May 17, 2007
The GOP Base Self-Destructs
ABANDON SHIP!
The immigration bill has just blasted out of the water the last of the Bush support. Go the Corner or any other bastion of right-wing thought... these people are mad, baby. Heh. Heh heh.
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May 15, 2007
Falwell
Tucker has just called Falwell "bold" for the 9-11 comments.
Look, we lefties have a hard job today. If we look into our heart of hearts, we don't feel grief for his death. That's just the truth of it. He peddled intolerance and hatred, cloaking in a cross. He blamed Americans for 9-11. He blamed gays for Katrina (but God left the French Quarter alone, Jerry!). He was callus in that face of AIDS. To the right, it's standing on principal. To the left, it lacks compassion.
I'm thinking of his death as a turning point in this country. The right-wing Moral Majority he claimed to speak for has gone in a different direction from him: look at Rick Warren. I don't agree with him, but he's damn different from Falwell and he has a message so much closer to Jesus. Falwell represented the old, Warren represents the new. The new, even if we don't agree with it, is sooo much better than the old. It has compassion, it speaks of poverty, it lives in the now. There's room for agreement. Room for working together on certain issues like poverty.
Falwell represented a certain portion of the country and they are there, in great numbers, but they are not a majority. (I'm speaking to you, Joe Scarborough.) He didn't even represent a majority in the conservative movement. (More like 30-45%, I'd say.) He was powerful, but he was marginalized, too... and MSM has to take a breath from their extreme eulogy to say so.
Powerful and marginalized... people, right and left, just didn't buy into the words that were coming out of his mouth anymore.
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May 7, 2007
Rout II: Taste Ben Wallace's Tears
Of course, I was rooting for the Bulls in the first round. Beating Miami is the patriotic duty of any self-respecting NBA team. Miami sucks. You don't have to say any more then that.
But now, it is war. It is business. And Chicago can go suck an egg. Which apparently, they are doing.
These routs won't continue. Chicago will win at least one. But it is pretty, pretty while it lasts. And Chicago won't win. Cry all you want, Windy City. Bulls blogs are in a real bad mood tonight, but you had to EXPECT this. This is the Pistons, my Sheed, Rip, Chauncey, C-Webb and the Palace Prince... they don't just roll over and play Shaq.
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May 6, 2007
Playoff Thoughts
1) I believe. I believe in Golden State. I think they'll beat Utah. Nobody else is thinking this way, but NOBODY was thinking that could beat Dallas. Don't lie and say you were. You thought Dallas would kill them and eat them for lunch. And look how that turned out.
2) Thank God those cranky old grandfathers, the Miami Heat, are out.
3) Bulls v Pistons. HA! All those Bulls punks saying that the Bulls are going to sweep everyone. HA! These are still the Baby Bulls. And they're going to get spanked by my Pistons. It may take seven games, I'm not delusional. But the Bulls got it handed to them yesterday and that does not bode well for them.
4) Spurs V Suns. Good series. Good teams. Hard to know who to root for, but I'm going Suns. Nobody can predict this one, but I think Suns may have an advantage. No doubt in my mind this is going to seven.
5) Kobe. Just shut up. Being the "greatest" means making it beyond the first round of the playoffs.
6) TMac and Yao: sorry, guys. I really wanted TMac to get out of the first round, unlike my glee that Kobe has gone fishin'.
7) Is it just me or is The Jet getting kind of annoyed with Sir Charles recently?
By the way, this has been the best playoffs in a long time. Great games. Dallas and Miami out, so there's drama.
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