by Molly Ivors As regulars know, I've been cataloguing Maureen Dowd's descent into madness in recent weeks, watching her flail wildly from Hillary as Blanche DuBois to Hillary as Mildred Pierce, and the parallel narrative of Barack Obama as a feminized, effete Democratic male. …
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http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2008/05/tropical-robots.htmlYou know, I don't think they will ever make a better movie about cars that turn into superhero robots than Transformers. Unless perhaps it is Transformers II. UPDATE. This movie literally features a jive-talking robot. Also, it includes the line, "You've already met your guardian, Bumblebee." This is a fantastic movie. …
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The Wisdom They Will Sell Us
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2008/05/the-wisdom-they.htmlReporter, editor, bon vivant, and all-around douchebag Robert Stacy McCain has yet another in what promises to be an infinitely extended series of ludicrous explanations for why the GOP is currently a-swirl in the porcelain Maelstrom: Insufficent Doctrinal Purity on Anti-La Raza Demagoguery. …
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And the big wheel turn around
http://sideshow.me.uk/smay08.htm#05142022to the basic rules of common decency. Ruth says that In The Beginning, There Was War Crime, but before the beginning there was breaking good law and making bad "law" to make inhumanity "acceptable". In other news... Molly Ivors continues to explore the bizarre psychosexual terrain that is Maureen Dowd's landscape. I don't know what's stranger - that anyone has to even bother to point this out, or that Karl Rove is telling the truth. One of the nice things about living in the UK is that I
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The brain, the Buddha, and the ever-baffling David Brooks
http://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/2008/05/brain-buddha-and...no idea what he's talking about and nonetheless gets to flaunt his ignorance in the pages of one of the world's most prestigious newspapers. (He's not the only problem on that score, obviously: why anyone wants to know what Maureen Dowd thinks about politics is beyond me.) A favourite Brooks tactic seems to be assembling lists in which the first few items are halfway plausible but then--somewhere in the middle--he crosses the line into assertions of a very different character. It
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ich bin ein oberliner
http://oberliner.blogspot.comLet me sum this up: Obama is a debutante; Clinton is W.; and West Virginians are racist. Got it? She also claims that the only way to change WV's racism is to buy votes. It's journalism at its finest. Molly Ivors, over at Whiskey Fire, has this to say: The framing here allows her to hit the trifecta: slamming Obama (he didn't try in WV!), Clinton (she lied and bought the rednecks off!) and West Virginians, in one fell swoop. From a purely technical angle, it's compelling stuff, but of course
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Today's Corporate Media Multi-Millionaires: Overpaid And Out-Of-Touch
http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2008/05/todays-corporate...why they vote as they do, and should not pretend to. Your interest in Appalachia is anthropological at best, and shoehorning it into the predetermined narrative you've constructed about the Democratic primary is unfair, belittling, and snide. More here.
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Dowd Does One Even Better
http://supremeirony.blogspot.com/2008/05/dowd-does-one-even-...I don't have the patience, nor that talent of Molly Ivors, so I leave it to her to thrash the latest offering from Maureen Dowd: Of all Maureen's poses, the ones where she attempts to capture The Spirit of the Heartland© are perhaps the most annoying. Face it, Maureen: you're a Feng Shui-living Manhattanite with 100 pairs of shoes and the best dye job your
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Wanker of the Day
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_05_11_archive.html#35503019...Michael Barone.
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Dïsködäns
http://hestika.blogspot.com/2008/05/dskdns.htmlover the last few days. Really, bounce around the links and enjoy some wonderful blunderful awfulness. My favorite:
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Thesis; antithesis; synthesis
http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/10/thesis-antithesis-synthesis...After considering the arguments put forth here, it seems that this might be the truest vision of progressive blogging:
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Narratives of paradigm and subsemioticist patriarchial theory in a postdialectical discourse
http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/10/narratives-of-paradigm-in-a...Thers continues to press his pitiful case, heedless of the vital body of critical scholarship which demonstrates that he is a stupid buttface. Here we see, exposed, the limits of such pre-poststructuralist (and pre-9/11) historiographical modality. And now the Max Sawicky Blogosphere Revival
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All I do is I’m a journalist
http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/10/all-i-do-is-im-a-journalist...Demonstrating the limits of his hidebound and dogmatic approach to the subject, Thers trots out some well-known archival footage of Happy Furry Puppy Story Time Music Hour c. June 2003 C.E., seemingly oblivious - or indifferent - to the mountains of critical scholarship which have taken place in the wake of its discovery. In Thers’ paternalistic view of history, the Left Blogosphere was a mere receiver of the dominant
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