DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, continues to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Here in the U.S.A., things have definitely gotten worse. The censoring of Don Rickles is surely a bad sign. I don’t believe that would have happened in 1994.

Worst of all is the rise of the Pod People: twenty-something metrosexual media commentators who have somehow persuaded themselves that the real world, at least as manifested in the realities of a multiracial society, does not exist.

Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around.

Drantch and his type — they are all over the media and the internet — scare me. Behind their smooth girlish features and open, orthodontized smiles there lurks an icy intolerance, a coarse thuggishness, a blinkered determination to believe that the world is something other than what it is, and a closed, invincible conviction of their own moral perfection in so believing. (Are there females of the species? Possibly … it’s hard to be sure.) [MSNBC host Rachel Maddow – ‘No one’s gonna confuse me with a Fox News anchor’, Daily News, October 21, 2009]

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