by j.d. – 24 July 2008 at 18:26
The latter’s name gets appended to the official rejoinder after this verbal turd he dropped on those unfortunate to be within the sound of his voice:
“My main point remains true,” Mr. Savage, whose radio audience ranks in size behind only those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, said in the interview. “It is an overdiagnosed medical condition. In my readings, there is no definitive medical diagnosis for autism.”
On the July 16 installment of his program, which is broadcast every weekday, Mr. Savage suggested that “99 percent of the cases” of autism were a result of lax parenting. He told his audience: “They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life.’ ” Among the other admonitions he felt children with autism should be hearing, he said, were: “ ‘Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ ”
Asked Monday if he actually believed that 99 out of every 100 cases of autism were misdiagnosed, Mr. Savage conceded that figure was “a little high.” He added, “It was hyperbole.”
Well, here we go:
by j.d. – 24 July 2008 at 18:20
The evil Jake Tapper:
Obama said he “did not realize - my staff basically just told me that this space is bigger than I realized. So.”
Asked a reporter: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
“Uh, it’s a potentially bad thing if nobody shows up,” Obama said, laughing. “You know, we’re sort of on the high wire all of the sudden. It’s like, ‘I’m sorry, how many people does this accommodate? How many?’…We really have no idea what’s going to happen. Sort of a crapshoot. I’m happy with the speech though.”
A reporter noted that the campaign has been distributing fliers to Berliners to drum up attendance.
“Why don’t you guys go out and distribute some fliers?” Obama asked. “Is that a conflict for you guys?”
Joked a cable news correspondent: “We have been. It’s called television.”
I call those flyers “newspapers”.
by j.d. – 22 July 2008 at 20:24
Unfortunately, meta is all I feel right now, and as I said the other day, you’re stuck with me.
This is (or used to be) a political blog, and it’s been a rather odd one in that I don’t blog much about politics anymore. It’s not all job-hunting and Guild Wars; I’ve been trying to put a name to what it is I’ve been feeling lately in a political sense. It’s a feeling that many would call “alienation”, but for me, that doesn’t quite get to the heart of it.
It’s more like the knowledge that A) there is no place for me along the continuum and B) it doesn’t appear likely that one will be created. It could be that because I recently reread the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and the late Robert Anton Wilson, my head is full of crazy ideas. Or maybe I’m teetering on the edge of crankery.
If so, I must be the only rationalist capitalist traditionalist crank I know. All I know for sure is that in a political environment driven primarily by “feelings” — and those are driven not only by those for whom emotion is the only faculty they possess or use on a regular basis but by those who, if asked, would readily claim to be “rationalists” possessed of greater enlightenment than most — the rationalist will sound like a crazy man.
It is really hard to suppress bitterness in that environment.
by j.d. – 18 July 2008 at 21:34
by j.d. – 17 July 2008 at 21:07
Iris Van Meter, one of the original “Creationist Six” State Board of Education members, is running in a Republican primary against sitting State Sen. Dwayne Umbarger of the 14th, which covers Chanute, Baxter Springs, Coffeyville, and Parsons.
by j.d. – 16 July 2008 at 17:55
So now I follow through with the promised announcement — it’s about as official as it’s going to get until I start drawing paychecks: I was recently offered my first actuarial job. I won’t name the company (though it is here in Kansas), to protect both it and me, but it’s a good place to start my actuarial career — something I should have done eight years ago.
So, you’re stuck with me for years to come.
I also understand Joel finally got off his fat ass and got a job, so while you’re at it, you should go and congratulate him too.
Since he’s moving away from Kansas, I just thought that I was one of the first Kansas bloggers, and I may be the last one if the current trend holds.
by j.d. – 15 July 2008 at 17:37
I’m still waiting on the paperwork from yesterday. It is not, as emaw theorized, news of a marital kind (the PATRIARCHY!!11!one! rejected my application for a female servant), it is of a different kind. Still important, but that’s just not it.
by j.d. – 14 July 2008 at 19:29
Well, I’d like to say it’s something exciting, but mostly it’s been playing Guild Wars.
However, I’ve felt the old evil spark of blogging of late, so I’ll probably be around a lot more in the coming months. I also hope to have a rather big announcement for you later in the week as regards my own life. I’m just waiting on paperwork now.
by j.d. – 13 July 2008 at 21:02
by j.d. – 09 July 2008 at 20:35
Can anyone reading this imagine their mothers going for this line?
Because I can’t.
Dear Dr. Wes & Julia: My boyfriend asked me whether it was OK with my mom if he could spend the night at my house. I was wondering if it would be appropriate for him to do so. I also wanted to know if I could stay in the same room with him. Here are some things I thought about so that my mom might be more comfortable with it. We could keep my door open during the night while we’re asleep. I have another bed, so maybe he or I could sleep on that. Can you think of anything else that we could do to make the situation more comfortable for my mom? If this isn’t a good idea, then that’s OK, but I wanted to ask your opinion. — Sophomore-to-be
UPDATE: Aw, crap. I guess she could be a sophomore in college, which doesn’t seem so far outside the realm of possibility (although I still can’t imagine my parents going for it).
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