In the mistaken belief that I am an actual woman, rather than a 17-year-old male stuck in a clumsy, train-loving, gun-crazy middle-aged female body, Cassandra has asked me to respond to a few questions from time to time on the subject of sex and gender. This is my rather inauspicious, sleep-deprived opening volley. To everyone’s [...]

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I got the impression that it was a flim-flammy article by one of those hostile guys who are rejected by one woman for one reason, and then another woman for another reason, and then throw up their hands, angrily, and proclaim, “I can’t win!”—because the female sex cannot seem to get its story straight about [...]

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May I get you some more ice?
No, really: I feel dreadful about this. I’m writing a tragedy based on Letterman’s career right now: it’s sort of a cross between King Lear and Bozo the Clown.

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1) When you double-checked about Bristol Palin’s age, how exactly did you phrase that question?—”Um, please confirm the age of Governor Palin’s oldest child. Not the one who’s visiting this city, but the eldest.” Um, I’ve been a fact-checker. We always give as much data as we can. I’m hard-pressed as to how he managed [...]

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fighting against “censorship” by the right since . . . Gawd. The dawn of time, or something like that. Maybe back when there were right-wingers who advocated something akin to censorship. I believe I was six months old or thereabouts.
Look: I still haven’t seen Letterman’s apology, but I’m glad he managed to proffer one that, [...]

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Hm. How funny. Nothing about the Letterman/CBS scandal at the company’s corporate site, or on its blog, either. But HillBuzz has a thing or two to say about Johnson & Johnson.
Here are the Johnson & Johnson product lines:
Acuvue • Actifed • Ambi • Aveeno • Band-Aid • Benadryl • Bengay • Benylin • Caladryl [...]

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. . . is over at HillBuzz
Tell the following four “family-friendly” companies you will no longer be patronizing them as long as they continue to advertise on Letterman or CBS (yes: it counts if the company buys a banner ad and CBS places that ad on the Letterman pages within its website):
• Mars Candy
• The [...]

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There’s a nice summary of the situation here that includes a link to my “American Sharia” concept, and to the suggestion of Brent Bozell at the Media Research Center that Letterman “apologize like a real man.”
Real the Cold Fury entry; it’s a nice formulation of why this is important, even if sexism isn’t normally at [...]

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. . . who is lying about the firing of Tommy Christopher. Oh, and, get this: claiming that having worked for The New York Times proves her journalistic integrity!
A long list of disclosures at the beginning of the entry details Moe’s and Red State’s relationships with the players—corporate and individual—and ends with this [...]

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Michelle Malkin, that is. Because she is so “venomous,” she was sort of asking to be placed on a rape hit-list. According to Bonnie Erbe, at least. Uh-huh.
Look: I disagree with Malkin all the time, because (1) I’m not the kind of conservative she is (certainly, she’s more of a SoCon), and (2) as a [...]

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Top Liberal Writers I’d Like to Dismember: A Work in Progress
[Note: You might check out the first link before you read any further. And that link is not safe for work. The entire subject is N.S.F.W.]
Guy Cimbalo, who is sexy, but would look better without a dick, and with acid eating away at his gonads. [...]

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No, I don’t think the idea of the video below was to call the Speaker of the House a “pussy,” though the final tagline does allude to the Pussy Galore character, and does indeed imply that Nancy Pelosi is on the wrong side here, having taken on the intelligence community in the aggressive fashion that [...]

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. . . what Stacy thinks Cassandra means. Not by a long shot. And if he think she’s a radical Feminist, or an embittered spinster . . . this could become very interesting, very quickly.
Ace’s site is, of course, the Heffalump in the room, as he runs the original “Boyz Playhouse, Some Girlz Allowed” of [...]

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The fact that I like women, doesn’t determine who I am as a man . . . My principles do.
Homophobe!
Oh, wait. I meant he was one of those words that sounds a lot like another word, but means something different than what you really typed. So maybe I got that wrong.
A plague on both [...]

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I think I’ve poked my nose into Ruthlace’s blog a couple of times before, but since two of her daughters and one of her granddaughters are blog-friends of mine, I somehow had her filed away in the back of my mind as “social media” rather than “serious writing.” What a mistake!
Cynthia Yockey has her sidebarred, [...]

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Stacy McCain on gay marriage.
Cynthia Yockey on Stacy McCain.
Glenn Reynolds on Cynthia’s evaluation of Stacy’s sex appeal: “IT FIGURES THIS WOULD COME FROM A LESBIAN: How Stacy McCain became irresistible to women. I’m just sayin’ . . . .”
Finally, Stacy sends off another missive to Ms. Yockey that serves up a few traditional Christian [...]

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And I can’t do it, despite having overslept today.
I’m just . . . very, very tired. No, not hung-over, though I probably ought to have, you know—counted, last night; I did wake up a bit parched.
I’m just ready for CPAC to be over, despite this being my favorite event of the year. (Well, [...]

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at the National Review blog:
[A]re beheadings common in western New York? I used to spend a lot of time in that neck of the woods and I don’t remember decapitation as a routine form of murder. Yet the killing of Aasiya Hassan seems to have elicited a very muted response.
When poor Mrs Hassan’s husband launched [...]

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I have to get up early tomorrow morning so I can drive to Bakersfield tomorrow after work—or was it Fresno? are they really different towns?—so I shan’t be saying too much this evening.
Except: politics is grim. Let’s not make it serious.
Peace out.

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At least when Jews are herded into camps, it is by other ethnic groups, rather than their own. And when they are killed, it is by their enemies, rather than their parents and aunts and uncles exhorting them to attain glorious fucking “martyrdom.”
I will not do the irrational Islamophobia thing. I will not do [...]

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