Good morning, ye Wonkers! Today's top story is that Yr Doktor Zoom is once again breathing through both nostrils. You may have thought that ISIS or Syria or sportsball scandals or something was big, but that is merely because you Lack Perspective. Sadly, your Sunday New York Times has completely ignored the press release we sent them, so we will just knuckle under and let them dictate what counts as "news" -- this stubborn insistence on top-down story selection, by the way, is why their medium is dying.
Christ Jesus, Douchehat, you do realize, don't you, that there are other topics of interest to conservatives besides your religion and its salacious, neurotic obsession with persecution?
The NYT editorial board now spends its weary Sunday afternoons combing the pages of Forbes, W, and The Tatler, trying to find a halfway literate replacement for the William F. Buckley Memorial Chair in Conservative Gasbaggery.
As a straight white man, I know that. I also know that most of the black music I like dates back to the 30s, or is kind of 'exotic' and 'primitive' (Joseph Spence), or just helped to start white rock and roll (Sister Rosetta, Little Richard, Chuck Berry). Or it's Hendrix. I still can't stand disco.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Friedman part of the group whining about how America needs a third party that takes the exact same positions as the Democrats, in the name of centrism, in the run up to the last election?
I've never seen anyone lump disco and punk together. As a child of the late 60s/early 70s, I didn't much care for either at the time, but I still made a distinction: punk wasn't to my taste, disco was an abomination. I've come round on punk, but not disco.
Actually, disco was very much a gay and African-American phenomenon (both at the same time, if you were Sylvester), and the "Disco Sucks" movement very much a straight, white reaction against it.
Richard Hell & the Voidoids too!
Edit: damned autocorrect!
Christ Jesus, Douchehat, you do realize, don't you, that there are other topics of interest to conservatives besides your religion and its salacious, neurotic obsession with persecution?
The NYT editorial board now spends its weary Sunday afternoons combing the pages of Forbes, W, and The Tatler, trying to find a halfway literate replacement for the William F. Buckley Memorial Chair in Conservative Gasbaggery.
As a straight white man, I know that. I also know that most of the black music I like dates back to the 30s, or is kind of 'exotic' and 'primitive' (Joseph Spence), or just helped to start white rock and roll (Sister Rosetta, Little Richard, Chuck Berry). Or it's Hendrix. I still can't stand disco.
I just realized I basically "Um, actually..."ed you, and I apologize. No one should be that person.
No need to apologize. I was going to delete my comment if no-one had replied by the time I got home. It was ill-considered, and your point was good.
Ted Cruz, that sea-green sac of bile.
Feh, aggressive kinetic action is promised by every other late-night commercial.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Friedman part of the group whining about how America needs a third party that takes the exact same positions as the Democrats, in the name of centrism, in the run up to the last election?
Aggressive kinetic action doesn't count as "persecution", but allowing gay people to marry does.
I've never seen anyone lump disco and punk together. As a child of the late 60s/early 70s, I didn't much care for either at the time, but I still made a distinction: punk wasn't to my taste, disco was an abomination. I've come round on punk, but not disco.
Actually, disco was very much a gay and African-American phenomenon (both at the same time, if you were Sylvester), and the "Disco Sucks" movement very much a straight, white reaction against it.
<a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/18\/opinion\/friedman-one-for-the-country.html" target="_blank">Found it.</a>