"Who got to this man?

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!

Posted by: Attila Girl at 02:39 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.

Tired as I am of the Shotgungate "story," this was funny.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 01:40 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 13 words, total size 1 kb.

You'll recall that this is when God talks back to us after we pray. But in Jeff's case the Lord makes heavy use of the vernacular:

And I was all, “If You were any less subtle, frogs would be raining from the sky.”

And You were all, “I’ve got some here, just in case.”

Yeah. I know the feeling.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 08:52 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 63 words, total size 1 kb.

Is anyone going? I'm tempted, though CPAC may have used up all my time and emotional energy for overnight blog-conferences.

Still, it's close enough that I could do this one on a serious shoestring (though I stayed under-budget for the D.C. trip, mostly due to my "one meal a day" approach, and liberal use of protein bars).

Posted by: Attila Girl at 08:45 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 63 words, total size 1 kb.

Cathy Young and Jeff Goldstein are trying to have a serious discussion of rape, and how to address the current inequities in law/custom without going back to the old inequities in law/custom.

Oddly, they are each experiencing a high noise-to-signal ratio. Hm.

Next week Jeff will take another crack at abortion, and Cathy will respond. Doctrinaire gender feminists will be just as helpful in that exchange.

I can't stop thinking of the time I read aloud in my writer's group from an autobiographical piece that discussed my first experience of sexual intercourse, which happened to be by force—but by a boy I was dating, and knew would not kill or seriously injure me.

One of the women in the group was profoundly shocked at all this, and simply could not believe that the people who knew about it didn't do more to help me.

"You know," I responded, "that was pretty small potatoes compared to all the other things that were going on when I was a teenager."

This woman had heard enough from my autobiographical pieces to know that I was homeless multiple times during that era, not to mention getting attacked with a club by a close family member. Etc.

And yet, in the tradition of extreme feminists everywhere, she regarded me as simply a walking vagina with arms and legs attached to it.

How did sexual politics come to this? When did we get this far off-course?

Posted by: Attila Girl at 05:52 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
Post contains 244 words, total size 2 kb.

is here.

Via Glenn.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 03:09 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 14 words, total size 1 kb.

. . . has a thoughtful piece about the effects of child care. It's refreshing to read about that subject from a point of view other than the two standards (that is, "child care can save the world!" and "child care is destroying our kids!").

Posted by: Attila Girl at 02:28 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 49 words, total size 1 kb.

She's joined the "Shotgungate" stampede. How strange.

Maybe she's drunk: after all, she did misspell "discreet" in that entry, which is a bit out of character for her.

In other news, my brother has—in the course of his life—broken both arms and his pelvis. I'm afraid I'm going to have to shoot him for taking risks with his own life. Catch you later; I'm headed to the Bay Area with my Glock, in the best traditions of both Islamo-fascist honor killers and loony Americans who overreact to hunting accidents.

Via Hackbarth.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 01:47 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 99 words, total size 1 kb.

Malkin on how the Islamo-fascists are racheting up the online outreach, via hacking and threats of violence against bloggers.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 01:20 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 27 words, total size 1 kb.

Look, we all have our opinions about the U.N. But they are the closest thing we have to enforcers of international law, and we should at least take what they say seriously.

Therefore, if they call on us to shut down our holding cells at Gitmo, it's important for us to at least consider it.

After some thought, I've concluded that we should indeed get rid of the Guantanamo Bay prisons, just as soon as the U.N. (1) discontinues its graft operations and (2) confines its pimping to women who are over the age of 18.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 11:38 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 106 words, total size 1 kb.

Squarely on Ronald McDonald.

Via Volokh via Insty.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 01:01 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 22 words, total size 1 kb.

Ace on Arianna, who's been writing about the "Shotgungate" non-story:

I'm pretty sure Michael Huffington is the one homosexual who wasn't born gay. But the poor sonofabitch just never had a chance, did he? What would you have done?

Me? Had I married Arianna Huffington? I think I'd be blasting my own friend in the face right now, if you know what I'm sayin'.

Read the whole thing, 'cause it's funnier 'n' a sonofabitch.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 12:51 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 86 words, total size 1 kb.

