Speaking of fancy rats, in a Slate piece about the terrifyingly anti-science VP candidacy of Pig Palin self-described contrarian Christopher Hitchens has now made it clear to his readers that he is officially, at least for the time being, done with being the socialist cheerleader of the Republican Party!
Through some too-gross-to-contemplate combination of honorable dedication to the plight of the Kurds, sort-of-understable but-still-really-annoying joy in outraging former cohorts from The Nation, and shameless canine pleasure in rubbing up to powerful swine like Wolfie and Bush, Hitchens has for years been making it his job to make the rest of us feel like mediocre halfwits for calling a spade a spade.
Now we get George W. Bush in drag, a woman who is at worst only marginally stupider or more hostile to science and education than George W., and suddenly--and, I should add, a good month or so later than his supposed inferiors--he wants in on the middlebrow Palin-bashing?
Thank you, BUT NO.
Maybe it's an alcoholic British thing, but we Americans prefer our party lines nice and cleanly drawn--PICK A FUCKING TEAM ALREADY--or, at the very least, our political conversion stories with nice, clean arcs. Muddling through your witty, urbane, and hostile scribblings in vain search of the germ of a strongly stated political preference has become a chore whose punishments far outweigh their rewards.
We've considered your application for readmission into the ranks of the nose-breathing non-blowhards of the liberal status quo, and we're sorry to report that YOU'VE BEEN DENIED.
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.It would appear that being a professional contrarian and world-class intellect consists in waiting 5 or 6 years after the rest of the thinking world has diagnosed the Republican Party's intellectual and moral bankruptcy to weigh in on the matter IN PRECISELY THE SAME TERMS while, through willful omission, pretending that you haven't been obscurely sniping at THIS EXACT KIND OF MAINSTREAM LIBERAL CRITICISM from the safe perch of Paul Wolfowitz's lap the whole time.
Through some too-gross-to-contemplate combination of honorable dedication to the plight of the Kurds, sort-of-understable but-still-really-annoying joy in outraging former cohorts from The Nation, and shameless canine pleasure in rubbing up to powerful swine like Wolfie and Bush, Hitchens has for years been making it his job to make the rest of us feel like mediocre halfwits for calling a spade a spade.
Now we get George W. Bush in drag, a woman who is at worst only marginally stupider or more hostile to science and education than George W., and suddenly--and, I should add, a good month or so later than his supposed inferiors--he wants in on the middlebrow Palin-bashing?
Thank you, BUT NO.
Maybe it's an alcoholic British thing, but we Americans prefer our party lines nice and cleanly drawn--PICK A FUCKING TEAM ALREADY--or, at the very least, our political conversion stories with nice, clean arcs. Muddling through your witty, urbane, and hostile scribblings in vain search of the germ of a strongly stated political preference has become a chore whose punishments far outweigh their rewards.
We've considered your application for readmission into the ranks of the nose-breathing non-blowhards of the liberal status quo, and we're sorry to report that YOU'VE BEEN DENIED.
Agreed. Shut up, PIG HITCHENS!
Rats, canines, swine, and pigs, it's like an Animal Farm in here.