Say what you will about Salinger, but his Holden Caulfield had these types pegged. Like, pinioned. To that Styrofoam board used by bug collectors to stick needles through the elytra of a prepared beetle. Of course, hypocrisy doesn’t count when you’re an antifoundationalist. And antifoundationalism is really just an excuse to do anything you want and justify it without having to worry about Enlightment constructs like intellectual consistency, constancy, or
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SOTU Address postmortem: a nano analysis
Yeah. Like I bothered watching that horseshit.
SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread
Peyton Manning is cordial. Marshawn Lynch doesn’t like speaking to the media much. Obama likes to hear himself talk and believes that we should be compelled to listen — and if not listen, to do as he says anyway. The GOP will respond by assuring us that they too care. As if that’s something anyone anywhere gives two shits about. There. My job as CITIZEN JOURNALIST is done.
Whereabouts
Incidentally, I should mention that I’ve been doing a lot of coaching this week in preparation for State finals this weekend. Satchel took second place in the Regional finals Saturday, winning his first two matches by points, outscoring his opponents 24-0, before losing in the finals to a kid who he’s yet to beat, a member of the League’s premier club (at least for now). Satch was also the only
Obama to deliver completely fabricated SOTU speech
Question: if a lie falls in the forest, and millions of people (though not me, you can bet your ass on that) are there to hear it, does that make it true? The left’s new focus group-tested attempt to deconstruct “equality” as it pertains to liberty, equal protection under the law, and opportunity and redefine it as egalitarianism, which is essentially forced conformity held together by a regulatory and police
The price of liberal cosmopolitanism
And no, I’m not being merely figurative here: “Pitcher Loses $12M to Taxes by Signing with Yankees Instead of Diamondbacks, Cubs”: However sweet this $155 million dollar deal seems, the reality is that Masahiro Tanaka will lose almost $90 million over the seven-year life of his contract with the Yankees As reported by ESPN, the New York Yankees have signed Masahiro Tanaka to a 7-year contract worth $155 million, earning an
Monday morning coming down
It’s snowing here in Colorado, at least in my area just east of Boulder. The snow is actually quite beautiful. Some storms out this way are peaceful, while others seem dreary and almost violent. But this one is almost placid. Resigned. As if it knows that, no matter how long it stays or how soon it goes, what it will leave behind, once it runs its own brief lifecycle, is
It’s a little early for most Stupid Tweet of The Day … [Darleen Click]
But I think we’ve found a winner … Watching Frozen, it's awesome. But come on @DisneyPictures ain't it finally time for a kid's film where the princess marries a princess?! — Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) January 25, 2014 Note to Sally: Anime has got this covered.
“Is it immoral to watch the Super Bowl?” [Darleen Click]
Pearl-clutching at NY Times Pro sports are, by definition, monetized arenas for hypermasculinity. Football is nowhere near as overtly vicious as, say, boxing. But it is the one sport that most faithfully recreates our childhood fantasies of war as a winnable contest. Over the past 12 years, as Americans have sought a distraction from the moral incoherence of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the game has served as a
Compare and Contrast [Darleen Click]
When “popular music” was adult and classy … … now, get off my lawn.
