Trying to get back into the swing of doing this every Friday, after an extended period of semi-Galtness. Lots of good stuff, starting with my favorite topic, the 2012 Republican primaries:
- Rudy can’t fail, he can only be failed: Zandar asks why Rudy Giuliani says he’s in it to win it after his disastrous foray in 2008.
- Upper Left agrees that in the future, every Republican will run for president for fifteen minutes.
- Strangely Blogged finds Pat Buchanan flirting with white supremacism.
- Can’t Explain tells me something I never knew before: that rich people semi-rioted at early screenings of The Rules Of the Game. Could a movie make rich people semi-riot now or does it take a ballot recount in Florida to accomplish that today?
- The Commander Guy tells me something else I didn’t know before: Erick Erickson still uses the Drudge siren unironically.
- Happy Valley News has a video of a teatard version of “Howl”. I found it funny partly because I find the original poem funny.
liberty60
FLIRTING?
Good God, he has been going steady with it since 1968!
At this point, they are common law married.
Not to mention the fecundity of their offspring.
protected static
Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!
Again?
Mark S.
I think they’re married with ten kids by now.
ETA: Man, you’ve gotta be quick when it’s slow and high above the plate like that.
WereBear
Flirting? They’re in the corner making out like their plane is going down!*
*Seinfeld
Ash Can
I was going to say something along the lines of “Flirting, hell; he’s had it chained to the bed for years,” but ALL FOUR commenters so far have beat me to it.
NonyNony
I like the fact that Erickson doesn’t seem to have glommed onto the fact that what individual Republicans think about this-that-or-the-other doesn’t matter in the slightest. Only a few of them are allowed to vote their beliefs and then only when the Leadership has determined that their vote won’t matter. So it doesn’t really matter that the Republican Chair of the Energy & Commerce Committee is one of those endangered species of “pro-choice Republicans” – nothing is going to creep by his committee that the leadership doesn’t want to have happen, and Boehner would find his ass hung out to dry in HIS district if anything with a hint of pro-choice-ness were to arrive during his time as Speaker.
(not going to make a flirting/marriage joke about buchanan … not going to make a flirting/marriage joke about buchanan …)
Mark S.
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!
Yep, still sounds ridiculous.
arguingwithsignposts
DougJ, you may have missed this enormous list. for those not musically inclined, some kittehs.
david mizner
So I went to Stranglely Blogged and that led me to Media Matters and then eventually to Steve Sailer’s blog, where I didn’t see any overtly racist posts but where I did find a link to Gerry Rafferty’s obit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/arts/music/05rafferty.html?hpw
Baker Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo
Tom Hilton
Flirting? They just celebrated their 50th anniversary!
(Pat Buchanan flirting w/white supremacism jokes were totally passé by Comment 6, but it’s comment 9 now so they’re totally hip again.)
El Cid
@liberty60: Exactly the point I was going to make.
Actually, I think I linked to this very same Pat Buch column weeks ago.
freelancer
@arguingwithsignposts:
That list is exhaustive, yet insufficient. It doesn’t have Kanye, The Album Leaf, or Girl Talk on it.
AAA Bonds
The whole country right now is a slow-burn riot by the rich – that’s what that Atlantic piece laid out.
The rich are angry because they are, indeed, overworked, compared to the aristocratic dream lives they envy; they are equally angry that they are expected to contribute to the national interest when their wealth has been internationalized.
It’s the only useful remaining point of attack against the rich that I can detect in America: they are vicious hyper-globalists who are bilking and robbing the country because of frustration at national borders, laws, and boundaries. Going there without hopping on Pat Buchanan’s bus is the hard part.
Rick
Logged in just to pick up on the ‘flirting’ line only to find that I’ve been beaten — pummeled actually — to the punch. @Tom Hilton, yours is my favorite. Late, but historically accurate.
Laura W.
Fine, I’ll pimp my own damn (mixed media nothing to do with politics) mosaics blog (where’s Emily? She’s the bestest pimp on the planet). I’m (for the most part) totally underemployed and about to take on grad school loans, which is a keen idea right now, dontcha think? Why not? What’s to lose.
Over the last two years I’ve had the joy of doing some custom work for a few Juicers, and you can see here, in the most recent post, that two of my favorite projects were for the Chief Juicer’s younger sisters’ dead pets. (The family is sorta freaky like that.)
