Dashing off a few things before I dash:
1.) The Richard Cohen thing. The lede kind of got buried in the Richard Cohen s^&*storm. It’s not that the Tea Party people are racist, though some of them clearly are. It’s that they consider their views to be “conventional”. That’s the cover that the Fox News manipulators, Limbaughians and Glen Becksters have given them. My hypothesis about how the right wing has been able to get away with so much is that it makes it Ok for some Americans to give in to their secret desires. They want to feel superior to some people and exert power over others. That’s why they tend to take it out on people of color, women, gays and immigrants. They’re f^*(ing cowards when it comes to taking on the real culprits who are making their lives an economic nightmare. That’s why you’ll never see them at an Occupy rally, because that might actually make a difference but would also be potentially dangerous to their physical bodies. But they’re perfectly fine bashing people who have no political power. And they allow this because they call themselves conventional. I think Bob Altmeyer wrote a book about conventional people called The Authoritarians.
Richard Cohen, on the other hand, makes me despair for the future of employment.
2.) When you’ve lost Bill Clinton’s support, it’s bad. The Clintons have stood behind the party that trashed Hillary and elected an untested, inexperienced, ruthless friend of Wall Street and Obama through thick and thin. But it looks like The Big Dog draws the line with Obamacare. I don’t think he is enjoying this bit of schadenfreude. Some people take policy and politics seriously.
And some people just check that box on their CVs.
3.) Sylvie Guillem recently retired from the Paris Opera Ballet but oh, how wonderful it must have been to see her dance in person. Here’s a very short clip of her rehearsing Dulcinea. If only every day could be like this:
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