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Author: Alan Vanneman
I’d like to score the world some coke
Everybody—well, at least five—is talking about how much they luv Don “Mad Men” Draper’s chef d’œuvre, “I’d like to buy the world a Coke,” which I’ve mangled just a bit in my headline. Well, let me just say that when I came home from Vietnam and saw this manipulative masterstroke of capitalistic co-option on TV,…
Rape Now and Then
In a recent posting, Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students, Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown focuses of the most recent—or one of the most recent—follies de jour in America’s academia, rage among four students at Columbia who discovered that Ovid’s Metamorphoses contain a whole lotta rape. According to the complaint, one student “said her professor…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Just white bread folks, huh? I don’t think so.” “A striking case of technological convergence, yes. But somehow it’s still scaring the shit out of me.” “Damn! You never know what’s going to come out of those things!” “Are they bringing us toast or taking our butter? That’s the question.” “Must be…
Hundreds of armed, fat, white, tattooed, motorcycle-riding Texans arrested after a bloody shootout that left 9 dead, signifying nothing
That’s right. No one has used this as an excuse to make negative statements about people who ride motorcycles or who are armed, fat, white, tattooed, or from Texas. Because there’s nothing America hates more than invidious moral generalizations based on a sample of one! Afterwords But it is apparently OK to refer to the…
42 Democrats in search of a policy
I don’t know if the recent vote in the Senate by 42 Democratic senators that temporarily derailed President Obama’s Pacific trade package was purely for show, but I suspect that much of it was. Politics is a two-way street, after all, and a smart politician always works both sides when he can. But there’s no…
Why I’m voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton in November 2016
Actually, I won’t be, because I live in the District of Columbia, which always votes Democratic, giving me the luxury of voting my conscience. But if I were living in a swing state, I’d be pulling that lever for Hillary and pulling it hard, just the way she likes it. Because Hillary, bless her heartless…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Just say ‘Who was your father, Leatherface?’ Trust me, it’ll kill.” “Just say that you only support juggling that doesn’t destroy the environment.” “Ask him where he’ll be when all the kids with one hand start showing up at the emergency room.” “Just say that you’re going to use your chainsaw on…
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, cracking down on the Yellow Peril
Bloomberg has a nice—“nice” as in hideously ugly—story on the Dept. of Homeland Security’s passionate determination to investigate anything that might turn out to be worth investigating, particularly if the facts were different. For a variety of reasons, it’s a thing in China to have your baby in the U.S., if you’ve got the cash….
Baltimore Morals
Kudos, a bit belated, to Radley Balko for punching up (or perhaps down) against the “black people are just as scary as ever and it’s all Obama’s fault!” meme being pushed by the Right in the wake of the brief Baltimore riot, during which, to the disappointment of many “conservatives”, I suspect, no one was…