You thought the Tea Partiers left the Capitol clean after a demonstration? They’ve got nothing on ninjas.

I know, it’s like rubber-necking at a car accident.  But from the “if a Republican said it” department:

10) “I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — (in black man voice) ‘we’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.’”– Bill Maher

It’s baffling why this guy has a job. Seriously, this is who liberals want representing them? Strange!

Read the rest of the quotes here.

Monty has an interesting, admittedly bitter response to the book Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys.   I’ll refrain from commenting on a book I  have no intention of reading but on the topic of men’s immaturity and the social ills it causes, I do have a thought or two to inflict upon you.

We have two prevailing stereotypes of men. They are vicious, egocentric abusers – if they’re not actually raping a woman, they’re thinking of it and of ways to oppress women at work and at home. Alternatively, they are lovable incompetents who can’t be trusted alone in the house or to mind the children. The chubby doofus inexplicably paired with the hot, intelligent wife is a TV commercial and sitcom standard. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, and if men are living up – well, down – to the standard set for them by society, then… quelle surprise, friends.

Women’s complaints about men’s immaturity are tiresome. Man up? It’s time that we woman up.

Are we open and honest with our husbands or boyfriends, or do we manipulate and make them guess why we’re angry?  Is it mature to administer the “silent treatment” and pout? Complaints about how he refused to talk about his feelings ring a little hollow given how poorly women often behave when we’re angry. Oh, sorry, we’re not angry – we’re disappointed.  Most men don’t need to see an episode of Bridezilla or Real Housewives to get the idea that today’s women are spoiled, gossipy and manipulative.  It’s all around them.

What’s the source of these man-children? Do women not raise our sons? Are we not training them how to be competent adults? If not, why not? It’s a feminist truism that children don’t really need fathers.  If that is true, why aren’t women doing a better job of raising the next generation of men?

If it’s not true that fathers are irrelevant, then maybe we need to take on a little more responsibility regarding who we allow to father our children.  Why, yes, I am suggesting that falling into the sack with that hot guy you met in a bar is actually considerably more immature than a single guy spending half his waking hours playing video games. If you’re immature enough to engage in casual sex – the gold standard for impulsive, irresponsible behavior – then why would you expect more maturity from him? If you’ve been dating a while and you know that he’s immature or irresponsible, then why would you risk making a baby with him?  That’s not just immature, it’s stupid.

Sure, I’m stereotyping women here – to about the same extent that men are stereotyped. We’re not all childish, manipulative and bitchy, any more than all men are commitment-avoiding momma’s boys.  But it seems to me that somewhere along the way to equal rights we got the idea that life is a zero-sum game and in order for women to gain more freedom, men must be degraded in much the same way that 50s sitcoms minimized women. That is not true. We are equals, and it’s about time we acted like it.  There’s no benefit to society degrading men but since we do degrade them, Monty has a few pointed questions:

I offer a simple question to women who wonder why men choose not enter into committed relationships: What’s in it for the man? Why should a man get married? If men can get sex easily enough without it, what would motivate a man to enter a relationship that is almost all downside otherwise?

The answers will probably not surprise you.  And this list was considerably easier to come up with than the “Worst Figures” list that gave a handful of bloggers the vapors.  For the “worst” list, I had a hard time coming up with eleven names.  For this list, I had a hard time stopping at twenty.  FWIW, my picks were -

• John Adams
• Abigail Adams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Ronald Reagan
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington Carver
• Frederick Douglass
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Daniel Webster
• Clara Barton
• Sam Houston
• Patrick Henry
• Booker T. Washington
• Thomas Paine
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Noah Webster

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