@postbreitbart
Breitbart followers using Breitbart-style rhetoric to accuse Breitbart publication Big Journalism of covering up nature of Breitbart’s death. I can’t tell if this is how it begins, or ends.
Sentence of the Day
“Obviously, World War II was pretty obvious.” —Rick Santorum. It’s even stupider in context.
Sentence of the Day
“Santorum, in particular, is a candidate who, leaving aside the question of his substantive virtues or drawbacks, is a lightning rod for Postmoderns, media professionals, and many other influential people who will sway the way others vote.”
It’s always those damn Postmoderns. We’d track them down, except every time we think we find them, it turns out it’s just our constructed artifice of them.
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Logic, Men Talking About Contraception Edition
Care to refute their point, or are you just going to point out their sex and pretend you’ve made a point?
Happy to! The argument made in the tweets is that contraception in inexpensive and accessible, roughly equivalent to toothpaste. In which case it’s absurd we’re having such an argument over its mandated coverage—so absurd it should have occurred to one of them that $9 Walmart birth control isn’t the end of the story.
Here’s a round-up of current contraceptive prices, of the type not purchased at Wal-Mart (numbers in parentheses are 2009 figures):
Yasmin: $85.99 ($76.99) — 12%Ocella (Yasmin generic): $71.99 ($59.34) — 21%Yaz: $92.99 ($85.60) — 9%Nuvaring: $86.99 ($77.35) — 12%Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo: $94.99 ($67.99) — 40% Tri-Lo Sprintec (OTCLo generic): No longer available ($55.99)Plan B One-Step: $47.99 ($47.99)
As another writer put it, “If you consider them “affordable”, you haven’t ever been living paycheck to paycheck,” and goes on to point out that “Many [women] more use less effective methods because they’re cheaper.” Something tells me the $9 Wal-mart pill is in that latter category. Making quality contraception accessible, so as to decrease unwanted pregnancies, is part of the point of the contraception coverage mandate as recommended by the Institute of Medicine; the existence of cheap methods doesn’t negate the seriousness of that goal. Yes, there’s $9 birth control at Wal-mart; there’s also over-the-counter cold medicine, but that doesn’t make covering doctor visits an extravagance.
My problem is less with the tweeters’ position (with which I respectfully disagree) than with their method (or lack of) in getting there. One made a simplistic observation, the other agreed, and they patted themselves on the back for being right. At no point did it occur to them they might not have the whole of the issue before them, nor did they seek out any information that might challenge their data/reasoning, or so much as ask someone with firsthand experience of paying for contraception, i.e., a woman.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzeg1bAOfo1r0pgabo1_1280.png)
Logic, Men Talking About Contraception Edition
Care to refute their point, or are you just going to point out their sex and pretend you’ve made a point?
Happy to! The argument made in the tweets is that contraception in inexpensive and accessible, roughly equivalent to toothpaste. In which case it’s absurd we’re having such an argument over its mandated coverage—so absurd it should have occurred to one of them that $9 Walmart birth control isn’t the end of the story.
Here’s a round-up of current contraceptive prices, of the type not purchased at Wal-Mart (numbers in parentheses are 2009 figures):
Yasmin: $85.99 ($76.99) — 12%
Ocella (Yasmin generic): $71.99 ($59.34) — 21%
Yaz: $92.99 ($85.60) — 9%
Nuvaring: $86.99 ($77.35) — 12%
Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo: $94.99 ($67.99) — 40%
Tri-Lo Sprintec (OTCLo generic): No longer available ($55.99)
Plan B One-Step: $47.99 ($47.99)
As another writer put it, “If you consider them “affordable”, you haven’t ever been living paycheck to paycheck,” and goes on to point out that “Many [women] more use less effective methods because they’re cheaper.” Something tells me the $9 Wal-mart pill is in that latter category. Making quality contraception accessible, so as to decrease unwanted pregnancies, is part of the point of the contraception coverage mandate as recommended by the Institute of Medicine; the existence of cheap methods doesn’t negate the seriousness of that goal. Yes, there’s $9 birth control at Wal-mart; there’s also over-the-counter cold medicine, but that doesn’t make covering doctor visits an extravagance.
My problem is less with the tweeters’ position (with which I respectfully disagree) than with their method (or lack of) in getting there. One made a simplistic observation, the other agreed, and they patted themselves on the back for being right. At no point did it occur to them they might not have the whole of the issue before them, nor did they seek out any information that might challenge their data/reasoning, or so much as ask someone with firsthand experience of paying for contraception, i.e., a woman.
Noam Chomsky is my Madonna Song
In other news, Noam Chomsky writes for Salon now?http://t.co/QyxLGlLU
That’s the first piece of Chomsky writing I’ve read since I was sixteen. It did for me what “Like A Prayer” does for normal people my age.
hrry
Oh my god somebody decided Twitter is too slow:http://t.co/q9Hw1Ouu
#schadenfreude
The choicest cuts from conservatives who are beginning to realize that Fox News’ content is manufactured.
* “I used to feel that I got it straight, and I got an independent conservative view. Now, what I get is some wholly owned subsidiary of the RNC.”
* “To tell you the truth, a lot of conservatives see Fox News as being somewhat skewed on certain issues.”
* “Conservative points of view are becoming more rare on Fox and/or treated with scorn.”
* “It is my belief that Fox News is hoping to become acceptable enough to the Left in this country to gain big corporate accounts.”
* “Let’s face it, cable news is a notch above just being on the Internet.”
Sentence of the Day, Irony Division
“To tell you the truth, a lot of conservatives see Fox News as being somewhat skewed on certain issues,” said Patrick Brown, who runs Internet marketing for The Western Center for Journalism.
