The civilized art of institutionalized Jew-hating, as practiced in Norway and Sweden:

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9924/scandinavia-antisemitism

It's what progs do when they have enough power, and no opposition.

Yeah, sure... Tell me about your "studies...."

Kurt Cobain, born 50 years ago Feb. 20, 1967

Good gosh, I miss the 90s.

Suck it, Congress.

If Congress sees DISC–Roth IRA transactions of this sort as unwise or as creating an improper loophole, it should fix the problem. Until then, the DISC will continue to provide tax savings to the owners of U.S. export companies, just as Congress intended—even if subsequent changes to the Code have increased the scale of the savings beyond Congress’s original estimation. The last thing the federal courts should be doing is rewarding Congress’s creation of an intricate and complicated Internal Revenue Code by closing gaps in taxation whenever that complexity creates them.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/02/sixth-circuit-reverses-irs-tax-courtcitizens-cant-comply-with-tax-laws-they-cant-see.html

Trump is destroying America's snack treats!

omigod omigod omigod

Josh on Milo

Milo in damage control mode, here's his statement on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851263248344905

Hi Lenona.

@Crid,

something something Saul Alinsky:

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

It's at least possible that the guy's simply a dorkasaures.

Good FP on McMaster.

Great FP by Kagan. I've always found him tragically convincing.

Thanks, Crid.

And I WILL admit that M.Y. is right (I think, anyway) to say that it's still not pedophilia when the victim is over 13. What he's vague on is whether it should always be illegal when the teen is under 16 and the other party is an adult. Well, one has to draw the line somewhere. You can't blame anyone for running like mad from him.

As I said, he's likely to become an embarrassment to anyone who associates with him for long. I'm not sure whether that will include Bill Maher or not. I don't know whether he cares more, these days, about ratings or about intelligent debates.

As that other guy said, how long can he stay interesting with Trump in the White House?

Milo is my hero.

Yeah, I never had any attachment to his shtick... He obviously was going to knock people's sensitivities with jokes about loving black men, but he wasn't going to back up his jolting impact with thoughtful rhetoric and cites the way Coulter does. My first awareness of him came last year when he did a couple of appearances with the mighty CF Sommers, and it felt like he was too far beneath her on the realm of popular rhetoric to deserve being on stage with her.

What we got here is a child, and it speaks well of our culture that he's being shown the door, whatever private hurts he might now offer as an explanation for his obnoxiousness. As you've noted, Trump is going to continue pushing those same (childish) buttons, and it's not like a school of thought has been inappropriately expelled from public life.

Nor is it like he's been expensively expelled from public life. Given the continuing collapse of conservative Republican infrastructure in all contexts, the humiliation of CPAC is an incidental cost: To Hell with those people.

But what I was hoping you'd see was that no one had to tell S&S that they were making a mistake. They dropped him for their own reasons and in pursuit of their own interests when the time came.

Our own personal tastes, no matter how finely honed, can never be the reason to tell people what they can publish or say: We can only tell them what we personally will pay for or listen to.

"We can only tell them what we personally will pay for or listen to."

Yup.

And here's Dan Savage re M.Y.'s appearance with Bill Maher:

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/02/20/24881934/milo-yiannopoulos-girls-are-in-danger-when-adult-trans-women-use-public-toilets-but-13-year-old-boys-can-benefit-from-giving-head-to-adult-ma

The 55 comments are very thoughtful too. As one pointed out, if M.Y. believes being gay is a choice and he WANTS to be straight, why doesn't he just choose that?!

From Savage:

"Right-wing a------- keep hammering away about the threat posed by trans people using public toilets. In reality, trans men and women are at higher risk of violent attack, hate crimes, and murder than any other group; trans women of color are at highest risk. (Three trans women of color have been murdered already this year.) And while it's true that cis and trans women are sometimes attacked in public toilets, these attacks are perpetrated by cis men, not trans women."

And they know that, how? Where is the data?

Language cues which summon grave doubt from my heart:

• "In reality, xxxxxx"

• "Cis" anything.

