Our best of the week:
They do but jest, poison in jest; there's no offense i' the world.
New York Times:
But he totally didn't mean any harm:
What's wrong with pagan sex?
Washington Post:
A weird little storm in the world of right-wing semantics:
Obama said he wasn't going to let Detroit go bankrupt (multiple times!), but Detroit went bankrupt. Though Obama was quite clearly talking not about the Michigan city but the national automobile industry for which it stands, as Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Madison Avenue stand for theirs (are there any advertising agencies left on Madison Avenue, by the way? I really have no idea).
Obama's language mistake—he should have said he wasn't going to let Grosse Pointe go bankrupt. And he was right.
The answer to what Josh Marshall called the lamest tweet in history (I've decided she was snarking; I'm a copy editor too) may actually be the lamest tweet in history.
"I don't always menstruate, but when I do, I prefer to use tampons." --the most interesting tran in the world. #FamousTamponQuotes
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) July 13, 2013
Nothing against orangutans. Oregon Zoo. |
New York Times:
Roberto Calderoli, a leader of Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League, had told supporters on Saturday that whenever he sees photographs of Cécile Kyenge, the Congolese-Italian minister for integration, “I can’t help but think of her resemblance to an orangutan.”[jump]
But he totally didn't mean any harm:
“There was nothing racist about it. I didn’t even mean to be offensive,” he told La Repubblica. “I’m always comparing people to animals.”
Venus, Cupid, Bacchus, and Ceres: Peter Paul Rubens, 1612. The big thing about pagan sex, be sure to get plenty of fiber. |
It's not really relevant, but my semidyslexia made me see this guy's name (he's Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) and part of the Family Research Council) as "Fat Pagan". Why would this phenomenon, should it exist, be bad for people's sex lives?Has pornography ruined sex? Pat Fagan thinks so.“What we really have is a pagan sexuality, which is totally different from a Christian sexuality,” Fagan told an audience Wednesday of mostly young people, naming vampire fetishes, bestiality and intercourse between same-sex partners as examples of the porn trends sweeping the nation. “Our teenagers today cannot know what is natural, sexually. That’s what we’ve done.”
having sex with one person is the best way to happiness, because there’s nothing to compare it to. “Those who are monogamous have the best sex they’ll ever know, because they don’t know anything else,” he reasoned.
Pat Fagan points out the way. Raw Story (another hilarious story). |
Obama said he wasn't going to let Detroit go bankrupt (multiple times!), but Detroit went bankrupt. Though Obama was quite clearly talking not about the Michigan city but the national automobile industry for which it stands, as Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Madison Avenue stand for theirs (are there any advertising agencies left on Madison Avenue, by the way? I really have no idea).
Obama's language mistake—he should have said he wasn't going to let Grosse Pointe go bankrupt. And he was right.
Detroit, the non-bankrupt part. Gross Pointe Real Estate. |
@GillianBagwell @joshtpm @ezraklein Did terrorists insert your superfluous comma or split that infinitive? #petardMy English not so good Mr. Brandon, where is infinite splitting of which you speak? (The comma is unobjectionable as well.) Seriously, if he's an English professor (at Winnipeg) while Bagwell and I are slaving away at the crappy writing of people who get paid better than we do, the terrorists won a while ago.
— Brandon Christopher (@bw_christopher) July 19, 2013
Thanks!
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