Comments on: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

By: Nick the Australian

Nick the Australian — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:51:35 +0000

> I’ll take your word for it, but all the Bosnians I know are Muslim.

Thing is, “Bosniak” is an ethnic group; “Bosnian” is a nationality. If someone says “We’re Bosnian” then that doesn’t distinguish whether they’re Bosniak, Bosnian Serb or Bosnian Croat.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:42:35 +0000

Raijin: Just my way of saying “good lord, who gives a fuck.” OK? Done?

By: Raijin

Raijin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:34:28 +0000

MzNicky, we’re on the same side, but saying, effectively, “I have a life but I’m going to interrupt it to point out that I have a life,” and after I’d pretty much pre-emptively conceded defeat, is a bit ironic. Don’tcha think? IT’S LIKE RAAAAAAA-EEEE-AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:13:52 +0000

Holy Crap, Bubba’s a SPOOK!
I was under the impression that RB is actually one of the more reprehensible characters from an unpublished novel by Christopher Moore.

By: Bina

Bina — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:47:29 +0000

Christ, no wonder the Right has a reality problem. They can’t even tell that what’s on the tee-vee is fiction.

By: Bina

Bina — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:44:28 +0000

“Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America”

Lemme guess, Rich...the first time you ever tried to kiss a girl--not succeeded, mind you, just tried...you saw skyrockets, just like Peter on The Brady Bunch. Didn't you?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:46:11 +0000

Waitwaitwaitaminnit here … it’s OT as all hell, but –

“her role as Worst Editor Ever”

KLo is a fucking EDITOR? I mean, seriously?

That was a joke, right?

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:51:33 +0000

In the grand scheme of things in the whole universe, the pedantic use of “different than” or “different from” has no meaning whatsoever. None. Fer crissake already. And I say that as an insufferable grammarian who also has a fuckin’ life already.

By: Raijin

Raijin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:24:58 +0000

. . .Actually, if two things differ from each other, they are different from each other. They don’t “differ than,” so why should they be “different from?”

Yeah, I know. Language changes, just like meat on a plate left out in the sun will also change.

By: Candy

Candy — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:48:02 +0000

Bosnians are from Bosnia. Bosniacs (or Bosniaks) are Muslim Bosnians. Biden was being specific.

I’ll take your word for it, but all the Bosnians I know are Muslim.

By: Honus

Honus — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:32:14 +0000

Rich Lowry actually wrote that? About the little starbursts richocheting around his living room after Sarah smiled at him? Right-wing porn don’t get any better than this.

By: J—

J— — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:57:11 +0000

Speaking of spooks, I recommend this essay by John Le Carré in the 9/29/08 New Yorker.

By: AMERICAN NONSENSE » Set Sarah free!

AMERICAN NONSENSE » Set Sarah free! — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:54:46 +0000

[...] Sadly, No! makes a funny. [...]

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:33:31 +0000

I’m not sure; I’m not a speaker, just a reader for very limited professional reasons

Holy Crap, Bubba’s a SPOOK!

It’s like Six Days of the Sadly around here…

mikey

By: pablo

pablo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:26:45 +0000

“At least Charen posted a correction. Most of the time these idiots just ignore their errors.”

What do suppose the odds of the belle of washington(Cokie Roberts) correcting her snide quip on the same subject?

By: marty

marty — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:49:01 +0000

This might be the best one of all:

Rich Lowery actually wrote:

“Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America”

By: sagra

sagra — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:47:21 +0000

Cornerites are actually primitive Chordates.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:46:12 +0000

Bosniacs (or Bosniaks) are Muslim Bosnians.
Back in the lead-up to the Dayton Accords, the term was also used to mean “Bosnian/Herzogovinian loyalist individuals & institutions” — as opposed to the “Greater Serbia” and “Greater Croatia” irredentists. In that sense, there were quite a few non-Muslim Bosniacs, i.e. ethnic Serbs or Croats who did not want to live under Milosevic or Tudjman.

I don’t recall ‘Bosniac’ permeating far into the media, but the word was commonly bandied around in intel summaries. Though of course I can only speculate.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:50:08 +0000

Biden was being ~~specific~~ elitist. Cuz he knows stuff and everything. are “Cornerdomites” the ones that hang down from the ceiling, or are those “Cornerdotites”? -mites go up, -tites come down.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:16:14 +0000

Children of the Corner?

That’s funny.