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This is what happens when you let your kids grow up to be cowboys gender study academicians – they write a lot of run-on sentences that mean pretty much nothing:

Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion

Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK, and Alison Pullen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

This article argues that although gender is no longer widely considered to be a property of individuals, the alternative of viewing it in terms of performativity, where it is the outcome of linguistic and social performances, unnecessarily limits the possibilities of thinking of gender as a form of multiplicity that is both internally and externally differentiated.

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UPDATED AND BUMPED – Upon the news that NH Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley is planning to run for Chair of the Democrat National Committee, I thought I’d make it a bit easier for der Google to help them out.  Originally posted on July 12, 2013

Not us, Harrell – because until one of our elected friends makes an EXTREMELY bad vote, or a REALLY bad series of votes, we stay loyal to them.  Yeah, loyal – something that is in too short supply in politicis as well as probably being a very foreign concept for you, Harrell, you paid  political hack, who’ll seemingly say anything for a political point (and, like most Lefty operatives, a dollar bill being dragged along at the end of a string).  We know people make mistakes (hey, you’ve even tried to call us out a while ago- that was a mistake, wasn’t it, Harrell?  And if I recall, YOU made quite the doozey as well, right?  Shall we bring that up – again?  I guess contriteness was a short term attribute, eh?).

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Republican State Senator Chuck Morse is irritated.  My, my, the person who blessed implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion here in NH allowing grown able-bodied men to sponge off the rest of us, is upset.  And he doesn’t like it at all.  Piqued?  Surely.  Angered?  I just wish I was there with camera in hand to catch the exact nuances of his “black gaze” and probable sharp tongue when confronted with “voter fraud” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Capital Beat: Talk of election complaints touchy subject in State House

Don’t suggest voter fraud in front of Senate President Chuck Morse. The Salem Republican became agitated in budget meetings last week when the deputy attorney general requested a full-time employee to help investigate a growing backlog of open election law complaints.

“I don’t understand why it’s coming out today,” Morse began, his voice rising. “I have been assured by the secretary of state that our elections are good and clean. I wouldn’t want the press to know anything different.”

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Let us first contemplate this from Ian Underwood (emphasis mine) – which was (in part):

But I urge the committee to consider a couple of deeper, less obvious consequences, not just of passing a bill like this, but of even bringing it up for consideration. The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else?   If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones?

This story (reformatted, emphasis mine) isn’t about who didn’t fill out which form when.  While all three participants (JR Hoell, Shawn Jasper, and Dan Tuohy) focused in on that instead of the real reason.  Tree, forest – they failed to hone in on the actual root problem (heh!).

In this case, the law is an ass and the first two are both squabbling over the south end’s product.

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Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams has been drawn into the political fray over the last couple of years and has a really pithy post on the crack up of the Left when they have to stare into that abyss of what their worldview beliefs are and the reality appearing before their eyes.  It really beggers their innermost mantra that anyone not with them are EVILLL and therefore, subhuman and, thus, incapable of anything good.

Adams foretells of their short to mid-term psychosis about to happen in front of us in real-time:

Imagine you are one of the anti-Trump folks who believe we just elected a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic, science-denying dictator. Let’s say that’s the movie playing in your mind. That’s some scary stuff.

Now imagine watching the news as Trump reveals in slow-motion that he’s flexible and pragmatic on just about everything. . . .

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The differences are clear and stark from what we’re seeing from around the world.  I am surprised, however, that Obama’s statement was just full on drool-inducing affirmation of the murderer’s life, given how he has embraced folks like the late Hugo Chavez (outright Socialist leader of Venezuela) and other tin-pot despots that normally are our sworn enemies even as he slighted our traditional allies.

At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.

My, doesn’t it sound like a good man gone before (at 90??) Obama’s time? But first, Trump’s statement (both full statements after the jump, emphasis mine):

Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

He was a dictator – during the “revolution” but afterwards as well. Nothing of the like from Obama – who would have guessed?  Trump continues:

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How might politicians address voter anger at vanishing economic opportunity for working people that helped push unexpected numbers of Americans to Donald Trump’s corner on election day? Immigration and trade have dominated the discussion thus far, but it’s important that policymakers don’t lose sight of more subtle ways the government has distorted the economy to favor the politically connected.

One example: Onerous occupational licensing laws that force people to undergo thousands of hours of often redundant and gratuitous training to perform jobs like auctioneering, tree trimming, and hair styling. . . .

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