April 27, 2012
— Ace Good essay rebutting the charge that the 1950s were a Conformist-Culture Wasteland -- in fact, large numbers of people, from the Middle Class and Working Class, took an interest in High Culture.
The interesting thing about this was that the "elites" objected at the time -- they actually were opposed to The Stupid Masses (as they thought of them) becoming cultured.
The essay is about several things (it's lengthy) and I can't digest it all. But let me just hit that one part.
Macdonald made himself the chief critic of the cultural category he dubbed the “middlebrow.” The great danger to America, he argued in his most famous essay, “Masscult and Midcult,” was the effort by the masses to elevate themselves culturally. Because of the middlebrow impulse, he said, book clubs had spread across the country like so much “ooze.” The result, Macdonald believed, could only be the pollution of high culture and its degradation in becoming popular culture. “Two cultures have developed in this country,” insisted Macdonald, and “it is to the national interest to keep them separate.”His words were vicious. “Already we have far too much of this insipidity—masses of people who are half breeds” daring to partake of “the American culture of the cheap newspaper, the movies, the popular song, the ubiquitous automobile” and creating “hordes of men and women without a spiritual country…without taste, without standards but those of the mob.”
That was, Macdonald explained, because “the masses are not people, they are not The Man in the Street or The Average Man, they are not even that figment of liberal condescension, The Common Man. The masses are, rather, man as non-man.” He quoted the author Roger Fry approvingly as saying Americans “have lost the power to be individuals. They have become social insects like bees and ants.”
MacDonald turned out to be a great fan of the New Left of the 1960s.
Dwight Macdonald, who spat on the ambitions of the midcult man, took an interesting journey himself in the 1960s. He became a movie critic and later a contributor to the Today show. When student radicals took over buildings on the campus of Columbia University, Macdonald celebrated them and responded mildly when members of the Students for a Democratic Society (which gave birth to the terrorist Weathermen) literally set fire to the manuscript of a professor. The man who had denounced the barbarism of the American middle saw true barbarism in practice and found it wonderfully stimulating.
I've written a lot about the not-so-secret yearning of supposedly pro-"Common Man" liberals to reinforce class distinctions, thus carving out for themselves a New Aristocracy class.
This is the primary psychological drive of the bien pensants. If you understand this about them, you understand everything about them.Everything they say, and everything they do, is calculated towards one specific purpose, one unchanging goal: To differentiate themselves from their "common" fellows, and, by differentiating themselves, in conspicuous demonstrations of anti-common sentiment, declare and affirm themselves to be members of the New Aristocracy.
I keep reposting this; it's still true.
The aristocracy has always sought to differentiate itself from the hoi polloi by signalling other aristocrats via the conspicuous display of manners and opinions marking them as elite. In the 1920's, for example, the highborn would talk about opera and symphony, but never popular music-- popular music was for the lower classes, and if you enjoyed a pop song, it was best to keep that to yourself. They would discuss live theater but never filmed features-- again, the first was accpetable, the latter declasse. And of course there is all that stuff about eating and drinking.Gosford Park catalogued much of this, especially in the screenwriter's commentary, which, for my money, was more interesting than the actual movie.
We still have a moneyed aristocracy, of course. And I imagine that many of those old rules still apply (although, quite frankly, I wouldn't know for certain).
What I find interesting from a sociological standpoint is liberals' aping of the opinions and manners of the aristocracy, usually with a healthy infusion of kneejerk progressive politics, as a new form of differentiation from the masses whom they so clearly despise. Just as the old middle classes would also attempt to mimic the behaviors of the wealthy, so too do today's liberals -- even those who aren't very wealthy at all -- seek to emulate the codes and mores of the leisure-class to show that they, too, belong in the company of the elite.
Quick proof: Go find any liberal. Ask him what he thinks about USAToday. If he does not immediately say "McPaper," I will buy you a Filet-O-Fish or McRib (your choice; supplies are limited).
Now, USAToday is neither an especially good paper nor an especially bad one; it's not really remarkable in any way. But the word has come down from the liberal aristocrats that the proper attitude towards USAToday is that it is a McPaper, and so that's what they all say, even if (as is usually the case) they've never so much as read the paper before in their lives.
They call it McPaper because of a series of faux-aristocratic biases -- the "mom and pop" local operation is always more virtuous than the national franchise, anything that smacks of mass-appeal is to be automatically despised, etc. -- and they say it's a McPaper, over and over again, for the same reason 1920's aristocrats all talked about the operas they usually slept through-- to signal to other "Progressive Elites" that they Belong, that They Are Part of the Higher Class.
Shibboleths, in other words, in that most excellent word Rush Limbaugh introduced me to a month or so back.
The important thing about a shibboleth is not whether it is true. That is not the point of the thing. It may be true; it, more likely, especially as years wear on, may be false.
The important thing, the only important thing, about a shibboleth is that it's not what the commoners are saying. The point of the shibboleth is not reaffirm external truth, but to reaffirm personal identity.
It is no wonder they all quickly fall in a line and begin spouting minor variations on the same stupid claim. The point was never, ever to consider the truth of the matter, and subject it to analysis; but precisely to simply repeat what other self-discovered members of the New Aristocrats are saying, because that's how they each know they belong.
You can stuff your "uncomfortable feelings" in a hat, New Aristocrats. People with some sort of true religious or ethical imperative against killing of any kind may fret a bit over this. But you lot?
The only "uncomfortable feelings" you really have is the fear that one day you might be mistaken for a commoner, by mistakenly saying the same thing the commoners say.
As Michael Palin says in the Argument Clinic sketch: An argument is a reasoned series of premises designed to prove a point. It's not just the automatic gainsaying of whatever someone else says; that's just contradiction.
But that's precisely what the New Aristocrats do. This isn't thinking. This isn't reason. This is simply the automatic, reflexive contradiction of anything a commoner might happen to say. Even if the "commoner" happens to be right.
Because the whole point is to have a different opinion, one the commoners do not share. And the commoners, being, generally, a reasonable and sound-thinking lot, unfortunately have the tendency to think the right things a distressingly large amount of the time.
Forcing the New Aristocrats to often, and more and more, take increasingly unreasonable positions simply to signal their uncommonness.
And hence: Increasing stupidity from the supposedly smart.
As the saying goes: Only an intellectual can believe things this stupid.
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Posted by: joeindc44 says hide your dogs, SCOMDEF's in town at April 27, 2012 12:58 PM (QxSug)
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Posted by: jeanne...meh at April 27, 2012 01:00 PM (GdalM)
Posted by: Jimmah at April 27, 2012 01:00 PM (UpwlP)
Now, USAToday is neither an especially good paper nor an especially bad one; it's not really remarkable in any way.
Come on now, its colorful weather map is pretty damn good.
Posted by: kallisto at April 27, 2012 01:00 PM (jm/9g)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 27, 2012 01:01 PM (mg08E)
Ace is a big meany.
Posted by: MarkD at April 27, 2012 01:01 PM (iYBP2)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 01:01 PM (tqwMN)
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.
Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at April 27, 2012 01:02 PM (NG097)
He understood the concept, but he didn't know what the word for it was.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 01:03 PM (tqwMN)
Posted by: Jimmah at April 27, 2012 01:05 PM (UpwlP)
You see a lot, doctor. But are you able to point that high powered perception at yourself? How about it? Why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or are you scared?
-Clarice
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:06 PM (YbQJm)
If West Virginia voted for it, it must be the product of ignorance, bigotry and hatred, and therefore Unconstitutional.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 27, 2012 01:07 PM (mg08E)
with exception , the govt doesn't find us particularly entertaining , just tools to be manipulated for whatever fickle thought they come up with.
guess i'm feeling a little b*tchy.
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 01:08 PM (TomZ9)
You almost got there. Yes, status motivates most of what people do. But why? In the case of males, it is to increase their chances of f*****g the prom queen. We aren't that different than big horn sheep.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:09 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 01:10 PM (Ky1+e)
A short article is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5298060.stm
Although I only care about it because of the catchy Big Audio Dynamite song.
Posted by: wooga at April 27, 2012 01:10 PM (vjyZP)
Did I mention the President has a mighty big horn?
