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The Nation's Pulse
Meet the Flukes!
Too many Americans today are “born without a skin.”
There’s a uniquely American ritual that has so far escaped the attention of cultural anthropologists. A group of people huddle, near a water cooler perhaps. One of them lowers his head, looks nervously from side to side, and then begins to speak softly, so that no one else might hear.
You’ve caught him in the act of perpetrating a joke.
This isn’t exactly the golden age of humor, as Rush Limbaugh discovered. For which our morality police will breathe a sigh of relief. They don’t have to worry about an edgy Saturday Night Live (“Jane, you ignorant slut!”) or National Lampoon. In fact, they don’t much have to worry about laughter at all, since there isn’t a lot of it. Laughter is dangerous, you see, because in every joke there’s a butt, someone at whom we laugh. Otherwise, it’s not funny.
That’s precisely the problem, however. Our laughter tells the butt that he’s a fool, a chump, a hypocrite. In short, he’s ridiculous. That’s a useful message, since our laughter tells the butt to shape up. Poor sap, he should thank us. Not that that’s likely, since there’s nothing more humiliating than ridicule.
That explains the death of laughter, since it collides with its arch-foe, the modern duty of respect. We used to think that social justice was all about economic needs, but now we’ve got a stronger safety net and it’s about banning expressions of disrespect. Gay marriage, the “war on women.” It’s all about feelings.
By the way, have you ever noticed that the modern definition of “social” is “not”? Social science is not science. Social work is not work. Social justice is not justice.
Forgive me, but I’m rather short on socially approved feelings these days. I don’t like being told that conservative views “disrespect” the whiners, and mostly I’m simply not interested in their complaints. I’m the last person I know who supports “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” You’re in a wonderful relationship? Fine. I just don’t want to know about it. It may well be the most faaabulous thing in your life at the moment, the only thing you want to talk about, but at best you’ve committed the unpardonable sin of becoming a bore. At worst, you’re passive-aggressive, and are churlishly claiming a right to my expression of respect. Either way, I’m defriending you.
Too many Americans today are, like Jefferson’s cousin, John Randolph of Roanoke, “born without a skin.” Every snub is magnified a hundredfold, and burns like fire on their souls. The easy grace that permits the strong man to laugh off a jest has been replaced by a touchiness that feels a slight from ten feet away. The difference is that, unlike Randolph, we’ve replaced the duel with the petition: “We, the undersigned, are outraged that…”
We, the undersigned, are pretty much outraged all the time, in case you haven’t noticed. Which is another reason for the death of laughter. So little time, so much to hate. In George Orwell’s 1984, every citizen was required to participate in a daily two minute hate-in. They were shown a film of Enemies of the People and required to express their hatred for 120 seconds. They got off easy. If MSNBC had only two minutes to get the hate in, they’d have nothing much left to broadcast for the remainder of their time.
Which brings us back to Limbaugh. In case you’ve been living on Mars, Rush said a Bad Word on February 29, and there’s been Hell to pay ever since. A lady called Sandra Fluke (rhymes with…oh, never mind) complained before an agitprop Democratic committee about Georgetown Law School’s policy of not providing insurance coverage for contraceptive pills. She said that a prescription cost $1,000 a year. Actually, it’s closer to $100, and Rush wondered what the extra money was all about. And so he used That Word, causing 300 million hearts to go all-aflutter.
Georgetown is a Jesuit university, and from this some might have concluded that it was a Catholic institution. If so, one might have wondered what Ms. Fluke expected when she got there. What she expected, she said, was that Georgetown would live up to the Jesuit creed, as enlightened people understand it, and Georgetown seemed eager to oblige her. The university’s president, John DeGioia, hastened to condemn Limbaugh for the disrespect he had displayed to a Georgetown student.
One reads that her parents are proud of her. That’s not surprising. After all, they were responding to President Obama’s demands, for he had telephoned their daughter to say that her parents ought to be proud of her. How their hearts must swell at the fame and respect she has brought to the name Fluke, which will live forevermore as a symbol of…something or other.
The entire episode was shame-making, but not because of some fictitious war on women. Rather, it revealed the essential triviality of modern politics. The economy is tanking, a fifth of Americans are out of work, the public debt load is wholly unsustainable, and what we want to know is whether Obama will come out publicly in favor of gay marriage. The Iranians are about to get the bomb, the Arab spring has turned to winter, we’re embroiled in an Afghani quagmire, but the real question is whether Rush’s advertisers will dump him.
So far they’re hanging in, for the most part, because Rush still commands what appears to be the largest audience in American radio. His listeners like his politics, of course, but that’s not the only story. Rush is also a humorist of a particularly American type, the teller of tall tales, the man behind the golden microphone, the orator who invites you to laugh with him at his exaggerations. He also offers an astute analysis of American politics, but sensible policy advice doesn’t make for an audience said to be of 20 million people a week. He is, above all, an entertainer, and entertainers sometimes tell bad jokes, especially if asked to perform for upward of 600 hours a year, for more than 20 years.
That’s not good enough for people on the left, and it’s also not good enough for the many people on the right who joined in the opportunistic show of hypocritical outrage. The latter are an interesting group. Some are prigs, of course, who are shocked, just shocked, when Foster Friess tells a joke about aspirin pills as a form of birth control. Others are what the French call vendus, the sell-outs who owe their celebrity solely to their willingness to dump on their colleagues on the right. For the banal Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, the Fluke episode was a godsend, since it permitted her to move on from the awfulness of Sarah Palin, volume CXI. Am I the only one who misses CNN’s Parker-Spitzer? She was Little Nell, and like Oscar Wilde one had to have a heart of stone not to giggle at her stunned befuddlement, a vapid grin fixed on her immobile face, when teamed up with motormouth Eliot Spitzer. (But then who could have handled Spitzer? Oh yes, Sarah Palin.)
Finally, there’s a third group: the conservative who yearns for left-wing approbation. I am so reasonable, my facts so irrefutable, my conclusions so logical. How can you deny me respect, Keith Olbermann? That’s an intellectual failing, of course, one of high silliness, but it’s also a moral failing. It’s an example of the narcissism at the heart of the ethic of respect.
You know what one should do with all such people? Laugh at them.
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F.H. Buckley is Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law.
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Appleby| 5.25.12 @ 6:21AM
The only "acceptable" jokes these days are what used to be called "dirty jokes" -- sexually explicit remarks, photos and words repeated loudly in places where nobody wants to hear them.
The world has turned into Toddler Heaven; we are bombarded by the kinds of stuff that used to make little boys giggle until they saw an adult had overheard them, when they would suddenly wear the expression I call "Don't Tell My Mama!" The only way to respond to this pale attempt at "humour" is not to laugh; then the babies call one a "prude" and tell one to "lighten up", and the fun rolls on.
Homer G. Olsen| 5.25.12 @ 6:32AM
Snicker, chortle..."teabagger!" Bwaahaaahaaaa! Aren't we clever?!
Yawn...
Booger| 5.25.12 @ 10:37AM
This is totally off topic, but it shouldn't be. Since this is blog about Brett Kimberlin (the convicted terrorist) day, and Robert Stacy McCain, one of Spectator's own, is currently in hiding with his family due to threats from Kimberlin, why is there no mention of it here today? Shame on Spectator for not sticking up for its own.
