As is the case with their war against the war, their war against Christmas isn’t going so well, either:
Despite the disappointing weekend showing, MPAA spokesman Bell said that industry still has high hopes for 17 more anti-Santa films that will open nationwide this weekend, including “The Reindeer Hunter,” “Shop Loss,” and Quentin Tarantino’s much anticipated “Workshop of Blood.”
[Hint for the humor impaired–it’s Iowahawk, on a roll]
John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.
Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.
John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.
Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.
John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.
Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.
From Michael Totten.
FETs made with fullerene.
Cool.
This time, they’re attacking the gendarmes with shotguns. This isn’t a riot. It’s an insurrection. What is Sarkozy going to do?
I find this particular euphemism by the press quite irritating. Can’t we be a little more specific and descriptive about the “youths”? By using that phrase, we’re tarring all French youth, many of whom, if not most, I suspect, are not blasting the cops in the faces with shot. Are they Catholics? Huguenots? Mormons? Amish?
In the US, when they won’t tell you the race of a criminal suspect, it’s generally a good bet that he’s of African descent, and if they make you guess the party of a miscreant politician, it’s a good indicator that it’s a Democrat. In French riots, one strongly suspects that when the perps are described only as “youths,” that they are (a) not necessarily that young and (b) at least notional followers of the Religion of Peace™. But we don’t want to prejudice anyone against the religion that cannot be named, no, or tell the readers what’s really going on here. We’ll just slander all young French people.
This time, they’re attacking the gendarmes with shotguns. This isn’t a riot. It’s an insurrection. What is Sarkozy going to do?
I find this particular euphemism by the press quite irritating. Can’t we be a little more specific and descriptive about the “youths”? By using that phrase, we’re tarring all French youth, many of whom, if not most, I suspect, are not blasting the cops in the faces with shot. Are they Catholics? Huguenots? Mormons? Amish?
In the US, when they won’t tell you the race of a criminal suspect, it’s generally a good bet that he’s of African descent, and if they make you guess the party of a miscreant politician, it’s a good indicator that it’s a Democrat. In French riots, one strongly suspects that when the perps are described only as “youths,” that they are (a) not necessarily that young and (b) at least notional followers of the Religion of Peace™. But we don’t want to prejudice anyone against the religion that cannot be named, no, or tell the readers what’s really going on here. We’ll just slander all young French people.
This time, they’re attacking the gendarmes with shotguns. This isn’t a riot. It’s an insurrection. What is Sarkozy going to do?
I find this particular euphemism by the press quite irritating. Can’t we be a little more specific and descriptive about the “youths”? By using that phrase, we’re tarring all French youth, many of whom, if not most, I suspect, are not blasting the cops in the faces with shot. Are they Catholics? Huguenots? Mormons? Amish?
In the US, when they won’t tell you the race of a criminal suspect, it’s generally a good bet that he’s of African descent, and if they make you guess the party of a miscreant politician, it’s a good indicator that it’s a Democrat. In French riots, one strongly suspects that when the perps are described only as “youths,” that they are (a) not necessarily that young and (b) at least notional followers of the Religion of Peace™. But we don’t want to prejudice anyone against the religion that cannot be named, no, or tell the readers what’s really going on here. We’ll just slander all young French people.
