I have a new favourite journalist!

[sabotabby]

This might be old news to the rest of you, but thanks to charlemagne77, I just discovered the joys of Heather Mac Donald. A poor man's Ann Coulter, she's got a hard-on for cops, a hatred for queers, and the answers to all of America's problems.

In her latest article, Heralds of a Brighter Black Future, Mac Donald coos over some -- oh, can I please say race traitors? -- Black Republicans while asserting that the biggest problem facing Black people today is not racism or poverty, but...wait for it...single-parent households and kids born out of wedlock. In Mac Donald's world, there's something called the welfare-industrial complex (sorry to disappoint -- she doesn't explain what that is), Afros stand in for Black radicalism, and police brutality is a conspiracy cooked up by the ACLU and the NAACP.

No, really, you have to read it. The "dissenters" and "iconoclasts" she interviews are just as much fun -- one guy even sold chicken sandwiches for Eisenhower in 1956. These are men whose wisdom and insight boils down to statements like, "You can’t condemn someone for his skin color. If you can’t be nice to people, there’s something wrong with you."

In case you're curious (and I know you are), this woman is entirely qualified to declare that racism is only a problem because Black people make it a problem.

Her other articles are almost as good. Feminists are "shrill, hysterical harpies," homeless people are "thuggish vagrants," and hip-hop culture gets the same kind of sarcastic quotation marks I've been using throughout this rant.

Go on, read! This has prevented me from going to the gym and/or doing laundry tonight, but it's absolutely worth it.

Now, as I'm a child from one of those awful and ungodly single-parent homes, I am off to murder some cops and get addicted to marijuana.*

***

On an unrelated note, I can't figure out whether Doctor Who hits all my kinks because it's such a great show, or whether I developed those kinks because I used to watch it when I was a kid. Seriously, zombie Victorians? It doesn't get any better than that.


* On second thought, reading sounds like a lot more fun.

Comments

[rote.livejournal.com]

Black republicans = 19th century "Democratic niggers."

[sabotabby]

::tickles your icon:: You should animate that.

[sabotabby]

Okay, okay. Purged.

The "Welfare-Industrial Complex"

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Since this sounded like one of those terms that pseudo-politicos like to throw around without ever being certain what it means, I did some digging.

At least Ms. MacDonald doesn't seem to have made it up.

President Eisenhower apparently coined the term "military-industrial complex" to describe the tendency of the military and the arms manufacturers to indulge in mutual back-scratching. In the end, you get the military making unnecessary purchase at inflated prices. The welfare-industrial complex purports to describe what happens when the welfare-for-work agencies become cozy with their local politicians. Apparently the local agencies promise that in return for certain funding levels, they will encourage their clients to vote for that politician (eeew!). If all they have to do is encourage their clients to vote a certain way, there's no incentive for these agencies to demonstrate results in placing welfare recipients in long-term jobs.

It's explained at length here.

Because, as we all know, people go into the social services for the money. Or was that the power and prestige?

Re: The "Welfare-Industrial Complex"

[sabotabby]

I've chosen the wrong profession. Again. I wonder if she backs privatizing the police force...

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[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Ah, but where else would you get Giant Carniverous Flying Wombats?

Re: The "Welfare-Industrial Complex"

[sabotabby]

I could work in insurance...

Re: The "Welfare-Industrial Complex"

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

And be wombat fodder?

The Wombat-Industrial Complex

[sabotabby]

You're probably right. It's just as well I don't.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

This old post of mine seemed relevant to zingerella's rant on reactionary classicists, but I forgot about it until now.

[sabotabby]

Please tell me that guy isn't for real. The paintings (well, the old paintings; not the "Living Masters") are lovely, but the text! All I could think was: "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Bruno?

[sabotabby]

Now I am. Oh -- I meant to ask you if you ever read World War III. If not, I'll send you some.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I have their "best of" collection, plus the one that came out year or two ago. The best of includes Peter Kuper's "Promised Land" in which an Israeli friend of the author says the attitudes of many Israelis has become increasingly Nazi-like.

A lot of the WW III folks are in the Wobbly book. A FW's friendship with with Seth Tobocman was my in.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

You should read it (Bruno) from the beginning since there is some continuity. Later, there's a lot.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's just... wow.

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

What irks me is that, while Ann Coulter serves as an ideological lightning rod (she's on the cover of Time this week), more wonkish scribes like Mac Donald are actually taken seriously as journalists. Polemical journalism is only a rough-and-tumble ground for those who make it absolutely clear that they want to fight, rather than just get the ear of a politician or television news producer; I'm an obsessive Anglomaniac, so I'm simultaneously fuming that 'quality broadsheet' columnists like Britain's Minette Marrin can say that the problem is too many of the wrong people having children (and too few educated, middle-class types reproducing their genes and their values) and escape censure, while all the liberal opprobrium goes to the (admittedly crypto-fascist) Daily Mail.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Here's FAIR's action alert on Time's pro-Coulter puff piece. It also mentions Time's attempt to defend her claim that Canada sent troops to Vietnam.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Did I mention that I own a leather top hat?

[sabotabby]

Maybe once or twice. ;)

I find web comics hard to read, though. All the squinty type.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The sideways strips don't help either, but I thought the strip's near incessant "negativity" would appeal to you. Definitely check out his life drawing portfolio; it's obviously more realistic than the comic and there is no text to squint at.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Oops. Forgot the link.

[rayaluna.livejournal.com]

I just started watching Doctor Who a couple nights ago and I really took to it. Zombies help. Also I heard that Simon Pegg is going to be in an ep!

[sabotabby]

The whole thing is one big squee for me. Needs more cats, though.

[crosley-bendix.livejournal.com]

She is associated with the Manhattan Institute, a mouthpiece for neo-eugenics. They even used the term "Ecological Eugenics" in an editorial.

[sabotabby]

I sense a theme here. Saving the environment from the environmentalists. Saving the Blacks from the civil rights activists. Placing the future of women in the hands of men who, after all, know what's best for us more than we do.

//headdesk//

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

*real, actual fear*

[crosley-bendix.livejournal.com]

OMG, this woman is comedy gold! She says that in figuring out whether torture is tolerated in Iraq, we should look at the official policies. Of course, our high-minded rhetoric is what matters.

[sabotabby]

I love her. I want to take her home and introduce her to my parents. Except not.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get better

???

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /archives/2005/04/17/watching-my-mail/ on this server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) Server at www.slobokan.com Port 80

I'm pretty certain that wasn't what you meant.

Re: ???

[sabotabby]

http://www.slobokan.com/archives/2005/04/17/watching-my-mail/

My heroine is on the cover of TIME. I can't wait to read it!

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[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I don't have permission either.

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[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

d00d, is Ann Coulter anorexic?

Re: ???

[sabotabby]

Yes. Also, she's a man.