Adolfo wonders about this. Well, it sort of began a while ago.

Sort of here, when Arnold Schwarzenegger first used his genius "Let's be honest: Democrats are losers" line.

Then I started writing posts begining "Let's Be Honest," like Let's Be Honest: You're all Morons.

I've written about thirty insulting Let's Be Honest posts.

It's just kidding around. I always call this a moronblog, which means that anyone who reads it is, by definition, a moron.

Let's be honest.

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Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Anonymous.

Anonymous who?

Anonymous caller to 911. I just burned down a church.

I don't get it.

It's sort of a "thinky" type joke. You'll appreciate it on your way back home.

Not only that, the little douchebags were theater majors.

Theater majors.

Now that it's pretty much guaranteed these little peckers were liberals, the story will never be mentioned by the MSM again.

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Kos championed a guy named Rodriguez in Texas' 28th district, and he... lost.

I give Kos some credit in trying to change business-as-usual in his party, even if I disagree with his politics. The idea, divorced from the politics, isn't bad.

But he's got to get over the idea that American politics mirrors those found on The West Left Wing. Sorry, Kos, but America does not actually hunger for a brave and uncompromising liberal politics. That's just you. And even you don't actually crave it that much. You just want Democrats to win, no matter how liberal or conservative they are.

It's a cult of personality, with Kos just loving the power he has, improbably enough, been granted for no discernable reason, while continuing to hate the fact he doesn't have quite enough power to actually do anything.

Sure, he can get invited to conferences and "discuss issues" with candidates. And they'll happily use him to raise money. But the decision-making is still with the adults, and by "adults," of course I mean George Soros.

Right Wing News rounds up the usual unhinged reactions from the Kos Kids. Again: "We lost, so democracy is dead," "Karl Rove rigged the Democratic primary elections," that sort of thing.

Like the man said, "If you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao/You ain't gonna make it anyhow."

Thanks to HD.

Lennon Had It Backwards Update: Reddish Jode notes that, given the linkage between sexlessness and political extremism, the lyric should have run:

But if you can't make with anyone anyhow
You're going to start carrying pictures of Chairman Mao

True. Except in America -- especially at that time -- the more left your politics, the better your chances.

Which is perhaps why we never actually had a revolution here in the sixties. It's all nice to talk about revolution, but who can get up the initiative to tear down the state when you're nice and relaxed from a good humping?

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Law would forbid protesting funerals.

I hate to say this, but it's probably unconstitutional, and not made-up fakey unconstitutional, but actually really honest-to-goodness unconstitutional.

Although it shouldn't be.

I suppose there's some small chance it will come under the "fighting words" exception. A placard reading "Thank God for IED's" at the funeral of a freshly-killed soldier is probably as vicious an example of "fighting words" as can be imagined.

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I implore every screenwriter in Hollywood to begin writing an Oscar-worthy vehicle for Ms. Lohan... perhaps playing a retarded lesbian chinchilla-farmer.

Whatever it takes.

Whatever. It. Takes.

But please -- no "going ugly" for the Oscar. None of that Charlize Theron shit, or Selma Hayek with a moustache and unibrow crap. Oscar-worthy -- lesbian, drooling, wrangling chinchillas -- but not Ugly Oscar Worthy.

Hollywood-- you know all that smack I've talked about you these past couple of years? You just make this happen and all is forgiven.

Thanks to MikeB.

Perviness: Some object to, um, objectifying Ms. Lohan, given her age.

Well, I don't know. It's kind of difficult to pretend she's still a "child."

There was an SNL sketch that really was sort of uncomfortable on a couple of levels. Lohan really showed off her body in a sketch about Hermione from the Harry Potter stories, which was weird on multiple levels.

1, I think at the end of the show she announced she was just a few weeks from being "legal."

2, the sketch was about Hermione, who isn't an object of adult male lust, but yeah, she's exactly the girl we all would have fallen in love with when at that age, which just adds to the weirdness.

