I want to go where the grownups are
Where the hell are they, anyway?
Here’s one place.
8 Responses to “I want to go where the grownups are”
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Sandra S. says:
Ditto on the looking for grown-ups thing.
But I must say, as much as I want the whole third-party thing to happen, I am hesitant to go the New Agenda/consensus with the right at the expense of liberal social values direction with it.
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votermom says:
This is OT, but I just want to say something that really annoys me is designers who encourage their high-profile clients wear absolutely hideous clothes. It really isn’t fair to the client.
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Susan Salisbury says:
Not really on topic but I am really happy to learn of someone else who has read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I think it is a very interesting book. But then, I am still a Christian. Also a conservative. But A feminist (as in I think women should have equal rights with men). Another really interesting book about consciousness is “The Physics of Consciousness” by Evan Harris Walker. John Polkinghorne, in “The Faith of a Physicist” also talks about the development of consciousness.
Somewhat more ON topic, I think that there is room for reasoned discourse and discussion about a lot of issues. The problem is that the “feelings” rhetoric which is not based on facts and analysis crowds out the real discussion. I am all for feelings in their proper place. For example, the idea that life is precious is more a feeling or a value than anything rational or logical. But we can have a logical discussion about where that feeling should take us in terms of private actions and public policies. Anyway, I’m glad I found your blog, as, I am sure, many conservatives have recently because of links on conservative sites.
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votermom says:
Can’t we have an opposition coalition without having to agree on wedge issues?
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Violet Socks says:
Anyway, I’m glad I found your blog, as, I am sure, many conservatives have recently because of links on conservative sites.
I was Instalanched, hence the links. The irony of the linkage is pretty hilarious actually. Along the lines of, “look, a leftist feminazi who finally understands the TRUTH about how the New World Order is controlling us all through communist fluoridated water!”
Actually, I was hardly alone among liberals in pointing out that the Tuscon shooting seemed unrelated to Sarah Palin. The New Republic, Salon, people like Ezra Klein all said the same thing.
My specific argument was that the Palin blame was symptomatic of our culture’s tendency to demonize powerful women. Which is what makes it all the more ironic that anti-feminist misogynist bloggers should be linking to me.
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Alex says:
Yes, Glen Reynold and his “men’s rights” activist wife hardly care about women’s issues but linking to Violet is convenient for him when it provides him with a great article demonstrating when the left is full of shit.
BTW, I love all the pieces here lately. No one canbrek down cultural analysis quite like Violet.
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HKatz says:
The grown-ups certainly aren’t here:
http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13862310Radio talk show host says that the Lieutenant Governer of Wisconsin advanced her career by giving fellatio and letting men gangbang her (he used the expression “pulled a train”). From what I remember of the segment he also mocked her hair (as part of mentioning that she’s a cancer survivor who must have lost her hair at some point).
You get the feeling he’s enacting some sick fantasies about her on air.
I don’t care how passionate and partisan people get about their politics, why the heck can’t they just criticize policies and issues? And with women politicians, every single one of them gets a nasty sexual slur, a compulsive need to reduce them to creatures who can’t do anything but be a cruelly used sexual plaything.
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simplywondered says:
vi – ain’t it clear? you transcend. must be the smoking lounge vibe. or the whiff of alpaca poop…
