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Hillary-Bashing Tryouts
The candidates in both parties continue to huff and puff on the hamster wheel that is the 2007 presidential campaign. Divorced from meaningful votes by actual citizens, the process has been both frenetic and static: Much verbiage and scampering around the country, but no real movement in the polls or any sense that someone has emerged decisively from the pack. Frustrated by their lack of traction, Republicans will now turn to the next mandatory ritual in the campaign: Hillary-bashing tryouts.
This is where you try to show your fellow Republicans that you have the man-stuff to take down the socialist senator from New York. It's the hypothetical general election campaign: Close your eyes and pretend it's September 2008 instead of September 2007.
A fine example: John McCain last week issued a three-sentence statement attacking Hillary Clinton for something she said in the Senate hearing with Petraeus, and for not repudiating the controversial "General Betray Us" MoveOn.org ad:
"Senator Clinton said that believing General Petraeus' testimony requires a 'willing suspension of disbelief.' I think it willingly suspends disbelief to not repudiate an advertisement run by a radical left wing organization that impugns and dishonors the integrity of a man who has served his nation with dedication all of his life. If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be President of the United States."
This feels like practice rhetoric. McCain doesn't actually talk that way on the stump. But his campaign must think that the "not tough enough" theme will benefit the former POW and hurt the woman (women are, as you know, powderpuffs) who is leading the Democratic pack.
Giuliani got into the act with a full-page ad in The New York Times, again attacking Clinton and MoveOn, and has now released an Internet ad that is all about Hillary. Titled "She Changed," it shows her voting for the War in 2002, then changing her tune when she became a candidate:
"Clinton stood silently by when MoveOn.org ran this venomous ad in the New York Times...General Petraeus and the brave men and women serving under him deserve an apology. And our nation deserves better. [Cut to black-and-white photo of Clinton adjusting eyeglasses and looking every bit as devious as Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate.] Senator Clinton, do the right thing, apologize for your comments and condemn the MoveOn.org ad."
Somewhere along the line, American politicians developed a nervous tic in which they compulsively demand that other politicians apologize for something. At some point I'll try to put together a complete list of contemporary apology demands. This is obviously related to the much broader Sanctimony Epidemic.
Giuliani's ad says that Clinton "joined with" MoveOn.org in attacking Petraeus. But one might note that, in fact, Clinton had nothing to do with the MoveOn.org advertisement. Her egregious error, allegedly, is a failure to do what the Republicans declare that she should have done if she didn't have a cold and pitiless heart the size of a peanut.
But wait, there's more! Rudy also has come out with a press release attacking Hillary's health care plan:
"Senator Clinton's latest health scheme includes more government mandates, expensive federal subsidies and more big bureaucracy - in short, a prescription for an increase in wait times, a decrease in patient care and tax hikes to pay for it all."
All's fair in love and politics. Wrestling with substantive issues such as health care is appropriate in any season. But I don't remember a primary election in which candidates in one party were so quick to go after a specific candidate in the other party.
This is an unusual election in that there's no incumbent. Except the Republicans have decided to invent one in the person of Sen. Clinton. Getting nowhere as they try to run against one another, perhaps they'll have more luck if they run against Hillary.
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Curmudgeon this morning handled the Talk Like A Pirate Day duties in the boodle:
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh, ye swabbies, time t'leap from yer hammocks and start swabbin' the decks. 'Tis comin' up on six bells in the mornin' watch, it be, and Cooky's got the gruel a'simmerin' in th' stew pot, but thar be no grub for ye wot don't shake a leg. Wind's east by southeast and ain't nuffing but a zephyr, so we may hafta put some a you dogs in the longboats t' row us outta here until a right proper breeze blows up.
Arghhhhh.
Oh, and by the way, stand ye well clear of certain members o' th' crew wot has covered themselves w' gladiator oil and but a single eyepatch over his Davy Jones. We don't need none o' that behavyur ab'ard this here vessel. An' when ye go for'rd to the head abeam o' the jib boom under the bow chasers, and the sea spume is breakin' over the bow and yer sittin' there in yer seat of ease and thumbin' through the , don't be tapping yer boot or reachin' under th' stall for someat other feller's seaweed, cuz the master-at-arms be on patrol up thar 'n' he'll put ya on Craigslist for sure.
That is awl.