I don't know. This is a very dicey area. Still, if Lohan's putting on this kind of show on SNL, I think it sort of puts her in the category of "safe to believe is pretty attractive."

The sketch is pretty funny, anyway.

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We've all felt an ill wind blowing, chilling political dissent. We've all had our run-ins with McCarthyite Mind Police. Monty From Heliopause was brave enough to offer his tale of oppression:

This one time? I went to BK to get BK Big Fin, but when I got it it was cold. Not tepid or not-hot; cold. So I give it back to the zit-farm behind the counter and say, "Hey, nuke this for thirty seconds of so, wouldja? And gimme so more tartar sauce." So this kid cops an attitude, like, "Hey, it's not my mission in life to make sure your BK Big Fin is hot, dude; I'm dealing with issues! Plus that tartar sauce ain't free, you know -- if I give you extra, I gotta give everybody extra, and the fat chick who thinks she's my boss will be super-double-extra bitchy with me at end-of-shift."

So I go, I go, "So how come that guy ahead of me got extra tartar sauce with his sandwich then? What's he, like a relative or something?"

So the upshot is, I had to eat a cold BK Big Fin with inadequate tartar sauce because Senator Joe McCarthy has rotted everyone's brains with his "Commie under every bed" rhetoric. (I bet it was a goddam commie plot to make sure that no one ever gets enough tartar sauce with their fish sandwich, either -- that's just the kind of torture those fuckers specialized in.)

If you want to offer your own tales of repression, here's your chance.

Let the man know we're not going to tolerate jackboots pressing on our throats, unless it's done in a sexy, hot kind of way. But I think that's obvious.

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Oh, where does one begin?

Obviously any cretin/coward/criminal who makes death-threats should be tossed in jail. Especially for making death-threats against someone's family. I'm not sure why that's worse -- it's not as if you have any right to make a death-threat against someone you disagree with, or even who is guilty of malfeasance and lefty indoctrination -- but it just is. It's not as if anyone has a right to threaten Jay Bennish's life, but to further threaten his family... well, that's even worse.

That said:

Bennish's father, John Bennish of Beverly Hills, Mich., told The Detroit News in Wednesday's editions that people have called his house threatening to kill him or his family. He said he did not report the threats to police.

"This has been totally lopsided and one-sided," Bennish's father said of the news coverage of his son's lecture. He said the Fox News Channel's coverage "reminds me of McCarthyism. And they're supposed to be fair and balanced?"

Oh, everything reminds these people of McCarthyism. The clerk at Subway forgetting to punch their frequent-buyer's card reminds them of McCarthyism. A Friendly's Fribble that's a little on the thin and over-frothed side reminds the of McCarthyism. Ventriloquist doll Charlie McCarthy reminds them of McCarthyism, as does ventriloquist doll Jenny McCarthy.

It's called reporting, dude. Get over it.

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Bennish was in New York City on Tuesday morning for a national television interview.

"My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society," he said on NBC's "Today Show."

Your job as a geography teacher is to tell them that Sierre Leone has some mountains in it.

Bennish said he thinks that his lecture was being presented unfairly. Bennish said that most people aren't listening to the entire 20-minute recording and it wasn't even half of what he said to students that day.

"This is 20 minutes out of a 50-minute class. The rest of the class provides the balance," he told NBC's Matt Lauer.

Lie. There was a chance to "provide balance" in the snippet we heard. He was challenged as to claim of equivalency between the US government and Hamas/Al Qaeda. He said "That's a good point," but then launched into a defense of his claims of moral equivalency, and argued Israel was a terrorist state for good measure.

If there's balance at all in his rant, we should have heard it there. But we didn't.

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"My job as a social studies teacher is to argue alternative perspectives and viewpoints so that students are aware of those point of views. They do not necessarily reflect my own views. They are simply thrown out there to encourage critical thought," he told "Today."

He provides no "alternative perpsective" to his own perspective. Like other leftists, he believes the "alternative perspective" is already well-provided by the "manufactured consent" in favor of capitalism and jingoism omnipresent in our fascist society, so it is his job to present one single "alternative perspective" to this unbiquitous and inescapable military-industrial-capitalist worldview.

