Goddamn it, Shearer, you’ve got it all wrong.
Obama’s speech ended with a ringing evocation of three words he claimed were emblematic in the life of the nation: “Yes, We Can”; and the crowd joined in chanting those words in response. But, in their turning away from a “man-made engineering disaster” (in the words of UC Berkeley’s Dr. Bob Bea), in their turning away from a city that was betrayed by its country twice—in the faulty construction of a “protective system” and in the refusal to follow the letter of the nation’s own National Response Plan when that system failed, the candidates, Obama included, are paying silent tribute to the three words that more accurately describe America’s contemporary approach to problems: We Moved On.
Don’t you get it, man?
The nation wants change!
When recent history and current events are unhappy, what do we want to do?
We want to change them. Into something happy. Or, at least, something non-specific.
When you get specific about unhappy things, someone might end up feeling guilty.
Guilty feeling bad. No like.
NOLA tragedy bad. No like.
Ponies
good. Like!
Generalities are non-threatening. They’re likable enough.
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huff po, feh
i stopped reading them a while ago. lots of sound and fury type ’liberals’ who love the sound of their own voices, not so much else.
I still get their daily e-mails
Once in a while, there’s something to praise or condemn over there. Quite often the latter.
the Greg Gutfeld posts...
…were enough to make me consider deleting the bookmark. the Deepak Chopra-and-the-like were about 75% of the content on the day I finally did delete the bookmark.
the time I regained not loading all those Flash ads has given me an extra hour of sleep each night. I figure that if something truly transformational goes up over there, SOMEbody’ll link, probably sooner than later.
(that said, I miss the guilty pleasure of that stupid BuzzFeed section. there’s a little Enquirer-reader in all of us.)
It's posts like the one described here...
http://correntewire.com/jesus_christ_huf…
That make me un-defensive when someone gives me a hard-time for linking to HuffPo.
Nonetheless, I reserve the right to do it from time to time, even if it makes me feel a little dirty.
I'm gonna call my pony Change!
I love ponies!!!!!!!!
Uncle Davey Vitter says he’s gonna come over and help me change Change LOL!
I’m so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
I'll bet if you call your pony "Change"
It will be able to change into anything you want it to.
Change is like that!
“Unity
” is like that, too. It can be anything it wants to be, as long as it doesn’t upset the conservative status quo.