If you are going to smear Ayn Rand, the Pauls, etc, at least be witty about it

Radley Balko has a FaceBook Note where he aggregates all the variously droolingly stupid and foamingly rabid headlines from articles at places like Stalon.com (a website President Putin funds as a vanity project for his American concubine Joan Walsh) or TrapNeuterRelease (a magazine on a lifeline from a Facebook billionaire for eunuchs and people with congenital deformities of the crotch who were misdiagnosed as gay).

(We’ve commented on a number of these before at IL ourselves.)

Since I think Radley’s ethics won’t actually allow him to shoot me, I am reproducing it here without even asking:

Portrait of an obsession: Every Alternet and/or Salon headline about libertarians from the last three years.

As Gene Healy put it, “Never before have so many been so intimidated by so few with so little political power.”

New articles up to July 2015

Libertarianism is for white men

What Rand Paul’s libertarian hypocrisy reveals about the GOP’s giant race problem

America’s libertarian freakshow: Inside the free-market fetish of Rand Paul & Ted Cruz

Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley

Big Data’s big libertarian lie: Facebook, Google and the Silicon Valley ethical overhaul we need

Elon Musk will not save us: Why libertarians waiting for a superman are wasting everyone’s time

Beware the Silicon Valley elite: Ayn Rand, Google libertarianism and Indiana’s “religious freedom”

I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns

Rand Paul’s civil rights fiasco: How Jon Stewart just unmasked him — and exposed libertarians’ perverted view of freedom

Rand Paul’s dystopian America: 6 things to know about the war-mongering, faux libertarian

5 Worst Things About the Techno-Libertarians Solidifying Their Grasp on Our Economy and Culture

Liberland: Hundreds of Thousands Apply to Live in the World’s Newest—Very Tiny—Libertarian ‘Country’

Rand Paul, Doofus: The Libertarian’s Embarrassing “Racial Outreach”

Will War Between the Religious Right and Libertarians Tear the Tea Party Apart?

My Personal Libertarian Hell: How I Enraged the Movement and Paid the Price

How Big Business Invented the Theology of ‘Christian Libertarianism’ and the Gospel of Free Markets

Welcome to ‘Libertarian Island’: Inside the Frightening Economic Dreams of Silicon Valley’s Super Rich

It’s Bizarre: Libertarians Are Clueless About the ‘Free Market’ That They Worship

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

New articles up to March 2015

Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion”

The atheist libertarian lie: Ayn Rand, income inequality and the fantasy of the “free market”

Nightmare libertarian project turns country into the murder capital of the world

21 Rand Paul quotes that expose libertarianism for the con job it is

Ann Coulter: Libertarian voters are “idiots” who deserve to “drown”

My unusual libertarian journey: How a former outlaw broke the political mold

Libertarian Sham: Using the L Word to Hide Even Worse Politics

Ayn Rand’s capitalist paradise lost: The inside story of a libertarian scam

The sharing economy is a lie: Uber, Ayn Rand and the truth about tech and libertarians

Rand Paul’s libertarian hoax: Why his latest strategy is a sham

“That’s something that should make libertarians nervous”: Inside the tumultuous rise of an American ideology

You’re Not the Boss of Me! Why Libertarianism Is a Childish Sham

Big Economic Theory Underpinning Libertarian Economics Is Total Baloney

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

Koch-Tied Group Tries to Trick Stoners Into Voting for Wisconsin Libertarian

Rand Paul’s Quest to Woo Young People — What Does It Mean for Libertarianism?

Koch Brothers: Teach Our Libertarian Claptrap and Get Millions for Your College!

What Happened When Some Libertarians Went Off to Build Ayn Rand’s Vision of Paradise

New articles up to September 2014

Confessions of a recovering Libertarian: How I escaped a world of Ron Paul hero worship

Rand Paul gets schooled: Libertarian fantasies don’t help kids learn — teachers do

Ferguson brings the libertarians: Why a new coalition has everyone confused

Libertarians’ true identity revealed: Rich conservatives OK with gay people, basically

The GOP’s libertarian time bomb: Why “going Rand” would be an electoral disaster

The 7 strangest libertarian ideas

The atheist libertarian lie: Ayn Rand, income inequality and the fantasy of the “free market”

Ann Coulter: Libertarian voters are “idiots” who deserve to “drown”

Ron Paul’s no Nirvana, and this isn’t the “Libertarian Moment”

Proof the GOP’s newfound “libertarianism” is a big ol’ sham

Stephen Colbert skewers libertarian scheme: “I’m tired of the whole idea of a melting pot in America”

The GOP’s new holy land: How libertarianism is changing the face of the Republican Party

Rand Paul, Giant Libertarian Fraud

Koch Brothers: Teach Our Libertarian Claptrap and Get Millions for Your College!

How Hanging Out With Libertarians Made Me Stop Being a Libertarian

You Don’t Know What ‘Libertarian’ Means

Some Self-Described Libertarians Can’t Distinguish Libertarian from Communist or Unitarian

What Happened When Some Libertarians Went Off to Build Ayn Rand’s Vision of Paradise

NYT Sunday Magazine Falls Hook, Line and Sinker For Libertarians’ Big Propaganda Lie

Why Are Koch Brothers Trying to Masquerade as Libertarians?

Ugly Right-Wing Underbelly of the Libertarian Cause on Display at Silicon Valley Conference

7 Libertarian Upstarts Who Might Help Democrats Keep Their U.S. Senate Majority: These beer-swilling, racist, movie junkie, misogynist and plain-jane Libertarians might just help Dems keep the Senate.

Libertarians’ Sneaky New Crusade

What would the Founding Fathers have thought about our libertarian crazies?

Death of a Libertarian Fantasy: Why Dreams of a Digital Utopia Are Rapidly Fading Away

How the Libertarian Agenda Drowns Out Rational Approaches to Major Social Problems Like Guns and Auto Accidents

How Libertarianism Would Actually Curtail Human Freedom

Disgraced coal baron rebrands himself as libertarian activist

Libertarians’ anti-government crusade: Now there’s an app for that

Why I left libertarianism: An ethical critique of a limited ideology

The question libertarians just can’t answer

Grow up, Libertarians!

New articles up to May 2014

Google shows libertarians the money

Cliven Bundy’s next sick libertarian paradise: Georgia wants you to die from gun violence

Libertarians’ scary new star: Meet Bryan Caplan, the right’s next “great” philosopher

Fresh Silicon Valley libertarian idiocy: Government is “slavery”

The libertarian dream crypto-currency is here — but its fate remains uncertain

Piketty shrugged: How the French economist dashed libertarians’ Ayn Randian fantasies

Astra Taylor’s radical Internet critique: “I don’t want to give in to the libertarian logic of our time”

Ralph Nader Wants You to Join Right-Wing Libertarians to Solve America’s Problems: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

New articles up to April 2014

Don’t Leave Bitcoin to the Libertarians! Why the Progressive Movement Needs Open Source Money

Young, rich and politically ignorant: Sean Parker and the next generation of libertarian billionaires

Cause for trepidation: Libertarians’ newfound concern for prison reform

10 reasons Americans should be wary of Rand Paul’s libertarianism — especially millennials

Libertarians’ delusional “New Atlantis” fantasy: Floating ocean city-states

CEO of Reddit: “The userbase for bitcoin is basically crazy libertarians”

Game over: How libertarians lost the battle for Bitcoin’s soul

Why We Should Be Suspicious of the Libertarian Right’s Newfound Concern for Prison Reform

3 inconvenient facts that make libertarians’ heads explode

Libertarians’ ethical gap: Why their alliance with Christians is based on contempt

Sorry, libertarians: The IRS is going to levy taxes on your bit coins

Articles from 2012 to February 2014
Letter to an Angry Libertarian

The Libertarian Billionaire Agenda Propelling the Tea Party Monster That Has Shut Down Congress

What America Would Look Like If Libertarians Got Their Way

Why Atheist Libertarians Are Part of America’s 1 Percent Problem

Libertarian Writings that Read Like Comic Books

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

Latest Major Chemical Spill Exposes Flaws of Libertarian Approach to Govt.

Why Libertarians Are Basically Cult Members

The Terrifying Future Envisioned By Libertarians

Meet Former GOP Public Relations Flak Radley Balko, Now a Libertarian Crusader Against Police Militarization

How a Libertarian Used Ayn Rand’s Crazy Philosophy to Drive Sears Into the Ground

The Libertarian Con: Favorite ‘Rebel’ Ideology of the Ruling Class

Libertarian Developer’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is Detroit’s Latest Nightmare

How an Ayn Rand-Loving Libertarian Destroyed The Company He Runs With His Cultish Objectivist Theories

Exposed: How a Lot of the Libertarian Outrage Over Govt. Spying Is Just Shilling for the Private Surveillance Biz

Don’t Be Fooled by Pot-Loving Libertarian Gary Johnson — He Works for the 1%

Libertarian Activist Openly Loads Shotgun and Calls for Revolution in D.C.

Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?

The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

A Rand Paul Presidential Campaign Would Teach Americans Just How Vicious and Anti-Social the Libertarian Agenda Is

The Ultimate Escape: The Bizarre Libertarian Plan of Uploading Brains into Robots to Escape Society

Jon Stewart Eviscerates Free-Market Libertarianism in Bit on Illegal Foreclosure

Libertarian Suggests Children Should be Trained to Tackle Shooters

Exposed: How a Lot of the Libertarian Outrage Over Govt. Spying Is Just Shilling for the Private Surveillance Biz

Ayn Randroids and Libertarians Join Forces: Will Her Noxious Philosophy Further Infect America?

Libertarians in 2013: The Even Whiter, Wealthier, WASPier Bastion of Republican Party

Politically Isolated Libertarians Go Literal, Consolidating Plans For Man-Made Libertarian Islands

Why Libertarians Play the Clowns in the Circus Show Called the Republican Party

Libertines v. Libertarians: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Rejection of Sexual Restraints

The secret libertarianism of Uber & Airbnb

Great Disawakening: A Burgeoning Libertarian Contagion?

When libertarianism fails

Libertarians with money, scarier than a black man with a gun

Christie slams ‘libertarian’ trend on security

Libertarianism’s Amorality

Colonial Americans Were Not Libertarians!

Why Libertarianism Loses Me (Hint: Because I Love Steak)

Bringing back feudalism-Is libertarianism an unwitting tool?

The question libertarians just can’t answer

Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal

Confessions of a former Libertarian: My personal, psychological and intellectual epiphany

5 libertarian oligarchs who made fortunes off the government they want to destroy

GOP’s epic internal struggle: The modernists vs. libertarian fabulists

“The Daily Show” destroys Fox News libertarian Andrew Napolitano for blaming the Civil War on Abraham Lincoln

Edward Snowden: A libertarian hero

Don’t ally with libertarians: Ideologues co-opt an anti-NSA rally

11 questions to see if libertarians are hypocrites

A Bitcoin libertarian disaster: The Silk Road gets busted

5 bogus libertarian talking points

Libertarians are very confused about capitalism

A libertarian nightmare: Bitcoin meets Big Government

Libertarians: Still a cult

The screwed generation: Libertarian, not liberal

Grow up, Libertarians!

“The Walking Dead”: Anti-libertarian critique

A libertarian man’s surprising proposal: Gender quotas!

“Libertarian populism” = Ayn Rand in disguise

Sorry, libertarians: You’re still hypocrites

How to beat libertarians on the economy

Antonin Scalia, civil libertarian?

Judge behind Verizon order tied to free trip from libertarian think tank

Here’s what’s wrong with Ayn Rand, libertarians

Libertarians are even whiter and wealthier than the GOP

The libertarian/marijuana conspiracy to swing the election

Libertarians name North Dakota “most free” state

Is Werner Herzog a libertarian?

“The Libertarian Case for Mitt Romney” is hilarious

Rand Paul tries to sell social conservatives on libertarianism

Thom Hartmann: Libertarians are pushing us over a cliff

Liberals should unite with Libertarians (sometimes)

Libertarians who don’t understand liberty

Ann Coulter gets booed by a roomful of libertarians

Libertarians fear Obamacare so much they closed the government

How Libertarian-Style Capitalism Killed My Father and My Best Friends

Does Joan Walsh have the hots for Nick Gillespie?

Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion”

S(t)alon, the leftover website edited by Joan Walsh, a frequent MSNBC contributor, pretty much has a daily piece chock full of howlers attacking libertarians.

For months my hypothesis has been this was just whoring, socialist street walkers after capitalist cash, as the articles usually target particular libertarian divas with a big fan base: Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Rand Paul.  Essentially this clickbait is a form of pay per view porn, where proglodytes can join  David Sirocco or some other nerdy pajama boy, minimally cooler than they are, in a gang rape of that uppity bitch’s (Ayn Rand’s) bones.

But the tone of recent articles, like the one above calling libertarians juvenile, suggest a new diagnosis.  It’s projection.  These nerdy leftovers are infatuated with libertarians, like a smelly, borderline autistic kid making prank calls or stalking a beautiful and popular student who doesn’t even know they exist.

In her recent appearances it looks like Joan Walsh has had her famously rodent-like dentition ground down, a new hair cut, and maybe a little freshening around the eyes.  If she can’t land Nick for some extramarital hanky panky, perhaps she’s aiming to get a show as MSNBC cleans the Ronan and the Sharpton out of its stables.  The old mare may ride yet!

Camille Paglia returns to Stalon, comments on Hillary and Weiner

Camille Paglia, long the lone bright light (along with Greenwald) at Obama hack Joan Walsh’s (who claimed Andrew Breitbart had faked the selfie pics of Weiner’s junk) website Stalon, left it a few years ago to write a book.  This week the libertarianish lesbian Democrat returns for an interview, selections below:

WEDNESDAY, AUG 21, 2013 at Stalon.com

Camille Paglia: “It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton is our party’s best chance”

In Salon interview, the provocateur holds forth on Rihanna and gay porn, plus Hillary, Anthony Weiner and Benghazi

BY TRACY CLARK-FLORY

Camille Paglia (Credit: Michael Lionstar)

I can vividly remember the first time I read Camille Paglia. I was visiting New York with my mom during college and we happened across “Vamps and Tramps” at a bookstore near our hotel. Lying in neighboring twin beds, I read passages out loud to her. Explosive things like, “Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.” I didn’t always agree with Paglia, but I enjoyed her as a challenging provocateur.

I still have that copy of the book. There are asterisks in the margins, double-underlined sentences and circled paragraphs. Reading it was a satisfying rebellion against the line-toeing women’s studies classes I was taking at the time — and at a college with an infamously anti-porn professor, no less. Since then, I have moments of genuine outrage and fury over Paglia’s writing and public commentary (see: this, this and this, for examples of why) — but she is still compelling and occasionally brilliant. The truth is that many people still want to hear what she has to say — about everything from BDSMto Lady Gaga.

The paperback release last week of her book “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars” — which Salon interviewed her about last year, and which is an example of Paglia at her intellectual best and an antidote to her birther moments — is a great excuse to check back in with the so-called bete noire of feminism. I spoke with Paglia by email about contemporary feminism, Anthony Weiner and the “end of men.”

Two words: Anthony Weiner. Your thoughts?
Two words: pathetic dork. How sickeningly debased our politics have become that this jabbering cartoon weasel could be taken seriously for a second as a candidate for mayor of New York. But beyond that, I have been amazed by the almost total absence of psychological critique in news analyses of the silly Weiner saga. For heaven’s sake, Weiner is no randy stud with a sophisticated sex life that we need to respect. The compulsion to exhibit and boast about one’s penis is embarrassingly infantile — the obvious residue of some squalid family psychodrama in childhood that is now being replayed in public.

I assumed at first that Huma Abedin stayed married to Weiner out of noble concern for her unborn child, who deserved a father. But her subsequent behavior as Weiner’s defender and enabler has made me lose respect for her. The Weiners should be permanently bundled off to the luxe Elba of Oscar de la Renta’s villa in the Dominican Republic. I’m sure that Hillary (Huma’s capo) can arrange that.

Any hopes, fears or predictions for the presidential elections in 2016?
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. It’s time to put my baby-boom generation out to pasture! We’ve had our day and managed to muck up a hell of a lot. It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.

I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It’s even a key motif in “King Lear.” As far as I’m concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?” Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win.

What do you make of contemporary feminism, especially as it’s manifested online?
Oh, feminism is still alive? Thanks for the tip! It sure is invisible, except for the random whine from some maleducated product of the elite schools who’s found a plush berth in glossy magazines. It’s hard to remember those bad old days when paleofeminist pashas ruled the roost. In the late ‘80s, the media would routinely turn to Gloria Steinem or the head of NOW for “the women’s view” on every issue — when of course it was just the Manhattan/D.C. insider’s take, with a Democratic activist spin. Their shameless partisanship eventually doomed those Stalinist feminists, who were trampled by the pro-sex feminist stampede of the early ‘90s (in which I am proud to have played a vocal role). That insurgency began in San Francisco in the mid-‘80s and went national throughout the following decade. They keep dusting Steinem off and trotting her out to pin awards on her, but she’s the walking dead. Her anointed heirs (like Susan Faludi) sure didn’t pan out, did they?

