I don’t care who the hell you think you are, you don’t mess with Manuel.

Assholes.

Jamie posted this at 10:25 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 as Pop Culture Is Filth

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It’s election season, so the leftwing blogosphere is demonstrating its class by smearing John McCain’s chief of staff.  From the Puffington Host (No link to this garbage) (H/T):

Mark Buse is not just a Chief of Staff for a homophobic United States Senator, but he is helping that Senator get elected to the White House.

Does Mark Buse fit the Barney Frank rule? Without a doubt. While McCain voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, he supports amending state constitutions defining marriage as between a man and a woman. McCain knows our country needs everyone who wants to serve in the military and he knows that DADT is wrong, yet he swings to the right on repealing it.

Worst of all, and a demonstration of his inability to act rationally and with the country’s best interests at heart, he picked someone who, if she becomes president (very likely), will be the most homophobic in American history.

With that in mind, and after confirming the information with two other sources, I decided it was time to present Buse the Roy Cohn Award for working against the interests of the lesbian and gay community while living as a gay man.

After dropping in some more smears, the Puffington Host says this about its source for the rumors:

My source, who did not know if Buse and his partner had an open relationship had a brief sexual encounter with Buse alone. The source, due to work considerations must remain anonymous.

A profile in courage, if ever there was one.  The source should be named for this to be believable—and also so everyone knows that he makes Judas Iscariot look like St. Thomas More.

Hubbard posted this at 8:48 AM EDT on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 as Pop Culture Is Filth, Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

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I’m normally not a fan of Gospel music, but this one (NSFW) (H/T) had me in stitches. 

Hubbard posted this at 4:50 PM EDT on Monday, August 18th, 2008 as Humor, Faith, Pop Culture Is Filth

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“Abstinence” means no masturbation? Admittedly, telling your friends that you can’t go out tonight because you’d rather sit around pleasuring yourself is several degrees of weird. But if the conservative answer to teen promiscuity is to gripe that too many teenage girls have taken up the banjo, we lose.

Apollo posted this at 9:39 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 as Kulturkampf, Pop Culture Is Filth

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It appears that being a narcissist psycopath who likes Machiavelli has an advantage in fathering children:

Two studies suggest that men who are narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian tend to have large numbers of sexual conquests.

The traits are said to be epitomised in Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent with a licence to kill, 007.

Scientists believe the reproductive success of “dark triad” men explains why the traits persist in the human population, despite the harm they can cause.

Narcissists are self obsessed and manipulative, psychopaths are impulsive, thrill-seeking and callous, and people with a Machiavellian nature are deceitful and exploitative. There is evidence that the traits have an up-side - they lead to men having a prolific sex life and fathering more offspring. As a result, they have not been “weeded out” by natural selection.

A team of US scientists led by Dr Peter Jonason, from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, conducted personality tests on 200 college students designed to rank them for each of the “dark triad” traits.

The students were also questioned about their attitudes to sexual relationships and their sex lives. They were asked how many partners they had had, and whether they were seeking brief affairs.

Those who scored higher on the “dark triad” personality traits tended to have more partners and more desire for short flings. But this pattern only held true for males — no link between promiscuity and the traits was seen in female students.

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Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go re-read The Prince, preferably in front of a mirror.

Hubbard posted this at 5:24 PM EDT on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 as Pop Culture Is Filth, Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

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Though I don’t normally like what Kathryn Lopez writes, she taps into much of what I’ve thought of Sex and the City. A while back, Dorothy and I watched the whole series in a couple of months, and, largely, enjoyed it. The show was enjoyable because it was able to present a true representation of human nature, which is a rarity.

Though we came away from the whole experience thinking that the lesson of the show is that these women were only happy when they had the traditional things in life: home and a stable love. Their pretensions of reveling in their singleness were the results of them becoming accustomed to being miserable. Yet everyone commenting on the show or movie says that the story is about how much fun these girls have together. I guess they have some fun together, but aren’t they always trying to change their situations and get men? Isn’t it true that the only times they are truly happy for any period of time is when they’re in something approximating a traditional relationship? There are times when they realize that their circle of friends is rapidly becoming a circle of middle-aged spinsters, and this is when they are at their most distressed. The episode where Miranda decided to not have an abortion was painful to the degree it tried to emphasize that it was her RIGHT [dammit!], but everyone was much happier with her having the baby instead.

Or perhaps I watched a different show than everyone else. Which may be true, since I find myself in agreement with the normally cranky Lopez.

Apollo posted this at 12:08 AM EDT on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 as Pop Culture Is Filth

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