The American Spectator

Rolling Stone
In an interview with one of America’s great intellectual reviews, Bill Maher, comic genius, begins the long dissent into the realm of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Cleaning ladies give this man a wide berth:

You came under fire last week for calling Sarah Palin a “cunt” in your stand-up:

Fox News ginned up this so-called controversy. I don’t just walk out there and say, ‘Sarah Palin’s a cunt! Good night!’ It’s a carefully crafted routine that has been in my act for over a year. This is not a word that we can get along without, because it’s a word that talks about a specific type of person—and it can be a man or a woman.

I said I’d take it out of my act because of HBO—we’re a good fit for each other. Every once in a while you just have to say, ‘I’m going to pick my battles.’ I don’t need to be a martyr for Sarah Palin’s cunt…whoops, I did it again.
(April 28, 2011)

The Progressive
The sporting life as reported by outdoors writer Dave Zirin on the literary pages of  The Prog:

I don’t know where you were raised, but I lived with rats. I used to kill rats. We had a .22 rifle, and we would lay [sic] in the kitchen and shoot them on the floor. One thing my grandmother taught me was that if you got a rat trapped, you’ve got to give his ass a way out because he will fight you if he has to.
(May 2011)

New York Times
More lewd thoughts from the scantily clad Maureen Dowd:

Oh, she wanted it.

She wanted it bad.

That’s what every hard-working, God-fearing, young widow who breaks her back doing menial labor at a Times Square hotel to support her teenage daughter, justify her immigration status and take advantage of the opportunities in America wants—a crazed, rutting, wrinkly old satyr charging naked out of a bathroom, lunging at her and dragging her around the room, caveman-style.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation as a thrice-married French seducer loses something in the translation.
(May 18, 2011)

New York Review of Books
Professor Ronald Dworkin, suffering bladder impairment, thus begins another tiresome diatribe:

Five conservative justices now dominate our Supreme Court—Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. They continue to revise our historical Constitution and two new cases show that the arguments they offer continue to be embarrassingly bad. One concerns contributions to religious schools; the other, public financing of elections. I will describe those cases and defend that criticism, but it might be well to notice, first, why the justices have had to resort to arguments of such poor quality.
(May 26, 2011)

From the Archives
Timeless Tosh from Current Wisdoms Past
(July 1991)

University of California Press
In the fall catalogue of the University of California Press, a sprightly notice for a study of a precursor of the National Organization for Women: