On the word "antisemitism"
Through most of yesterday there was, on the recommended list, a diary about how to spot antisemitic dog-whistles. And interspersed through its thousand (!) comments, I ran, several times, across a...
View ArticleA Holocaust denier visits DKos
One of the troubling things about the I/P diaries is that it tends to attract antisemites, hoping that if they cloak their antisemitism as "anti-Zionism," they can get a few licks in against The Jew....
View ArticleThey'll None Of Them Be Missed
With apologies to W. S. Gilbert and a nod to E. K. Hornbeck of the Baltimore Sun. Feel free to add your own verses.
View ArticleBREAKING (up): Tripp's Parents
Uh-oh -- Family values alert! Little Trigg Tripp's parents, little Bristol and little Levi, aren't destined for a wedding after all. Could it be that failures in sex education and birth control aren't...
View ArticleOn Israel and the Democratic Party Platform
In a few recent I/P (Israel/Palestine) diaries, this subject has popped up: what is the Democratic Party's stance on Israel and Palestine? The 2008 Democratic Party platform, "Renewing America's...
View ArticleA Jew Gene Jamboree!
If you've ever been up nights agonizing about whether or not Jews are really Jews, this is your lucky day. Maybe. Yesterday somebody brought up (and then redacted away mention of) Shlomo Sand's recent...
View ArticleHow To Strike a 900-Year-Old Nerve
Generally when I want to see what the antisemites of the right are doing, I check out Stormfront. When I want to see what the antisemites of the left are doing, I check out Gilad Atzmon. As it happens,...
View ArticleRemembering Larry Gelbart
On Sept 11, 2009, one of my absolute heroes -- the comedy writer Larry Gelbart -- died at the age of 81. I thought it might, on the last day of this decade, be worth spending some time to remember some...
View Article10 Years Today: Holocaust Denial's Biggest Defeat
Ten years ago today, a judge in London handed down one of the most devastatingly lopsided legal defeats ever delivered in a high-profile case. And it went to a man who deserved it quite badly. David...
View ArticleHolocaust denial after David Irving
A week and a half ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the courtroom defeat of the Holocaust denier David Irving -- Irving bankrupted by the very libel trial he had initiated -- I posted...
View ArticleWhy "Atlas Shrugged Part I" Will Tank
Here's another clue that the "Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 of 329" movie due to be released on whoops-it's-not-tax-day-after-all-is-it is headed straight for the buy-one-get-one-free bin. It's been...
View ArticleAtlas Sucked
Here we are two whole days after the "Atlas Shrugged: Part I" movie release. You know, that movie that was going to rescue America from the socialist hoodlums now in the White House by spreading the...
View ArticleFaux-"Progressive" Holocaust Denier Gilad Atzmon Tours U.S.
What happens when a "progressive" preaches Holocaust denial in the name of "anti-Zionism"? America is about to find out. There are people who will accept any damn thing as long as it's couched in the...
View ArticleDear Warden: About Blago
A quick note from an Illinoisan to the warden of the prison Blago is about to spend the next dozen or so years within.
View ArticlePaul Ryan, Meet Andrew Ryan
The right wing has a fantasy that the world we're living in is resembling, every more closely, the fictional world of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Turns out we're actually looking more and more like...
View ArticleAtlas Bombed, Part II
You may remember that last year, a low-budget film version of Ayn Rand's execrable screed "Atlas Shrugged" appeared in the theaters for about thirty seconds, and then dropped dead. You may also be...
View ArticleNate Silver's Math-Based Math
Nate Silver is getting hammered by the right for daring to use math-based math rather than faith-based math. In his defense, I thought it might not hurt to take a quick review, for non-math types, of...
View ArticleUK Labour Party Says: Goodbye, Jews
In 2012, the Republican Jewish Coalition and various deep-pocketed donors -- some Jewish, some not -- spent tens of millions of dollars trying to convince Jewish voters that Obama was too anti-Israel...
View ArticleAn aside on the Nazi analogy
Folks, just a brief reminder.Is Trump a demagogue threatening violence through a sort of paramilitary of racist bullyboys? Absolutely�.Does Trump hesitate even a moment before tactically deploying...
View ArticleQuestion: What's Your Name for the Scandal?
But first, a prelude.Arguably one of the most famous people ever to post here -- the late comedy writer Larry Gelbart -- is best known for having taken the movie "M*A*S*H" and turned it into a...
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