tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2255241836679799991..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: Everyone Knows It's Windydriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34797611733188418152014-09-09T20:55:57.090-05:002014-09-09T20:55:57.090-05:00DG:
I love when you're able to give a great a...DG:<br /><br />I love when you're able to give a great analogy of conservatism itself, its effect on the country, and the people who espouse the toxic views.<br /><br />Between this addiction analogy/metaphor and the Bobo coolant, you've fucking nailed it. Over and over and over again.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5933495840178527732014-09-09T15:04:06.699-05:002014-09-09T15:04:06.699-05:00"...and not to bring it back to politics but...."...and not to bring it back to politics but..."<br /><br />Well, if that isn't laugh-out-loud hilarious.<br /><br />Sure, Andy -- keep telling yourself that every gobbet of drivel that spills from your lips doesn't begin and end with politics.Frank Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717740988326817494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-77797289623327379822014-09-09T12:16:16.221-05:002014-09-09T12:16:16.221-05:00Great addict metaphor for Republicans. I'd hea...Great addict metaphor for Republicans. I'd heard it before from you and others but I don't think I'd gotten such a vivid and acute sense of the relationship between the 'rush' of Reaganism that can only be somewhat buoyed by Clinton's years then the tweaker freakout dosage of W. Now coming back to sober life for Republicans isn't even on their radar because they're in the middle of a full blown drug addicted fever dream. Good stuff if completely and utterly depressing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87314670328775989422014-09-09T06:24:04.988-05:002014-09-09T06:24:04.988-05:00And EVERYONE knows it and no one does shit about i...And EVERYONE knows it and no one does shit about it and in the meantime the rest of us are left out here to rot....<br /><br />"and the band played on"JerryBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-92053233754908298532014-09-08T19:17:07.198-05:002014-09-08T19:17:07.198-05:00Shit, looks like I stepped in it on the HTML there...Shit, looks like I stepped in it on the HTML there. Would it be too much to ask for a fix on "na$iuml;f "? That $ is supposed to be a & and thus it's supposed to stick in an i with an umlaut/diaresis. In my defense, I worked, and I walked home, and I'm tired.Pinkamenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34055985755822354482014-09-08T19:11:15.431-05:002014-09-08T19:11:15.431-05:00"Debbie Wasserman-Schultz should come out and...<i>"Debbie Wasserman-Schultz should come out and condemn this, and if she doesn't, she's an apologist for domestic violence," the Fox host said...</i><br /><br />I apologize, because I've said this before, and I'm repeating it for the benefit of anyone who might be reading that didn't catch it the first time.<br /><br />When you hear a right-winger say something like this - something they blatantly stole from someone on the left using it effectively against some scumfuck righty - it doesn't help to think of them as a panicky, flailing, desperate person stuck on the defensive. (They usually are, but that's not the point.)<br /><br />Instead, think of them as a character. Specifically, think of them as some wide-eyed na$iuml;f character who learns a Word You Can't Say On Television from some authority figure in their life. This is a situation that happens in cartoons quite frequently, but also happens in live-action sitcoms... and real life, as the parents in the audience can surely attest. (Example: In the episode <i>Sailor Mouth</i>, Spongebob learns a WYCSOTV off a dumpster behind the Krusty Krab.) "Gosh," the character says, "what a great word! It's just so useful! Why did they never teach me this word in school?" So the little moppet uses the WYCSOTV frequently, in every situation, and seems puzzled when adults are scandalized. "But why do they think it's bad? I mean, I'm just using it like they do!"<br /><br />The two main differences between these episodes and the reality in which we live: 1. The only people scandalized by these terms are right-wingers who can't stand their flaws being pointed out, again and again and again, and 2. There exists no entity in this country that has both the will and the authority to sit our darling little RWNJ children down and explain to them, as an authority figure always does in these situations on TV, that there is a time and place for these words to be used. In a perfect world, our media would take up that job, but we don't live in a perfect world, do we?<br /><br />Thus do our own little Spongebobs continue willfully and gleefully using the WYCSOTV they picked up in conversation with the saner part of our country, never being told that they're making a spectacle of themselves in polite company.<br /><br />TL;DR version: <i><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoundEffectBleep" rel="nofollow">*dolphin noise*</a></i> 'em.Pinkamenanoreply@blogger.com