Top Stories Tuesday 10 Dec
Mikhaela’s News Blog on how much a transgender person’s life is worth:
… we can only conclude that Nebraska courts doesn’t seem to think transgender lives are worth much. Worse, that first judge awarded a low figure because he declared that because he was trans (that’s presumably what is meant by “lifestyle”), Brandon was responsible for his own death. If a sheriff ignoring a rape victim’s testimony doesn’t go beyond negligence into malignance, I don’t know the meaning of the word…
Pandagon on the Republican’s “outreach” to black people:
The amazing thing about the entire site is that it basically doesn’t offer anything to black people – it’s open about the fact that it’s just out to make just enough black people vote Republican when they’re needed. Way to be the “big tent” party, guys.
Pandagon on Spinsanity:
This shows what I don’t like about Spinsanity and what I don’t like about the West/Hanks crowd. Spinsanity (who are Swat grads, by the way) tends to be so overzealous in their pursuit of not appearing too liberal that they grasp at straws, like saying that a metaphorical use of “fifth column” solely in regards to the press is accusing conservatives of treason, which can be charitably be described as a terrible reading of the original quote. Hanks and West are pit bulls on the pant leg of intellectual tolerance, bending facts and logic so often that trying to figure out what the truth is becomes nearly impossible. I honestly don’t care about their politics, it’s their minds that I can’t stand. I mean, if I turned in a paper making an argument with their rhetorical and logical styles, it would get rejected outright, regardless of what I was arguing.
The Rittenhouse Review reveals why he never will be president of the USA:
I thought I would save anyone so inclined the trouble of a little investigative reporting — ?A little what??, the leading lights of our nation?s media cry out in unison — and inform you of my own volition that I normally pay $40, plus tips, for a haircut, and I do so every three weeks.And also, for the record, I have a furrowed brow, a deeply and perpetually furrowed brow, and a brow that has been furrowed — and thoroughly unfurrowable — for nearly twenty years.