Thursday, June 4, 2009

Quote of the Day

I just had to share this, because of its self-negating nature: "We need to accept the role of the loyal opposition much more gracefully than our opponents did. If you haven't noticed, the meanest people in politics are on the American left."

Not to be obtuse, but I hadn't noticed that. Good to know--I'll remember that the next time I'm crusing between Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. This quote shows a certain compartmentalization, if nothing else: evidently, in Mitch Daniels's universe, calling the opposition a bunch of mean people isn't mean. It's graceful opposition.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.