I've spent a fair amount of time reading Douthat's Atlantic blog. For quite some time he linked to white supremacist Steve Sailer's site. That link is gone now. I wonder if that was Douthat's decision or if it was forced upon him.

Douthat's long avoidance of any discussion of the war or torture or his support for both is a disgrace, but it's typical of shallow GOP hacks of a certain sort. Douthat goes on and on about his precious religious faith, and he knows damn well that torture is immoral, but he has his CAREER to think of. He's been mentioned as a possible New York Times op-ed fixture, after all. He could be Bloody Billy Kristol's replacement! He's not about to screw that up by being honest and blunt.

Autotoelatio - a suggested neologism to describe the public activities of Dick Morris.

For some reason I found Klein's use of "blokes" to be particularly irritating. In the midst of his warmongering Cheney-lapping he decided to be arch! How cute.

Klein is a shit-sucking sycophant who could use 5 years in captivity himself. Who knows, it might help him regain his humanity, though it's probably too late.

It's Home DESPOT!

Great!

I'm still waiting for some in-depth MSM coverage of the fact that Cindy McCain was a homewrecking whore who stole McCain away from his disabled 1st wife. Does the Family Values crowd really want a whore as First Lady?

Is it possible they're ALL hypocrites?

Let's get the word out there Repiglican-style. If a prospective Democratic First Lady had hooked up with her husband while he was married to a disabled woman the Repiglicans would be screaming "she's a whore!" constantly. So Cindy McCain's a whore!

And Johnny boy is a cheating bastard low-life! Who needs the whore and the bastard in the White House?

...when JonBenet Ramsey was killed?

It's Mick Farren, once the lead singer for the great Deviants, and a long-time novelist/essayist/reviewer of note. Here's his blog:

http://doc40.blogspot.com/

...he'd probably shave his body hair off and tattoo "My Ass Is Cherry" on his forehead. Just to show the proper degree of submissiveness his new owners would want.

Was he maintaining a straight back while he was kneeling?

Even a deranged old bigot like Bill Donohue should see a difference between attacking a group of people and making fun of an icon. If I say that the notion of an eternal hell for all non-Christians is the most malignant idea ever invented by the human mind, I'm not "attacking Christians."

It probably wouldn't work as a book title, but possibly a chapter could be called "Foosball Heroes." I can see Jonah and Ledeen and Hemingway being really into foosball when they were in college.

Of course with them it would have been Flag Foosball.

They're unpopular because they have failed to rip Bush a new asshole.

"...we'd all be speaking Arabic by now."

I've heard/read dozens of the frigging morons use that line. It must come down from Rush or the pigheaded Michael Savage.

I'd like to see the average Freeper try to learn Arabic. I think it would be easier to teach an aardvark to repair motorcycles.

I don't think it's possible to overstate the pure stupidity of most wingnuts. They're generally preconditioned by religious nonsense to believe in apocalypse, and this "the Arabs are coming" business fits right in. These are the same idiots who took the Cuban/Nicaraguan/EMP threat seriously after seeing "Red Dawn."

He'll eat anything!

Iraqi surgeons (the few that are left) are rapidly becoming the best in the world at amputations.

Dick Cheney thinks this is great.

Because that might explain his tiny little balls.

Call it hateful if you will, but if Michelle Malkin's hair was on fire I wouldn't waste a bucket of dog piss putting it out.

I'd dump the bucket in Bill O'Reilly's pool first.

That's what all "leading Christian social conservatives" seem to be.

My apologies to Richard Chen, whoever he is. I meant Richard Cohen, of course.

The deepest, fondest wish of people like Jonah, Tucker, Fred Barnes, and even Richard Chen is to be invited to Cheney's bunker for a swell evening spent swilling Lowenbraus and watching the Creepy Veep's world-class collection of lesbian snuff films.

Love your use of the word "intrepid," which echoes Colbert's slap-in-the-face to the Cohens of Washington. Cohen's whiny response to that speech is another one of his unintentional classics.

In a just world Cohen would be sentenced to having INTREPID tattooed on his forehead.