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Five tips to avoid annoying other people

Gretchen gives us stuff to think about:

Don't use a whiny voice
Watch your cellphone use
Don't curse
Clean up after yourself
Think about whether you're being interesting

Having spent over half a million dollars helping Proposition 8 pass, FotF now has to cut back its own workforce 18%, laying 149 workers and closing down 53 job offerings. Wonkette schadenfreudes:

Sure, you have no income now because James Dobson burnt all of your company's money on a state ballot proposition. But imagine the alternative! Would you want to be employed knowing that several hundred miles away, in another state, pairs of consenting adults that already have been living together, people whom you've never met and will never meet, were applying for state licenses (pieces of paper, really) that offered them some new tax and medical options?

New Gingrich Vs. The Rising Homosexualist Facist Horde!

I heard this everywhere yesterday. Newt was on O'Reilly, and he told Bill

I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion.

I think the threat to traditional religion in this country comes from leaders who serve wife #1 divorce papers while she's in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy, and who serves wife #2 with similar papers after getting caught receiving a blowjob from future wife #3 in the Congressional parking lot.

The call to 'route around' the Human Rights Campaign grows

A handful of young non-professionals were able to organize in a few days what HRC has been incapable of doing in months or years... [Meanwhile,] the website of the biggest gay rights group in the country has one single mention - it's a blog about a celebrity, of course - of the massive protests that occurred for marriage equality across the country yesterday. (A letter from Joe Solmonese tells us to be nice.)... It's time gay people realized that this group is often part of the problem, and rarely part of the solution. It needs to be swept clean of its deadwood, overhauled, or if it persists in its ways, defunded. When we are in a civil rights movement and the biggest organization is essentially a passive observer and excuse-maker, it's time to demand better.

David Frum leaves NRO!

Starting over Inauguration Weekend, I'll be launching a new website, NewMajority.com. It will be a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them identify as conservatives or Republicans. But they - and people like them - are the people conservatives and Republicans need.

This has been big news, because it means that NRO, having lost Parker and Buckley, is bleeding out of every orifice those intellectual lights who are willing to wrestle with the conservatism of Russell and Kirk, and ask themselves which debates are worthy of time and attention and where compromise is possible. Although I wonder what his new website will do that Culture 11 does not.

The very model of common sense conservatism!

NRO is having it's "post-election cruise" and is cheering the ascedency of Sarah Palin, who "incarnates the practical, common-sense conservatism of Middle America."

Yeah, right. Her eldest son dropped out of school and ended up enlisting and going to Iraq in a deal cut to avoid a conviction; her eldest daughter is underage, unmarried, and pregnant; her other kids have at best lackluster schooling. She's uncurious about anything other than her own power. I guess that's Middle America, all right. The one that voted for Obama. The one Michelle Malkin is now calling 'stupid.'

Bush team engages in 'burrowing.'

Some 34 political appointees put into office by the Bush administration have either moved or applied to move to civil service positions, where they'll be protected by law from removal from their posts. I normally wouldn't object to this, but these people are part of an adminsitration that has been proud of its own inability to govern, and cement a mindset in our civil service that civil service itself is a fundamentally misguided activity.