Blah blah blah. I don’t have anything to say, which is probably good, because no doubt it would be divisive and bring down the quality of the rhetoric in the blogosphere.
Archives for 2010
You’re Not Paranoid
They are out to get you:
The state of Ohio will lose two congressional seats thanks to the latest U.S. Census figures, and liberal stalwart Dennis Kucinich is worried his seat is on the chopping block.
In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday, the seven-term Democratic congressman and two-time presidential candidate says the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature is likely to eliminate his heavily Democratic Cleveland-area district.
But Kucinich says he’s not just going to stand by while that happens.
It wouldn’t surprise me one tiny bit if this happens. It just wouldn’t.
Open thread
I pretty much always wish I was a barefoot gypsy ’round the campfire singing and playing, but especially this time of year, maybe because I used to go caroling when I was in elementary school.
Now we can get down to what is really wrong.
Talk about anything except the Daily Dish and Four Loko.
There Ought To Be An Award
In the annals of reaching to attain victimization, this Gary Bauer piece should be considered an award winning attempt.
Moore Nominee Update
The Dish spent much more time this year tracking vitriolic right-wing rhetoric than left-wing rhetoric. I went through all of this year’s nominees and there were roughly ten times as many Malkin nominees as Moore nominees. And don’t forget that there is a second category for right-wing bile – the Hewitt Award. If there wasn’t an award for extreme left-wing vindictiveness, the contrast between left and right Cole fixates on wouldn’t be evident. And while I agree that this year’s Malkin nominees are generally more extreme than the Moore nominees, that doesn’t make the Moore nominees defensible. The Dish isn’t going to shy away from pointing out liberal intemperateness and divisiveness just because the other side is currently worse.
Wishing death upon your political enemies isn’t kosher –even if your words are dripping with sarcasm, you’re riffing off an old Dave Weigel quote, and you’re targeting someone as loathsome as Bill Kristol. Is that such a crazy standard to keep?
So basically we agree then- there really is no comparison between the left-wing nominees and the right-wing nominees.
But one last thing- I wasn’t wishing death upon my political enemies. Here is my full statement:
I’m proposing that pretty much every one do what I’m about to do, which is to suggest that I think we all agree the world would be a much better place if Bill Kristol was dead. Let’s give Sully so many nominations he doesn’t know what to do with them.
Pretty clearly, I was simply trying to get everyone to flood you all with nominees. That you chose to cut out the clear intent of the statement to make it appear as if I was just randomly wishing death on people is on you.
And it stoned me just like geloio
I think we’re more of a plutocracy or oligarchy since the ridiculous don’t really rule so much as they just eat up attention (at least in Paul Ryan’s case), but I still like this idea, from Paul Krugman.
The whining from the banksters about Obama not kissing their asses is truly ridiculous. I do think it’s mostly from higher ups, I’ve never heard any friends in finance mention this, and they do spend a lot of time complaining about the government (mostly that they don’t think regulation is done properly in practice).
Feel the birthmentum
A friend just emailed me to tell me that local right-wing radio guy Bob Lonsberry just spent an hour on Obama’s birth certificate.
I believe that neo-birtherism — hey, I believe Obama was born here but there are legitimate questions — will gain momentum over the next year. I believe that we will hear at least one non-partisan Village type (Cokie, Howard Fineman) say “just release all the documents” and that some “respectable” conservative (Gerson, Kraut, Douthat) will engage in some form of neo-birtherism (why is his name misspelled on his student id, etc.).
What do you think?
Update. One down and one to go: it’s Tweety.