Nothing like a Friday morning screen shot of strange things from the washingtonpost.com front page, is there? Here’s the situation: the Washington Post would like to get in on the “Is Elena Kagan a massive lesbo?” debate — which is rapidly moving up the list of establishment Washington media’s most childish and embarrassing narratives in history — but it must approach the “big story” with the typical sense of being above-it-all, best achieved with the old trick of blaming ALL AMERICANS and their stupidity for the fact that something stupid is in the news, which they write.
“Are we a nation of busybodies?” Ha ha ha, FUCK YOU EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA for forcing 10-15 professional Washington biddies to gossip about this stupid baseless nonsense all week in their heroic printed investigatively-reported journalistic truth beacons! And look at Ruth Marcus, to the left. Is Ruth Marcus a “nation of busybodies” all to herself? Yes of course! Great layout, WaPo.com editors. But Ruth Marcus is saying that Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, so it’s more Mature, and she’s only saying this to feed the insatiable busybodies anyway. “SHE’S NOT A LESBIAN. Here is the picture of why all of you stupid fucking Americans think she is a lesbian, tho. GROW UP, AMERICA! STOP MAKING ME WRITE THIS COLUMN YOU STUPID FLYOVER-STATE MONSTERS!”
Anyway.
But really, jesus. “Marcus: Kagan’s not gay, okay? Though the discussion would be easier if she were.” Huh? What? Huh? This is your weekly political column?
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Is Elena Kagan a busybody, and who is she getting her body busy with???!?!1!
I really she would just sloppy French kiss some woman on live TV and say “Yeah, so what? And I like to blow guys, too. What is it to you?”
Good thing Condi Rice got a pass.
If the Post stopped engaging in meaningless gossip and hand-wringing over that gossip, they’d have to start actually reporting news, and we wouldn’t want that; they’ve forgotten all about how to do it.
Gay?! WTF, WaPo?
I never even for a second even thought about what her sexual orientation might be before WaPo brought it up. She’s not applying for a position to be my teenage daughter’s gym teacher for pete’s sake.
That busybody WaPo just needs to grow up, already.
[re=577409]Doglessliberal[/re]: Do not want.
Now here is an idea for a legitimate story; note this silly fascination with whether Kagan is a rug-muncher, but then, ponder why it is that noone is obsessing over Lindsay Graham, and who knows how many other closet cases there are in the Senate, which seems about as gay, overall, as an interior-decorators convention, sometimes, especially whenever 2 or more southern GOP senators gather in one place (there is love). Name all those ponderable names, too, and maybe note the apparent sexism, noone questions a man’s orientation till he is actually photographed with a dick in his mouth, apparently.
[re=577414]chascates[/re]: Must be the lipstick. And those terrific boots.
Richard Cohen’s column is even more ridiculous. He argues that she shouldn’t be on the Court because she has never had children so can’t relate to those that have.
“What does our completely nationally unique shallowness and prurient interest say about us as a nation in the early 21st century, vis a vis our national trajectory and the end of the ‘American Century’?”
It says we’re a bunch of sexaholics. Now get out of the way and stop blocking my view of Kellan Lutz (as featured in yesterday’s NYT in an equally “intellectual” article).
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Oh dear, they just moved that UP. Plugging my nose and going in…
Obama’s not really a Kenyan, but it would be easier for us to write scathing articles about him if he were!
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: HAHAHA, one sentence in, and he has already written the most “Richard Cohen” sentence ever: “Whether Elena Kagan is gay or not is no concern of mine — although as in almost all matters sexual, it is of some interest.” STOP IT.
The Village: High School, with money.
“That’s not Meeting the Empathy Standard!”
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: No. Please tell me that is not true.
Why the FUCK does the Post employ him? Did Souter have kids?
Are we a nation of birth certificate demanding birthers? Shame on you America for demanding Obamas birth certificate….which the kenyan manchurian candidate socialist facist has so far not produced.
Sexual libertarianism is the way to go. There is nothing wrong with being a lesbian.
