More Slipshod, Candy Assed, Shallow, Silly, Mean Thinking, by the Owl.

 But first things first.  I have to take a break from posting about her.  But my problem is, I have so little tolerance for GOPNazi bullshit, I can't even handle FNC, these days.  I do go to Real Clear Politics. But . . . and have I said this here yet?  Not only stories about bozo, all other GOPNazis seem like deliberate click bait.  Even when the headline is a direct quote.  Not twisted out of context.   And I am cutting down on even clicking on any clickbait.  And I go to the Owl's blog, just to get a peek of what the people to the right of me are saying.  (But I am back to ignoring the white supremacist trash in her comment crew.)  Anyway.  I will take at least a week off posting re her brain droppings, starting after this post.

And this latest shit seems to my mind, nothing better than pre adolescent stupid shit, from the Owl.  I say that, because.  Instead of recognizing the limitations of her data set, as being woefully inadequate evidence upon which to make a broad statement.   She makes a broad statement about a large population, based on one person's quote.

Is this an example of the reasoning, lack of skills, of a dull witted sixth grader or seventh?  In any case, it is below what an eight grader student should be capable of.

Never mind the dullness of her  . . . let us not call it analysis.  That is too fancy a word for what seems to my mind to be a knee jerk, bigoted, old people smear of the kids.  I love the kids. A lot of those kids are actually smarter than a lot of people over the age of 70.  Shit, make that over the age of 40.   Bad enough to be so shallow to smear a whole bunch of kids based on one kid's quote?  But to get shit all that wrong?  But I have called out Owl's seeming lack of understanding of the most basic and obvious bits about human psychology.  And I mean above and beyond the mere onanistic  (not in the fleshy parts sense,) tiresomeness of looking at everything from one's own narrow point of view, and expecting others to share that, or be some how wrong, or inferior. I know I am being critical here. But there is a point I am leading to.

What the Owl does, or more is the point, failed to do, is take into account the actual reality of what it could have felt like, to have lived through the events at Columbia U., last night.   Shit.  I only started in the afternoon, listening to the campus station, then when shit really started going down, I was watching one of the local NYC news report web sites, for the video.  And just being a remote viewer, I went to bed, perhaps not shaken, but disturbed by what I saw.

So,  I am not only calling out shallowness, and lack of thoughtfulness on the part of the Owl.  She seems to lack basic human empathy.   At least here, with some kid who had just lived through that shit a few hours ago.  I have done some marching and protesting, and walking a picket line, in my years.  Never have I been caught up in shit like that.  Like I saw last night, on the web feed.

But it seems either the Owl was so lacking in empathy for others she just did not think.  That kid likely is still some kind of traumatized.  Or she don't give a fuck about other's people lived trauma. Some such.

She never seems to have thought about that kid, maybe she should not judge her?  Never mind, make some baseless generalization of a much larger population of kids, based on what this likely still cranked up and emotionally stressed kid was able to do and say, or not do and say, after that trauma.

My take. 

Ok.  Owl is on a blackout, for at least a week, starting now.

I Am Not Going To Call The Owl a Racist,

 But personally, I suspect a lot of the criticism of VP Harris to be racist.  Particularly, when it's about trivial shit.  Particularly, when also about her cognitive ability, fitness for office.  All that shit.

The Owl.  Who's functioning I find to be extremely eccentric as a default, and flat out bewildering, time and again?  She has chosen to jump on the bandwagon of people giving Harris shit about some likely mostly ad lib remarks about women's college basketball.

Now to be fair.  I do not consider VP Harris to be at her best ad libbing.  But the racist assholes accusing her of word salad or worse are just shit talking her for their own amusement or what not.  VP Harris seems to just come across as a regular person, thinking out loud, when she talks off script.

Thinking out loud is not the same a working a script, people!

She is an experienced lawyer.  And she was a killer in the senate hearing rooms.  When she is all prepped she is a force to be reckoned with.  But in ordinary discourse?  She comes across like ordinary people.  Bright ordinary people, yea.  But she does not seem to have the rare gift of blarney.

She doesn't seem to have that ability that Obama and Bill Clinton had, with just talking and communicating very well to people off the cuff.   Most people don't. But hey.  I have an earned degree in Theatre.  I used to do improv exercises.  Most people never have.  Oh.  And the kind of legal and professional career I had, threw me into situations where I had to adapt and improvise.  Such as when I was a lobbyist. Some days I got to stick to my script.  Some days, I literally did speed lobbying. Which is  having a prepare elevator pitch, but being prepped for any of a number of questions about the bill at issue.  Or other stuff the legislators could ask.  

