A Week’s Worth of Twitter Updates

Posted By on September 24, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • I praised Kismet for being a Gud Kitteh today…. then I realized I'd been out all p.m. & hadn't actually seen him doing his usual deviltry. #
  • Yeah, I spoil my cats. Spoil 'em rotten. So sue me. #
  • Yaaar. That is all. #
  • Dunno how all y'all's weeks are going, but today is my "virtual Monday" – and is just as craptastic as an actual Monday would be. #
  • Romney released his tax returns. OTOH, the allegations that Harry Reid is a pederast remain unchallenged. #tcot #
  • I've no idea how much Harry Reid gave to charity last year, but I'll bet every penny of it went to NAMBLA. He hasn't denied it. #tcot #
  • 5pm is way, way too early in the day for me to be yawning. Especially since I'm on duty until midnight. #
  • I think I'm going to make it to bed before the sun even considers rising this morning. I must be doing something wrong. #
  • Yay, work week is over. Now… what about my weekend? I guess I can figure out something to do. Maybe. #
  • Sure, sure, cats can be cute and all, but their capacity for flatulence never seems to get mentioned. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Kismet. #

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Modern Narcissus… or maybe Nero

Posted By on September 21, 2012 at 1:50 pm

By now you’ve no doubt seen the latest Obama ego stroke:

Now obviously Obama didn’t come up with this design himself; for starters, he’s neither clever nor creative enough to do so. But the people who did design the flag obviously know their target audience: Obama himself. Voters? Secondary, at most.

When your customer is as narcissistic as Obama, it probably isn’t hard to sell any idea to him if flattery is central to the concept.

I’ve been trying to think of any figure in American political history who has had such an unearned sense of extreme self-regard. Can’t do it. I have to go all the way back to the Roman Empire to come up with an apt comparison. The emperors, you recall, were treated as gods in the Roman pantheon… but only a few — generally thought to be the crazy ones — actually believed it themselves.

Given his propensity for trying to accomplish things by Imperial Decree Executive Order rather than the Constitutional (legislative) process, as well as the time he spends fiddling on Letterman (etc.) while the economy burns, I kind of suspect that Obama’s term in office will be remembered as the Imperial Presidency.

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