Fifty years ago,…

What an idiot. He gives a spoiler alert in the first three words of his own frigging article. Hope you enjoy the dust, Rosshole. Beep Beep

Recently he was on Real Time (why, I’ll never know) and, for the duration of the show he was either laughed at, put down, or ignored.

He was far more ridiculous than I expected, and that’s saying a lot since I’ve read his articles.

Only Gag me Witherspoon could write an article laying out the utter failures of an entire segment of the population and try to make it sound like a triumph.

Over all, the abortion rate is twice as high in New York as in Texas and three times as high in Massachusetts as in Utah.

Obviously a follower of David Brooks Statistical Method: The Power of Selective Facts and Even More Selective Comparisons.

Gee, let’s see what happens if, instead of comparing Massachusetts to the small Mormon enclave of Utah, we compare it to red-state Texas.

In 2005, 85,760 women obtained abortions in Texas, producing a rate of 17.3 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age.

In 2005, 27,270 women obtained abortions in Massachusetts, producing a rate of 19.9 abortions per 1,000 women

Why, that’s pretty damn close — no multiples there. Gee, I wonder how MA compares to the U.S. as a whole:

In 2005, 1.2 million American women obtained abortions, producing a rate of 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age.

Gosh, that’s practically identical to the national rate. So much for liberal baby-killin’.

And here are a few other little comparisons Brookshat oddly ommitted:

In 2005:
14% of Massachusetts counties had no abortion provider
93% of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
93% of Utah counties had no abortion provider
There were 6 abortion providers in Utah.
There were 45 abortion providers in Massachusetts

Can’t for the life of me figure out why he’d leave all this stuff out

Thanks! I was all set to write, “OK, Rose, but so what?” Ur researches supply us with a slightly different perspective: “Rose, you mealy mouthed, tergiversating, equivocal little liar.”

Wonder how, Rose, this appearance is one damn bit different than, say, the reality?

By comparison, the “red family” model can look dysfunctional — an uneasy mix of rigor and permissiveness, whose ideals don’t always match up with the facts of contemporary life.

Jackass panderer retard.

The Red States are a hot mess full of broken families, and rampant spousal and child abuse? All this while lecturing us Yankee Liberals on all aspects of our social and financial decisions, while sucking on the teat of our tax dollars for generations?

Thanks, Ross. We never realized this. Oh, wait, you are still lecturing us? Thanks, again.

I have things in my refrigerator that possess more insight than you.

He also manages to blame the break down of the family on relaxed social mores while ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that Republican economic policies over the past 30 years have caused real wages for mostAmericans to remain flat or decline, so that it now takes two wage earners to maintain the same lifestyle that one could in 1970.

You’d think that if the NYTimes wanted someone to write about sex, they’d get someone who’s actually had sex to write about it. And you would be wrong.

It’s not just Douchehat’s use of statistics that’s dishonest. There’s this gem:

First, the sexual revolution conservative union-busting and other economic policies overturned the old order of single-earner households, early marriages, and strong stigmas against divorce and unwed motherhood.

(fixxored for great justice)

Then there’s this statement, what may be the avatar of dumbassery:

The left argues that the revolution just hasn’t been completed yet: it’s the right-wing backlash against abortion, contraception and sex education that’s preventing downscale Americans from attaining the new upper-middle-class stability, and reaping its social and economic benefits.

O really, Ross? Who, exactly, on “the left” has argued that it’s the lack of a full embrace of the “sexual revolution” that has kept the lower classes down, as opposed to, oh, I dunno, policies that favor paying them peanuts while throwing great gobs of money at their lords and masters?

I’d say Douchehat is dishonest, but there’s no evidence that he’s bright enough to recognize that what he writes is bullshit.

OT, but I thought this was pretty damn funny, especially after the recent
“We are teabaggers, hear us roar. Uh..wait..tell the Kenyan to stop calling us that!” incident.

I’m sure Senator Isakson (R-Ga) will blame it on the liberals soon enough.

Damn you Tbogg, damn you!