Turns out, everyone's famous whenever Glenn gets around to it. He's got the CPAC podcast up now, including impromptu interviews with bloggers and participants, including me (no, I haven't listened quite yet: like most people, I dislike the sound of my own voice when it's been recorded).

Two interesting exchanges as we spoke right before the "tape" started rolling:

Glenn: I should link your site more. I've been thinking of doing an entire entry on "people I don't link to enough."

Joy: Don't get into the mindset that you bear the weight of the blogosphere on your shoulders.

Glenn: I'm glad you said that. Some people take it personally when I don't link them.

Why was this hilarious to me? Because most of us do feel twinges of irrational guilt from time to time, and it's interesting that Glenn isn't immune. Clearly, he tries to use his powers for good as much as possible—which I find admirable. After all, I'm not sure I do any such thing.

• • •

And there's this one, which occurred just as he moved to turn the mic on—

Joy: I've been really good about not getting starstruck, but it's starting to hit me now.

Glenn: Oh, don't do that. Blogging stars are like bowling stars: no one in the outside world cares about them.

It was a sweet thing to say. Though I doubt many bowling stars can raise millions of dollars from venture capitalists to start bowling-related businesses. Even when several of them get together.

Call me an ass-kisser, but if someone drew a nasty cartoon about Glenn, I'd really be upset.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 12:24 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 280 words, total size 2 kb.

Aw, come on, boys: let's not, um, rag on her for her looks. That's the kind of thing the lefties do.

Hackbarth has another mini-roundup, and remarks that the whole flap is "almost boring." Yeah. But if we don't distance ourselves from this woman we're no better than the lefties who defend Michael Moore's prevaricating—or those who don't closely examine the more, um, colorful arguments Pat Buchanan makes over on populist row.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 11:59 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 78 words, total size 1 kb.

During the CPAC bloggers' main bacchanale at the Marquee Bar and Lounge—hosted by the wonderful Mike Krempasky—the subject of Stephen Glass' old work of fiction on young partying conservatives kept coming up. Several people wondered if the story itself was available online, and whether Glass had really alleged that young conservatives were cokeheads.

Oddly enough, former Wonkette Ana Marie Cox discussed that shaggy dog story in Mother Jones several years ago, debunking it and other Glass-related fact-checking fiascos.

In the snippet she quotes, the "young conservative" event was at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, but it takes place in the spring (so theoretically it wouldn't have been CPAC), and the cons in question were smoking grass rather than snorting coke. And Glass didn't appear to be making the point that a lot of conservatives are really libertarians—but rather that his imaginary right-wing friends were hypocrites.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 09:04 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 146 words, total size 1 kb.

Prof. Purkinje asks me, "is that the same as your life coach?"

"Of course not," I tell him. "I mean, wouldn't it be weird to have my life coach helping me clear a room out?"

"You know, whenever I mention that I have a friend in L.A. with a life coach, they say something about California . . ."

"Let it go," I respond. "People are narrow that way."

Posted by: Attila Girl at 04:51 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
Post contains 85 words, total size 1 kb.

Home today; I'm flying back to LA out of B-More this afternoon. And I loved my time in D.C.; I'm loving my time in Maryland. But I'm ready to go home, "to my own bed, where I can let go." I'm deeply exhausted—in that "tired but happy" way.

I also haven't seen my husband in a week, so I'll need to power-interact with him. I might just hug him for another full week straight, though that would make things awkward as he attempted to go about his business.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 04:48 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 90 words, total size 1 kb.

1 It was great having you here, but I'm also glad the weather will let you leave.

Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at February 15, 2006 07:37 AM (ZaM5Y)

2 "power-interact" Is that what they're calling it now these days? :-)

Posted by: Daniel at February 15, 2006 11:45 AM (GIhW0)

3 Ha! Daniel beat me to the punch with the question.

Posted by: Desert Cat at February 15, 2006 04:35 PM (B2X7i)

4 I was thinking about the hugging and kissing, but I'll be perfectly happy when matters progress.

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 15, 2006 11:30 PM (XbEp3)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

where she has the Cotillion Ball up—aka the Carnival of the Fiercest Babes in the Blogosphere.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 04:41 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 26 words, total size 1 kb.

Very smart.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 04:38 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 10 words, total size 1 kb.

. . . to find a good Descartes joke.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 01:47 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.