Common Sense

(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)

My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”

Obviously I can’t let this stand. In full disclosure, TM has been awful nice to me and some of my colleagues. There was the profile they did of me, they named assistant sports editor Jerry Hill’s Bear Blog one of the 10 best in Texas and then they went and profiled Opinion page editor John Young.

More importantly, if anyone is going to make fun of Paul Burka, it is going to be me damnit! I’ve called Paul Burka an idiot on my blog on at least two occassions (someone told me he read them but I guess my douchebaggery doesn’t merit a written response (pdf).) I even got TM to change some of the functions of their Web site so that people couldn’t read the next month’s stories using the free previews. Sorry.
When I made mention of Burka and his idiocy, the only email I got was from editor Evan Smith asking ‘for God’s sakes, please add a .jpg of next month’s cover to the post!’ which I dutifully did. Like I said, they’ve been good to me.

Now, when I go to parties hosted by the Monthly, I just follow him around, drinking my Shiner and smiling. I’ve never known whether to introduce myself and apologize for being so vocal about some disagreements with him or to get the bullhorn out of my trunk (yes I keep a bullhorn in my trunk) and follow him around shouting “This man is a moron. Please disregard everything he says!”

Since he has absolutely no idea what I look like, I figure he thinks I’m some weird stalker kid and that’s why I don’t get invites anymore.

But this post is supposed be about Gina Parker!

The last time I read anything from her, she was kvetching about how we don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore. It’s all Happy Holidays because of some liberal cabal trying to supress worship of Jesus. It couldn’t be because it was awkward for cashiers to wish guys purchasing 7 toys a “Merry Christmas” and then having to hear how the guy is Jewish and the 7 toys are for the 7 nights of Hannukah.

Just ask the black guy who was standing at the urinal next to mine at the movie theater while we took abnormally long pisses after the 3 and half plus hours of Pirates 3, intolerance shouldn’t just be grandfathered in.

QR says:

Up until now, Gina Parker is probably best known as the woman defeated by Tina Benkiser for Republican Party of Texas Chair.

I remember her most for rampant stupidity bitching about everythingher teabagging party. I’d give anything to have a photo of Parker with a bag of Tetley pinned to her lapel looking like a complete moron.

People like Parker don’t understand what it really means to live in a free country. We have to tolerate people like her, but when she goes on a crusade, she is so fucking annoying as to make one want plant a big bag of marijuana in her car and call the cops anonymously (Ed note: I honestly am not planning on doing this, so don’t come to me if it actually happens. I’m sure many other people have had the exact same idea).

So, a week from now most people won’t even remember this incident, but I’m happy to say that I don’t like this woman, not because I’m sexist, but because I have Common Sense.

(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)

My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”

Obviously I can’t let this stand. In full disclosure, TM has been awful nice to me and some of my colleagues. There was the profile they did of me, they named assistant sports editor Jerry Hill’s Bear Blog one of the 10 best in Texas and then they went and profiled Opinion page editor John Young.

More importantly, if anyone is going to make fun of Paul Burka, it is going to be me damnit! I’ve called Paul Burka an idiot on my blog on at least two occassions (someone told me he read them but I guess my douchebaggery doesn’t merit a written response (pdf).) I even got TM to change some of the functions of their Web site so that people couldn’t read the next month’s stories using the free previews. Sorry.
When I made mention of Burka and his idiocy, the only email I got was from editor Evan Smith asking ‘for God’s sakes, please add a .jpg of next month’s cover to the post!’ which I dutifully did. Like I said, they’ve been good to me.

Now, when I go to parties hosted by the Monthly, I just follow him around, drinking my Shiner and smiling. I’ve never known whether to introduce myself and apologize for being so vocal about some disagreements with him or to get the bullhorn out of my trunk (yes I keep a bullhorn in my trunk) and follow him around shouting “This man is a moron. Please disregard everything he says!”

Since he has absolutely no idea what I look like, I figure he thinks I’m some weird stalker kid and that’s why I don’t get invites anymore.

But this post is supposed be about Gina Parker!

The last time I read anything from her, she was kvetching about how we don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore. It’s all Happy Holidays because of some liberal cabal trying to supress worship of Jesus. It couldn’t be because it was awkward for cashiers to wish guys purchasing 7 toys a “Merry Christmas” and then having to hear how the guy is Jewish and the 7 toys are for the 7 nights of Hannukah.

Just ask the black guy who was standing at the urinal next to mine at the movie theater while we took abnormally long pisses after the 3 and half plus hours of Pirates 3, intolerance shouldn’t just be grandfathered in.

QR says:

Up until now, Gina Parker is probably best known as the woman defeated by Tina Benkiser for Republican Party of Texas Chair.

I remember her most for rampant stupidity bitching about everythingher teabagging party. I’d give anything to have a photo of Parker with a bag of Tetley pinned to her lapel looking like a complete moron.

People like Parker don’t understand what it really means to live in a free country. We have to tolerate people like her, but when she goes on a crusade, she is so fucking annoying as to make one want plant a big bag of marijuana in her car and call the cops anonymously (Ed note: I honestly am not planning on doing this, so don’t come to me if it actually happens. I’m sure many other people have had the exact same idea).

So, a week from now most people won’t even remember this incident, but I’m happy to say that I don’t like this woman, not because I’m sexist, but because I have Common Sense.