You make me read this dope and I get sucked into counting all the stupids and I start having phantom arguments with him in my head that start with me saying things like “You have got to be fucking kidding me!” and “Do you really think that’s what that says?!” and I spiral into a funk of frustration and I find myself needing a drink at 7 AM on a Monday morning…

Thanks for reading so I don’t have to sully my pristine mind with his crap. He actually pulled out (probably, if he ever puts it in) those hoary chestnuts? What a lazy, lazy thinker (and I use that term loosely) he is. Shorter Douthat: Wimmenz shud be chained to the stove and not running around offering up their big boobies to drunken, scared nerdy boys who would rather masturbate to the writings of Bill Kristol than have actually sexxxxxxx.

Rose must have had “Uh, oh, there I go, thinkin’ about sex again” by The Waitresses show up on his IPod Shuffle again.

asiangrrlMN, I love your pristine mind, but, where did

masturbate to the writings of Bill Kristol

come from? You may want to carry more WetNaps.

TBogg, please DON’T admit to wanting to watch Douthat Do-Do, no matter what he ate. Unfortunately, I’ve had to watch my puppeh douthat after she ate a block of Wisconsin cheddar. It’s not nice.

Damn You tbogg – instead of just giving us puppy pictures and Michelle Malkin Cheerleader – you made me go read not only Chunky Reese, but also this idiot.

She says things as profound as

the birth control pill begat the sexual and feminist revolutions of the 1960s, which begat the decline of the traditional nuclear family, which in turn introduced the country to a major new demographic: the single mother. Divorce became as ubiquitous as the automobile;

How much self hate can this woman tolerate if she thinks that feminism is all about the availability of safe fucking? (defined, of course, as fucking without getting pregnant. STD? HPV? too damn bad.)

That’s what happens when I read even a snippet of Douthat! Mind bleach needed!

cynick, all that begetting–just like in the Bible! The excerpt you posted is more than enough for me. Ugh. Double order of mind bleach, please!

P.S. May I be heretical and suggest that ‘traditional marriage’ was maintain in the past by lots and lots of Valium and double Martinis?

The opening methaphor (simile?) is particularly apt considering how Douthat manages to pull this shit out of his ass week after week.

P.S. May I be heretical and suggest that ‘traditional marriage’ was maintain in the past by lots and lots of Valium and double Martinis?

Yes, yes, oh my yes. The Rolling Stones even glorified it in “Mother’s Little Helpers”, right on grrl.

The left argues…

Ah, yes, the monolithic, brooking-no-disagreement, all-powerful Left. Anyone who writes like this, as if he were a third-rate rightblogger, deserves nothing but ridicule and scorn. I still can’t get my head around the fact that the NY Times actually pays this idiot to write columns. Pathetic.

Good comment.

I was also curious about exactly how the abortion data was obtained. It’s not clear whether the abortion stats cover the number of teen abortions performed within the state or whether they cover the number of teenagers who are from that state and who obtain abortions. Many states have onerous and punitive waiting periods and parental notification laws, and teenagers may well prefer to travel to a less restrictive blue state. That may artificially inflate the number of abortions attributed to residents of that state. In other words, I don’t know whether the abortion statistics he cites for Connecticut, exclude abortions performed on teenagers who come to that state from Virginia.

Liberals sometimes argue that their preferred approach to family life reduces the need for abortion. In reality, it may depend on abortion to succeed. The teen pregnancy rate in blue Connecticut, for instance, is roughly identical to the teen pregnancy rate in red Montana. But in Connecticut, those pregnancies are half as likely to be carried to term. Over all, the abortion rate is twice as high in New York as in Texas and three times as high in Massachusetts as in Utah.

WHADDA FLAMING F*CKTARD! I suppose it never occurred to these whackjobs that it’s a lot easier to open a Planned Parenthood clinic in NYC or CT than it is in Dallas or Bozeman!

And given that grand ol’ Southern preoccupation with social status to the extend that people wonder aloud: “What will the neighbors think?” w/r/t things that aren’t even the neighbors’ business, it’s a pretty safe bet that mom and lil Queenie Sue Ellen Lee [a direct descendant of the Lees of Virginia...] will be vacationing in NYC over spring break, where the young-un will not only shed a few unwanted cells, but undergo a hymenoraphy so that her virginity will be rejuvenated for Mr. Right, when she attends Chapel Hill for her Mrs. Degree.

