"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Ok- that is about the stupidest article I've ever read.  I went to the ag school at Cornell (for realz), and the bio major was shared between the ag school and the arts & sci school.  So same classes for < half the money.  And more competitive for spots in those majors, since everyone wants to pay less.  Boy am I a dummy.  I don't think anyone except Ann Coulter and my grandmother would make the distinction.

   I just was figuring if I should post this- a nice (trending liberal) blog about the word games conservative republicans have been playing- what they are gaining (and losing) by repeatedly saying Barack Hussein Obama or the Democrat Party.  Kind of a long read- starts out ridiculing Ari Fleischer.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/democrat-party-decrier-rips-admin-for.html

 Because we've never ever ever heard such un-PC comments about AC being a man, right?

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I hadn't heard the "Ann Coulter is a man" meme before either, but Craig Furgeson went there last night.  Can't remember the joke, but he showed a picture of Tom Petty when talking about Coulter.

What can I say? Somehow you missed (or experienced short term memory loss over...) the neener neener Ann Coulter's a man nahnahnaanah commentary. 

I TRY to avoid all Ann Coulter discussions because they are so patently obvious in their attempts to make a great big REPUBLICAN bogey-man of her. And of Rush.  Thereby playing into both of their hands as one of each of their stated goals is the tweaking of liberals.  It's so easy.  But it's about as boring as watching the same Roadrunner/Wiley Coyote cartoon over and over.  And over. 

Yawn.

To her credit, Ann Coulter's makes the valid point that the Left's favorite techinque, when it wants to discredit the Right, is the wry insinuation that their adversarial objects are gay, lesbian, transsexual or transgender.  From that we may deduce the Left must believe they have exemptions from the Iron Clad Ban Against Hate Speech and that mocking sexual orientation isn't poor behavior if the target is a Republican.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 ann tries to make a bogey man out of herself, let's not kid ourselves here.

but your second parapragh is completely on-point, i hated the larry craig scandal for that reason. i'm pro-gay, why is my party* making fun of a guy who is clearly deeply closeted and struggling with it? larry craig needs compassion, not ridicule

*well, you know....the closest i can get in this ridiculous 2-party system

Yeah, but...

Let's imagine one group of people (Group 1) and let's make it a large generalized group that could encompass people of the left and the right.  Let's say this group is composed of those who proscribe to a belief that adultry is wrong, immoral, and even some of those who would stretch the definition to a 'sin.' 

Let's juxtapose that group with another (Group 2) who are far more laissez-faire and maybe don't even buy into the notion that marriage is a desirable condition for couples, but if they did, they'd be inclined to think open marriage is just as acceptable.  "It's just a piece of paper" folk.  "How does it hurt my marriage what so-and-so does" people.  Or maybe the "It's not cheating if you're in a different state" types. These could be people from either side of the political scale too. 

When any high profile individual from Group 1 falls short of living the philosophy he/she endorses, Group 2 can automatically play the "hypocrisy card."  Since Group 2 has far fewer societal demands on one another.  When there are so few behavioral imperatives, there are less likely to be accusations of hypocrisy. 

But I do agree that it's not a sexual orientation crusade from those on the left who are chomping at the bit at the least bit of evidence that any Republican can be labeled as an LGB or T.  It's something else.  Something so tempting.  Something like a bandwagon effect of the gotcha.  In a way, the knee jerk labeling also butts up against that other issue the left cherishes -- the right to a fair trial and "innocent until proven guilty."  Or until proven transgender.  Geez, when you consider how the left cherishes the rights of "so-called terrorists" (as they put it) it might even be an example of the dreaded hypocrisy that they not afford their targets the same neutrality of spirit before jumping aboard the attack train.

Besides, Al Gore, champion of the environment, uses solar panels and pays carbon offset fees, doesn't he?  Hard pressed to criticize that.  (Note to self:  Business idea of the future.  Forget the old model of a bank.  Be a middle man in the guilt-ridden business of negotiating carbon-footprint charges in a new type of facility:  The Green Bank or First World Grank!)

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin