A Little Catch-Up

A few quotes that have stuck with me over the past couple of days, so I thought I'd lay them out for your amusement.

I try not to be mean about people's personal appearance, but this kicked my irony meter into the red zone. Maggie Gallagher:

Our bodies matter. They are part of who we are.

Read the post -- Gallagher is in rare form. The quotes from the interview are close to word salad.

This one is priceless -- from a bunch of interns for Concerned Women for America, via Ed Brayton:

As young, unmarried women, we feel the meaning of our future vows have already been diminished. As Christians, we believe that marriage is a union between a husband and wife that displays the love God has for His church. However, when this union is recognized as something different than God’s holy plan for marriage, the meaning of those sacred vows are no longer there.

Ed takes it apart. My first response is: Doesn't this strike you as shallow, self-centered and immature? My advice to these young ladies is "Resign your internships, get as far away as you can from this organization, and any organization like it, get out and meet some people who are not like you, and grow up." And quite frankly, if my marriage diminishes your sacred vows, the fault is not in me.

Via Digby, from the WSJ Editorial Board:

Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile's Augusto Pinochet, who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.

Unfortunately, the link is busted, so I can't send you to the whole thing. I'm sure it's an exercise in WTF?

From David Atkins at Hullabaloo, scratch a Republican and you get a -- well, this speaks for itself.

Islamists might be determined enough to run effective opposition movements and committed enough to provide street-level social services. But they lack the mental equipment to govern.

Is it any surprise that it's David Brooks? Dennis G. at Balloon Juice also has some choice comments on this.

Just in case you think Brooks is a special case, how about this from Phyllis Schlafly?

Speaking with a Bakersfield, California, talk radio host last week, Schlafly further explained this view, claiming that Latinos don’t “have any Republican inclinations at all” because “they’re running an illegitimacy rate that’s just about the same as the blacks are.”

She added that Latinos “come from a country where they have no experience with limited government. And the types of rights we have in the Bill of Rights, they don’t understand that at all, you can’t even talk to them about what the Republican principle is.”

OK -- that about did me in for today.