Tea Party

[purejuice]

The Tea Partiers are not, as I deduced from a previous NYT story, boomers out of work. There's a new NYT poll which explains who they are.

I am ready to consign them to the scrapheap of history I shall dub The Racist Backlash Against the 1965 Voting Rights Act That LBJ Said Would Last 50 Years. Five years to go. Buh-bye.

I must say, I think the blogosphere pundits' Gotcha, argue with every word uttered by every asshole on the planet, attitude, is counterproductive. Ignore them, deprive them of a venue, do not repeat or listen to what they say, and they will go away.

Comments

[minniethemoocha.livejournal.com]

Punditry is porn. People engage passively and in shallow ecstasy, like lab rats pressing a button for stims, through the desire to feel the flood of righteousness. Gushes of words in clever or bombastic configurations that disengage critical thought. Once I discovered that nugget of truth, I quit reposting-without-comment and thus hit a place where I write mainly in solitude, figuring out all over again what I think and why, and how and when it changes with the intake of new information. But so hard to find the data amid the opinions.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

ohhhh good one. punditry so IS porn.