Liberal Self-Conception: We are the pinnacle of social evolution and rightly look down our noses at othersLiberal Reailty: The Ed Show

— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 1, 2013

My 5yr old learned how to whistle if anyone’s looking for a new 5yr old.

— sammy rhodes (@prodigalsam) June 1, 2013

I guess it’s just paternal instinct, but if any kid within 50 yards of me yells “Dad,” I think “ Shut up.”

— Joshua Malina (@JoshMalina) June 3, 2013

I’m not a scientist, but I’m pretty sure tornados wouldn’t happen if we killed all the Tasmanian devils.

— Matt Roller (@rolldiggity) June 3, 2013

Rickon Stark and Maggie Simpson at a group therapy session called Characters They Didn’t Need.

— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) June 3, 2013

According to a professor on a linguistics blog, I am the originator of the term “hippie punching” — used today to mean striking out against the far-left. I would have thought hippie punching was as old as time itself, but I’ll take this honor. Seems like something significant enough to go on my Wikipedia page.

Incidentally, the next book I’m working on — my longest yet and the first that will be out in print — will be focused on the punching of hippies… which I’m apparently the leading authority on.

BTW, I thought it was funny that in the comments on this language blog, some of the people were debating my grammar. I write my posts early in the morning and proof right after — all grammar is approximated.

Also, I thought this comment was funny:

Course, what’s bizarre about this usage is the underlying premise that Obama, Clinton, the Democratic party, people who actually are liberals (like e.g. Berube and Krugman), etc represent any part of the left such that it would be odd for any of them to attack leftists. If y’all could drop the McCarthyist conflation and recognise the difference between a leftist and a liberal (as in the different sides of the political spectrum they’re on), the tendency of moderate rightists like liberals, or hard rightists like Democrats (distinguishable from insane rightists like Republicans), to attack leftists wouldn’t need a special term.

If you think that the majority of the country is either hard right to insane right, you might want to apply Occam’s Razor and consider the idea that maybe you’re the nutso extremist. Here; I’ll help you on that journey…

PUNCH!

So Bill Clinton thought Obama was “incompetent” before Obama’s reelection. Thanks for the heads up, dude!

I never got the feeling that Bill Clinton had the country’s well-being at the top of his list of priorities… but it was somewhere on the list at least. Below him getting reelected, of course. And since he made a deal with the incompetent Obama to help Hillary, I guess it’s below getting his wife elected — which is kind of sweet. Of course, who knows what Hillary has on Bill.

For Obama, though, it’s never seemed like the country’s well-being made his short list. He’s got his political future, his inept attempts at a legacy, all his big left-wing schemes he’s trying to push through — but all the stuff really affecting this country like the economy, jobs, and gas prices have never been able to get his attention for very long. Of course, I wonder how Obama would have done in the more frivolous times of the Bill Clinton presidency. With that un-burst dot com bubble, we were just hemorrhaging money for a while. That’s a situation when people are probably more willing to focus on silly liberal ideas as they don’t have real problems to contend with — but also feeling less like they need big new government programs. Still, the lesson of Bill Clinton is that Democrats do best when we don’t have actual problems to deal with. It’s like a Chihuahua is fine if you’re not worried about home security — useless and annoying as it is — but you don’t put it in charge of guarding a junkyard.