Monday, 6 January, 2003

A Republican's View of George Bush, Compassionate Conservative. It's thoughtful, not angry or insulting. It appears to make sense and it doesn't upset me. Is this really how they think of themselves? Required reading for the liberal opposition: A Republican's View of George Bush, Compassionate Conservative. (NYTimes, free registration required) [MetaFilter] Two for the price of one a NYT piece and hoi polloi aggro courtesy of Metafilter. I read the Frum artcle and came away with the same feeling I used to get when I would read pieces that purported to explain what third way democrats were all about. What feeling is that? The feeling that I'm not on the list of who gets the memo's that tell you what you need to know. My own read is that a centerist politician is bound to be a study in motion, and will require a color and playbyplay team to explain what all those fancy moves are. Less, we the people, fail to notice some of them. 1:33:02 AM    comment []; Name space blues I had a professor for a class in college (Barry Pearson Blues and Ballad Folk if I remember correctly - 15 yrs ago) who once offered the view that all guitar players will have a story about how they came to have their first guitar. They may not tell the story themselves at first, you may have to ask, but they will have a story. It will be a mix of truth and fiction, and it will if analyzed be seen as conforming to an archetype. The guitarman archetype - I don't know whether Carl Jung saw that one coming or not. Thinking of that after I finished the previous post led me to wonder if I should share some kind of explanation of why I call this thing Atomized Jr. well Jr. because Atomized (senior) is the static site I built a few years ago. Which I named Atomized last fall. I remember watching some guy on tv, a retired biochemist from Fort Meade , circling around a stunned Frontline reporter spraying them with a flit gun. Explaining as he did so how easy it is to to make anthrax into a fine powder that will aerosol with an ordinary household atomizer. And it seemed every time I paused some group or nation would be in the news standing proudly beside their new atom bomb saying they wouldn't use it of course unless they had to - but, possibly, things had come around to just that. I got all nostalgic for the sixties: the cold war-Buffalo Springfield-Creedance-Airplane-tin soldiers and Nixon's coming-red white and blue bordered flower power. The whole lot. So the phrase Atomized won out over Suede Sports Coat which was a line spoken by Fred Ward, Charles Napier, and Alec Baldwin in the film Miami Blues. Also the tag line History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man , itself a hold out from a brief period when the name Godzilla vs MARC 21 was under consideration was replaced by the current one somewhere along the line. 12:44:35 AM    comment [];

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