Author: Melissa Clouthier

The speech itself felt mechanical. There were some interesting quotes including: “I love America!” [Note: As an aside, I feel like if you have to say it, you call it into question.] “We will build the world as it should be.” “Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling”–and this is a paraphrase–and […]

Conversation with an acquaintance in anticipation of school starting: Acquaintance: I’m not happy about my son’s class placement. Well, the teacher is good, but the kid who rubbed his penis against another kid and then peed on his leg last year is in my kid’s class. Me: So ask to get your kid switched. Acquaintance: […]

So there’s all sorts of buzzing about Evan Bayh being Obama’s Veep choice. Here’s my deep analysis: the art on the bumper sticker falls waaaaaay below Obama’s slick media standards. NewsMediaJim via Twittter reports activity, including a prank pizza delivery, at Joe Biden’s place. Whatevuh. It’s just not pretty enough. It needs to be prettier. […]

Today, you guys are going to settle an argument for me. It is my position that men should say the powerful words “I love you” first. Men have a harder time saying those words than women do. More than that, a woman can feel that she loves a guy, but if the guy doesn’t feel […]

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case has been a mess from the beginning. And yes, the government raiding on flimsy evidence was troubling. With that being said, something rotten is going on with this polygamist group. The case is ongoing: The grand jury returned the indictments after meeting for more […]

Glenn Reynolds links to these alarming statistics brought to us by the Tax Prof: A key finding of the report is the partner status of full-time faculty: Academic Partner: 36% Employed, Non-academic Partner: 36% Single: 14% Stay-at-Home Partner: 13% Well, if the professors weren’t screwing students, they were screwing each other and then screwing the […]

College presidents want the drinking age lowered. From the Wall Street Journal’s Scott Hensley: But now more than 100 college presidents and chancellors have signed a statement calling for politicians to consider lowering the drinking age in the face of widespread flouting of the law and a wave of dangerous binge drinking on campuses around […]

My latest Pajama’s Media column is called Dear NBC Anchors: A Little Patriotism Wouldn’t Kill You….. Here’s and excerpt from the column, Being the typical American family — 2.1 kids, house in the burbs, yappy dog — the Olympic Games have been running in the background pretty much non-stop at our house. In the evening, […]

Forget the breakfast of Champions, Michael Phelps, by choosing to hawk Frosted Flakes, promotes the triumph of capitalism. Endorsements….they’re GRRRRRREAT! Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I’m happy for Phelps and hope he makes a gazillion dollars. But some people are clucking about Phelps’ choice: You better eat your . . . […]

I read this article and had to share it. The political incorrectness is delicious: The mayor of an Australian outback mining town has come under fire for urging unattractive women to move in, assuring them they will find a man because there is a shortage of women. John Moloney, mayor of Mount Isa in northwestern […]

How dare we judge a woman who has had 9 children by five men, who lives on welfare, takes the kids to some 3rd world country, leaves one 15 year old daughter in the care of an old guy and the daughter winds up dead? In an article about how bad it is to be […]

Note: For the record, I wrote this post before reading VanHelsing’s about Ellen and Portia’s “marriage”. It can be called a legal union, I suppose, but marriage is, by definition between a man and a woman. A union between three people, a person and a dog, a person and an inanimate object, etc. is not […]

When Jesse Jackson groused, supposedly off-mic, that “See, Barack’s been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based… I want to cut his f*cking balls off. Barack, he’s talking down to black people.” Well, yes, Barack Obama talks down to black people. Hells bells, he talks down to everyone. And now, Barack Obama talks […]

I’m sick of discrimination laws. Many companies make stupid, and smart, decisions hiring and firing. Lots of times, even when it’s legal, it’s not right. And lots of times, it’s more than right. In fact, there are many firings that don’t happen because of discrimination laws–especially, now with the Boomers creaking into retirement age. These […]

So the little Chinese chick was lip-syncing: A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched “Ode to the Motherland,” a ceremony official said _ the latest example of the lengths Beijing took for a perfect start to the Summer Games. A […]

Is it a miracle or does cool shit just sometimes happen? This child should be dead, but he isn’t: Lazar Ognjenovic, 2, had been submerged in Lake Michigan after a gust of wind blew the stroller he was sitting in into the lake on April 18 at Belmont Harbor. Ognjenovic’s grandfather tried to find him, […]

Rachel Lucas notes the latest housing crisis sob story and taps into my own frustration: I have yet to come across a single foreclosure story that inspired anything but scorn in my heart, and I’m a pretty empathetic person. It’s just that every single time, it turns out these people have screwed themselves by making […]

My latest column at Pajama’s Media is called Russia As Abusive Ex, Georgia As Battered Wife. Here’s an excerpt from the column, The trend of blaming the victim was there before Russia invaded Georgia; this current conflict was just the latest and most obvious example. Yes, it may seem absurd, but in the case of […]

A relative enrolled their child in a drowning prevention class. She is five months old and can float now and save herself. Go watch this video–as a parent, it is absolutely frightening to watch. I have mixed emotions. On the one hand, of course children should be taught to swim as young as possible. It’s […]

Today, Barack Obama received the enthusiastic endorsement of the Communist Party USA. Here is their hope: If Obama’s candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long […]

New research demonstrates the limitations of making sweeping health generalizations based on body mass: You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people — about half — have […]

Well, it only took a day or two. I’m surprised how long it took, actually. Fred Kaplan does an excellent job, though, of bringing the irrational rage and absolute venom of the Left towards President Bush to the fore: Regardless of what happens next, it is worth asking what the Bush people were thinking when […]

Excellent article by Seth Godin about what it takes to succeed on the internet and everywhere: The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead […]

Update: And once again, McQ beats me to the punch. Eh, well, this is an important story and my take is a bit different. For what it’s worth, I’m not quite sure that Russia plans to stop and let Georgia remain sovereign at all. As of this writing, they look to be pushing into central […]

Question: What do you think will actually happen in the election? Posted by RtWingNtCase Answer: The election will be nearly as close as 2000. McCain will win by a hair. Oh, and no matter who wins in 2008, Immigration Reform will be one of the first issues.

Question: This question is for Melissa: Inevitably, presidential electoral contests will always find someone raising the issue of the overall attractiveness of the presidential candidates. And I’m not talking about attractiveness only regarding ideology or policy, but the whole package: physical attributes, comportment, charisma, intellect, etc. A package that might find someone, even if not […]

Via Eric Odom, via Twitter, the Conservative Belle says this (and this is a big fat quote from her): There are five Republican senators who are cooperating with five Democrats to make McCain and Republicans look bad introduce an energy solution. Enter Lindsey Graham , John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson. Heroes […]

Here’s an email I received today. It was one line and summed up the Left quite nicely, so I thought I’d share: “It’s hillarious how terrified all you right wingnuts are of an intelligent, black man!” Yes, well, it’s hilarious how liberals can’t find their spell-checker, but I digress. Here is my response to this […]

Turns out, everyone is fat, myself included, or nearly everyone is fat, and will for sure be fat in forty years. Women and minorities are hardest hit. A scientist says so, and I believe scientists implicitly because scientists use the scientific method therefore making them scientific: The new projections, published in the journal Obesity, are […]

Random House killed the publication of a book about Mohammad’s wives: Random House feared the book would become a new “Satanic Verses,” the Salman Rushdie novel of 1988 that led to death threats, riots and the murder of the book’s Japanese translator, among other horrors. In an interview about Ms. Jones’s novel, Thomas Perry, deputy […]