We have a new law, something that should warm the cockles of every Statist’s heart. Oh, and deary me, it protects the children. Oh then why would I be against such a law? I must hate the children. . . I suggest you read this. (linked from here.) From the Read more…
No contest here. It is one thing to say something so idiotic that it tears a hole in the fabric of the universe, or to be so oblivious to your own failings that you apparently inhabit your own Bizzaro World where the most logical form of defense is to pound Read more…
The name Cassie Edwards first graced this blog on January 7, 2008 shortly after she was outed as a serial plagiarist by the Smart Bitches, and for several months afterward she provided a source of unintentional hilarity both on this blog and across the whole blogosphere. Here is an NY Read more…
A running theme amoung the asshats I honor on my blog is the repeated attempts to stifle the speech of people the asshat doesn’t agree with. Few have gone to such hysterical lengths to shut someone up as our favorite paranoid islamophobic Islamic Studies professor, Denise Spellberg. First gracing this Read more…
One prevalent characteristic of the most entertaining asshats is the tendency to have pathologically extreme reactions to perceived slights that end up being more destructive to the asshat in question than their intended target. Not just foot in mouth, but foot, leg, and torso in an ever-diminishing spiral that vanishes Read more…
It takes a special kind of asshat to fly from Europe to Manhattan on your employer’s dime, to attend a phantom meeting, and spend the trip getting plastered. Special indeed, if you get caught at it by a bartender who blogs about it, and it’s the blogger who gets fired Read more…
Sometimes, all you need to be an asshat is a profound arrogance combined with the self-important conviction that you know better than anyone else. Better still to piss on a whole country of authors while declaring the supremacy of your own local literati. Best of all is to spout off Read more…
Child porn is a very serious issue that gets very serious people to make very serious asshats of themselves. In the #7 slot for 2008 I have to grant a tie for two very different flavors of stupidity over the very same issue. In one spot we have New York Read more…
One interpretation of the 2008 presidential election is that the US is way more sexist than racist. If the media coverage (and the result) doesn’t convince you of this, reflect on the fact that last March Charlotte Allen wrote a long rambling apologia for the idea that women are, well, Read more…
Or more precisely, those who identify as conservative suffer from “a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.” At least it is if you’re Jonathan Haidt, who informed us last September, that in essence, Read more…