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 27, 2012 01:10 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: ace's non-existant editor [/i] [/b] at April 27, 2012 01:10 PM (ebPtk)
Posted by: Stanley Kowalski at April 27, 2012 01:11 PM (jm/9g)
****
Well, I guess the elites won that one. I wonder if I will have time to watch both American Idol and WWE.
In my humble opinion, Aaron Copeland is America's finest composer. One of his most famous pieces is Fanfare for the Common Man. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/6vsygf5
But I listen to that in a very different way than Copeland intended. Copeland was a commie (at least up until late in life when he learned how badly Stalin had treated Soviet composer Shostakovitch). So Copeland meant for that piece to evoke the crying need that the common man has for an enlightened elite (like Uncle Joe) to look after him. I listen to it and hear how the the common man would be doing just fine, thank you very much, if government would just shut the fuck up.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 01:12 PM (Hx5uv)
imagine how many times i have heard it and really didn't 'get ' the fullness of the terminology..
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 01:12 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 05:08 PM (QKKT0)
Riunite on ice!
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:12 PM (YbQJm)
Civilization has declined.
Posted by: Glaucon at April 27, 2012 01:12 PM (mP9Rx)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 01:12 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 01:13 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 01:13 PM (QKKT0)
The cognitive dissonance there is shattering.
Posted by: Vic at April 27, 2012 01:13 PM (YdQQY)
29Which wine goes best with Hot Pockets?
I thought the beauty of the Hot Pocket was that you didn't have to get them drunk?
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2012 01:14 PM (VwrfQ)
Posted by: EC at April 27, 2012 01:14 PM (R15UB)
"Because the whole point is to have a different opinion, one the commoners do not share. And the commoners, being, generally, a reasonable and sound-thinking lot, unfortunately have the tendency to think the right things a distressingly large amount of the time.
Forcing the New Aristocrats to often, and more and more, take increasingly unreasonable positions simply to signal their uncommonness.
And hence: Increasing stupidity from the supposedly smart."
This in essense is a point I've been making for years and explains why liberalism is a mental disorder. It is the uncanny ability to process the same information as everybody else and come up with precisely the wrong answer, each and every time, consistently and without fail.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 01:14 PM (lHn6+)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 01:14 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: the angel of death in a funny hat at April 27, 2012 01:14 PM (NG097)
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 27, 2012 05:10 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 01:15 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:15 PM (bxiXv)
I have long said this. Thank you for saying it again.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 27, 2012 01:15 PM (DuH+r)
Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2012 01:15 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Vic at April 27, 2012 01:15 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 05:08 PM (QKKT0) Riunite on ice!
That's nice!
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:16 PM (6TB1Z)
Forcing the New Aristocrats to often, and more and more, take increasingly unreasonable positions simply to signal their uncommonness.
And hence: Increasing stupidity from the supposedly smart."
Brilliantly said, Ace. You're too smart to be down here with us ass-scratching rabble.
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 01:16 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:16 PM (bxiXv)
Well ... they won. Now, the "elites" are a bunch of uncultured savages worshiping third world retards and dog-eaters.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 01:17 PM (X3lox)
That's a big twinkie.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:17 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2012 01:18 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 01:18 PM (lHn6+)
What pisses me off the most about intellectual elitism is the sheer foppish absurdity of all that deep thinkin'. These motherfuckers make a VIRTUE of having nothing to say that is either informed by, or likely to make an impact on, the real world.
So much so that I REFUSE to read much philosophy. Which leads to even more disdainful sniffery at not having read the Great Thinkers, which is how these powdered douchestockings see themselves.
Yeah, my sleeve length is longer than my inseam. When I want your Great Thoughts, I'll split your fuckin head open and serve myself, Poindexter.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 01:18 PM (APmL9)
Liberalism is like a lesion on the exit of the anus.
Very uncomfortable and annoying as fuck.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2012 01:19 PM (UK9cE)
The 50s were a time of much higher class in the public. Just look at the TV programs of those years and compare them to the trash we get now.
Posted by: Vic at April 27, 2012 05:15 PM (YdQQY)
Such as The Texaco Hour, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, Howdy Doody, Dick Clark's Bandstand, and my favorite, Test Pattern.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 27, 2012 01:19 PM (TkGkA)
Posted by: The recession at April 27, 2012 01:19 PM (KCvsd)
Posted by: King Barky, Dog Gobbler at April 27, 2012 01:19 PM (O4AQQ)
Threadwinner
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 27, 2012 01:20 PM (QKKT0)
Yes.
(sorry, Mr. Dogg, I'm not trying to ride your ass today, but you keep tossing these softballs into the air...)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 27, 2012 01:20 PM (ebPtk)
Extra especially this applies to the Mooch.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 27, 2012 01:20 PM (cHZB7)
Great, a nation of fucking hipsters
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 27, 2012 01:20 PM (tKFT6)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 05:08 PM (QKKT0)
Ripple.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2012 01:21 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:21 PM (6TB1Z)
It started before then, it just didn't surface until the late 50s.
Remember, one of the many fascinating things that the MFM don't want you to know about the Venona intercepts is that the USSR as early as the late 1920s was funding sympathetic Western "artists" to create "art" that was expressly intended to be ugly / non-aesthetic. This was intended to depress the capitalist running dogs and hasten world Communism.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 01:21 PM (tqwMN)
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 27, 2012 01:22 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 01:22 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: ace's non-existant editor [/i] [/b] at April 27, 2012 01:22 PM (ebPtk)
Posted by: Woody Allen at April 27, 2012 01:23 PM (XBdI0)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:23 PM (bxiXv)
Christ on a crutch, my 15 year old daughter gets how silly this is. Of course, I am of the intellectual aristocracy, so bite me mediocre people.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:23 PM (6TB1Z)
Mr. Seigel does not discuss how, in the late 60s and after, "high art" went from consisting of beautiful things to increasingly freakish and ugly things.
Of course this served to further alienate the majority of the people.
However, it also served, and continues to serve, to indicate that those who fancy themselves our betters are increasingly just a bunch of well heeled nincompoops.
And, of this class of people, there has never been nor will there ever be a better avatar than Barack Obama. Truly he is the apotheosis of the new, meritocratic, post-post-modern, high-culture man.
They have reached the mountain top. It is time to push them down the side.
Posted by: jocon307 at April 27, 2012 01:24 PM (QDPDH)
Not unlike Mike.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:25 PM (6TB1Z)
http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/0671792253
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 01:25 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 05:22 PM (qFpRI)
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Having forsaken the idea that every man is made in the image of God, they seek to re-create man in their own .
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 01:25 PM (P6QsQ)
Now, you might not like her. You may have very good reasons not to.
But the Left doesn't.
The Left is very good at identifying betes noires to attack and setting up memes that fellow lefties can use for ridicule. So, they don't have to articulate any sort of problems with Sarah Palin, they just have to Maher her.
By that I mean you tell some unfunny "joke" that identifies you as an opponent of today's Emmanuel Goldstein. You see it all the time, probably with your families and coworkers. They're clearly intended to be jokes, you can tell by their own forced laugh, but it's also not meant to start a discussion or even provoke a response.
Now you can argue why the Left decided that Sarah Palin was Enemy #1 (attacked Obama effectively, a woman, class distinctions) but you can't argue that she got the Maher treatment in spades. You never had to articulate any problem with her, she's just the enemy and for you to be a good guy, you only had to mock her.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 27, 2012 01:25 PM (T0NGe)
"SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Ever since taking office last year as the nation's first Hispanic female governor, New Mexico's Susana Martinez found her family tree scrutinized over whether her grandfather was an illegal immigrant.
Immigration documents obtained by The Associated Press, however, reveal a fact not even Martinez herself knew: Her Mexican-born grandfather was lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident and later became a citizen in 1942."http://tinyurl.com/86kh8ya
Posted by: . at April 27, 2012 01:26 PM (oZfic)
Ain't nuthin' meritocratic about Barack.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:26 PM (6TB1Z)
However, it also served, and continues to serve, to indicate that those who fancy themselves our betters are increasingly just a bunch of well heeled nincompoops.
