Comments on: I guess Elizabeth Warren was conceived through parthenogenisis

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:43:14 +0000

Tom, a very good point about the differing zeitgeist between the ’60s and our so much more fragile age. Hadn’t occurred to me.

Not that I was much in favor of the general trashing of civilities that began to find favor in the ’60s and that haunts us still. [Not that there weren’t already incivilities, which I expect will always be with us. —-On that note, though O/ the present /T, clamping down hard on public behavior and especially public “incivilities” does not prevent them; as N.K. and other bastions of Communism have shown us. The incivility of unjustly aiming zingers, even “hate speech” (and even if it really is hateful and not meant purely for humor), is as nothing to the incivility of a government-gang’s policy of terrorizing its people by murdering them on the slightest excuse, or no excuse at all.]

And our current state of decay does grow out of “that slum of a decade.”

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:12:35 +0000

I wonder if the Bee is talking here about Packer’s heresy on the meritocracy line?

https://babylonbee.com/news/the-atlantic-quickly-patches-echo-chamber-after-discovering-leak

“It was a dicey situation. We were exposed for a short while to a dissenting opinion on a social issue, which is unacceptable, and could have wreaked havoc on our homogeneous corporate culture,” Goldberg said in his statement. “We want to thank the frenzied and ruthless social media mob for bringing the abnormality to our attention—it has been successfully dealt with.”

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:02:07 +0000

Tom Grey on September 20, 2019 at 5:20 am said:
It was a joke.

But not just a humor joke, a joke about how bad men are.

If it was still OK to joke about … this wouldn’t bother me.

But it’s not. It’s not OK to joke about most groups — so, under “equality”, it’s not OK to joke about any groups.
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Indeed.
However, I do have a few good Mormon jokes I’m willing to share….

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:33:46 +0000

Don’t know how she’s going to live down this one….

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:20:31 +0000

It was a joke.

But not just a humor joke, a joke about how bad men are.

If it was still OK to joke about how bad women are, and men, and Italians, Irish, Jews, and yankees and rednecks, and blacks and whites and Mexicans; if it was still the Free Speech 60s, this wouldn’t bother me.

But it’s not. It’s not OK to joke about most groups — so, under “equality”, it’s not OK to joke about any groups.

I don’t like those rules. But I hate when rules apply only to some, but not to others — equal enforcement of rules is necessary.

No men should vote for the men-hating Warren. But many Trump-haters will.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:37:35 +0000

Thomas Sowell on equality, but it works for any kind of reforms as well:
“the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
Conveniently lifted from Neo’s post on Meritocracy.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:35:39 +0000

The State Commissions’s reports helped modernize the state’s labor laws, making New York State “one of the most progressive states in terms of labor reform.”
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Good things like those reforms are one of the functions of government, and they gave “progressive” a good reputation in the beginning, which is why the Left likes to use that label now.

By: Gerard vanderleun

Gerard vanderleun — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:34:26 +0000

Dr. Filth, she keeps her world inside of her leather cup
But all her sexless voters, they’re trying to blow it up
Now Dr. Filth, this local loser, she’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read, “Have Mercy on His Soul”
She just wails on her the penny whistles, you can hear her blow
If you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row

By: PA Cat

PA Cat — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:23:14 +0000

Interesting that Warren kept her first husband’s name even after she dumped him in 1978 for the law school professor who became her second husband in 1980. I wonder what Jim Warren (a computer programmer for IBM as well as the father of her two children at the time she left him) thinks of her candidacy.

I also find it ironic that her B.S. from the University of Houston is in speech pathology.

By: Montage

Montage — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:57:18 +0000

Right, shows like the Marvelous Mrs Maisel use humor well with a self-reflexive eye on New York [50’s] Jewish culture without denigrating anyone.