Thursday, November 29, 2012

HERE COMES A REGULAR. Having been interested in conservatives who appear to have been driven mad by the election, I haven't spent enough time on conservatives who were quite mad beforehand. So I went and looked at The Anchoress. Here's what she thinks happened November 6:
Faced with a challenger whose most daring political strategy was to cultivate vagueness in his relentless pursuit of all things beige, and an incumbent gleefully willing to launch a daily barrage of splattering, oozing color bombs heedless of what or whom they hit–or whether their tints were environmentally toxic or even true–the voters chose “sound and fury” over “nothing.”
I think by "color bombs" she means Obama attacked beige Romney with his toxic coloredness. Actually I don't know what the fuck she's saying. Nor did I have much luck with this:
For many, and for me, the election signaled the crossing of a Rubicon of sorts: twin-towering notions of Exceptionalism and Indispensability toppled for less conspicuous walk-ups of Isolationism and Nanny Statism; the running out of a clock, all illusions lain aside.
My best guess is: Once America was butch and ruled, but now it's self-involved and doesn't want to engage the world at all, sort of like Ferdinand the Bull. Also, twin-toweredly, 9/11 Changed Everything, slightly used and yours for 90% off. (She said something similar shortly after the election, too -- that "for young adults and the generations coming up the backbone of conservative theory—rugged individualism, privacy, minimal government—is a complete non-sequitur"; now we were no longer right with Reagan, and so must reap the whirlwind.)
We begin, I think, by giving simple thanks to God for the election—without conditions or sly assumptions that we know anything or are somehow colluding with Providence. 
Here I was on firmer ground. From experience I knew that whenever our Mean Fake Nun puts on the wimple of piety, as surely as Gomorrah follows Sodom there will follow some viciousness. Sure enough, in the very next line --
That sounds counterintuitive, I know, but whenever I think a circumstance precludes gratitude, I remember the story of two sisters offering prayerful thanks for the fleas that infested their barracks in a Nazi concentration camp...
One of the benefits of well-drawn villains is that they spur us to examine ourselves for their flaws; when I am mindful enough, and I catch myself being passive-aggressive, I take the example of The Anchoress to warn me off it. Next I'll try taping a picture of Jonah Goldberg to my fridge.

110 comments:

  1. XeckyGilchrist11:17 PM

    when I am mindful enough, and I catch myself being passive-aggressive, I take the example of The Anchoress to warn me off it. Next I'll try taping a picture of Jonah Goldberg to my fridge.

    Beano is a more effective way to reduce any problems with flatulence.

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  2. This is one of those rare occasions where the entire post in context actually makes less sense than the isolated quotes. It seems to be Our Favorite Fake Nun trying to find a silver lining, extending an olive branch, etc. But it takes the form of "I'm praying for Obama" and I've spent enough of my life among evangelical Baptists to know what that means.

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  3. Formerly_Nom_De_Plume12:12 AM

    I'll try taping a picture of Jonah Goldberg to my fridge


    Oh, so you're too busy to go to your fridge right now, but perhaps some of your commenters could look into it for you? When can I come over?

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  4. Spaghetti Lee1:05 AM

    I'll try taping a picture of Jonah Goldberg to my fridge.


    Interesting idea. I am trying to lose weight, but I'm also sharing a fridge with some roommates. Wouldn't want to scare them.

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  5. AGoodQuestion1:16 AM

    I remember the story of two sisters offering prayerful thanks for the fleas that infested their barracks in a Nazi concentration camp...

    And now we come to the award everybody has been waiting for, "Most horrible use of the Holocaust as a teachable moment." The envelope, please.

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  6. DocAmazing1:37 AM

    Oh, for the good old days when would-be saints just plucked out their own eyes or ate grasshoppers, instead of operating keyboards.

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  7. Never change, Wankeress.

