I hope it’s his father who’s the deacon at a local Catholic church. I’d hate to think that the church tolerates this kind of… wait a minute, he didn’t say anything positive about contraception, did he? Ah. Then it’s all good. Never mind.

Speaking of the decline of pretty much everything, this blurb for Goldberg’s latest book is just sad:
What can one say to the self-proclaimed ‘independent’ who never has nor ever will vote other than Democratic; or to the wise soul suggesting, of any conflict at all, “the truth must lie somewhere in between”? Mr. Goldberg reminds us that one must stand up and demand of the muddled and supine either an absolute declaration of their principles and acknowledgment of the results of actions having flowed therefrom or a straightforward admission of their intransigence in refusing a concise reply.” DAVID MAMET

Something she omitted from her lame WSJ article defending not reading the dissertations “in full” was this, the title of her original CHE post: The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations. Of course, she not only didn’t read them in full, she didn’t read them at all.

Can you imagine if the title of her post were The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Jewish Studies? Just Read the Dissertations and she complained as tactlessly about topics like Scatology and Eschatology: Excrement and the Limits of the Human Body in the Thought of the Hasidei Ashkenaz? She’d have been fired without hesitation, and all her current shrill supporters would be stumm. Why is that d’you suppose?

Tell me he doesn’t know that The Forward is the most famous Jewish-American newspaper in the U.S. for over a hundred years. Go ahead. Tell me.

Etch-A-Sketch politics is what all cool Goopers are doing these days. Unlike the taunts to Kerry in 2004, the chants of “flip-flop” at this year’s GOP convention are going to be accolades for con-jobs well done.

I don’t understand Bill Donohue. He must know, as someone once said, that “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.” Obviously, Stewart is one of these secular Hollywood Jews. So what’s the big surprise here?

I’m guessing this lofty, above-it-all pose of pundits like Marcus is to give themselves elite-cred with the sensibly centrist Beltway insiders they dine with, or something. Otherwise, I’m at a loss to explain all this manufactured prissiness. She even quotes Obama reminding “conservative commentators” of their own whining about “an unelected group of people” before characterizing it a few sentences later as Obama’s assault on “an unelected group of people” .

Since so much of what passes for journalism these days consists of paragraphs of such lofty, nitpicking bullshit surrounding deceitfully parsed pull-quotes, you can find what Obama said in its entirety here.

she volunteered for the California Republican Party at the age of 14. In high school, Ashley started a teenaged republicans group

Good grief. Your twitwit is Tracy Flick.

Also. Waiting any day now for Dana Loesch to tell us how she’s like totally sympatico with murderous sergeants and she would “pull trig and do it, too” to rid the world of future terrorists.

Saul Alinsky! Saul Alinsky! Saul Alinsky! Saul Alinsky! Saul Alinsky!

Not a lot different from porn actress (looks like one, too) Brooks Bayne’s jewey jew obsession. If Alinsky were named, say, Winston Smythe he’d never get to be Bayne bane.

And oh yeah: George Soros!

I read the Brooks Bayne article. Damn, he even includes a 45 year old newspaper clipping announcing guests at the Plam Beach Ambassador Hotel as evidence of his conspiracy of Marxists, socialists, and trade-unionists of Eastern-European, Jewish, descent because it also lists ancestors of some present-day Jewish people. Right. Nothing anti-Semitic at all about that.

I was going to say that someone named like a porn actress might want to tone down his WAR of the Tweets rhetoric, but if you look at his about page (linked above by SteveM) he’s less of a sex star and more of an outright onanist.

I might be willing to take his course if he throws in some advice about where I should buy gold and ionized bracelets for pain relief.

There has to be some equivalent of Poe’s law for race-baiting and bigotry. I thought TBogg made up that last one. Maybe we should call it the TS rule. As in: you can’t This Shit up.

Man, that is one ugly-assed web site. However, it does offer indisputable evidence that wingnuts are even more dishonest and insane in 140 characters or less. Let’s see if one-stop psychopathy will turn out to be a great business model.

bent in spirit, slender of talent and obese in self-regard…
…hiss from the shadows, content to live within the niggling license of Master’s Leash.

Ace is still in high school, isn’t he. It’s hard to believe that anyone would publicly write something so juvenile, in a style that reads like the introduction to World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Stupid, without dying of embarrassment. Then again, that he calls himself Ace of Spades should’ve been a clue.

It goes without saying but here I am typing so I’ll say it anyway: it’s a sure thing the Loesch loons would rush to the defense of the Mullahs if they had a penchant to turn dead Jews and Christians into dead Muslims.

What’s the problem? I count at least 23 separate individual sources cited, and that doesn’t count the unknown quantity of “several people,” “sources,” “other sources,” “number of people,” “number of colleagues, “some who,” “those who,” “friends” or “workers.” That’s got to add up to at least a couple hundred people right there. This has got to be the most thoroughly confirmed and vetted story evar!

No fan of either Brinker or SGK, but I do think it’s important to challenge statements which may be incorrect.

Very laudable. However, according to Komen’s own IRS filing, Nancy Brinker earned $417,712 for 2010. See here. My arithmetic is off, though. She only made 4 times what the DWB director did, not 5.

We’re all shocked to know Yoest is a shameless liar, too. Recently quoted in The Hill: “Breast health is not Planned Parenthood’s core competency. They specialize in abortions.”

The one good thing about Komen’s self-immolation is the light shining on this organization generally. Aside from providing a ridiculously overpaid sinecure for executives and board members (Brinker is paid about 5 times the salary of the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders for example*), it appears to be one more arch-conservative group exploiting the good will of its donors for the sake of its own power, political and otherwise.

*Unfortunately, many charities are even worse in this department — the head of the American Cancer Society is paid millions. Sometimes you’re better off donating your hard-earned bucks directly to local chapters, or smaller organizations.

Wow, a $7 mil gross on a $20 mil budget? What’s happened to the über-libertarian business model of these paragons of success? Sounds like there’s a bit of mooching going on here if you ask me.

If bonuses (not compensation, mind) are being cut 20% let’s see what they’re being cut from.
- According to the Federal Reserve many of the bonus and incentive programs that contributed to the financial crisis still remain in place.
- Nearly 80 percent of the $2 Billion in 2008 bonus pay doled out by troubled banks was unmerited.
- Overall compensation in financial services rose 5 percent in 2010, with employees in some businesses getting increases of 15 percent.
- Pay and benefits at the top 25 publicly traded banks and security firms on Wall Street hit a record of $135.5 Billion in 2010.
- The “average worker” at Goldman Sachs received $430,700 in total compensation in 2010

Sounds like they could use a lot more than a 20% bonus cut.