Comments on: Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1995!

By: No sabbaticals in “I-O-WAAAAY?” : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:36:54 +0000

[...] got trouble, friends–right here! Republican legistlators in the Hawkeye State are ginning up the kulkurkampfen again by targeting professors’ sabbaticals at public universities. They think [...]

By: c...

c... — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:50:57 +0000

sadly, despite the SCOTUS’ claim to be above the political fray, methinks we’ll have to acknowledge that the republicans control at least 1.25 of the 3 branches of government… (not that this does anything to change your point, Indy’ … it’s just that I worry that the likely-to-be-decades-long rightward tilt of the Court is the most problematic ‘control’ around).

Weren’t the culture wars mostly just a distraction from things that really mattered the first time around as well? Grr…

By: truffula

truffula — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:50:39 +0000

nobody’s really challenging it

Indeed.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:08:09 +0000

Two things that kind of jump out at me here are, first, Reps. Boner and Cantor indulging in the media-abetted phantasm that they are about to “control the government” by virtue of controlling one half of one of its three branches. This kind of talk has been going around ever since November 3 and nobody’s really challenging it. And, the other dood’s histrionic angst about the alleged “kinkiness” of Degeneres’ “grabbing her own breast.” Aren’t they the party of personal liberty and keeping the government out of people’s private lives? Now that they “are” the government, however, I guess it’s a different story. What about all those professional athletes scratching their own rear ends on national t.v.? Maybe they can work something about that stuff into an omnibus reconcilliation bill or something like that. Really.