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from Echidne, A Wolff In The Land Of Dry Pussies
Michael Wolff has written an interesting meditation on the difficulties of being a middle-aged man in the United States. Suddenly, in the midst of life, he walks into a dark forest of despair and depression, and why? Not because of those cholesterol values or that mortgage payment or all those youthful plans he once had, plans, which are now as dry as the dandruff on his stooped hard-working family-man shoulders, no. It’s because he can’t get wet and gushy pussy anymore, young and bouncy and eager pussy.
from Digby, Sexual Politics (cherrypicking my clip here in a way that is totally unfair):
Now, I don’t know about you, but among my friends, this just doesn’t come up.
And the incomparable Lance:
I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead since by now a mob of “the post-sexual set” has probably dragged him from his office in the Conde Nast building and hauled him uptown to Central Park where they’ve hung him up by his genetalia from Cleopatra’s Needle…
I promise to clean up my language here in a day or two. I’ve sort of been on a roll lately.
On a more serious note, there’s this from commenter Lost in Space at Corrente Some one like me doesn’t fit in much:
A PoC who has much trouble supporting Obama’s candidacy, surrounded by PoC who either actively or casually support him. The PoC I talk to are not as rabid as the Blogger Boiz, and most never knew of Obama’s actual positions - or lack thereof - nor his history when I talked with them. Many either still don’t know - or don’t care about this.
However, there is another issue at work here: I have noticed that the tenor of the online backlash of Obama and his candidacy has started to spread as a backlash against African-Americans as a whole. Not so much here [at Corrente], but I’ve seen this acrimony grow on many other Clinton-leaning sites - and now, like a cancer, may be on the verge of metastasizing.
This is a dangerous proposition. Should Obama get the nomination - and get bounced by McCain (which is most likely going to happen) - the blame will most likely be placed on the shoulders of African-Americans for the crime of voting for someone who happens to look much like them (let’s remember that America -in general - regards people with even as much as a drop of African ancestry as “Black”); speaks like them (sometimes); and comes across as someone who has been through the same struggles of life in America as they have (even though he has not). I don’t hear as much vitriol about the Leisure class sect that flooded the caucuses to pad Obama’s early totals - and this saddens me. Also, there is not alot of discussion of the SCLM complicity in both Obama’s ascension and H. Clinton’s denigration these days - sadly, there is almost no online discussions regarding the SCLM at all (save Somerby’s great analyses at Dailyhowler.com). Nor does there seem to be much discussion on the political games by Dean and Pelosi.
Actually, I figured any blame for any failure of Democrats this election would be placed on Hillary Clinton’s shoulders, but I want to make it abundantly clear that most of my rants about racism and sexism on this blog have to do with the collusion between Obama and the media, planned or unplanned, to demonize Hillary Clinton and her supporters.
Nor do I think that the African American community has turned against Hillary and Bill Clinton as vehemently as Obama’s white supporters and the pundits on the news media.
Update: Indiana’s new voter ID law proved itself yesterday. It turned away a clatch of rogue nuns. Retired:
WASHINGTON — At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from voting in Tuesday’s Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law that the Supreme Court upheld last week.
John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an election watchdog for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said several of the retired nuns had been voting all of their lives but were told they lacked the required identification cards and could only file provisional ballots.
Since 2005, Indiana’s toughest-in-the-nation law requires every voter to produce a state or federal photo ID card. The Supreme Court, after weighing scores of legal briefs from conservatives who backed the statute and liberals who opposed it, upheld the law by a 6-3 vote, saying there was little evidence that it was unduly burdensome for voters.
Borkowski said Sister Julie McGuire, one of several nuns on poll duty, wasn’t pleased to turn away the nuns, some of whom were in their 80s and 90s and no longer had driver’s licenses.
“Here’s the supreme irony,” Borkowski said. “This law was passed supposedly to prevent and deter voter fraud, even though there was no real record of serious voter fraud in Indiana. Here you have a bunch of nuns whose votes can’t be accepted by a bunch of nuns … who live with them in the polling place in their convent because they don’t have an ID.”
Should I put nuns on the same page with all this language?
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