I assume this is from Donohue's WaPo article (I refuse to click through to their site)

That's why the blasphemous often tracks the obscene: if the goal is to put an artistic dagger into the heart of culture, then it makes sense to use all the ammo available by attacking the sacred. And they are certainly masters of that art. From scatological artistic exhibitions to the latest obscene installation, the charlatans have succeeded in politicizing the arts and denigrating Christianity.

You cited the above to beat up on Jack Ketch because you didn't like his language. Anything untoward that is suggestive of "inappropriate" sexuality or scatological humor that functions as a play on words and, boy, the hackles rise and the face reddens.

Yet you, in turn, say in response to PreviouslyCRL's comment No doubt. I've long had the feeling that my morning perambulation with my dog had me on the brink of a face-to-face meeting with Satan this

It means you walk your dog instead of "take care of your kids".

Of course, "walking the dog" is a euphemism for something else, too....

the last line, I guess, is a sexual reference.

So which is it? Is only your sanctioned version of sexual reference acceptable? One of the problems guys like you and Donohue have is a peculiar obsession with the other person's sexual expression. If that expression fails to fit within certain parameters, well, it's obviously a sign of impending doom.

And by the way, Donohue is a rotten writer. In one single sentence we have

if the goal is to put an artistic dagger into the heart of culture, then it makes sense to use all the ammo available ....

He even fails in his use of colorful language.

must be Pat Buchanan's twin.

But there are some good lines here:

Today's radicals are intellectually spent

Donohue has as much intellectual depth as a water droplet. The best he can offer is to fret and fume that the Vatican and its doctrinal enforcers, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, aren't able to bring the Inquisition to these shores.

And we have, moreover--in one paragraph!--accusations of socialism, communism and anarchy. So much for intellectual depth. And, a little later, we have

these moral anarchists are an even bigger menace than the Marxists who came before them ....

Time for a refersher course on poli-sci 101.

But this is revealing:

The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits ... time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.

And rabbits almost certainly is how he views the "faithful," meek creatures who are the very definition of obedience, who question nothing, challenge nothing and embrace silently, faithfully (and probably sullenly) a doctrine written with the blood of countless.

And finally,

they want to annihilate American culture, having absolutely nothing to put in its place.

What does this even mean? I'll bet he couldn't define "culture" if his life depended on it.

(or many someones, probably) observed that our "elite" are sociopaths. At the very least they're narcissists.

The utter crushing of the middle and working classes by these people, from their efforts at undercutting reasonable health reform to their virulent anti-union positions, their manipulation of credit card rates that are the very definition of usury--to name but three examples--cannot but illustrate the self-centeredness of this ghoulish population.

I'd say ... only about 27% of Salonistas love America, and most of those are right wing trolls.

The rest are too busy ranting about Columbus killing the Indians and detailing why capitalism is a flawed system.

First comes the phrase "love America," rapidly followed by references to murder and money.

Oh, to love America as defined by the noblest among us.

bernart

Have you rad the Rohde series in the NYT. Rohde is not portraying the Taliban in the sympathetic light as Glenn is.

GG

As is to be expected, Rohde's account contains widely divergent depictions of his captors -- some are violence-obsessed religious fanatics while others "showed glimpses of humanity" to him. As is clear by now, the Tablian are not monolithic.

I don't know where you get this stuff.

Pedinska

It breaks my heart and grinds my soul to see these women suffering. It makes me angrier than I've ever been in my life to realize that what we are currently doing perpetuates and accentuates that suffering.

Hamid Karzai is a sham. His government is misogyny personified with a bit of lace attached to it to lend it patina. And we are responsible for this man's policies toward women in exactly the same way we are responsible for the Taliban's policies toward women.

Goddamn right. And not one of these moralizing, pontificating sages of geopolitical reality (like Tommy777 or wgsalter) demonstrate any interest in getting down to brass tacks.

They throw out a word like hegemony and a phrase like national interest, as if the oligarchic, corporatist interests of our befouled elite are synonymous with either our peonic interests or those of Afghan women, never mind those of the rest of humanity that hangs on to survival with a fingernail's hold.

Why am I in the USA? It was my free choice, but as an American you don't actually understand freedom apart from the freedom to remove freedoms from others (such as gay people, people who want a public health insurance option, etc...).

You're at the wrong site if you think this broad generalization is going to have any currency. It'd be better if you posted such commentary at pajamasmedia or RedState.

But thanks for the lecture all the same.

ending a blockquote is the same as starting one, just add a backslash before the word blockquote to close it.