Ok, Seriously
This blog has recently experienced a hefty spike in traffic, so I’m making a few changes. I had comments disabled for a long time to cut down on the maintenance time required to deter spam. I just opened up comments.
Also, both because I didn’t want spam and because I was convinced that no one read this blog anyway, I did not include any way to contact me. I’ll be adding a contact form soon, but in the mean time you can contact me at ziege19 at gmail dot com.
Thanks for reading.
**UPDATE: I’m trying something new…comments powered by Disqus. It’s quite interesting to me…basically it’s a comment-service. You can (but don’t have to) connect the comments you post on any blog to your facebook, twitter, yahoo, or various other accounts. You also can aggregate your comments on one page. I think this could be a pretty cool concept. If you post a comment and someone likes what you’ve said, they can see what you’ve said on other blogs, and check yours out if you have one.
I think it will cut out the spam while still allowing quick, anonymous posts without annoying captchas.
New site, two great articles and My Two Cents
I stumbled across True/Slate for the first time today and like what I see so far. In particular there’s a great post from Matt Taibbi about Sarah Palin. He’s particularly salient when he points out her major source of propulsion; namely that while other conservatives have to run to the where the battles are, Sarah Palin’s battleground is whatever is going on directly in her orbit. She has BECOME the battleground. And this observation makes her phenomenon make a bit of sense.
A second article that struck me was this post from Sara Libby about how fat people at Lincoln University are being forced to become un-fat or else take a required class about how they are too fat if they want to graduate. I thought there was a connection to be made between those two pieces, so I’m transcribing my comments below:
I recently had a date with a guy during which the conversation ranged from the derangement of the media to food to music. Sounds pleasant enough on paper, but in reality it amounted to a monotonous lecture on how I should spend less time on the internet, not shop at grocery stores, avoid just about any food you can imagine besides vegetables grown in my own back yard in specially sanitized soil, and not work for any corporation (besides his, apparently.)
He was a modern ascetic, food neurotic and a dietary schoolmarm. So for my next drink (our date was over coffee) I switched from house coffee to a hot cocoa with extra sugar and extra syrup. As is my habit, I immediately undertook a vigorous inner self-analysis, faintly serenaded by sounds coming out of his mouth that sounded like Charlie Brown’s teacher.
Why did I order that? I don’t even want that! The drink was sickly sweet and over-flavored. Obviously I was reacting to my date’s snobbery. Suddenly it started making sense to me how conservatives can so often view liberals as being authoritarian snobs. Never before did it make any sense to me how Jonah Goldberg (who is a terrible writer, by the way) could sell a book called “Liberal Fascism” or how people could earnestly respond to Sarah Palin’s tripe about only the undeveloped half of the country is Real America.
This story is another example. Imperfect people being tut-tutted about their imperfections by the same gaggle of self-righteous do-gooders that harangue me about smoking, drinking, owning a car and eating french fries. It’s as if they would like each of us to have, perched upon our shoulder, our own personal douchestached Morgan Spurlock to remind us that for every action we perform in a given day, we could have done it better.
Matt Taibbi has a fantastic article here about Sarah Palin and how she has cornered the political market for white resentment. The only flaw I saw in the otherwise brilliantly sharp piece was that he dismisses that resentment as unhinged and irrational; the crazed bitterness of people kicking against imaginary assholes who seem to exist only through their warped prism, but not in reality.
Well, here’s proof. This article is about the assholes, and the assholes are real. If you are too fat, you are not going to get through Lincoln University without getting harassed by assholes who will mindlessly assume that if you are fat you must also be ignorant, and that skinny people are skinny because they know something that you don’t, Lard-ass.
This story just makes me want to hop in my Hummer, drive straight to the nearest McDonald’s, and eat double cheeseburgers while I watch Fox News. It’s kind of no wonder why there are people who actually do it.
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