Lean Back

Anniversaries from "Unhistory".

4women: [under construction]

Or should I?

I won't get stuck on numbers, but this is an interesting tangent.

Passing the buck in "the culture war"?

One Million Moms claims there is a culture war.

How is one neutral in what is their war?

Mourning in America:***

for the Raw Money* Class?

It's half-time in America.

(RM** w/Chris Hayes)

*Thanks to Norman Goldman for Mint Raw Money, and a Thom Hartmann caller who wanted a new class label for the 1% if Romney is the nominee. Do we really want to go back to where we were in 2008?

**only a coincidence he is in for Rachel Maddow

*** they used to call it "doom and gloom"

[***B:(link added) I take it back, they doo doo irony! Talk about twisted bridge of rhetoric.]

[2-7-12 An Inconvenient Acronym: PU Action as opposed to just PU**^? Actually it is more*^ of an inconvenient blog search.]

*^ a,b,c

**^ Speaking of Bowls[?] (irony mark: a,b,c,d,e,)("parsed"=a+b)

American Exceptionalism

The lighter side.

The darker side.

Sea-side or C-side. "swimming against the current"? Not to take sides, but "American Exceptionalism" is about what is different about America. See bold side and "The" first link. For some it is about being better, not just different. A new form of patriotism. But is it really different than any other nation's patriotism, or "better than others" feelings? I think it is too much to get caught up in the term. But by focusing on what is different, how we were founded, it is true that no nation can find the grounds to plant new ideas, quite like we did. Not that they(ours) were all smooth transitions, these days they can be even more troublesome*. And there is a difference between what Obama can represent in American Exceptionalism by trying to spread our ideas around the world, and the way old regimes hang on or try to spread theirs.

*found link as after search:
original "troublesome" was international not domestic
The Wall Street Journal is not American** nor exceptional jouralism, but a class warrior against the American dream. (entitlements, taxes, free trade)
**not naturally born

[Try-ing, Try-ing***, Trying]

*** Bolton, no Twain
Obama, no Mark
or vice verse US:
The High Way or the My Way.
[links are not necessarily coordinated here]

Parallel (Or Not So Pair o' Lax) Channels

[POST CONSTRUCTED 2-18-11]
Seriously from Media Matters with my spin.
Con-Text
2-9-11 A Generous Dia-Gnosis
- King of Rhetoric?
2-10-11 The Billy Club...
- The Club of Association
- Blank Network
2-11-11 Excitement in Egypt! [See Follow Up]
2-12-11 Bridging the English Channel
2-13-11 Frackin' Trickle Down
2-14-11 Said Relief?
- The Answering Machine...
- Fair and Balanced...
2-15-11 The Maze of Mace
2-16-11 Six-Edged Rhetoric
- Slash Segue
- Seconds
- Tip of the IceBurg
- Revisiting History
2-17-11 Recreating History
- The New Compendium

YES! THIS IS CON-TEXT TO A PARALLAX VIEW. and pun on the Billy Club and Blank Network to be named later.
The Pair o' Lax View* . I'm not just axing like Palin asks of Obama.

BUT THIS IS THE POINT!
The exchange between Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly actually makes both of them look better. It is the closest thing to two perspectives as might be found on FOX NEWS. Not that there is not a heckuva lot to pit and parse the cherries from the twigs, but there is something about the analysis(in the exchange) that may be not only valid but worth sorting and in respect to the audience about as much as they might be able to handle. That is not to say that it does not also serve as an inflammatory tool in a more nuanced way**.

* The Billy Maher/Elizabeth Hassel("Boy Billy")Beck Feud
** See BTW: Going Egypt...and Going Cheesehead