WWJD (DRIVE)
ArchPundit
In the election and efforts to start up the new site, I hadn’t been able to link to the new Christian movement to ask What Would Jesus Drive. Michelle Cottle has a good piece at TNR on the movement.
November 2002
Not to be outdone
The Instapundit links to another twit. The best line here is the addendum:
"Maybe she was aware of the swiftian connotations of making a modest proposal, but it sure doesn’t seem like it"
Actually, it seems like she did, but thanks for playing. And it is Burk, not Burke.
Update: Apparently terrorists have attacked our water supply and infected select portions of the population with the idiot disease. I thought it was pretty weak on Crossfire, but the fact that it continues amazes me.
Sounds pretty creepy to me. In the Corner post linked above, Kathryn Jean Lopez says that this is exaggeration for effect. Perhaps. But I can only imagine the response in, say, Ms. if some conservative male engaged in similar exaggeration where women’s reproductive rights were concerned.
Actually, the whole point of the article appears to be a critique of conservative arguments restricting female reproductive freedom. The point is that often conservative magazines say very similar things about women’s fertility. The literary device of satire is used to point out how ridiculous such claims would be were the situation reversed. Who let’s that man loose on a college campus?
Satire (from Dictionary.com): Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
Lopez ‘Clarifies’
Here.
The problem is it doesn’t deal with the "to rid Augusta of Men". Worse, she tries to tar Burk for the satirical piece and even in the ‘retraction’ Lopez says "I also suspected Burk didn’t really want to sterilize all men."
So why did Lopez present the article as serious? More strangely she claims the piece focuses on the poll claiming little support for Burk’s position. Only two paragraphs effectively deal with it compared to five for the Ms. article.
Jeb in 2008
The Grapefruit is reporting Jeb is moving to the right for 2008. While 2004 is still up in the air I’d be a bit more circumspect about the American people wanting a 3rd Bush in 20 years.
Then again, I thought 2 was unlikely. Shrug.
Hastert a Moderate?
How screwed up is the Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team? Denny Hastert is now considered a moderate along with Judy Barr Topinka according to Rich Miller. Is Tom DeLay’s boy a moderate like Topinka? ROTFLMAO. No. However, in the coming civil war, he apparently is smart enough to realize Illinois isn’t a conservative state making him an enemy of the True Conservatives TM. The TC TM are also known as the Illinois Democratic Party’s best friends.
More interesting is the decline of the DuPage GOP’s patronage operations–especially the Tollway Authority.
Cross likely the New GOP House Leader?
Kristen McQueary reports that Tom Cross is the likely winner of the House GOP leadership race. The Illinois Leader will like that.
Things Really Don’t Change That Much
Is how Phil Kadner’s column should be titled. Business as usual in Springfield.
Flag Rubes
This is too much. Joe Conason points out Sonny Perdue is already backing off of his call for a referendum on the Confederate Flag.
You know, for all the whining about racial politics by some conservatives, you would think the Republican Party would stop exciting the Democratic base. Hell, the Republicans might just pick up a vote or two if they got a clue.
Claptrap on NRO
Calpundit points out a particularly inane article at NRO by Kathryn Jean Lopez. The first clue to a satirical piece is that it starts out as "A modest proposal….". So much for the classical education many at NRO profess to have.
Kevin misses another line that is quite telling:
Serious debate pretty much does not exist when it comes to the all-male policy of Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the Masters Tournament. Augusta head Hootie Johnson’s willingness to announce that he has no intention of budging on that policy has meant a new media tour for Martha Burk, the woman who started the controversy-her one-woman crusade, backed up by a pliable media, to rid Augusta of men.
Serious debate is impossible when one makes the statement that Martha Burk is trying to ‘rid Augusta of men.’. Augusta is nominally a private club and as such has a right to exclude women. But what kind of twits belong to such a club? Ones named Hootie, I guess.
Even better was this was brought up on Crossfire last night (watching it is not something I endorse, but it was on). Debbie Schlussel was on and tried to argue the same thing. Tucker started ignoring her. Why he ignored her is unclear. Between her habit of breathing through her mouth on TV and her sheer stupidity she is grating. " BURK: … what a spoof is? S-P-O-O-F — spoof. Spoof — come on, come on."