"Depraved lunatics and idiots," is more like it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 01:26 PM (X3lox)
****
And if a little money happens to fall into their pocket while they're helping us, so much the better.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 01:26 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 05:01 PM (tqwMN)
The Left has never been against slavery. They just object to who exactly is the slaveowner.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 27, 2012 01:26 PM (T0NGe)
OWSers?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:27 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2012 01:27 PM (hiMsy)
fact not even Martinez herself knew: Her Mexican-born grandfather was
lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident and later became a
citizen in 1942."http://tinyurl.com/86kh8ya
Posted by: . at April 27, 2012 05:26 PM (oZfic)
That's not right. The AP doesn't do any research on their stories.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2012 01:28 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:28 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 01:28 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 27, 2012 01:29 PM (DuH+r)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 01:29 PM (X3lox)
automatically despised
Although let's not go too far the other way here: there's a whole fucking lot of "mass appeal" stuff that deserves to be despised. Kardashians, Kaynes, sparkly vampires, Barack Obama.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at April 27, 2012 01:29 PM (/kI1Q)
re: wine and status
True story. Years ago in California, I was working with a hardcore lib who thought he had exquisite tastes. We went to the liquor store and bought some wine...he spent $30 on some French cabernet, and I found a bottle of Barefoot Cab on sale for 3 or 4 bucks. Did a blind taste test to see which one he liked better...he chose the cheap stuff. When I revealed which wine he liked better he said "well, I still think mine's better" with an embarassed look on his face. Tool.
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:29 PM (YbQJm)
It's important for the peasants to think I am cool. ...We have been programming them to recognize "what is cool", for a long time.
All I have to do...is fit the profile of "cool", and the useful idiots little people think I'm cool. ...Easy peazy for the Preezy of the United Steezy.
Posted by: King Barky, Dog Gobbler at April 27, 2012 01:29 PM (O4AQQ)
Posted by: The recession at April 27, 2012 05:19 PM (KCvsd)
Yes, they have been hellbent on that goal and to replace what was civilization and civilized behavior with the crude, no talent, brainless shit we have today.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 27, 2012 01:30 PM (1Jaio)
OWSers?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 05:27 PM (UOM4
Congressional Black Caucus?
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 01:30 PM (Hx5uv)
The lesson casual liberals take from this is that the majority must always be opposed. The "bad idea" part is stripped out. The "leadership" are more cynical, and just spend their efforts trying to define "the majority" carefully as "not us," so the mass of airheads will follow their leaders and attack modern Western civilization instead of turning back on the leftists in power.<<<
Or these fucking simpletons turn 180 degrees and claim they're the 99% and hence, ARE the majority.
Heads, I win - Tails, shut up.
Intellectual elite, indeed.*
*I hate motherfuckers that say "indeed."
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 01:30 PM (APmL9)
http://fwd4.me/0zOY
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 27, 2012 01:31 PM (pAlYe)
True, but it is to be despised because it's crap, not because of who else likes it.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:31 PM (6TB1Z)
I actually disagree, because that's the start of the slippery slope to becoming a humorless liberal. If Kardashian can convince stupid people with money to willingly give her that money, good for her.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 01:31 PM (tqwMN)
In addition to being elitists, the Left is also completely authoritarian. And that leads me to the following:
It's common knowledge that many, if not most, adolescents are rebellious. And the answer is pretty simple - they are rebelling against what they view as authoritarian parents, even if only in their own minds. I wasn't particularly rebellious because my parents were pretty cool and reasonable with me. Dad was a bit harsher but mom was a stabilizing influence on the few occasions he got unreasonable. My wife, in comparison, had a very authoritarian father and rebelled against him. She is a strong conservative but I do understand why she rebelled at the time.
That having been said, you would think that with the Left's increasing domination of all aspects of life, from culture to governance, combined with its heavy handed authoritarian nature, that the bulk of the country would be on the verge of rebellion. If for no other reason than it is basic human nature for most people to want to be left the fuck alone.
"Dont' Tread on Me" translated into today's vernacular is "Don't Fuck with Me"
And I think that should resound with anyone that isn't an out and out sheep or some other variety of domesticated farm animal.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 01:32 PM (lHn6+)
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 05:30 PM (Hx5uv)
Some lib was telling me how great the Dems are for having the CBC...I said "ooh, that's cute...do they get their own drinking fountain too?" He wasn't amused.
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:32 PM (YbQJm)
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, if you haven't already read it.<<<
That sounds right up my alley. Thanks, I'll pick it up.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 01:32 PM (APmL9)
“have lost the power to be individuals. They have become social insects like bees and ants.”
If that is truly so, then why? Maybe it's because that's what the compulsory government school system was designed to produce.
Posted by: rockhead at April 27, 2012 01:33 PM (jtTKf)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:33 PM (YbQJm)
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I am planning a self improvement regimen that includes more use of air quotes. That way people will know that I am smart. Indeed.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 01:34 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 01:34 PM (qFpRI)
(Especially love the evisceration of Hemingway. What an unlovely bastard).
Posted by: tubal at April 27, 2012 01:34 PM (BoE3Z)
Posted by: Daybrother at April 27, 2012 01:36 PM (g1fN1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:36 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at April 27, 2012 05:35 PM (phlKA)
But they have miles and miles of pretty files of your forefathers' fruit...
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 27, 2012 01:36 PM (pAlYe)
So much so that I REFUSE to read much philosophy. Which leads to even more disdainful sniffery at not having read the Great Thinkers, which is how these powdered douchestockings see themselves.
Yeah, my sleeve length is longer than my inseam. When I want your Great Thoughts, I'll split your fuckin head open and serve myself, Poindexter.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 05:18 PM (APmL9)
Tsk, tsk.
Your formula of hate + anti-knowledge is detrimental to yourself. But it does aid the Left, who gleefully pounce upon your predilections to reinforce their claims that all conservatives are Philistine knuckle-draggers.
I mean, if you want to fuel the Left Wing's memes it's up to you. But if you take a mere moment or two you'll realize that it's counter-productive.
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 01:37 PM (7+pP9)
Thanks for the recommendation, just had it sent to my Kindle.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 27, 2012 01:37 PM (tqwMN)
There's no there there anymore and there hasn't been for many years. That's why I call Obama "The Last Liberal" -- he is just the avatar for a very old, used up tradition. He is the end of it, not the beginning.
Posted by: PJ at April 27, 2012 01:37 PM (DQHjw)
Posted by: NPR Headlines at April 27, 2012 01:38 PM (eHIJJ)
Liberals: How dare those commoners read bills and dare ask us questions!
Bet liberals bi!ch about Gore inventing that darn inner-net thingy and eliminating some of the secrecy they enjoyed.
Posted by: Deli LLama at April 27, 2012 01:38 PM (uv9eO)
The problem, of course, is that they are totally twisted personalities and generally pretty fucking stupid people who shouldn't be entrusted with the care of a pet dog, let anything of serious consequence. But, we are a certificate society and the certificates are printed up like fiat currency on a binge. That is what is killing things. The degradation in demands and standards, which all grew out of the "civil rights" stuff that people are so loathe to even say one wrong word about.
Barky is the poster-child for affirmative action and anti-meritricious national policy. He is the death of America. For our illusory, bullshit sins. Amazing.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 01:39 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: nickless at April 27, 2012 01:39 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: NPR Headlines at April 27, 2012 01:39 PM (eHIJJ)
They hate a self-made man because they have not the will, the energy, the intellect nor the aptitude to be self-made. It's a nuclear reactor of envy that burns at their core. They murmur, wander and stumble about and settle into a muck where their ego meets their abilities: Academia and government.
Today: They hate Romney because he is a self-made rich yet, were enthusiastic about John Kerry--just as rich. Their Obama can speak as though he was poor and struggling in the days he pulled down over $200,000 a year. And on and on: The party run by the rich and pretends it not rich.
Posted by: jimmuy at April 27, 2012 01:39 PM (kSaUf)
We had to crucify that Palin woman. ...Had to. ...We can't have the Republicans putting a woman that near the white house. Ever. That would be a game changer.
We are the only ones who care about women and women's rights. So we have to make an example out of any woman who threatens our territory.
Posted by: King Barky, Dog Gobbler at April 27, 2012 01:39 PM (O4AQQ)
Posted by: What's Orange and Weeps? at April 27, 2012 01:40 PM (CP+yl)
Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes, they do Otto, they just don't understand it.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:40 PM (6TB1Z)
This idea that elitists cling to of closed social circles, made up of the *right* kind of people, who are, of course, all *better* than the common person, is completely foreign to me.
