It’s depressing, really. Just as New Scientist has been overrun by political zealots, so History Today finds it increasingly difficult to leave the daft, reflexive bias of the New Right* behind. A case in point is this piece titled Mr Cameron returns to the seventies. It begins:
“This afternoon, the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill [...]
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History Today is Bunk
Conservative women are great in bed
According to this leftie movie review site, anyway. In a strange rant about Angelina Jolie we have the following:
The basic conservative impulse is to bow down and show total allegiance to authority. This obviously links up with the old cliche about right-wing women (like Rand) being especially passionate about worshipping strong males, [...]
Neologism of the day
Norm uses the word democracy here. It’s an excellent coinage. He could define it more elegantly than I, but it boils down to the idea that the country should have policies decided by public demonstration.
But think of the children!
Read this. Really. Go on. Read it now.
White liberal racism
30 Jul 2010 at 13:19
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Politics, religion, totalitarianism
Long, excellent post from Edmund Standing begins:
The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let [...]
Yuppies, juppies, guppies and Thatcher
I keep seeing examples of Thatcher Derangement Syndrome, they’re so common that it’s hardly worth linking to make the point. Here’s one from Clive Aslet that I saw on Tim’s blog:
It is partly the rise of selfish individualism, at the expense of the shared values of restraint. The Sixties had [...]
Quote of the day
Ah, an elected government that’s insufficiently leftwing. The End Times must be upon us.
David Thompson.
None of my best friends are Jewish
Chas Newkey-Burden explains why he blogs in support of Israel:
I grew up in south west London in an area with few Jewish people. I had a couple of Jewish friends at school and some of my parents friends are Jewish, but I can’t say I was particularly exposed to Jewish [...]
Otherhood and apple pie
16 Jul 2010 at 13:51
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Middle East, WibbleWatch, self-refuting arguments
Queen of the Idiocracy, Judith Butler, has been trying to climb out of a hole of her own digging:
AVIVA-Berlin: How do you feel about the accusation that you have perhaps taken an anti-Semitic position concerning your statement about the Hamas and the Hezbollah as progressive social movements? (On: http://radicalarchives.org/2010/03/28/jbutler-on-hamas-hezbollah-israel-lobby/) Does that [...]
We do not have red bottoms
An adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism at the University of Illinois has lost his teaching job there, and he claims it is a violation of his academic freedom.
Kenneth Howell was told after the spring semester ended that he would no longer be teaching in the UI’s Department of Religion. The [...]