Did Peggy Noonan complain about Madonna and Britney?

So, I'm reading through the news, and I see this from Peggy Noonan:

It is one thing to grouse that dreadful people who don't care about us control our economy, but another, and in a way more personal, thing to say that people who don't care about us control our culture. In 2009 this was perhaps most vividly expressed in the Adam Lambert Problem. Mr. Lambert's act left viewers feeling not just offended but assaulted.... It cannot be exaggerated, how much Americans feel besieged by the culture of their own country, and to what lengths they have to go to protect their children from it.

Jesus Fucking Your Christ, Ma'am, but did you ever think that maybe you ought to turn off the channel?

Don't give them the oxygen of your viewership and you won't have to watch it. If enough people do that the entire thing will collapse and you can stop worry about it entirely.

Peggy Noonan's Christianist Culture Warriorship and the Invisible Hand are at war, have been at war, and will always be at war. You cannot be a Christian Conservative and a Free Market Capitalist, the two are mutually incompatible. Because the Free Market will inevitably shift to give the people what they want, and what they want is often sleazy, sexy, and inappropriate for small children.

Whatever happened to Ms. Noonan's personal responsibility?

How geekless is the GOP?

So, the Republicans, in order to prove just how net-savvy they are, have been trying out various intiatives on the 'web. The "rebranded" the GOP.org website in order to make it cool, including having a Flash-app of Michael Steele walking out and saying, "Now how cool is that?" It's not very cool, Michael; obstructing the view went out with the 90's.

Apparently, they secured the address "GOP.am," and while throwing around ideas some bright spark said, "Hey, you know those URL shortener things, like bit.ly? What if we put up one of those? But instead of being a redirect, we'll make it a frame, so you can put wrap Republican messages around whatever page we redirect too. That'll show those folks just how cool and technological we can be!"

Oh, the places you'll go...

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Pssst. Republicans, wanna know something? Wrapping someone else's site in your branding frame is about as rude as pissing on your neighbor's lawn. It, too, went out with the 90's.

More photos from the Nutcracker!

Omaha


Kouryou-chan


Elf

The second performance of The Nutcracker went off just as well as the first, although we were much more worried about it after an inexcusably awful dress rehearsal. Ms. Moss had to halt the party scene rehearsal twice, because first the timing coming in was all wrong, and secondly because the parents weren't mingling enough.

Omaha and I had signed up for both days, but some parents only did one. The parents for the second day were a little less polished than the first, and there were fewer of them, but there were a lot more of the Ballet I (second and third-grade children) on the stage, and it made for herding and arranging much more challenging.

But the performance itself went off without a hitch, so we were all incredibly relieved when it was all over. In the end, it was all a job well-done.