If I were religious (and by that I mean superstitious and inclined to wild fantasies
left over from the Bronze Age) I would fall to my knees and thank Whatever-
Vague-Something-or-Other-Behind-it-All that I did not have to read
any of that. (My condolences that you did.)

um…

ditto to anon!

Say, didn’t Maggie Gallagher get busted for taking government money to promote some dingbat Bush pro-traditional marriage folderol? How is it, if she was on the take, does she still have a job?

That rich lowry bit is hilarious. Here’s the money graf:

“A case can be made that a direct line connects Andrew Jackson and today’s urban youth. In his book “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” Thomas Sowell argues that a “redneck culture” — including “touchy pride” and “boastful self-dramatization” — was carried to the South by settlers from the British Isles. This culture then embarked, along with the migration of Southern blacks into the cities, on a strange journey: “It largely died out among both white and black Southerners, while still surviving today in the poorest and worst of the urban black ghettos.””

So did Larry the Cable Guy exist or not?

I still find it hard to believe there’s a man with the name “Rusty Shackleford”.

Thomas Sowell argues that a “redneck culture� — including “touchy pride� and “boastful self-dramatization� — was carried to the South by settlers from the British Isles.

And addiction. Let’s not forget the Celtic propensity towards consuming massive quantities of alcohol and shooting each other.

Ah, the Irish–the Blacks of Europe.

Let’s not forget the Celtic propensity towards consuming massive quantities of alcohol and shooting each other.

Celtic? Nah, that’s just my family at christmastime…

mikey

Celtic? Nah, that’s just my family at christmastime…

You and me both, brother. My family’s half Irish/Welsh, half German.

Oy vey iz mir.

Mmm… Throats… Cramming…

Sadly, No! – burning their retina’s and taking days off of their lives, so you don’t have to.

“And addiction. Let’s not forget the Celtic propensity towards consuming massive quantities of alcohol and shooting each other.”

maybe the scots will shoot at you, Us Irish only shoot off our mouths.

maybe the scots will shoot at you, Us Irish only shoot off our mouths.

I take it you’re familiar with Hogmanay.

Guys, I’m just saying that Sowell’s putting negative stereotypes of blacks onto negative stereotypes of Scots and Irish, and it’s really dumb. I don’t actually believe any of it.

If I were religious … I would fall to my knees and thank Whatever-
Vague-Something-or-Other-Behind-it-All that I did not have to read
any of that.

Yeah, it was actually pretty hard this week, guys. That’s why it took me so long to post.

My Irish-American family certainly does the booze, but fortunately, we don’t do the guns, so no one has been shot. We have had some spectacular recreation-related incidents in re: alcohol and horses, alcohol and small motorbikes, alcohol and basketball, alcohol and….

On another note, what do you suppose went wrong in Ben Shapiro’s childhood that his brain didn’t quite develop correctly?

“”Terrorist Kills Civilians” simply doesn’t have the same shock value as “American Soldiers Murder Family,” even if the second headline is a complete and utter canard. It’s easier to win a Pulitzer when you use the fertile imagination of terrorists as reliable sources. ” WTF???

Is he unaware that the rape/murder of the Iraqui girl and her family is not really in doubt? According to our own military?

After reading Ben, I intend to take a shower and two aspirin and retire for the evening. Why the heck did I click on that link? I knew better… Maybe I was ashamed of my cowardice in the face of our brave Sadly, No boyos, who boldly march into the face of danger in the No-saneman’s-land of Townhall…..

Nitey nite, little bunnies…

“I still find it hard to believe there’s a man with the name “Rusty Shacklefordâ€?.”

Same here. Does he live in a basement bunker paid for by his extermination business?

Stossel has studies? Make him prove it. Last time he had studies, he faked them.

From the Brent Bozo column:

Others, like Jewish super agent Ari Emanuel, are having none of it and are vocally urging Hollywood to cast him from its ranks in disgrace.

Ahh,yes. Gotta love that righty consistency towards the Jews. If a Jew says something a conservative likes, they’re almost (but not quite) as good as Jahayeaysus’ “Chosen Ones.” But the instant a Jew says something a conservative doesn’t like, the “f–king k—e” is a superspy out to eat Christians’ babies.

Whenever you visit make sure to dig out the cookies they plant.

Dude, you have Thomas Sowell twice. Only the first one is actually Tony Blankley.

“Why the heck did I click on that link?”

Me, I was curious as to exactly which truth Shapiro couldn’t handle.

I clicked on the Chavez link for the same reason, and to be honest, I share her distaste. She doesn’t really do it justice, honestly; from her description with it’s constant mention of human cross-sections, you’d think it was just some “visible men” and those anatomical cross-sections they use to teach medical students.

It actually does contain a signifigant artistic component; Just from the first page of google image search, there’s a woman in repose with a fetus inside her, and a man holding up and contemplating his own skin.

The cover of a recent Scientific American had a man sitting in the pose of “The Thinker”, his muscles detaching and swirling around him.

