"values" voters, Harvard women: please note

[sisyphusshrugged]

It is time for there to be a moral uprising on the part of the public, against the purveyors of lies and hate who will stop at nothing to preserve their own power.

- Adam Yoshida, on healthcare

Libertarians who support gay marriage miss the point: the coercive use of state power in this case is not the denial of marriage “rights” to homosexuals, it is the efforts of a tiny minority to use the state to impose public acceptance of their sexual practices upon the majority that is the tyranny here.

- Adam Yoshida on gay marriage

My life’s goal is to see the Democratic Party virtually obliterated and left as a rump of people like Stephanie Herseth who both mostly agree with us anyways and are easy on the eyes.

That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women.

- Adam Yoshida on Adam Yoshida

That's comfort women as in the Korean women during WW2 who were captured and used as sex slaves by the Japanese army.

You always want to take a good look at who you're hopping in bed with. On dit.

edit: Sorry, I didn't realize that some of you were unfamiliar with young Mr. Yoshida. He's a rising young conservative pundit who writes news analysis for Insight, the news analysis publication of the Washington Times, Mr. Moon's newspaper in Washington. Amusingly, the Times has been at the forefront of the drive to impart civility to Democrats which has pulled so many of our "moderate" brethren and sistren into its slipstream.

Mr. Yoshida attends Harvard, where I trust that his social views are well known to his potential dating pool (although I suppose a Mrs. Robinson thing with Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is still possible).

Comments

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Who is Adam Yoshida? What's the context with Harvard?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

someone I'd prefer not to link to. Conservative "thinker"

Currently enrolled at Harvard, where hopefully this will do wonders for his social life.

[seamusd.livejournal.com]

I've seen this ploy a lot in the last week, wingnuts arguing against gay marriage and openly admitting just how bigotted and homophobic they are, as if intolerance were an acceptable American value, indeed, a logical argument. They are the ones who are "missing the point," and now slim "Man Date" makes bigotry acceptable, no matter how many people voted on their hate.

[(Anonymous)]

who the hell is Adam Yoshida? And how can we get rid of him? Actually, I think you may be doing just that.
moe

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Rising young conservative pundit. Apparently he was bounced from the Free Republic for being too extreme, but Insight (the news analysis publication of the Washington Times) publishes his news analysis.

[gngrmyrsn.livejournal.com]

...bounced from the Free Republic for being too extreme...

And they let him walk around un-medicated? Lawdy.

[cordiloquy.livejournal.com]

Oh GOOD LORD. I'd heard of him, but until now was blissfully unaware that he went to Harvard...

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Actually entered the country to do it, too. Guess you want to be a little less choosy what you put your moral imprimatur on when the old starting salary comes into play.

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Christ, I feel like burning my diploma now.

[(Anonymous)]

And, young Mr. Loves-comfort-women is Canadian. Funny how he decides he speaks for the party that wouldn't think twice about throwing him in an interment camp, because, well, you know, he LOOKS furrin.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Maybe he fancies his chances with Michelle Malkin.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Throw them both to the dogs of war in Falloujeh! See how their hearts and minds might change getting up close and personal with the tactics of their Commander Codpiece.

[mrdankelly.livejournal.com]

I think it's an attempt at humor; the kind that we're obviously too uptight and politically correct to appreciate. You should play along by writing to him and jocularly suggesting that, should the tables turn, perhaps some female Dem will make Mr. Yoshida her "pegging" toy. Purely in the spirit of whimsy, of course.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Don't you think he'd be disappointed? After all, is it heterosexual sex we're trying to force on the vanquished foe?

[gngrmyrsn.livejournal.com]

Maybe somebody could introduce the boy to Andy Sullivan. I hear Andy's the mentoring type.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're being facetious, because he isn't. I've read, on and off again, his stuff when some particularly egregious bit of it bubbles to the top of the cesspool.

He has advoacated killing bloggers who disagree with him, to the point of finding their address and publishing it.

TK

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Oh, have you not met Mr. Dan? You'd love each other, really.

Trust me, he's being facetious.

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Wait a sec. Does he attend Harvard College? Or the Harvard Extension School? There's a big difference, akin to me saying that I've gone to Georgetown, just because I've taken some summer courses there.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I don't know.

Back in the end of 2003 he admitted he was in the extention school (from Canada), but it's possible he has managed to come to the States, and is attending in person.

At the risk of being mean... perhaps he could let himself be seduced by Coulter, and smother her in a fit of joint passion. He's a big boy, she ain't.

TK

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

*EDIT* - deleted my original comment since I don't want to sully jmhm's blog by linking to him.

He's not listed in the online Harvard telephone directory, which includes students at the College. Students can opt out of being listed, but I don't think someone like Yoshida would seek to hide his affiliation if he was enrolled there as a traditional undergraduate (using "traditional" in the sense of someone who has to go through the College admissions board process. The Extension School is different in that anyone who ponies up some cash can attend.) Here's Yoshida's statement (http:// www. adamyoshida. com/ 2003/ 12/my-old-friend-adam-groves.html (remove spaces for the link)) about his classwork at Harvard. (I wonder about his claim about finishing up an AA/ALB though. The Extension School requires attendence in person before it will award a certificate and it sounds as though he's still stuck, thankfully, in British Columbia.)

At the risk of being mean... perhaps he could let himself be seduced by Coulter, and smother her in a fit of joint passion. He's a big boy, she ain't.

lol, as tempting as that sounds, it's too much of a risk. The potential fruit of that union is too dreadful to contemplate. =D

[caille.livejournal.com]

Did you see the entry over at Sadly, No!, entitled "Some Blogs Are Meant To Have Comments".

Adam Yoshida's is one of those. Yet as a correspondent recently pointed out, the Yoshter recently turned off his comments, writing that:

Alright, it's time for the comments to go. I'm not hosting Democratic Underground here. I think I can see why most high-traffic blogs [You know, like Atrios' --S,N!] don't allow comments.

Fear not however! Someone went ahead and created the Adam Yoshida 2.0 blog, featuring Adam's lunacy with the added bonus of comments! Please stop by over there, and be sure to email Adam to tell him about it.

So you get to savor the nutty weirdness without actually linking to the guy.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

gotta remember to be more draconic.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I had no idea that an actual publication had attempted to bestow upon him a veneer of respectability.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

A publication owned by the number one son of God, no less.

[(Anonymous)]

adam yoshida doesn't actually *go* to Harvard. He's just enrolled in an unaccredited correspondence program (extension school) administered through Harvard. Unfortunately, for those Harvard ladies....they'll have to venture all the way out to the left coast and sneak into communist British Columbia in order to snuggle with their corpulent love-god to be.....

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Gee. Maybe I can take a weekend knitting course and put it on my resume too.