Some brave blogging over at The Right Scoop. If there’s a “Christian Conservative” prize for courage, there’s no more deserving bunch. Example 1:

A new police photo of George Zimmerman shows a bloody nose as he appears to be sitting in a police car shortly after the attack. In the minds of many I’m sure this will substantiate Zimmerman’s claims of self defense as his nose is clearly swollen and bloodied and it didn’t get that way on its own . .

Example 2:

If you wanna see below the blur you are more than welcome too, but as you can probably tell one features two women kissing and the other features two men kissing. Honestly it’s disgusting to me, especially the latter. Click at your own risk

And if Rip Taylor shows up in the comments, they’ll bleach the server.

The Dumbest Man on the Internet fights back against charges of right-wing bigotry. Just because CPAC featured segregationist Scott Terry doesn’t mean Racism! Liars!

BUSTED: Supposed ‘Racist Event’ at CPAC 2013 a Big Media Lie – Here’s the Truth
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 16, 2013, 9:39 AM

I spoke with K. Carl and his brother Karnie this morning at the Tea Party Patriot Live booth in the main hall. K. Carl Smith said how he [sic] was so impressed with the CPAC audience who immediately came to his [sic] young man [sic] defense during thee [sic] breakout session. His brother Karnie also shared this, [sic]

“At the book signing after the session Scott Terry shared with me that he supported a type of Booker T. Washington Republican. We shared with him that Booker T was greatly influenced by Frederick Douglas. . . then he bought our book and I shook his hand and said thank you. So he left informed and inspired.”

They were all later spied spooning outside Sushi Roku. No racism! Liberal calumny, that’s what it was. Take that! We now open the discussion to our readers. Comments?

Mercutio Lives • 9 hours ago

*shrug*

The average black Sub-Saharian African IQ is about 70 and the average brown “hispanic” IQ is about 80. In comparison, the average White European IQ is about 100. And anyone who’s read “The Bell Curve” knows that there’s a very strong correlation between race, IQ and general quality of life statistics.

From a purely scientific point of view, how does it make sense to flood high IQ White societies with low IQ brown people? So much so that White babies are now racial minorities in America, Whites of all ages are estimated to become racial minorities in about 20 years and brown “hispanics” are estimated to become the new racial majority by about 2050.

Wake up. This bipartisan supported demographic ethnic cleansing of Whites will not only completely destroy the Republican Party but also completely destroy Western (White) civilization this century. Stop being spineless politically correct cowards that are too afraid of being called racists to stop the libtard schemes of mass importing generations of low IQ left-wing voters in order to stay in perpetual power and spread global socialism.

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Climate change skeptic, physicist Richard Muller, pens a Sunday NYT op-ed ahead of his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team releasing their official results. The facts turned out to be factual:

CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified scientific issues that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Now, after organizing an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I’ve concluded that global warming is real, that the prior estimates of the rate were correct, and that cause is human.

Yawn. The only thing interesting about this is how the internets most attention-whoring denialist will react. This was Anthony Watts at one time:

“I’m prepared to accept whatever result they [BEST] produce, even if it proves my premise wrong. The method isn’t the madness that we’ve seen from NOAA, NCDC, GISS, and CRU. That lack of strings attached to funding, plus the broad mix of people involved especially those who have previous experience in handling large data sets gives me greater confidence in the result being closer to a bona fide ground truth than anything we’ve seen yet.”

The preliminary results have been known for a while, and Anthony now thinks BEST are stupidheads as well. This is how one “accepts” things. Anyway, his climate skeptic gloryhole website has gone quiet.

Ooh. Perhaps he’s adopted a cat and named it “Pariah.” Arrange your life accordingly.

. . I don’t even have to read anyone else’s blog. And I haven’t today. But I can start ripping bloggers for their dogshit behavior right now. There’s breaking news, and I know exactly how conservatives are reacting as we speak. Where to begin? Let’s see. Here’s one, how about Dan Riehl? click:

Is Obama Jinxed?
Riehl World View

No doubt some of Obama’s harshest critics will enjoy poking fun at him for this.

