backlash.com - September 1998

Some provocative quotes

 

The Global Economy is careening toward disaster, and the Clintonites seem clueless about how to stop it. - Patrick J. Buchanan, The Meltdown of the Global Economy, The American Cause, August 14, 1998

The high and mighty “doctor” Laura made every mistake a woman can make. She screwed up her life completely. Now she passes judgment on all young women who do what she did! - R. Don Steele, Men of Steel Balls newsletter, May 1998

Nothing drives a woman wilder than playing to her low sense of self esteem. - Tom Leykis, The Tom Leykis Show, August 5, 1998

Message of the Titanic: Rich people are bad, poor people are good, and women are right about everything. Hey, it's the Democratic (party) platform. - Dave Winger, 92.5 KLSY, Seattle, March 16, 1998

God made men big and strong so we wouldn't have to be afraid of women; it didn't work. - PC Seldom

In attempting to censor interpersonal communication via political correctness, feminists have asserted that (a) women deserve equality, and that (b) because women deserve equality, they must be granted a protected status by censoring all that is communicated to or about them. - Stephanie Herman, pinc

The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them. - Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary on the topic of female suffrage

Things were starting to stall around the time Windows 95 came out. They were running out of things to copy. - Marc Andreessen, Upside

The time humanity loses waiting for Windows to boot must be in the thousands of person-years per year. That silliness must stop. Shutting down or starting a PC should take only seconds, and all your network connections should be available the moment the PC is back. - Mark L. Van Name & Bill Catchings, Looking Forward: Mark and Bill's computing letter to Santa

Wars are more the result of the male tendency to cooperate in groups than male agressiveness. - Desmond Morriss, July 12, 1998, TLC, The Human Sexes

Windows NT is less stable than Unix because it is more vulnerable to clashing shared libraries (DLL conflicts). But it is only left vulnerable in this way because Microsoft likes to overwrite existing system DLLs with its applications (thus secretly "upgrading" the operating system in ways no competitor would dare to do) to gain unfair leverage against its competition. - Nicholas Petreley, The new Unix alters NT's orbit

Only in America is God dead and Elvis still alive. - Paris Miller

A single infant can now have more than two parents, all of whom might die of old age before he or she begins to teethe. - Wendy McElroy, December 1994, Breeder Reactionaries: The "feminist" war on reproductive technologies, Reason Magazine

FINRRAGE has pointed to the severe , sometimes violent side effects of Prostaglandins and RU-486: nausea, headache, dizziness, diarrhea and bleeding. Post-abortion bleeding is a major complication of an RU-486 abortion and can last up to 35 or 40 days, with a mean duration of eight to 10 days. Some women have required blood transfusions. - Annette MacDonald, RU-486: A dangerous drug, The Vancouver Sun, Friday, September 18, 1992

 

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