I have a couple of trans friends nowadays. Really sweet people, salt of the Earth... But whatever the scope of their interior dislocations and exterior challenges, they are dwarfed by the hundreds or thousands of people I've known whose lives have been nearly wrecked by alcohol abuse or other evils identified but unconquered. (And I'd feel zero surprise if the first group were a subset of the second.) To imagine that transsexuals are the next great human sector to be liberated is not morally proportionate.

See also.

If you're a twitteroid, you should definitely have Josh Barro in your feed, for both the entertainment and for his clarity.

and it speaks well of our culture that he's being shown the door, whatever private hurts he might now offer as an explanation for his obnoxiousness.

Given he is being show the door via being accused of supporting pedophilia, as opposed to people using reason to reject his arguments it does not speak well of our culture at all

Especially given the people condemning him love Lena Dunham, give Roman Polanski standing ovations, and think this new pope is such a swell guy.

You know, people with a proven record of molesting children and protecting pedophiles

But what I was hoping you'd see was that no one had to tell S&S that they were making a mistake. They dropped him for their own reasons and in pursuit of their own interests when the time came.
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And how do you know that "pursuit" wasn't merely the last straw? Novelist Roxane Gay, for one, pulled her upcoming book from S&S in protest - and she sells well. However, more and more conservatives are admitting that the reason to pull away from M.Y. isn't that he offends liberals; he's simply an intellectual lightweight who pretends not to be and only cares about attention to himself, not any issues. As columnist Frank Bruni wrote today, he could almost be Trump's clone.
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And they know that, how? Where is the data?
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How about, for starters, the lack of any evidence that trans women are attacking anyone in bathrooms?

More from Savage:

"There’s nothing the rightwing loves more than a black person willing to say black people are the real racists or a queer person willing to say queer people are the real threat. If you're queer or a person of color and you're telegenic and articulate and willing to sell the rancid cum rag that passes for your soul, you'll never have to do an honest day's work again in your life. (An actual conservative details how this scam works, why it works, and what it buys the GOP in this tweet storm.)"

Here's the tweet storm:

https://twitter.com/NW_Horadam/status/833101275311009793

By Nathaniel Horadam. Quotes:

"I'll be honest, if Milo had spoken at CPAC 6-7 years ago, I think I and a lot of other conservative critics probably would have cheered it."

"Bc rather than concede we have a race problem on the Right, we dug around for the loudest opportunists who would tell us the contrary."

"Because they're willing to go on the offensive, attack the Left as bigoted, and make your racist uncle think he doesn't have a problem."

"The same goes for Milo and the gay community. We gave him a platform because we could cheer him & say we don't have a homophobia problem."

Lenona, snap out of it——

> And how do you know that
> "pursuit" wasn't merely
> the last straw?

You question suggests you don't get the point, and extends my interrogation of your tone:

Why would I want to know that? Why should I care what "straw" was in play for Simon & Schuster? They can publish books [A.] because they like them, [B.] because they expect to make money, [C.] because their dear old grandmothers or their slick-talking golfing buddies asked them to, or [D.] because of ten thousand other reasons that are none of my business. If they're not spending public money to do so, we call this "private enterprise." Private. Their motives are their own beeswax.

You can't seem to find the courage —or the clarity— to tell us exactly which 'straw' demands our (presumably governmental) interdiction. I'm glad that you've been sufficiently intimidated. Or shamed.

You don't wanna buy their books? Don't. You so mad you don't wanna offer them your own manuscripts, or buy anything else they publish? That's ducky.

But you seem to have something more in mind, and I'm not sure it's forgivable.

> How about, for starters, the
> lack of any evidence that
> trans women are attacking
> anyone in bathrooms?

Who said "attacks" are the standard at work here? "Evidence" is the term of an individual legal proceeding. Would it not be enough that woman might simply be uncomfortable?

What standard do you imagine to be presently in play? Apparently it's not gender... So if, every time you crossed the threshold into the restroom at Target, you were surrounded by a half-dozen burly and raucous teenage boys, would you resolve to simply go about your task(s)?

I'd bet you wouldn't be pleased at all.

Nor could you describe a proper psychological interrogation for the interior consciousness of your workaday public restroom cohort which could settle the matter... For you, or for the larger Red- and Blue-voting public.

Especially, especially, especially if that inquiry were to be made by the federal government.