Oh.  But none of that is the real point.  That is.  VP Harris' sport is tennis, not basketball.  You fucking haters!

The Most Disturbing Thing (Perhaps) About Ann Althouse . . .

and I used to describe it as her pathological lack of self awareness. But on and after deeper thought, I must now conclude it's her lack of general awareness. Generally. Let me try to explain with out getting too long, here.

Following her latest bloggingheads.tv performance, she took asymmetrical offense to her opposite's blogging about the experience, calling it,"Weird." Granted, Althouse employed one of my least favorite sleazy lawyer tricks, what I call a buzz saw citation, and to a great extent misrepresented, blatantly, some of the things the other, Ms. Rebecca Watson, said in her own blog post post. Go here if you need to see for yourself.

The most telling thing about Althouse's blind spot occurs when she looks at one of the discrete (and it is a mild) complaints Watson makes about the experience, basically complaining about Althouse's (my words) sometimes manic conversational style. It's like dealing with some child on a sugar buzz, or some adult who had too many double espressos. Again, my words. What Watson said was reportedly this (and I did read the full post on her own blog. I am quoting from Althouse's post, here):

"She kept saying things that required me to unpack a lot of stuff before moving on."

Mild, like I said. No where near how I would and did say it. And while I am at it, ya know how Sarah Palin does that neurologically disturbed and distressing to experience, word salad shit? Althouse does not do word salad. But she does this thing where instead of coming at you with one coherent question, or point, she can blitz a person with a bunch of nonsense just muddying and mucking things up. It's not the clearest of thinking, communicating styles/tactics. Never mind the straw man and red herrings that seem to be legion with her.

Anyway here's the pay off. After saying that, Althouse says:

"Wow! That sounds like good conversation to me. I would love it if someone would talk to me in a way that invited me to go places where I hadn't planned."

STOP THE PRESSES! Ann Althouse likes her own odd, strange, sometimes hard to follow style of communication. Doesn't seem to get it that others might not like that, and would prefer a more "Strunk and White" style.

And before she gets to the end of her post, she's basically gone all passive aggressive troll on Watson. And the follow up post highlights the trolling. But back to that statement. There's this net/blogger convention where people do a shorter version of what some other writer says. My not so much shorter on Althouse's unaware statement would be:

"Wow! Someone thinks different than me. Heathen/heretic/monster."

Ya. Above I described it as non awareness. Althouse actually is aware there are people with different thoughts than her. She just has trouble processing that reality. At first I took that quote for being pathologically not self aware, but that's only part of the story. She has a shallow, bare minimum awareness that people are different than her. And it seems to bother her. A lot. So much so, that by giving the signal to her commentariat that she felt offended by Ms. Watson, she (knowingly) unleashed the hate mob to spew all sorts of disproportionate poison on the poor girl. I guess it's good to be the Queen Bee? (Gag me.)

Oh. And the follow up. To explain, one of the incidents covered in the bloggingheads episode was Watson's telling of a story about being hit on (mildly) in an elevator at this conference she attended. By the end of the original post, Althouse is sympathizing with the pick up artist.

Now during the "follow up," as posted today, Althouse posts some vid of some other guy in some elevator. More passive aggressive snark aimed at Watson. Petty vicious trolling, there. Not very mature, that. After giving a passive "By My Leave," license to her minions to savage the poor girl (one of the topics of that bloggingheads session, disturbingly ironically was sexism,) she could not leave it at that one shot for that one incident. Sorta sickening, I think.

My god (figure of speech.) What must it be like to work with her?

It's as if Them Wing Nuts Live in a Bizzaro Universe.

Back to trashing that wing nut law professor. He's a Class A Wing Nut. And by Class A, I mean he's light years beyond merely having an ordinary partisan political biased point of view (I resemble that myself.) He seems to not only deny the existence of other points of view, except in showing contempt for such. But to make matters even worse, he does that particularly despicable (if you love language and communicating in an adult world of ideas) shit lots of wing nuts do. And that is either play the redefinition game, or otherwise ignore the plain meanings of words, if not established, objective reality on the very planet.

And since there's a feature here of a silly-assed stupid shit headline, let me make a more accurate one for his post on his blog.


"Liberal Writer Writes 'Personal Account.' Wing Nut Asshole Accuses Her of Being Entirely Self Absorbed."

