Letters to the Editor
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A remembrance of a shaved head monk
It was a planned eve of bells, chants, and the shaved head, attractive nuns were coming to the event.
May I add...nuns attending are smashing! Compassion chants at a evening devotion, meditation...etc., instead of remaining homeless...Wow. Enjoyable.
A shaved monk asked me, "Hows my hair look?'
I said, "Woeful. To be honest, Monk Job, your hair looks like you were in a wind-swept, whirlwind tornado."
If you want a good time at dinner, eat sitting across from the nuns. Eat and masticate each morsel. Eat in silence. Watch the nuns chew and sip Miso spinach soup. Yow.
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Noonan's Soul Sister
(or soul-less sister) on why John Edwards isn't a genuine heterosexual:
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/opinion/21dowd.html
Whether or not the country is ready to elect a woman president or a black president, it’s definitely not ready for a metrosexual in chief."
In presidential politics, it’s all but impossible to put the man into manicure. Be sensitive, but not soft. Effete is never effective. Not much has changed since George H. W. Bush drove his New Hampshire campaign off the road by requesting “a splash” more coffee at a truck stop.
John Kerry sank himself by windsurfing in spandex and ordering a cheese steak in Philly with Swiss instead of Cheez Whiz.
We haven’t reached the point where we can handle a green-tea-soy-latte-drinking, self-tanning-sea-salt-mango-body-wrapping, Norah-Jones-listening, yoga-toning chief executive.
Bill Clinton sometimes flirted with metrosexuality, with Zegna ties, Christophe haircuts, Donna Karan suits and keen anima, but the heterosexual beat out the metrosexual. [...]
- - Maureen Dowd, Saturday, April 21, 2007
Bob Somerby:
http://dailyhowler.com/dh042307.shtml
Just a guess: It has been years since Dowd made a sincere statement in a Times column; for her, as for so many in her sad cohort, our politics really is “fun,” “entertainment” and “sport,” as Margaret Carlson told Imus.
[...] No, Kerry didn’t lose in 2004 because he asked for Swiss on a cheese steak. But then, George H. W. Bush didn’t “drive his New Hampshire campaign off the road by requesting ‘a splash’ more coffee at a truck stop,” as Dowd claimed in Saturday’s paragraph 2. As we’ll show you below, it isn’t clear that Bush even made this iconic remark —it may be another of Dowd’s invented “quotations.” And Bush ended up winning that 1988 New Hampshire primary —and then the nomination, and then the White House. Indeed, Bush’s stop at that New Hampshire truck stop was often cited, in 1988, as the moment when he salvaged a failing campaign! But so what? Today, Dowd reinvents this apocryphal incident, in service to her endless hiss-spitting at Edwards. But then, Dowd has long self-displayed as an empty-souled fool. [...]
- - Bob Somerby, Monday, April 23, 2007
Noonan and Dowd (and Carlson, and plenty of beltway boys) carry the same messages as Ann Coulter carries, but they're far more dangerous than Coulter, because Noonan & Dowd & Co. have the power to influence people who would never take Coulter seriously.
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Brat's Sandbox
Good lord, Glenn. You actually read that crap in the kindy garden section of the WSJ? I stopped reading anything in there when they began starting each column with "Wouh wooh wooh. A wise guy, eh?"
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Poofing
Don't think Peggy was even hinting at the British "poofter" since many Americans don't know that word. Do think she was using the American feminine "poofing your hair" to point out -- again! -- how small, dainty and unserious John "Breck Girl" Edwards is.
I am utterly, deadly sick of these people. They have made a huge mess in the world, caused thousands of deaths, dumped enormous amounts of money -- my dang tax dollars, thanks very much -- down the drain, shredded the Constitution, etc., etc., ad nauseam, and they're busy prancing around bleating about who is serious or not. How long before rage is fatal?
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no need to be a dick, gigi...
1. words have meaning ONLY in that the preponderance of nekkid ape's USAGE gives them CONTEXT and meaning...
2. dictionaries ONLY RECORD the common usage and 'meaning' up to that point, they DON'T ORIGINATE the meanings...
3. denotation/connotation can/does change/mutate (even sometimes end up 180 degrees from 'original' meaning; see: cleave/cleave) from USAGE, NOT FROM dictionaries proclaiming it so...
4. yes, i too have heard mon mere and jeune fils talk about 'poofing' up hair (especially back in the day when teased hair was a more common occurrence)...
5. further, it is not uncommon to hear someone talk about their hair was 'poofy' from taking a nap or from a hat, whatever, and it has NEVER had any 'faggot'/gay connotation that i heard...
6. just because a (insert harp glissando here) revered dictionary DOES NOT have a word in it, doesn't mean the word doesn't exist, or isn't in use, or doesn't have an alternative 'definition'; dictionaries -by their nature!- are ALWAYS lagging behind common parlance and usage...
c'mon, you are just a teensy bit oversensitive about this, and -not that it matters that much- wrong about how people -in general- may use the word poofy/poofed up to legitimately (and accurately) describe a universal hair condition...
NOT THAT it isn't like noonan and ilk to use sly slights and slurs to denigrate (and that *probably* was her intention), but the word itself is not illegitimately used to accurately describe a common human bean condition...
more parasitic blogging later, kampers; including a stirring defense of bloodlust in service to preserving democratic ideals ! ! !
kids, collect all the parasitic blogs in the series !
play catch ! invent games !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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Complete Disconnect
This is just another in the catalog of countless examples of the rightwing cerebral disconnect. They do not seem to possess the ability to examine similar but separate instances of behavior with a consistent lens.
In the demented mind of Peggy Noonan, it's unacceptable for a candidate to spend 2 minutes off-camera primping for television. But then a rational, mature person thinks of the famous clip of George Bush flipping the bird into the camera while preparing for a televised address. Is that acceptable, Peggy?
Edwards: I need to make sure my hair looks good for the camera...
Bush: F.U. America! Heh, heh, heh...