tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post6052963299923614677..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: Predicting Mr. Brooksdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5448169778124335132011-11-19T23:26:11.242-06:002011-11-19T23:26:11.242-06:00I'm glad you bought up the Civil War because t...I'm glad you bought up the Civil War because that has been on my mind of late.<br /><br />After the Civil War, Northerners chose to let 'bygones be bygones' for the sake of national unity.<br /><br />The effort to get past their animosity towards the South and sympathize with them took the extreme form of ADOPTING a Southern sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days of wealthy southern slaveowners.<br /><br />Post civil war popular culture in the north was awash in reverence for the former enemy, minstrel shows, the songs of Stephen Foster then "Birth of a Nation" and "The General" then Gone with the Wind.<br /><br />And for all the sympathy showered on the South, what did we get, nothing but decades of bitter contempt and a thirst for vengeance.<br /><br />Sometimes it seems like a pattern of Northern progressives trying to make nice with reactionary Southerners and failing miserably continues onto this day. I'm a liberal not a radical, but I think some righteous anger is in order here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50784962794021760432011-11-19T05:45:39.325-06:002011-11-19T05:45:39.325-06:00so, you mean dazing = taking a dump?so, you mean dazing = taking a dump?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18300311263533981112011-11-18T16:41:54.491-06:002011-11-18T16:41:54.491-06:00OK I'm having trouble deciding whose near-dail...OK I'm having trouble deciding whose near-daily takedowns of DFB is more entertaining, DG: Yours or Mr. Pierce's.<br /><br />Bravo, Sirs, to the latest from both of you!<br /><br />- Mike from CA<br /><br />(p.s. HA: My 'word verification' word is "dazing" - sounds like an active verb which describes the manner in which DFB extrudes his columns.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26092322700778021092011-11-18T11:44:15.752-06:002011-11-18T11:44:15.752-06:00The problem is, that assholes like Brooks have onl...The problem is, that assholes like Brooks have only flourished (after the 8 years of we-could-fuck-up-an-anvil...from BushCo) because of the leadership vacuum that Barack Obama has created.<br /><br />As a wicked poster on FDL put it:<br /><br />"We thought we were getting something of a Lincoln...instead, we got George McClellan."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50060544379201487962011-11-18T11:39:09.640-06:002011-11-18T11:39:09.640-06:00You get an A+!
P.S. Silly Eurocrats: everyone kno...You get an A+!<br /><br />P.S. <i>Silly Eurocrats: everyone knows that the only Elites who can be trusted to run the word...</i><br /><br />I'm guessing you meant 'world', but word works even better.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19847207838136780352011-11-18T11:16:37.987-06:002011-11-18T11:16:37.987-06:00"If you jam diverse economic cultures into a ..."If you jam diverse economic cultures into a single currency, you’re bound to get an explosion."<br /><br />Since this is supposedly a rigid consequence of nature, Brooks was saying exactly this 3 years ago, right? And that's such an obvious question that he'll be asked that in every interview, right?<br /><br />Right?steevenoreply@blogger.com