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| Insight Bowl, Iowa Vs. Missouri: Hawkeyes And Tigers Fans Engage In Cultural Exchange - SBNation.com Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST Given their proximity as the state universities of neighboring states, you'd think tonight's Insight Bowl participants would already know a thing or two about each other. But the Missouri Tigers and Iowa Hawkeyes have had to do some serious research in advance of their bowl game. Rock M Nation shares 10 crucial facts about Iowa, from embarrassing alumni to GIFs of indignent Kirk Ferentz. Rock M Nation also put in work on offensive and defensive previews for the game — there's more to bowl prep than captioning photos from the opposing school's website, after all. Black Heart Gold Pants retorts with a list of 10 Mizzou facts, but soon wonders whether Hawkeyes fans should even bother to watch the Insight Bowl after all (BHGP conclusion: yes, they should). Each fanbase should have a good chance to get to know the other, as SB Nation Kansas City points out the Insight Bowl is expecting its biggest crowd ever. Stay tuned to this StoryStream right up through game time, as we review key unit matchups, odds, bowl history and more, and connect with Missouri fans at SB Nation's Rock M Nation and with Iowa fans at Black Heart Gold Pants. For a complete list of bowl games, browse our 2010 college football postseason schedule. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Gay troops may be right’s ally in cultural war - Boston Herald Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:58 PM PST So now openly gay soldiers get to fight and die in neocon-imperialist wars too? Two decades ago, the gay left wanted to smash the bourgeois prisons of monogamy, capitalistic enterprise and patriotic values and bask in the warm sun of bohemian "free love" and avant-garde values. In this, they were simply picking up the torch from the straight left of the 1960s and 1970s, who had sought to throw off the sexual hang-ups of their parents' generation along with their gray flannel suits. As a sexual lifestyle experiment, they failed pretty miserably, the greatest proof being that the affluent and educated children (and grandchildren) of the baby boomers have re-embraced the bourgeois notion of marriage as an essential part of a successful life. Sadly, it's the lower middle class that increasingly sees marriage as an out-of-reach luxury. The irony is that such bourgeois values - monogamy, hard work, etc. - are the best guarantors of success. The gay experiment with open bohemianism was brief. Of course, AIDS played an obvious and tragic role in focusing attention on the downside of promiscuity. But even so, the sweeping embrace of bourgeois lifestyles by the gay community has been stunning. Nowhere is this more evident - and perhaps exaggerated - than in popular culture. Watch ABC's "Modern Family." The sitcom is supposed to be "subversive" in part because it features a gay couple with an adopted daughter from Asia. And you can see why both liberal proponents and conservative opponents of gay marriage see it that way. But imagine you hate the institution of marriage and then watch "Modern Family's" hardworking bourgeois gay couple through those eyes. What's being subverted? Traditional marriage, or some bohemian identity politics fantasy of homosexuality? By the way, according to a recent study "Modern Family" is now the No. 1 sitcom among Republicans but not even in the top 15 among Democrats, who prefer darker shows like Showtime's "Dexter," about a serial killer trying to balance work and family between murders. Or look at the decision to let gays openly serve in the military through the eyes of a principled hater of all things military. From that perspective, gays have just been co-opted by The Man. Meanwhile, the folks who used "don't ask, don't tell" as an excuse to keep the military from recruiting on campuses just saw their argument go up in flames. Personally, I have always felt that gay marriage was an inevitability, for good or ill (most likely both). I do not think that the arguments against gay marriage are all grounded in bigotry, and I find some of the arguments persuasive. But I also find it cruel and absurd to tell gays that living the free-love lifestyle is abominable while at the same time telling them that their committed relationships are illegitimate too. Many of my conservative friends often act as if there's some grand alternative lifestyle for gays. But there isn't. And given that open homosexuality is simply a fact of life, the rise of the HoBos - the homosexual bourgeoisie - strikes me as good news. Jonah Goldberg is an editor-at-large of National Review Online. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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