House of Eratosthenes

I’ve been noticing this, the way you notice an itch that you might be able to scratch if you could only find it, but you can’t quite find it. This meticulous attention to public image. The mindset of the current leadership seems to be one of unrelenting determination to provide stewardship to the packaging, without regard to the contents.

Perhaps it would not seem so odious if now and then I heard an explanation of how a plan is supposed to work. The steps involved in the plan working. But I very seldom hear anything about steps; it wouldn’t service the interest of providing stewardship to the packaging. The fear must be one of: This step worked out the way you said, that step worked out the way you said, and then oopsie this third step went off in some different direction from the way you said it would and now we are being criticized. Who cares if ultimately the plan is successful, now you’ve exposed our precious administration to criticism.

So everything is Barack Obama giving a wonderful speech about “I just think…” We live in their universe in which there is no cause and no effect — things do not happen because of other things. There is just Barack and all the things He has figured out. Every argument is concluded not, in spite of appearances, because of a brilliant point that was made; but because someone managed to get the last word in.

Over on Gerard’s page, our First Lady is acting like quite the Marie Antoinette in maintaining — and showing off, of course — her much-discussed vegetable garden. I think this is an apt metaphor for the 44th presidency. Not that I mean to insult vegetable gardeners, but it seems to me an imbalanced lifestyle has been embraced, one devoted to the lifestyle of a vegetable gardener who possesses vast holdings of land, but is obsessed only with that one damn garden. Pull the weeds, spray the weeds, fertilize the vegetables, plant the vegetables, harvest the vegetables…from the moment the gardener rises in the morning, until he puts his weary head down for the night. Just stay fixated on image, image, image the way the gardener remains fixated on the garden.

Elsewhere, there are bridges that need mending…and fences too. There are taxes to be paid on owning the land. There is a house to be painted with a roof that needs patching. Babies with dirty wet butts that need changing. Meals to be cooked, and after that’s done, dishes to be washed and ovens to be cleaned. And on the far corner of the property a pack of wild coyotes is making inroads, doing their scavenging and fornicating and pooping and yelling. As they get bolder, they’re going to start carrying off things like kittens and puppies, then work their way up the babies.

There’s shit to be taken care off. All over that spread.

But no. Nothing matters except the vegetable garden of public image. So get someone on the phone with Chris Wallace to do some whining.

“But I very seldom hear anything about steps; it wouldn’t service the interest of providing stewardship to the packaging.”

Heh, excellent description.

“We live in their universe in which there is no cause and no effect — things do not happen because of other things. There is just Barack and all the things He has figured out. Every argument is concluded not, in spite of appearances, because of a brilliant point that was made; but because someone managed to get the last word in.”

Follow leftists back into the roots of their philosophical hidey hole, and that is exactly what you’l find, an attempt to make reality conform to how they know it should be.

Love the Wallace clip!
- Van | 09/19/2009 @ 12:06
Obama makes bad points brilliantly, and everyone is blinded by the “brilliant” and don’t even bother to see that the point he has just brilliantly made is a thin coat of paint on rotted wood. It’s skin deep and it has very thin skin.
- philmon | 09/19/2009 @ 16:25
You mentioned Obama’s skin! Raaaaaaaa-cist!
- Jason | 09/19/2009 @ 17:08
You got me!
- philmon | 09/19/2009 @ 17:56
But..but..Isn’t the “First (unelected) guest of the Office of The President speaking to “womans” groups to explain why Socialist “health insurance”, and the financial penalties for non-participants, is REALLY an important “womans issue”?

I guess the false accusation projection of (chauvinistic) racism is the current diversion for the projection of sexism. Yep, ‘cuz the folks that look like the gardener czar needlessly consume WHAT PERCENT of the available “FREE” health care “insurance” assets? Oh, those delicate flowers.
Let’s all take a walk down to the pharmacy and look at what’s attractively packaged, and over priced, on the OTC shelves.
Hope the veep is still “on board”.
- CaptDMO | 09/20/2009 @ 07:40
I’d never checked, until this morning, but I’ve long suspected that Chris Wallace almost had to be the son of CBS’s Mike Wallace of 60 minutes fame. The voice and the appearance are so, so similar. I wiki’d it this morning, and sure thing! He is. I got the following from reading the Wiki article.

He wasn’t really raised by Mike — as his parents split when he was 1. But his stepfather ended up being the head of CBS News. Chris and Mike established a relationship when Chris was 14, apparently, and he’s been doing news a long time — working for NBC News and eventually a 14 year stint at ABC.

After moving from ABC to Fox in 2003 … he was quoted thus:

“Fox News wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for this kind of stuff going on in the mainstream media. That’s why people are fed up with that and want the antidote to it because they get it and they’ve gotten it for years – the so-called bias in the objective press.”

Bernie Goldberg is not alone.
- philmon | 09/20/2009 @ 12:31

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