OT but…

MC Steele, the gift that keeps on giving:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Man, that was a HORRIBLE show!!

Screaming, non-stop talking Laura Tyson, Ross and some other idiot [my mind has gratefully forgotten.

What on earth was Maher thinking?

O

h crap, Douthat is talking about sex again

I thought the NYT hired him because of his sexperience! Did I get that wrong?

No, no, you’re right. Sexperience it is. He may only have had the one, but damn! it was emblematic! (The NYT has long desired a humor columnist – they just didn’t want to come right out and say so. They have this thing about their dignity.)

The US divorce rate was climbing precipitously, causing much media commentary and hoohah, in the early 50s, by which time it was about 25%. That was way before them sex-revolutionist pill-dispenser-rotating hippie chicks (of whom I was extremely happy to be one) stormed the barricades. There was a golden hiatus in there, mid-60s into the early-mid 70s, when – at least among middle class youth – the danger of STDs was no worse than it had been pre-Pill, and yes indeed, girls could fuck and not get pregnant, with the freedom boys had always had. And it WAS revolutionary. And we DID have fun.

But blaming the changes in family constellation on the Pill and feminism, when the changing economy has played so huge a role, and when the attitudinal changes were already showing up ten years earlier, is stupid

Woops, sorry about not closing the ital tag.

I forwarded this link to Ross (some classic comments from Christwire readers who don’t get parody) for use in a future column:

http://christwire.org/2010/03/vajazzling-the-newest-threat-to-your-college-son

If Ross wants to talk about 50 years ago ——women couldn’t get credit cards without their husbands signing for them, women were openly paid less than men, divorced women were shunned in many communities, police wouldn’t often arrest men who beat their wives, etc. etc.

(The NYT has long desired a humor columnist – they just didn’t want to come right out and say so. They have this thing about their dignity.)

Where should we send the 250 internets you just won? I am SO going to steal this!

My time to edit has expired, but you’ll get credit when I steal!

If only more families would listen to their local parish priest, I’m sure they would set them straight – once he was finished with little Bobby, that is.

Oh, c’mon, at least the priests are practicing abstinence & celibacy, amirite?

Oh, man, I got some vajazzling to do! That cracked me the fuck up. I first heard of that site over at Balloon Juice (Recker piece), and it’s a keeper.

mediabob, I have never heard that song before! It’s spot-on.

There should be a vajazzling stand at the AnawaWoodstockTeaBag-o-Rama. If not, start your own TeabagVajazzling franchise empire…

Okay, I went over to ChristWire and read that…God, what was that? It has to be a parody, doesn’t it? I mean really, somebody tell me this is a joke.

You see, parents, females instinctively desire to seek out a quality mate and tempt him to have children with her. We cannot fully fault college girls for being a victim of their feeble, near-sighted minds. It is innate to the XX gene-set. Just lovely.

Their minds are so feeble that they are 60% of the students.

I notice the whole vajazzing thing is soooo disgusting that they had to show it twice.

So, lemme see here… it’s those hussy young sluts who are trying to ruin the virtue of our young, manly, WHITE christian menfolk. Abortionist sluts, with college degrees, and free love, and drugs and careers, and whatnot.

Right. Like every time I see a “Promise Keeper” I’m not tempted to call social services to report a pederast.

The whole site is a grade-A spoof. It’s pretty hilarious.

gunsbeforebutter, ooooooh! My own vajazzling business. Me likey!

And, I spelled Rekers incorrectly in the above post. I am ashamed and embarrassed, more so than he seems to be at getting caught with a rentboy lifting his heavy load.

P.S. May I be heretical and suggest that ‘traditional marriage’ was maintain in the past by lots and lots of Valium and double Martinis?

Yes, yes, oh my yes. The Rolling Stones even glorified it in “Mother’s Little Helpers”, right on grrl.

Goes even further back than that—-150-200 years ago, the average opium fiend was a middle class housewife.

I notice there was absolutely no mention of how red states have a MUCH higher divorce rate than blue states, precisely because progressive couples are older, better educated and more financially stable when they get married and have children. Yes, how unfair, that the very things Douthat thinks break down the family actually make it stronger.

Ooopps! Just further read it! So we libruls are bad because we behave sensibly. Mmmmkay…