Focusing on the real problems: keeping steroids out of t-ball

Its been a while so lets just clear the deck with a bunch of stuff.

1. It maybe a bit "inside bloggerball" for you all, but conservative/contrarian liberal/tenured law professor/nutjob Ann Althouse flipped out recently on blogger Garance Franke-Ruta during a bloggingheadsTV thing for daring to mention in passing something Althouse brought up. The original incident is referred to by several names but I prefer calling it the "feminist with breasts are hypocritical sluts" controversy. Former President Clinton met with a bunch of liberal bloggers and took photos with them afterwards. One of the bloggers was....gasp...A WOMAN and she STOOD NEXT TO CLINTON. Althouse wrote about Jessica Valenti:

Then, when she goes to meet Clinton, she wears a tight knit top that draws attention to her breasts and stands right in front of him and positions herself to make her breasts as obvious as possible?

It's obvious that you're bending over backwards -- figuratively and literally -- to keep the attention on your breasts.

Jessica should have worn a beret. Blue dress would have been good too.

Jessica's breasts are definitely a distraction…

Or she was standing next to him, wearing clothing. Same thing I guess. The link above is to Jessica's response, here's a link to my delicious bookmarks for more about the original incident (first time trying that!).

Knowing this context makes Althouse's explosion even more crazed. I'm posting this because it really is a perfect example of the arcs of right wing smears: replace actual discussion about the points of policy/political view with ungrounded personal attacks; when called out for your attack, claim to be the victim of unfair attacks by those who can't respond to your logic on the points. Also blaming the "liberal media" or "PC thugs" works as well.

2. This post by Glenn Greenwald now of Salon, The most revealing three-minute YouTube clip ever, is great. Watching the clip and reading what he says is way better than me just rewording it all here, but it really hits what is so depressing about our NATIONAL news media. "US Attorney scandal? Boring!!! The Dems just want to get Karl Rove because he's like Darth Vader to them! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Who will stand for the genius Karl Rove? I! But the Dems better watch out, because the people will think they are just picking on that Hispanic Gonzalez! Hey...Gore! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Okay, that's kind of a rewording.

3. Okay, it is from a hack party site, but this blog post most clearly highlights how nonsensical McCain is on Iraq. Pretty much he's now arguing the Bush administration is divorced from reality for saying things might look different in a few months....something McCain has been saying consistently for the past few years. Ja?

4. This is funny:

But this is still better: