Summer Holiday

I have been a relatively longish one, which is soon to end. But as a way of easing back into the world of words. All the bikes had Bontrager Race Hardcase tires, the bad weather bike has now Continental tourers of some sort and in the winter studded. Why  Hardcase, you ask:

The shredded rubber was over 2/3 of the whole tire. I don't know for how long I rode around on this but it was at least 3 weeks. Plus the  bike sat for a week before I changed the tire today and, get this, when I took it off the bike it was still hard as rock. When you need to get from here to there and back again without worrying about a flat, Hardcases it is.

Also over to Gin and Tacos,  Ed mocks Sarah Palin's bbq cum fundraiser garb and insists that her decision to "dress like the Lord Mayor of MILF Island" rendered her no longer a serious person. Leaving aside the obvious sexist bullshit in the MILF comment, remember when Obama wore a bike helmet or blue jeans some jackasses thought looked like "mom jeans"? 

That kind of "analysis" was stupid, pointless crap then and it is now. You sir are on notice.

Performance Art

I am assuming that this is a parody:

There’s no better way for President Obama and his administration to celebrate Earth Day than to embrace a real, environmentally sound commitment to energy independence instead of relying on foreign countries that lack environmental safeguards. One aspect of the “all-of-the-above” approach I have been discussing for years involves, of course, the necessity to “drill, baby, drill.”

It’s no secret that throughout America, including the very wealthy state of Alaska, we find a storehouse of natural resources that God so benevolently dumped underfoot, just waiting to be tapped. ANWR, for example, is screaming to be used to help bring prosperity and national security to America. Indeed, there is an inherent link between energy and prosperity and energy and security. On this day, as many are focused on preserving the planet, environmentalists need not fear that the land or wildlife would suffer from the wise decision to drill here. As Alaskans know, ANWR is not some luxurious vacation spot teeming with Bambi and friends frolicking through waterfalls and flower-strewn mountainsides, as environmentalist fundraising advertisements depict it. It is a vast, remote, desolate, frozen area available to be used with a tiny drilling footprint to bring the country closer to what is clearly needed: commonsense, money-saving, job-producing energy independence. Believe me, I live in the Last Frontier because I cherish the earth and thrive in the clean air and fresh water amid our plentiful wildlife. I don’t want to mess this up for future generations.

I mean to say the whole thing reads as if one of the more literate NRO interns had one or two too many and decided to make Palin sound like an deranged maniac.

Should it turn out to be an authentic example of one or another of Palin's ghost writers babbling incoherently I apologize to all involved.

Sarah Palin Stubbornly Ignorant or Ignorantly Stubborn

Recently Sarah Palin misused the phrase blood libel and, quite rightly, 7 people castigated her for this kind of ignorant abuse of history and rhetoric, while many thousands of her supporters worried about pograms against her eminence.  Yesterday, Palin doubled down and argued that

[b]lood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on[.]

What's great about this is not one word of her defense of her misuse of language is true and its lack of truth and accuracy arise from abject ignorance of history which ignorance then serves as evidence for the misuse of language.  She, in other words, doesn't know enough to know that she doesn't know enough  and because of this deep and abiding ignorance she concludes that she must be right because the words "blood libel" mean neither more or less than what she, in her deep and abiding ignorance, thinks they mean.

And just think, she could have been the vice president of these United States, long may she wave.

Yet More Comedic Geniuses

Some short while ago Sarah Palin insisted that the USA hung down and kill he rabid anti-Goodness mad dog Assange. Today she uses the poisoned fruit of the Assange tree to insist that now is the time to hunt down and kill Iran. When I say she I mean, of course, who ever it was she hired to write her stuff.