The Past Two Weeks in Stupid

Blogging has been light due to "circumstances" but should resume it's regular clip in the near future. To fill the time, we at FTB present the following idiotic screeds from respectable news sources:

Sean Wilentz: The case for Hillary Clinton's electability

Summary: I hate disenfranchising voters in Florida and Michigan, but I'm totally okay with a system that has the potential to disenfranchise 49.9% of the voters because their preferences don't reflect those of the 50.1% majority. Why? Because if we had a winner take all primary and all events in said fantasyland had transpired exactly as they have in reality, HRC would be winning.

Hack-O-Meter: 9.3 -- I thought historians didn't respect counterfactuals.

Maureen Dowd: Wilting Over Waffles

Summary: Hillary is an emasculating bitch, and Obama's not giving her the pimp-hand she deserves. This apparently raises questions about Obama's electability, because America wants a Commander in Chief who isn't afraid to show a woman her place.

Onion Headline-O-Matic: Bullshit column filled with bullshit.

Linda Hirshman: Hillary Clinton as the battleground in the war between mothers and daughters.

Summary: If you're a woman and you're not voting HRC, you've got mommy issues. That is the only explanation. Any other explanations are merely excuses for your deep-seated mommy issues. 

Judgment: Hirshman falls into a long tradition of older women telling younger women that they don't know what Hillary's campaign really means for women. (See: here, here, and here, although that last one is cheating because it's Hirshman again.) Fortunately, Michelle Goldberg has a pretty damning response.