When I first saw it, I didn’t realise it was an actual body; it looks like a conventional sculpture. Learning otherwise quite profoundly disgusted me.

The combination of horror movie aesthetics (Seriously, you could use these things as props in a movie about a crazed taxidermist with no modfication) and the accusation that the guy’s getting bodies from people who haven’t actually consented to this makes the whole thing awfully creepy.

That said, the conclusions Ms. Chavez draws are as weak as you’d expect from a Townhaller:

“All civilizations have taken pains to dispose of their dead with dignity. Most religions prescribe the manner in which bodies may be disposed of, and except for extreme circumstances such as war or widespread disease, all cultures reject mass burials or other mass disposals of bodies.
[…]
We’ve grown accustomed to thinking that we “own” our bodies and can do with them whatever we please. It’s not that big a leap to imagine that we might use others’ bodies as we choose after they’re dead. And how much longer before we start questioning whether some bodies — say, of the terminally ill or incapacitated — might be expropriated for utilitarian purposes a little ahead of schedule?”

Um… I’d say a pretty long damn time.

Yeah, all religions have death taboos and burial traditions, but not all of them prohibit public display of dead bodies. I mean aside from the constant and near-universal displays of dead criminals or enemy soldiers, there are more specific examples, like Aztecs parading a body around before cremation, or Incas turning to their mummified ancestors fro advice.

Actually, I was so keen on multiculturalism I quite nearly forgot the absolute best example: Saintly Relics.

How much more grotesque could you be then parading bits of a dessicated corpse around to make your church more popular? I mean, Jesus’ freaking foreskin was a relic for crying out loud.

The fact that, even in the very heart of the middle ages, when conservative Christianity ruled unchecked, people still displayed dead bodies in a crass and circus-like fashionas an explicitly Christian ritual kinda torpedoes her whole point, huh?

What is it with me and these italics tags?

Huh, a close tag fixed things last time.

Dude, you have Thomas Sowell twice. Only the first one is actually Tony Blankley.

Whoa. How’d that happen?

I mean, Jesus’ freaking foreskin was a relic for crying out loud.

Worse than you think; the Holy Foreskin was a relic in a number of different medieval cities. Or, rather, different bits of skin were each individually touted as the One True Foreskin of our Not-Like-He-Was-Jewish-Or-Anything Saviour. Because, when it comes to grotesque displays, some humans will be fascinated, some humans will be repulsed, and some humans will think “Hmm, there must be some way I could turn a profit on this.” Kind of like Open Pants Media, in fact.

Whoo, Badfinger!

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Joatse
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Notorious PAT: “Does he live in a basement bunker paid for by his extermination business?”

Really! I think Rusty Shackleford’s just pissed because of the whole thing with his wife and John Redcorn. I mean, wouldn’t you be a little testy?

Badfinger stuck in my head for the next three days. Thanks a lot, Travis.

You’re way too kind to Greenberg. It’s not “disagreement with”, it’s “intention not to enforce”.

Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York’s World Trade Center and the
Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060809/od_afp/usattackspolloffbeat_060809145351
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This is Libearals fault.
Due to mandatory helmets, warning labels, and the plasticizing of America’s playgrounds.

Ok, so if I agree that the second doctored photo is disturbing, how does this leap to the multiple sources/ videos of actual dead children, because I just can’t make that leap.

Maybe Sadly No should just go to an all-italics format.

Guys, how did you miss this one?

Shorter Kevin Gallagher: Liberals love pedophiles, queers and adultery, it’s all explained in my book “MuscleHead Revolution,” isn’t that a great title?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=why_liberals_love_pedophiles&ns=KevinMcCullough&dt=08/06/2006&page=1

vBen: Lesson #3: Islamists dissemble. You may love the stories Islamists tell, but don’t rely on their truthfulness.

And who doesn’t love a good Islamist story? Why, it seems like only yesterday that I was trekking across the Empty Quarter when I came upon a Bedouin encampment. Ali Akhbar bin Shapiro, the local chieftain, welcomed me into his tent. We drank virgin Cosmopolitans (made with camel pee and the blood of mashed up Christian orphans) and he regaled me with fantastic tales about how the prophet Dji-Zeus was coming back to Earth… after a conflagration in the Middle East… no, wait… four horsemen of… hold it… seventy-two plagues of locusts?… Shoot, I got my Islamist stories mixed up with my Christianist stories.

But that bin Shapiro — nice guy.

“Nice,” that is, until he learns that you really aren’t hooking him up with your sister after all.

Well, I hate the stories, Bush & Co. tell, and I certainly do not rely on them for truthfulness.

Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York’s World Trade Center and the
Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060809/od_afp/usattackspolloffbeat_060809145351

and since we know that 30% of Americans are conservatives, that must mean that conservatives don’t know what year the 9/11 attacks happened.

I wonder how Jacob Sullum’s columns keep getting accepted at Townhall (which I would imagine is notoriously “pro-life” and anti-drug).