Couldn’t Help But Notice (042707)
BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder found a maddening example of how the Nanny State in the UK is morphing into the Nagging State.
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Speaking of that site, and of nanny-like ninnies — BoingBoing’s been briefly banned in Boston. Really (HT Slashdot).
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Michelle Malkin’s latest Townhall column nails Hillary Clinton’s vocal affectations. One such incident can be chalked up to a clumsy attempt to be cute. The second indicates extraordinary tone-deafness. The third makes it condescending pandering that anyone should be able to see through — you would hope.
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Since it is an apparently successful strategy for getting out of prison, I think I’m going to try the same tactic on state lottery officials, so they’ll release that multimillion-dollar jackpot I’m “entitled” to.
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What Jeff Foxworthy said.
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More draw-the-line stands like this one would be welcome.
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“Report: 80 percent of blogs contain ‘offensive’ content.” Retort: 90% of reports on the “offensiveness” of blog content are LAME. There’s no shortage of truly offensive content, but when using one word one time among tens of thousands, regardless of context, pushes you into the “offensive” category, all I can say is “Give me a &^%4*@ break.”