Shadow| 5.25.12 @ 7:53AM
The only way to respond to social coercion is to not give a d*mn about what those who are destroying our country think. The thought police are not concerned about people, they are using public ridicule and shame vs. popularity to control what is said if it contradicts their agenda.
If a liberal "likes" you it is because he wants something and you are "with it" only as long as you are useful. We must all speak up and be proud to defend morals and America.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.25.12 @ 9:09AM
Appleby, perhaps I can respond to both your point and the author’s point with the last clean joke (absent a “knock-knock”) that I still recall (with credit to “Boys Life” magazine, circa 1970, and apologies for my fractured rendition).
A young man is driving cross country to begin his career on the other coast. He is eating breakfast at a diner in the West, when the waitress points out an Indian at the end of the counter. She tells the man that the Indian has a flawless photographic memory, and remembers everything that ever happened to him in his lifetime. As the man finishes his breakfast, he decides to test what he’s been told. He approaches the Indian, and asked what he had for breakfast ten years ago today.
The Indian, who is used to such challenges, blinks for a moment, and responds “Eggs”.
The young man feels a bit cheated, but continues his journey nonetheless. He arrives at his destination, begins his career, and labors for a decade becoming successful and building a family. He decides to move back to his old home, and embarks on another cross country journey in reverse.
Along the way, he stops in the same diner. Much to his pleasure, he sees the same Indian in the same corner. He decides he wishes to greet him, so he walks over, raises his hand, and says “How”.
The Indian blinks for a moment and responds “Scrambled”.
If Boys Life magazine even exists today, this piece would be under assault on multiple fronts.
From the feminists: Why can’t the character be a woman (ignoring the target audience of “Boys Life) who has a career?
From the Native American activists: We are tired of the white man exploiting indigenous people. The term”How” as a greeting is a false European creation propagated by the slanderous image promoted by Hollywood.
From the nutrition Nazis: Eggs are bad for your cholesterol. Children and other living things need to have proper diets and nutrition.
From the environmentalists: The carbon footprint of these cross country trips could provide a Third World village with enough power to have organic vegetables for three decades.
Mr. Buckley is correct that we need to laugh at these people. I’m just not sure that laughter is enough.
R Martin| 5.25.12 @ 9:45AM
Scouting is very much alive today. It continues to attract and help develop remarkable young men and, yes, with membership comes a subscription to "Boys Life".
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.25.12 @ 10:43AM
The Delmarva Council does fine work (even if one of their scoutmaster's dogs tried to bite me the other day in Canby Park), but it is good to know that BSA still has its publication.
gore4545| 5.25.12 @ 11:18AM
You're running off at the mouth again, Albert.
Get your fat ass up from that computer and do something constructive, unless you're in a wheelchair. And if you're wheelchair bound, do a jigsaw puzzle.
Yes, a jigsaw will occupy your obsessive mind for a while.
So cold out here in Portland, and snow is predicted for mountains. And they say spring is here?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.25.12 @ 12:00PM
Stand up, chuck. Oooohh, God love you. Everyone else stand up for chuck.
Had to worry about that wheelchair possibility, huh. Afraid to be "hatin' " on the handicapped?
Have no fear, neither my obsessions nor any current physical impairments keep me chair or computer bound. I have much to occupy me which is attended to besides this, but I seek my amusement where I choose.
Since I know your advice is offered with nothing but the best of intentions, I will offer similarly intended advice back to you. You can cease worrying about me, ignore me, go somewhere else, or continue to attempt to engage.
Enjoy the vistas of the snow covered mountains, whether they be out your window or in your mind. I'll be at the range for a while, but as the former Governor of California was fond of saying, I'll be back.
rjk| 5.26.12 @ 6:06AM
Albert... great blogs...
Miriam| 5.25.12 @ 1:38PM
You forgot that the Native American would point out that they are not called Indians anymore either. I guess it's to clear up the confusion as to whether they are "come to our casino" Indians or India Indians.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.25.12 @ 1:52PM
Excellent point.
KeepTheChange| 5.26.12 @ 8:34AM
Albert, sorry to be critical when you've posted such great insights but.....
You neglected to recognize what is, beyond doubt, the noisiest and most obnoxious lobby in America today:
"Boys Life" is published by an organization that promotes 'BIGOTRY' and 'HOMOPHOBIA"!!!!
So no matter how good the humour may be, no matter how inspirational the various other types of articles may be to the Scouting readership, it is nothing but a detestible propaganda sheet.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.26.12 @ 9:39AM
I appreciate that you and others have made some of the points I missed or glossed over. Thank you for the assist.
Rich D| 5.26.12 @ 2:43PM
Shout it from the housetops and it still won't be true.
Flayer| 5.28.12 @ 5:35PM
Laughter isn't enough. They need to be defeated.
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:06AM
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD . . ."
Dear readers,
Please take to heart these words before you post.
Try to be more Christ-like in your communication. Let go of the nastiness.
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 10:54AM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations App
An application to identify applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, and other assorted prigs, sellouts, and other assorted approbators
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT, what would be an example for readers of acceptable words from the meditation of your heart in response to the priggish, selling out, approbating words of liberal trolls?
chuck| 5.25.12 @ 9:36PM
I'm thinking the Savior Jesus Christ himself would look at liberals and say,"just DAMN, grow a sense of humor!"
Or something like that.
spike59| 5.25.12 @ 6:33AM
for the record, Fluke is a professional 'reproductive rights advocate' who went to Georgetown PRECISELY to have this public and sophomoric staged fight with the University, the Catholic Church, and the Republican Party as part of the White House's "let's distract the voters from our failed record" campaing strategy
TLP| 5.25.12 @ 8:22AM
No. She's a LYING SLUT, who thinks that everybody else should pay for her Addiction to Cck.
That's all this is.
She's like Jesse Jackson's WHORE - Tamara Holder - only Tamara isn't asking anybody to actually BUY her Vaginal Cream, her Condoms, her Birth Control Pills, her IUD's, or anything else that WHORES shove up themselves when a Married Black "Preacher" has his Gay Personal Assistant procure one of them to Service his Genitals. (Isn't that right, Tamara?)
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:19AM
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
I ask all of you to spend some time meditating on this verse from Ephesians.
Before you post , ask yourself this question: What would Jesus have to say on this topic, and how would he say it?
May the God of Love and Kindness enter your hearts . . .
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 11:00AM
T.E.D., a Tranlating Expressed Declarations app
An application to identify applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, and other assorted prigs, sellouts, and approbators
TED, a DIVINTIY STUDENT, what would be a good example for readers of what Christ might say in response to the priggish, selling out, approbating words of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, and epidemical emoting Emorys?
BackToBasics| 5.26.12 @ 1:56AM
Jesus was quite strong when dealing with the oppressors of His day. He said we should be like salt, a preservavtive but also a cleansing agent and a stinging one as well.
Look at the book of Jude verses 22, 23: "And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."
Matthew 23:27 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness." He said other strong words, or none at all when Herod "tried" him, yet he was without sin.