As for these views "not necessarily" being his own -- give me a break. I can play devil's advocate, but I usually don't rant with frothy emotionalism when doing so.

He said he was simply playing devil's advocate, making comparisons that have been made around the country and around the world so that his students would be aware of those perspectives and judge it for themselves.

Lie.

If he was doing nothing wrong, why does he have to lie so transparently about it?

Integrity is doing the same thing when you're not being watched as when you're being watched. Obviously Mr. Bennish lacks integrity.

On the 20-minute recording, made by sophomore Sean Allen, Bennish is heard saying, "Who is probably the most single violent nation on earth? The United States of America."

"'It is our duty as Americans to use the military to go out into the world and make the world like us.' Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say -- 'We're the only ones who are right, everyone else is backward and our job is to conquer the world,'" Bennish told his students.

On the tape, he is heard telling his students that they don't have to agree with him.

Of course they don't have to. Who ever announces, "You must agree with me"? But every word he utters in is furtherance of his radical anti-American worldview.

I suppose he'd like credit because he allowed the United States is only probably "the most single most violent nation on earth."

Israel, after all, may edge us out. Our scores or equal, but Israel just may win the technical-merit tiebreaker.
Now, here's bias.

Meanwhile, the student who recorded the lecture said he's received threats of physical violence since coming forward. Allen said he has been called a "snitch" and a "coward" for releasing the audio recording to the media. Allen said he will transfer to a different school.

Notice this kid is getting threats of violence but it's not in the headline, and it's only mentioned at the end of the piece. Bennish is on PAID leave, and almost certainly will not be fired. This kid has to transfer to a different school.

Can you guess where the reporter's sympathies might lie? Has he given the game away with the prominence with which he reports threats against Bennish and relatively disinterest in the threats against Allen?

"I don't believe he should be fired. I believe, yes, there should be some sort of consequence for what he's doing. He should be reprimanded but I believe that he's knowledgeable in geography, I mean, he knows what he's talking about -- as long as he just teach the curriculum," Allen said.

I agree with him. I actually don't think he should be fired -- teachers have done far worse without being fired. He should just be strongly cautioned that he is not a political leader at a union hall, and that, last time I checked, "geography" has to do with rivers and mountains and such.

If the guy wants to teach history or current events or whatnot, he should get the accreditation necessary and then land that actual job.

And even if he does, he should stop trying to indoctrinate impressionable minds with one-sided neomarxist cant.

There are some teachers who really do "challenge the way you think" by simply providing devil's advocate hypotheticals and questions. And then there are the committed ideologues. They are not difficult to tell from one another. The first sort of teacher-- well, it is difficult to precisely state what his position might be, because whatever a student says, he questions it, and forces the student to defend his assumptions and claims.

Jay Bennish doesn't do that. The only people questioned/argued with in his class are those who disagree with him. The kids who answer his questions "in the right way" -- agreeing that Bush is like Hitler, or that America is the most violent nation on earth (probably) -- they receive no questioning or debate.

Teachers, parents and administrators responsible for school policies are eagerly awaiting the school district's decision. But many say that could only be the beginning because the discussions that have come forward could have major implications on future education.

I certainly hope so.

I'll say it-- I hate most teachers, especially high school teachers. I'm sorry, I know there are good ones (and I've had some great ones-- truly great), but a lot of them are mediocre intellects -- sub-mediocre, actually -- who are just thrilled to be put in front of one of the few possible collections of human beings in the world who know less than they do.

If he wants to preach politics to a bunch of know-nothing retards, shit, he should just start a blog.

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Sean posted this in a comment. Mild language warning. more...

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Hate the sin but kill the sinner:

Merrill Keiser, Jr., is a trucker by trade, and he's hoping his next journey takes him all the way to Washington. His goal is a seat in the US Senate....

The Fremont man is causing some controversy with one of his beliefs. He tells News 11 homosexuality should be a felony, punishable by death. "Just like we have laws against murder, we have laws against stealing, we have laws against taking drugs -- we should have laws against immoral conduct," Keiser says.

