Taking the Miller Analogies Test with Brilliant Liberal “Journalists.”

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  June 17th at 10:49 PM  | 

Perhaps we can now disclose who writes David Letterman’s rape jokes about the Palin family. Perhaps it’s none other than Matt Yglesias. Filth in the name of character assassination follows below…

Ahmadinejad is in most ways a classic right-winger, a demagogic nationalist and cultural conservative. In a manner somewhat reminiscent of a Sarah Palin, however, he clothes this right-wing politics in a language of class resentment, painting his more pragmatic and reformist opponents as decadent elites out of touch with ordinary people.

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Class, Decency and Andrew Sullivan; Which of These Three Does Not Belong?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 06:48 AM  | 

Let’s just say I really disliked my neighbor, or just someone who participated in public life. Now let’s say that neighbor or public figure suffers the misfortune of having a child with an extra chromosome. At that point, I could call it a day. No matter how much I hated that particular individual, I could consider them taken care. Game over, Nemesis has this one.