Re-Imagining the Pantsuit: A Feminist Primer to Hillary 2012

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About Maverick.  Obama would later pick these lies up and use them to claim that Maverick was lying about his own record, when he criticized Obama.  Even as Obama repeated the claim that McCain anticipates a 100 year American military occupation of Iraq.

Waiting for Obama apology.  Sweetie.

I am one of those people, like Malkin, who was first inspired to blog by a fellow named Jeff Goldstein, whose blog, Protein Wisdom is one of the best that ever has been (Scott Burgess also deserves discredit).  Jeff (”Heff” in Spanish) is looking to blog from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  I’d like to see him put up in a suite with plenty of good single malt, so that he can do his very best work.

So, as it’s Friday night and you’re intoxicated, and before you think better of this, please hit the PayPal or Amazon button and send Jeff a little money, so that he can provide us with a panoramic view of Democracy in action.

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(h/t Ace)

By 2014, the New York Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elite and the elderly.

Uh. Too late. Guess this thing’s 4 years old, though, so it would have been hard to anticipate how far the NYT’s fortunes would have dropped by now.

If everybody’s special, nobody’s special, right? Anyone have the information on who funded this? The production values are very good.

More: For $5,000, AuthorTree will write your book for you.

The Girl with the Jackalope Eyes 

A great review of what appears to be an exciting book by possibly the best war reporter alive. I don’t know the publisher, Richard Vigilante Books, but please support them if you can, and make the big names wish it were theirs. And, if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t forget JD Johannes’s Outside the Wire, more than halfway to surpassing Redacted’s box office gross.

Dissident Frogman’s Obama campaign poster. (h/t Beth)

Friday Night Cool: Giant Steps

Washington Post Staff Writer Libby Copeland bemoans “poor Hillary” — or rather, that people say it of Hillary Clinton’s seemingly Quixotic quest for the White House:

“Poor Hillary,” write the op-ed writers and the bloggers and the newspaper letter-writers. “Poor Hillary’s done,” writes a gleeful reader in Portsmouth, Va., on Mother’s Day. “The Billstone Around Poor Hillary’s Neck,” reads a New York Daily News headline yesterday. The talk show host Bill Maher has used the phrase, and the occasional CNN anchor, and, of course, the conservative yakkers who like the pure, distilled schadenfreude of those two words.

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Hillary hate is something profound, something that may never be fully unraveled. It is her very name, so polarizing; it is Slick Willy and Vince Foster and Whitewater and that nickname “Shrillary” and her supposed unending ambition and . . . something else, something ancient. It is Hillary Clinton stretched like taffy, the photos you see of her on right-wing Web sites with her eyes all big and crazy:

Is it about her womanhood? Or is it about this woman? Is that a false distinction? (”Poor Hillary: right gender, wrong woman,” goes the headline on the Web site of a Scottish newspaper, as if you can separate the two. But it’s all mixed up. And you don’t find too many references to “poor Johnny” or “poor Barry,” even when their campaigns hit black ice.)

Poor Libby apparently is unable to grasp the concept that many people might vote for a female candidate, but not for Hillary Clinton, due to many things Clinton has said and done in her past.  Poor Libby lives in a parallel dimension (i.e., the newsroom of the Washington Post) where conservatives yakkers would not lift up an American reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher.

Poor Libby lives in a special place where no one has ever referred to poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Barack Obama.

Poor Libby may not even know what a search engine is. Poor journalism.

(h/t Memeorandum.)

Anywhere else I am at the mercy of the government. It is very simple. I want to be in a country where I can defend myself when I am attacked.
– Ada Sereni, in James McNeish, Belonging, 1980

Earlier this week Hitchens posted an piece about Israel’s 60th anniversary in which he all but wished it would just go under so he wouldn’t have to stress about it anymore. The tone of the column is regrettably familiar by now, that Israel is a mistake, a vast mistake.
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Greedy President Bush:

President Bush’s financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million, according to disclosure forms released yesterday.

Bush and his wife, Laura, were worth at least $9 million and as much as $24 million at the start of his term. The Bushes could still be worth as much as $20 million now, according to the financial documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics, which requires assets to be reported only within broad ranges.

What a grasping, avaricious man.   Bet he pardons a lot of people in positions to do him financial favors when he leave office, too.

The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (who knew) explains the sexual practices of the little brown peoples:

Throughout Indonesia, a majority of women regularly engage in a number of practices to “clean,” “dry,” “tighten,” or “deodorize” their vaginas. These practices derive from longstanding traditions designed to achieve conformity with expectations about the appearance, function, and sexual performance of the vagina. These are rooted in a widespread belief that “tight sex” or “dry sex”-vaginal intercourse without any or with minimal lubrication in the vagina-is more pleasurable for men and gender norms that require women to “please” men. . . .

Among the Javanese and Sundanese, and many other ethnic groups, a bride is prepared for the nuptials by a professional wedding dresser ( tukang pais ). There is no standard way of preparation, but jamu is typically used to reduce vaginal odors and any “excessive” secretions. Occasionally, the dresser will advise the bride to undergo a special pre-wedding beauty treatment. At a beauty salon or spa, the bride might have her vagina “smoked,” by sitting on a chair with a whole in the middle over a charcoal fire on which special herbs are placed to create a fragrant steam.

And all this time we thought “God, you make me wet” was a compliment.

Shamelessly stolen from Gail.