How many conservative writers does it take to change a light bulb?

THAT'S NOT FUNNY.

That gibe at the expense of our own kind was prompted by a pair of posts the other day. The first, by The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper, revealed breathlessly that "in an article published a couple [of] days ago, Time magazine endorses 'Polyandry,' which Merriam-Webster defines as 'the state or practice of having more than one husband or male mate at one time.' "

The Washington Free Beacon followed up with an unbylined piece focusing on the author's affiliation: "A senior fellow for the Center for American Progress on Friday suggested polyandry as a means to boost the earnings of low-income households."

The Beacon went on to fault the senior fellow for failing to "mention research showing that primarily monogamous societies tend to have lower levels of crime, violence, and poverty, or research showing that monogamy reduces rates of child abuse and neglect, intra-household conflict, and accidental death and homicide in the home." That was followed by a fruitless attempt at reporting: