tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post7020734900971690243..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: THE HACKMAID'S TALE. roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-4641380119688924602015-03-22T20:45:44.896-04:002015-03-22T20:45:44.896-04:00"Useful idiot" as a job description."Useful idiot" as a job description.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-37616995756583580172015-03-22T20:45:07.369-04:002015-03-22T20:45:07.369-04:00Heh...needs moar "bootstraps."Heh...needs moar "bootstraps."freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-77101031896996026852015-03-22T20:43:33.710-04:002015-03-22T20:43:33.710-04:00Yep, rewriting vaguely recalled history to make th...Yep, rewriting vaguely recalled history to make the "God is on our side" crowd feel better about their a-historical Fox News beliefs is their speciality. <br /><br />Coulter has her name on a "book" defending Joe McCarthy; likewise, Malkin has one regarding Japanese internment in WWII. <br /><br />(I refuse to associate the word "write" with these willfully ignorant media creatures.)freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-88955870110916206122015-03-22T20:34:08.134-04:002015-03-22T20:34:08.134-04:00Just have Fox news on in the background at all tim...<i>Just have Fox news on in the background at all times</i><br /><br /><br />A modern, time-saving convenience.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-82543940668512580872015-03-20T13:13:59.990-04:002015-03-20T13:13:59.990-04:00"Hang on -- this suggests that Hollywood prod..."Hang on -- this suggests that Hollywood product currently militates against marriage. Is that so? I must have missed the successful sitcoms "How I Met Your Baby-Momma" and "My Three Sons (from Separate Mothers)."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Seriously. It's as though 'Juno" had an abortion and "Knocked Up" was the wacky Seth Rogen movie about a pregnant couples' hilarious, dirty pot induced trip to the abortion clinic.GeoffZorefnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-33900315189131403262015-03-20T12:40:46.466-04:002015-03-20T12:40:46.466-04:00Agreed, Quayle was not the moron he was taken for....Agreed, Quayle was not the moron he was taken for. I felt a lot of sympathy for him during the potato non-event. But it's what bothers me about so much of conservative leadership: confronted with a crowd, instead of thinking, "Hmm there's some ignorance out there, how can I help improve the situation and make America a little smarter?" -- they think, "Well, crowds will be crowds, not much we can do but figure out how to stoke their existing prejudices to our advantage." That is certainly the easiest way to operate -- and maybe they're right, I dunno; Uncle Jethro is just never gonna cotton to some ideas. But man, I prefer a leader whose appeal isn't to ignorance.Grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-4675795508271960182015-03-20T09:54:17.921-04:002015-03-20T09:54:17.921-04:00This is literally true; I stopped reading one BB f...This is literally true; I stopped reading one BB fan site after people started fantasizing about Walt curing his own cancer, divorcing Skyler (who'd already been convicted in abstentia by them for the high crime of standing up to Walt), retaking Gray Matter from Eliot Schwartz, and getting Gretchen back. No lie, they actually thought that that was a possibility. (And this was <i>after</i> the thing with the Lily of the Valley, in other words, after Walt had passed over the Moral Event Horizon and was still accelerating.)Halloween_Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23432278852910223322015-03-20T09:02:43.705-04:002015-03-20T09:02:43.705-04:00I followed a Goodreads thread a while back by peop...I followed a Goodreads thread a while back by people who say they have read Gibbon multiple times. <em>Multiple times.</em> I assume these are people with lives and jobs, though I could be wrong.billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-87241848301283708822015-03-20T09:00:33.366-04:002015-03-20T09:00:33.366-04:00McArdle, and Brooks always sound like the Proddy e...McArdle, and Brooks always sound like the Proddy enthusiasts for the police orchestrated massacre during the Orange Riot of 1871.<br /><br /><i>The time had come, said Congregationalist minister Merrill Richardson from the pulpit of his fashionable Madison Avenue church, to take back New York City, for if "the higher classes will not govern, the lower classes will.</i>coozledadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-7697082087405695932015-03-20T08:54:51.695-04:002015-03-20T08:54:51.695-04:00Plus: killing Messicans.Plus: killing Messicans.billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-59358884869515190752015-03-20T06:34:30.637-04:002015-03-20T06:34:30.637-04:00A most logical reply.A most logical reply.Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-65234419442812713652015-03-20T06:33:07.635-04:002015-03-20T06:33:07.635-04:00It's not so much that the MOTUs intentionally ...It's not so much that the MOTUs intentionally package anyone; it's that they elevate people who echo views they want to hear. Shlaes is a good case in point. Most of the present-day MOTUs don't have even a vague understanding of the history of the Depression, but they do vaguely recall that FDR was a Democrat. So when Shlaes produces a-historical fiction claiming that FDR made the Depression worse and Hoover was solving the problem, well, that's just catnip! At last--someone willing to stand up to those leftwing liberal historians and their documented facts!Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22958229027566468142015-03-20T06:25:59.559-04:002015-03-20T06:25:59.559-04:00I was thinking it was perhaps a lesser known Beatr...<i>I was thinking it was perhaps a lesser known Beatrix Potter book.</i><br><br />Ah, yes--the Brooksian fantasy book, <i>Fuck Like Bunnies.</i>Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-42214470188165775982015-03-20T06:11:41.553-04:002015-03-20T06:11:41.553-04:00If something is good it can only be conservative!
