tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3149898153979567447..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Abortion: Another Issue In The Vast, Bayeux Tapestry Of Shit About Whichdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66736081578611970152014-10-09T09:59:22.833-05:002014-10-09T09:59:22.833-05:00With respect, DG, although "rending" wou...With respect, DG, although "rending" would work, I think the word you wanted was rendering. In Brooks's case, think of it as rendering in the slaughterhouse sense. :-)Lex Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364989805025038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2278087840242238482014-10-08T21:08:12.783-05:002014-10-08T21:08:12.783-05:00Such a bad decision? Fuck that noise! Roe v Wade...Such a bad decision? Fuck that noise! Roe v Wade was not A compromise it was THE compromise: first trimester the woman decides, second trimester there be restrictions, third trimester only for serious health concerns. Anything less would be superfluous, anything more would be officious pecksniffs micromanaging the private lives of strangers.<br /><br />Good to hear about somebody on the teevee smacking that crap down.Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70706259739263635272014-10-08T20:51:24.152-05:002014-10-08T20:51:24.152-05:00I think Gail Collins owes you royalties. Compare G...I think Gail Collins owes you <a href="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2005/04/bobo-pleads-for-compromise-again.html" rel="nofollow">royalties</a>. Compare Gail's remarks...<br /><br /><i>If states had been left to their own devices over the last few decades, I doubt very much you’d have seen the legislatures in, say, Texas or Mississippi, gradually coming around. Today, instead of eight clinics operating in Texas, there’d be none. Women in Mississippi who now have to travel to Jackson would probably have to find their way to New York or California. That’s not much of a problem for women with assets, but it’s the end of all options for the poor.<br /><br />Abortion is exactly the kind of issue that requires the Supreme Court’s intervention. It involves a critical right; it’s politically toxic in many parts of the country and as a practical matter it mainly has an impact on the poor.</i><br /><br />...with our host from the linked post...<br /><br /><i>“The centrist majority?” Just like slavery was settled amicably by the Missouri Compromises II, III and IV?<br /><br />Or was the Jim Crow Apartheid that rotted away in the Red States for a hundred years after the Civil War whisked away by a “series of state-by-state compromises” and I just didn’t notice? Segregation? The ban on interracial marriage? And the ban on teaching Evolution?<br /><br />Transpose any other basic civil rights issue onto the template BoBo proposes as the reasonable alternative to Kwazy Judicial Activism and the texture and density of the shit that he is packed with jumps right out at you.</i><br /><br />...and the main difference is that DG, not being constrained by the decorum of Even the Liberal New York Times*, can call bullshit bullshit.<br /><br />(* Remember, they whittled Our Molly's "a beer-gut that belongs in the Smithsonian" down to "a protuberant abdomen" or something equally bloodless.)Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36743184739154196612014-10-08T20:03:27.927-05:002014-10-08T20:03:27.927-05:00David: What I mean is that people who are always h...<i>David: What I mean is that people who are always hyperactive will be terrible in certain circumstances and people who are always cautious will be terrible in others. The only people you can trust are those who let their means be governed by their circumstances.</i><br /><br />Does anyone challenge my observation that this is pure gibberish? * * * Anyone? It is so vague that it means absolutely nothing. <br /><br />Seriously, "The only people you can trust are those who let their means be governed by their circumstances?" <br /><br />WTF is he trying to say? Only the rich can and should be allowed to have abortions, because only they can afford it, in which case shouldn't it be, ". . . who let their circumstances be governed by their means"?<br /><br />Contrariwise, in the best Tweedledee and Tweedledum style, The poor shouldn't be allowed to have abortions because they don't have the means?<br /><br />To me DFB here is like an octopus surprised by an adversary who is trying to escape be expelling a cloud of ink (or should I say bullshit)?<br />Redhandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89946304530931990582014-10-08T19:32:07.254-05:002014-10-08T19:32:07.254-05:00Doug at Balloon Juice once said, paraphasing: &quo...Doug at Balloon Juice once said, paraphasing: "the only good outcome of a Gail Collins/David Brooks conversation would be a murder suicide."<br /><br />Normally, this statement is completely accurate. I'm glad Collins stepped up and cast a glimmer of doubt on it for once.<br /><br />Brooks's "Roe was a bad case for pro-choicers too!" is a classic entry in his catalog of trying-to-sound-reasonable-but-actually-saying-something-batshit faux-centrist horse shit that is aimed at promoting the braindead far right agenda that he is still, always and forever, carrying water for. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com