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Thursday, April 16, 2009

"Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."
Posted by Jill | 9:21 PM
"They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."

George Will gets in touch with his inner Grandpa Simpson:
Writer Daniel Akst has noticed and has had a constructive conniption. He should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has earned it by identifying an obnoxious misuse of freedom. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche.

It is, he says, a manifestation of "the modern trend toward undifferentiated dressing, in which we all strive to look equally shabby." Denim reflects "our most nostalgic and destructive agrarian longings -- the ones that prompted all those exurban McMansions now sliding off their manicured lawns and into foreclosure." Jeans come prewashed and acid-treated to make them look like what they are not -- authentic work clothes for horny-handed sons of toil and the soil. Denim on the bourgeoisie is, Akst says, the wardrobe equivalent of driving a Hummer to a Whole Foods store -- discordant.

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Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves.

Do not blame Levi Strauss for the misuse of Levi's. When the Gold Rush began, Strauss moved to San Francisco planning to sell strong fabric for the 49ers' tents and wagon covers. Eventually, however, he made tough pants, reinforced by copper rivets, for the tough men who knelt on the muddy, stony banks of Northern California creeks, panning for gold. Today it is silly for Americans whose closest approximation of physical labor consists of loading their bags of clubs into golf carts to go around in public dressed for driving steers up the Chisholm Trail to the railhead in Abilene.

This is not complicated. For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.


Yeesh. And conservative pundits say LIBERALS are elitists? I can't wait to hear him hold forth with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday on why men should go back to wearing suits, ties, and fedoras to baseball games.

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Sunday, December 07, 2008

John McCain really IS senile. Now he thinks he's the Prime Minister of India
Posted by Jill | 7:25 PM
Either that or he's taking the "Obama isn't a citizen" nutjobs seriously and thinking he might still make it. How else to explain this:
United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.

If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, the Senator said, India would be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan.

Senator McCain, the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Barack Obama, told a select group of Pakistanis at an informal lunch in Lahore on Saturday that this was conveyed to him by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

Ejaz Haider, a senior editor at the Daily Times, who was at the lunch said Mr. McCain told the group that Washington would not be able to do much to stop India, as the Mumbai attacks were its “9/11.”

“The democratic government of India is under pressure and it will be a matter of days after they have given the evidence to Pakistan [that they decide] to use the option of force if Islamabad fails to act against the terrorists,” Mr. Haider quoted the Senator as saying.

Mr. McCain, who arrived in Pakistan from New Delhi on Friday and met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad in the evening, told the group that Dr. Singh was “visibly angry and reeling from the shock of the attacks.”

He said if Pakistan did not act to get the “bad guys,” India would have no option but to use force.

“We were angry after 9/11. This is India’s 9/11. We cannot tell India not to act when that is what we did, asking the Taliban to hand over Osama Bin Laden to avoid a war and waging one when they refused to do so,” Mr. McCain said.


Who the hell authorized McCain to go pour gasoline on the flames of the conflict between India and Pakistan? Maybe we were wrong about Sarah Palin being the dangerous one. They're both crazy, along with their Mini-Me, Joe Lieberman.

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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

And in a McCain administration, we will be
Posted by Jill | 7:26 PM
"My fellow prisoners?"




Looks like Johnny McDementia need a bit more of that snake oil he's taking.

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Monday, June 09, 2008

A leader you can believe in -- unless you live in consensus reality
Posted by Jill | 7:56 PM
In McCain World, Vladimir Putin is the President of Germany:





Nice going, Republicans. You've nominated a guy about whom the only question is this: moron or senile?

Bigass h/t to Cernig)

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