What did the socialist do — trip on a Secret Service agent? Bungle a foreign country’s name? Leave his VP back at the gas station? No, he visited a 70 year-old lady this morning. A couple of hours ago, the poor woman’s heart stopped. She died. Ha ha Obambi, you can’t even tie your own shoes. Talk about screwed. Here’s another values blogger-citizen, at iOwnTheWorld. click:

Everything He Touches Turns To Sh8T or Dies
by BigFurHat – July 6, 2012 – 18:05 America/New_York – 10 Comments

Lovely. Ann Harris had a fatal heart attack. It’s just like we said, Barack. You suck. Incidentally, the story is still this: Ann passed away. Someone might want to pay some attention to that. But she loved this president, so maybe that’s a crappy story? For right-thinking bloggers? WOW. If this one isn’t all hell-dickishness, Ed Driscoll. click:

And the Role of the Killer Rabbit Will Be Played By…

…President Obama himself this time around, instead of Jimmy Carter

Nice gibberish. For those of you not politics obsessed, President Jimmy Carter, while out fishing once, took a swipe at a hissing swamp rabbit to get it to back away. The incident was set upon and re-told endlessly by conservatives to prove Jimmy was a nancy boy who couldn’t even stare down Bugs Bunny. This time around, instead of Jimmy Carter being the rabbit, it will be Barack. Huh? Ed is obviously a moron. I don’t feature him for his stupidity, I do it for his cruelty. He’s cheapshotting Obama because a nice lady died. You don’t get opportunities like that every day.

As John Podhoretz wrote in September of 2010, anticipating the Democratic House’s loss in the midterms that year, “Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong:”

Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong — presidents become incompetent at doing the things they were always able to do in their sleep, and their aides follow suit. I noted this when I wrote my first book, Hell of a Ride, about the decline and fall of the first President Bush, back in 1993. When Bush spoke, it rained, and his advancemen weren’t quick-thinking enough to move his events indoors. When he went to Japan on a state visit, he vomited. He was so intent on getting out his message of the day that he referred to it as “Message: I Care.”

So it’s a pair of one-term presidential train wrecks combined — Jimmy Carter’s killer rabbit meets George H.W. Bush’s disastrous food-related incident.

Oh, now I get it. The incompetents allowed the poor woman’s cardiac arteries to seize, and this makes the Commander-in-Chief look silly. The Obama people aren’t fit to run a country. There’s more:

So arguably, it’s not all bad news coming out of Mr. Obama’s visit to Ohio: clearly, he’s doing wonders for that farm region’s planting efforts.

I get this one, too. He planted Ann Harris in the ground. Ed Driscoll, the Henny Youngman of partisan shitheads. Over at the Daily Caller, they’re getting in some light-hearted yukks:

one less vote…o wait dead people still vote

. . .

Of course, she still plans on voting for Obama.

. . .

If she lived in Chicago her vote would still count–maybe even twice.

. . .

She’ll still cast a vote in November for her beloved Obama.

. . .

Just because she is dead, doesn’t mean she won’t be voting for oBama.

. . .

wahahahaha !! Good one Michael !!

. . .

If you remember, being dead does not prevent one from voting twice for the Kenyan commie.

. . .

LMAO

. . .

So many jokes. So little time.

ADD: Gateway Pundit joins in:

Ohio Restaurant Owner Serves Obama – Then Dies
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, July 6, 2012, 7:55 PM

Ohio restaurant owner serves Obama… then dies.

ADD 2: The Examiner posts this tweet from the Daily Caller:

ADD 3: Every libertarian thinks of himself as hilarious.