The super-soft Christianity of the West has allowed evil to grow worse. I understand where you are coming from and a looking for a balance is needed. Too much vitriol is not good but the mushy PUSHOVER stuff that passes for loving Christianity these days was not how Jesus comported Himself either.
Mike Hawk| 5.25.12 @ 5:07PM
I suspect Fluke may not like men. Just a hunch.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:33PM
She is engaged to a very well connected son of activist parents so I would imagine that you are wrong.
Jefferson| 5.25.12 @ 10:32PM
You're an idiot. She never said a thing about herself. You know nothing about science or you would know that contraceptive drugs are hormonal and can fight ailments that 2 million women have. If you weren't such a woman hater, you would know that.
rjk| 5.26.12 @ 6:09AM
So go to wal mart for $9 per month... to quote an extremely brilliant man "You're an idiot."
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:32PM
If you had been interested in fact finding? You would discover that birth control medication IS COVERED BY GEORGETOWN'S MEDICAL PLAN FOR STUDENTS when that treatment is for other than the prevention of a human life.
Flayer| 5.28.12 @ 5:38PM
Remember, facts just do NOT matter to libs.
KeepTheChange| 5.26.12 @ 8:47AM
My question for Fluke is this:
What about ME??? (Isn't that always the question?) Isn't her vision of reproductive 'justice' just a little bit discriminatory against men?
I want to get my rocks off too and don't believe it should cost me a dime either. I mean c'mon now. This here is America, land of the free. So why can't I just go down to my local drugstore, show them my Social Security card and get a free pack of rubbers whenever I feel the urge to get laid?
Does this glaring inequity suggest that perhaps Ms. Fluke condones a 'war against men'?
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:30PM
Saw a great bumper sticker just the other day.
More Wag. Less Bark.
You might want to give it a try. Unless Ms. Holder's activities are impacting you directly, what she is doing is none of your business. Now, if she has covered or covers and promotes an issue manufactured by or benefitting Jackson, that is a different matter. Until then? You are a hater and to be clear, I am a conservative woman.
TLP| 5.26.12 @ 9:36PM
I don't care what you are.
SHE is still a Whore.
That's what you call Sluts who are brought to Hotels rooms by the assistants of MARRIED MEN.
Unless, of course, you happen to do the same sh*t, which makes YOU a Whore, as well.
Is that your problem?
You don't like it, because it hits too close to home, for you?
TLP| 5.26.12 @ 9:38PM
Obviously, you don't GIVE A SH*T about MRS. Jesse Jackson.
I do.
beebop2| 5.27.12 @ 4:05PM
You are a nasty, vile piece of work. My comfort is that I only know you via the internet. Some poor soul actually SLEEPS with you.
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:17PM
TLP:
Hey, I saw something fun on Weasel Zippers today. Apparently, some "unknown country" has infected mucho Islamic computers with the "Flame" virus! It interferes and wipes memory. Love it! Makes me laugh!
And beebop2---I thought that would be the case. For example, using various OCPs to treat polycystic ovary disease. Makes sense.
By the way, Ms. Fluke is aptly named: she desires to be a parasite. I'm not casting aspersions on her sexual practices, just on the fact that she wants others to pay for her.
Jack London| 5.25.12 @ 7:16AM
Oh right, so here's yet another long article whose only purpose is to say that it's a real grown-up thing to call a law student a slut and a prostitute. Wow Buckley, you sure are one classy human being.
Willis| 5.25.12 @ 7:51AM
I have no doubt what Ms. Fluke is. What I do doubt is your ability to read a well written article, understand its message and, of course, laugh.
Jefferson| 5.25.12 @ 10:33PM
You only know what Rush "Drugs R Us" Limpwrist tells you to know.
Jobe| 5.26.12 @ 3:52AM
Say, are you George Jefferson? Where is Wheezie?
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:34PM
I would put good money on a bet that you have never listened to Rush Limbaugh? Why is it again that "progressives" are called "open minded?"
dark man| 5.25.12 @ 7:52AM
what do you care? Are you related?
TLP| 5.26.12 @ 9:41PM
Why DON'T you care that a Fat Mouth Race Hustling MINISTER, who professes to be a MAN OF GOD, is procuring WHORES to his Hotel Room?
You must be a SCUMBAG as well.
beebop2| 5.27.12 @ 4:06PM
Did you forget to refill your prescriptions prior to the holiday weekend?
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 7:58AM
Hey Jack, Go fluke yourself.
BTW, if you think calling a law student a slut and a prostitute is in poor form, wait till she passes the bar and becomes a lawyer.Then the real colorful language will really begin to fly!!!
She ain't heard nothing yet, pal.
Bruce| 5.25.12 @ 8:29AM
Your use of "Go Fluke yourself" becomes more accurate if you ever listen to Sean Hannity pronounce her last name.
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:24AM
"Walk in the light.
It's a beautiful light.
Walk where the sunbeams of mercy shine bright."
May the sunbeams of mercy and kindness shine on you today and cleanse you of your wickedness.
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 11:07AM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations app
An application to identify applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, and other assorted prigs, sell outs, and other assorted approbators
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT, how would sunbeams of mercy and sunbeams of kindness cleanse the wickedness of liberal trolls, the wickedness of hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, the wickedness of epidemical emoting Emorys, the wickedness of prigs, the wickedness of sell outs, and the wickedness of approbators?
Jobe| 5.26.12 @ 3:54AM
May the bird of paradise play hopscotch in your duodenum.
Johnny Carson
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:20PM
Ms. Fluke, as a Liberal ATTORNEY, is the FOURTH lowest form of life. The lowest is, of course, child molester. The second lowest is jihadist and jihadi supporters. The third is Liberal Journalist.
Ms. Fluke is a despicable scumbag due to her profession and her beliefs. Her sexual habits are really immaterial, except that she wants to live up to her name and be a parasite by having others pay for them.
Note that I have insulted her greviously without really discussing her sex, except in passing.
Mike Hawk| 5.25.12 @ 8:22AM
Maybe you like trollop or 'ho better. All of them fit. Being a law stooont doesn't set the twit above criticism for low moral character.
Jefferson| 5.25.12 @ 10:34PM
She never testified about herself using contraceptives at all. But, you women haters jumped right into bed with Rush, didn't ya?
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:41PM
My real problem is that Nancy Pelosi reached out to Anita Dunn and her business partner and put this sad excuse for a legal scholar in front of a sham "committee" designed for no other purpose than to launch the ill-fated Hillary Rosen concluded "war on women." If you want to see the "war on women," you should have been paying attention when Hillary Clinton was running against the incumbant and her female followers were exposed to colorful disgusting comments from their democrat brethern. That's the reason I am a proud female conservative.
skip| 5.25.12 @ 8:24AM
. . . vomited a slutty AmSpec prig sellout approbate reprobate charlatan, continuously the butt of the joke, right on cue.
Boar Hunter| 5.25.12 @ 8:29AM
Fluke worm is just another type of liberal parasite
ds80| 5.25.12 @ 8:58AM
Hey Jack London, what's your point? Fluke is a slut and a prostitute.
Jefferson| 5.25.12 @ 10:34PM
No, she isn't, and why don't you get your head out of Rush's a**?
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:42PM
Let me guess? You would rather have yours up Bill Maher's?
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 9:02AM
Jack, as a Yankee fan, I'm begging you to get Fluke to have sex with ARod in the Yankee dugout, lord knows, he hasn't had a hot bat all season.
If the team gets to watch and they all get hot bats, maybe they'll win the World Series and Fluke can be their batgirl next year!!
I think she'd look nifty in pinstripes, don't you?
Oh, but who'll break the sad news to Bristol Palin? Didn't Letterman promise she'd get the job after her quicky with A Rod?
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:28AM
God knows your every thought and deed. Do your posts reflect God's love? Pause a moment and think about this.
T.E.D., and apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 11:17AM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations app
An application to identify applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, and other assorted prigs, sell outs, and other assorted approbators
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT, how are readers to take into their hearts your acceptable words, in order for readers to meditate on them, so reader words can reflect God's love, when your meditated words, unacceptably, do not reflect every reader knows God is not a Yankees fan, even though readers may not know God is a Tigers fan?
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 3:40PM
That sir, is a reprehensible lie!!! God is not a Tigers fan!!!
He might have been a few decades ago, but he lost half the universe when Denny McLain gave him odds on a game he was pitching and McLain blew the odds big time.
I have it on good authority that God has not been back to Detroit since then. Besides, they ain't got no street lights in Detroit, the streets aren't safe, even for God.
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 4:21PM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations app
An application, in addition to identifying applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, other assorted prigs, sell outs, and other assorted approbators, also is an application that moderates and arbitrates applicable and non-applicable disagreements
Anthony, sir, how are readers to take your words acceptably, when your hysterical emoting words are the words of a hysterical emoting Yankees fan, a hysterical emoting Yankees fan rooting for Alex Rodriguez, rooting for ARod not just in the past, not just in the present, but intending to continue rooting for ARod into the future?
McLain, has paid for his violations in the past against life and baseball by serving his sentence.
ARod, is being credited with statistics dubiously earned, and willfully ignored, even while sucking big time in the all important post season.
Moderation and arbitration clearly favors, desiring no appeal upon any authority: Tigers
Besides, ARod slept with Madonna. Even Detroit rejected that fluking slut.
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 6:52PM
Hysterical you say, eh? ARod is the subject of this post due to Mr. Gaptooth Letterman's disgusting comment about Gov. Palin's then 14 year old daughter having a quickie in the dugout with ARod.
I of course, would have suggested our best, Derek, a true and great Yankee, but given that we're talking Fluke here, my man deserves only the best.
However, it's good to know that Detroit rejected that slut Madonna. In ARod's defense, with no lights in Detroit, it could have been a case of mistaken identity.
Happy Memorial Day to all !!! Remember America's best!! We resume on Tuesday!!
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 8:36PM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations app
An application to identify the most applicable baseball wisdom for superior logical rational sane fans of the correct team as well as for inferior hysterical emoting fans of the wrong teams
Hysterical emoting Yankees fan takes as given the best the Yankees have is ARod's teammate the Michigan native son Derek Jeter all while failing to hysterically emote McLain's teammates the
Michigan native sons Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup, Mickey Stanley, and Willie Horton. No wonder God wears an olde english D Tigers cap and satan wears Yankee pinstripes both at home and on the road.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.26.12 @ 10:04AM
All of this about the Tigers (and even Denny McLain) without a word about Mickey Lolich? It was he who helped break my heart (as a Cardinals fan in the late 60s) in Game 7 in 1968. In addition, he pulled riot duty with the Michigan National Guard, and is often credited with saying words to the effect of "Fat guys need idols too"
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.27.12 @ 10:06AM
An application to identify the most applicable baseball wisdom for superior logical rational sane fans of the correct team as well as for inferior hysterical emoting fans of the wrong teams
That gut was appropriately applicably apt when the Mick rode his hog. McLain always took a back seat, behind Lolich, even when recording a 31-6 record in a world championship season. And Al Kaline takes a back seat to no one, not even Stan Musial. With McLain and the Michigan native sons, and Norm Cash and Dick McAuliffe, Lolich and Kaline led the best team that won, in a true classic.
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 3:17PM
Ted, apparently you didn't get the word; it seems some followers of Mohammad have claimed to have recently discovered a lost gospel that claims Allah is the one true god, and that Jesus was just a man who proclaimed the coming of Mohammad, the true prophet.
I'd hate to see all your hard work at Divinity School go to waste, can you transfer some of your credits when you apply to a Madrass?
SUBVET| 5.25.12 @ 12:46PM
My son the X pro ball player says it's called a [slump buster].
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 3:19PM
Congrats!!! What team?
SUBVET| 5.25.12 @ 4:33PM
Robert played for the Miners a independent tean out of S. Ill. . His recent clam to fame is a part in Money Ball #22 [Eric Brynes].......waiting for royalty checks to pay off his student loans.
Drunken Sailor| 5.25.12 @ 5:28PM
No kidding. Live 30 miles from there. Love to watch them play.
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 6:35PM
SUBVET, You are a lucky man and obviously a wonderful father, in addition to being a patriot.
Calvin| 5.25.12 @ 9:29AM
Go listen to Bill Maher or Ed Schultz, David Letterman talk about conservative women. It will toughen you up. You are such a phony. Is there anything that you believe in?
J.C.Eaton| 5.25.12 @ 1:28PM
Author: Pay no attention to this burlesque of a very disturbed but very entertaining writer. Your piece was excellent; both entertaining and instructive. The vapid, insipid , useless asseveration above notwithstanding. Best,
Flayer| 5.28.12 @ 5:42PM
What would YOU call a privileged woman who goes on national tv and tells YOU that YOU must provide her and fellow female students with birth control? What about the RIGHTS of those women who either choose a more responsible life-style. Are they also required to hand over money to those who decide to be sexually active? It it REALLY their and our responsibility? Why don't you start a fund with like-minded folks to have money available for birth control for Catholic law school students? Why sit by and make ME or other students pay for it? You are just insufferable.
mrpoon| 5.25.12 @ 7:32AM
Very astute.
Carol| 5.25.12 @ 8:02AM
Nice article.
I love nothing more than to ridicule the left. I'm a nobody but have a few websites where the name I use makes heads explode. That's why I'm not changing it.
I agree Mr. Buckley, those uppity snobs on the right who think Rush went over the line when he was reacting to an outrage the Pelosi and Fluke set up make me sick. You are either on the right and except Rush' apology or you are on the despicable lefts' side. Moderates can butt out.
Jefferson| 5.27.12 @ 4:38PM
Keep your head up Rush's a** - that's where it belongs. Not with civil people.
Flayer| 5.28.12 @ 5:45PM
You don't sound very civil to me, Jefferson. But this is how your parents taught you so I give you a pass.
NØbama'12| 5.25.12 @ 8:04AM
Very refreshing insight sir! Thank you for making me laugh at this mob scene of phony outrage!
Von Mises Jr| 5.25.12 @ 9:27AM
The Rush recent parody is:
"He's got Twenty-five weeks to go Now," "he's got to keep on talkin, talk on."
Rush makes me laugh harder than Perp, I mean Jefferson, or perhaps he is also DRed and Brooksie. I think we have a singular troll problem.