Vacation Tyranny; Plus, Boodle Mining
I have a bunch of vacation time coming to me that, under company rules, I have to use by the end of October. Else it goes poof. But who has time to take time off? No one. It's not that kind of economy. If I took that vacation I'd come back to the office and discover not only that I'd lost my job, but that the entire newspaper industry had collapsed. They need me.
So I'll probably lose some of the vacation hours. But maybe I can take one solid week off. By "solid" I mean no cheating, no furtive blogging, no popping into the office to kill spam in the email inbox. I will be not merely "off" but rather "off-off," a special category. Serious vacation. Off-off-off. Does that make sense? Off-off-off-off, is what I'm saying. Tell me if this is obtuse.
Let's face it, most of in the laboring trades are losing the ability to avoid working on vacation. The phrase "working vacation" has become redundant. The WSJ did a piece recently, I vaguely recall, about the trend in super-short vacations. The two-week vacation block has been whittled down to four or five days, essentially a long weekend. What's maddening is when the amount of time you take off is precisely correlated with the amount of extra work you must do before and after your vacation. There is a set amount of work you are expected to do and taking time off doesn't affect that. And make no mistake: Although no supervisor would admit it, employees who are on vacation are generally viewed as slacking off. You come back to work and the boss says, "How was your goofing-- excuse me, how was your vacation?"
This past weekend when I went to the beach I made the heroic decision to leave the laptop at home. There are moments when you want to test yourself, to see if you're still capable of performing certain time-honored feats, like hula-hooping, or swinging on monkey bars, or not working at the beach. I enjoyed not working, but it did feel like a stunt, and vaguely inappropriate for a man of my stature. The little voice said: Act your age.
Next big conundrum: What will I do if I take a week off? Maybe take a trip to Hogtown. Or visit the bro in Colorado. I could do house projects with power tools that I keep meaning to buy. I could go on a weed-extermination binge. Rain death upon noxious vegetation. Fix up the garage.
Take a language class?
Read some of the great books I keep hearing about?
Work on my people skills? Learn how to "listen" and "be considerate" and all that nonsense?
Hmmmm....It's kind of daunting. It's literally exhausting to think about all that free time!
On second thought, I'll just come to the office and kill spam mercilessly.
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You'll like Eric Zorn's homonym quiz.
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Via bloggingheads, here's George Johnson reviewing a collection of Freeman Dyson essays.
In a science of unifiers, Dyson prides himself as a diversifier. "I gazed at the stars as a young boy," he once wrote. "That's what science means to me. It's not theories about stars; it's the actual stars that count."
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Revisiting my comment yesterday about whether global warming is the gravest threat ever to face humankind: The WSJ has a blog item today about a New Republic story [subscription required] arguing that species extinction is a bigger problem than global warming. Obviously both these things are related, in that they are largely the result of human impacts. But getting tunnel vision on GW isn't a wise idea in a Post-Darwinian World:
'...the danger of global warming has distracted environmentalists from the graver fate of species extinction, say two biologists in the New Republic. The focus on global warming is understandable, in part because the ramifications of a loss of biodiversity are harder to document, say the University of Chicago's Jerry Coyne and Harvard University's Hopi Hoekstra. But the authors say that even at the slowest estimated rate, species extinction is the primary environmental problem humans face, with global warming a related but secondary worry. They say as many as 30,000 species disappear a year due to human activity.'
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Speaking of not blogging: I really should spend more time boodle mining. There are so many good comments here. Here are just a few of them:
Eurotrash: Over here we don't (yet) do the Mc Mansions. But we do have this horrible style of housing ... called "fermettes" (little farms) This one http://www.tweedehands.net/popup.php?photoid=foto1&aid=379767 is as typical as they get. There are thousands like these all over Flanders. And they seem to get bigger and bigger every year. The landscaping that goes with them is a boring lawn with maybe a couple of raised beds with flowers. If I had the money I'd buy this one: http://www.tweedehands.net/popup.php?photoid=foto1&aid=546780 That's my kind of house. (A steal at only 420.000 USD)
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TBG: The problem with McMansions is not that they have 16 bedrooms--they usually have only four, just like I do. They are just HUGE bedrooms that open into HUGE hallways. The front hall is usually HUGE, with
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Social Networking Just for Lawyers
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Paul Hastings Picks Up Asia Partner Trio
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Dry Cleaner Closes in Aftermath of Multimillion-Dollar Pants Lawsuit
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Charges Dismissed in Jockey Weighing Case
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