As some men are especially sentient and the Earth flies in circles, it’s once again time for Right Wing News to rate “The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.” Ta-daa. If this game sounds neanderthal and beneath your evolution-studded grasp don’t worry. It’s pretty easy to understand. Men stare at pictures of women and then they rate them. The lists are e-mailed, and the News posts the results. The ratings came out just today.

If you end up the number one woman on the list then you are the hottest. If you end up the number twenty woman then there are nineteen other ladies preferable to whatever you are. Honestly, number one is so far prettier than you it’s merciful to pretend you’re “hot.” We should probably agree you’re better suited for a tournament of “skank.” Your grim appearance barely interests the eros of gentlemen as stately as Ace and Ass-Rocket, and why shouldn’t that be widely known? Timeless truths are laid bare by the pursuits of mutual dignity and respect and also by the universal reverence for human life.

Now I will not be as callous as the alleged ‘fans’ of these women. No. How is it fair of me to look at the mere appearance of a particular human being and judge? Why would a sane person do that? Where on Earth would it be civilized to label a woman an 8 as opposed to a 7? And who is to say I’d rather be shot out a crap cannon than have sex with a gun-nut? Who? Would it be gracious of me to gaze at Hot Official Number Seven, Monica Crowley (better than #8 worse than #6) . .

. . and suggest she stop wearing propeller beanies for a bra? That would be shallow. Critical. No. And would it be tactful of me to suggest to Hot Official Number Fourteen, Kristina Ribali (better than #15 worse than #13) . .

. . that she throw away her Li’l Undertaker Makeup Magic kit? I don’t think so. It would be coarse. Awkward. I will not do it. And how would it reflect upon me to comment of Ms. Coulter, Hot Official Number Eleven (better than #12 worse than #10) . .

. . that a replica of steely Ann would be suited to disimpacting circus elephants? It would reflect poorly. I shall avoid it. And just how would it make Jenny Erikson feel, Hot Official Number Sixteen (better than #17 worse than #15), if I were to let her in on a secret?

Black men don’t favor The James Earl Ray Memorial Library? Especially ones long since graduated from Harvard? That might make her feel silly after sitting there for so long, pining for a President never to show. It would be rude of me. Still, friends, the sort of woman who’d stalk a guy across a third-rate law library with a come hither façade and a bolt-action squirrel cannon? Smokin’.

Jason Horowitz writes about Romney’s high school years at tony Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. We learn that Willard was once a gay bully.

. . he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

After he organized a posse to tackle the fay, Mitt cut off the damned blondness. Everyone else who participated in the bullying feels bad about it, but the candidate can’t even remember it:

His campaign spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, said in a statement that “anyone who knows Mitt Romney knows that he doesn’t have a mean-spirited bone in his body. The stories of fifty years ago seem exaggerated and off base and Governor Romney has no memory of participating in these incidents.”

Enough of your tales of cruelty, partisans. Everyone knows he’s not that sort of guy. Hold up, this just in:

Mitt Romney said Thursday that “back in high school I did some dumb things” but insisted that the prep school pranks chronicled in a news story were never intended to target gay students specifically.

“They talked about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school, and they described some that, boy, you just say to yourself, ‘Back in high school,’ you know, ‘I did some dumb things.’ If anyone was hurt by that or offended by that, obviously, I apologize. But overall, high school years were a long time ago . .”

So Romney does have “a mean spirited bone in his body.” Oops. The winger scrambling had already gone ant-like and map-wide before Mitt admitted to assaulting the poor kid. One wonders just how everyone will handle the new truth. Gawd knows they were already doing a piss-poor job of bailing the candidate out in the hours before this.

Jim Geraghty at National Review: “New Bright Shiny Object Enters Presidential Campaign Debate”. Somebody needs to give Jim a refresher course in propaganda.

But it is a fascinatingly convenient coincidence for the Obama campaign.

Romney said he does not recall the 1965 incident . . [cut/paste] . .

The bullying victim in the story died in 2004.

Jim barely sat down before Rich Lowry slapped the back of his head. You don’t admit it was bullying, fool. And you certainly don’t remind everyone the victim is dead. Sympathy? Heard of it? Jim’s post, 89 words of his own and 84 of the Washington Post’s, then got an update. This new opinion of Jim’s, skeptical and derisive, was a 371 word footnote to the original:

. . it is fascinating that an alleged assault, with many witnesses, generated no reports to authority or discipline at a school where smoking a cigarette is sufficient to get a student thrown out of school. If the victim’s hair was such a topic of attention and conversation, it is impossible no one noticed his hair had been cut.

However, it is possible that Jim can’t remember how gays were once treated, or how they’re treated in much of the United States today. The NR prides itself on its sentient writers, whoever they may be. Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, “Praetorian WaPo: Romney not better than Jesus.” If this makes no sense to you, you’re with me. See if this helps:

… OOooooOOOoooo! Troubling! Not just any long-haired non-conformist, but a presumed gay kid! In 1965!!

Now the peroxide student is a long-haired non-conformist. I suppose bleaching your hair near Mitt Romney makes you some sort of asshole, and Darlene’s just stating the obvious.

At least when Jesus tossed the money changers out of the temple, they weren’t presumed homosexuals.

If they’d been cakey, think of how much worse! Good on Mitt for his Biblical style. Pro-fess-or Le-gal-donk: “Your mainstream media at work – Romney teased someone in high school in 1965.” Gootchy goo, fags:

I once participated in a group which gave someone a wedgie when I was at summer camp in the 1960s. That’s why I’ll never run for President, my record is stained.

If you were 18 years old, like Mitt was, and organized a group of your peers to tackle a queer and cut his BVDs off, you’d have a serious problem, Pro-fess-or. Laws and such, dude.

Now about that Obama trip to Pakistan and his 20 years in Jeremiah Wright’s church … bigot, racist, Islamophobe, wingnut.

Pro-fess-or and Mittens are the exact same sort of victimized conservatives, aka ‘American Studs.’ Go prove it, pal — grab some scissors and tackle the first twinkle toes you see. See you in court, de-fen-dant. Ed Morrissey: “Cutting-edge reporting from WaPo: Let’s take an in-depth look at … Romney’s cruel high-school pranks.”

Despite demonstrating zero curiosity over Barack Obama’s college transcripts to check on just how brilliant the academic actually was, the Post now has a big expose on Mitt Romney’s high school career as … a practical joker:

When a young man is left crying and screaming for help, the “prank” counts neither for practical nor joking. But at least Ed has the right idea, lying and then changing the subject. What about grades? What about this?

Here’s something that happened in the last three years:

Jesus Christ! It’s the seasonally adjusted civilian labor force participation rate in four-month increments! What a vicious 2% socialist wilding across three years. If that don’t make you wanna tackle this Barack feller and shave his head, well, then.

President Obama publicly supports gay marriage. Hurrah a pretty good day then, I’d have to say. But I’m extremist and shrill, non-traditional dangerous and a threat to the core values that made this country the greatest industrial power in the history of the moral shebang. You, too, AAHHH DON’T PRETEND you’re not. You’d be gay too, if you could.

That’s why we you and me suck. I figured that out by reading some graduate level work from various Bryman scholars of Poltroon Studies [adjunct courses available through the Routine Butt Panic and Testosterone Misanthropy schools]. No, I didn’t read much more than the students’ dissertations and, frankly, nothing past their titles. Because that’s how you analyze scholarship: first, title searches and, then, laughing. Followed by top-notch serious blogging with a limit of 500 words what renders it immune from critical glibbery.

A Terrible, No Good, Awful Night for Barack Obama
by Erick Erickson

Nope this one’s about something else. I think Barack got crowned by a klieg light backstage at Fay Hegemony Studios, or something.