What kind of a person defines, seeks, and relentlessly pursues happiness in the form of perpetually feeding a superiority complex? Someone very insecure about themselves, and, exceptionally narcissistic.
Isn't there something else *other* than feeling superior that makes you happy?
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 01:40 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: NPR Headlines at April 27, 2012 01:40 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:41 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: PJ at April 27, 2012 05:37 PM (DQHjw)
I like that.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 27, 2012 01:41 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 27, 2012 01:41 PM (84JKc)
Posted by: booger at April 27, 2012 01:42 PM (HI6wa)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:42 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: NPR Headlines at April 27, 2012 01:43 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Drew in MO at April 27, 2012 01:43 PM (KeFbr)
See my #31.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 01:43 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 05:34 PM (qFpRI
I am so stealing that. *makes mental note who to apply it to*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:44 PM (UOM48)
So much so that I REFUSE to read much philosophy. Which leads to even more disdainful sniffery at not having read the Great Thinkers, which is how these powdered douchestockings see themselves.
Yeah, my sleeve length is longer than my inseam. When I want your Great Thoughts, I'll split your fuckin head open and serve myself, Poindexter.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 05:18 PM (APmL9)
This is philosophy... and Iike it
Posted by: Baraka AoS at April 27, 2012 01:44 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: NPR Headlines at April 27, 2012 01:44 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: the angel of death in a funny hat at April 27, 2012 01:45 PM (NG097)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 05:08 PM (QKKT0)
White Port and Lemon Juice
Posted by: Speedo Gonzalez at April 27, 2012 01:46 PM (SV4OI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:46 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 05:42 PM (YbQJm
I have a feeling my kid with his hand-me-down clubs (with the ground hog club covers) could easily beat Barky's ass on the course.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:46 PM (UOM48)
Speaking of pretentiousness that I hate, I sometime will order a fine wine in a nice restaurant. I will pick one that has particularly un-grapelike descriptions, e.g., hint of choclate and blackberries or something like that.
When I get the wine I taste it and call the waiter over and complain that somehow my wine has been infested with grapes and that's all I can taste.
My wife doesn't particularly like it when I do this. But I do it anyway.
Because I am evil. And an unsuffistikated roob.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 01:47 PM (lHn6+)
Your formula of hate + anti-knowledge is detrimental to yourself. But it does aid the Left, who gleefully pounce upon your predilections to reinforce their claims that all conservatives are Philistine knuckle-draggers.<<<
I never said I didn't read. Highlights is a fine publication.
I said I refuse to read *much* philosophy. Enough to get the broad strokes. But if the philosophical premise is stupid on its face, why would I waste my living hours on that bullshit?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 01:47 PM (JDIKC)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 01:47 PM (4839r)
There's nothing wrong with good competition. For just about anything. That's human.
The problem with the Left isn't just that they think they're better (they really don't and are just self-hating guilt-ridden lunatics, but that's another story) than anyone, but that they are clearly, demonstrably WORSE than just about everyone else. I don't mind a world record holder thinking he's better than the others. I'm offended and repulsed by a third-stringer who likes to act as if he's better than anyone, let alone everyone.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 01:47 PM (X3lox)
What this is not about is actual ideas that work, nor making the world better, nor anything with a basis in reality. All of this is merely the effort of a group of people that thinks itself better than others to try to get others to accept their delusions of grandeur.
True intellectualism comes from being well read, well versed in the successes and failures of history, and the ability to form your own informed opinions on a variety of subjects. It comes from knowledge - whether learned formally, self-educated, or learned by experience - and by grasping the subject at hand, without resorting to mindlessly regurgitating a consensus opinion or the work of some self-proclaimed expert you don't understand. I don't see a lot of that coming out of the Left these days.
And the fact that we see so little genuine intellectualism out of the Left probably has something to do with why they haven't had an original idea in at least forty years. Instead, we get more creating bureaucracies designed to take a cut of what they rob from Peter to pay Paul with, until the bureaucracy is engorged on its ill-gotten gains and both Peter and Paul are both bled white in the name of equality.
-Liberius Cato,
Somewhat-Pretentious Conservative Intellectual (but at least I can admit it)
Posted by: Cato at April 27, 2012 01:47 PM (3ucH8)
What pisses me off the most about intellectual elitism is the sheer foppish absurdity of all that deep thinkin'. These motherfuckers make a VIRTUE of having nothing to say that is either informed by, or likely to make an impact on, the real world.
So much so that I REFUSE to read much philosophy. Which leads to even more disdainful sniffery at not having read the Great Thinkers, which is how these powdered douchestockings see themselves.
Yeah, my sleeve length is longer than my inseam. When I want your Great Thoughts, I'll split your fuckin head open and serve myself, Poindexter.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 05:18 PM (APmL9)
Good gawd you are funny! You are on fire man!
Posted by: NIPPP at April 27, 2012 01:48 PM (0oYHO)
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 05:08 PM (QKKT0) Riunite on ice! Posted by: model_1066
It's nice.
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 01:48 PM (Ky1+e)
You go through four years of college, you never even take a math course or, frankly, any course with objective content and think that you're brilliant.
The worst of it is that the cultural markers that they set down to identify one as brilliant is taken up by people who just want to appear that way.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 27, 2012 01:48 PM (T0NGe)
"Everything they say, and everything they do, is calculated towards one specific purpose, one unchanging goal: To differentiate themselves from their "common" fellows, and, by differentiating themselves, in conspicuous demonstrations of anti-common sentiment, declare and affirm themselves to be members of the New Aristocracy."
This is as good a description as any I've read of the many liberal assholes I've met in my life.
Oh, raising chickens makes you what again? Better than me?
Fucking hate those assholes and their arugula.
Ramps man, wild ramps, delicious you fat pig Mario Batali, but you're better than me bro, with your 1% lifestyle.
There is a chef named Michael Symon, he lacks the pretentious shitbagginess of that fat blimp Batali...
And his food is great.
Posted by: rev dr e buzz at April 27, 2012 01:48 PM (tcSZb)
ItÂ’s true that the best example of this is the treatment of Palin, but letÂ’s not forget that it wasnÂ’t only the liberalsÂ…
If you were going to be accepted by the elites of the Republican Party, you needed to attack her too. It was the price of admission for hobnobbing with the fellow wizards.
Posted by: jwest at April 27, 2012 01:48 PM (ZDsRL)
Well said.
Can you show us your rack now?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 01:49 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: NYT Headline at April 27, 2012 01:49 PM (g1fN1)
(And Thank you, AmishDude)
Posted by: PJ at April 27, 2012 01:49 PM (DQHjw)
Yes that's true - Communism is always aristocratic. Extremely so. The leader is always an absolute Monarch, in the vein of Ivan the Terrible. And he always has a sycophantic nobility under him. And incidentally, it's always a "he" at the top. An intellectual more highly evolved thinker than I, cause after all I'm just some middle-class piece of shit, could take these facts and develop them. I'll just sit back and vegetate with my Bible and guns until I'm enlightened.
Posted by: tubal-dumb white porch monkey at April 27, 2012 01:49 PM (BoE3Z)
Couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: What's Orange and Weeps? at April 27, 2012 01:49 PM (CP+yl)
You ought to give Aristotle a shot EoJ. He's good. BTW, Locke and two treatises of government? Yup philosophy. The Federalist? Also philosophy.
Like this little gem.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
Philosophy
Or this one
"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect."
Philosophy
My favorite from Aristotle:
But on the other hand, since it is an impossible thing that those who are able to use or to resist force should be willing to remain always in subjection, from this point of view the persons are the same; for those who carry arms can always determine the fate of the constitution.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 01:50 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2012 01:50 PM (VwrfQ)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 01:50 PM (4839r)
Posted by: Drew in MO at April 27, 2012 01:51 PM (KeFbr)
I love one of Batali's restaurants. It's called Otto, and it is a a blast in every way. Great wine list, great cocktails, great pastas and pizzas and snacks, and most of all a really fun, raucous place to go.
But he came out in support of the OWS assholes, so fuck him..I'll keep my money.
And you are correct, Symon can cook.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 01:51 PM (nEUpB)
It's sad, actually. Plus, she told me a few years ago (after she married husband #3, who is fairly wealthy) that we should all be taxed 80% of our income to provide free college educations for everyone.