Here is proof we have a troll with multiple identities as he screwed up on "The Great Debate" yesterday:
"Jefferson| 5.24.12 @ 4:57PM
If you read a bit more you would know that's what I was talking about, until the little snot Von M starts the name calling.
Reply to this
John Navratil| 5.24.12 @ 6:23PM
Jefferson,
I am confused. I reply to Purp and you reply to me.
You sounds as if you are replying, in the first person, as Purp. Are you the same person with two blog persona?"
Check it out yourself in the comments for this article. These liberals are so stupid that they trick themselves!!!
al222| 5.25.12 @ 8:14AM
Everyone who ever attended high school remembers the few mealy-mouthed, hypersensitive whiners who couldn't stand the thought of other people enjoying themselves.
Those people are now running the country.
daddio| 5.25.12 @ 10:34AM
That's it! That explains everything! We are now back in high school!
bluecollarbytes| 5.26.12 @ 10:54AM
that explains more than a roomful of imaginary 'annalists'.
Mutt the Hoople| 5.25.12 @ 8:14AM
Feigned outrage, doing things "for the children", exploding government deficits, et. al. is what happens when you give women the right to vote. Repeal the 19th Amendment, and 2/3's of our nation's problems would go away.
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:30AM
Jesus would weep.
T.E.D., an apt applicable app| 5.25.12 @ 11:23AM
T.E.D., a Translating Expressed Declarations app
An application to identify applicable wisdom for life from the onslaught of liberal trolls, hypocritical hysterical homosexuals, epidemical emoting Emorys, and other assorted prigs, sell outs, and other assorted approbators
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT, how would readers not profit from meditated acceptable words of why Christ would weep, and from what acceptable words Christ did have for women, the acceptable words of Christ's Father that Christ acceptably reflected with Christ's own acceptable words for women?
chuck| 5.25.12 @ 9:42PM
Go away, troll! Or we'll sic Margie on ya!
Margie.....can you give this liberal troll a few divinity lessons?
Clint| 5.26.12 @ 10:57AM
Margie's American Spectator's Equal Opportunity Religious Bigot.
Let chuckie Tell Ya Where Margie Says Practicing Jews & Muslims Go When They Die.
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:24PM
Oy, it's Clint the jihadist catamite again. Clint, Margie has been much more polite and pleasant to this Jew than you. You are as antisemitic as Palestinian television and journalism. I bet your "Jewish friends" really enjoy your discussions of the Talmud.
You are a laughable clown. As you also support Barack Obama's ambition to be re-elected, you are also an imbecile.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:45PM
Right. Because 0bama is sooooo much smarter than Michelle Malkin.
Mike Hawk| 5.25.12 @ 8:18AM
The left has neither a sense of humor nor irony. The only thing that they laugh at is a crass 'comedian' who laces the air with f-bombs. Ha, Ha, bad taste is so funny. Everything else offends them.
Drunken Sailor| 5.25.12 @ 1:52PM
The problem with the left is you have to explain the joke to them unless it's crude and sophmoric. Ruins the punchline.
Jefferson| 5.27.12 @ 4:39PM
You really don't know how other people see you right wing nuts exactly the same way. You really are clueless, aren't ya?
C3+3PdOh| 5.29.12 @ 12:51PM
Maybe, to settle which side is more truthfully consistent with reality on the matter, your side could actually provide an actual fact supporting your side, just once, to counter the thousands offered by our side, eh, Purp the Poopyhead Pansy Prevaricating in every Post in that deluxe aPartment in the sky?
Louis Jenkins| 5.25.12 @ 8:18AM
Humor. the whole set up should make us laugh til we are sick. Pelosi sets up a fake congressional hearing, and then Fluke sits in and states the cost of birth control pills are $1000.00 a month, and some of her female friends are broke because of it? Go down to the health dept. you lain-brain and get them for free if you're so poor. But I guess you've got to go to a designer pharmacy to get them, or is it just a put on? Wait a minute, I've answered my own question.
Cobalt| 5.25.12 @ 9:11AM
Another case of someone trying to claim victim status in order to empower themselves, and their political movement, at the expense of others.
SUBVET| 5.25.12 @ 10:56AM
Cobalt....it's called a VICTACRAT
Cobalt| 5.25.12 @ 1:32PM
VICTACRAT....that's good. Thank you.
Obie Wan| 5.25.12 @ 9:32AM
Ha,ha, I loved this article,and yeah,I'm laughing. I'm not sure how many stupid people were "thrown off the track" about O'Alinsky's epic failure as a President by Ms Fluk's dilemma, but I've no doubt there were some !!!
Jefferson| 5.27.12 @ 4:43PM
Yeah, that Obama, he's something else - got Rush all wound up and forced him to degrade women, just so's Obama could make an issue of it. Yep, that Obama is so clever and devious.
The truth is far more interesting - Rush can't stand Obama, and will do or say anything to keep him from being elected. And, from the comments about Fluke here, y'all swallowed his bs hook, line and sinker. Fell right in it you did.
Imagine the laughter among his friends how stupid y'all are falling for his misinformation and propaganda? Rush is rich, and you are what again?
PolishKnight| 5.25.12 @ 9:58AM
This article reminds me of a Sally Forth cartoon I read more than 20 years ago. Sally Forth is about the ideal career woman whose also married to a man whose successful in his career. Sally has a boss, a bald white male, whose stupid and corrupt and all the co-workers, mostly women, smugly make fun of him. Her daughter, Hillary, is also on the career fast track and does the usual leftist stuff in college.
In one strip, her husband is complaining that he seems to be the butt of all jokes in the media. Sally looks at him and says "White males are the only group it's ok to make fun of. Sorry!" and then he whimpers. It's like she has his ***** in her purse.
In the meantime, SNL is less about dirty humor nowadays, or even much humor at all, but rather simply saying over and over again: "White males and/or Republicans are stupid! Hahahaha!" While there's a cruel element of humor in showing how people can be stupid, the left rarely goes into detail and it's usually the same stuff they're said for the past 50 years: Right wingers are racist! Hahahah! Or Right wingers are ignorant! Hahaha! They think Africa is a country! Hahaha! They think the USA has 57 states! Oh, wait!!!!
There's a darker element of humor where there's little humor but rather simply cruelty. Consider the joke about about the "Indian" saying "How". The basis for that joke isn't to make fun of the Indian. The context of the joke is that Indians, from TV shows in the 50's and 60's, said "How" as a form of hello and there's a play on words along with his excellent memory skills. It's actually a compliment.
The most damning indictment of leftism isn't whether its economics can ever work but rather they always engage in group politics and seek to create a "minority" and then scapegoat it (in our case, they label their coalition an oppressed minority even as they gloat over their numbers). National Socialism and Soviet Socialism engaged in policies of gulags and mass starvation respectively. Their smugness and self-importance allows them to discard a moral compass and dehumanize their opponents.
On the Bill Maher show, I saw them laughing at some southern man they were interviewing and how he had no teeth! Hahaha! He's so poor and probably stupid! Hahahaha! Maher laughed "I want to GIVE him teeth (via socialism)! He's so stupid he doesn't know who his benefactors are! (even as Bill giggles at how these losers lose their jobs to illegals. Hahaha!)
