Good morning.
- Four links on Iran.
- 2009 Bulwer-Lytton noted.
- The too many regulations and laws problem.
- Victims strikes me as the wrong word.
- Tax and oppression … is this where the left wants to go?
- At least some on the left are unimpressed with Mr Obama’s tactics.
- I think in some way those on the left who are pleased as punch with Mr Franken’s win betray themselves as pure partisan animals. After all, Franken is basically the left’s less talented equivalent of Ms Coulter. If she had won a highly contested Senate seat … how would they view those on the other side of the aisle praising that event?
- Health care and the Baucus plan.
- Consequences of policy.
- Virtue leaves the room.
- Bigots in places of power.
- This keeps happening …
- I’m not catholic but that’s a debate I’d enter.
- Cars and US manufacture … and party … which I link as a GOP supporter driving a VW (diesel) and two Honda Insights (original version) which we got used.
- A geek debate.
- In which “possible worlds” means ones which are not in any way realistic.
- Marriage.
- Culture and Orthodoxy.
- For the 4th. Here too.
- And some patristics.
After all, Franken is basically the left’s less talented equivalent of Ms Coulter.
Wha?! I’m not sure which is more absurd, the “less talented” part or the “equivalent” part. Let’s start with “less talented”:
Obviously, humor is in the eye of the beholder, but Al Franken was an enormously successful writer and performer for Saturday Night Live. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four others. None of that success was based on his political orientation.
Okay, fine, maybe you weren’t talking about humor. Both have written several best-sellers. However, I think it takes more talent to lampoon what Coulter (and Rush and Hannity, etc.) do (i.e. “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat, Idiot”) and to actually do it. It’s easy to call your opponent a dog or a traitor or evil or scum. It’s a little harder to write a book-length satire of that kind of “commentary” that’s actually funny.
Oh, and while Ms. Coulter shows up on cable news shows, Al Franken just won a seat in the United States Senate. I think that takes *some* talent, right?
On “equivalent,” maybe you just didn’t get the joke behind the title of Franken’s book? He wasn’t just throwing mud in the other direction, he was calling out the right-wing haters. The title is mean to be ironic. Maybe you didn’t read it?
Bigots in places of power.
It’s bigotry to refuse an interview with someone associated with the Templeton Foundation?! Do you know what bigotry means? It sure doesn’t sound like it.
This keeps happening …
What keeps happening? The link is a question about what will happen. Do you see how you’re doing it again, being a part of the right-wing chain that repeatedly takes pure speculation and turns it into purported fact?
A geek debate.
Finally, I agree with one of your links!