“Non-invasive colonoscopy?” Are they going to take the fun out of everything?

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) January 17, 2013

Turn and look at the person on your left. Now look at the person on your right. Both of those people now think you’re kind of creepy.

— Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark) January 17, 2013

You question the meaning of ‘militia’ in the constitution text. Exactly how many times does it says ‘privacy’ or ‘abortion?’ #p2

— Razor (@hale_razor) January 17, 2013

[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]

From Sarah Hoyt’s excellent essay, “Culture War on a Shoe String” on what you can do to fight back against liberal idiocy:
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Write informed history articles/non fiction books; write blog posts; write fiction; write entertainment. Do it cheerfully. Be a happy warrior. You might think that there is no room in the blogsphere for yet another blog, and the first few days with your hits at less than a hundred will make you want to give it up. Don’t.

Meditate on a pebble thrown into a massive lake. The ripples go out. Trust me on this. One more voice always helps.

If you can consider doing humor and snark. Heinlein said something like “We laugh because it hurts too much to cry.” Take that to heart. The left is very, very funny. And at least the soft left (most of them) are in only because “all the smart people believe this.” This is the result of the long crawl, and the way to fight it is to point out how abysmally idiotic a philosophy that judges you as though everyone in a group were the same is. How it’s stupid that “this time we’ll do it right” after that philosophy has left 100 million dead around the globe. And how abysmally dumb it is to think you can create a paradise with fallible humans.

And the best way to do that is often to point and laugh. Channel your inner middle-schooler.
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If writing isn’t your thing, Sarah’s got plenty of other suggestions.

If writing IS your thing, consider dropping a line to Keln of Nuking Politics (nukingpolitics@gmail.com). It’s the best Farm League for conservative writing talent outside The Green Room, and TGR is way too snooty to ever give you the shot you deserve.

Nuking Politics, on the other hand, is utterly snootless.

According to a survey, liberals are much more likely than conservatives to block someone for having an opposing viewpoint. It’s kind of an open secret that liberals have a lot more problems dealing with opposing viewpoints than conservatives. A lot of that is because even though we conservatives are more numerous, liberals tend to dominate the media and we can never escape their viewpoints. This actually makes us stronger, as we know what liberals are thinking and why and can directly refute their ideas. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to just shut out other viewpoints and never understand them, just reacting to them screeching things like “racist!” — as fear and anger are common reactions to things people don’t understand. This is why they’re often surprised they’re ideas (like gun control) aren’t more popular as they think they own the argument when all they’ve done is cover their ears whenever the other side speaks.

The core of the left’s arguments are weak. That’s how we can win in this country (and do on some issues like guns). We just have to focus on bringing are ideas directly to the American people and not even bothering with the left who don’t even want to listen.

So more in the evidence that gun-haters are not just stupid, but drooling-keep-them-away-from-hot-stoves-and-sharp-objects stupid, the hastily passed laws in New York apparently forgot to exempt law enforcement. So things like they utterly pointless limitation of magazines to seven rounds (What does this achieve? If a guy shoots up a school, we get to add an extra day to his sentence for using an illegal, out-of-state magazine?) also applied to the weapons of police officers.

Know what the problem was with this law? It was rushed through. If only we had a mandatory waiting period on gun control laws, then maybe cooler, less-stupid heads could have prevailed. Instead it was “We need tree less boolits in da magazine clips so we is safur!!” And before these legislators passed the law, was there any sort of background check to make sure they didn’t have mental health problems? We can’t just have deranged people like this running rampant like this with easy access to legislation. We need common sense legislation control. And if that accidentally causes some otherwise law abiding legislators to now be criminals… I’m fine with that because I really think locking them all up in prison would be awesome.