Go here for the post. Wing Nut Idiots Don't Get the Meaning of "Personal Account."

I read the whole account. And as far as accounts go, it not only is clearly meant to be a personal account of a person's personal experience, as opposed to a white paper on The Lingering Effects on the Intifada, Under a Croatian Christian Nationalist Perspective. Or some other such academic shit. I found her account to be a very interesting read. She tells an interesting story, I am saying. And even if I have a better than average span of attention, I bore quite easily. When shit is boring. Or badly written. Or god forbid, both.


Now do I think he really doesn't understand the meaning of the phrase "Personal Account?" No. But I know a lame, passive aggressive insult when I see one.

What I see here (there) is this. This asshole doesn't agree with her politics, and her change from being a knee jerk Zionist to someone no longer a knee jerk Zionist. So he launches a weak-assed insult at her. Now remember kids. This is the juvenile who did a victory dance (well, used a cartoon character in simulation) for what was basically the obvious guess about the result of the Wisconsin court case about the procedural challenge to the Kill Collective Bargaining law. Maturity ain't his strong suit, apparently.

And ironically this stupid (acting as I know he isn't really a stupid person. I'm just taking delight in insulting him) asshole goes off on a mini tangent about the writer's use of that hallowed, revered, Eff Bomb to Top Them All, Motherfucker. This, after his weak-assed passive aggressive insult, shit.

Now I am really not at all inhibited in using the work fuck. I like it. It conveys a lot of emotion in just four little letters. Motherfucker is fuck on crack. I don't use it much, but I respect it's power. I respect it's authority as the Big Daddy of insults. And that is what I am really talking about here. Being honest in being insulting.

Not to say I never get creative about it. Sometimes I will go to Babelfish and translate insults into French because, as that character in the Matrix movie says,"I love cursing in French. It's like wiping your ass with silk."

But still, that passive aggressive shit is so trollish. Remember those posts I made a week or so back about how Mrs. Palin (and many wing nut women) is a passive aggressive troll and a Mean Girl? Ya. This is exactly the kind of trollish mean girl shit I was talking about.

Now I can't make anyone stop acting like a Mean Girl, passive aggressive troll. But I can point out the fact that that is some motherfucking weak shit.

Not That I Watched That (not even) Clown Act

So the GOP stooges had a debate, and shock and horror. Mitt Romney is the only sane adult in the bunch. Ya, he's still at heart a bullshit GOPer, and an accomplished liar. But he's leaps and bounds ahead of the pack in looking and sounding like a sane adult.

That's maybe not saying much, but the GOP money will likely line up behind him, if the trending continues.

Other than that. Sigh. Bachmann announced that she has filed papers to officially run for the nomination. What the ever loving fuck is anyone doing on that stage who hasn't done that already? I mean if the debate is for people running for the nomination, should not those who have not fully announced be excluded? You ain't got a ticket, you don't get in the show. All that?

Pawlenty (calling him t-paw still grates on me, and always will) had the chance to compete with Romney on the adult level. I guess he isn't one. Herman Cain is an embarrassment to all black folk, still. In the words of one of my favorite bloggers, The Field Negro,"The Jigging Must Stop!" But lately I have taken to calling Cain a minstrel. I'll own that.

Ron Paul is still insane, and oddly makes more sense than the rest of those clowns. And Newt is still insane and doesn't dare make sense again, as the last time he said something sensible the GOPers hoss whipped him.

Santorum needs to be institutionalized. For his own good. Not merely insane in the loose meaning of the word, but there's got to be a proper differential diagnosis for the diseases and dysfunctions going on in his little head.

Did I miss anyone?

Like I said, it's not as if I watched the shit myself. I'm just summarizing and what not the press clippings.


Please, God please. Just eliminate the GOP now, please? Make the party die. Make all the members become moderates. Make them no longer susceptible to that ideological, anti human, bullshit, evil nonsense.

Please?


Oh and before I go, the meme of the week is how GOP women are (often) Mean Girls. Yes, there is ingrained sociopathy going on there. I mean what the fuck else could explain Mrs. Palin's popularity? I likely posted already how the the one writer called her a troll. Something I read yesterday made the comparison to that movie "Heathers," that preceded the movie "Mean Girls" by at least a decade. It's a darker view of popular girls. And the Lead Heather was really awful. Popular, but not really loved. Feared. Ya.

Sociopathy at work, there.