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.

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?

• 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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I can’t speak for anyone else, but news about insane criminals like Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and the like doesn’t even make my radar.  The likelihood of me encountering such a person is practically nil, and my personal security is already as good as it can be, so there’s nothing there for me to do.  I have no interest in their particular brand of insanity or the crimes they committed.  To me, it seems intrusive to the victims and their families to immerse myself in the details of these crimes.  It’s too late to help their victims, and I really don’t care why killers kill.  I don’t follow that news at all, ever.  It makes absolutely no impact on my life.  I don’t think about it, and consequently, nobody like that made my list.  On the other hand, I follow politics pretty closely.  I read, watch, and think about modern politics a great deal.

About the list – it’s more or less meaningless anyway.  It’s a fun survey – I find it interesting to see what other bloggers put on the various lists – and John sends this stuff out regularly on various topics like movies and whatever else strikes his fancy.  It’s not scientific.  It’s just a snapshot of what various bloggers think at the time.  My practice with all email is to read it, and then delete it, reply to it or archive it immediately.  So I responded, quickly, with:

• Barack Obama
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Jimmy Carter
• Lyndon Johnson
• Howard Zinn
• Zbigniew Brezinski
• Noam Chomsky
• Al Gore
• Rachel Carson

These people came to mind because they have affected my life and the lives of people I know, unlike Gacy, Dahmer, and whoever else Moran thinks should have made the list.  Like Troglopundit, I wish I’d thought of Margaret Sanger.  And if I’d spent more time thinking about it, Tim McVeigh would have made the list as well.  But that was the list right off the top of my head for better or worse, and frankly, I think some nut job like Moran’s pick of Bundy who kills, what, 50 or so people? has a lot less impact on our society and culture and daily life than anyone I did put on the list.  Scanning Moran’s post, I can see some historical figures who deserve to be on it.  I did a paper on William Walker twenty years ago, and yes, I wish I’d thought of him as well.  He actually did a great deal to shape modern politics – we’re still dealing with the fallout of that asshat’s behavior; he helped create the environment that created the Somozas, Chavez and a bunch of other tin pot dictators.  As I said, it was a top-of-the-head response – even before the family emergency I mentioned it’s been a busy couple of weeks.  (As evidenced by the lack of posting here, at the Examiner and in Hot Air’s Green Room.)

So my advice to you, Rick, is first, to lighten up.  Second, if you don’t like the shape of this list, shoot John Hawkins an email and ask to be included next time so you can help form a list more to your liking next time.

[Edited: fixed a couple of typos.]