Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic of the West…
*FishbowlLA on the move of Tim Cavanaugh from his job at libertarian-esque Reason magazine to Opinion editor for the LA Times. Conclusion: being former editor of Suck, “most hated daily content site web”, makes him well suited to working for the Times. This is because the LA Times sucks. And is hated.
* We’re increasingly dissatisfied with our early “no chance Walt and Mearsheimer are anti-Semitic” pronouncements. We’re still pretty solid on Walt, but Mearsheimer has been displaying a quite unseemly enthusiasm in his new Chomsky-esque academic reputation. Also, as JPundit explains, both of them seem to be discovering Jewish Zionist influences rather late in the game.
* A little out of what our demo comes here looking for, but Susan Estrich is trying to mock Ann Coulter. This will not go well, and let us explain to you, gentle reader, why that is the case. Ann Coulter is one of the most biting political writers of our generation. Susan Estrich is the exemplar of the strain of feminism that literally perfected the image of the grim, humorless schoolmarm. This is going to go exactly the same way that Air America is going, and for exactly the same reasons. People don’t like listening to forced, hesitant, self-conscious preachiness. Not because they’re bad or sexist or racist, but because that kind of writing and speaking sucks to listen to.
* Phoebe from Jewlicious has pragmatic arguments for self-reflexive Jewish nationalism. Contra the popular understanding of the Walt-Mearsheimer-Duke thesis, there are apparently reasons to support Israel outside of wanting to see the United States attacked by terrorists.
* We heart krembos. We also heart absurdly nitpicky sci-fi/fantasy nerds, but not as much as we heart krembos.
* PSA: if you need to tell people that protesting won’t make them look like stupid hippies, then it’s almost a certainty that protesting will, in fact, make them look like stupid hippies.
* In France, they’ve got explosions and schoolgirls being stoned for eating during Ramadan. In Sweden, Ramadan is an excuse for riots. In Nigeria, Muslims are rioting and burning Churches because a Christian woman rejected a Muslim man. Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
* VP on the soft, gradual sanctions that the international community is going to put on Iran. Because that will stop them. We can’t even figure out why they even bother going through the motions – it’s not like they’re impressing or fooling anyone with their “pressure” or “diplomacy”. Everyone knows that Iran is going to go nuclear, and everybody knows that our beloved State Department – to say nothing of our good friends in NATO and the UN – are doing effectively nothing to prevent it. So again we ask: why even bother? Why not just go home, have a beer, and turn on Dr. Strangelove? In other Iran news, they’re starting a campaign to boycott Israel. Not because they’re anti-Semitic – just because they’re anti-the-Jewish-State.
* Our continuing opinion of the possibility that Syria will first-strike Israel: zero, unless Iran declares that it has non-conventional weapons to back a Syrian attack. Hey wait a minute…
* We were crawling through our RSS feeds, and came across this Astute Bloggers headline: More Proof The New Pro-Tribal Strategy Is Working In Pakistan. And we thought “ya know, things are so bad now that we really can’t tell if that’s meant sarcastically or not”
* Muslim cab drivers aren’t letting people with alcohol into their cabs. Not too concerned – economics will sort that out. It’s not like they’re British cops and they refused to guard the Israeli embassy because Jews offend them. Because that would be crazy talk.
* Things not looking so good for MoveOn with the they’re kind of anti-Semitic accusations. Still won’t be enough to get Jewish support for the Dems below 80%.
* Remember how we posted those Che / Nasrallah links on HateWatch about a month ago? Not a joke
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