Oh dear lord…

Via a Jessica Valenti tweet, I found out that Dennis Prager has written part II of his pro-marital rape columns. Kathy wrote about the first one, if you need a quick reminder, and I won’t write much about this one… I can’t write much because I refuse to read Prager’s pile of shit...

From Political Chastity to Whoredom

Oh, sexism. How you rear your silly head in the most obscure and well-meaning of metaphors. From the New York Times today: For Kennedy, Self-Promotion Is Unfamiliar By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and JEREMY W. PETERS After a lifetime of being wooed by others, Caroline Kennedy is still learning how to sell...

The Might of Nation-States, The Temperaments of Ten-Year-Olds

The New York Times wowed everyone yesterday with its analysis of foreign policy at a third-grade level: “In the cabinet room today there was an energy, a feeling that after so long of showing restraint we had finally acted,” said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking of the...

Placing the latest Israel/Gaza violence into perspective…

Robert Fisk (h/t mattthebastard): Ever since 1948, we’ve been hearing this balderdash from the Israelis — just as Arab nationalists and then Arab Islamists have been peddling their own lies: that the Zionist “death wagon” will be overthrown, that all Jerusalem will be...

It’s tough determining what’s more revolting [Update]

Maybe I view it this way because I spend too much time in an over-opinionated blogosphere, but the first inclination one has concerning news of Israelis and Palestinians is to pick a side; and criticize others for the side they choose.  The wingnuts have certainly picked Israel, as they always will —...