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Professor Stanley Fish asks the question that many are beginning to ask and about which I wrote some weeks back: Do you miss him yet, “him” being George W. Bush? Fish is hardly a right-winger, though he clearly is not part of the loony Left. And he’s right about Bush. And Obama. And Palin.
To be able to make statements like this with such aplomb, he must be either a great politician or a schizophrenic. Perhaps both.
Sean Penn wants reporters jailed and critics of his own politico-social efforts to die screaming of rectal cancer. Let’s see, what would be an appropriate response to Spiccoli? Oh, yes: I want Celebutards shot.
Speaking of dumbing down, the Red Chinese government will require new training in “Marxist journalism” for the press: “Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.” Once again, the U.S. is well ahead of the Chinese, at least when the Democrats are in power. American journalists, especially those who graduate from journalism schools, are expert practitioners of communist news theory. It’s called the New York Times, the L.A. Times, NPR, PBS, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc.
Via Instapundit: “It is much more dangerous to publish a cartoon of Mohammed than to slice apart a Christian with a machete.”
Received your census form yet? The government has put me on notice that I shall be receiving mine shortly. Constant Conservative has some thoughts about the distorted process the census has become. Rather than insuring proper representation and taxation through the then-expected use of “direct” taxes (such as poll taxes, in the traditional understanding of that term), the census is now the vehicle for allocation of massive amount of federal funds.
Are there plans to reduce or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction? That’d do a number on the real estate market.
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