House of Eratosthenes

Native-American or not, she is quickly becoming an amalgamation of everything about politicians that annoys me. She’s talked up everywhere in progressive circles as if there’s something remarkable about her, as if she’s accomplished amazing feats that only she can do, and I can’t find anything about any aspect of her that is outside the mediocre. She just got caught in a lie and her reaction is to accuse-the-accuser of discrimination against women…a Saul Alinsky tactic, perhaps chosen with competence, but executed badly.

She doesn’t strike me as particularly knowledgeable. She doesn’t impress me as an above-average, or even an adequate, public speaker. Just another middle-age butter-faced progressive white chick in a pantsuit, doing a lot of whining.

Yeah, I know, I have acquaintances and accomplices who chastise me for noticing these women are ugly. It’s not a critique against them, as individuals; I agree, that would be wrong. But the trend is unmistakable, and I maintain there’s nothing at all wrong with noticing the trend. Senate election after Senate election, Supreme Court nomination after Supreme Court nomination, nothing ever changes…because it’s part of the left-wing sense & sensibility that there’s something wrong with women being appealing to men. You have to wonder who got passed up. It is, after all, supposed to be about equal opportunity. Well, females, by & large, are nice-looking. Three quarters of them look better than these witches.

That quote of hers that was trumpeted up by MoveOnDotOrg, is just dumb. If I agreed with it, and I don’t, I’d see nothing special about it. It isn’t well-said, it isn’t thought-out, if I scribbled out something like that and someone came by and said “Freeberg, you need an editor” I wouldn’t take issue with it; I’d just dish out my stock answer of “Yeah, I know, can’t put one on the payroll yet.” No, it’s not a magnificent piece of prose by any means.

None of which means much, since I don’t live in Massachusetts. But she is a very annoying woman and I have to wonder how she got chosen. I grew up in a college town myself; I’ve had occasion to meet the middle-aged-hippy-woman who’s on the faculty at the campus, who doesn’t believe in eating meat and burns incense at home and droning on about patriarchy and nobody-made-it-on-their-own and what-not. A little bit of them goes a long way. I don’t know why anyone thought the voters would flock to her. And that’s before she got caught lying to advance her career.

Hopefully, some of the immolation happens to affirmative action, as well. I suppose it’s already detonating, the way progressive causes do, by first going through a name change. Been awhile since you’ve heard it called AA, right? “Diversity in hiring/contracting” or some such, you’re supposed to call it now. Hope it suffers a huge black eye because of this. We’ve got these greedy white girls gaming the system. Something must be done!

I’ve had occasion to meet the middle-aged-hippy-woman …

Speakin’ o’ editors… Enquiring Minds™ wanna know: do you mean the broad-in-the-beam sort or the peace-love-dope type? I have a soft spot for both kinds, as either can be a LOT o’ fun in certain circumstances. And big-assed hippie chicks might be the best of all.
- bpenni | 05/03/2012 @ 10:12
Okay now let me get this straight…since I won’t be able to have that editor on my payroll for the foreseeable future. If he or she was here, I would have been reminded I should discuss the size and roundness of the hippy chick’s rear end?

Yes, they can be as delightful as the next person as long as none of their pet peeves come up in the conversation. Trouble is, if nobody else brings up those peeves, they themselves will jump in and get ‘er done…hadn’t noticed about the big-assed ones. I suspect that means you’ve been avoiding the vegans.
- mkfreeberg | 05/03/2012 @ 10:17
Yeah, in the college towns I’ve been to, the bony-assed vegan ones outnumber the big-assed Earth-Mother types by about 10 to 1. It’s one of my main problems with modern leftism, actually — when you look at ’em from behind, you can’t tell if the wispy little waif with the $500 handmade jeans and the knitted longshoreman’s cap and the hemp-woven purse is female or male.

I couldn’t agree more about the quality of Warren’s prose, though. I get the giggles just thinking about how you can take the exact same “logic” and phrasing and make a compelling case for capitalism — Elizabeth Warren could never have gotten to her cushy made-up diversity-hire bullshit “job” without shoes made in Guatemala, cars made in Korea from iron ore mined in Kazakhstan, &c. Were it not for global finance capital, she’d still be back in the teepee tanning buffalo hide. Three cheers for globalization, which has allowed us all the benefit of her deep, deep thoughts.

[To me, the best part of this whole deal is coming up with the perfect Indian name for a standard-issue, bulk-rate, Hillary-lite tax-and-spend liberal. I currently prefer “Taxagawea,” but “Dances with Socialism” has its appeal].
- Severian | 05/03/2012 @ 10:37
If he or she was here, I would have been reminded I should discuss the size and roundness of the hippy chick’s rear end?

Yes, if that was where you were going. Or reminded that there’s a difference between hippy/hippie.

And… Why, yes. I most certainly DO avoid the vegan types. Exuberant horizontal activity can be downright painful for us thin guys if our partners don’t have sufficient and ample padding. Things tend to clank, yanno? TMI, prolly.
- bpenni | 05/04/2012 @ 10:53
Well, PART of the reason one doesn’t hear the phrase AA used much any more is
that folks disingenuously using it to defend raciss/sexist “diversity” quota minimums
were required to “look up” the actual citation by “The Court”. When it turns out that
AA describes the polar opposite of “disparate impact remedies” they “forgot” the term in favor of imagined “social” justice.

IMHO, effective “AA” usage can still be found in church basements-after regular hours, and other un-alligned meeting places. Sadly, it requires honest self examination and actual selfless contribution. There are no fees, no direct gub’mint regulation, no academic pre-requisites, but SOMEBODY actually has to make coffee, set up chairs, and clean up afterward.
- CaptDMO | 05/06/2012 @ 11:44

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