Pugnacious
October 13, 2006
Like Michael, I was blown away at the connect the dots in Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold. Rich shows, how politics, most specifically the desire to secure a lock by one party on the government, mixed with incuriosity, ego, and hubris, along with the ever present power of spin, suckered the US into an optional war that's further eroded the edge of an already precarious cliff. Things fall apart and the center doesn't hold, Yeats wrote. After reading this, you'll see there never was a center in the first place.
Speaking of Republicans, my friend Dan wonders why gay Republicans are hated so.
The mind reels with possibilities.
Sarcasm aside, given that pretty much everyone at GP hurls epithets and generalizations about their opposite numbers, it's not really hatred going on. Pugnacious partisanship is far more apt. Given the small, self-selected sample size that Dan has, generalizing it out to the mythic proportions ("We the Noble vs....") he does, (small, self-selected sample size) is a mistake.
I love the guy, but Dan-o, hatred looks far, far different.
Posted by Jody at October 13, 2006 11:47 AM
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Jody,
Just ended up here. Read your comments on your friend Dan and then you mentioned Ed Brayton. Check out the NPR stream from yesterday by Andrew Sullivan. Just do a search on the NPR.org site and listen to it. He is pushing his book, I have always questioned how he balances things, he, Sullivan is and enigma to me.
E
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at October 13, 2006 03:19 PM
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