Breaking: Noted gay-marriage supporter finally drops cynical charade
by Allahpundit

Here we go — Obama said he was against it, then he said he was for it. Obviously he was lying then, and he’s lying about lying now. Wait: I see a body, near moving water. Not far from a remote road, with some bushes, maybe.

Gay for Pay
Obama reversal on same sex marriage comes just days after donors threatened to withhold funds
by the Washington Free Beacon Staff

The President is getting raunchy with men for money. This is a radical theory, one whose meanings are immediately unexplained, so they’re lost to history. Goodbye there they go. The ‘Washington Free Beacon Staff.’

OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE
by the Fox Nation

He was leading the War on Virginity. As well as that was going, God knows why he switched sides. Maybe it was a numbers game: a virgin can break a cherry all of once. A family values guy can break his vows whenever there’s a full moon (it’s true. try arguing otherwise.). Also whenever hooker bargain days. Or when he’s got that old methamphetamine binge hankering for some sodomy sweet’ums. Sweet bugger loving sodomy, Jesus help me.

‘On My Behalf’
Really?
• By ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I’m lost. Guesses? Can’t believe I have to read this.

The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Then there is Barack Obama.

Then there’s the debate over him. And that’s by way of the same: heartfelt feelings and convictions, millions of good honest people blah blah. Unless Elliott meant something else? ‘Obama’s a merciless operative bent on destroying the world’s ABRAMs with gay rights.’ That would by callous and cynical, but Elliott said it first and internet dibs.

Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson called out wingnut blockhead Dan Riehl yesterday. Dan accused unknown media conspirators of ‘lightening’ a photo of Trayvon Martin to play upon Americans’ sympathies. After all, black people look bad, light-black people look better, everyone knows this, and you assholes are trying to play games with Dan’s UNIVAC mind.

So many people read Charles’ post (27,000 hits and counting), it ended up at the top of Memeorandum yesterday. Dan, being brilliant as well as race-blind, called Charles stupid, lame, irrelevant, and tweeted that if Charles ever came by the neighborhood, he’d get beaten up. This came in between Dan raining the internet with half-eaten grubs, beating his sagging chest and pissing on the trees in front of his apartment.

Well, this wanted attention can’t go without some attention. Dan will have the world know what an idiot Charles Johnson is. Also, can you just believe these blacks? Or the Negroes and the black people?

What’s sad is how willing Johnson has been to throw away everything he seemed to once understand about the media and turn on so many once friends to do it. Worse is the race-based ignorance of so many blacks I’m seeing in attacking me, when they should be criticizing the media, instead

When Dan makes a race argument — ‘black people look guilty, grey people look less guilty’ — the blacks who react badly to it do so out of “race-based ignorance.” The guy who’s telling black people how the world sees black people is telling black people they’re stupid because they’re black. This is some sort of towering feat. Does Imbecile have a Mt. Everest? Consider it climbed.

No where [sic] have I said a darker image of Martin would suggest he was somehow guilty of something, or that it might justify his being shot in any manner.

Dan: “Clearly, it has been lightened, or softened, somehow. Along with other possible alterations, he looks far more, perhaps innocent is the right word . .”

Dan didn’t say that the dusky criminal face of Trayvon made him guilty of anything. He merely said the liberals photoshopped it to make him appear “far more, perhaps innocent.” Can anybody understand these blacks? Why can’t Dan say the dead kid belongs in a penitentiary yearbook? Everybody’s gone crazy.

Johnson, the many progressives and now many blacks who have been attacking me over it are being played and they don’t even know it. If anything, blacks especially should feel insulted and upset at the media, including the AP – not me. My whole point questions their judgement [sic] and worldview, not Trayvon Martin’s, or Zimmerman’s.

You have just read one of the greatest paragraphs in the history of blogging. The photo was never altered. But “many blacks,” who have seen more ethnic faces than Dan Riehl, remain mute in the shadow of the Associated Press’ racial crime. All Dan’s done, with his insect blogging, is question America’s judgment and worldview. That’s all. Dan’s also erecting a desert pyramid in his shorts.

