Reply #36: The Top 10 is what drew me over, too. K&R [View All]

[mojowork_n]

Congratulations on the baby, but don't forget what Einstein said:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

The Good Guys are heading into D.C., it's true, so maybe the column could use a tweak of perspective.

For one thing -- we should all take a minute to enjoy this moment. The Republicans are having so many internal squabbles and intramural pissing contests (between party 'realists' and party 'hard-liners'), it's like a flotilla of fire ships in New York harbor, celebrating the Obama victory.

But on the other hand, there's still plenty of B.S. to deal with.

From Ted Stevens to Norm Coleman to Saxby Chambliss. What happened to all those newly registered voters -- everywhere in the country -- whose votes never showed up in final vote tabulations? Let's hope the manual recount of paper ballots in Minnesota -- originally processed through 'black box' vote machines -- will dispel any remaining pretense about the accuracy, or integrity, of those systems.

And of course, there's always the gift that keeps on giving. The unintended consequences of the Other Side's putting people in the spotlight on the basis of their ability to read a script -- who all know their 'movement conservatism' mantra's backwards and forwards -- but don't know how to think.

The most recent one I saw was a couple of days ago, when Palin was responding to criticsm that she 'didn't know' Africa wasn't a country. In her quoted reply, in my hometown paper, she said:

"If there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about NAFTA, and about the continent versus the country {emphasis added} when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context..."

...Africa there... At one time, I was a naturalized Minnesotan, but that still sounds awful.

But the main thing in that quote was -- She did it again! Instead of using the plural, or saying "the individual countries," or "the community of African nations," maybe, she failed to make the critical distinction between

"One continent"

and

"Many countries."

What a maroon.