JABbering Stooge

Minorities Should Express Shame, Not Only Pride

• Minorities must apologize for being border-jumping, job-stealing, welfare-cheating, drug-dealing, AIDS-spreading, bathhouse-defiling, baby-killing, lesbian, man-hating sluts! Straight, white, conservative Christian males, you can feel free to have as much pride as you like. You’re perfect just the way you are!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

In light of the above, perhaps a better title for Prager’s drek would be:

Minorities Should Express Only Shame, Not Pride

2/23/1932 — 12/18/2008

Although she was the only actor to play in every one of the Star Trek incarnations (including the upcoming J. J. Abrams film), for me the highlight of her career was when she played Lady Morella in the third-season episode “Point of No Return” on Babylon 5 (seen above). Hollywood (and America) has lost a legend today.

In response to Richard Cohen’s inane article sneering at Michelle Obama for bucking gender norms while revealing his neo-Luddite tendencies, Atrios asks:

Do The WaPo Editors Let Just Anything Through?

Pretty much.

This has been “Simple Answers to Simple Questions: ‘Librul’ Media Edition.”

Bill Dono-spew gets in on the Battle of Olympia in the War on Non-Christians (via Ed Brayton):

The First Amendment right to freedom of speech has always been conditioned on time, place and manner. That is why gays who sought to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston and New York—for the purpose of countering the message of the parade—lost in the courts in the 1990s. In the Boston case, Justice David Souter, writing for a unanimous court, said, ‘The speaker has the right to tailor the speech’ and the law ‘is not free to interfere with speech for no better reason than promoting an approved message or discouraging a disfavored one.’

Ummm…Bill? Care for a little trip down history lane?

There used to be a tradition in this country that said “I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” That’s the spirit that I was raised to believe in, and one of the things that made me proud to be an American. It’s why we allow neo-Nazis to publicly display their stupidity and regressive extremism — not because we agree with their views, but because we believe in a marketplace of free ideas where We The People™ can be trusted to determine for ourselves which speech is intellectually and morally acceptable and which is repugnant and deserving of ridicule or protest. But that just won’t do for people who think as Bill Donohue does.

S’aright? S’aright.

One more thought before I close out this post:

Gov. Gregoire is responsible for this mess. Having first acceded to the requests of atheists to attack Christmas, she is now confronted with the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church, a viciously anti-American, anti-Catholic and anti-gay group. There is a way to deal with this situation in a manner that is legally acceptable and morally defensible, but neither the Washington governor, nor her lawyers, have figured it out.

Yes, the delicious irony in the likes of Bill “Gays Must Apologize For Merely Existing” Donohue complaining about anti-gay bigotry is readily apparent to anyone whose name is not “Bill Donohue.”