There's a saying that a conservative is a liberal whose been mugged. More accurately, Karma is when a liberal gets mugged.
Jefferson| 5.27.12 @ 4:47PM
Got news Bubba, Keynesian economics has worked in this country and around the world for over 80years. It's only since St.Reagan and IronTwat Thatcher came into office has our economy gone to sh**. Voodoo economics didn't work in the 80's and it doesn't work now. Trickle down trickles down alright - just not with jobs or money.
James Solbakken | 5.27.12 @ 5:08PM
Keynesianism worked but "voodoo" did not? Really? Keynesianism IS the "voodoo" economics of which you speak!!! IT IS VOODOO THINKING to imagine that borrowing and spending lead to prosperity. Keynesianism is based on the idea that there is no such thing as "productivity;" nor is there any such thing as "investing;" there is only SPENDING!!! And the government can spend just as well as real investors can. As you say, the last 80 years prove it, right? If it were not for the brilliance of Lord Maynard, we would not be in the gloriously affluent position the world now finds itself!!! Producers are the problem; only those who consume at the expense of producers actually benefit society!!!
chuck| 5.28.12 @ 8:30AM
", Keynesian economics has worked in this country and around the world for over 80years."
Jesus would look at this comment and say, "I can cure the sick, heal the blind, and perform miracles, but not even I can fix stupidity like this."
Flayer| 5.28.12 @ 5:47PM
Jefferson, you are so rude. Your parents must be so proud.
PolishKnight| 5.29.12 @ 10:36AM
You missed the point, Jefferson, and helped to illustrate what I was saying. With leftists, the economics ultimately doesn't really matter. What matters is that the party of FDR chucked his working class white male constituency under the bus. Look at what they did then with working class black males who also are being pushed into prisons in greater numbers than during Jim Crow.
The economics of the left is about dehumanizing a group of people in order to appease the masses or even to just balance the books (temporarily) and even then, it doesn't work. Josef Stalin's KGB had a key to the back door of his ministers so he could have them picked up and liquidated anytime of the evening he wanted to. The only real justice of the left is that eventually, all of them get their turn. Look at the way David Dinkins treated his white NYC voters!
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.25.12 @ 10:07AM
I don't credit the "don't ask, don't tell" concept; if one is homosexual, the armed forces used to say that was prejudicial to good order. I still support that old concept. Forget about "DADT;" don't let 'em in in the first place, and kick 'em out if they reveal themselves after they defraud their way in.
SUBVET| 5.25.12 @ 11:37AM
Bill.........this wouldn't happen when I served....my guess "it" would have lasted about 1 day at sea.
I served on what was call a "sewer pipe" an old Guppy II WWII fleet boat crew of 120 officers & enlisted. In fact I served on the oldest boat in the Navy SS 241. The Navy refit her when I came on board and used her to wet deck launch Navy SEALS close on shore. We also worked with Korean special forces and UDT.
Today we have NUKES that have crews of mixed genders and Iam sure a few "it's".
We didn't get our own bunk we had to "hot bunk" because there weren't enough bunks aboard. You stood your watch and your bunk mate relieved you and then you had the use of the same bunk. The "it" program would have never worked on board our boat.
All I can say is I am glad I don't serve today. All this PC and "it" crap wouldn't stand in our Sewer Pipe.
I could go on here about how this don't ask don't tell crap affects the the military's job but most of you old timers know what I mean.
I don't know how many summers I have left, but I never thought I would see what this country has come to. Everyday our freedoms that so many have given there lives for has changed in a bad way. I pray that our country wakes up and we can take it back.
I remember my oath and I will defend it to my dying day.
Drunken Sailor| 5.25.12 @ 1:58PM
LOL, My brother told me about his "Hotbunk" expeirence on the James K. Polk. One SOB gets crabs and watch out.
SUBVET| 5.25.12 @ 4:25PM
DS............on our boat if you had to turn over in your rack you had to slide out and get back in.
James K. Polk was the Hilton compaired to our old girl.
chuck| 5.28.12 @ 8:33AM
SUBVET,
Bless you, and thank you for your service.
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:25PM
Thank you, sir.
Jefferson| 5.27.12 @ 4:48PM
Why? On what basis other than your bigotry?
Charliefreak| 5.25.12 @ 10:11AM
For Ms. Fluke:
"It's been so long since last we met,
Lie down forever, lie down ..."
Also, Professor Buckley, it's Georgetown University Law Center, not Law School. We are touchy like that, quick to feel slighted. Oh, and I didn't mean touchy in an unprotected way. Hope I didn't offend anyone. There go my sponsors.
John Navratil| 5.25.12 @ 6:24PM
Poor kid, she overdid!
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:52PM
Thank you so much for clearing that up so nicely. Won't make the mistake again of thinking of it as a law school. Were you the person laughing in the background when Senator Boxer showed us how thin skinned she is when a member of our military mistakenly called her "ma'm?"
David W| 5.25.12 @ 10:20AM
Being offended is a way to shut down talk you do not want to hear. I saw a video of David Horowitz trying to speak before an audience. Before he had even spent a few minutes there were already people who were offended, as if being "offended" gives someone the right to shut another person up.
I saw a clip of the View where the beautiful S.E. Cupp was on and responding to the Hustler picture. What outrage was displayed. Yet haven't these same harpies (with one or two exceptions) had Bill Maher on? Did Whoopi and Joy rip him a new one??
TED, a DIVINITY STUDENT| 5.25.12 @ 10:33AM
In my opinion, Jesus Himself would be offended by much of what is expressed on this blog. As a Christian, it hurts to read some of your comments.
You are too mean-spirited. Let go of your anger, and accept the love and kindness of Jesus Christ.
Calvin| 5.25.12 @ 10:57AM
Ted, they need you at all left wing sites where things are far worse. Being a leftwinger yourself they will certainly listen and respect you. Why the hypocrisy of only lecturing what are pretty tame remarks by people on the right. You are pretending to be a Christian aren't you? Left wing trolls are just amazing.
CJohnson| 5.25.12 @ 11:28AM
"Jesus Himself would be offended" by blog posts. Where on "the top 10 things that offend Jesus" list would it rank?
junkyard infidel| 5.25.12 @ 12:34PM
hey ted, what kind of computer does Jesus use? desktop? notebook? windows? mac i-pad, i-book? linux? ... do tell !
Drunken Sailor| 5.25.12 @ 2:00PM
Maybe it's a Apple
rjk| 5.26.12 @ 6:18AM
In my opinion, Ted, Christ would die on the cross for you and all of us, since we are all sinners...
Let go of your anger, and accept the love and kindness of Jesus Christ... and yes... you to should do what Christ did, since you are a Divinity Student
James Solbakken | 5.27.12 @ 5:12PM
Yet you have no compassion for the innocent!!! What a phony balony plastic banana you are!!! A real Christian judges righteously. You cannot be a real Christian at all when you use terms like "mean spirited." "Mean spirited means NOTHING beyond it's utility as a POLITICAL SMEAR!!!! Man, what a maroon you are!!!
Fredx| 5.25.12 @ 10:53AM
Only one thing left to say: BRAVO!
