AND he opines that the level of public lewdness at the Columbus Gay Pride Parade surpasses all others. Based on his personal experience, one wonders?
As an aside, I was on vaction with the kids in SF when they were early elementary-school age one year, eating in a diner at the window, when the gay pride parade went by. The “buttless leather chaps” on some of the guys made for quite an interesting table conversation!
Activists in Ferguson, MO (where the majority is black but the mayor is white and the city council almost all white) respond to the crisis with . . . a voter-registration drive. Republicans blast them for “Injecting race into this conversation”.
I remember that movie! I was really disappointed that they never resolved that whole, “Fixing the cable,” subplot. You can’t introduce something like that, and then just leaving it hanging at the end.
I’m glad you called our attention to this incisive reporting by Sher Zieve, but it’s even worse than that:
I’m sure the liberals will make snide remarks about Miss Zieve (and RINOs will disavow her remarks), but the Fair and Balanced version of Wikipedia says this about her:
I’m confused by the term leftist. I can get behind liberal and progressive and right-wing and left-wing are okay. Leftist seems a good deal more extreme than what I see from Democrats, liberals and progressives, who mostly strike me as conservative moderates with a dollop of progressive.
(*)A conservative is someone who rises above his personal self-interest and promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all. A conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of economics and the logic of the Bible for the benefit of all.
The magnitude of this balderdash is breath-taking when applied to the current crop calling themselves CONSERVATIVE. It’s basically bizarro except for the Bible thumping.
I think we can clarify this by mangling a bit of Bertrand Russell: those in the one camp are firmly convinced that martial action unambiguously establishes who is right, while those in the other camp observe that it accomplishes little more than determining who is left.
Wow…there’s more projection in that definition of “conservative” than an Imax Googleplex.
And Reagan sabotaged the 1980 Iran hostage negotiations. Seems to be a regular GOP thing.
I see what you did there. And a wonderful illustration of Chekov’s “rifle.”
What was no rifle. That was his gun.
I see leftist mostly used as a catch all term. Anyone to the left of Genghis Khan.
Is there really a difference between a modern progressive and a liberal? To me “progressive” is what liberals started calling themselves a couple years ago after the right made lib a dirty word.
“Progressive” has the advantage of being genuinely unambiguous. From time to time, we run across ome of those von-Misene/Randian types who are determined to “take back the ‘liberal’ label” for the “classical liberals” (glibertarians). And in some parts of the world, that is in fact exactly how “liberal” is used.
By contrast, I was in HS in '76 and had the opportunity to attend the mock Democratic presidential convention. Seems to me it was held in late March, when the nominee was still in doubt. As I recall, the delegate I was acting as was pledged to Fred Harris, and on the second ballot, we would be cast over to Carter. I strongly objected to voting for Carter because he was just too damn conservative.
So, maybe that is what we should strive for: true conservatism, in the mold of Carter, Nixon, (Oregon governor Tom) McCall, Eisenhower, Truman – fuck these RWAHs who call themselves “conservative”, they have no idea what the term actually means.
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any credible allegation that Reagan actively did anything to hamper the negotiations or prolong the hostage situation. It was enough of a millstone around Carter’s neck without him having to do anything to make it worse. He seemed content to just sit back and let it follow its natural course.
However, I do take great exception to the revisionist Republican narrative that Reagan was responsible for getting the hostages released, and I’ve said so in at least one other thread.
I think “dirty damn pot-smoking liberal” has been around since the 60’s peace movement.
Huh?
God, yes, please! I would still vote against them, but it would be wonderful to have a “loyal opposition” who believe in what’s good for the country, who understand compromise, and who would be willing to work within the system to produce legislation that could conceivably be enacted.
These fucking anarchists we have now are just too damned evil to be tolerated. The American Taliban.
I’d go with leftish.
"All men are mortal.
“Jesus is a man, but . . .”
Fashion note: Chaps are always buttless. In the Old West, they were worn over trousers, to protect them from the high chaparral. In the New West, the trouserless look has a certain popularity…