It Stands Athwart Kathleen Parker, Yelling STFU

The battle has been joined! Conservatism fights for its very soul today over at The Corner, where first Pantload and then Human Stain set the table for K-Lo's final assault on wingnut apostate-come-lately Kathleen Parker:

...I wonder if after some time away from her e-mail and newfound attentions she'd be using some of the same words she's been using lately about many of the buyers of her book.

Maybe she would. She's someone I know and love dearly but I won't ever pretend to know her or anyone's mind. But I do know she is smarter than her column recently has suggested.

And by smarter I am not using conservatism as a litmus test for intelligence, for the record.

For the record, dear K-Lo, I think you'll find that it's a negative indicator.

Note: Deborah Howell is sure to find Parker's feints at conversion doubleplusungood.

Update: Kevin Drum has more on Jonah and the "oogedy-boogedy" GOP.

Scary Bookieman

Honk if you're tired of hearing this same bookstore nonsense over and over again:

Honk If You Love Daddy [Kathleen Parker]

The above-titled chapter in Save the Males covers the turf of how and why fathers have been marginalized from the American Family. Hint: Patriarchs don't do well in an anti-patriarchy world. Based on reports from frustrated book seekers who are having trouble finding STM, I figure I would have done better to name the book I Hate Daddy! I'm hounding Random House about lousy placement — locationlocationlocation — but meanwhile encourage those who want to buy the book to dash to your nearest Amazon outlet. It's cheaper, anyway.

06/15 01:07 PM

I can assure you without checking, Kathleen, that both Barnes and Noble were dudes.

Update: I've focussed on the bookstore persecution complex because the book sounds ridiculous all by itself. Also, I respelled my title.