By seeming to prefer using a lighter image of Martin to further fuel the story line that he was a total innocent in the encounter and Zimmerman is guilty before all the facts are clear, my concern is that they feel that making Martin look less black in the eyes of the their [sic] readers, somehow makes him look less guilty of something.

Are you cringing yet? You didn’t think you could have empathy for such an asshole. You surprise yourself.

As for the many blacks attacking me, when it’s actually the media, including the AP, who appears to be saying to them, lighter is better, while darker is bad, and they aren’t even able to see that, the pre-judgment and ignorance on display is just sad . .

Shall we just tiptoe away? Yes, we should. Dan is unconditionally pathetic.

Hep, hooray. Or something equally appropriate for milestones. Ye Gods and little fishes, this is surprising.

Some time before noon today, the blog received ‘view’ number 500,000. Heh, half a million clicks. Mon dieu. I never imagined anything like that. I was only trying to do something productive while I couldn’t sleep. Three years later, the blog has gotten better than the insomnia. Someday, I’ll go back to sleeping and forget I ever spent time on the likes of Limbaugh, Bachmann and Santorum.

Until then, the blogging goes on. Please accept this bit of ratcheting paranoia as a token of my gratitude and friendship. For my merely typing ’500,000′ into YouTube’s search field, it’s surprisingly fine wingnuttery. Here’s mud in your ears, pals.

I sit at the keyboard. I look at my beat-up hands and think, “What a mess.” I don’t imagine a Reagan Republican would let these curs anywhere near Nancy’s china. Plenty of people live the white life, but I wouldn’t begin to know what it’s about. I wonder: How do they do it? The classy people? Stay so spotless and clean?

There have got to be rules. Which pinky should one raise when he bombs an Arab country? Do you spit on Planned Parenthood clients from the right or left side of the mouth? Is it presumptive to spellcheck a “Niggar Prezadent” e-mail before forwarding it? Maybe if I knew the proper rules, I’d get into better parties. Maybe I could have a blog with a second, or even a third, color.

Who Wants to See Tina Korbe’s Thighs?
Robert Stacy McCain | February 16, 2012

The title of this post is not a hypothetical question, because last week the aforesaid Miss Korbe joined her Hot Air colleague Ed Morrissey for a video interview with Rick Santorum, which I didn’t see until somebody brought it to my attention yesterday:

Our keen-eyed readers will note that at the 0:28 mark of the video, Miss Korbe gives a little tug at the hem of her skirt and, not to get all Melissa Clouthier about it or anything, some folks might say that’s kind of a telltale clue that your skirt’s too doggone short.

See? This is what I’m talking about. That’s a rule that I didn’t even know existed. I have got to write this down . .

I hesitate to judge a lady’s morals merely because she feels obliged to follow contemporary fashion.

For example, I think tattoos and pierced bellybuttons are two of the tackiest things in the world, but I’m pretty sure not every woman with tattoos and a pierced bellybutton is a whore.

Most of them? Sure, but not all of them.

. . tattoos and piercings . . whores . . got it . .

I remember kind of scratching my head in puzzlement when they’d do jokes about the bad driving habits of Asian women. . . Then, in 1997, I moved to D.C. which has a fairly large Asian population and . . . Oh, my God! It’s so true!

Look, I hate to foster negative stereotypes. I’m sure there are many Asian women who are excellent drivers. It’s just that none of those excellent Asian women drivers live in the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.

And everybody who lives in D.C. is laughing their butts off at that joke, because it’s so true. (Asian ladies, please: Take the bus.)

. . D.C. has Asians . . can’t drive . . take the bus . . got it . .

Inequality is not always disadvantageous to women, you know. And feminism is a sort of Animal Farm, with women as the animals who vanquish their male/human oppressors, only to discover eventually that some animals are more equal than others.

