Sunday, April 27, 2008

The GOP's best friend


Politics maketh strange bedfellows. I never expected to hop in the sack with Lou Freakin' Dobbs. Nevertheless -- what he said.

11 comments:

Gary McGowan said...

Whoo hoo. Ain't that somthin'

Lou Dobbs hisself doesn't occupy a lot of my neural space, since I gave up on that "news" crap decades ago. But here we go, as a nation, off to the races.

There good and bad people, to varying degrees, within all the institutions we demonize. Now starts the sorting and re-aligning. Lots more surprises in store. Fluid dynamics is the name of the game now.

AitchD said...

Did Dobbs challenge Diana's slime about "anti-American...Bill Ayers"? No. Isn't she tired yet of being young? She's damn damn lucky Paul Krassner doesn't give her the time of day. Looked to me like a set-up set piece. Fuck, I might write in Ayers's name in November. Good night, good luck, and gefilte fish.

Anonymous said...

One of these days, one of these surprises will surprise one of these dynamically fluid people!
"And that's all I have to say about it". Can we play Ping Pong Now?

Gary McGowan said...

Looked to me like a set up piece too... I mean, it's not like the viewers are flies in the wall overlooking a conversation in a beer hall or across a coffee table or something.

Gee, there's Dobbs just sittin' there thinkin' out loud , having revelations about how "the media" has been covering Obama-Clinton... gimme a break... Oh, Sheinkopf, what a coincidence you are here. Could you give us a spontaneous unexpected reaction on these totally fresh revelations that are passing through my brain and out my mouth?

Here is what I'm presuming to be a somewhat more truly spontaneous conversation with Mr. Sheinkopf- http://preview.tinyurl.com/5og7ws

I wouldn't claim it's the key to the mysteries of the universe or anything, but it only takes a minute to click and watch--maybe a bit longer to think about.

Neither me or my dad are physicists--far from it--but looking at a stream or river, he has some idea of where the fish might be and not be.

I spent two or three hours at the institution where I work today trying to rustle up pay for 12 weeks work that had gotten lost in the system . For all the shuffling to various offices and misdirections and worse, I could not tell anyone with complete confidence just what has happened or will happen, but I'm pretty sure It will be in my hands in a few days, thanks to my extensive book learnin' in fluid dynamics and fishin'

Or maybe it won't. Only God knows for sure what the fish are thinking.

Anonymous said...

HD,

Thanks for living up to my greatest expectorations!! Why not write in Wright? Isn't Wright right?

Joe,

I wanna get my hands on Wright's latest. According to the NY Times, he addressed an NAACP fundraiser, where he "spent much of his address discussing differences between blacks and whites but argued that "different does not mean deficient." Black people speak differently, learn differently and like different types of music than whites..."

Can somebody please explain to me what is the difference between this and what James Watson said?

By the way, Wright himself graduated from a selective, mostly white, heavily Jewish high school in Philadelphia. His mother was a math teacher and later principal of the top public girl's high school in Philly. I wonder if she incorporated "black" learning styles into her pedagogy.

Gary McGowan said...

Since I was here anyway, played the video again... "We're sorry, but this video is no longer available." (Short version is: clear the cache and refresh the page to get “back to normal.” Long version is more nourishing, but many people nowadays don't have the interest.)
Anyway, what I really want to say (as briefly as possible) is regarding the relationships between fluid dynamics, optics and politics.

1. Really cool pictures and videos, I promise.
http://deputy-dog.com/2007/07/02/natural-phenomena/

2. Thurgood Marshall and Leonardo da Vinci:
A dozen short paragraphs.
http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_what_you_can_learn.html

I beg your indulgence. The intention and trajectory of my remarks is simply to get the United States of America back to normal.

Anonymous said...

...after watching the NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, and today's press conference & Q/A, I gotta say: I wish Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. was running for president and then Dr. Wendell Anthony could either be VP or White House Press Secretary Man that's a swank 3-piece suit

AitchD said...

J, kiddo, Wright's not an atheist, so he's very very wrong. Nonetheless, he and I would agree on a sociology, anthropology, political science, and literature curriculum. R U heavily invested in Preparation H stock, or what?

AitchD said...

Gary M, take a break (like 7,635,000+ others have, probably yourself included) and check out eggman913's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs&feature=user

and also check out the barely noticed (by 25,700+):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8U6jD6lKRs&feature=user

Gary McGowan said...

aitchd,

Oh my god, “Women in Art” is beautiful. I cried. (O.K., so I did need a break.) End is a bit sobering.

Self portraits I entered knowing the game already… but I still liked especially the Rembrandt…

Oh, thank you.

I download and share with my students in the classroom:
http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
.

AitchD said...

Gary, last night I watched Arthur Penn's realization of Steve Tesich's original screenplay "Four Friends" for the umpteenth time. I cried at the first note and had to pause it often. Its time-frame corresponds precisely to my life, as does most of Danilo's story with my own. Whatever, it's a superb, and often quite beautiful, picaresque-esque telling of America, 1950-1970+.

The self portrait of John Singer Sargent is a dead-ringer of me 20 years ago. When I saw it in a little museum-store book my heart stopped.