While in ‘idle staring at my navel’ mode, I decided to go trawling through my ’08 Presidential Election cycle stuff, and got kinda/sorta giggledy when I read this:

LeatherPenguin » Crank Nails an Important Point: The Messiah is Once Again Voting “Present.”.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sorry for the disappearing act. From a glance at my traffic stats I know that the various people who stumbled upon this blog–and the Almighty Google Spider–must have wondered where I had nipped off to, that was more important than posting my deep, deep thoughts for practically no one to read.

It’s like this: I became bloody well fed up with the page layout I’m currently sporting, and have been dorking around on my test server, trying to come up with a design more fetching to the eye. I think I’ve finally worked out the bugs for LeatherPenguin’s next graphical iteration. I’ll probably be making the switch over the weekend… or not.

Y’see, I’m also trying to tie all the other sites together in some coherent whole, instead of them all pretty much standing alone, with no relation to their sisters and brothers.

Oh, and I’ve also basically had jack shit to say. The stupid little shit that popped into my head, and taunting mooks, has been barfed up on Facebook… it’s not like I could go cold turkey, y’know?

Ack Thbbft!

My gracious, so many members of the Make Believe Media keep trying to make this idea stick, yet never seem to seal the deal….

Frustration with the government’s response to the Great Recession has given birth to two movements – the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street – that share some important elements.

“Historically, I would describe them both as being populist movements,” said Richard Fleisher, a political science professor at Fordham University in the Bronx. “Whereas the Tea Party is right-wing populism, the Occupy Wall Street movement takes on the form of left-wing populist.”

With the due regard one should afford the Fordham prof’s expertise in such matters, that determination of his is, at best, outrageously banal, if not downright Meggy McCain-level idiotic.

Fleisher also sees “a reemergence into politics of the more radical elements” of both the right and the left that had been dormant.

Well the radical lefties are well represented among the Occupy crowd (a quick scroll through YouTube provides ample evidence), but where–better yet, what–are the “radical elements” found in the Tea Party’s crowd? The Tea Party message is pretty simple: the Federal government is out of control, and has grown more rapacious and intrusive than ever imagined by the Framers when they created the Constitution. It needs to be reined in, and set back to the limited, enumerated powers granted it in that document.

What’s “radical” about that?

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