Vox Popoli

St. Amynda the Children’s Advocate

One thing I vow here and now–you motherfuckers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will fuck without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous motherfuckers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.“

Um, okay. But you know, it’s not the vision of that naked, lumpy body engaged in frantic and fruitless activity that haunts me, it’s the horrifying thought of that poor other party forced to participate in the daily ritual. Shouldn’t someone alert PETA?

“God I love it when people call me names. Sometimes the urge to curbcheck some motherfuckers is hard to control. I’m a sadistic asshole, but I am a sadistic ass in the name of justice…. I wish I wasn’t a cum-guzzling boozehound.”

Is anyone else beginning to think that it’s a genuine tragedy that John Edwards didn’t hire Amynda as his speechwriter instead of his blogmaster? Can’t you just picture him walking to the podium, fresh from a happy and relaxing half-hour spent dreamily brushing his hair, then clearing his throat and beginning to read his speech… until his eyes begin to widen and he frantically glances around the crowd as he starts to realize what is coming out of his mouth?

I think we should join Cthulhu’s Coven and Shakespeare’s Sisterhood in writing to the Edwards campaign, demanding that he not only retain Amynda, but promote her to lead speechwriter.

Those familiar with Cthulhu’s Coven know very well why John Edwards might want to keep Ms Marcotte around:

The Catholic League, a conservative religious group, is demanding that Mr. Edwards dismiss the two, Amanda Marcotte of the Pandagon blog site and Melissa McEwan, who writes on her blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, for expressing anti-Catholic opinions.

Mr. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, is among the leading Democratic presidential candidates.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said in a statement on Tuesday, “John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots.”

Mr. Edwards’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, said Tuesday night that the campaign was weighing the fate of the two bloggers.

And it’s back to the bureacracy for everyone’s favorite “cum-guzzling boozehound“, as she described herself in the comments to her post dedicated to “racist fucks who complained about looting”. The fate of the two raging feminists is surely settled already, it’s likely only the manner of the dismissal that is left to be determined.

Perhaps Amynda can announce that she is retiring from the Edwards campaign in order to spend more time with her abortions.

By the way, how is Edwards “among the leading Democratic presidential candidates”? If you’ve got less than half the support of the front runner, you’re just another member of the pack.

The most amusing thing about this “scandal” is the way in which Amynda’s pretensions to being a keen political analyst have been exposed as being as empty as her core ideology. I mean, how hard is it to understand that you simply cannot speak or write in a controversial manner and expect to be allowed to play in the world of superficial public impressions, when the most successful political commentators of our time, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, were bounced from National Review and ESPN?

A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in either New York City or Buffalo.

NewsChannel 4 reported that Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing the ban in response to two recent pedestrian deaths in his district, including a 23-year-old man who was struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod on Avenue T and East 71st Street In Bergen Beach.

“While people are tuning into their iPods and cell phones, they’re tuning out the world around them,” Kruger said. The proposed law would make talking on cell phones while crossing the street a comparable offense to jaywalking.

Why not just go all the way and ban walking while chewing gum? Boy, I’m sure glad women can vote, because otherwise, this just wouldn’t be a free country!

I have this image of purple-fingered suffrage fetishists strapped into gel-filled cocoons, lying curled into fetal positions with cables entering into every orifice in their bodies. And as they lie there, without even the smallest shard of human dignity left to them, they console each other with the thought that in only eighteen months, they can choose which of the two artificial intelligences on offer will be feeding off the Matrix for the next 100 years.

And while this absurd law hasn’t passed yet, I remember a lot of people insisting that the smoking bans would never come to pass either. Now that I think about it, I can even remember when people insisted that HMOs would reduce healthcare costs without hurting doctors’ salaries!

Ah well. We can always content ourselves with the amusing look of horror on women’s faces when the mandatory prostitution laws take effect. To each according to his need, from each according to his ability….

What’s better than a Treo? Why, naturally, a faster Treo with higher resolution! I’ll write up a full review of the Treo 680 in a few weeks here, but this morning I’m a little disappointed with the way in which the Bliss Intellivision emulator and the Apple II emulator both failed to work properly on my new Treo.

But I’m sure we’ll get that straightened out sooner or later, the main thing is that the keyboard is more amenable for note typing, the phone is a little flaky but works fine and the ebooks look better than ever. It was a great move to stick with SD instead of mini-SD for this smartphone, which means that I can use it happily until someone comes out with a Wi-fi smartphone with equivalent functionality on Palm or some Linux.

Nashville Knucklehead summarizes improperly:

A long time ago, Aunt B. got caught up in the threshing machine known as Vox Day. Vox Day is some pinhead with a blog and he gets a lot of readers and he declares all kinds of facts, none of which I remember, other than feminists are idiots, liberals are idiots, non-gun-owners are idiots, environmentalists are idiots and that he is an alpha male.

Actually, I specifically stated that I am not an alpha male, not being a pack animal like the majority of human beings. However, because I am not submissive, alphas often mistakenly believe that I am one of them and either resent or are amused by their inability to dominate me.

I once had a meeting with a physically large CEO who I knew liked to play the “looming” card. During the meeting, he came around from behind his desk to stand over me while I was sitting in a chair. To deal with this stupid primate trick, I simply got up from the chair and sat down on his desk while continuing with the conversation. His eyes got big and he clearly wanted to object, but I simply held his gaze and dared him to make something of it. He quit with the alpha displays after that.

Now, if I may clarify, feminists are evil, liberals are maleducated, non-gun owners ARE idiots although I would tend to prefer to label them parasites, and I don’t actually have any problem with environmentalists who don’t happen to be a) watermelons or b) liars. In fact, I can’t even recall ever once writing about environmentalists one way or another, except to express my skepticism about the “science” of man-made global warming.

As for Nate, let the hausfrauhrer defend himself….

Don’t quit your day job:

US workers may be significantly less literate in 2030 than they are today.

The reason: Most baby boomers will be retiring and a large wave of less-educated immigrants will be moving into the workforce. This downward shift in reading and math skills suggests a huge challenge for educators and policymakers in the future, according to a new report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

While I quite enjoyed Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick back in the Golden Age of ESPN, Olbermann really should have stuck to sports. Bane points us to Mark Levin’s methodical exposure of Olbermann as a truly pathetic excuse for a human being. I particularly liked the stories about Olbermann’s hiding under his desk prior to going on air and the way he made up an excuse about a relative dying in order to get out of a second date with a woman he’d flown to New York before suffering another form of performance anxiety.

The beatdown is neither the most brutal nor the most intellectual I’ve ever heard, but it’s mostly public information, and anyway, there just isn’t much intellectual substance to attack when you’re dealing with lightweights like Olbermann. Credit to Levin for hitting back like Ann Coulter instead of re-enacting Michelle Malkin’s gaping goldfish impression on Hardball.

In case one doubts the severe lack of intellectual depth possessed by the left’s brightest media stars, consider the way in which both Amynda and Keith Olbermann are apparently unaware of the fact that emails and blog posts don’t actually disappear into the aether.

Shild raises some reasonable, if predictable, objections:

1) “The right to vote and freedom are not the same thing.”

Of course they’re not. This can be said of MANY rights. The fact that totalitarian governments have elections too does not mean that the PRESENCE of the right to vote somehow takes away freedom.

To be sure. But first, note that there is no unalienable God-given or human “right” to vote. If there were, it could not be taken away from felons, resident aliens and so forth. But the main point is that while the presence of the privilege to vote does not inherently take away freedom, nor does it inherently create freedom as the purple-fingered suffrage fetishists insist.

2) “Women/Blacks/etc. are not part of Western Society Proper, and have inflicted such terrible things as feminism/affirmative action/etc. upon us poor WASPs.”

The idea that women (and most other groups) as individuals are not capable of making informed, intelligent decisions is absurd and false.

More seriously, the idea that an individual’s rights should be taken away becuase s/he MIGHT abuse those rights disagrees with the basic assumptions of individual liberty. This is the same kind of thinking that gave us the Patriot Act.

A better summary would be to say that women and blacks, (to use your terminology), have historically played almost no part in the creation and development of Western society – except the absolutely vital role of women in allowing it to sustain itself – and in the equalitarian era are enthusiastically participating in its ongoing destruction. This will ultimately turn out as badly for women and blacks as it does for the poor WASPs, in fact, if history is a reliable guide, it will turn out much worse for them.

The idea that women and ALL other groups are not capable of making informed, intelligent decisions is proven to be true every single day. Do you not know any women? Do you not interact with human beings? Watch Oprah for an afternoon, I’m sure you’ll see no shortage of examples. The vast majority of individuals of all races, sexes and genders are incapable of making informed, intelligent decisions; some groups are dependably worse than others.

3) “Voting can lead to the Tyranny of the Majority, so if a majority of voters were cannibals, we would all have to be cannibals.”

If citizens have no say in government, you can end up with Tyranny of the Minority, so if one or two big wigs in charge were cannibals, we would all have to chow down on long pork.

While I agree that most people (men AND women) are not smart enough/informed enough/do not care enough to vote rationally, I certainly do not see how turning the United States into an Aristocracy would help.

First, it’s a lot easier to replace one or two bigwigs than it is to replace an entire electorate of short-sighted idiots. Second, you already have an aristocracy, it’s merely cloaked in the illusory form of a popular democracy. I mean, you have noticed that Bush I, Clinton, Kerry, Bush II and Rodham-Clinton all attended the same small school of 5,300, right?

No one who favors the inherent limitations of “representative” democracy can reasonably argue against other forms of aristocracy or different limitations on to whom the privilege of voting is granted. You have already accepted the principle, you are merely quibbling about the particular way in which it is applied.

I argue that if there are to be limitations on the popular will, they should be applied in a way to maximize human liberty and freedom for the entire population instead of being applied in a way specifically designed to curtail both. But I’ll settle for direct democracy, why won’t you?

Why do you hate people and want to oppress them? Why do you deprive them of their right to vote on the laws under which they live? Why?

Some upstanding and articulate melanin-enhanced individuals take offense at being praised for their unusual elocution:

It is amazing that this still requires clarification, but here it is. Black people get a little testy when white people call them articulate….

A series of conversations about the word with a number of black public figures last week elicited the kind of frustrated responses often uttered between blacks, but seldom shared with whites.

“You hear it and you just think, ‘Damn, this again?’ ” said Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anna Perez, the former communications counselor for Ms. Rice when she was national security adviser, said, “You just stand and wonder, ‘When will this foolishness end?’ ”

Said Reginald Hudlin, president of entertainment for Black Entertainment Television: “It makes me weary, literally tired, like, ‘Do I really want to spend my time right now educating this person?’ ”

Maybe if every B-L-to-tha-izzack thugz heard dippin’ on televizzles did not bark like li’l gangsta dogz or like they wuz steppin’ wit a mouffull of collahd motha-fuckin greenz, white boy would not be surprised wizzle meet’n an indivijall of African descent who is capable of clockin’ normal American E-bizzle like a motha fucka. Damn!

I further note the use of the word “educating”, which Mr. Hudlin uses in the colloquial sense of “correcting an improper opinion”.

KH dares to cross ideological lines. Only an affection for deceased alien Elder Gods is capable of trumping the modern American left-right divide:

I always enjoy your WND columns, though I rarely agree with your positions. (I’m pretty much a traditional social democrat, though one who believes in living in the real world. I read WND partly for amusement and partly to see what the other side is thinking.) Though I rarely agree with you, I have come to respect your intellectual honesty and consistency. Actually, I rather regret that this country doesn’t have a real conservative movement. I have a lot of respect for conservatism in the old sense of the term, the Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli tradition of conservatism, but that is almost extinct in the U. S.

Current U. S. “conservatism” seems to be divided between sectarianism and right-wing anarchism. I did actually agree with you though about Giuliani, Obama, and Clinton, and about the peculiar process by which candidates are chosen. Besides, I have to like any political columnist who endorses Cthulhu!

In fairness to KH, reading my columns is not exactly the best way for the left to understand what the tattered vestiges of the other side are thinking, although now that I think about it, as one “conservative” commentator after another openly embraces left-wing policies, I may end up being the only member of the other side here shortly.

Ah well. As Prodigy puts it so perfectly, “Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned”.

But it’s quite interesting to see that a left-wing individual can clearly see that today’s “conservatives” have little relation to past conservatives, unlike the frauds who illegitimately flash the label on Fox News.