tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post8012099439973229958..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Pride and PrejudiceSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-56858214155439929782012-11-12T14:48:50.989-06:002012-11-12T14:48:50.989-06:00That's "tic," not "tick."
...<i>That's "tic," not "tick."</i><br /><br />Both could apply.<br /><br />Substance, that's true but they can't stop pretending that they actually stand for something. Look at Douthat--he's given up on social issues but thinks he can peddle conservative economic issues. It's his job after all.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-49119816143581737652012-11-12T13:50:47.755-06:002012-11-12T13:50:47.755-06:00I'm not sure Republicans have to offer policie...I'm not sure Republicans have to offer policies. What's that good for but getting them in trouble? Pick the right group to bash and promise tax cuts and shut the hell up about everything else.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-12835574979012223622012-11-10T18:33:43.245-06:002012-11-10T18:33:43.245-06:00That's "tic," not "tick."
...That's "tic," not "tick."<br /><br />The best thing I've read on affirmative action is Fred L. Pincus, Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myths (Lynne Rienner, 2003). It's a fairly short book, but packs in a lot of useful information.<br /><br />One problem I see is that even many advocates of affirmative action don't understand what it means or how it works; in common usage it's come to mean basically "quotas," though that was never most of what it is about. Quotas have very rarely been imposed, and then only after institutions mounted a prolonged resistance to real nondiscrimination. This misunderstanding is only to be expected, though since Civil Rights antidiscrimination law in general are misunderstood, both by advocates and by opponents.<br /><br /><a href="http://thisislikesogay.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about.html" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> something I wrote about a diversity-education bulletin board that was set up in the dorm where I worked for thirty years. If you read it, remember that the content was produced by someone who <i>favored</i> diversity.Duncan Mitchelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05304723745550906958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-14299872462388033192012-11-10T00:14:09.790-06:002012-11-10T00:14:09.790-06:00My god does she overuse the word "rather.&quo...My god does she overuse the word "rather." What an annoying tick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-89530687082795907542012-11-09T18:59:05.405-06:002012-11-09T18:59:05.405-06:00Conservative sites nearly always crash my computer...Conservative sites nearly always crash my computer, and if they don't, I wish they had.<br /><br />Arglebargle is a splendid example of the basic underlying dull simplemindedness of all conservatives, and of their lame-o attempts to rationalize their preference for "survival of the strongest" (richest & most corrupt) philosophy. In their world drug lords and mafia bosses are admirable practitioners of the "Free Market", and putting any constraints upon them at all is anti-evolutionary. <br /><br />Or something. She can't even rationalize with coherence and consistency.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-69388946387864493882012-11-09T14:23:32.310-06:002012-11-09T14:23:32.310-06:00TheBeast usually loads OK, but blows up if I try t...TheBeast usually loads OK, but blows up if I try to post a link.<br />Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-29877782964447591812012-11-09T13:13:59.444-06:002012-11-09T13:13:59.444-06:00I like the phrase "inbred prejudice", it...I like the phrase "inbred prejudice", it captures a lot in five syllables.Both Sides Do Ithttp://lookatthisfuckingcentrist.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-63985292588640159092012-11-09T12:37:02.178-06:002012-11-09T12:37:02.178-06:00Is it just me or is her page very difficult to loa...Is it just me or is her page very difficult to load? I keep getting a "long script" error message and page freezing and reloading.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-7825825542980572002012-11-09T12:34:10.767-06:002012-11-09T12:34:10.767-06:00Thanks! I'll correct that.Thanks! I'll correct that.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-58677945078094666232012-11-09T12:27:52.556-06:002012-11-09T12:27:52.556-06:00I don't think you linked Megan anywhere, but i...I don't think you linked Megan anywhere, but it's a short post & you used about all of it.<br /><br />I mostly went to it to see if "tacking right" made any sense in the original. It didn't.<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/08/what-does-majority-minority-politics-look-like.htmlDownpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-8694693280467462342012-11-09T12:13:27.717-06:002012-11-09T12:13:27.717-06:00Perhaps she means Democrats will change their winn...Perhaps she means Democrats will change their winning policies and Republicans will change their losing ones, because she sez so.<br /><br />This post was unusually incoherent even for McArdle.<br /><br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50811599226453666882012-11-09T11:53:09.230-06:002012-11-09T11:53:09.230-06:00So what should a new Republican politics for a maj...<i>So what should a new Republican politics for a majority-minority nation look like? I'm not sure. But I am fairly sure that future GOP platform will not look like current Democratic politics. And for that matter, neither will the future Democratic policies.</i><br /><br />So her conclusion is that she doesn't know but she knows things will someday change?Ben Johannsonnoreply@blogger.com