. . inequality good for you . . feminists are pigs . . got it. WOW. There seem to be a lot of rules for conservatives. So many darn things to learn. Isn’t there some way we could cut to the chase? Is there maybe one rule I could use to class up my life? One thing to remember?

I hate to be one to say it about HotAir.com . .
Thoughts and Rantings | February 11, 2012

Tina, you are a Catholic, try actually dressing like one and not like some office “MILF” looking for a place up the corporate ladder. . . I am sure that Rick Santorum just loved being next to a chick that was essentially giving him a peep show of her hoo haa.

Don’t show Rick Tina’s hoo haa. Got it.

If you were to trundle yourself over to Powerline blog (why? I don’t know), you could read all sorts of things. They write about the election, they write about politics, they write about the media, they write about culture.

In one post, Scott re-visits my hometown and remembers when he first saw it:

So far as I could tell, Bob and I were the only two people in Venice who were working for a living.

Indeed. Well observed. Over the last 30 years, neighboring Santa Monica has stayed essentially the same, and it’s completely different:

This time around, however, I found that bums were liberally populating the public property fronting the beautiful beach . . There were bums galore, enough of them that I thought if only they could get their stuff together, they would make up an impressive Occupy Santa Monica encampment. It might even get them off the beachfront — a win-win for all involved.

This is good blogging. Canny and finely nuanced. This too: John’s commentary on the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia running aground:

The trappings of high-technology civilization make us feel secure, but much of the time we are just a moment away from primal disaster.

Disasters simply haven’t evolved as quickly as we’d like. Here’s what ‘primal’ actually means. Back to the writing:

Ships have been running aground on rocks and reefs for centuries, but what was a predictable hazard five hundred years ago seems shocking in the 21st century, especially when it happens in the thoroughly mapped and domesticated Mediterranean. The image of the Costa Concordia lying on its side is a classic image of the fallibility of modern civilization . .

When a ship’s captain makes exactly the same mistake captains have made for thousands of years, it’s an example of the “fallibility of modern civilization.” I guess if the captain’s daughter had plugged in her iPad too near the sonar unit and the readings had jumped from meters to feet, that would have been Melvillean. If the ship had run aground on Skylab, there’d be nothing for Joseph Conrad to do but whistle and nod. Let’s forget how dangerous it’ll remain to crash things on Ursa X-1, and let’s medulla bleearb on the “fallibility of colony spacelife.” And, Segway:

This Newsweek slur caught John’s eye.

Seeing how it’s his blog, Hinderaker could have said anything. He could have put up a heckuva fight. But no.

Well, sure. We who who [sic] are unhappy that unemployment has increased on Obama’s watch, that over-regulation has stymied economic growth, that our children now owe a $15 trillion debt that we can’t pay–hey, we’re just dumb! We obviously aren’t smart enough to understand how devastating our economy, unemploying millions of Americans and burdening our children with trillions of dollars in debt is really a great idea.

This is John being smart. Take that, Newsweek. It’s almost a cheap trick on the magazine’s part, picking on fools who will surely respond in assrocket manner. And then jerks like me will point out that this post does not, in fact, deflect charges of stupidity. People will see that John has portioned himself some rope and fashioned a pointed hemp cap. And that, too, will have a noose that works its way around his neck.

BLS unemployment statistics:

From which, a chart:

That red dot? That’s when Obama took over, in the midst of an economic collapse. So John is dead boing right: “unemployment has increased on Obama’s watch.” It’s gone from 7.8% to 8.5%. Would it be intelligent to bring up anything else? Anything at all? Naw.

And, also: Obama’s administration is guilty of under-regulation, if anything, growth is slow because of weak demand, the majority of national debt is due to Reagan and W. Bush, neither of which had to deal with a Great Recession, and “unemploying” is not a word. In, also, additionally: if you’re brilliant enough to somehow blame Obama for unjobbenating 0.7% of the work force, you certainly could figure out that’s a million people. Not “millions.”

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