Disco. Inst. honcho Bruce Chapman is upset at The Weakness at the Center of the Conservative Coalition. Shorter Bruce Chapman:
No one wants to have anything to do with social conservatives. Waaaaah! We'll take our ball and go home.
Yesterday, Chapman was going ape about … well, it's hard to be sure. Shorter Bruce Chapman:
Apes aren't people because apes sometimes injure people. After all, no one would keep a tiger as a pet, claim it was like a child, and be shocked when it attacked him. Oh, um, even though he did, it is surely be the fault of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins.
Irrefutable!
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