She's off with #3 for another three month vacay to some exotic land. How I wish she'd stay there.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:51 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: What's Orange and Weeps? at April 27, 2012 01:52 PM (CP+yl)
Liberals have a God Complex.
They aspire to the greatness of a High Being and since they don't actually believe in God, they have taken on the mantle and use their intellectual curiousity to seek what is better, culturally, to elevate humanity to God-like status, not to seek what is good.
That explains, I think, the arrogance and ultimately the pathetic existence that they live. How can one be happy when one is never good enough to be God?
Pardon me while a crack a PBR.
Posted by: ErikW at April 27, 2012 01:53 PM (LwG3i)
But he came out in support of the OWS assholes, so fuck him..I'll keep my money.
And you are correct, Symon can cook.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 05:51 PM (nEUpB
I love you, but jeebus....ate at Otto's in NYC several years ago on the insistence of the s-i-l, and Worst. Pizza. Ever. The service sucked, and I nearly broke a tooth on an olive. Who knew it was cool to leave pits in olives on a pizza??
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:54 PM (UOM48)
She's off with #3 for another three month vacay to some exotic land. How I wish she'd stay there.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 05:51 PM (UOM4
If they were taxed at 80% how could they afford to take three month vacations.
Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2012 01:54 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: , at April 27, 2012 01:54 PM (ggRof)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 01:55 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: AmishDude
They do something like that with "talent." Ever been to a party where everyone there is introduced as a "wonderful artist" or a "gifted musician" or some shit. Then you ask what they do for a living. They work at Starbucks. And they aren't even a fucking barista, yet. *fingers crossed* With libs, it's always bullshit.
At a bar I was really sick of this crap and was talking to some chick and I asked what she did. "I'm an actress, a singer, an artist..." - I cut her off and asked her where she waited tables. She looked surprised and told me the name of some shit restaurant. A golden moment in time, ladies and gentlemen. Golden.
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 01:57 PM (Ky1+e)
Posted by: Drew in MO at April 27, 2012 01:57 PM (KeFbr)
http://tinyurl.com/6nfew48
"Two Perspectives On 'President Cool'"http://tinyurl.com/725khro
The first one is just fascinating, the second one ties in beautifully with the lib/dem mindset.
Posted by: . at April 27, 2012 01:57 PM (oZfic)
Erik W, they don't seek to elevate humanity to God-like status, they seek to elevate only themselves and their pretentious clique of like-minded indoctrinates.
Posted by: Cato at April 27, 2012 01:57 PM (3ucH8)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 01:57 PM (bxiXv)
There's nothing wrong with good competition. For just about anything. That's human.
The problem with the Left isn't just that they think they're better (they really don't and are just self-hating guilt-ridden lunatics, but that's another story) than anyone, but that they are clearly, demonstrably WORSE than just about everyone else. I don't mind a world record holder thinking he's better than the others. I'm offended and repulsed by a third-stringer who likes to act as if he's better than anyone, let alone everyone.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 05:47 PM (X3lox)
My take is that the left NEEDS to think that they are better, all evidence to the contrary be damned. Part mental disorder, part ego trip.
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 01:58 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 27, 2012 01:58 PM (NVu2l)
I usually counter that kind of insanity with "No what we should do is, if you get a post following your doctoral thesis, you get your student loans payed back by the University that gives you a post, and you take up the traditional monastic lifestyle, devoted to research and education, and receive no pay until retirement at 70"
That usually sends them into "Why would any one want to do that??!!!" I have no idea, I don't want to work for no pay either. But if service to the greater good in the form of education is such a universal element amongst the learned class, they should jump at this deal since it's better, by far, for the whole.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 01:59 PM (0q2P7)
He really needed to think of himself as a cut above.
Posted by: rdbrewer at April 27, 2012 01:59 PM (Iyg03)
They bring various types of steak to the table. Australian dry-aged, US dry-aged, and wagyu.
The wagyu was going for $150/lb.
No one at our table ordered the wagyu, but jeebus, the bill.......
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 01:59 PM (UOM48)
http://tinyurl.com/6qdnqdr
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at April 27, 2012 05:21 PM (KCvsd)
ARGGGGGGGGG! All the fucking 'uptalking' annoyed the hell out of me to start with. Then listening to what they were saying? I wanted to bitch slap each and every one of them!
Posted by: NIPPP at April 27, 2012 01:59 PM (0oYHO)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 27, 2012 02:00 PM (YbQJm)
Who the fuck orders olives on pizza?
The last time I was there was just around when OWS fired up. I found out the next day that Batali was an asshole supporter of them, so that will be the last time.
But...too bad you had a bad meal. I have eaten there several times and it has always been fun, with almost always excellent food and always good service.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:00 PM (nEUpB)
Tangential, sort of, the cashier at the grocery store and I were discussing the cover of a local magazine this month, which was reviewing the 45 best food trucks in Seattle. I commented that I remember when most people didn't actually want to buy food from a "roach coach" and they served a very different market.
Now it's hip to eat at a food truck. It puzzles me. I can't decide if that makes me high, medium, or low brow.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2012 02:00 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 27, 2012 02:00 PM (X3lox)
Once, when I was younger and poorer, we were visiting an old friend in CA and went to a very expensive French restaurant to celebrate. There wasn't anyone at the table without a prestigious PdD in a hard science. The sommelier came by and requested our wine preference. My wife, who was raised in a blue collar home, looked over the wine list and being unable to speak french, asked for one of the cheaper wines using its number in the list. He looked icily at us and said something along the lines of "very well, I shall bring you your #XX", making sure to let us know that only rubes ordered by number.
We were having a good time so I let it go, but to this day I'd like to find that guy and ask him which is worse, ordering wines by the number, or being the guy who waits on people who order wine by the number?
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 02:00 PM (6TB1Z)
John F'n Kerry, in a nutshell. He never did a non-treacherous thing in his whole miserable life. But he marries a rich widow (who married inot money herself) and now he fancies himself some kind of Boston Brahmin.
Fucking piece of shit.
Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2012 02:01 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2012 02:01 PM (hiMsy)
Sure and I love to compete, I love to win, and hate hate hate to lose, but I certainly don't equate "I beat you at arbitrary measure X" as "I am somehow a superior person" I think doing that is both wildly inaccurate, and dangerous.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 02:01 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Jay Bee at April 27, 2012 02:02 PM (Xwgt3)
http://tinyurl.com/6nfew48"Two Perspectives On 'President Cool'"
http://tinyurl.com/725khro
The first one is just fascinating, the second one ties in beautifully with the lib/dem mindset.
Posted by: . at April 27, 2012 05:57 PM (oZfic
I'm fascinated, curious. How did you determine your cats were all libs/dems?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:02 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 27, 2012 02:02 PM (nTgAI)
****
Paradise through idiocy!
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 02:02 PM (Hx5uv)
Real people laugh."
Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at April 27, 2012 05:58 PM (hXJOG)
Hey...Johnny Reb: Blow me.
And then blow me again or I'll send Sherman back to finish what he started.
;-
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:03 PM (nEUpB)
... the Commander's Palace for Lunch.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2012 06:01 PM (VwrfQ)
Sounds lovely. They still spit in the risotto when they're bored.
Posted by: tubal at April 27, 2012 02:03 PM (BoE3Z)
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.
Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.
Are you worried?
Richard Nixon’s “enemies list” appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers—to jail, to fine, to bankrupt—are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.
Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”
These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having “outsourced” jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a “lobbyist”) and Thomas O’Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a “bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (e8kgV)
The liberal must hate our society because to do so makes him more visionary than the rest of us.
Posted by: nickless at April 27, 2012 05:39 PM (MMC8r)
Wow. Plus 1,000 on being both dead-on and succinct.
Thread winning material.
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (BziWT)
That is hipsterism at its finest, I had a friend in high school who would do the same stupid shit. Any time something become popular he would immediately dislike it. Hipsters are some of the most useless people in the world, and can be commonly found sitting at a trendy downtown non-chain coffee shop wearing stupid hats they got from their grandparents while typing out a novel that will never quite get finished on a new Mac laptop.
Posted by: Drew in MO at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (KeFbr)
Posted by: pep
I was going to say "bravo" but I'll just say "fuckin' A."
