Monday, August 28, 2006
Oh for Dog's Sake
We're still on vacation -- and again, spending a little quality time with our old friend JJ -- so we're resorting to making a post out of comments on the previous one:
We repeat:
No -- strike that. It's our fault. See, 201k's editor spends a lot of time writing songs, and that gets one in the habit of burying points within and behind, instead of throwing it all out in simple sentences. The habit and technique are ingrained at this point -- and the only thing that keeps us interested -- so don't expect it to stop. If readers can't be bothered to read carefully and think a bit then, well, we might as well just hand things over to the clever, lying bastards who, um...are already running things. Oh well, so much for that analogy.
Regarding David and his comments: there's nothing we can do to help.
As for Diane: yes, we're serious. We gave it a lot of thought, and ultimately decided that Kerri Healey as Governor would be preferable only to Danny Bonaduce -- but that even Bonaduce would be preferable to Romney.
Reilly is our choice. He's a local guy, and a man of unquestionable integrity -- and frankly, 201k has lived long enough to find that that quality trumps all others. We don't expect the younger, more devoted, more passionate, and undoubtedly smarter Democrats out there to use the same measuring stick, but we knows what we knows, and that's what we know. Trust the jaded rock musician on this one: integrity is the greatest attribute a leader can have.
If you have any doubts, take a look at the leadership the country is suffering under now. We don't want to get all serious here or anything, but the truth is that what makes George W. Bush the worst president in history is not his lack of intelligence or curiosity, or his mean-spiritedness, or his loony religious views, or his greed, or any of his other many, many, many faults; it's his utter lack of integrity. Because even a man lacking in all other qualities, if he had integrity, would have changed course long before now -- which Bush will never do. He'd have dumped his crackpot advisors -- which he'll never do. And he'd have admitted his mistakes -- which he'll surely never do, at least not sincerely.
He is a man who knows he dodged the Vietnam war yet paraded around in a Navy flight suit. He is a man who blamed his generals, then the media, and now the American people for the debacle in Iraq.
In short, he is a man of absolutely no integrity. That's the ultimate problem with him. It's at the root of all his many, many, many faults.
[Pssst: That's the problem with Romney, too]
Reilly is no politician and he's made mistakes in this campaign. But what he is, is an honest cop. And that, folks, is worth its weight in gold. We need more of them right now.
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Hi Mike. John Carroll sent me. Well, we're glad you perused the site....I guess. Dunno why the type size bothers you so much - first complaint I've heard, and there's always the "view" menu in your browser toolbar - or reading glasses! ;) (Also, in our defense, we don't have total control over how the site looks.)
"Too many links"? What's that about? We try to supply sources for the things we say. Otherwise it's pure bloviation, and that wears thin after a while.
"Reader opinions." That's a big part of the point of our site. It's become a community site, not just a forum for the three of us to pontificate, which we think is pretty cool. And, not incidentally, when we went to the software that allows readers to put up their own posts last December, our traffic quickly tripled and has been increasing steadily since then. The more the merrier!
What else? Oh yeah - Mihos. Surely you jest!
# posted by David : 4:16 PM, August 26, 2006
Well, the choice is clear before us: on the one hand sourcing and a sense of community, on the other bloviating and pontificating.
Readers can rest assured that 201k will never waver in its commitment to the latter.
# posted by Editor - 201k.com : 6:08 PM, August 26, 2006
I'm personally down with the bloviating, which is why I keep coming back here. Since Carroll forced the endorsement on you, can I assume it's facetious? Or are you serious? In which case I'd be very interested to hear why you put Patrick 4th.
I'm of the same mind as Elias (I know, I know - another damned link...). I'm still undecided. As time goes by, in fact, I seem to be more and more undecided. But just as long as there's no Gov. Kerry Healey EVER, I think I can live with the results whatever they turn out to be.
We repeat:
- Two of our top three favorite candidates are known to us, either personally or professionally. And that stuff matters. We at 201k are loyal, if nothing else.
No -- strike that. It's our fault. See, 201k's editor spends a lot of time writing songs, and that gets one in the habit of burying points within and behind, instead of throwing it all out in simple sentences. The habit and technique are ingrained at this point -- and the only thing that keeps us interested -- so don't expect it to stop. If readers can't be bothered to read carefully and think a bit then, well, we might as well just hand things over to the clever, lying bastards who, um...are already running things. Oh well, so much for that analogy.
Regarding David and his comments: there's nothing we can do to help.
As for Diane: yes, we're serious. We gave it a lot of thought, and ultimately decided that Kerri Healey as Governor would be preferable only to Danny Bonaduce -- but that even Bonaduce would be preferable to Romney.
Reilly is our choice. He's a local guy, and a man of unquestionable integrity -- and frankly, 201k has lived long enough to find that that quality trumps all others. We don't expect the younger, more devoted, more passionate, and undoubtedly smarter Democrats out there to use the same measuring stick, but we knows what we knows, and that's what we know. Trust the jaded rock musician on this one: integrity is the greatest attribute a leader can have.
If you have any doubts, take a look at the leadership the country is suffering under now. We don't want to get all serious here or anything, but the truth is that what makes George W. Bush the worst president in history is not his lack of intelligence or curiosity, or his mean-spiritedness, or his loony religious views, or his greed, or any of his other many, many, many faults; it's his utter lack of integrity. Because even a man lacking in all other qualities, if he had integrity, would have changed course long before now -- which Bush will never do. He'd have dumped his crackpot advisors -- which he'll never do. And he'd have admitted his mistakes -- which he'll surely never do, at least not sincerely.
He is a man who knows he dodged the Vietnam war yet paraded around in a Navy flight suit. He is a man who blamed his generals, then the media, and now the American people for the debacle in Iraq.
In short, he is a man of absolutely no integrity. That's the ultimate problem with him. It's at the root of all his many, many, many faults.
[Pssst: That's the problem with Romney, too]
Reilly is no politician and he's made mistakes in this campaign. But what he is, is an honest cop. And that, folks, is worth its weight in gold. We need more of them right now.
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Thanks for the followup. Reilly was my first choice way back when, for the same reasons you mention, but his missteps had made me nervous.
What I wonder about Patrick is that he may be too much show and not enough of a detail man. So what you say makes sense to me. Romney is a definite show horse, as facile and surface-y as they come. I loathe him as much as I loathe Bush. And that's saying something.
Oh, and I admit to - on occasion, mind you - reading too fast. ;-)
What I wonder about Patrick is that he may be too much show and not enough of a detail man. So what you say makes sense to me. Romney is a definite show horse, as facile and surface-y as they come. I loathe him as much as I loathe Bush. And that's saying something.
Oh, and I admit to - on occasion, mind you - reading too fast. ;-)
Never fear -- JJ made me say it.
We decided definitively against criticizing any Democratic candidate; it's the fear of the "circular firing squad" thing Dems do so well. But we'll say that one other thing we like about Reilly is that he's stayed in the jobs he's held for serious time. He's been either a DA or the AG since 1983. Apart from one stint in private practice at the beginning of his career, he's worked for the people of the Commonwealth most of the last 36 years.
That means a lot to us. The guy has surely had opportunities to cash in along the way.
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We decided definitively against criticizing any Democratic candidate; it's the fear of the "circular firing squad" thing Dems do so well. But we'll say that one other thing we like about Reilly is that he's stayed in the jobs he's held for serious time. He's been either a DA or the AG since 1983. Apart from one stint in private practice at the beginning of his career, he's worked for the people of the Commonwealth most of the last 36 years.
That means a lot to us. The guy has surely had opportunities to cash in along the way.
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