This caught my eye on Audre’s post yesterday. Audre commented:
I can’t, right now, read the articles on TCW – they are so unrelentingly political; if it weren’t for Margaret, there’d be no breath of fresh air, no notice of things outside the political arena. Yes – politics affects our lives but as nothing can be changed over night but through slow painful process, give folks a break once in awhile, shed some light on the wonderful, the delightful, the beautiful.
And Pontiac responded this way:
‘give folks a break once in awhile, shed some light on the wonderful, the delightful, the beautiful.’
Why do you think I come here?
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Well, we try, not least because I agree with them all politics all the time makes Neo a very dull lad and an angry one. A friend sent me this last week:
Would you be surprised that I recognized almost all of them and spent that half-hour rolling on the floor? Well, they’re funny now, when they happened – not so much. But I’d bet money I haven’t got that every one was true.
Steven Hayward has some good thoughts over at PowerLine about the VPs trip to West Virginia over the weekend:
Today’s foundational texts are the famous Marx quote about history repeating itself first as tragedy and then as farce, and Santayana’s axiom that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
• On the first, we have the ever-farcical liberals going from stepping on rakes to stepping on land mines. Or in this case, Vice President Kamala Harris telling the people of West Virginia that they need to clean up the “abandoned land mines” in the state. Somebody alert the estate of Princess Diana, who made abandoned land mines her global social cause.
It’s actually even worse than this, as Harris made her comments in an appearance in West Virginia that appears to have been, as Politico describes it, a ham-handed attempt to pressure West Virginia’s dissident Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, but, to continue with Politico‘s account:
It only antagonized him. “I couldn’t believe it,” Manchin said in a video that went viral Saturday. “No one called me [about it]. … We’re going to try to find a bipartisan pathway forward … but we need to work together. That’s not a way of working together, what was done.”
Keep reading at the link, there’s also a story from the Clinton Administration there. We can talk about these or pretty much anything else, we’re pretty easygoing here, but this is an official pen thread.