tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post70260778124998181..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: Fundraiser Day 2: Young "Social Democrat" David Brooksdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-91101883697462752392013-04-05T15:36:07.505-05:002013-04-05T15:36:07.505-05:00Huh? classic dFb, eh? Lets see, giving a class o...Huh? classic dFb, eh? Lets see, giving a class of people freedom will make them less free? Because marriage is an institution...and who wants to live in an institution! I get it! Take my wife, please. Carry your bag sir? No thanks, she can walk...ha ha ha.<br /><br />I'm sure I have no idea what sort of horrible constraints I'll suffer when my relationship of 20 years is recognized by the Man. I'm so going to miss those 120-400 anonymous encounters/year. The tyranny of it is unimagineable. Bishamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84727668473079899602013-04-04T00:26:06.736-05:002013-04-04T00:26:06.736-05:00Tangentially related, the New York Times published...Tangentially related, the New York Times published <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/opinion/on-chinas-state-sponsored-amnesia.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a> about state-induced amnesia about the politics of the past in China.<br /><br />The New York. Fucking. Times. Is publishing commentary about how those queer Chinamen across the sea are able to forget the atrocities of the past! Fortunately, the New York Times is there to point it out.<br /><br />Brought to you by the New York "the Iraq what now, War you say?" Times. They published articles and scoops by the now-traitorous wiki-who? Never heard of it, I'm sure an establishment like the NYT wouldn't change their loyalties based on convenience. Columnists-for-life David Whosit now and Thomas Whatsit? The-man-with-a-heisenberg-uncertainty-history Mitt Romney? The New York "Oh no, Mr President, we won't publish this article about illegal wiretapping until you're safely reelected" Times. No matter how legitimate the critique of the PRC government wiping things away from recent history - and for the record, it's extremely legitimate and very disturbing the efficiency with which the PRC is able to do it - the practice of mass amnesia is alive and well in the US, and the New York Fucking Times is part of the problem.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14005260344579507716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7585031489123772592013-04-03T20:50:05.355-05:002013-04-03T20:50:05.355-05:00Did you lose my comment or did Captcha eat it up? ...Did you lose my comment or did Captcha eat it up? ANYhoo I think I said something to the effect that the fall-back these days for Republicans seeing the writing on the wall over the gay marriage issue is to say "Fine! Get married! Then you can be as miserable as WE are!" I might have added something to the effect that his vast spaces for entertaining were perhaps not making up, in terms of fulfillment, for what his marriage was not giving him. Purely speculation, of course.<br /><br />And, yes, I know why you need teh Captcha. I'm just lucky that other people over at our blog pretty much take on spam control duties. ;-)marindenverhttp://www.rumproast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6301552318675922752013-04-03T12:04:27.190-05:002013-04-03T12:04:27.190-05:00"like McMegan"
Yes, the new fall-back p..."like McMegan"<br /><br />Yes, the new fall-back position for the Repubs who are reluctantly accepting that they've lost on this battle is "Fine. Go ahead and marry. Then you can be as miserable as WE are." That'll make them there gays re-think a few thoughts or two!!<br /><br />Also, too. Are we learning something interesting about the success of Mr. Brooks' marriage? Are the vast spaces for entertaining not enough to make up for other deficiencies? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.marindenverhttp://www.rumproast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2628214498562901432013-04-03T10:20:15.739-05:002013-04-03T10:20:15.739-05:00If that's the leading conservative intellectua...If that's the leading conservative intellectual's best argument, I'd hate to see the ones that got scrapped.proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43552664230447184012013-04-03T00:08:36.401-05:002013-04-03T00:08:36.401-05:00So... he's trying to drive a wedge between the...So... he's trying to drive a wedge between the gays and progressive by trying to tell gays that once they tie the knot, they will suddenly be prevented, by Marriage Magic, from having sex with the 120-200 partners per year that conservatives claim gays do? (The fliers when I was in college said 400. Seriously. 400.) Because millennia of culture have proven that marriage has so efficiently proven that heterosexuals are rendered incapable of extra-marital sex?<br /><br />Can someone tell me if it's the glowing ghost of Reagan or Jesus that shows up shouting, "Don't you put your shameful bits there!"<br /><br />As an aside, Cenk Uygur made the good point that trying to turn heterosexual men against same-sex relationships by telling them that gays have sex with 120-200 different people per year is probably not the most effective way to go.<br /><br />Which also leads to... David F Brooks is punching hippies for their loose morals, but is telling gay men to resume having sex with 120-200 people a year. <br /><br />Mike.K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39939325822487917892013-04-03T00:03:43.707-05:002013-04-03T00:03:43.707-05:00Good lord, Friedman was a cocky dumbshit, wasn'...Good lord, Friedman was a cocky dumbshit, wasn't he? No fucking wonder we're in this mess. No fucking wonder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57043316898758636442013-04-03T00:03:02.105-05:002013-04-03T00:03:02.105-05:00Yeah, I almost lost my lunch when I read that late...Yeah, I almost lost my lunch when I read that latest mess-er, um, missive.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420029088809696342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39585024462596753962013-04-02T23:22:44.198-05:002013-04-02T23:22:44.198-05:00It's nice to see that lent is over ;)It's nice to see that lent is over ;)Scott Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05751177999283862522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57590194193164942772013-04-02T23:21:54.817-05:002013-04-02T23:21:54.817-05:00It's nice to see that lent is over ;)It's nice to see that lent is over ;)Scott Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05751177999283862522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21532685832154168802013-04-02T23:11:46.539-05:002013-04-02T23:11:46.539-05:00Another proponent of the Henny Youngman approach, ...Another proponent of the Henny Youngman approach, like McMegan: "You gays will be sorry, marriage isn't all that, you'll see!"<br />J Neo Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16113077457194694608noreply@blogger.com