Between the last post and this one, I guess I'm showing my formerly liberal stripes, but I have to say this guy seems to have issues with homosexuality your normal contented heterosexual just doesn't.

Yeah, I hate that bit of baiting by the left, "If you're against any part of the gay agenda, it's because you must be gay!" Childish, reductivist, and strangely self-hating (gays calling their opponents homos in a derogatory fashion? Always odd.)

Still, I think there's something to the idea that if you spend, let us say, an inordinate amount of time dwelling on something, and react in an inexplicably emotional and extreme manner, well... methinks the lady doth protest too much, as the man says.

There's a difference between considering gay sex (or any sex outside of wedlock) inherently sinful due to a bona-fide religious belief and taking the Fred Phelps route of thinking about gay sex all the damn time.

There are gay porn actors who don't think about gay sex as much as Fred Phelps, and they're getting a steady paycheck from the gig.

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Provocative essay by Ian Buruma titled "Extremism: The Loser's Revenge."

It's not a crazy idea. Male stalkers are spurred to violence by sexual rejection and fears of sexual inadequacy. Buruma speculates that such sexual stalking and inadeqacy-spurred explosions of violence are now, sadly, part of the broad Islamic culture, not simply a pathology affecting a man here and there.

He speculates further that stalker-syndrome may have been an important part of most violence-worshipping fascist cultures.

Does masturbation lead to suicide bombing? One would think not. There is no more direct link to suicide bombing than there is to blindness or schizophrenia. But there may be a connection between sexual inadequacy or frustration and the pull towards violent extremism.

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Sexual deprivation may be a factor in the current wave of suicidal violence, unleashed by the Palestinian cause as well as revolutionary Islamism. The tantalising prospect of having one's pick of the loveliest virgins in paradise is deliberately dangled in front of young men trained for violent death. And even those who are not trained to kill and die often live in authoritarian societies in which sex before marriage is strictly forbidden, in which women outside the family home are not only supposed to be untouchable, but invisible. Access to MTV, the internet, DVDs and global advertising reinforces the notion that westerners live in a degenerate garden of sinful delights. This makes the lot of millions of young Arab men even harder to bear, and can provoke a mixture of rage and envy.

Once in a while, this rage will explode in carefully orchestrated orgies of violence. It is said that Mohammed Atta visited a striptease bar before crashing a plane into the Twin Towers. Perhaps he craved one nibble at the forbidden fruit before his earthly extinction. The fact that it was forbidden - repulsive but also terribly seductive - marked his view of women in general. He made it clear in his will that he did not want any women to defile his grave with their presence.

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The German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger recently wrote a brilliant essay about "the radical loser", the kind of person, usually a young man, who feels victimised by the entire world, and hates himself as much as the forces that oppress him. These men are walking time bombs. Anything can set them off, a social snub, the loss of a job. And the explosion will usually kill the bomber as well as his enemies. Circumstances dictate to some extent who the enemies are, but the categories tend to be limited. As Enzensberger says, the "usual suspects are foreigners, secret services, communists, Americans, big corporations, politicians, unbelievers. And, almost always, the Jews."

He then links Theo Van Gogh's murderer to his killer's failure to score with presumably easy Dutch girls.

And, along the way, he notes the prominence of homosexuals in fascist movements. Not blaming gays for fascism, of course; just noting how repressed sexuality, or a sexual drive viewed as unclean or wicked, can easily be channeled into violence and a worship of power and cruelty. Sex and violence are elemental urges; it's not hard to imagine they are, when necessary, fungible ones.

The "Radical Loser" essay noted by Buruma can be found here.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

In related news, the FBI has subpoenaed the records of every poster and reader of this site, deeming you all "likely terroristic threats."

Also Related: Academics research women-in-prison films like Chained Heat and determine, once and for all, they're not all that realistic.

Damn. Skinemax has been lying to me all these years.

Thanks to craig.

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