I’ve always considered David Brooks the Liberal’s Conservative. He seems reasonable; he’s not angry. I assume the Mad Hatters consider him a socialist.
Brooks: “we’ve substituted governance for brokerism, for rigidity that Ronald Regan didn’t have.
And to me, this rigidity comes from this polarizing world view that they’re a bunch of socialists over there. You know, again, I’ve spent a lot of time with the president. I’ve spent a lot of time with the people around him. They’re liberals! … But they’re not idiots. And they’re not Europeans, and they don’t want to be a European welfare state. … It’s American liberalism, and it’s not inflexible.”
I think whatever flexibility the Left possess is regarded as despicable weakness by the Radical Wrong. And many on the Left are tired of being bullied. But we don’t waive our guns in their faces; we just say, Fuck You All.
The goal of terrorism, you see, is not to make a nation bleed but to make it fear. Oklahoma’s nonsensical law suggests our enemies have been successful in that.
One recalls how Bush stood beneath a banner that crowed of a victory against terrorism. But to the degree Oklahoma accurately reflects our national mindset, it is the terrorists who deserve to hoist that banner. America is scared stupid.
There’s original intent for you: only rich white guys can vote. I’m a property owner and I vote to throw this loon off the island.
Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips: “The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. [mjh: Meaning no voting rights for human property such as women and slaves?]But one of those was you had to be a property owner.And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”
Quirky, to say the least. We both enjoyed it and thought it was kinda weird, with a touch of When Harry Met Sally. I don’t know why I like Michael Cera, but I always enjoy him, even in much worse movies, like the aptly named Superbad.
Eccentric performer and romantic skeptic Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest to learn the true nature of love — and gathers some surprising findings when she begins a relationship with actor Michael Cera. Real-life sweethearts Yi and Cera star as themselves in this quirky hybrid of documentary and scripted comedy. The charming romance was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Full Moon occurs on the 21st at 12:27 pm Eastern Standard Time. November’s Full Moon is variously known as the Frost Moon or the Snow Moon, but my favorite name for it is the Beaver Moon. Native Americans took note of how these busy rodents worked extra hard to shore up their dams and stock their lodges for the upcoming winter months, thus granting them a place in their sky lore.
Netflix: Paper Heart