Things Heard: e50v3
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at
10:26 am
- Wow, for the stupid insult of the day, check out “Soviet/Maoist” red, would the balanced alternative be Luftwaffe blue?
- And more on that leftwing icon/hero Che.
- Another lefty doh moment, dude … this is America we’re talking about.
- Carp(al) keyboard.
- What’s that mean, “unwinnable?” (and does that mean like Iraq?)
- Clearly overstated threat.
- That cross thing.
- Some interesting tidbits from a Andre Weil biography. I heard Mr Weil lecture while I was at school and I’ve got a few of his books. Spare and elegant.
- Speaking of maths, fractal cabbages.
- Shapeshifter battles, and the Pope’s last encyclical?
- “the Lull”, I’m thinking for some people, that word doesn’t mean what they think it means.
- Bush and Obama … perhaps not so changey.
- Heh. Are they all hard of hearing in Texas?
- Plugging Taiwanese carbon.
- Words and sex. I recall a few days x-country skiing with my Dad years ago, for various reasons my brother and mom didn’t join us right away. I think we exchanged 20 words a day for about three days. It was wonderful.
- I need to read this essay more carefully … but it looks interesting.
- Dreams.
- Ok, gotcha. Henceforth, it’s small “b” and small “w”. ’cause that “heritage, experience, …” and so forth are nothing but a non-singular multiplicity. The notion that they are singular is a pernicious fiction.
- This reminds me of that story from British occupied India, in which some Indians were objecting that wife burning was an ancient and revered custom. The British officer reminded them that they too had a ancient and revered custom … that was to hang people who burn their wives.
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Do you think Tim Russert intended it as an insult?
I suppose it helps to know a little history. Not that long ago, within my children’s lifetimes, it was a grand insult by conservatives to call someone “red.”
Check out the conventions and websites. Conservatives are touting red all over these days. Turns out it wasn’t the ideology so much as just good old team spirit. When the team colors changed, so did the loyalties of conservatives to the colors.
But then, as I say, one needs to know a little history to get the irony.
Ed,
Do you think the conservatives connect Communism “red” with “red/blue” states? Why do you, as a liberal? That is an odd connection to make, given years of close association the left has had with Marx/Lenin and the rest. Think Che chic … and if you “know a little history” you would then realize how completely disgusting that is.
I’m probably affect loaded from the years I spent working for conservative Republicans, all of whom blanched at the use of red in anything. It’s funny to me because they turned on a dime to adopt the color, for no other reason that I can determine than NBC used red on their map, and referred to “red states” as some sort of political bloc.
No, they don’t connect communism with red anymore. All that sturm und drang was for show, not for policy.
And liberals almost always use blue — Stevenson, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Clinton, Gore and Kerry. Jimmy Carter stepped out and used green because it was such a contrast to everything else.