The most frightening thing about the Jock Culture is the thought that its tolerance (actually too mild a word, since tolerance normally doesn't involve rioting) of same sex relationships is limited those involving statutory rape by the right sort of people. This scandal also serves as one more proof that football really is a religion. Defining Pathetic Behavior www.theatlantic.com
More dispatches from the Frat-Boy/Jock culture: Formula for Business Success: “The Jig Is Up Atlas” minus Brooklyn Republican Politics + Nude Pictures reposted without consent. Server Error www.theawl.com
Collins on the GOP debates: "Who knew there were going to be more of these things than football games?"
An apt comparison, as long as they keep the ten year olds at a safe distance. Guess What It’s Time For! A G.O.P. Debate! www.nytimes.com
Another reason to keep the kids away from GOP debates: The other night, eight year old Dybbuk watched Herman Cain, and then started referring to himself in the third person.
Frum asks the GOP: "Mexico is being torn apart by a civil war to control the drug routes to the United States. Many Mexican leaders urge drug legalization in the US in order to move the drug trade away from violent criminals to legitimate business. If a Mexican president asked you to consider such a step, what would you answer and why?"
As one would suspect, there are a lot of calls for legalization on the left (and they are probably right). But I have one question for them.
How long before we hear calls for "Fair Trade Weed"? My Questions for the Next GOP Debate | FrumForum www.frumforum.com
Peters: "I agree with those who say both parties are responsible for the sorry state of Washington, but isn’t it time to face the fact that much more than half the guilt lies with the Republicans? …it is foolish for thoughtful Americans to waste much more time focusing on the shortcomings of the Democrats and of the president. They indulged in a similar orgy of faultfinding in 2010, with the result that too many of them failed to vote and the country elected the worst House of Representatives in memory. There is a real danger that next year the Democrats will lose not only the presidency but also the House and the Senate.
To wake up to the danger, think about your choice. Obama and the Democratic Congress gave us national health care and Wall Street reform. Both were admittedly far from perfect. But do you really think that a Republican administration and Congress would have done—or will do—better?"
The amazing thing to me is that Obama has succeeded in uniting much of the Lunatic Left with the Deluded “No Labels”/”Americans Elect” Center, in a call for the creation of new parties which will surely destroy both of them. Consider the alternative www.washingtonmonthly.com
Two cheers for the Wall Street Road Trip, which incorporates two things I've long advocated (1) a new tactic, and (2) an actual policy proposal, which (a bonus) is utterly reasonable. I join with Hertzberg's quibble–why blame the President when you are marching in support of his idea? Hendrik Hertzberg: Wall Street Road Trip! www.newyorker.com
The author’s assertion here that Charles Barron "very easily could have won the [2006] race [for Congress] if not for the presence of Roger Green, who previously held Mr. Jeffries’ seat in the State Assembly" verges upon the insane.
Mr. Green, a bookish pol who catered to his peculiarly Yuppie and Buppie constituency and was an outspoken voice against racism and anti-Semitism among his fellow Muslims, and supported the Atlantic Yards development which Barron loudly opposed, clearly did not draw all his votes from Barron, and nothing about delivering virtually all Green’s votes to Barron would have been "Easy."
The idea that some of Green's votes were anti-Towns protest votes is true, but what Barron doesn't seem to get here is that many of Barron's 15,000 votes were as well. Presented with a reasonable, never convicted (unlike Green) alternative, many of these anti-Towns votes (especially those from the white 52 AD, which Barron nearly carried) will not being going to Barron again. Barron Prepares for Congressional Run, Blasts Towns and Jeffries | PolitickerNY www.politickerny.com
Is his new film Eastwood's revenge for the FBI persecution of Jean Seberg?