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From The Annals Of Chutzpah

"We've taken great pains to make clear what were all about. We view ourselves as a new civil rights movement…. committed to something that in the 1960s was key: the right to vote," - Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage's executive director. Chris Geidner does a double take.
















National Organization for Marriage - Civil rights movement - Civil and political rights - United States - Brian Brown

Palin's Chances, Ctd

New Hampshire is not Palin country.
















New Hampshire - Sarah Palin - Republican - United States - Politics

Circumcisers, Beware!

We have a new comic action hero: Foreskin Man! (Not for the squeamish). He's fighting male genital mutilation - and his official website is here.

Genital modification and mutilation - Health - Female Genital Mutilation - Circumcision - Organizations

The Pennometer

Nate Silver introduces a new measure for

polling and strategy memos which are vapid, disingenuous, jargony, or
just plain fucking wrong. The scale is dubbed the Pennometer after
former Clinton strategist Mark Penn, who was a master of the genre; it
runs from 0 Penns for memos that are honest and persuasive to 5 Penns
for those which might as well have been penned by Penn himself.

First up: the memo that just told us the Democrats cannot lose the House in November:

 

Heh.

Mar...

Waiting On Innovation, Ctd

Noah Millman's moves the ball down the field. His re-framing of the global warming/innovation debate should be read in full. Ezra Klein's contribution:

The example I've been using to show the limits of techo-optimismhas been the BP spill. We could've stopped it from happening, but wecouldn't reverse it once it happened. And we know a lot more aboutmanaging oil spills than about manipulating the atmosphere. But readingAtul Gawande's article on dying brought another example to mind...

Virtues And Vices

I stand corrected. A reader writes:

You wrote: "I pray for the hope that is one of the three cardinal virtues."

The four Cardinal Virtues are Temperance, Prudence, Justice, and Fortitude.

The three Theological Virtues are Faith, Hope, and Charity.

The seven Heavenly Virtues are Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness, and Humility and they oppose the Seven Deadly Sins of Wrath (Anger), Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony.

Temperance and prudence: how good...

Cameron Takes On Pakistan's Two Faces

So much for the notion he simply flatters his audiences. He is just aware that Turkey is not in the same league as Pakistan in the support for and export of Jihadist terror:

The prime minister initiated the row this morning in a speech
to Indian business leaders in Bangalore, when he spoke of his horror at
the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai for which Delhi directly blamed the Pakistani authorities.

Cameron came close to endorsing that view when he said: "We cannot tolerate in any sense the...

Basil Marceaux For Governor

The Dish is truly sorry to have missed this from last week:

(Hat tip: Joyner)
















Tennessee - United States - republican - Business - WSMV-TV

Reality Check

Data Formats - Democratic - United States presidential approval rating - John McCain - Republican

Quote For The Day

"Of course I have [had sex with men:]. I'm an actor for fuck's sake. I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me. I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. A lot of people say I seem masculine, ...