Via The Sadly-Nosians:
The quintessential liberal fascist isn’t an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade-school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.
From the backcover text on Jonah “welfare is only for wingnuts” Goldberg’s magnum opus, Liberal Fascism: [subtitle to be determined].
Bruce Baugh, on science fiction tropes unexpectedly popping up in real life:
A staple of the sf I read while growing up was the visionary capable of stepping outside normal social and intellectual boundaries to pursue a goal against all opposition and in face of every objection.
This person exists in real life.
It’s Dick Cheney.
Comment of the Day II
At Digby, again – this time on the news that a prisoner at Gitmo had attempted suicide by cutting his throat with his fingernail:
Clearly if those terrorists are going to weaponize their fingernails, its our obligation to use a rusty pair of pliers to rip them out to ensure the safety of the Homeland.
Its not torture, its for the Greater Good.
Freewheelin’ Freddie | 12.05.07 – 6:49 pm | #
Comment of the Day: Dan Bartlett on rightwing blogs
Ex-White House bigwig Dan Bartlett speaking to the Texas Monthly:
That’s what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we’ve cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.
Comment of the Day
From the BBC’s Have Your Say. on what’s inevitably being called Discgate:
So they used the Dutch postal service. I could have told them from personal experience that they would have gone missing. Wait till they try the complaints procedure…..;-)
stuart young, Netherlands