Why does anyone listen to this man?

There are a lot of reasons why I don’t like Hugo Schwyzer — he’s a smug, self-satisfied, horndog who has used his position as a teacher to sleep with students, to mention but a few of the least awful reasons. This article, however, has truly convinced me that he is not only a shitty excuse for a teacher but a shitty excuse for a feminist and a human being; it also raises the very pertinent question, why does he have any kind of platform outside his own narcissistic playground blog?

The entirety of this article consists of not only berating men who do bad things and thus deserve it, but berating men who didn’t do bad things but somehow deserve to be treated as criminals because they’re men. Because guilt by association is wrong when it’s not men, or something, but the presence of a Y chromosome somehow makes it OK.

Hugo, you’re a fucking idiot, and you should be drummed out of the teaching profession so fast that your horrid phoney smile spins around your self-satisfied little mug, you obnoxious creep.

Stupid article, or stupidest article?

I was going to comment extensively on this phenomenally stupid article at the American Stinker, but S,N! already has it covered, and I’m suffering a cold, so I won’t.

All I can think to add is that, even after years of reading stupid articles by inarticulate morons looking to hit every talking point given by their wingnut masters, I can still be surprised by the depths that can be plumbed by our rightwing press.

Would someone please beat some sense into Andrew Sullivan?

Jesus Haploid Christ, Sully:

One might ask: which current Republican candidate has not been “part of coalition who saw bigotry as a potent political force”? .

So don’t fucking pimp his campaign, you fucking cretin; nobody’s making you do it, it’s not a case of promote Republicans or nobody at all.

Fuck, man. There comes a point when it’s sensible to re-evaluate your positions in light of new information, and while I know you love being all contrarian and a cheerleader for “libertarian” causes, you should really stop being an idiot and realise that Ron Paul is a shitty politician, a hypocrite, a liar and a dangerous religious fundamentalist. He is not in any way a candidate anyone with an ounce of sense or anyone outside Texas should be supporting, least of all you.

Post-Truth Politics, or How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The Post-Truth Campaign – NYTimes.com

Over all, Mr. Obama’s positions on economic policy resemble those that moderate Republicans used to espouse. Yet Mr. Romney portrays the president as the second coming of Fidel Castro and seems confident that he will pay no price for making stuff up.

Welcome to post-truth politics.

Why does Mr. Romney think he can get away with this kind of thing? Well, he has already gotten away with a series of equally fraudulent attacks. In fact, he has based pretty much his whole campaign around a strategy of attacking Mr. Obama for doing things that the president hasn’t done and believing things he doesn’t believe.

Krugman nails it again — while Mitt is the most obvious offender by dint of being the Republican front-runner and likely eventual nominee, they all lie and dissemble constantly, and the media just lets them get away with it over and over again without a word on how a significant fraction of the national political landscape has become the province of narcissistic truth-dodgers.

As much as I would love to see a lefty in the White House in this country, it won’t happen, and for anyone at all to pretend that President Obama is some kind of crypto-socialist and wannabe dictator is beyond ridiculous; the man is a centrist generally, and a consensus politician. In the European context, he’d be a fine liberal member of, say, the CDU, or a One Nation Tory, for example, but he is by no means a leftist of any kind, and to pretend otherwise is dishonest at best, and leads us to the following question; regardless of whether his policies would be good or bad (and they would almost certainly be disastrous for the country as a whole), do we really want someone as truth-impaired as Mitt Romney anywhere near the White House?

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ETA: Appropriately, the Manics:

You know, I wish people who would opine on the Constitution would actually learn something about it first. Ditto for people who opine on Atheism and Atheists.

Founded on Christian principles, huh? Christian principles like separation of church and state and there being no religious tests for office? Yeah, you convinced me. What a powerful argument, etc.

And enough of the horseshit about Atheists – you are not only not qualified to talk about us, you are wrong in every particular, you obnoxious little religionist.

Oh, look! Now he’s moved to libel!

Look, kids! Butthurt wingnut Peter DiGuadio (aka the Underground Conservative) has now moved to libelling me, although he’s apparently too chicken to actually stand by his own insults. It may be that there is the faintest flicker of intelligence in his skull which is telling him that actually out-and-out making that kind of libellous and actionable statement might get him into trouble.

The real irony, though, lies in what Petey does in his spare time. Did you guess what it is yet, peeps? That’s right, Petey is a sports coach! I wonder exactly why his mind went straight to a sports coach raping children?

Woohoo!

I got my Social Security card in the mail yesterday – dated the 9th December, less than three days after I arrived. I can now work, file tax returns and do all kinds of stuff. Yay me!

Wow

Every day, I think to myself, “This is it. Wingnuts have actually reached the bottom of human intelligence. There is literally nowhere lower for them to go!”

And then I read something like this, and I realise that, actually, there are miles and miles of stupidity for wingnuts to tunnel through yet. I really must stop having so high an opinion of them, and just realise that, actually, they’re not rational, that they’re not interested in what’s true or correct or best for the country; no, wingnuts like the cretinous operator of America’s Reactionary Conservative News are just interested in scoring cheap points and promoting their own political views, no matter how stupid they may be.

For the record, just for the wingnut loons over at that fake news site, the DoJ investigation of Joe “America’s Most Fascistic Sheriff” Arpaio date back to 2008, before the President was even elected. Then again, when was the last time a wingnut was interested in the facts?

The stupidity of wingnuts – abortion edition

The stupidity of wingnuts never ceases to amaze me — for a group of people who seem so ready to castigate centrists and leftists as emotionally-led, over-empathetic, bleeding hearts, they do love to push some idiotic and lookatthefoetushowcute laws when it comes to abortion, not a single one of which has any foundation but emotion, whether it’s misplaced paternalism or jesus-pleasin’.

It just so profoundly illustrates something I’ve mentioned before — the American Right has elevated idiocy to an art form and an article of veneration. Even worse, though, is that they have also somehow managed to convince themselves that their particular brand of stupid is actually wise and clever; remember how the Palinistas tried to market her as some kind of canny operator, full of homespun wisdom? Yeah, exactly, and just like with Palin, they will fail every time.

Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer

BBC News – Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer

British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62.

He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he had , at a Texas hospital.

Vanity Fair magazine, which announced his death, said there would “never be another like Christopher”.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their daughter, Antonia, and his children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia.

Poor old Hitch.

I’ll be honest — I never liked him as an individual, but I always respected his skills as an orator and polemicist. His bravery in the face of his terminal illness is an example to us all, as was his unwillingness to bow down in the face of the smugness of god-botherers; I can imagine him spitting vitriol at anyone who waved a Bible and asked if he was ready to reconsider. We shan’t see his like again.