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  8. What a bizarre metaphor this is. The walkups of Isolationism and Nanny Statism? Surely that means these two concepts are low-rise and inconvenient, probably poorly insulated and lacking central air and amenities but maybe having some interesting pre-war architectural details.

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  9. PulletSurprise2:18 AM

    We daily consign him, and all of our secular “leadership”, completely to the Lord, in perfect trust; this releases us from the grip of resentment and anger (which the evil one nurtures until it becomes self-poisoning hatred) and thereby makes us free.

    The Anchoress is a regular Leo Buscaglia, isn't she?

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  10. montag22:27 AM

    Conservative theory has a backbone? Carapace, yes. Exoskeleton, yes. Backbone? Not on your life.

    But, shit, why does this sound like it was written by Irving Kristol moments before the onset of a diabetic coma? The neoconservative vituperation about "isolationism" makes no sense at all in an age when we continue to fight multiple wars and launch new one-sided trade offensives in the attempt to secure the world's resources for our multinationals. What would not constitute isolationism? Nuking the population centers of China and India to reduce resource demand?


    Of course, the capitalized "twin towers" of "Exceptionalism" and "Indispensability" are a clue to just how deranged this all is. "Color bombs" pretty much seals the deal.

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  11. Another Kiwi2:59 AM

    All I'm sayin' is that I hope those twin towers had good signage. Imagine, you go to one, go up 60 stories and then find out that you want Exceptionalism and this is Indispensable. Which are, like, stupid names for towers anyway, would it hurt to call them 1 or 2?

    Also lay offa the hash cookies Ankylosaurus, you only think they help you write.

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  12. smut clyde3:14 AM

    How can ya have yer nothing if ya dinna have yer sound and fury??

    the election signaled the crossing of a Rubicon of sorts

    Heraclitus was wrong about that whole "not stepping in the same river twice", at least when the river is the Rubicon -- conservatives have been stepping in it at four-yearly intervals for the last two decades.

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  13. bourbaki4:28 AM

    [T]win-towering notions of Exceptionalism and Indispensability toppled for
    less conspicuous walk-ups of Isolationism and Nanny Statism; the
    running out of a clock, all illusions lain aside.

    I actually think this is a great gonzo summary of City on the Edge of Forever. Almost poetic.



    Maybe The Anchoress is a Trekkie...

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  14. smut clyde4:51 AM

    I'm calling this the Alicublog diet.

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  15. smut clyde4:54 AM

    I had a friend a while ago who was an ex-drinker. Every time he felt the urge he would take himself down to Ward 13 at the local psych hospital where the irreversibly-damaged Korsakoff's Syndrome cases were housed, to renew his resolve not to start drinking again.

    I can see that the Goldberg photo on the fridge would serve a similar purpose.

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  16. redoubt7:54 AM

    "Pray for our President", 2009 edition.

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  17. redoubt7:56 AM

    "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold (because it's a ten-yard penalty and will take them out of field goal range)"

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  18. Slocum8:06 AM

    I think she's angry because inconspicuous walk-up of Nanny Statism prevented Anne Frank from playing her drum set by vaguely pelting her with untrue color bombs.

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  19. MaryRC8:16 AM

    Well, Roy does have a deadline to meet. And he has to take the kids to school and walk the dog and finish his book and it's lunchtime. And anyway to be honest he hasn't been following the Jonah Goldberg picture-on-the-fridge controversy too closely. So yeah, if any of you commenters could help out ... It's not like he's lazy or anything.

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  20. Malaclypse8:35 AM

    the backbone of conservative theory—rugged individualism, privacy, minimal government

    Yea,
    Lord knows that a wanna-be nun who gets the vapors over people fucking
    in unapproved ways is a true defender of privacy.

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  21. sharculese9:27 AM

    I have trouble believing anything could release the Anchoress from the grip of resentment, or that she'd even want it if she could get it.

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  22. sharculese9:29 AM

    They stick all the jerks in exceptionalism.

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  23. "sort of like Ferdinand the Bull"

    Ha. Who or what shall be the bee that stings his bum.

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  24. sharculese9:31 AM

    "for young adults and the generations coming up the backbone of conservative theory—rugged individualism, privacy, minimal government—is a complete non-sequitur"



    Weeeeeeeeellllll yeah, but wingnut buzzword magnet poetry was generally a non sequitur before the election, too, so I'm not sure what's the point?


    I'm beginning to suspect Elizabeth Scalia doesn't actually know what a non sequitur is.

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  25. "the question for us becomes: must edith keeler die? she must die. edith keeler must die. and so, as we collectively grasp our bones mccoys outside the movie theatres of our minds, each and every one of us, our trusty spocks standing nearby in their ski caps, looking on, flinty-eyed, eyes of flint, knowingly, full of knowledge, so knowingly knowledgeable, we also hang on, we hang on, we hang on - even tighter than we did when we gripped our slightly evil double in the transporter beam when we were spliced in 'the enemy within' - because we know that edith keeler must die in order for us all to return to the ship, to make history right again, to, as it were, as it always will be, to beam up. three to beam up, oh lord, three to beam up.

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  26. I do occasionally feel the urge to visit a violent martyrdom on them.

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  27. Beth Spencer10:10 AM

    "ugged individualism, privacy, minimal government"


    The government does have to shrink to a pretty small size to fit in my vagina, which is a quite private space 99.99% percent of the time.

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  28. Beth Spencer10:10 AM

    I have no idea what this means. Are you trying to take The Anchoress' job?

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  29. Let's see if I can run with and torture an already bizarre metaphor for these United States further:
    "low-rise and inconvenient" - suburbia and the death of the city

    "poorly insulated" - climate change
    "lacking central air" - ditto
    "lacking...amenities" - crumbling infrastructure

    Perhaps some of the other commenters can look into the rest? I haven't the time....

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  30. I wondering about how "rugged" works here. Just wondering...

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  31. Halloween_Jack10:25 AM

    I want to boldly go where no one has gone before with this comment.

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  32. glennisw10:26 AM

    I'm curious, how is American Exceptionalism - you know, "America is the best country in the history of the world, EVAH!" - supposed to be "good," while saying that government can uphold the public good - you know, "Nanny state, the irresponsible worship of the federal government by those dependent on it" - supposed to be "bad."



    Aren't they two sides of the same coin? How can American be the greatest thing ever but it's government - which comes from its civic heritage - is to be scorned?

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  33. zencomix10:28 AM

    It sounds like a Kristol Meth Diabetic Coma because Obama's tie dye color bombs will do that to you. If she ever wakes up from the coma, her first words will be "I am not Abraham Lincoln."

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  34. glennisw10:32 AM

    a challenger whose most daring political strategy was to cultivate
    vagueness in his relentless pursuit of all things beige, and an
    incumbent gleefully willing to launch a daily barrage of splattering,
    oozing color bombs


    I guess she's saying that Obama committed the temerity of actually having substance and being interesting, while Romney had mush. How else can you interpret beige vs. color?

    Gee, let's say it another way - "Faced with a challenger who had nothing to say, and an incumbent who had substance that people cared about, the voters chose..."



    The fact that it was "sound and fury over nothing" - is she saying it would be preferable to choose nothing?

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  35. I'll even watch the VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE iterations of this comment.

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  36. One to beam up, IYKWIMAITYD.

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  37. Halloween_Jack10:38 AM

    In the comments, Scalia denies partisanship, and protests, "I mention no politician by name." Plus, of course, in the post she characterizes Romney as "a challenger whose most daring political strategy was to cultivate vagueness in his relentless pursuit of all things beige." In fact, Romney was quite specific on a number of occasions regarding the things that he was lying about, but maybe Scalia didn't want to broach the subject of honesty. I almost left a comment myself wishing that she would begin whatever spiritual journey she's imagining for herself with a Jules Winnfield-esque moment of clarity, but in an effort to try to be more honest myself, I couldn't decide if I really meant it as a curse. Not that she wouldn't deserve it, of course.

    Also, beejeez, who comments here, left a corker of a comment there that I'll quote here in its entirety because a) their commenting system doesn't allow for direct linking to individual entries, and b) it might "disappear":

    Fear not, for I bring you tidings of great joy:

    Barack Obama is not making you marry a gay person.
    Barack Obama is not making you have an abortion.
    Barack Obama is not making health coverage more difficult to get.
    Barack Obama is not starting new wars.
    Barack Obama is not coming for your guns.
    Barack Obama is not taking away your religious freedom.
    Barack Obama is not forcing you to live in such depravation that you bless fleas.
    Barack Obama is not raising your taxes unless you are quite wealthy and if you are wealthy he is not raising them higher than they were when Ronald Reagan was president.
    Barack Obama is not making the economy worse.
    Barack Obama is not making your country change to the point that you will ever, ever, ever seriously consider leaving it for another one.

    You don't have to love Barack Obama. But perhaps you could ease up on the apocalyptic despair and desperation, and spend more time making sure you are on God's side and less time proclaiming that God is on your side.

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  38. Why would Roy keep Chee-Tos in the fridge? Roaches?

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  39. Rumble strips.

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  40. Because we're tough and rugged! It's in our DNA! Rrrgh!


    Seriously though, "American exceptionalism" seems to be one of Scalia's many euphemisms for military adventurism (see also: "strategic military defense").

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  41. For many, and for me, the election signaled the crossing of a Rubicon of sorts


    Indeed. Who among us has not heard the story of how Julius Caesar, ordered to submit to the authority of the legitimate government, boldly signed a bunch of secession petitions instead?

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  42. Which, btw, I meant as a compliment...because I chuckled at your post.

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  43. Mr. Wonderful10:53 AM

    Yes--for which he daily gives prayerful thanks.

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  44. Mr. Wonderful11:08 AM

    Yes, they have, but be careful not to confuse "stepping in it" with "crossing a river."

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  45. bourbaki11:28 AM

    Perfection!

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  46. Uncle Ebeneezer11:32 AM

    In addition to the Twin Towers falling, we witness a trembling Lady Liberty on a casting couch being coerced into a jack-booted, Chicago-thug bukake. Stripped of her frock, and any guns with which to protect herself, she is forced to submit. The storm-troopers, stand by laughing while they chew nicorette gum, and stroke their MSNBC armbands gleefully. When Ohio is called and the Money Shot delivered, none of them are surprised. Indeed, it is just as Obbergruppenfuhrer Silver predicted, in one of his brief outings away from the labs where he performs all manner of sadistic-statistical torture on the bound and gagged, barely-twitching carcass of Capitalism. From a distance, Our Lady hears his effeminate laugh echoing throughout the FEMA campgrounds, just barely perceivable over the cacophony of black copters and photovoltaic inverters. Her face covered in the spunk of entitlements mixed with tears (the memories of a once-great nation), Liberals won't rest until they see her wipe off the mess with an American flag.

    See, I can do it too!

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  47. BigHank5311:38 AM

    That stuff oozing out of the Anchoress isn't forgiveness, healing, or reconciliation. Wear gloves.

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  48. Engage... my... pants? Did I do that right?

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  49. Slocum12:07 PM

    I could only ever be the Cyndi Lauper to her Madonna.

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  50. ChrisVosburg12:08 PM

    You might also enjoy fake psychotherapist Robin of Bedlam's crazy-quilt mix of bewilderment, betrayal, unrequited faith and dire prediction.

    Early on, she confesses:

    It is a truly surreal experience to see the world completely different than everyone else around you.

    Yeah, must keep ya busy. And it gets better:

    And yet, crazily, liberals think this is just another election, with a kind and
    gentle Democrat at the helm. Will this danger change a few hearts and minds? Will people see the treacherous cliff we’re on? If, God forbid, catastrophe hits, will they fall on their knees and ask for forgiveness and help from Almighty God?


    Don't miss the next psychotic episode: "Robin Completely Loses Her Shit" at this theater, same time next week!

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  51. Halloween_Jack12:19 PM

    Didn't she drop out of sight for a while? (And I noted that her post, titled "The Day After", is dated the 17th.)

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  52. Even though she's soaking in it.

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  53. ChrisVosburg12:58 PM

    She did in fact.

    In an especially bizarre gesture, she says in post at her own blog a few weeks back that she asked The American Thinker to delete her entire archive of contributions there, in what I like to think of as a rare moment of lucidity (AKA shame).

    Silly Robin: the internet never forgets [laughing], and I suppose you could look up her comedy relief postings at the Internet archive waybac machine site.

    She says she will no longer contribute anything to AT, but hell, with Robin, anything is possible, I guess.

    Incidentally, i don't know if I mentioned this before, but all references to herself as a "licensed psychotherapist" have been quietly removed from the "About Robin" page of her blog.

    I'd like to think it is the result of an email I sent to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences a year or so back, linking to a couple of Robin's loonier posts at AT where she pronounced phony "diagnoses" on gays and liberals she doesn't like, and asking them if they were aware this was going on.


    I'd like to think they followed up on it-- and told Robin to knock it off.

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  54. John D.1:10 PM

    "Faced with a challenger whose most daring political strategy was to
    cultivate vagueness in his relentless pursuit of all things beige..."


    The crazy bitch can tart this sentiment up with as much flowery koo-koo-ka-ka jibber jabber as she wants, but I'd say her meaning here is actually pretty straightforward: Rmoney lost because he wasn't conservative enough. Aren't there certain subspecies amongst the pig people already banging this drum?

    "...and an incumbent gleefully willing to launch a daily barrage of
    splattering, oozing color bombs heedless of what or whom they hit–or
    whether their tints were environmentally toxic or even true–the voters
    chose “sound and fury” over “nothing."



    Though admittedly, this latter line of drooling, incoherent nonsense is a far more difficult nut to crack. And isn't "nut" an appropriate word to use in this case?

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  55. Haystack1:15 PM

    Ten days of editing. Sounds about right.

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  56. his relentless pursuit of all things beige...

    Ah, she must be referring to MexiRomney.

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  57. Barack Obama is not coming for your guns.

    Oh yeah? Well he's going to take away all the guns and give them to George Soros to melt down and sell to China, so they can make Jeeps.

    I read it on the internet.
    ~

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  58. Hey, she mentioned George W. Bush. With all the talk about "tyranny," I figured that conservatives had ripped that page out of the history book.

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  59. ADHDJ1:39 PM

    twin-towering notions of Exceptionalism (Ralph Sampson) and Indispensability (Hakeem Olajuwan) toppled for less conspicuous walk-ups of Isolationism (Eric "Sleepy" Floyd) and Nanny Statism (Joe Barry Carroll)

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  60. ADHDJ1:47 PM

    It would be more poetic if the guns were going to be turned into Chinese-made artisinal butter churns so beautiful in their faux-authenticity that Megan McArdle starts to cry into her teacup, throws her teardrops into the ocean, where they get eaten by some fishes, who get eaten by some fishes, and finally swallowed by a whale.

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  61. redoubt2:02 PM

    "On a mons, far away, stood an old rugged cross. . ."

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  62. It is a truly surreal experience to see the world completely different than everyone else around you.


    I hear they have medications for that.

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  63. redoubt2:04 PM

    The running out of a clock (Four-Corner Offense)

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  64. paleotectonics2:06 PM

    Wonderful, Mr.

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  65. BigHank532:15 PM

    Grade: C-


    While inventive, graphic, and disturbing, your essay is filled with comprehensible images as well as a coherent narrative, in which one event follows another. You need to include more partial metaphorical images, incomplete references to mistaken history, mangled transitions, and wildly overinflated descriptions of utter banalities.


    Tip: read up on the symptoms of schizophrenia.

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  66. RogerAiles2:26 PM

    The flea story is apparently from Corrie ten Boom, who claimed that her barracks was so flea-infested that it kept the camp guards from raping her and her sister. Anchy claims that "They later learned that the fleas had afforded their barracks a relative freedom, unmatched at the camp, because the flea-phobic guards would stay away." Given that the sister died in the camp, it's doubtful the sister actually "later learned" the reason she was spared from assault.

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  67. pookapooka2:37 PM

    a nun sequitur?

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  68. Uncle Ebeneezer3:11 PM

    Blasted! Just as I wrap my fingers on the railing of the elusive, wing-nut gravy-train caboose, it pulls out of my grasp and off into Taggart Tunnel. Note to self: more Cheetoh's dust for grip, next time!

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  69. Turbo3:12 PM

    She's saying Romney lost because he's white, and Obama won because he's black.

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  70. smut clyde3:36 PM

    It is a truly surreal experience to see the world completely different than everyone else around you.

    In further news from the Department of Redundancy Department, it is a truly mundane experience to see the world completely the same as everyone else around you.

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  71. Formerly_Nom_De_Plume3:37 PM

    Never has a fridge been stocked with such care.

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  72. whetstone5:10 PM

    "Actually I don't know what the fuck she's saying. Nor did I have much luck with this:"


    Step one: read a collection of Thomas Friedman columns
    Step two: drop acid


    I think it might make sense after that.

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  73. whetstone5:13 PM

    And a fig leaf for "most creative violation of Godwin's law."

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  74. MikeJ5:52 PM

    "ugged indidualism?" Are you saying that if you wear furry boots people won't want to be seen with you?

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  75. satch5:59 PM

    First, I went over there and read the post, hoping that maybe I could find something to snark at. I'm sorry, guys... the best I could come up with is the post I left over there just a minute ago, which may or may not survive moderation: "When did conservatives become such drama queens?"

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  76. AGoodQuestion6:04 PM

    Wonkette isn't allowing me to read that story. Some kind of 403 error/permission denied. Weird.

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  77. satch6:18 PM

    Since she is perennially in the running for the title of the Pia Zadora of Commentary, if I were planning to flagrantly violate Godwin's Law, I'd cast Anky in the role of Anne Frank, and when the Obama Sturmthugs came looking for her, I'd be the one yelling: "She's in the attic!"

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  78. M. Krebs6:26 PM

    It is a truly surreal experience to see the world completely different than everyone else around you.



    Yep, but most of us who know this from personal experience can credit LSD or mushrooms for it.

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  79. M. Krebs6:31 PM

    Don't you have those steps reversed?

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  80. KatWillow7:48 PM

    I liked the "Oozing" bombs.

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  81. Roy T.8:00 PM

    Oh, you wanted Argument? I'm sorry, this is Abuse. Argument is two doors down on the right.

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  82. Another Kiwi8:26 PM

    Central to my point is when did Obama know about the Photo-on-the-fridge and why did he do nothing? Does he have some sort of urban attitude about telling the Truth???

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  83. The awful thing about Nazis was how they let you type on the internet all day making an ass of yourself.

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  84. They were changing over servers.

    It's all fixxored now, apparently.

    http://wonkette.com/490998/16-year-old-wingnut-pwns-liberal-media-weenie-eric-boehlert-on-twitter-2012-election-nullified

    (Differently link, but also working.)
    ~

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  85. DocAmazing10:12 PM

    Some are rugged; some are tiled.

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  86. Good god, y'all. I'm blushing here.

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  87. Ah... it didn't survive. I've been informed my remark "didn't advance the discussion."

