I missed yesterday. I can't be tied to your incessant demands for content yet when was the last time I missed a Thursday post. Remember when I posted more than once a day? Remember when I had 12,000 readers a day? We have to face facts: blogging has become like home recording on 8 track tapes. I am off on a shopping exploration of Syracuse. Need me a Jets hat. Kids need multi-coloured goldfish crackers. Why can't Canadians get multi-coloured goldfish crackers? Why is that the cultural divide?
- More A. A. Gill goodness.
- Are US conservative Tea Party types expressing a coherent political point of view? Interesting to hear new Republican darling Scott Brown saying after his election (and riding their wave) that they need to work within the party - and presumably mind their betters. Far too much can be read into anything.
- Nice to see the NYTs point out what a car crash Conan has become: "...it turns out that the cliché that comics are angry, bitter people deep down is true." Odd that it is the top headline on the web version of the paper today.
- I have an Omega 3 drip. Have for years. Soon I will be 17 again.
- Class speaks to cheater pants: "Ferguson Jenkins says Mark McGwire owes an apology to all those pitchers who gave up his home runs." Amen.
- Joel from NCPR just sent me this link to a northern NY folk music project. Where are the traditional folk music and folk tales of my town? Were we not folk?
Is that enough? Is that not enough? Off to find a Wegmans.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - January 22, 2010 12:27 pm
Re the Tea Party -- they don't _have_ to work within the GOP, but if they want to elect people with conservative principles, they'd probably better.
It'd be different if there were no primaries, like in Canada -- in that case, the GOP would be dead and about to be replaced by a "American Tea Party" in 2010 and 2012.
But primaries mean that this energy can be channelled into existing entities. See a few GOP congressmen and governors having tough primary fights over the next few cycles -- they'll either have to respond to the concerns of the new activists or get defeated.
Alan - January 22, 2010 8:51 pm
Or "the concerns of the new activists" will be crushed like all populist movements are crushed. Don't worry about Limbaugh when it happens - and it will because no one gives up power in that way. Rush'll blow with the wind again and adjust the vernacular to suit his needs.
Jay Currie - January 23, 2010 5:36 am
I rather like the first bullet.
Ben, I agree that if they want to elect people the Tea Partiers will have to work inside the Republican Party, but you may remember Robert Heinlein's observation on voting (and I quote from memory) " you have to vote, there may not be a candidate that you want to vote for, but there is certain to be a candidate you need to vote against".
I am pretty sure that is the Tea Party stance in a sentence.
Ben (The Tiger) - January 25, 2010 10:59 pm
Jay --
Absolutely. We just disagree on who they are, from time to time. :p
Alan --
Sure. But the Tea Party folks really are just disaffected conservative Republicans.
I think Bachmann has it right...
Alan - January 25, 2010 11:14 pm
I disagree in the same what I disagree that Al Qaeda is not a long term threat. There is not administrative function, not plan to take on a role in the community. Just negation. Civic medium right wing nihilists.
Ben (The Tiger) - January 26, 2010 12:15 pm
You keep on using the language of the Obama administration -- "The Party of No", "right-wing nihilists".
It's not working down south...
Alan - January 26, 2010 12:54 pm
Well, if you are 100% of down south it doesn't work. If you were to present actual plans and not negativity and vision statements as the content of team party discontent you may have a point. But you haven't done that.
Details and practicality, Ben. These are the keys to a good argument even if they make for a boring rally.