How Republicans react to charges of "Racism"

Great quote from the internet:

And of course the brainless, helpless Republicans reply to each one of these charges of racism by itself, as though it were a one-time event, never identifying the pattern of which these racism charges are a part and denouncing that pattern.

How can people stand being so brainless? How can they stand going through their lives never thinking, never trying to understand things, but just reacting to each thing by itself?

Perry Como and the Buffalo Bills

National Review = Boring

Vox Day lists the standard (ho-hum) NR articles :

• Israel must be supported at all costs because it is the only democracy in the Middle East. Followed by an article about the Egyptian/Palestinian/Iraqi/Iranian/Syrian elections....
• Any amount of immigration from anywhere is good for America as long as it is legal.
• We love [insert race or other interest group here] more than liberals do.
• Hispanics will turn conservative Real Soon Now.
• [Insert most liberal candidate running] is actually the real conservative and should be the Republican candidate.
• Winning elections is more important than purity of principle. Or any principle, for that matter.
• [Republican] may be bad, but [Democrat] is worse.
• I am a huge [Yankees/Red Sox] fan even though I don't follow baseball and am from [city nowhere near NYC or Boston].
• Support for the troops by finding further occupation for them in as-yet uninvaded Middle Eastern countries. Faster please!

I wasn't a fan of Debyshire he was little too insincere, racist & anti-religious for my tastes, but at least he was interesting.

Finally someone posts Zimmermann and Martin's true weights

6 footer Trayvon Martin weighed 160 lbs per police reports,  the 5'9'  Zimmerman weighed 170 lbs.

http://www.examiner.com/charleston-conservative-in-charleston-sc/george-zimmerman-weighs-170-trayvon-martin-160

The 250 lbs for Zimmerman was based on an old police report.

James Walcott

A bad writer. One minute after you read him,  you can't remember what he wrote.  Always a minimum of thought in the maximum amount of words

And one ugly dude.  Just Sayin'

Mad Men - A Little Kiss

So Mad Men returns after 17 months and I can't say I cared that much. It wasn't a bad episode and was amusing in many places BUT it simply highlights the mistake the Producers made at the end of Season 3. Basically, after Season 3 MM had two ways to go, it could stay in the 1960-1965 time-frame and develop the characters - as originally conceived -  or it could go beyond that point and rely on new characters and new situations to continue the fan interest.

Sadly, MM made the second choice.  So, the while characters we know from Season 1 are still there (except for Betty) all  the dramatic tension is gone.  Don is no longer the disgruntled "Organization Man" with a secret;  his marriage with Betty is over, and he's at the top of the world professionally.  Joan, Pete, Roger and Peggy are no longer  life-like people with thwarted ambitions and unrealized dreams who somewhat dislike and attack each other,  but more or less comic "frenemies" who've left S&C to be with their best buds.

Even worse is the prospect of our characters 'growing' as they accept that "times are a changing" and that sexism, racism, and homophobia have no place in new America.  Or being shown as bigots and chauvinists bitterly clinging to their out-moded beliefs.  No doubt Roger will end as a bitter old coot in a rocking chair railing against Hippies and women's lib.

But who knows, maybe I'm wrong and the producers will surprise me.  Time will tell.

To my surfer girl

Tennessee Coats does the Victory Dance

He's happy Pat Buchanan has been banished from TV. Or as he writes:

The End Of White America begins with Buchanan's (temporary) exile from the airwaves. Good for MSNBC. It's amazing he lasted so long. 

Just more evidence that Mr. Coats is a small-minded lefty - only employed at "The Atlantic" due to his skin color.  Contrast that with Sullivan's response.

Sixteen years ago, when I came out as HIV-positive and quit TNR's editorship, Buchanan, who had sparred relentlessly in public with me over gay equality, wrote me a personal hand-written note. He wrote he was saddened by what he heard - which was then regarded as an imminent death sentence - and wanted to say how he would pray that I would survive, if only so we could continue to argue and fight and debate for many more years. He was one of only two Washingtonians who did such a thing. I was moved beyond words. But he knew I loved a good argument as well. Over a gulf of ideological and philosophical difference, we could debate reasonably.