Time to review the rules of Quid readership

Rule Número Uno: Rachel can't just blow in and be a smarty-pants when I've gone to the trouble of reading the Mark Sanford article and watching the video and searching YouTube for a Citibank commercial. It's not right.

That's the only rule I can think of, but while I'm on the subject of Sanford the Transnational Adulterer (call him Sannie the Trannie for short):

I contend that "wise latina" is code for "homely and can't dance and therefore has to find other ways, like racial blackmail, to get attention of any kind." Therefore [How Do You Solve A Problem Like] Maria doesn't qualify.

Off hand, have any of you ever heard of a politician or famously unfaithful person go ga-ga over a complete dog? I just think it's mighty convenient that Mark Sanford's "soul mate" has such hot packaging. Maybe his soul is metaphysically linked to his ying-yang.

Comments

[Michael Adams]

[Caution: Pet peeve alert]


I often wonder (in some distress) whether Aelfeld, Philo and I are the last three literate men in America. If what I am told is true, Maria la Sabia is a WICCAN! There are people who get books published, who think that they know more about what happened in first century Palestine than the eye witnesses. e.g. Dan Brown, or Ernst Renan, or just pick one. But I am here to tell you, and anyone who'll stand still long enough, that "Wicca" started with some books written in the early twentieth century by Margaret Murray. Actually, her "scholarship" was rather goal directed, the goal being to give scholarly credibility to a lot of Romantic junk from seventy or so years earlier. This is a free country. Believe what you want. Be a Sufi or a Buddhist or whatever. You can, as the saying goes, go to Hell. But to fall for a load of crap invented in living memory and passed off as ancient is to display a lack of discernment that gives me great cause to wonder just how sabia this Latina is.

To be fair, Ms Nimis has introduced me to at least a double handful of other literate men, but they don't have noms de cyber.Of women, of course I never had any doubt.

[Rachel]

New rules will be noted in all future comments! Seriously, I can't take complete credit for the wise Latina connection. I read a comment on another blog, (far inferior to this one), which made the connection. I just made it better.

I would say that the King of England in the 1930's gave up throne for a rather homely woman. Wallis Simpson was no great beauty. Then there is horseface Camilla. What is it with those royals?

[aelfheld]

Michael, one word: Kwanzaa.

Rachel, don't forget that royals, even prior to this demotic age, are not professional politicians - their choices don't have to conform to the taste and/or fantasies of the masses.

[aelfheld]

As for the 'latina sabia':

'Latina bufo' might be more apt.

[Michael Adams]

Aelfeld:

Apoplexy!

[Michael Adams]

I had assumed/absorbed the mass view of Camilla, because I am an American republican and just never paid enough attention to form my own opinion. However, she has proven herself to b e a great friend of British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, always on hand to welcome them home, leading efforts to send care packages, and none of it very public. As with the luckless Diana, with whom she shared very little, she suffers from her association with the Worst of the Windsors. We could split hairs and say David/Edward was the worst, but at some point, the quantification of the difference moves out of the realm of significant figures.

I still think that her mother-in-law is a good sort, though. I'd be glad to have her living next door, as long as she kept those dogs under control. Yes, I know that Mrs. Bales is very nice, but she is a somewhat exceptional Corgi.

[Michael Adams]

Oops! Sorry Mrs. Bale.

[bbmoe]

"As with the luckless Diana, with whom she shared very little,..."

Whoa, Michael: I think Prince Charles may take exception to that. A teeny tiny exception...

And Mrs. Bale is a very sweet dog, very beautiful, and what she lacks in intelligence, she more than makes up for in her startle reflex and neurotic behavior. All very endearing.

[bbmoe]

@ Michael: What does your comment have to do with the subject at hand, to wit: ugly paramours and Rachel upstaging moi?

And no one is laughing at Sannie the Trannie. I'm upset.

[aelfheld]

It's not that 'Sannie the Trannie' isn't funny, but what it represents is pretty nauseating.

[aelfheld]

"Maybe [Sanford's] soul is metaphysically linked to his ying-yang."

More likely his brain.

[Michael Adams]

Comments are supposed to relate to a subject? Well, color me startled. I know Mrs Bale is a sweet dog. I thought I said that she was an exception. Charlie is still a yutz, a product of inbreeding, or breeding with Greek sailors or whatever. Rachel is still funny, even if uh, well, she's still funny.

@Aelfeld: His yin-yang is where his brain is. You're just being too nice. Mark your calendars, folks. You won't often see that comment, addressed to that brief wit. (Brevity is the soul of...)