TGIF
The commentary is likely to spill over into Saturday, especially as Blogger.com observes Zulu time.
First political thought for the day:
Q: what's the difference between a republican and an anarchist?
A: a trust fund
Second ditto. Why is it that when the rest of the planet appears to be moving to the left, that any nation whose chief language is English seems determined to move even further to the right?
Third: tonight's news seems to be equally divided between coverage of unrest in the Middle East, and unrest in the Middle West. Considering that the Republicans have been making noises generally supportive of autocratic reactionaries, whatever they get in this country from those objecting to their domestic policies is just what they deserve. The punditocracy doesn't have enough spine to bring up an awkward and ever-more-obvious fact. The conservatives in the USA are the Democrats. The republicans are reactionaries of a particularly noxious stripe, who deserve to be treated exactly as Middle Eastern reactionary autocrats are being treated at the moment. Reaction of this sort has, in the past, led to only one outcome: revolution. It is much to the credit of the Middle Eastern revolutionaries that they've accomplished what they have so far without resort to the guillotine. One wonders what will happen here as long as our home-grown reactionaries keep their feet on the brakes.
And then we have the horrors (?) of men wearing skinny jeans, quite as if men had never worn skinny jeans. Let's crank up the WABAC machine and drop in on any moment between James Dean and the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. We will find men wearing skinny jeans in profusion. We will find sartorial reactionaries trying to ban them. What I remember most fondly is that the reactionaries insisted on banning blue jeans. Levi Strauss, never one to miss an opportunity, began to market skinny Levis in colours from pale khaki to white. "White Levis" were a contrarian badge for several years before bell bottoms. Jeans of a cut evidently acceptable to today's fashionistas were the emblem of dorks.
When the whites come back, I'll know the wheel has turned 360 degrees.
First political thought for the day:
Q: what's the difference between a republican and an anarchist?
A: a trust fund
Second ditto. Why is it that when the rest of the planet appears to be moving to the left, that any nation whose chief language is English seems determined to move even further to the right?
Third: tonight's news seems to be equally divided between coverage of unrest in the Middle East, and unrest in the Middle West. Considering that the Republicans have been making noises generally supportive of autocratic reactionaries, whatever they get in this country from those objecting to their domestic policies is just what they deserve. The punditocracy doesn't have enough spine to bring up an awkward and ever-more-obvious fact. The conservatives in the USA are the Democrats. The republicans are reactionaries of a particularly noxious stripe, who deserve to be treated exactly as Middle Eastern reactionary autocrats are being treated at the moment. Reaction of this sort has, in the past, led to only one outcome: revolution. It is much to the credit of the Middle Eastern revolutionaries that they've accomplished what they have so far without resort to the guillotine. One wonders what will happen here as long as our home-grown reactionaries keep their feet on the brakes.
And then we have the horrors (?) of men wearing skinny jeans, quite as if men had never worn skinny jeans. Let's crank up the WABAC machine and drop in on any moment between James Dean and the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. We will find men wearing skinny jeans in profusion. We will find sartorial reactionaries trying to ban them. What I remember most fondly is that the reactionaries insisted on banning blue jeans. Levi Strauss, never one to miss an opportunity, began to market skinny Levis in colours from pale khaki to white. "White Levis" were a contrarian badge for several years before bell bottoms. Jeans of a cut evidently acceptable to today's fashionistas were the emblem of dorks.
When the whites come back, I'll know the wheel has turned 360 degrees.
Labels: jeans, politics, republicans
posted by Uncle | 23:19
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