Wednesday, September 10, 2008

QOTD

Christopher Hitchens in Slate:
I think [the Democrats are making a mistake] in the attempt to paint the Palin family as if it were Arkansas on ice or Tobacco Road with igloos and Inuit. Very well, she possibly has had her Troopergate and even trailer-park moments. But whom exactly did the Democrats drown in moist applause, for two nights running, in Denver? The most dysfunctional family ever to occupy not the vice-presidential mansion but the executive one. It's hard to imagine that there will be any more unwanted pregnancies or shotgun weddings when or if the Palins move to the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, whereas with the Clintons, the very thing that made all Bill's friends turn white and pee green was that they made him the president, and he still wouldn't stop
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's the hypocrisy thing, e.g., "don't teach sex ed," "abstinence only" while she and daughter are doing sex outside the "Christian" tradition.

Anonymous said...

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Confession, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood, by the Grimm Brothers
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Pigman, by Paul Zindel


What do these books have in common?

Does Palin read books?

@nooil4pacifists said...

Anony:

You're an idiot--see numbers 41-43.

OBloodyHell said...

> You're an idiot--see numbers 41-43.

I think that's been incredibly obvious from the rest of the Genyus's posts.

Some people just need someone beside them ready to provide a necessary bitch-slapping upside the head on a constant basis. S/He's a prime candidate.

Anonymous said...

When your mind is inadequate, turn to physical violence, obloody. Obviously, looking at the history of civilization, physical violence is the best way to make your point.

You might want to consider turning your physical violence against yourself where it belongs. Sorry you did not get your fair share of brain cells.