The American Spectator

The Nation
Thus begins an anfractuous little essay by one Miss JoAnn Wypijewski, apparently a recent participant in the Nation’s Learn to Write English Project. How this rubbish ends God only knows, though it appears to be about sex:

In the beginning there was sex. And sex begat skill, and skill (or its absence) begat judgment, and judgment begat insecurity, and insecurity begat doctors’ visits, which begat treatments, which have flourished into a multibillion- dollar industry, so that sex between men and women is today almost inconceivable without the shadow of disorder, dysfunction, the “little blue pill” or myriad other medical interventions designed to bring sex back to some longed-for beginning: a state of certified healthfulness, the illusion of normal.”
(September 28, 2009)

Palo Alto Daily News
On the howl page of a great California daily Fox News’ plot against Muslims and Mexicans is exposed, apparently by a retired professor, possibly with a criminal record:

Dear Editor:
The hatred fostered by Fox News and some right-wing cable talk shows has to be held responsible for the shootings at Fort Hood. They have consistently tried to blame Muslims and Mexicans for all the ills in “merica” and I fear it is just about to get worse.

These people have to be shut down for the good of world peace. If they’re not a real news show, take them off the air.

If they’re a so-called church preaching hatred take away their tax-exempt status so they can stop funding rightwing candidates who reject all forms of legislation that can solve America’s problems-global warming, the environment, education, health care and Iraq.
Jan Krieg,
Palo Alto
(November 10, 2009)

The Progressive
A dispiriting report from one of the Women of the Fevered Brow’s diehards, Miss Barbara Ehrenreich, lifelong opponent of lingerie:

Feminism made women miserable. This, anyway, seems to be the most popular takeaway from The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, a recent study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, which purports to show that women have become steadily unhappier since 1972. Maureen Dowd and Arianna Huffington greeted the news with somber perplexity, but the more common response has been a triumphant: I told you so.

On Slate’s DoubleX website, a columnist concluded from the study that “the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s gave us a steady stream of women’s complaints disguised as manifestos…and a brand of female sexual power so promiscuous that it celebrates everything from prostitution to nipple piercing as a feminist act-in other words, whine, womyn, and thongs.”
(December 2009/January 2010)

The Atlantic
Thanks to historian Andrew Roberts’ sedulous researches into the anti-American archives, we reproduce a lewd rant that the Current Wisdom Department had inexcusably missed from Joyce Carol Oates, leading proponent of the Hangover Theory of History:

How heartily sick the world has grown, in the first seven years of the 21st century, of the American idea! Speak with any non-American, travel to any foreign country, and the consensus is: The American idea has become a cruel joke, a blustery and bellicose bodybuilder luridly bulked up on steroids, consequently low on natural testosterone, deranged and myopic, dangerous.”
(November 2007)

Salon.com
On a famed lunatic Web site Mr. Andrew Leonard traces the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy back to its artistic roots, and of course, slanders An American Hero:

I am always on the lookout for interesting interconnections between unexpected endpoints, but today’s installment-bridging together cyclisthate and the infamous right-wing Arkansas Project witch-hunt against Bill and Hillary Clinton-is a doozy, even by my standards.

Copenhagenize.com, The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog, somehow managed to dig up clipping from the Indianapolis Star, circa 1980, that trashes the notion of bike lanes in New York City in language so malevolent as to beggar description.

A couple of excerpts: