right-wing identity politics
It pisses me off that people I attack without cause think I'm a jerk. If my former professor didn't want to be associated with what I'm writing now, he never.
If you're Jeff Goldstein, you declare yourself to be way cooler than everyone else; if you're Darleen Click, you draw a cartoon in which the President rapes a woman, then.
Shorter Shelby Steele: Because she is a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor is ipso facto unqualified to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Her extremely impressive formal qualifications are beside the point;.
There's a great little exchange at the beginning of the Godfather II, when the corrupt senator is trying to shake down Michael Corleone. The senator makes a point of pronouncing.
As I've noted elsewhere, right-wing media hacks sound more and more like old guys in bars using tired pickup lines, and nobody sounds more torn and frayed than America's leading.
I think this gets most of the obligatory points:A statement, or paragraph, about "hook-up culture," preferably with no statistics to back it up, but if you must, you must. General.