Rattlebrained

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2009-12-06T01:25:00.000-08:00

Warner Todd Huston grumps that for decades American schools (surely only the non-voucher ones) have been creating "citizens that mindlessly expect that politicians exist only to ‘give us stuff.’"

You, me, our families, our neighbors, we’re all gimme-gimmee-gimmee all the time. We wussified Americans have been indoctrinated into wanting stuff like, you know, untainted food, uncrashing planes, undrunk truck drivers, uncontaminated water, uncollasping economic markets, unpolluted air, unpandemic-ed communities, unexploding microwave ovens, and on and on.

Warner Todd Huston is having none of that. He wants to revive American’s independent spirit, one salmonella outbreak at a time.

But if politicians don’t exist "to give us stuff" like, you know, good government, then why do they exist at all?

Well, if we all hadn’t been so thoroughly indoctrinated by our grammar-school teachers, the answer would seem perfectly logical and obvious to us: Politicians exist to make sure that only the market determines whether we get stuff like untainted food, uncrashing planes, undrunk truck drivers, uncontaminated water, uncollasping economic markets, unpolluted air, unpandemic-ed communities, unexploding microwave ovens, and on and on.

How does the market decide? Only God knows -- and stop asking such silly questions.

That, says Warner Todd Huston, is what America’s schools should be teaching.

Conservatives post homoerotic pics, Free Republic excitedly links, site crashes: Draw your own conclusions

2009-12-05T23:43:00.000-08:00

Gateway Pundit launched the kind of hyperbolic sex scare story -- Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Promotes Porn in the Classroom!!! -- that will be bouncing around wingnuttia for the entire Advent season. It must have just seemed like the Christmas-y thing to do.

Perhaps the story’s been a little too successful. All the repeated warnings about sexually explicit material as the link gets reposted have sent “the just curious” flocking to the site, which keeps crashing.

Now, Gateway insists that it’s not the prurient interests of its conservative Christian readers that’s making the site crash but wrathful cyber attacks by gays and lesbians.

Pardon my skepticism.
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Media Matters deconstructs and debunks the story here.

What some people do because they're not having rumpy bumpy

2009-12-05T03:41:00.000-08:00

Alerted by “an anonymous tipster,” this guy spent hours trying to prove that Google’s search algorithms are global warming faggots sneakily advancing their homo-Climategate agenda. His proof: A series of drop-down boxes of search suggestions prompted by his numerous keyings for c-l-i-m-a-t-e-g-a-t-e.

What did he prove, other than he’s an idiot? First, that climatega is such an unlikely string of letters in English that Google doesn’t always automatically, ah, auto-complete the string. And second, that his assumptions are wrong, as meticulously documented and mocked over at Sadly, No.

Yes, this had them stumped for a while

2009-12-05T01:15:00.000-08:00

Some wingers really puzzled over this photo.

Was it photoshopped?

Had Michelle and Barack Obama been replaced by their Htrae counterparts?

Or were the Obamas finally revealing their true Marxist Muslim Kenyan heritage?

Oh. Well that solves that.

Favorite mirror image whinge: Even if it is photo-shopped, it still shows the reality of the Osama’s [sic] not having a clue of how to salute….

The rest of the comment concerns Michelle's flagrant public areolar autoerotism and Obama’s inability to sexually satisfy his wife.

2009-12-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

Coming soon!