CJohnson| 5.25.12 @ 11:17AM
Arrogant people loathe a smartaleck.
AhiaGuy| 5.25.12 @ 11:20AM
It's no accident that the East Coast center of Leftist thought is Massachusetts where the Puritans once reigned. Even though they're gone, their spirit still holds sway in all the manifestations of Political Correctness. As Mencken so aptly said, Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:54PM
If that were the case? They would still be interested in thrift and hard work.
A Grin without a Cat| 5.28.12 @ 9:57AM
This is a vile smear of the Puritans, who weren't nearly the killjoys they're commonly made out to be. Comparing them to modern leftists is inexcusable slander.
CJohnson| 5.25.12 @ 11:31AM
Imagine Mencken and MAD magazine collaborating.
Professor S.| 5.25.12 @ 3:44PM
Paranoid delusions! You people are full of them!
Reading this shit is a surrealist, Kafakesque experience.
Would you not be happier if you let go of some of your hate?
The devil incarnate is behind many of your posts.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:55PM
You squeel like a trained pig. Please. Add something to the discussion next time you post.
James Solbakken | 5.27.12 @ 5:15PM
The more you commie eff-weasels demand that I let go of my "hate," the more determined I am to nurture my hate, and make it grow, and extend to all things I see as evil, especially the commie eff-weasels. Really, dummy, you stupid maroon, what makes you think hating the evil commie eff-weasels like you doesn't make me very happy?
RichTex| 5.25.12 @ 11:34AM
Maybe once Obama is re-elected and therefore will have more “flexibility”, he will appoint a Humor Czar to monitor all jokes anyone tells to make certain that none of them hurt anyone’s feelings. Except for those dastardly right-wingers, of course.
Mike G| 5.25.12 @ 12:11PM
Oh great! Now you've given Big O another senseless Czar post he can give to a crony, thereby donating more of our money to one of his friends. Please stop giving him stupid ideas--he has enough already.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 1:55PM
Why does Roseanne come to mind?
Cobalt| 5.26.12 @ 4:56PM
Obama might create a czar position for Ashley Judd.
Epiphany Czar?
Ashley Judd: Obama "Has An Incredible Devotion To Our Constitution"
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....ution.html
Greg| 5.25.12 @ 12:02PM
Fluke is a dirty slut. Sorry it's true.
PolishKnight| 5.25.12 @ 12:52PM
No Greg. Just the opposite.
After decades of experience, I can say with certainty than when a woman is getting a lot of positive, and deserved personal attention from men (oftentimes me) and is happy with their personal life, they are neither easily offended nor out to harm others under the pretense of being offended. My wife agrees and it's her hypothesis that women get **** balls just like men and get ****y.
The problem for them is that Fluke simply isn't that attractive. She has potential but she has the feminine wiles of a construction worker and the morals of a shrew. The lack of positive male attention creates a feedback loop making her even more shrill and unfeminine.
Truth be told, if she had been born 50 years ago and become a housewife, she'd be a lot happier. Look at how tense her face is.
Mike G| 5.25.12 @ 1:20PM
"The problem for them is that Fluke simply isn't that attractive. She has potential but she has the feminine wiles of a construction worker and the morals of a shrew. The lack of positive male attention creates a feedback loop making her even more shrill and unfeminine."
It's enough to make one wonder why she needs birth control.
Drunken Sailor| 5.25.12 @ 2:01PM
Mike,
Two words
Beer Goggles.
beebop2| 5.26.12 @ 2:01PM
Okay.
If you read my other comments, you will know that:
1. I am female.
2. I love listening to Rush
3. The fluke hearing was a fluke.
But? This was a mistake on Rush's part and he has discussed it on his subsequent programs. It added to days and days of not staying on message and falling for the ridiculous "war on women" meme. Beyond that? Sandra Fluke is ENGAGED to be MARRIED. There is apparently someone for everyone. When conservatives obcess over the minutiae of a political point, they lose the argument. The biggest belly laugh of all are those twitter hashtags where conservatives make a fool out of the re-election bunch. Check it out. If you don't twitter, you can catch it at twitchy.com
Jack London| 5.25.12 @ 12:58PM
Greg, let me the first to say you possess the intellect we need in our nation today. Such superb analysis is all too rare these days and you should be a model example for all young people.
Herr S.| 5.29.12 @ 1:04PM
Ach. Nein einz comment die protest. Vas fur bother? Scheissekopf.
The Big E| 5.25.12 @ 12:07PM
In my view, if I don't offend at least one person per day, I'm either:
A. Not doing my job, or
B. Not having enough fun.
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:27PM
Indeed.
Dr. X| 5.25.12 @ 12:43PM
Sorry, Prof. Buckley, I totally disagree with your article. The Flukes of this world are NOT merely thin-skinned dopes to be laughed at. Rather, they are power players and they know it. Fluke is a professional activist and professional grievance-monger like many of her contemporaries on the Left. The tactic they employ is a passive-aggressive one; they use the pretense of being offended precisely while they are the very ones doing the offending. This is a particularly feminine source of power -- as opposed to a direct, confrontational, masculine approach -- which is why it is used frequently by the gays and the feminists.
The power they hold is immense; it is the power of social approbation. If you get labeled a racist, sexist, or homophobe -- fairly or not -- you're finished. (See what happens sometime if your wife or girlfriend falsely accuses you of domestic violence without a shred of evidence, or if a co-worker falsely accuses you of sexual harassment). Not to mention they can call forth the power of the Federal government in the form of "civil rights" investigations.
From your concluding paragraph, I must assume that you are already tenured. If you're not, try having a laugh at Sandra Fluke, the birth-control "slut," with your tenure review committee -- and see how long it takes for them give you the boot.
These people are no joke. They are dangerous and scary.
Jack London| 5.25.12 @ 1:01PM
Wow, Dr X - I take it you are totally opposed to birth control and presumably sex as well. What do you make of the 90% of Catholic women who have used it? Does your wife use it? Dirty, dirty sluts!
Do I Know You? | 5.25.12 @ 1:43PM
Jumpin' Jack Jefferson The Gay Purple Flash Sluttin' Werewolf Of London?
Is that really you!
Anthony| 5.25.12 @ 3:04PM
Well Jack, if Sandy baby keeps popping her free birth control pills like candy, then she'll never be called a motherfluker.
BTY, have her get a hold of ARod ASAP, there's a game tonight in Oakland.
Jack London| 5.25.12 @ 4:15PM
I'd be careful what you post in public Anthony - I wouldn't be surprised if your disturbing gang rape fantasies of a public figure haven't put you on an FBI profiler's hit list.
Dr. X| 5.25.12 @ 4:47PM
Jack, I'm not opposed to birth control at all. I sincerely wish your mother had used it. Failing that, perhaps she could have had a partial-birth abortion while delivering you.
Double D| 5.25.12 @ 7:16PM
And failing that, there is always retroactive abortion.
rjk| 5.26.12 @ 6:22AM
Hey Jack... read Dr. X's post 5 times again, and very slowly... comprehend what he is saying... just a suggestion...