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  88. So glad this election is over and everyone can stop talking about Barack Obama's gleeful daily barrage of splattering, oozing color bombs.

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  89. Next I'll try taping a picture of Jonah Goldberg to my fridge.

    Your need to remind yourself not to throw fistfulls of your own shit at your refrigerator?

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  90. smut clyde11:53 PM

    Nunatak -- not just a spur of rock protruding through an ice-cap.

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  91. smut clyde11:58 PM

    Did someone say MexiRomney?

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  92. ckc_not_kc12:08 AM

    ....those two sisters should have trained those fleas - flea circus! ...that would have showed those old Nazis ...they didn't call them concentration camps for nothing, you know!

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  93. Perhaps if you rephrased it thusly: "As thoughtful conservatives, does being drama queens and penning shitty, vituperative missives impact our chances at winning over voters and elections positively or negatively?"

    Certainly that line of questioning advances the discussion.

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  94. Mrs Tilton3:15 AM

    "for young adults and the generations coming up Roman Catholics who have internalized the full papist package of submitting to the unquestionable spiritual and moral authority of silk-robed old bachelors with strange appetites, repressing their sexual natures except where they are permitted, nervously and for a short time, to release them at times, with partners, in ways and for purposes determined by those strange old men, and casting their votes in a secular democratic republic as instructed by the agents of an ancient absolute monarchy that no longer tortures men, women and children to death only because it no longer can, the backbone of conservative theory—rugged individualism, privacy, minimal government—is a complete non-sequitur; and yet they keep lapping it up like it was custard!"

    FTFY, "Sr." Elizabeth.

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  95. BigHank538:40 AM

    Nunsense!

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  96. Ahh, I forgot that wonderful drag and drop post, S.C. (IF that is your real name!!!)


    Otherwise I would have linked it, instead.
    ~

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  97. DocAmazing12:55 PM

    I think that she just wanted to show off having read Macbeth in high school.

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  98. PorlockJunior2:01 PM

    Wingnut buzzword magnet poetry.
    Now that's poetry. Definitely goes into my active vocabulary. Thanks. (i.e., I am so stealing that.)

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  99. Halloween_Jack2:22 PM

    I've not seen that particular style of pube grooming, but maybe I'm just not looking at the right sites.

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  100. Make it so.

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  101. You gotta find the right salons to get the crosses just so, but it's not unheard of. I know of a gal who will do a Christ the Redeemer in your pubes. She's from Rio.

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  102. KatWillow4:11 PM

    Or just Daylight Savings changeover.

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  103. PorlockJunior5:11 PM

    Gee, I'll have to read the play again. I'd forgotten all about the color bombs they were lobbing in from Birnam Wood.


    Richard Mitchell noted the "tale told by an idiot" as an accurate enough picture of the way Macbeth had chosen. A rare moment of insight. Perhaps we need to get out the catapults and lob some color bombs into Anchoress Castle.

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  104. PorlockJunior5:14 PM

    New herbal formula announced for, umm, Sugar Loaf enhancement.

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  105. Jon Hendry9:01 PM

    "Barack Obama's gleeful daily barrage of splattering, oozing color bombs."


    I think she's saying that Obama shits rainbows, while trying to retain her conservative street cred.

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  106. glennisw11:28 AM

    i am taking this comment back into my chamber and burrowing under the covers with it.

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  107. Presumably a reference to the vaginal rugae.

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  108. aimai8:54 PM

    my post, which would have been just under Bejeez's post, was also deep sixed. They sent me the same mealy mouthed email "letter" telling me that they could neither affirm nor deny that my comment had been banned but implying strongly that this vague disclaimer would have to be good enough as notification. I wrote them back and told them they should be ashamed to be so mealy mouthed. As well as ashamed of her theology and theodicy.


    aimai

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  109. aimai8:55 PM

    Maybe she means "serial" not "surreal."

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