Andrew Golis

This just goes to show, this shit isn’t easy. It’s not really freedom unless you’re free to be totally weird.

This quote, from James Dobson (an important operative in the GOP who is “hard-wired to Karl Rove’s blackberry” according to Andrew Sullivan), is hilarious:

“Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage,” Dobson said. “It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”

IT WILL DESTROY THE EARTH! FIRE! BRIMSTONE! DEATH!!!!! haha. These people are too much.

one down, three to go!

This is a really important article that I just read in the Crimson. It’s about the low level political intellectuality that exists in our generation, even at a place like Harvard.

Headline: “US Finishes a ‘Strong Second’ In Iraq War”

oh, if only! 

It’s hilarious to me that this story has legs! It’s also quite wonderful. The best thing (from thedailykos.com):

iFilm has announced that 400,000 people downloaded the clip from their site — and they weren’t downloading it to catch Carlson’s defensive rejoinders.

It would be good for America if everyone in the country watched Jon Stewart spank those two around.

seriously! I can’t make this stuff up.

It was, well, quite a disturbing read. I think Andrew Sullivan put it best (although I disagree with his policy positions):

The good news is that Bush seems genuine about tax reform and social security privatization in his second term. Here’s hoping. The bad news is that he thinks he’s Moses.

Yeah, that is bad news. Granted, the piece was clearly skewed, Suskind doesn’t exactly claim pure political objectivity. But if even half of it is true, wow. When you get quotes from Republican operatives (who worked for Reagan no less!) like this, thing’s is scary:

”Just in the past few months,” Bartlett said, ”I think a light has gone off for people who’ve spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he’s always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.”

I’ve begun to wonder if this is what it’s like to live in a country that is taken over by an extremist ideology. First, a wealthy ideologue posing as a lovable country bumpkin gets elected President having convinced everyone that he’s a moderate just like you and me. Then, a national tragedy allows that leader to demand loyalty, and fear and patriotism deliver it. Then, gradually, what used to seem extreme no longer does, after all, it’s just that lovable country bumpkin…

crimsonrumormill.com is a website that popped up last year. It basically makes fun of members of Harvard’s Undergraduate Council and spreads, exaggerates and creates entertaining gossip. It’s one of those things that’s really funny if you know the people it’s talking about (and can decipher the oh-so-cryptic psuedonyms that the author gives each member), but probably not at all if you don’t. Keep up the good work Jason Lurie, that are at least 4 of us who care.