Category: Comment of the Day
Comment of the Christmas: Ron Paul v cats
December 25th, 2011, No Comments
Amanda Marcotte on why cats are better than Ron Paul (or any Republican candidate really):
Cats get delusional ideas all the time, but what’s nice is that their ambitions are small. Instead of trying to destroy the Fed, they climb trees they can’t get out of. Or, instead of having an irrational fear of black people, [...]
CotD: The wingnut personality
November 25th, 2011, No Comments
Gin & Tacos neatly sums up the existential contradiction inherent in the wingnut personality:
I can’t say it surprised me that people defended the cop. There are always people who will defend the cop. Believe it or not, I was taken aback by just how stupid their arguments were even though such things should not surprise [...]
CotD: the benefit of the doubt fallacy
November 16th, 2011, No Comments
In a Crooked Timber thread on a dumber than usual Russ Douthat column, one commentor calls bullshit on Douthat’s defenders:
It is sweet, though, that virtually every mendacious reactionary hack** given an elevated media platform to spew sophistry all over us lesser folks has a cadre of online defenders. They usually embrace some common themes: suggesting [...]
QotD: car and train people
November 11th, 2010, No Comments
Amanda Marcotte contemplates the symbolism behind the reluctance of new Republican governors to take federal money for train projects:
The symbol of modern conservatism is the SUV that pulls in and out of the garage of the front yard-free McMansion placed inside a gated community, a perfect little system that allows the conservative base voter to [...]
QotD: Justin Webb appreciation society
September 23rd, 2010, No Comments
Glad to see we’re not the only one to fully appreciate Justin Webb, as this extract from Chicken Yoghurt shows:
ITEM: Using the voice of John Humphrys ‘to scare off hungry deer from eating gardeners’ prized fruit and vegetables’ is a great idea. His voice certainly scares me away from listening to Radio 4′s Today programme. [...]
QotD: Death of a thousand budget cuts
June 26th, 2010, No Comments
Whitehall Watch gets the real impact of the proposed ConDem budget exactly right:
But the real impact is going to be not on public jobs – important as they are – as on the services that people get. The poorer you are, the more dependent you are on public services and provision. The more money you [...]
CotD: American Chernobyl edition
June 24th, 2010, 1 Comment
Jim Henley on the wider implications of the BP oil spill:
There can’t be three foreigners not in the employ of Rupert Murdoch who, today, can read about the “American model of democratic capitalism” without sniggering. This is a country whose elites can cry real tears about the pensions of Britons while regarding the pensions of [...]
QotD: how is Israel like North Korea
June 1st, 2010, No Comments
From Jamie:
Is it extreme to raise parallels between Israel and North Korea? I don’t think so. Both countries are highly militarized and intensely nationalistic, quite a lot of the time to the point of messianism . Both regard themselves as lights unto the nations, as the saying goes. Neither consider themselves bound by treaty arrangements, [...]
QotD: moral authority
May 26th, 2010, No Comments
From Susan of Texax, in comments to this post at Alicublog chronicling wingnut responses to the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill, comes this beauty:
The lesson I learned from Maggie Gallagher was that you can have sex while unmarried, get knocked up, and still have a career as a moral scold who tells everyone else that [...]
QotD: Billy Bragg gets his very own Internationale
May 12th, 2010, No Comments
Facebook friends of Mr Bragg, annoyed at his endless pre-election shilling for the Lib-Dems and his assurances that they would never form a coalition with the Tories, have written their own version of The Internationale for him:
Desert your working class traditions,
Renege on all the hopes of man
For middle class is the position
And consensus is the [...]