[re=577441]Doglessliberal[/re]: “Did Souter have kids?”
That’s different because SHUTUP.
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]:
The implication being, that to be wise, one has to have kids. To have kids one must have sexual relations.
So, one becomes wise by having sex.
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Sounds like he’s arguing she shouldn’t be on the court because she lacks…what’s that word…empathy?
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Roberts never had kids either, he bought a pair, though, in a complicated scheme devised to avoid the laws of Ireland, which prohibit the exportation of orphans. Had to go through a Guatamalan middle-man, that had to be costly. Of course, one doesn’t question anything republicans do, and its simply not done to publicly question the legitmacy of the poor stolen children, so nothing was said.
[re=577441]Doglessliberal[/re]: Why the FUCK does the Post employ him?
Looky what I found. Seems Dick has friends in high places. The story is about how Dick was mean to a 23-year-old intern while writing that Pres. Clinton should come clean about Monica Lewinsky, but the really interesting part is how incestuous it all is:
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: She may not have kids, but after this past week I’m sure she’s learned a lot about how badly profiling (can anyone say this argument would even be aired if she was a slim, pretty Barbie?) can be misused. By amateurs with no more equipment and training than a lifetime of stereotypes.
Having kids, Cohen is on to something here, I don’t know how many of youse has kids, but having kids tends to change a person, in the following ways:
1. You become very cranky, irritable, and prone to anger.
2. Any beliefs that its all about “nurture” and that “nature” plays only a small role go right out the window, they are born with their personality, temperament, and proclivities, its amazing.
3. Its not nurture, its “breaking” the fucking beasts. The little bastards are born evil, you have to beat down their will, impose civilized standards on them, otherwise its Lord of the Flies.
In short, you become strict, angry, retributive, punitive. You become, inevitably, more conservative.
So what he is really saying, is she isn’t conservative enough.
Why do you think they call it “gay?” Lucky fuckers. Procreating makes you mean.
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Oh my.
[re=577433]Jim Newell[/re]: Does a serial sexual harasser really want to remind us of his sexual interests?
[re=577425]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: [re=577441]Doglessliberal[/re]: [re=577433]Jim Newell[/re]: Jesus Christ, it’s people like Richard Cohen that make the world of “Farenhieght 451″ seem appealing.
Elena Kagan did NOT pull a bukkake train in the Harvard Yard at midnight dressed like a character in Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” screaming every five minutes “GIVE ME MORE N**%$R COCK!!11!”
But it would be easier for all concerned if she had.
Don’t ask, don’t legislate from the bench.
[re=577465]Prommie[/re]: “3. Its not nurture, its “breaking” the fucking beasts. The little bastards are born evil, you have to beat down their will, impose civilized standards on them, otherwise its Lord of the Flies.”
You would have made a good Puritan.
[re=577465]Prommie[/re]: “3. Its not nurture, its “breaking” the fucking beasts. The little bastards are born evil, you have to beat down their will, impose civilized standards on them, otherwise its Lord of the Flies.”
You would have been a great Puritan.
[re=577465]Prommie[/re]: I’ve got a couple kids. All’s I can say is, wow, your kids are sure different from mine. Just lucky, I guess!
Or maybe my kids just got lucky to get a dad like me: equal parts Charles Ingalls, Ward Cleaver and Homer Simpson stewed together in just enough alcohol to make a guy really mellow.
[re=577414]chascates[/re]: Word. You never hear a word about these middle-aged unmarried Republican women (Condi, Harriet Miers, Mann Coulter, etc.), but the second you get a Democrat who has reached the age of 50 without marrying or procreating (or, God forbid, procreating without the benefit of marriage), she MUST be a lesbian.
“Your eggs, Ms. Kagan: Drop, and give me twenty.”
[re=577604]TakingAmes[/re]: I believe that the exact gender of Ms. Coulter is still in question.
[re=577664]Extemporanus[/re]: In Soviet Russia, uterus scrutinizes you!
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