I ran out of “ugh”s reading these excerpts.

altho he himself did not qualify

..”although”?

..But seriously, this is just shameful. He really did have a female hitler dominating his life, didn’t he. And now it’s revenge- time. ..Well, I got bad news for Jonah – I think the “prank” is still going on.

[edit] Early life and career
Goldberg graduated from Goucher College in 1991. His was the first class at Goucher to admit men, altho he himself did not qualify, a fact which Jonah jokes enabled him to play on the school’s basketball team, a feat he probably would not have been qualified for at most schools. He was active in student politics at Goucher and was the co-editor of the school newspaper, The Quindecim [1], for two years. He and Andreas Benno Kollegger were the first men to run the paper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg#Early_life_and_career

I feel a Wikibomb is in order…

I’m hoping his next book (which I’m sure will be ten years in the making) will address how he’s a “conservative”……that one would be even more splendidly psychotic than this one (yes, I know, hard to imagine)!!

I believe it was Goucher College, first class of males admitted to an all women’s college:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg#Early_life_and_career

No further comments.

Thou dost project too much.

“the conservative or classical liberal vision understands that life is unfair that man is flawed, and that the only perfect society, the only real utopia, waits for us in the next life.”

Isn’t he Jewish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

Yet another way liberals are just like Hitler!

Calorie labels, food pyramids, national parks, consumer protection, public service ads, etc. = dictatorial centralized government which controls every facet of life, public and private. But abstinence programs, rating systems for video games, fines for naughty language on TV, loyalty tests for public officials, jail time for pot possession, boycotts for “happy holidays,” torture, eavesdropping on citizens, etc. = glorious democracy, of, by and for the people. IT’S JUST DIFFERENT.

I’d hate to think this is the result of our public education system. And if he went to private school, Mumsie should ask for her money back.

“If I redefine ‘fascism’ to mean everything I don’t like, then everything I don’t like is fascist.”

Declaration of Geology

Learning to Speak the Language of the Earth
Lynn S. Fichter, James Madison University

Geology is the holistic study of the Earth. It views the Earth as a single environmental system consisting of the lithosphere (including surficial processes), biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, with an evolutionary life span of 4 billion years.

Geology is the cardinal science, not because of theoretical and experimental purity, but because only geology grapples with the full complexity of a world in which nothing exists in isolation — a world in which there are no independent variables.

This totalitarian — or “holistic”, if you prefer — approach to telling people that there is only one “single environmental system” on the Earf is, in certain ways, and if you accept various of the definitions I have yet to offer, far more totalitarian than anything ever imagined by a hypothetical super-being comprised of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Hitlery Clinton.

This represents a departure from “classical geology”, but in invoking the dangerous prospect of “liberal fascist totalitarian holistic geography,” I believe you will see that this is not, and, however, this central to my point.

You learn something new every day.

BTW, wasn’t this edited by–appallingly–Saul Bellow’s son? Adam Bellow? Or am I thinking of something else?

But what do we mean when we say something is “totalitarian”?

Anything. Everything. Nothing. Cow. Chocolate. Oranges. A great big fuzzy bear. Physics. Hinduism. The North Atlantic Ocean. Radiohead. Pale ale. A rocket motorcycle. Compassion. Love. Hatred. Life. Death. Anything. Everything.

NOTHING.