Literary Corner: Tucker In

Jephtah Killing his Daughter Judges 1, from the Maciejowski Bible (France, c. 1250), via Pneuma Review.

Thoughts on His Receiving Support From White Nationalist Institutions Like David Duke and the Daily Stormer Website For His Denunciation of Imaginary South African White Genocide

by Tucker Carlson

Joseph Stalin loved his daughter.
I love my daughters. Does that
make me a Stalinist? That's such a
stupid question I don't know what to say.

(AP via Lincoln Journal-Star)

Moral: Don't ask yourself stupid questions. Let somebody else do it.

How does that analogy work, though, exactly? "Nazis love me. I love myself. Does that make me a Nazi?" Well, no, that's not a valid syllogism, but. If a father's love—Iosif Vissarionovich's or Tucker's— for his daughter is a good analogy for a Nazi's love for Tucker, what's good about it? How does it work? Are we saying the Nazi's love for Tucker is warm, sweet, chaste, and somehow inevitable? Are we saying nothing could be more natural, unless it's Tucker loving Tucker? And why would that be?

Cheap shots, hot shots, screen shots

I'm not even going to try to explain what I was doing on the above web page except to say that it was a totally legitimate part of my job, for which I get sort of paid, unlike these Blogspot effusions, to find out something about one of the Xu Xiaoping award winners  (I was actually trying to find out where a particular essay had been published, not whether it got a prize).  But I loved the somehow Russian pathos of that banner ad.

Mark Halperin below the fold, and much, much more!

Cheap shots and epistemic closure

Via The Moscow Show Trial. I never noticed it before, but this guy is a ringer for Tom Friedman. Great Helmsman indeed!

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@Yastreblyansky @owillis exactly, I will close myself to your ideology. (Epistemic, I had to look it up).
— Boston Dave in Pitt (@orion99da) September 8, 2013

American Exceptionalism

Anybody out there know where this famous phrase came from? I just found out (thanks, Wikipedia!): none other than the Great Helmsman himself, Comrade Iosif Vissarionovich!

Seems in the late 1920s the Communist Party of the United States and its young leader, Jay Lovestone (born Jacob Liebstein in what was then Lithuania and now Belarus, [jump]