Posts Tagged ‘idiocy’

Nostradamus And Me

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Downblog, re: the flap over the New Yorker cover, I asked in passing: “Anyone care to wager how long it will take an idiot at Commentary or the Substandard to suggest that the joke is really on the New Yorker, since in their parallel epistemic universe Obama does have troubling connections to radical Islam…The over/under is 4:30 pm EST, today, Monday.” Sure enough, Abe Greenwald at Commentary, in two posts timestamped 10:02 and 11:55 am, respectively, first writes: “In assuming that the serious Right seeks to burlesque Obama as the embodiment of our anti-American nightmares, the New Yorker burlesques itself.” And then, still commenting on the New Yorker not quite two hours later, he adds: “You know, if Obama is going to keep ex-terrorists around, he should at least utilize them.” Attaway, old sport, the credibility of the Commentary brand isn’t going to maintain itself. Anyway, the unders have it.

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Who Will Rid Us Of This Turbulent Bernie Mac?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

As expected, the witless overreaction to a Bernie Mac riff that Mona mentioned has metastasized into regions of the internet where irony goes to die. And boy oh boy, the combination of exemplary hackery and hysteria yields a mighty entertaining synthesis. Take this bit of apoplexy from Lambert of Corrente Wire, the lead blogger of one of the most prominent pro-Clinton blogs during the primaries. He (I think he’s a he) writes: (more…)

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Everything Is Like Everything Else

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Others have already commented extensively on the inanity of Jonah Goldberg’s suggestion that Barack Obama’s call for high school and college students to perform community service runs afoul of the 13th Amendment — you know, that one that made it illegal to buy and sell people who look like Barack Obama. Not only is likening compulsory community service to slavery embarrassingly ignorant in the abstract, in reality, Obama is not proposing anything like direct compulsion of students, but rather offering a tax credit to schools that make community service a part of their graduation requirements. So it might be entertaining to see Goldberg field a few follow-up questions, like, say, does mandatory school for all American children violate the 13th Amendment? Are core curricula, if not exactly like chattel slavery, then on a relevant continuum? Where, for that matter, do parental notification laws put us on the road to serfdom? How about mandatory childhood vaccinations? Feel free to come up with your own.

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