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 02:04 PM (Ky1+e)
****
I'm racist about olives on pizza. Black, yes. Green, no.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 02:05 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: mkf at April 27, 2012 02:06 PM (ee6Ms)
Now it's hip to eat at a food truck. It puzzles me. I can't decide if that makes me high, medium, or low brow.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2012 06:00 PM (RZ8pf)
So true... So True. When I was a kid if your parents drove a suburban or a truck or something similar you were looked at like bumpkins.. Now the SUV is all the rage.
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 27, 2012 02:06 PM (nTgAI)
I would have likely blown a couple of internal seals, and asked something like "What's wrong, you can't pronounce it, or are you trying to make your customers feel bad about not being able to pronounce it?" And watch him flounder.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 02:06 PM (0q2P7)
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on whats in the wind
Posted by: Louis Kronenberger at April 27, 2012 02:08 PM (8g9qq)
This is exactly the problem with the liberal, superior mindset.
If you beat me at X, that means you are superior in the skills necessary to succeed (or at least beat me) at X. Nothing else!
If you live in Park Slope and read the NY Times and the NY Review of Books and wheel your kid around in an $800 Italian stroller, that means that you live in Park Slope and read the NY Times and the NY Review of Books and wheel your kid around in an $800 Italian stroller.
It says nothing about your intellect or your ability to synthesize information or your skill at anything else. But the Left is so enamored of these outward symbols that they have imbued them with mystical powers. Drink this Fair-trade coffee and grow dreadlocks on your six-year-old girl and lo, you will be wise and wonderful and intelligent and better than your butcher from Canarsie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:08 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 06:04 PM (qFpRI
I remember being able to walk in the Lady and Sons and grab a salad. Now it's "Touron" Heaven. However, she actually made a comment about FLOTUS eating everything on set when they taped a show that pissed the hell out of Mooch.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:09 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Cato at April 27, 2012 05:57 PM (3ucH
Yeah, could be. I'm attempting to explain something I simply don't understand.
Besides the obvious evil Commie/Muslim/pick your favorite #Occupy sub group, there seems to be a culture that honestly believes what they're doing is good, ie the college aged, brain-washed crowd.
Maybe I'm over-thinking this. The whole phenomenon is totally alien to me.
Posted by: ErikW at April 27, 2012 02:09 PM (LwG3i)
"As an example of an entire field of activity based on nothing but the Argument from Intimidation, I give you modern art--where, in order to prove that they do possess the special insight possessed only by the mystic 'elite,' the populace are trying to surpass one another in loud exclamations on the splendor of some bare (but smudged) piece of canvas."
(The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 140)
Posted by: Dave G at April 27, 2012 02:09 PM (n7xol)
***
Let's not forget the most potent of all magical charms, a degree from an Ivy League school.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 27, 2012 02:10 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter!
I'm always afraid if I mouth off the staff at a restaurant is going to take turns rubbing their wieners in the bread basket or something. Plus, I jump at the chance to leave a lousy tip.
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 02:10 PM (Ky1+e)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 27, 2012 02:10 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2012 02:10 PM (hiMsy)
Posted by: Fritz at April 27, 2012 02:10 PM (KWdVT)
I work in a place where the truly brilliant are, if not common, easily to be found. The funny thing about them is that they don't worry about social status. Why would they? The people who decide those things are idiots.
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It sounds like you know some engineers.
Posted by: Grim at April 27, 2012 02:11 PM (gyNYk)
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It sounds like you know some engineers.
National lab full of top-rate scientists. Nothing like that to remind you of just how non-unique you are.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 02:13 PM (6TB1Z)
Best wine I've ever had isn't worth the backwash from a bottle of coke.
A glass bottle.
I know, I'm a snob.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2012 02:13 PM (VwrfQ)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 06:06 PM (0q2P7)
While I agree with your response, I am scratching my head over what fellating some aquatic mammals had to do with anything...?
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 02:13 PM (lHn6+)
Yeah, but I bet you didn't get laid that night (by her anyway).
Posted by: What's Orange and Weeps? at April 27, 2012 02:13 PM (CP+yl)
Yeah, I saw that and laughed. I've eaten at Lady and Sons once for my brother's wedding rehearsal dinner. I was 8.5 months pregnant with my first and good Lord did I swell up like a balloon afterwards. The salt! But it was damned good. I wish I'd been able to make it back there while bro and his family were stationed there, but there was never any reservations available when I went to visit. They're in N.Carolina now so I guess I missed my chance.Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:14 PM (qFpRI)
Well really, is there ever a time when that's the wrong response?
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 02:14 PM (6TB1Z)
@154 "Is Alton Brown a moron?"
Very possibly. He also has links to some Christian books on his personal website.
Posted by: JPS at April 27, 2012 02:15 PM (wS6Sf)
A friend of mine is a military wife of a Ranger. She has a mil blog.
She so wanted to hold up a sign for Barky to see when he arrived. Sadly, military families don't have the same freedom of speech the rest of the country has. For instance, when our son comes home and borrows my car to drive over to Parris Island to shop at the Corps store, I can't have any "offensive" political bumper stickers.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:16 PM (UOM48)
John F'n Kerry ... fancies himself some kind of Boston Brahmin.
Believe it or not, John Forbes Kerry is really is of that ilk. He's old school upper-crust. Rich and thick.
Posted by: fluffy at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (O6q63)
Ace, this is why you should take down the Mencken quote from the website banner. Mencken was a snobby jerk. His whole shtick was "vicious disdain" of common folk.
Another stuck-up asshole from that era: Alexander Wolcott. What a dick.
Posted by: gp at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 06:14 PM (6TB1Z)
It beats flogging a dolphin, I guess.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (lHn6+)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (4839r)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:18 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Cricket at April 27, 2012 02:19 PM (ktqBU)
Elite - to me at least - has always implied some sort of merit. I'm still trying to figure out why the fuck most of these people are considered to be "elite" anyway.
It's not by virtue of talent. It's not by virtue of education. It's not by virtue of ability. It's not by virtue of training.
The only thing these slugs have is power and privilege, which is simply bestowed and indicates nothing that sets them apart from the common man. This sort of birthright entitlement mentality may have worked prior to the Information Age, but no longer.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 27, 2012 02:19 PM (rX1N2)
Fact.
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at April 27, 2012 06:14 PM (Qxdfp
I read a food blog several years ago, and a guy who worked as a server in a NYC restaurant said a drunk Batali nearly knocked him down on the street one day. He told Batali, "Watch where you're going, you fat f*ck."
Hilarity did not ensue.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:19 PM (UOM48)
surprised and told me the name of some shit restaurant. A golden moment
in time, ladies and gentlemen. Golden."
Yeah, but I bet you didn't get laid that night (by her anyway).
Posted by: What's Orange and Weeps?
I was engaged at the time so I had, and still tend to have, a real "ask me if I give a shit" attitude toward a lot of people. She was in a really crappy straight-to-video B movie Rockabilly-style-flick where she popped her top. Me and my buddies rented that - so I still got to see her tits.
Posted by: Dang at April 27, 2012 02:20 PM (Ky1+e)
It beats flogging a dolphin, I guess.
That's hot.
Is there an estuary or an inlet local to you where we can meet up?
Posted by: hornyfemaledolphin at April 27, 2012 02:20 PM (VwrfQ)
I'm kinda gleeful about that, bad Christian that I am.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:21 PM (P6QsQ)
That's hot.
Is there an estuary or an inlet local to you where we can meet up?
Posted by: hornyfemaledolphin at April 27, 2012 06:20 PM (VwrfQ)
Pounder Flounder Bay
Posted by: The fish at April 27, 2012 02:21 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 02:22 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 06:18 PM (P6QsQ
*waves*
No. Because Marines are deployed for seven months, there's no mid-deployment leave. Now I read today that 9,000 Marines are being transferred from Okinawa to Guam. Okinawa is our son's duty station.
I'll be having nightmares of him stationed on Guam and it tipping into the sea.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:23 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Thurston Howell III at April 27, 2012 02:23 PM (8g9qq)
Watch out for the snakes!
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 02:26 PM (0q2P7)
I'd read, but wearing reading glasses hurts my nose where I had surgery.
Help me, moronettes!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:27 PM (UOM48)
My grandfather when he was in a joking mood at a meal would motion the waiter over and grandly declare, "Tonight I am in a particularly good mood and with all teh family here I'm also feeling generous... so bring us all a bottle of your cheapest wine!" Almost always the waiters laughed and brought us the cheap (or better than cheap) wine.
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 27, 2012 02:27 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Javems at April 27, 2012 02:30 PM (9KFE7)
Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at April 27, 2012 02:30 PM (+C9LQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 27, 2012 02:31 PM (DuH+r)
Oh! I did not know that!
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:32 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 06:32 PM
He gets a leave in 58 days. Not that I'm counting.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:34 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Refractory. at April 27, 2012 02:34 PM (rZZA3)
Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at April 27, 2012 02:35 PM (+C9LQ)
Posted by: CoolCzech at April 27, 2012 02:36 PM (niZvt)
I said I refuse to read *much* philosophy. Enough to get the broad strokes. But if the philosophical premise is stupid on its face, why would I waste my living hours on that bullshit?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 05:47 PM (JDIKC)
I would very much like to subscribe to your newsletter, Sir.
Posted by: Gallant at April 27, 2012 02:36 PM (FoNan)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:36 PM (P6QsQ)
I
said I refuse to read *much* philosophy. Enough to get the broad
strokes. But if the philosophical premise is stupid on its face, why
would I waste my living hours on that bullshit?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 05:47 PM (JDIKC)
I would very much like to subscribe to your newsletter, Sir.
Posted by: Gallant at April 27, 2012 06:36 PM
Gallant, quit being such a fucking brown noser.
Posted by: Goofus at April 27, 2012 02:37 PM (FoNan)
Posted by: The recession at April 27, 2012 05:19 PM (KCvsd)
History has been so debauched by the progressive turds that nobody coming from their indoctrination centers knows a fucking thing compared to the level of the 50s. The biggest mistake was letting these marxist shitstains get a foothold in wacademia because the vermin have destroyed it. There's started to be a backlash because marxist history is so fucking boring that nobody outside of the ivory towers can stand to read such tripe. Fuckheads like Ayers write unreadable garbage because he's always had a third rate mind; and he's one of the smart ones.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 27, 2012 02:37 PM (g8py2)
You must not be - I don't see any hours/minutes there.
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at April 27, 2012 02:38 PM (Qxdfp)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2012 02:38 PM (jucos)
You are so fucking tiresome, gutterscrunt troll.
Posted by: NIPPP at April 27, 2012 02:39 PM (0oYHO)
I ship through my UPS Store and use the tracking numbers to see if they've arrived, and the damned USPS never shows their progress (even though I've signed on for alerts). He just came back from a ten day convoy and had three packages (with 30 boxes of Girl Scout cookies and the Easter basket I sent him) and said he and his buddies had consumed Every. Single. Cookie. and Candy.
Jeebus.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:39 PM (UOM48)
186 >>>So much so that I REFUSE to read much philosophy. Which leads to even
more disdainful sniffery at not having read the Great Thinkers, which is
how these powdered douchestockings see themselves.
You ought to give Aristotle a shot EoJ. He's good. BTW, Locke and two treatises of government? Yup philosophy. The Federalist? Also philosophy.
Like this little gem.
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Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 05:50 PM (0q2P7)
A bit of advice:
Don't waste your spawn in infertile waters.
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 02:40 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2012 02:40 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at April 27, 2012 06:38 PM
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Underplayed it there, didn't I?
We miss him so much today. It is the 1st birthday of his nephew. His nephew will not even know him once he gets home. This is time we will never regain. It makes me so sad. But then, he is right where he wants to be, doing exactly what he needs to do. So I am grateful for every email, every phone call. I know Jane knows exactly what I mean.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:41 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 27, 2012 02:41 PM (g8py2)
And the real burn of it is that they won't gain an ounce.
Posted by: pep at April 27, 2012 02:42 PM (6TB1Z)
This wannabe elite attitude is what drives the fashion industry.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 27, 2012 02:42 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 27, 2012 06:27 PM (pAlYe)
Heh. I regularly, especially if the wife and I are in a swanky place, will order a martini and when the waiter or bartender recommends some of the pricier vodka's I say, "No. Do you carry the Albertson's house brand? I'd like that please." Albertson's being one of the major food stores out here.....
The wife thinks I overuse this too much but my flashes of humor are so rare that I have to milk them for all they're worth.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 02:42 PM (lHn6+)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 06:18 PM (4839r)
Fixed it for you, you elitest snob.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:43 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: WeekendAtBernankes at April 27, 2012 02:43 PM (L5TO4)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:44 PM (P6QsQ)
How'd you like a tree stump up your ass, loser?
Posted by: Tommy Timbertoe at April 27, 2012 02:44 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 06:41 PM (P6QsQ
Yep. Our son missed being able to say goodbye to my mom, and couldn't attend her funeral. He was blessed to Skype his grandfather the day before he died, but again, couldn't attend the funeral.
I just had to tell him about the 50 year old mom of one of his best friend's dying of cancer after six months. And he's lost a friend to an IED attack.
It will be weird when he comes home and tries to "bond" again with his liberal friends/college students.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:45 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 27, 2012 02:46 PM (V6fqC)
A bit of advice:
Don't waste your spawn in infertile waters.<<<
I'll bet you pull all kinds of pussy.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 02:46 PM (JDIKC)
Spoils of war baby...spoils of war. If you needed that money maybe you shouldn't have started with us.
But I will take you up on your kind offer of a visit. The South is a lovely place, especially for those of us who like barbecue and guns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:46 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at April 27, 2012 02:46 PM (niZvt)
He will find them silly. At least that was my son's experience.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:47 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:48 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 27, 2012 06:46 PM (BziWT)
And it's about three miles long.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:48 PM (P6QsQ)
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The irritating pose that really twists my Y chromosomes into sheepshanks is watching metrosexual dudes with concave chests and wispy beards (much like the ones you describe), and wearing sweatshirts too long at the sleeves, grasp hot coffee mugs with both hands protected by those sleeves and make appreciative slurping noises as they savor their Free Trade Coffee.
Is there such a thing as an XXY male?
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at April 27, 2012 02:48 PM (SV4OI)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:49 PM (P6QsQ)
Mandy Glad to see you and goddessoftheclassroom are alive and well. .
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 02:50 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 06:44 PM (P6QsQ
Mama, I've had the worst experiences going to our local PO. Rude, long lines, etc.
My UPS Store is owned by a military-loving couple. Once something is shipped out of their store, the Postal Service owns it. Took 1 1/2 months for our boy to get his guitar (and my UPS Store owner insisted on carrying it to the PO himself).
I love my UPS Store. However, the postal service sucks, and after I stood in line for 45 minutes at my post office months ago when the kid was on Okinawa and politely asked how long a package would take to reach him, the asshole behind the counter said, "How in the world would I know?"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:50 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 02:52 PM (bxiXv)
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Oh brother. They should know at least a guesstimate. Stupid government worker just being mean for the sake of meanness.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:52 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:52 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2012 06:46 PM (JDIKC)
I get my share of the Megyn Milf librarians. Always from the reference desk.
You're a jealous one, I see.
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 02:52 PM (7+pP9)
I'd read, but wearing reading glasses hurts my nose where I had surgery.
Help me, moronettes!
Jane....have you ever watched that series called 'Lost Girl'? ....It's a Canadian series. Sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. ....They've been playing episodes on SyFy channel, but you can watch them online too.
It's about a secret group of people called the Fae, who each have magical powers of some sort. There's cuss words, nudity, since it's Canadian.
Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2012 02:52 PM (O4AQQ)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:53 PM (P6QsQ)
I met a friend of mine for dinner at one of those ultra-hip Lower-East-Side restaurants (but the food was damned good, and so was the beer) last week. We were easily the oldest people there. My guess is that every bitchy little hipster was no more than 30. But there also wasn't a man in the house. They were all dressed like they wanted to be noticed for how they were dressed, they all looked like a stiff breeze would tip them over, and many of their dates looked tougher than they did.
I have no doubt that I could have cleared the place out without any trouble.
