I am taking a mental health break from Maggie's for August. I love Maggie's, but I am sick of having to see all of the outrages du jour. As that guy Drinking with Bob says on the radio, "What next? What next!"
We lease one of these babies:
Good site, discovered by Vanderleun: I Want a New Left
NEA Removes Post Encouraging Teachers To Celebrate Chinese Communist Revolution
Poll shows opposition to health care overhaul declining. Of course. It hasn't gone into effect yet.
Dalmia: The Death Of The Global Warming Movement
Galston: How Americans’ Shifting Political Ideologies Threaten the Democrats
Ann McElhinney:
“So when my husband and I came to America, we heard a story about conservatives. We heard that these conservatives are a really really weird lot. Nutjobs, basically. And these conservatives, they’re obsessed with sex. They’re obsessed with sex and they’re obsessed with what you’re doing in your bedroom. It’s all they think about. They’re just constantly worrying about what you’re up to in your bedroom.
But you know something? Since we’ve moved here, we haven’t found that. But what we have found is that liberals, are in every other room in your house. They’re in the fridge. They’re in your car. They’re in your air miles. They’re in your clothes. They’re in your hair. They’re in your cleaning products, and your washing machine and the refrigerator. They’re all over the place! And they’re in your light bulb! And I want to say them .. This is America! Get out of my light bulb"
Once again: Schwarzenegger Declares Fiscal Emergency in California. They needed a real man like Chris Christie.
Lopez: Ohio Wants Something Different
Kafka-trapping:
"The longer the playing of the race card continues, the probability that someone will deny the accusation, and thereby provide proof of the accusation, approaches one."
Sissy reminded us of this excellent Am Thinker post: Cultural Marxism
How science led the Third Reich. Totally related via Q&O: Why "science" has a problem:
If science wants to redeem itself and regain its place with the public’s affection, scientists need to come out every time some politician says, “The science says we must…” and reply, “Science only tells us what is. It does not, and can never tell us what we should or must do.” If they say that often enough, and loudly enough, they might be able to reclaim the mantle of objectivity that they’ve given up over the last 40 years by letting themselves become the regulatory state’s ultimate appeal to authority.