...If something is good it can only be conservative!<br />A stable marriage with kids is good, therefore a stable marriage with kids is conservative!<br />All Liberals are bad.<br />Accordingly, all liberals' marriages are unstable and have no kids.<br />Which proves only and all conservatives have stable marriages with kids.<br />Because of Hollywood.... something .... people don't understand the importance of stable marriages with kids. Furthermore, "Hollywierd" doesn't make the above truths clear and evident to all Americans, which causes Liberals to have unstable families. Which is why Murphy Brown did not put her baby up for adoption and Juno let a single woman adopt here baby. <br />.... any questions? (Yes, yes, yes, "Maude" went to Hell! Everyone knows that!)KatWillowhttp://athousandpix.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-66911881613518488372015-03-20T05:48:00.698-04:002015-03-20T05:48:00.698-04:00Conservative wimmin have babies out-of-wedlock bec...Conservative wimmin have babies out-of-wedlock because they HAVE to- no abortions for <i>them</i> Nosir! They sinned and are being punished by god as is right, therefore they are blessed.<br /><br /><br />Liberal unmarried mothers <i>choose</i> to have their bastards! The ones who don't get abortions, that is! Therefore god despises them. Or something.KatWillowhttp://athousandpix.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-21196677415669618522015-03-20T01:33:18.846-04:002015-03-20T01:33:18.846-04:00Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House?<i>Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House</i>?freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34784470646252496402015-03-20T01:29:27.003-04:002015-03-20T01:29:27.003-04:00My calculator broke while trying to reckon the req...My calculator broke while trying to reckon the required number of upvotes to give.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-14727206620128220642015-03-20T01:26:09.696-04:002015-03-20T01:26:09.696-04:00Not if I don't have to.Not if I don't have to.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-44660461833338015632015-03-20T01:24:33.186-04:002015-03-20T01:24:33.186-04:00...baked right in at the factory, so you can enjoy......baked right in at the factory, so you can enjoy it at home.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-72519811042819519932015-03-20T01:17:58.035-04:002015-03-20T01:17:58.035-04:00if those characters aren't publicly flogged by...<i>if those characters aren't publicly flogged by Pastor Rod</i><br />Yes, friends, welcome to Pastor Flash's <i>Hour Of Reckoning</i>, here at the PowerHouse Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light...freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-38969956131370189662015-03-20T01:14:13.889-04:002015-03-20T01:14:13.889-04:00That's what ewe guys are always thinking about...That's what ewe guys are always thinking about.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23567263317564677332015-03-20T01:10:17.311-04:002015-03-20T01:10:17.311-04:00Four legs, good!Four legs, good!freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-7522251466497622052015-03-20T01:08:40.049-04:002015-03-20T01:08:40.049-04:00It's not so much that--it's more like she&...It's not so much that--it's more like she's got enough of an audience whom she can fool into thinking she's smart. The MOTUs realize this and package her as a commodity (a la Pantload or Brooks or Carlson or any of the rest of the Boob Bait Patrol) who can bring in advertising dollars. <br /><br /><br /><br />Competence, intellectual consistency, expertise are all irrelevant. If you can catch the attention of a segment of The Base, you can haz pudnit dollerz. They promoted some dimbulb named Amity Shlaes as some sort of almost-an-economist just to draw fire from Paul Krugman, fergodsakes. She and MeMac are practically twins.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-77496907708401433842015-03-19T23:29:28.361-04:002015-03-19T23:29:28.361-04:00Quayle's conviction that if you stop giving mo...Quayle's conviction that if you stop giving money to broken families, they won't be broken anymore might be charming in a five year old. But I doubt it.AGoodQuestionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-50770140454138865732015-03-19T23:10:21.701-04:002015-03-19T23:10:21.701-04:00"Like WE'RE HERE TO FUCKING AMUSE YOU?&qu..."Like WE'RE HERE TO FUCKING AMUSE YOU?"satchnoreply@blogger.com