Steal These Links
Sorry, in deadline hell this week and unlikely to post anything coherent. So, allow me to link to a few things I would have written if I had thought of them first. Digby, at the end of a typically great piece on the shamelessness of scorched-earth Republican tactics, writes:
The Republicans are rejecting reason in science, economics, rhetoric and governance and therefore we cannot expect that rules based upon a rational assumption that they will be applied to both sides equally are even relevant. We fight each battle anew. It's never over. Nothing is settled. This is why they hate the courts. Reason and finality are their enemy. These are the "I Know You Are But What Am I" Republicans and they have taken us into a new world of post enlightenment reality. We'd better get used to it.
This is similar to a point I tried to make a couple of years ago in a post called “The Proud Tower” and it’s worth making fervently and often.
I am beginning to think that the antidote for the conservative “medieval values” message is to turn up to volume on the corrupting seductions of modernity. Every time you have sex and don’t have to worry about becoming a parent, thank a liberal. Every time you earn a paycheck and don’t have to give 10% of your after-tax take to The Established Church, thank a liberal. Every time a 20-year old kid stuck in some dead-end town follows her dream of moving to the big city and putting the boring, oppressive past behind her, thank a liberal. Because really, those are the things the theocrats really want to put a stop to.
Also, a belated tip of the EA cap to a few sites out there that have been really supportive of my work here, and offer thoughtful commentary on these same kinds of issues. Toast at Two Glasses works himself up into a satisfying rage now and again, when he’s not posting about beer and basketball. The gang over at Real Art (and Politics and Culture) search far and wide for good tidbits on which to offer their pithy spin. They are really worth a read. Walker at Delivering Hope runs a fine shop and has been waiting patiently for a permanent link on my template. Updates coming soon – I promise! And finally, I would be remiss here at playoff time to not give a shout out to Paul, Nussbaum, Chunkstyle and the crew over at SuperSonicsSoul, the unofficial online home of the (extremely unlikely) Pacific Norhwest (Thanks, Dave!) Division Champion Seattle SuperSonics, and the only place where I comment regularly anymore.
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