When did the conventional wisdom change?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008It used to be the conventional wisdom that “Republicans are better for the economy.” Now the pendulum have swung the other way, big time: (more…)
John McCain, Tamer of Horses
Sunday, August 31st, 2008I suppose Iowahawk deserves credit for putting in the man-hours it must have taken to put this together, but it succeeds as humor just in case there’s merit to the idea that there’s something exceptional to the extent to which liberal elites look down on the noble savages of flyover country as if from empyrean heights, specifically that there’s something exceptional to the extent to which liberals treat Barack Obama as some sort of demi-divinity, and moreover that Obama himself shares that view to any exceptional degree. And not to put too fine a point on it, not only is the conceit of exceptionalism in any of these cases fairly idiotic, so is, in ascending order, the idea that these propositions hold at all. Besides which, this election’s pidgin-poetry is already covered, is a heck of a lot more compelling than Iowahawk’s adaptation of Homer, and helps give the lie to the ideas underwriting his attempt at satire. To put it briefly, it’s tough to find “The Idiossey” funny without buying into several distinct, and exceptionally stupid anti-Obama sneers. (Which helps to illustrate the failures of conservative — or let’s be accurate, Republican — political satire* in recent years: if you don’t give credence to a series of dumb insults, watching the “comedy” routine doesn’t just fail to provoke laughs, it induces a vicarious mortified reaction.)