Some animals are more equal than others.

I don't know how many of you caught the latest Bill Kristol evisceration on the Daily Show, but you can watch some of it via this Sadly, No! post. I have to say I had precisely the same reaction to Kristol's "The troops deserve better health care than anybody else," as the blogger and Jon, though I hadn't quite followed it to its logical conclusion:

But the key to this whole thing is that Kristol actually seems to be advocating worse health care policy for non-military members … for the express purpose of ensuring that the troops get ‘better health care’ than everybody else (Fox News contributors and senators excepted, natch). Think about that — Kristol wants to artificially maintain lower standards of health care for some people so that some other people can say their own health care provisions are ‘better’. That’s a tacit admission from one of conservatism’s ‘leading lights’ that better health care policy is not a zero-sum game … but we should make it so in deference to wingnut military fetishism.

After all, if your health care isn’t shittier than that of the troops … how can the troops say they have better health care? That’s the logic and it is fucking mind-boggling.


tigrismus adds in comments:

“Some should have it better” is the wingnut modus operandi in every field. Tax policy, welfare policy, healthcare, everything is predicated on some “deserving” class reaping benefits at the expense of some “undeserving” class. Even if you could prove absolutely that their “deserving” class would benefit more in a “rising tide lifting all boats” scenario (e.g. the wealthy under Clinton) it wouldn’t be enough to them: they’d rather make less in real terms as long as the “undeserving” are doing even worse, as long as the gap is widening.

The awesome is nearly overwhelming

Seriously, I'm torn, which is the coolest thing the interwebs have served up to me today?

Option 1:

via h0h0: William Shatner reads Sarah Palin's nonsensical farewell speech as a beat poet and it works disturbingly well.

Option 2:

hoshizora over at Boozebenders posts video from Comic Con of Sifu Kisu who choreographed all the martial arts in the original Avatar: the Last Airbender series, out in the crowds teaching cosplayers how to do the different styles. His demonstration of the Blue Spirit's double sword work alone made me squee like a little girl:

Option 3:

via my pal J-, there's apparently going to be a Dexter game for iPod Touch/iPhone and I am just screwed up enough to think playing a serial killer in a game would be way fun.