AAA Bonds
Many folks don’t want to talk about the specifics of Buchanan’s record of white supremacist views because they indict a lot of people in America.
He openly defended apartheid as a bastion of civilization in Africa and talked about the massacres, rape, and torture there as “whites mistreating a couple of blacks”, and that’s certainly one of the nastier things he said – but he’s just one name on a long, long, long list of people who advanced that view who are still out there, in office, on cable, pushing, crafting, and implementing foreign policy.
CarolDuhart
My Blog:
Aquariusmoon’s White House. This blog is under heavy construction, so some things aren’t quite in place yet. Plus I have multiple blogs at the same site-all under construction and that I need to find more time for….
Lev
Giuliani might as well run. I fully suspect half the Republicans intending to run are just treating the process as tryouts for FNC punditry anyway. Rudy might want to get a regular show instead of the odd guest appearance.
Lev
Oh, and I’m doing a group blog over at http://www.librarygrape.com/ now. Been writing a lot about neocons, idiots who think the world is going to end next year, teabaggers and the like. You should check it out, if any of those things tickle your fancy.
AAA Bonds
@Lev:
I think it’s the new dominant paradigm of conservative politics in America, no joke. In fact, I think it defines the behavior of the Bachmann-Palin-Rand wing of the party, vs. the McConnells and Boehners who honestly still seem a little bewildered as to why they even need to explain themselves to Republicans in Congress.
The reason why? McConnell and Boehner are of the old school – they want to be on the Hill for life. The Tea Party folks want to be in Hollywood, or New York, or anywhere BUT a grim dorkfest like Washington. D.C.’s just a stop on the way to true greatness.
It’s now considered a bigger success, and a more heroic calling, to be Father Coughlin instead of Robert Taft.
And that is why the government may be completely, totally shut down in the next year. It makes for great TV. The debt ceiling is a good way for McConnell and Boehner to square the circle, but if it gets away from them, there is really nothing they can do. They have a mad dog on a leash, and all that means is that when it turns on them, they’re guaranteed to be in biting distance.
The Shadow
As I said yesterday, Zandar is a sock-puppet liar with poor fact-checking skills.
You really should stop feeding his terrible blog.
John - A Motley Moose
*Warning – self-promotion
by Tom Levenson’s open thread the other day – I haz one happy. I haz one sad – that included a link to a photo study of urban decay in Detroit inspired me to write a diary about Detroit and how perceptions can be skewed to fit a metanarrative. It’s all Tom’s fault that I never got around to turning on the tv that evening.
http://www.motleymoose.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2799
El Cid
@AAA Bonds: “Why Business Owners Feel Powerless.”
* I think this is incorrectly stated by Domhoff, because even though the number of political officials from the upper corporate etc. classes, are comparatively smaller in scale, some of the most prominent officials are direct portions of the corporate power elite upper classes. Not to mention that every or nearly every member of the Senate is a millionaire.
PurpleGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: AAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW cute!
de stijl
My favorite Giuliani pop-culture obscure reference is: “He’s so little!”
AAA Bonds
@El Cid:
Thanks!
Southern Beale
Well, I didn’t make the reader’s blogs cut but I did do a post on how disturbed I am by the whole “golden-voiced homeless man” phenomenon.
FWIW.
JPK
Thanks for the link, DougJ! The Sorrow and the Pity probably offers an even better window into the rancid French ruling class of the time, but it’s not exactly a fun time.
Cat Lady
@Laura W.:
I’ve taken the bait. Check your email. :-D
Just Some Fuckhead
Order something from Laura or another senior pet buys the farm.
Amanda in the South Bay
Wow we just had an earthquake here, 4.1, centered in East San Jose-ish. Felt a little shaking in Mountain View.
Zandar
Thanks for the love, Doug.
Ignore the gilbertarian trolls, they’re in way over their heads.
DougJ
@Zandar:
That guy is crazy. He hates you and the worst he can find is something where you don’t remember what year NAFTA was and then accept his correction?
DougJ
@Lev:
Okay, I added you to my RSS reader.
Zandar
@DougJ: I might have forgotten to recycle once.
I must be flogged, or sommat.
kamper
Doug,
Thanks for the link on Tea Party ‘Howl.’ If readers are interested, we also did Tea Party versions of Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou. I’ll be posting them in coming weeks.