1984
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It’s almost like…
…the Federal tax credits for electric vehicles were just a device to shift the tax burden from GE and some fat dealerships onto the general public. Screw saving the planet; coal-powered cars weren’t going to do that anyway. A cynic would say that all this Greenie stuff is just another multimillion dollar scam. Tip from Read more
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It’s my football and I’m going home
Lefties in the Tucson area want to secede from the State of Arizona and form their own liberal state. While the historically obvious name for such an entity would be New Arizona or South Arizona, I humbly suggest something more descriptive: Whinylittlebitchistan. Read more
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Just tatoo “Redneck LOSER” on your forehead…
…it would be a lot cheaper than Confederate license plates. But what the heck, we’re catering to every other gang of perverts, layabouts, and degenerates in society, so why not let these hapless mooks self-identify? Update (10 May). The affliction isn’t confined to pseudo-conservative Jacksonians! The Guardian has a series of essays (inadvertently) explaining why Read more
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Soon we may be smuggling light bulbs in from South Carolina
It’s a good measure of how messed up this country has become that something like South Carolina’s Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act is even intelligible, let alone sensible. Tip from the Instapundit, as portrayed by Ed Driscoll. Read more
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Graffiti is vandalism, not art
The New Criterion calls shenanigans on graffiti masquerading as modern art Épater la bourgeois: shocking the middle class has been a cherished goal of the avant garde since the birth of the movement in the nineteenth century. The fact that the middle class long ago enlisted themselves as co-collaborators in this project of rote titillation Read more
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Meet the Cape-a-Bility Challenge
59,000 of us got jobs, but all another 6,000 of them got were these stupid capes. I wonder how the capes will look on their resumes… Tip from Drudge, who couldn’t permalink his a$$. Read more
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In France, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion…
…but apparently some French Catholics might welcome it, after destroying Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.” Yes, it’s illegal, anti-intellectual, and dangerous to free speech. But I’m amazed Christians have for so long turned the other cheek to a world of insults, oppressions, and outright massacres. When Radical Islam gets results by videotaping decapitations, fundamentalist Christians take Read more
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Happy farookin’ Tax Day
The latest in Drudge fu: Gee, I wonder how much overlap there is between these two groups. Freeloading bastards. Update (19 April). Michael Walsh, writing in the New York Post, gets behind my idea of the Non-Alternative Minimum Tax: One way to get a grip — unemotionally, intellectually — on the problem doesn’t even involve Read more
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Let’s push the “abstract behavior rules”
The latest in NewSpeak is renaming Easter Eggs as “spring spheres”. We were doing some linguistic horsing around yesterday, and decided “spring spheres” lacked any sort of multicultural element. We decided to call them “cojones colorados.” That should provoke some discussion. Tip from the Corner. Read more
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