'mom-fluentials?' The man should never work again simply for coming up with that perversion of English!

Posted at May 9, 2007 11:53 AM in response to The Real Case Against Mark Penn

Seriously, this is one of the worst comments I've read on here. It's all stereotypes and no thought. You're purporting to read the minds of people you dismiss and do not wish to understand.

Saying that things lurk "below the surface of what the left really wants" is a naked strawman. How do you _really_ know "what the left really wants?" There's no way you know. That's 'mindreading' from the same school that calls Hillary Clinton 'calculating.'

Stop reading tealeaves and get back to reality. The people you disagree with are making substantial arguments, and you're stuck in the 60s fighting a zombie that long passed.

Posted at April 5, 2007 11:26 PM in response to Common Ground Found

Mary,

The problem is that the radical fundamentalist religious right (the 'Christofascists') aren't merely content to worship, they want to restrict my rights too.

For example, there's an ongoing, well-funded effort to deny access to emergency contraception to those who need it. When religious belief enters the realm of legislation, it's no longer belief but policy.

Truly, to attempt to enact policy to deny contraception is the purest form of imposing beliefs. After the radical religious right succeeds at imposing their beliefs through legislation, it becomes criminal to act against their dogma.

For you to put Ms. Marcotte's blog posts on par with efforts to make contraception illegal is short-sighted and dangerous.

If the radical religious right actually kept their beliefs in church and in their hearts where they belong, you'd have a point. Any person with a brain can see that they do not. The radical religious right is on a constant crusade to legislate morality. This is not a battle with middle-ground. The fighters of this battle can't be reasoned with politely. They need to be called out and exposed, and Ms. Marcotte's writing serves this purpose.

Ms. Marcotte's writing is a demand for freedom from those who would use their religion to control others by making behavior they disagree with illegal. The goal of the radical religious right is to restrict us and take away our freedom. The difference between the two sides is clear and is no small difference. One really ought to opt for those who fight on the side of freedom.

Posted at February 19, 2007 8:27 PM in response to Blogging populism and the political establishment

I'm sorry Mary, but I feel no need to tolerate the beliefs of those who would make abortion illegal, who defend the abuse of children by priests, and seek to ban birth control.

There's nothing tolerable about those beliefs at all, just as there's nothing tolerable about those who would prevent homosexuals from adopting and marrying, and sometimes, prevent marriage between two individuals of different races.

Amanda Marcotte's posts aren't anti-Christian. They're fierce attacks on those who hold these reprehensible beliefs.

I believe that these people should be fought in the strongest terms possible. With or without vulgarities, the anti-gay, anti-sex, anti-abortion snoop-in-your-bedroom crowd should be attacked strongly and proudly.

I'm not sure what 'polite conversation' with people who want to control our lives and bodies accomplishes. It has never worked throughout history, and it won't work today.

Let's spend less time attacking Ms. Marcotte and more time attacking these harmful influences in society.

Posted at February 19, 2007 10:39 AM in response to Blogging populism and the political establishment

I'm not sure that 'snobby' applies to a site where the proprietor posts pictures of his infant in an iPod shirt. Infants are inherently non-snobby.

Posted at January 17, 2007 8:44 AM in response to Netroots Movement? Response to Bowers

Not to be petty, but Kiwi did say "vast majority of voters."

Posted at October 26, 2006 1:29 PM in response to Memo to a Democratic Congress: Declare Peace In January

Barack is a Christian. He speaks about his Christianity often. That, sadly, won't inoculate him against attacks I fear.

Posted at October 10, 2006 11:05 PM in response to Muslim-Baiting in Politics: Something New and Ugly

Wow, a calculus joke! I never thought I'd see that anywhere but on the walls of my computer science department! That's perhaps the funniest thing I've read on this site.

Posted at October 5, 2006 7:04 PM in response to The House that Flacks Built

Key quote from ABC insider via Hewitt:
"the blame on the Clinton team is in the DNA of the project"

So it's a hit job, pure and simple.

Posted at September 6, 2006 4:21 PM in response to FCC and ABC

Reed, they're not running it to attract an audience to advertise to, as they're running it commercial-free and sending it free to 100,000 high school teachers.

Posted at September 5, 2006 7:12 PM in response to FCC and ABC