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Jon lampoons the latest teabaggery…
Conor Friedersdorf is in typically good form responding to critics.
Newt Gingrich’s “American Solutions” ignorantly insults the world.
Sarah Palin twitters her climate insights:
Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers natureAs Charles Johnson helpfully notes, “at least it’s believable that she actually wrote this stuff herself.”Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng
He also rounds up many truly despicable comments from a single thread on Sen. Nelson’s support for health reform.
Matt Yglesias forwards on a historical anecdote:
One always hopes that things will change, but as Chris Wickham observes in his excellent book The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000, right-wing punditry has been hitting some themes for well over a millennium:(Actually the Roman Empire’s decline and fall from excessive government and taxation has been well documented by economic historian Bruce Bartlett et. al.. But public entertainment and sexual license? Same nonsensical shit it ever was–as in “OMG, Hollywood and The Gays are killing America!“.)
Salvian of Marseilles wrote a long hell-fire sermon called On the Governance of God in the 440s which ascribed Roman failures against the (obviously inferior) “barbarians” to their own sins: notably, unjust and excessive taxation, public entertainment, and sexual license.Some things never change.
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hahahaha as to Charles Johnson. so true. i have a feeling that was a rare insight into how her actual brain (yes, she has one) works. … like a sputtering 1923 Edsel on its last drop of petrol
p.s did you mean "ADventures"?
Nope, though the meanings overlap a lot and several are applicable here.
Just checkin :). Both work
… One meaning venture has that ADventure does not is: "put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation".
Many people on the right today are just throwing feces at the wall hoping something might stick…. I suppose it's cathartic.
so true
The thing that really bothers me about the "teabaggers" is their absence during the Bush years. Where we they during the looting of the surplus? During the great give a way's during the failed oil war? The only time that they seem to appear is when we try to care for our own people.
and therein lies the crux of why i call it "insanity". all of their supposed grassroots anger is only serving to parade around a bunch of stand-in proxies. they just can't say what's really motivating them -- it's too dark and sinister. that's why they need to speak in code that other true believers understand. very scary.
everytime you hear some oldie say loudly and with much vigor "I want my America baaaaack!!" Just stop and think to yourself what that "my America" would look like (hint: gays go around closeted, women stay in the kitchen, darkies don't get uppity, etc.). they think the donna reed show was reality and that is the "my America" they are trying to get back. not the "my America" of the Bush years. it's the "my America" they think the 50s were like on the TeeVee
And the best thing about that wish is that it is false. Back then they would be the first to decry all the changes that WWII and the depression brought. But in one thing you are correct, the bast is always safe because it already has happened and cannot change. The future is always fraught with danger because anything can happen.
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