion of Word Product, the pink slime of punditry.<br /><br /><br />One of the Situationist artists / provocateurs created a Continuous Art Machine, which slowly unrolled a broad ribbon of paper from its spool while a mechanism of pulleys and springs splashed and slathered on the paint. You could buy as many metres of Art as you wanted. That was back in the early 60s; Goldberg is 50 years behind the times.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-61017972633594015382013-05-09T15:02:11.205-04:002013-05-09T15:02:11.205-04:00I occasionally think of Ignatius C Reilly when the...I occasionally think of Ignatius C Reilly when the subject of LoadPants comes up. No offense to the former is intended.<br />...Provider_UNEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-38059617405848485812013-05-09T14:49:13.143-04:002013-05-09T14:49:13.143-04:00One problem for "lesser embolism" as a d...One problem for "lesser embolism" as a description if anything republicans do is that their morality tends to be all or nothing. They dial the noise all the way to eleven and that's just where they start. Look at abortion--the party has committed itself to asserting that a fertilized, test tube generated egg is identical in moral value to a full grown, born child. The condom and the morning after pill, gay sex and cannibalism and genicide are all the same to these people--if you listen to their actual rhetoric. So they don't believe in the lesser if teo evils at all. All evils are the big evil. <br /><br /> A related right wing/purity troll move which is to refuse to partake in efforts to reduce harm because it might lead people to think the behavior was ok. That is specifically why right wing sex Ed does not include contraception or the hpv vaccine--because those things might lead you to consider that sin doesn't have to equal death. And if authorities didn't let god punish you for errors with stds or aids you might not realize how important god was.reallyaimainoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-56702740372758830622013-05-09T14:43:18.916-04:002013-05-09T14:43:18.916-04:00When people notice conservative hypocrisy it means...When people notice conservative hypocrisy it means Jonah has to do work. Of course he's indignant.sharculesenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-83155265862665336812013-05-09T14:35:43.537-04:002013-05-09T14:35:43.537-04:00So libertarians & liberals are by choice moral...So libertarians & liberals are by choice morally weak, but conservatives choose moral weakness? And that's okay, because unlike libertarians & liberals, conservatives are human? Doyoyoy.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-6322294289448298912013-05-09T14:26:41.566-04:002013-05-09T14:26:41.566-04:00...I believe this only strengthens my point. (coug......I believe this only strengthens my point. (cough, fart, post about cartoons.)AngryWarthogBreathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-63248327529602614302013-05-09T14:26:00.280-04:002013-05-09T14:26:00.280-04:00Here, let me take stab at the evenshorterer:
&q...Here, let me take stab at the evenshorterer:<br /><br /><br />"We conservatives may be sociopaths, but we're armed with <i>weapons-grade</i> cognitive dissonance".mrstiltonnoreply@blogger.com