In which I repeat myself

Jun 23, 2009 00:15

If you found Robert Bork floating in your toilet bowl, he'd look right at home. I was just reminded by a Newsweek interview that he still exists, and I'm good and cranky about that fact. He's in that class of authoritarian that I don't respect enough to have a coherent argument with: I'd much rather get up in his face with a good hearty fuck you! ( Read more... )

politics, cynical, patriarchy-blaming, media diet

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ff00ff June 23 2009, 09:02:20 UTC
Fox news could give Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy their own shows, but don't even invite Bork on to be a panelist or pundit. I think that says something.

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krinndnz June 23 2009, 17:56:00 UTC
Sure. He's not a bankable name.

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ff00ff June 23 2009, 20:04:13 UTC
Yes, but these other monsters of modern history manage to be bankable names, yet not he. He's so ridiculous even the ridiculous right wing network won't have anything to do with him.

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krinndnz July 4 2009, 02:16:47 UTC
Actually, hmmm. I found an Alternet article that mentions him - apparently he is quasi-bankable - he shows up on those National Review cruises.

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krinndnz June 23 2009, 18:57:08 UTC
Ooooh. Also a good snap.

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lhexa June 23 2009, 13:12:51 UTC
*grins* Well, I enjoyed the catharsis-by-proxy.

Also, I'm amused by the way the ninth amendment makes so-called originalism paradoxical. Originalists want the document interpreted the way its writers intended, but those same writers wanted its interpretation to cover future, unforeseen encroachments by the government...

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krinndnz July 4 2009, 02:17:46 UTC
Yeah, the excuses for "originalist" interpretations get really, really thin sometimes.

Everything needs patches eventually.

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postrodent June 23 2009, 13:34:27 UTC
Krinn, your RAAWWWRR is in fine form today. ^______^

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tixen June 23 2009, 14:41:47 UTC
^ this. :3

Also, <3!

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krinndnz June 23 2009, 18:49:34 UTC
Hee hee. My rawr has many forms!

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krinndnz June 23 2009, 18:48:31 UTC
Awww. Thank you.

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Because what needed to be said has been said, masstreble June 23 2009, 14:35:34 UTC
I'm going to say something frivolous instead.

You're cute when you're angry.

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Re: Because what needed to be said has been said, krinndnz July 4 2009, 02:18:27 UTC
I will accept this - with humorously bared teeth.

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