And Now: A Different Approach

Dear Friends, Non-Friends, Loyal and Accidental Readers:

Sorry about the intermittancy of the posts.  No, this isn't like the "recovery" (where's that Biden "fits and starts" soundbite?).  The end of September was the start of school for me, and it's proving to be a challenge.  Lots of reading, some of which I think I'm grasping and some that I'm clearly not grasping. 

Sometime in early September I injured my right arm.  It's one of those chronic carpal-tunnel-ish injuries that seems annoying and trivial until you can't bend or straighten your elbow anymore, the palm of your hand feels like someone embedded a lit match in it, and you can't carry anything heavier than a toothpick. 

Nevertheless, I miss blogging, so I'm going to try just getting a word in edgewise, so to speak.  Several times in the last several weeks, I've awakened to news that has made little ol' cynical, seen-it-all me simply stare at the computer agape with shock.  I'm thinking: okay.  This does not need an editorial.  It can be "Shock of the Day," or "Gobsmack of the Day," or "Yawn: Another Day, Another %#$^&ing Communist in Obama's Whitehouse."

So, I'll try it this way.  Every day will be like a little present, where I look at my RSS feed and find out that Obama's media czar's two favorite political philosophers are Chairman Mao and Mother Theresa.  Extolling the individualism of the former to high school students, Anita Dunn, fleshed out their doubtless limited understanding of the greatest collectivist of all time (with the possible exception of... oh, never mind)  by tossing some catchy quotes their way about  how Mao was all about forging his own way in life.  She just left out the part about the 40 to 70 million Chinese who got in the way of "his own way."

But that's just one example from the last week, out of several dozen I could have picked at random.  It' so bad that Glenn Beck is having to put stuff on the back burner that would have been hammered for weeks in the MSM if it had been any other administration.  For the purposes of this blog and my time management, I'll just pick one, post it, and hope that I get some editorial comments from you all.  OK?

But- I never did get why Anita Dunn thought that Mother Theresa was a political philosopher.  I always thought of her as a community organizer, a ward healer, so to speak.  I guess I'll have to read the whole speech sometime.

Comments

[Rachel]

This loyal reader wishes you a speedy recovery!

[Michael Adams]

Me too. Have you tried an ergonomic keyboard? They take some adaptation time, but they do a power of good.