Budding UNR columnist suffers career setback from Ann Coulter…
Dear Ms. Katseanes,
I’m writing to inform you that your application to the Young Ann Coulter Society of America has been declined.
While we appreciate your omnidirectional potential for hate and vitriol, and frankly impressed at its early manifestation, your inability to coalesce your rants into a focused tirade directed at “liberal conspiracies of Bill Clinton” disqualifies you for membership.
Your head is in the right place though, as is evidenced by this article. We applaud you for focusing on your feelings, irrelevant personal history and vague impressions of social groups from sipping lattes in the student union.
If you can remember that the sole purpose of editorials like this is to turn your frustrations over your fathers lack of attention into a focused attack on left wing politics then we would happily reconsider your application.
Keep up the good work! Heil Coulter!
-M
Filed under: Where it goes wrong
Heheh, exactly.
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I thought it was funny. I think bikers are funny too.
Everyone no longer hates Jordan, they now hate Emily. wewt.
I’m calling bullshit. A driver’s attitude towards cyclists isn’t something to fuck around about. If that was satire, it was weak, if it was serious it was even weaker.
But until you have some SUV driver clip you with her mirror because you were, “in the middle of the road” or, “not on the sidewalk where you belong,” you’re clueless as to the real ignorance of a person who would prefer to endanger another human being’s life rather than slow down a little or change lanes.
Cyclists are committing crimes, but I’ve yet to see any data showing that it has an effect on the safety of other road user groups. If such data exists I suggest it be widely publicized and used to justify spending more tax dollars to “police” the streets.
I don’t care about convenience issues or time delays that might be incurred by sharing the road with cyclists. Transportation is problematic. More cars on the road will have a larger impact on traffic delays that more bikes.
-M
I’m of the opinion that the reason you’re all so utterly and ridiculously pissed is that she made the sweeping claim that you’re breaking laws. You all want to believe the cyclist culture is so pure, but the fact is you’re ALL breaking laws. You all say “not all cyclists are bad,” but the fact is you’re all doing it. ALL of you. Really, ALL of you. so you get pissed because you kow you can’t win on facts. Then you’re running behind the motorists are dicks angle. Yes, they are. And they are to other motorists, too. Stop pissing motorists off by breaking laws that they have to obey, and maybe some symbiotic relationship will emerge.
It’s also funny how much hate and anger you people are capable of. Hitler? I hope you’re trying to be funny. I’m pretty sure she didn’t advocate rounding you all up and tossing you into the gas chamber. She didn’t even advocate violence. She just said you’re douchebags. And made fun of your clothes, which I loved.
I’m not that pissed really. If i were it would be because shit ass attitudes like that can get me killed. Though she’s doing more than saying that cyclists break laws.
And even that is a pretty limp wristed argument, even for you Jerz. Saying that bikes deserve what they get for breaking laws doesn’t deal with the retards who cut you off because they don’t know the laws and think you belong on the sidewalk. and that doesn’t deal with the fact that they are willing to risk injuring or killing you because you’re “breaking a law.”
And none of that deals with the fact that motorists break the law every time they’re in the car. no one bitches about rolling stops, or yellow light swiping, or doing 70 in 395, yet we all do it and that puts more people at a far greater risk than a bike could.
On average I don’t break any more laws on a bike than in a car.
-M
You always go back to this thing where I’m justifying cars being dicks. I’m not. I’m saying ride defensively. Don’t be a prick on the road, and tell your friends not to be either. You don’t get cars to respect you be fucking around with the law. But I think the bike culture is intent on shoving themselves down cars throats, and all it’s doing is pissing people off. If cars hate you, not only do you look like a douche, but you can die. Understand that. It’s not right, but it is.
There are rules for bikes? Really? I’ll be damned.
I work part-time with Emily and am tempted to ask her about this post and if she’s happy she wrote it.
I’ll let you know what I find out. Maybe I’ll interview her and post it on my site. We’ll see.