I think the Hindu idol in question would be Ganesh. Isn’t that an elephant god? (please do not offer a peanut). It’s for luck (lucifer), it’s pagan and it’s… Republican!!|iIl1ichi

My personal favorite: the mention of banning “human-animal hybrids” in the sixth annual State of the Union address.

George Bush doesn’t care about cat people.
</kanye west>

(Finally got to use that joke…)

Well, uh, Senator McCain, I’m afraid he’s unstoppable. He’s the false profit who will herald the antiChrist. You might as well concede defeat now.

My grandpa, who’s spent a decent amount of time in law enforcement in one bumfuck place or another (horrible man, but sharp), favored ‘Barney Fife’ for the kind of guy who can’t even make it into the police force/army yet so desperately wants to wave his big, stiff, throbbing pistol in people’s faces he goes and becomes a security guard.

Owing to Broken Windows, the bar on the police force is getting lower every day; the kind of guy who works private security is deeper and deeper in the dregs as a consequence. Of course, challenge them on this and they’ll try to get into a giant sissy slap-fight with you, demonstrating what a tough guy they are on the Internet. The key to this is simply realizing, and making public, that the only reason this kinda man puts ‘blue beret’ in his resume is that he compulsively listens to Ballad of the Green Berets and masturbates with increasing futility – and mistakes this for old-fashioned manhood.

In a word, pathetic. In more than one, paging Dr. Freud.

On the plus side, I’m sure once she hits puberty she’ll grow out of it a little.

I hear ya. McArdle actually does grate one me even more than Goldberg. It’s kind of like the difference between some pompous blowhard clown being the mayor of your city and an actual clown being hauled up on stage, complete with red rubber nose and rainbow wig, to give speeches and cut ribbons. The latter is probably more serious, but impossible to take very seriously.

I don’t think that your Megan-loathing makes you a misogynist, but your hatred of Jonah may mean that you are racist against white people.

Okay, you’ve got a point. She’s an ignorant, smarmy, braindead glibertarian but she’s no Jonah Goldberg. I don’t know why McArdle pisses me off so very much. The self-righteous superiority? Coupled with the complete absence of critical thought or self-awareness? The complete insensitivity to the situations of others? Maybe it’s just that I’m a misogynist bastard.

Really? Jonah hasn’t said or written anything since then?

FUCK YOU MCARDLE