If there was any doubt in your mind, Rachel’s clear explanation of how we became a nation of torturers will erase it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZrF7kYFtM

Part 2 after the jump:

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Serolf Divad’s comment got me thinking about the various sources of wingnut welfare, and that made me think back to one of my favorite wingnuts, Brigitte Gabriel.  She’s not much of a wingnut – no “fellowship” at AEI or Hudson – but she’s all over Fox News and writes for The American Thinker.  Bulk purchases of her books by conservative organizations likely contribute to her wingnut welfare total. 

I thought I’d repost a little something I wrote about her back in June 2006.  Vintage wingnuttery, if you will. After the jump you’ll see why she’s so special to me.

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I was going to post on Stormy, or the latest Carrie Prejean tantrum, but then Agi sent me something that earned the writer our Wingnut of the Day award.

This is Heather MacDonald. She is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor to something called City Journal. For those of you that don’t know, John M. Olin was a rich wingnut who funded a bunch of think tanks to pay lesser wingnuts – aka “fellows” – to write things that no sane person would pay them to write.  That, by the way, is more or less the definition of wingnut welfare.

Stand back – it gets ugly pretty fast:

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Someone sent me this, and I thought it was a parody until I got to the end.

Our civilization is clearly in rapid decline.

Hysterical.  Professor Ed:

Best plagiarism story ever: guy copies paper directly off of a website (a simple cut-and-paste job) and subsequently submits a paper with html tags in the text. So at the end of paragraphs the reader would find phrases like [imgsrc=”nixon_main.jpg” align=”center”].

And yes, he actually had the nuts to argue with me about my shocking, tenuous conclusion that he had plagiarized.

Somewhere on the Eastern Shore of Maryland …

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All the lines are vintage Rummy except two. And no, I have no idea why I did this.