While it’s a big relief not to have feminist bullies sermonizing from every news show anymore, the leadership vacuum is alarming. It’s very distressing, for example, that the atrocities against women in India — the shocking series of gang rapes, which seem never to end — have not been aggressively condemned in a sustained way by feminist organizations in the U.S. I wanted to hear someone going crazy about it in the media and not letting up, day after day, week after week. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

What do you think about arguments that we are witnessing “the end of men” or a crisis in masculinity?
If this phenomenon exists, it primarily applies in my view to white upper-middle-class culture, a product of the service-sector economy that has gradually displaced manufacturing since World War II. Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men,” a best-seller last year, is the focus of a Munk Debate that I will be part of at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Nov. 15. The proposition is: “Be it resolved that men are obsolete.” Arguing for the motion will be Rosin and Maureen Dowd. Arguing against the motion will be me and Caitlin Moran. It should be a fascinating and substantive discussion. Lineups of opposing views like this have been rare indeed in feminism, which has preferred to ostracize and exile dissident voices.

Two words: Anthony Weiner. Your thoughts?
Two words: pathetic dork. How sickeningly debased our politics have become that this jabbering cartoon weasel could be taken seriously for a second as a candidate for mayor of New York. But beyond that, I have been amazed by the almost total absence of psychological critique in news analyses of the silly Weiner saga. For heaven’s sake, Weiner is no randy stud with a sophisticated sex life that we need to respect. The compulsion to exhibit and boast about one’s penis is embarrassingly infantile — the obvious residue of some squalid family psychodrama in childhood that is now being replayed in public.

I assumed at first that Huma Abedin stayed married to Weiner out of noble concern for her unborn child, who deserved a father. But her subsequent behavior as Weiner’s defender and enabler has made me lose respect for her. The Weiners should be permanently bundled off to the luxe Elba of Oscar de la Renta’s villa in the Dominican Republic. I’m sure that Hillary (Huma’s capo) can arrange that.

Any hopes, fears or predictions for the presidential elections in 2016?
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. It’s time to put my baby-boom generation out to pasture! We’ve had our day and managed to muck up a hell of a lot. It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.

I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It’s even a key motif in “King Lear.” As far as I’m concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?” Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win.

What do you make of contemporary feminism, especially as it’s manifested online?
Oh, feminism is still alive? Thanks for the tip! It sure is invisible, except for the random whine from some maleducated product of the elite schools who’s found a plush berth in glossy magazines. It’s hard to remember those bad old days when paleofeminist pashas ruled the roost. In the late ‘80s, the media would routinely turn to Gloria Steinem or the head of NOW for “the women’s view” on every issue — when of course it was just the Manhattan/D.C. insider’s take, with a Democratic activist spin. Their shameless partisanship eventually doomed those Stalinist feminists, who were trampled by the pro-sex feminist stampede of the early ‘90s (in which I am proud to have played a vocal role). That insurgency began in San Francisco in the mid-‘80s and went national throughout the following decade. They keep dusting Steinem off and trotting her out to pin awards on her, but she’s the walking dead. Her anointed heirs (like Susan Faludi) sure didn’t pan out, did they?

While it’s a big relief not to have feminist bullies sermonizing from every news show anymore, the leadership vacuum is alarming. It’s very distressing, for example, that the atrocities against women in India — the shocking series of gang rapes, which seem never to end — have not been aggressively condemned in a sustained way by feminist organizations in the U.S. I wanted to hear someone going crazy about it in the media and not letting up, day after day, week after week. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

What do you think about arguments that we are witnessing “the end of men” or a crisis in masculinity?
If this phenomenon exists, it primarily applies in my view to white upper-middle-class culture, a product of the service-sector economy that has gradually displaced manufacturing since World War II. Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men,” a best-seller last year, is the focus of a Munk Debate that I will be part of at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Nov. 15. The proposition is: “Be it resolved that men are obsolete.” Arguing for the motion will be Rosin and Maureen Dowd. Arguing against the motion will be me and Caitlin Moran. It should be a fascinating and substantive discussion. Lineups of opposing views like this have been rare indeed in feminism, which has preferred to ostracize and exile dissident voices.

“Libertarian populism” drives Ruling class felchers at Stalon into a tizzy

“Libertarian populism” = Ayn Rand in disguise

Michael Lind, a middlebrow flak in the leftover brothel, attacks libertarian populism at Stalon, without explaining how his Obama cronyism is populist.

But then, these are the people who are led by flak Joan Walsh, who argued until late in 2012 that the Anthony Weiner weener selfies were the work of hackers at Breitbart.com.