WaffenSS| 5.26.12 @ 12:29AM
They are no joke. This explaination of the left and the power that is yielded is the very reason Uncle Adolf and Uncle Kolya made sure that they,(leftist/communists), were the first to be jailed and executed.
Petronius| 5.25.12 @ 1:12PM
We didn't have to take any s**t from Liberals before women got to vote. No wonder the muzzies don't let them go to school. (chuckling in the background) And I look forward to Sandra Fluke being the object of an auto de fe'. (roll the laugh track) Are we having fun yet? Barney Frank was lounging on his Cape Cod beach yesterday and the Fish and Wildlife Service sedated, weighed, and tagged him before release. (howls and guffaws)
I never said any of this. Those who would find this amusing have all been laid off and cannot afford an evening out at the comedy club.
Here trolls....
Dave Williams| 5.25.12 @ 1:13PM
She IS a slut, and an attention whore, and a leftist idiot. You're offended? Go shovel fish heads.
Humor?| 5.25.12 @ 1:40PM
There’s some serious humor going down, these days, most especially in the White House.
As Bubba Free John put it circa 1975, conventional humor is all about laughing at variations of people appearing in dog costumes. And, what do you know? In 2012 we have a white-black guy who claims to have EATEN dogs as prez.
True humor, though, is Divine Humor.
As in, “What a joke that I am separate from you!”
Granted, as humans, in humus humor, “growing up”, aka adapting to the level of God Realization presently just about nonexistent, our physical, mental and social contraction is so tightly wound, that our feelings preclude---feeling others.
Here we are, after all—and truly AS the One of All---oh so proud of “our” highly evolved brains, expressed via the full nervous system, as if we had anything to do with producing it.
And, it can’t even FEEL others!
Now, that’s funny!
Citizen Jerry| 5.25.12 @ 1:50PM
Maybe it's our PC culture (read cultural Marxism) that demands the modern duty of respect. But in the real world, people know you have to earn respect. Disrespect you can get free.
Richard Baker| 5.25.12 @ 5:08PM
These lefties have a perpetual chip on their shoulders.
Marc Jeric| 5.25.12 @ 6:52PM
A 30-year old student (La Fluke) at the Jesuit Georgetown University wants us, the taxpayers, to pay $1,000 per year (actually only 9-month long school year) for her sexual encounters. Since the pill costs only $1 – that means that the far-left bum is scheduling some 1,000 sexual encounters during those 9 months – or 270 days. The average then, of that grotesque sexual activity, excluding 5 days of menstruation every 28 days, of her schedule sexual encounters is therefore 1,000/(270-9x5) = 1,000/235=4.25 per “work-day”. That is a very ambitious schedule for a professional sexual “worker”.
Dick Nome| 5.26.12 @ 8:27PM
I doubt she has many encounters if any. Not one guy has come forward. A slut like that would have dozens looking for the notoriety of "I banged Sandra." That face would take a paper bag and a double Viagra to overcome. I suspect she prefers women.
Occam's Tool| 5.28.12 @ 10:28PM
Dick: she has a fiance. Bless that man for falling on that grenade.
Norm Klevens| 5.25.12 @ 10:32PM
Mr. Buckley; it is my belief that any issue the left puts out there is not the issue, but the mouse trap that intends to ensnare. O does not stand for anything, but to win or not to lose. Now a days the laundry list in the hands that carry the black box is shaken up as new event call for. Rush just gave that one ammo, however the target did not lose, just the collateral folks. like Sleep Number and a couple of others who begged to return, but were denied. For O Fluke was a bonus and the Catholic Church will turn that battle into a loss for O. Then there are issues O did not address when he owned our government and is trying to please the remaining constituency over. Liberalism is at the core of all of this as it is the only support left. O just does not want to be on the list next to Jimma. He will have a tough time going on after moving to his new home on Jan 21st. What we will have to deal with for a long time are the spies with tenure in every facet of the Govt. Like speaking to a certain justice a few Fridays ago, he will be directing them. We should understand the personality and the affliction and address that rather than responding every time they blow the whistle .
sweeterjan| 5.25.12 @ 10:52PM
Laughter is dangerous, you see, because http://www.vendreshox.com/nike-shox-r4-c-9.html in every joke there’s a butt, someone at whom we laugh. Otherwise, it’s not funny.
Flee| 5.25.12 @ 11:46PM
You're not alone in your support of don' ask don't tell. Homosexuals were not banned from the military by that policy. Technically the military did not know the sexual preference of any member. How is that discriminatory?
dev| 5.28.12 @ 4:08PM
DADT is discriminatory because it would force a gay solider to keep quiet about what relationships he is in. And it's not just that he can't talk out loud about it, he can't receive letters from a lover, can't e-mail a lover, can't even be 'suspected' of being gay without possible discharge. Straight solider's do not have this issue and *that* is why DADT is considered discriminatory. You're right to say there was no 'ban'. Any gay person could join - under the knowledge that they can and will be hunted down for discharge under DADT.
On a more humorous note, gay people joining the military means more gay people dying in war! Don't you conservatives love to see that? Ba-da CHING. Oh, wait...that wasn't funny? Grow some skin, take a joke then! (I'm getting good at this conservative meanness. Liberals need to be more like that)
Bob S| 5.26.12 @ 2:49AM
You've fallen into a trap, Mr. Buckley. "Entertainer" is what liberals call Rush when they want to discredit him. "Oh sure, he says Obama will be the death of America, but he's just an entertainer."
He is much more than just an "entertainer". He's the last sane man in the room.
GreyLion| 5.26.12 @ 9:44AM
Laugh Mr. Buckley? But it is not funny.
Ernest Scheffey| 5.26.12 @ 6:46PM
Thank God, Eramus of Rotterdam has been reborn
and if the three sisters as well as the Kindly Ones
are paying attention, thank you also.
WalkingHorse | 5.27.12 @ 2:57PM
It is more important to make the right enemies than to be liked by people who aren't worth one millisecond of your time.
Bob Bregman| 5.27.12 @ 6:29PM
Professor, stick to teaching. Russ L can stand up for himself. Talk about boring. What is your point and why did this magazine publish it? A space filler, eh?
Terry Saulsbury | 5.28.12 @ 9:49AM
I agree 100% about merely laughing at them. I believe the current term in use is...dissing. My disrespect for liberals and turncoats like Parker have no limits.
old progrmr| 5.28.12 @ 3:53PM
Outstanding!!! What we need now is a well designed nationwide program to laugh at Leftists, they make such ideal targets. There is much about which to construct really good jokes. Rush's comments are just the tip of the iceberg for an ideal target like the Fluke lady, that elite leftist activist. Or the greatest target of all the lead Leftist sitting in the WH. What about gaffe a day Biden. Let's get the laughter started, these people all have very thin skins and think very highly of themselves. We can drive them to distraction by simply making them the butt of jokes they so richly deserve. We can once again raise good jokes to an art form.
Stan Redmond| 5.28.12 @ 6:04PM
A horse walks up to John Kerry and says, "Why the long face?"
How many big eared petulant bastards does it take to ruin the greatest country in human history?
Cobalt| 5.28.12 @ 6:21PM
Q: What do you call a basement full of Liberals?
A: A whine cellar.
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/gop4ever/jokes.html
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