Hello all. I have completed a busy ten days or so, and am now free to focus on some holiday preparations but worried I might get a little lazy and fail to keep pace. Well, at least I have set up an area on a table for my Christmas card project.
Here's my latest Liz report:
I've continued to plow through Liz Cheney's book; I'm at the 88% mark on my Kindle. In addition to the shout-out for Steve and Jonah, Chris Stirewalt gets one too, being quoted as saying, on the subject of the tendency (known as the "red mirage") for Democrats to vote early or absentee more than Republicans, "Happens every time."
My TiVo delivered me a Steven Colbert show with Liz as guest. I have never watched him on purpose, and had to fast-forward past the expected playing of Trump clips (eww, I don't want to see or hear that thing) with predictable jokes that make me feel ignored/'splained to by the left, and annoying laughter. But I like how Liz is handling herself. He admitted he's made jokes about her and her father over the years, and she responded "I'm aware, and you're not getting off as easy as I did" to which he answered "Ding ding."
In the rest of the conversation, she made several good points about how people on different sides of issues have to come together to preserve their chance to have actual debates about them, but I hope the audience took them on board a bit better than he did. He kind of went off into trying to explore why the right got a demagogue first, and implying that racism is a problem of the right whereas antisemitism is a problem across the spectrum. At one point he claimed Trump is "not an aberration but an avatar." Huh? She said "It's really important in my view that we not slide off into saying everything Republicans have ever done is the same as what Donald Trump is doing."
She also got him to clarify his use of "piquant" which apparently is a familiar thing to his audience, but not to the rest of us. I saw that as nicely suggesting that translation of sly shibboleths would be a good start at coming together. Of course I'm the one who often opens up the morning paper and finds an op-ed commenting on something that's been "all over the news" and of which I was totally unaware because it's only been in the quasi-news. So if you ask me, all that stuff should be wrapped up together in yesterday's paper and tossed in the garbage so we can (figuratively and perhaps even literally) start getting on the same page about what counts.
Hello all. I have completed a busy ten days or so, and am now free to focus on some holiday preparations but worried I might get a little lazy and fail to keep pace. Well, at least I have set up an area on a table for my Christmas card project.
Here's my latest Liz report:
I've continued to plow through Liz Cheney's book; I'm at the 88% mark on my Kindle. In addition to the shout-out for Steve and Jonah, Chris Stirewalt gets one too, being quoted as saying, on the subject of the tendency (known as the "red mirage") for Democrats to vote early or absentee more than Republicans, "Happens every time."
My TiVo delivered me a Steven Colbert show with Liz as guest. I have never watched him on purpose, and had to fast-forward past the expected playing of Trump clips (eww, I don't want to see or hear that thing) with predictable jokes that make me feel ignored/'splained to by the left, and annoying laughter. But I like how Liz is handling herself. He admitted he's made jokes about her and her father over the years, and she responded "I'm aware, and you're not getting off as easy as I did" to which he answered "Ding ding."
In the rest of the conversation, she made several good points about how people on different sides of issues have to come together to preserve their chance to have actual debates about them, but I hope the audience took them on board a bit better than he did. He kind of went off into trying to explore why the right got a demagogue first, and implying that racism is a problem of the right whereas antisemitism is a problem across the spectrum. At one point he claimed Trump is "not an aberration but an avatar." Huh? She said "It's really important in my view that we not slide off into saying everything Republicans have ever done is the same as what Donald Trump is doing."
She also got him to clarify his use of "piquant" which apparently is a familiar thing to his audience, but not to the rest of us. I saw that as nicely suggesting that translation of sly shibboleths would be a good start at coming together. Of course I'm the one who often opens up the morning paper and finds an op-ed commenting on something that's been "all over the news" and of which I was totally unaware because it's only been in the quasi-news. So if you ask me, all that stuff should be wrapped up together in yesterday's paper and tossed in the garbage so we can (figuratively and perhaps even literally) start getting on the same page about what counts.
I’m a Hanson fan and once again he nails it. https://victorhanson.com/how-were-the-universities-lost/