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Do you want Karl Rove to know where you drive?

How about Rahm Emanuel?  You think it is a good idea for the State to watch your every move? Should the FBI, the ATF, the IRS and Customs and Immigration be able to track you wherever you go?  Wouldn’t it be nice if every municipality was able to issue speeding Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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I’m an evil Libertarian and I want children to die of lead poisoning

We have a new law, something that should warm the cockles of every Statist’s heart.  Oh, and deary me, it protects the children.  Oh then why would I be against such a law?  I must hate the children. . . I suggest you read this. (linked from here.) From the Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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And the #1 Asshat for 2008 is. . .

No contest here.  It is one thing to say something so idiotic that it tears a hole in the fabric of the universe, or to be so oblivious to your own failings that you apparently inhabit your own Bizzaro World where the most logical form of defense is to pound Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #2: In her own words – not!

The name Cassie Edwards first graced this blog on January 7, 2008 shortly after she was outed as a serial plagiarist by the Smart Bitches, and for several months afterward she provided a source of unintentional hilarity both on this blog and across the whole blogosphere.  Here is an NY Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #3: Osama’s book reviewer

A running theme amoung the asshats I honor on my blog is the repeated attempts to stifle the speech of people the asshat doesn’t agree with.  Few have gone to such hysterical lengths to shut someone up as our favorite paranoid islamophobic Islamic Studies professor, Denise Spellberg.  First gracing this Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #4: Authors behaving badly

One prevalent characteristic of the most entertaining asshats is the tendency to have pathologically extreme reactions to perceived slights that end up being more destructive to the asshat in question than their intended target.  Not just foot in mouth, but foot, leg, and torso in an ever-diminishing spiral that vanishes Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #5: Blogging is harmful to Belgians

It takes a special kind of asshat to fly from Europe to Manhattan on your employer’s dime, to attend a phantom meeting, and spend the trip getting plastered.  Special indeed, if you get caught at it by a bartender who blogs about it, and it’s the blogger who gets fired Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #6: No Nobel for you!

Sometimes, all you need to be an asshat is a profound arrogance combined with the self-important conviction that you know better than anyone else.  Better still to piss on a whole country of authors while declaring the supremacy of your own local literati.  Best of all is to spout off Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #7: Child Porn Fail

Child porn is a very serious issue that gets very serious people to make very serious asshats of themselves.  In the #7 slot for 2008 I have to grant a tie for two very different flavors of stupidity over the very same issue.  In one spot we have New York Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago
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2008 Asshat Countdown #8: Wimmenz r stupid

One interpretation of the 2008 presidential election is that the US is way more sexist than racist. If the media coverage (and the result) doesn’t convince you of this, reflect on the fact that last March Charlotte Allen wrote a long rambling apologia for the idea that women are, well, Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 17 years ago

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