Football Fans for Truth-- now Football Fans and Beyond -- has a great piece delineating the breadth and intensity of liberal anger:

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that the party was seeking advice from George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics and cognitive sciences at the University of California, who argues that the Democrats must develop a message that resonates more deeply with voters. In his latest book ("Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate"), Lakoff argues that Democrats should change their words. For example, the deficit should be labeled a "baby tax''; same-sex marriage should be referred to as "the right to marry''; and trial lawyers should instead be called "public protection attorneys." Message: we're angry, but you're so stupid that if we smile and change the vocabulary, you'll go along.

He concludes:

In therapy, the first order of business in treating the Democrats' "post election stress syndrome" should not be coping, but anger management. And that starts with acceptance.

Read the whole thing, as they say.

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Ahem. If this has any use besides some sort of prelude to sex (actual/phone/cyber), I need to know what the hell it could be.

Damnit, every time I do it I come out looking like either that blonde doofus on 90210 or Normal Fell from Three's Company. I must be pushing the wrong buttons.

H/t to Witty Sex Kitten.

And thanks for that link to My Pet Jawa, who confesses frustration at having to compete with someone calling herself "Witty Sex Kitten," and who has changed his name to Hot Lesbo Star Wars Chick Pundit in retalliation. It's pretty funny.

Finally! I Nailed It! The perfect vitual model of Ace! It's almost like they digitized me just like they did to Susan Dey in Looker!
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Celebrities do a lot of "work" for "charity."

Turns out some of them are pretty nicely compensated for their "charitable" "work."

I don't know. If you fly me first class someplace just to show up and show off my mug for a little while, then throw money and jewelry and four-star food and lodgings at me, I'll go, but I don't know if I'll call it "charity."

PS: Glad to see the New York Post finally getting its mind out of the gutter and jumping on an important story, like how Judith Regan likes it.

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Flooding the zone on this very important, policy-implicating Kerik fiasco!*

While the Broadsheet Doyennes cover this incredibly important story on the first page, throwing all sorts of journalistic resources behind uncovering the Watergate-level scandal, the sensationalistic and puerile New York Post covers the titilating-but-trivial tale of Clinton pardonee Marc Rich's role in the lurid and sex-dripping Oil for Food scandal, and the irresponsible and irrelevant Newsmax bothers itself with non-stories about the son of the UN Secretary General getting juicy payoffs to allow fraud to run wild in the same scam.

I mean, sure, if you want to just jerk off while reading your so-called "news," by all means read the Post and Newsmax.

But if you want the important news delivered to you in a sober and non-sensationalized manner, then go to the New York Times to find out how many times a week Kerik was banging Judith Regan.

And this, folks, is why the alternative media will never supplant our mainstream media. While they're covering important stories which very well could shape world politics for the next twenty years, the right-wing "alternative" media is peeping through keyholes hyping juicy-hot kinky-dirty stories of global corruption to the tune of 21 billion dollars.

Why can't we rise to their level? When will I ever get over my panty-sniffing creepy sexual interest in complicated international oil-market accounting-scams?

*Okay, that Times piece isn't actually about Judith Regan. It's about Kerik's "shadowy connections" to shady people.

Still, it's nice to see where the Times' priorites lay.

I can promise you that if we were talking about Kojo Bush and Marc Cheney, the Times would suddenly rouse itself from its sleepy boredom about the scandal.

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Wait a minute-- if we can capture the douchebag who's supposed to be worrying about security, why can't we nab Omar himself?

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Gallup says maybe:

Even as a new Gallup poll shows that the public values “values” less than November exit polls suggested, another survey from the same outfit released today showed a historic surge in Republican party affiliation.

In Gallup's latest poll this month, those identifying themselves as Republicans jumped to 37% of the public, with Democrats now clearly trailing with 32%.

Democrats have long held more party members than Republicans. During the Clinton years, the bulge was about 5% to 6%. As recently as late-October of this year the Democratic edge was 37% to 34%.

Gallup noted today: “Post-election shifts in partisanship after presidential elections or midterm congressional elections are not routine, but are also not uncommon.”

Memo to the GOP: Don't blow it.

As the late great Michael Kelly observed, every time the Republicans seem on the verge of genuine popularity or electoral dominance, they blow it, by giving in to their worst and/or most sincere (depending on how you view it) instincts.

I guess I'll catch hell from my harder-core conservative readers, but there is no mandate for a strong-form conservative government. There seems to be a mandate for a center-right government with a lot of conservatism, but tempered by reality.

To this extent I'm not terribly upset that George W. Bush seems like a bit of counterfeit conservative (except on his outsized spending, which I find gob-smackingly vile). I'm not sure the time is right for a full-blown strong-form capital-C Conservative Revolutionary, and I don't know if that time will come for twenty or forty years.

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So says the Pundit Guy, cribbing a piece from the Washington Times.

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For all the difficulties, we're finally at least back to where we started under Bush-- or when Clinton left office. However you want to phrase it.

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I knew there must be a reason I couldn't find any more low-carb pound-cake.

Not sure why this particular diet craze is over. It worked for me-- pretty easily. And by "easily," I mean no exercise and no starving.

Then again, it's hard to keep on weight when you're hooked on horse.

Course, it does sorta suck to be so limited as to what you can eat, but that's life.

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...is Protein Wisdom, who's settled on his next rival.

I hope he manages it! James Taranto won't link me, the dickhead. And I've got a $5 bet with Son of Nixon about who'd bet linked by Taranto first. I offered Taranto half of that money -- $2.50, American -- if he would just play fucking ball, but no dice.

Meanwhile, Iowahawk has a shareholder's report as to his own efforts to make some of that crazy blog-money. He's doing about as well as I am.

Oh yeah-- it's lucrative, baby.

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