It's funny - I spent a while thinking of a response, but decided to look for that jpeg of Reynolds with the I HEART COCK shirt instead on the assumption that this would be far more fulfilling.
Reynolds depresses me.
He's a law professor, and therefore employed in the academy, and I probably will never be. Either,
1) I am smarter than he, and therefore I must despair at the state of the academy; or,
2) I am dumber than he, in which case I probably should slit my wrists 'cause I'm wasting oxygen.
The set of issues which a particular gay person cares about isn't co-extensive with "position on gay marriage," nor even issues explicitly about gay people at all.
Holding "the same fundamental position" ≠ advocating for or being willing to sign the same laws/
Isn't it dogma for conservatives (small-government conservatives, that is) that one's moral beliefs about whether or not aid to impoverished people is a moral imperaitve tells one nothing about whether or not government should be the institution which takes care of that imperative? Doesn't Glenn Reynolds purport to be in favor of small government on domestic issues?
2: If I've learned anything in my years in the workforce, it is that smarts correlate only rarely with advancement.
ding ding ding! W/D IDs my two:
(1) conflating "gay marriage" with "gay issues generally" and
(2) conflating content with intensity of support.
Both of those seem pretty bad. Aren't layers notoriously jesuitical?
While they may have held the same position on gay marriage, they certainly didn't hold the same position on civil unions. Also, Mary Cheney sucks.
Dude, Cala, don’t despair.
First, becoming a law professor isn’t that hard. It mostly requires getting very good grades at an elite law school, and taking full advantage of the doors opened up by those grades. That’s not a cakewalk, but it is in a different stratosphere than writing a job-landing dissertation.
Second, while it is true that some people succeed as academics because they are brilliant, it is also true that plenty succeed because they lack the smarts to realize how mediocre and uninteresting their work is and thus are able to pump out a steady stream of it. It’s the people in the middle who can’t hack it.
I thought it was
1. The D's position on gay marriage is the same as the R's;
2. Honest bigotry is better than mealy-mouthed justice.
Also, there's a pretty big difference between not being in favor of gay marriage and advocating a constitutional amendment to prevent it.
And I'm gloriously drunk
But do you have hands?
Oh, and roasted turnips? The bomb.
I only have hands for you, Stanley.
Oh, apo. You can roast my turnips anytime.
The last time this happened, I ended up with a nipple burned into my retina. Tonight ends in sorrow for all, I just know it.
Apparently if you're gay, you're only allowed to support Democrats, whatever they say about gay marriage.
Apparently if you're a loyal American, you're only allowed to support Republicans, whatever they say about any damn fool thing.
Somebody else better comment soon or I'm going to morph into M/tch. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yeah, this sort of reminds me of last month's "liberals support wealth redistribution within political communities, so they should also support seizing Saudi oil fields."
Somebody else better comment soon or I'm going to morph into M/tch.
I'm not so sure I would recommend it, but of course YMMV.
On second thought, you'd probably end up doing it better than m/e, and that would like totally suck. So don't. Please.
Hey apo, did you buy the Chapel Hill because you thought it was local? Tell the truth.
No, I'm well acquainted with the Chapel Hill Winery.
But don't you think it's kind of dishonest of them to label themselves like that?
Stinking duplicitous Aussies!
Yeah, this sort of reminds me of last month's "liberals support wealth redistribution within political communities, so they should also support seizing Saudi oil fields."
No, don't you see? The reason these things seem so insanely dishonest is that we have no sense of humor. Whenever they get called on shit like this the response is "lighten up, guys".
And I'm gloriously drunk.
SHOW YOUR TITS! SHOW YOUR TITS!
Apo emailed me to say "only if Mitch shows his petit baguette."
Even Ezra Pound would've called Reynolds a bitch.
Honest bigotry is better than mealy-mouthed justice.
IME, that's actually the reason behind a lot of support for the current Republican Party. PJ O'Rourke's made a career as an "honest bigot."
I often wonder what Mary Cheney says to her partner about all this.
They call me Vanilla Pudding, and they tell me to kick it.
SHOW YOUR TITS!
Dude, I'm tired. Noah's got my tits. Imagine them with curly red hair on them.
Apo emailed me to say "only if Mitch shows his petit baguette."
Deal.
I also have a rare picture of Labs constructing his Edward Baguette-Hands costume.
I'm not sure who this is, but he's pretty talented.
33 is one of the best things ever.
(Helps probably that I read it while the Jerry Springer episode of Whose Line is it Anyway is playing in the background.)
Meanwhile, the Eurovision contest is much more entertaining than Glenn Harlan Reynolds and it's going on right now!
Iceland's Silvia Night is awesomely, eye-gougingly over the top.
FL wrote:
"Aren't layers notoriously jesuitical?"
No, that's the fryers.
Even mealy-mouthed nods to my existence as a human being beat being the favored scapegoat of an entire end of the spectrum. Even half-felt endorsements of my basic humanity create a more positive environment than arguing publicly that I am no better than somebody who fucks a box turtle.
Mary Cheney has chosen to make Christmas and Thanksgiving more comfortable than they might have been at the expense of some part of her human dignity, and it is that simple.
On the other hand, I am someone who is in favor of outing politicians and other public figures who make homophobia and the branding of the queer community as 2nd-class citizens a central part of their persona, so I am not exactly neutral on this issue. I have no sympathy for her. People can bitch and moan about Kerry bringing it up in the debate, or about Mary Cheney being publicly criticized for publicly abandoning a part of herself in order to help beef up dad's retirement portfolio, and that's all very nice. When it's all said and done, however, I will take more self-righteously petty pleasure from exacting some small revenge from those who would hide behind a false identity in order to reap their own rewards at my expense than I would garner self-righteous nobility from just pretending those people aren't huge assholes who deserve to be talked about and criticized, at length, in every public forum available.
Pointing out someone's hypocrisy is, yes, using the bigotry of the other side against itself. Not using those bigots won't make them go away, however, and if the issue that hangs in the balance is whether someone is going to hold office who will at least say he respects me and my boyfriend or that the person who holds office will be someone who actively works to classify me and my boyfriend as someone to blame for everything, I will use whatever tools are available to defend myself.
(Sorry, I guess I'm commenting on two threads at once.)
Hear, hear.
(The box turtle thing really worried me. I mean, what could you actually do to a box turtle, other than sort of rub it on yourself?)
Am I misremembering, or was it Edwards who brought it up, in his debate with Cheney?
They both did, Edwards more smoothly than Kerry.
I can get behind 41.
Only in the most manly way possible, of course.
Oh, LB, don't ask that! Apo might have a link!
Or Ben. I still can't believe I clicked on that chicken-link at work. (I'm also astonished that the net-nanny software let it through.)
It's an occupational hazard (of the net-nanny software). Over time, it develops … predilections.
I mean, what could you actually do to a box turtle, other than sort of rub it on yourself?
Stand firm the resplendant ham, for tomorrow brings another form of peacock.
(Please see your local resistance cell leader for today's decryption code. Only Class II-A rebels are issued decoder rings as standard equipment.)
47: w-lfs-n is the new apostropher.
