House of Eratosthenes

As loyal readers of The Blog That Nobody Reads might’ve predicted, the panel below in particular is by far my favorite. I have captured it and expect to use it very often over the next four years, and of course I shall give proper credit. As if the creator isn’t obvious to the casual observer already.

But boy howdee. You certainly don’t need to wait around for a high-tech project to get a green light, nowadays, to see plenty of this…

If you toss aside the funny papers, and jump to the front page of my local newspaper this morning, you see this already coming to pass. Peculiar nonsensical tidbits morphing into common knowledge. What a challenge the new President Obama has with juggling the economy with a bunch of other things…and some journalistic curiosity, perhaps, about what He’s going to do when He so juggles? Ha! Ha! You should live so long. Nope. A detailed exploration of His racially mixed ancestry, and how good that makes everybody feel. Paragraph upon paragraph about what He is…after a nearly two-year-old campaign in which someone could’ve explored what He’s going to do…but very seldom did anyone anywhere, outside of the right-wing blogs, so explore.

He is all about being, and not about doing. That is His style, that is His schtick, it is His public image. He is something…what He does, nobody knows, and nobody who has a voice is overly curious about that.

Being over doing. He is a leader for our times, after all.

Update: On that note, this cartoon strikes a chord as well. H/T to The Anchoress for finding it:

Cross-posted at Right Wing News.

I think a big part of the problem is that too many people see the President as some kind of holy figure. So I think that’s why so many people see this as a victory for open-mindedness, because apparently until now they thought Americans didn’t believe that blacks were capable of being holy.
- JohnJ | 11/09/2008 @ 16:47
However, I still think those people are vastly outnumbered by those who are more concerned about actual issues than making a personal statement. In other words, I think it’s mostly true that we elected Obama because we support his policies. But his premature deification by some for the virtue of being black is still wrong.
- JohnJ | 11/09/2008 @ 16:53
A year ago, I had an Obamaton seriously question whether “we, as a nation, are ready” for that kind of change. I (unwisely) volunteered my opinion that the supposed influence of the knuckle-dragging unabashed white racist, was VASTLY overstated. He pugnaciously inquired as to how much time I spent in the Deep South…which made a point I had to concede to him. He was making me look like exactly what I was, and am: A six-foot tall straight white male still in possession of all twenty-one digits, raised from toddlerhood in the Pacific Northwest. Which implies there’s a great abundance of racism going on there, of which I’ve spent a lifetime being mostly ignorant.

And I’m sure the truth is very close to that.

But here it is a year later. I was right all along, in spite of whatever ignorance may hobble me. Once the democrat party saw fit to nominate a black dude, he was gobbled up straightaway…not even a matter of opinion…an historical fact. But of course, don’t hold your breath waiting for the “golly, I see you were right all along.” It’s not coming.
- mkfreeberg | 11/09/2008 @ 16:55
Oh, and according to both Wikipedia and Snopes, that Tytler cycle theory is falsely attributed to Alexander Tytler.
- JohnJ | 11/09/2008 @ 17:15
Indeed.

For those not in the know about the cycle (rightly or wrongfully) attributed to Lord Woodhouselee’s name, you can read up about it here, where you can find the famous body of text that defines the cycle as well.
- mkfreeberg | 11/09/2008 @ 17:51
But everyone knows a permit means the same as a license, and a podium is the same as lectern. Dictionary be damned This week, Safire gives a nod to Francis Gross in describing contents of the ilk of “Urban Dictionary as “the vulgar tongue”. “Modern usage” morphing into “common knowledge”, indeed……that’s soooo gay….

I know one thing, if you’re going to keep diddling with variations of WW,work in some sensible red heals, as well as glasses, in the future. Sometimes, cleverly subtle is wasted on all those folk that don’t read this blog, and the previous manifestation was begging for the heels after that “upskirt” photo with the cadet.

I’ll simply accept the fact that too many cooks spoil the broth.
- CaptDMO | 11/09/2008 @ 22:25
I feel sorry for black people, in a way. In addition to being hopelessly naive (and breathtakingly ignorant of the real problems plaguing their “community” – fatherlessness, a culture that discourages achievement, rampant drug use, gang violence, perpetual victimhood, etc) they are going to have to stand and watch helplessly while “the nation’s first black president” ruins the economy, wrecks the healthcare system, and tacitly encourages our enemies to mount a massive strike on US soil. Obama is going to fail spectacularly, and it will raise serious doubts in the minds of moderate voters (unjustly, but life isn’t fair) about the ability of a black man to govern the nation. He will not just be the first black President…he will also be the last. I didn’t say any of it was fair, but it’s going to happen. Count on it.
- cylarz | 11/11/2008 @ 03:44

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