When the Romney supporters start chanting "Romney," the Brownback supporters start chanting "flip-flop." Its a charming display of intra-party discourse in action.
So, straight from the lion's den, here are some pictures. (If a Lion's den was a hilariously inconsistent place that handed out pamphlets and used candy as a lure for attention, that is.)
Lonely lonely Tom DeLay. His PAC, despite an unbearably crowded room around it, did not even get a single visitor. It might be that he's disgraced his movement, or that they didn't bring candy
Ideological Consistency: The American Protectionist and The Libertarian Party side by side
AsianWeek Magazine got in trouble this week for publishing Kenneth Eng's article entitled -- and i'm not making this up -- "Why I Hate Black People." I guess he was trying to be funny, if Eng's version of a joke is a totally serious racist tract. Some highlights:
"Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years. It’s unbelievable that it took them that long to fight back."
He has another "article" -- or at least another series of bullet points -- at AsianWeek, here. Eng is obviously off-kilter, but the real question is: Why did his editors think this was ok to print? If Eng was funny or provacative, I wouldn't really mind the racism -- Dave Chappelle, for instance, plays off our stereotypes to make us reexamine our ideas about race relations while we laugh. But racism simply for racism's sake is never funny, and its never ok to print.
Similarly, bad writing shouldn't be ok to print. Eng is, apparently, also a fledgling science fiction writer -- his book Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate is about dragons...fighting technodragons (?)...fighting all that is good in the literary world. The dragons are also objectivist (surprise, surprise) and really nerdy. My favorite part:
...His green eyes were fixated on a book in his emerald-scaled talons, deepy engrossed in the physical and scientific laws it dictated upon its pages. He was aware that his actions were an explicit violation of the collective code...
"Interesting," muttered Dennagon to himself. "The force of gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared on this planet, but not in space. I wonder if 'space' actually exists."
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