Feb 19, 2011
Quick take on language
The word "liberal" seems to have to become anathema to liberals. I have seen it less and less for a couple of years or so, and it appears hardly at all in the Wisconsin reporting.
It's been replaced by "progressive" -- the statist left rebranding itself, screwing around with the language -- to hide motives in order maintain progress toward national bankruptcy.
It's been replaced by "progressive" -- the statist left rebranding itself, screwing around with the language -- to hide motives in order maintain progress toward national bankruptcy.
On Wisconsin!
The Wisconsin riots are being characterized by AP this morning as "unmatched in their sustained, impassioned energy...".
They're probably not "unmatched," but we can let that slide as a workaday media solecism as reporter and editor grasp for the blaring headline. It's bad journalism but routine these days.
It is the approving tone of "sustained passion" in a public policy debate that worries thinking folks. Reducing the Wisconsin budget problem is a matter of arithmetic, not heavy breathing drama.
Public employees earn adequate-to-handsome salaries and enjoy luxurious benefit packages which poor saps in the private sector never had or have lost in the age of globalization. Some one pays for their, wages, insurance, and guaranteed pensions. That some one is the unfortunate family head who is trying to feed kids and stave off the bill collector on a precarious 12-buck-an hour job which can be lost in a heartbeat.
The Wisconsin public titters are having a marvelous time at the trough, and it is the fear of losing it which is turning them into a mob of petulant children. They react precisely as six-year-old Bratty Suzie does when asked to share her Snickers with Little Brother.
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That said, the demonstrating teachers et al. look almost statesmanlike compared to their 14 Wisconsin Senate protectors who react to administrative challenge by going to the mattresses in Chicago.
They're probably not "unmatched," but we can let that slide as a workaday media solecism as reporter and editor grasp for the blaring headline. It's bad journalism but routine these days.
It is the approving tone of "sustained passion" in a public policy debate that worries thinking folks. Reducing the Wisconsin budget problem is a matter of arithmetic, not heavy breathing drama.
Public employees earn adequate-to-handsome salaries and enjoy luxurious benefit packages which poor saps in the private sector never had or have lost in the age of globalization. Some one pays for their, wages, insurance, and guaranteed pensions. That some one is the unfortunate family head who is trying to feed kids and stave off the bill collector on a precarious 12-buck-an hour job which can be lost in a heartbeat.
The Wisconsin public titters are having a marvelous time at the trough, and it is the fear of losing it which is turning them into a mob of petulant children. They react precisely as six-year-old Bratty Suzie does when asked to share her Snickers with Little Brother.
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That said, the demonstrating teachers et al. look almost statesmanlike compared to their 14 Wisconsin Senate protectors who react to administrative challenge by going to the mattresses in Chicago.
Feb 18, 2011
McGee in the Morning
Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism — all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never
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