Ruffini Chianti Classico: “You sad conservatives! You simply cannot bring yourselves to appreciate the sublime aesthetics of a Barack Obama — the soaring rhetoric, the elevation and glory of beauty and style over the drab, pedestrian monotony of functionality, so blandly redundant in its predictable partisan substance. You are monkeys. And as such, you don’t deserve one so postmodern as a Barack Obama. “– Nor, come to think of it,
August 14, 2008
August 14, 2008
in which I am suddenly, ruthlessly, and without justification, upbraided by glass of Ruffino Chianti Classico: 3
August 14, 2008
Provocateurism, 8
I’ve spent a lot of energy on this site detailing how underlying ideological assumptions — which I believe are necessarily driven by certain linguistic ideas (some of which have become so entrenched in our institutional rhetoric that they are difficult to discern, and even more difficult to weed out) — manifest themselves, in most cases, in predictable political affiliations. On a more concrete level, this idea is fleshed out by