tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2100778558334498320..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: Remarkable Shit Andrew Sullivan Says, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75398601493289582122014-06-04T01:44:32.218-05:002014-06-04T01:44:32.218-05:00Sullivan is completely right about conservatism...Sullivan is completely right about conservatism's inherent nobility, as long as you completely ignore both his personal history and the history of American conservatism. <br /><br />Honestly, the only value I get from some pundits anymore is as cautionary tales and opportunities for bullshit detection. Oh, and also as an opportunity to ponder human nature (especially psychopathology).<br /><br />(To be fair, occasionally I find genuine value in Sullivan's work – such as his many pieces on torture – but his batting average is so low otherwise I don't bother to look unless someone links him.) <br /><br />Sullivan's indignant, preening myopia is really just the usual conservative defense of unearned privilege as the natural order, plus a mountain of ego protection. (The best defense is a relentless offense. I keep coming back to it, but John Kenneth Galbraith nailed it when he said that "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.")<br /><br />Besides Sullivan's cognitively conservative psychological needs, you well know that the mark of Sullivan's personal, political and professional conservatism is <i>why</i> he rejects the obvious truth that "Liberals were right all along." There's no money in it.<br />Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26867966495220282022014-06-03T12:58:50.770-05:002014-06-03T12:58:50.770-05:00@Robt
Hmm, well, the DFHs have been so busy stabb...@Robt<br /><br />Hmm, well, the DFHs have been so busy stabbing people in the back and throwing elections to the Republicans - for the ultimate greater good of the Noble Leftist Cause, naturally - that the simple fact of holding opinions that are not necessarily hideous will not suffice for their rehabilitation.<br /><br />Clean up Armenia! Get a harelip!(*)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(*) for the benefit of the terminally stupid and weak minded, this is not a threat of violence but a Firesign Theater reference.<br />Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26561182065321890902014-06-03T01:02:06.364-05:002014-06-03T01:02:06.364-05:00don't know how to tell you this, but the Libru...don't know how to tell you this, but the Libruls that are right. Are going to have to share first place with those dirty fucking hippies....<br /><br />The Dirty Fucking Hippies were right.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEZoY-TMG4<br />Robtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32017688283674469322014-06-02T21:00:30.593-05:002014-06-02T21:00:30.593-05:00I love the hysteria at the dish on the N Wade POS ...I love the hysteria at the dish on the N Wade POS book, as it were somehow less a POS than the Bell CurveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36795900387666901532014-06-02T19:29:21.361-05:002014-06-02T19:29:21.361-05:00Sully's review of "How To Serve The Middl...Sully's review of "How To Serve The Middle Class" by Charles and David Koch: IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!!Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20059917109229108132014-06-02T17:17:40.204-05:002014-06-02T17:17:40.204-05:00"the United States practiced torture"
W..."the United States practiced torture"<br /><br />When did this doofus become aware of this? Five years after it was established fact? Ten years?<br /><br />I can't search to find out because i'd have to type his name to do it, and he doesn't deserve that.steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15171779254242824422014-06-02T16:38:09.644-05:002014-06-02T16:38:09.644-05:00Which is why I continue to find it hilarious that ...<i>Which is why I continue to find it hilarious that that the Conservative Andrew Sullivan continues to be unable to force his mouth to form the words "Liberals were right all along."</i><br /><br />yeah, but once he started saying it, he would never be able to stop saying it, so you might see where he is reluctant,zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com