If these people want to start something with the great unwashed of America, they will lose badly and quickly.-
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2012 02:53 PM (nEUpB)
My favorite part is that they imagine that they have insight, having done nothing, and knowing nothing other than University crap that has nothing to do with the real world.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 02:53 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 02:53 PM (511WQ)
Posted by: easy at April 27, 2012 02:53 PM (9KFE7)
It's about a secret group of people called the Fae, who each have magical powers of some sort. There's cuss words, nudity, since it's Canadian.
Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2012 06:52 PM (O4AQQ
*grabs heart.....faints*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:54 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2012 02:56 PM (O4AQQ)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 02:56 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 02:57 PM (qFpRI)
You may remember that my younger son's dream to to attend the Naval Academy. He's now a junior in high school, and he's still working towards that goal.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 06:53 PM (511WQ
That's awesome. Just remind him gently that if/when he makes the Academy, not to look down on those sons of ours who went in as grunts and have seen and shed blood. He will be hated if he's "one of those."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:57 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 06:52 PM (bxiXv)
Same here. It was obvious that Cahrlse was about as stable as throwing sodium into a swimming pool (I have my own hypothesis on why that happened) and I didn't want to stick around anymore so I just left before I got banned. Everything I've subsequently seen confirms that I did the right thing.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 27, 2012 02:57 PM (g8py2)
343...On Syfy?
Yeah. ....Well, not full frontal....but lots of 'eye candy'.... a few butt shots.
Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2012 02:58 PM (O4AQQ)
Fae, who each have magical powers of some sort.
Fae that's the Middle English word for Faeries
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 02:59 PM (0q2P7)
Good luck to your boy. We have three friends whose sons are aiming for West Point/the Naval Academy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2012 02:59 PM (UOM48)
i actually left on my own as i became terrified of Obama's win , and thought he'd joe the plumber me.
i didn't type online at all for mths.
hah, well holdren, ayers, and their dream team, yeah scared me to death.
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 02:59 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 03:00 PM (511WQ)
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 03:00 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: Baraka Obama at April 27, 2012 03:01 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2012 03:01 PM (jucos)
CJ started to believe he was better than everyone else because he had a following. Once the narcissism had him, his conversion to the dark side was inevitable.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at April 27, 2012 03:02 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: NPR at April 27, 2012 03:02 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 03:02 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 27, 2012 03:03 PM (BziWT)
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 27, 2012 03:03 PM (g8py2)
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Sadly, no, I do not.
Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2012 03:03 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 27, 2012 03:04 PM (BziWT)
My own theory runs something along the lines of teh hCarlos getting over-run by demonic forces. Then again, I am an evangelical, so demons stay fairly at the top of my list for many occasions.
My theory is based on Occam's razor. Charles is fucked in the head.
Posted by: LGoPs at April 27, 2012 03:05 PM (lHn6+)
There's an internal flaw in that logic that a person has to be really really stupid to not see.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 27, 2012 03:05 PM (g8py2)
I believe the elite Left despises the working / middle class union members they rely on to win elections.
Reagan was able to tap into this disconnect between middle-class, blue-collar Democrats and the lefties. That's how he won two landslides.
Any Republicans trying to win blue-collar voters nowadays? If so, where are they?
Posted by: stickety at April 27, 2012 03:06 PM (+Vm+w)
Posted by: Mandy P., long-time lurker at April 27, 2012 03:07 PM (qFpRI)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 27, 2012 03:12 PM (511WQ)
I recall reading a book by a food critic, Elizabeth David, a few years ago. There was a piece in the contents that looked interesting, about "obsolete" foods. I figured it would be about dishes like chitterlings or jellied calf feet or something -- things which were once mainstream dishes but have disappeared in the past century. Maybe she'd even get adventurous and cook one. Interesting stuff, right?
When I discovered the article was about dishes which she and other NYC foodies "used to eat" TWO YEARS EARLIER but stopped because they went out of fashion -- I literally threw the book across the room. I've never done that before. How anyone can trust her judgement about food when she admits her tastes change with shifts in fashion simply baffles me.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 27, 2012 03:14 PM (FiplJ)
Posted by: doug at April 27, 2012 03:18 PM (gbtBj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2012 03:18 PM (bxiXv)
354 i never understood what happened to lgf, i was really blow away by zombies leaving.
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 07:00 PM (TomZ9)
I can't say I understand it, but I'd seen it happen at a different site before it happend at lgf. A blogger that had a major boner for trolling with anti-religious stuff, but always claimed to be conservative, or at least not liberal. And then he just goes off the deep-end about everything. Even claiming that the only reason we didn't like illegal immigrants is because of their skin color and they speak spanish...
And then he gets a job in China, and proceeds to at one point claim that he had more freedom there than he did under Bush. Oh well the asshole is dead now.
Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2012 03:22 PM (GULKT)
Andi 'Butthurt' Sullivan?
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 27, 2012 03:26 PM (xm1A1)
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 27, 2012 07:26 PM (xm1A1)
No but I forgot to mention he would link sullivan and go "I know 'boo hiss he's gay'" as if that was the reason people didn't like him. And as I said, dead now.
Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2012 03:29 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2012 07:22 PM (GULKT)
buzzion, it was such an extreme shift, heck everything i knew about islam and Obama I learned there from that period. it was a crazy turn around.
Posted by: willow at April 27, 2012 03:34 PM (TomZ9)
376 What's funny to me is that I have most of the "highbrow" tastes. I do drink wine, I do eat in fancy restaurants, I do read philosophy.
Give that shit up immediately.
The first one is illegal if you're taking antibiotics or any prescribed medications (http://tinyurl.com/7s9lh6e). And even if you don't take any prescribed medications, you are a weak person because you drink (http://tinyurl.com/c4zzbhm) and you are costing your boss (and ultimately Barack Obama's recovery) with your behavior.
The second one requires reading "the Great Thinkers" (http://tinyurl.com/89n28jy) who are a bunch of stupid, dead old white ignorant men.
Your life style leaves you and our country in great peril.
Posted by: Guy Who Reads a Lot at April 27, 2012 03:55 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Refractory. at April 27, 2012 04:39 PM (rZZA3)
Posted by: toby928© at April 27, 2012 04:55 PM (NG097)
Posted by: Refractory. at April 27, 2012 05:09 PM (rZZA3)
Posted by: steevy at April 27, 2012 07:01 PM (7W3wI)
Choir: O, We're marching, marching to Shibboleth, With the Eagle and the Sword! We're praising Zion 'til her death, Until we meet our last reward! Men: Our Lord's reward! Women: Zion! Oh happy Zion! O'er wrapp'd, but not detained! Men: Lion, ferocious Lion! His beard our mighty mane! Women: At First and Main! Men: Oh, we're marching, marching to Omaha, With the Buckram and the Cord! Women: You'll hear us "boom" our State! Men: Ha, ha! As we cross the final ford! Women: The flaming Ford! Choir: Zion! Oh mighty Zion! Your bison now are dust! As your cornflakes rise 'Gainst the rust-red skies, Then our blood requires we must Go-o-o-o Men: Marching, marching to Shibboleth, With the Eagle and the -- Women: The Buckram and the Cord! Men: Sword! Praising Zion 'til her death! Women: Ha, ha! Men: Until we eat our last reward! Women: The flaming Ford! Choir: Zion! Oh righteous Zion! There is no one to blame! For the homespun pies 'Neath the cracking skies Shall release the fulsome rain! Tenor: Shall release! Men: Shall release! Soprano: Shall release! Women: Shall release! Choir: Shall release the vinyl rein!I dunno. I can't even figure it out when I'm straight. But check out "Don't Crush That Dwarf -- Hand Me the Pliers," or "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus," or "Waiting for the Electrician, Or Someone Like Him," etc. All available these days on Youtube.
Posted by: Beverly at April 27, 2012 07:29 PM (z8ccU)
Posted by: Taxpayer1234 at April 27, 2012 07:51 PM (NpmCe)
Conservatives: "Work hard to be one of us"
Liberals: "Act this way to be one of us"
Posted by: WheelmanForHire at April 27, 2012 10:53 PM (l8nIR)
Posted by: red at April 28, 2012 02:09 AM (A+59T)
Posted by: Jordan at April 28, 2012 09:51 AM (17adr)
People are sometimes asked that proverbial question: "If you could go back in time and could kill so-and so before they did X, Y, or Z would you do it?" Such as, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler before he came to power would you do it?"
My choice would be Marx and Engles.
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