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Ross Douthat Thinks You Moral Degenerates Are Ruining His Country

I’ve been meaning to get around to Ross Douthat’s latest tantrum disguised as a column, and apologize that this is a bit late. But it still needs to be addressed, since it’s shockingly nasty and dishonest, even by his already low standards. Conservatives generally radiate a sense that they are the…

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Pray to your cats; they expect you to anyway

When I put the word out yesterday that I was wanting to hear from atheists what god they choose when believers inevitability claim they secretly pray, I got a bunch of different answers, and all were entertaining. There were few repeats, but one name kept coming up over and over…

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We Can Prevent Gattaca If Only We Try

My only real response to Ross Douthat's column is that we could probably remove the vast majority of rationales for genetic selection through abortion with straightforward efforts to combat sexism, racism, income inequality, and lack of access to healthcare. So, hop on that shit, women.  We'll be over here watching TV…

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One word: “glands”

A bout of national stupidity isn't complete without Ross Douthat weighing in to support it, and so of course the recent "controversy" over whether or not hell exists* was like catnip to him.  Unsurprisingly, he insists that it does, and the reason is, "Because I want it to."  Douthat—all religious…

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Keeping up appearances

One issue that’s been on my mind a lot lately is the concept of “keeping up appearances”. As a concept, it’s one that I haven’t thought about too much in terms of its continuing power over people. I mean, I understand it in terms of people not wanting to air…

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Why being anti-choice is misogynist, period

Ross Douthat proves once again why the NY Times was foolish to hire him, because he can’t help but write op-eds that read more like afterschool specials about the evils of fornication mixed with crappy prayer cards than actual greatest-newspaper-in-the-country editorials. He includes a poem about a fetal heartbeat, people.*…

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Assimilate to which America?

Damn you, Hendrik Hertzberg. I was going to link George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in reply to the continued screeching about how we shouldn’t brook any mosques within (fill in your number of steps, blocks, miles, or planets) near the World Trade Center, but…

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Gay marriage and the patriarchy shell game

Adam Serwer and Steve Benen have had their fun attacking the logic of Ross Douthat’s incoherent anti-gay marriage column, and now it’s my turn. Douthat is caught up in a trap that catches many, probably most conservatives. The official values, as I’ve said before, or our nation are liberal values.…

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The politics of misery and resentment

Don’t you love it when you argue something and then someone comes along to prove your argument? That happened to me this morning. My column at RH Reality Check to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the pill focused on how legal and available contraception freed women to make a variety…

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When your opponents have no compunction about lying….

You can’t do anything to appease their complaints. Stupak and company may have been satisfied by dunking Obama’s head in the toilet until they obtained a symbolic gesture of woman-hating from him that they and we know he doesn’t mean, but let’s face it. Those fools are useful idiots being…

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