Montana on My Mind

Monday, November 12, 2012
I'll be heading out to Montana this afternoon on my latest business trip, so instead of original, scintillating content, here's some links to other people's original, scintillating content:

An essay by conservative pundit David Frum which slightly restores my faith in the conservative movement. His central message: Stop longing for the days when only straight, white men had a voice, grow a pair, and stop losing your shit. Bravo, sir.

A little something for Veteran's Day: A Love Story in 22 Pictures. Bring a hanky. No, seriously - bring a hanky. What a lovely couple.

An open letter to Republican strategists from their key demographic - an upper middle class straight white dude named Eric Garland. His central message: For people who live in reality rather than the world of self-delusion, you're getting it wrong, wrong, wrong. Also: You're kind of mean.

SMBC has a new video out which made me laugh and laugh. I do loves me some irony.


I'll be returning on Wednesday unless that bastion of customer service and timely transportation United Airlines hoses up my week (again). Have a good week, Hot Chicks and Smart Men.

3 comments:

Anne C. said...

When the election ended, I deliberately did not watch Fox or any other conservative bullhorn, not because I don't enjoy a little well-deserved schadenfreude (I earned it because endured countless BS political ads). No, I feared what I remember after the 2008 election -- a declaration of obstructionism. If I had an employee who had a temper-tantrum and claimed he or she wasn't going to get any work done because he or she didn't like a co-worker, I'd seriously look at firing their whiny butt. And so I feared more of that.

One of the best thing to come out of this election has been conservatives and Christians taking back their labels. They are saying, "I am a conservative/Christian/fiscal conservative and I do not stand with you, GOP." It's not us vs. them. It's a propaganda machine that is designed to appeal to the feeblest of minds and they bought into their own BS. And the intelligent, sensible, and unhypocritical people whose labels the GOP adopted for their own ends are saying, "Nope, you cannot co-op our identity to serve your purposes."

Sometimes I love people.

Janiece said...

Anne, that pleases me, too. Because if the moderates are successful, it means that no matter who "wins" the House, the Senate or White House, we don't have to deal with someone who's bat crap insane.

mom in northern said...

Yes...to what Anne said...