Judging from the blogs, nothing of importance happened in the past day. Alternate explanation: Tipsy’s getting jaded or just saw enough people with real problems this week not to worry about trifles.
Having announced that the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” fixation was stupid and boring, Charles Blow runs back to the corner and tag-teams Timothy Egan, who comes out to continue the fight with Christie:
But look beyond his appealing persona. There’s a reason “Nixonian” is moving up the Google search-pairing chart with Christie; he’s vindictive, and never forgets a slight. His world is divided between enemies and loyalists. And you look at the way he talks to people in public with far less power than he — teachers, students, lowly constituents at town hall meetings. They’re idiots, morons. Ha ha ha. I’ve got the microphone, fool.
“Yeah! Nixonian. Vindictive. That’s the ticket.“
Conservatives think that liberals are good people with bad ideas, whereas liberals think conservatives are bad people.
(Unnamed friend of Todd Zywicki, amidst a discussion of Jonathan Haidt) Haidt also
describes five key vectors or values of psychological morality: (1) care/harm, (2) fairness, (3) loyalty, (4) authority, and (5) sanctity. Haidt finds in his research that self-described “conservatives” tend to value all five vectors of morality (as he defines them). Liberals, by contrast, place a high value on “care” and “fairness” and a lower value on loyalty, authority, and sanctity.
Yet liberals often describe conservatives as “simplistic.” Hmmmm.
I look around today and don’t see much in the way of “closed and rigid thought,” at least not in the Church in America. On the contrary, a typical Catholic parish in New York almost certainly contains a far wider range of political and moral views than the faculty of Columbia University—or, for that matter, of Fordham University—and certainly more than the staff of the New York Times.
“The only way you know a Bakken millionaire is he’ll be driving a new truck and might have taken his wife on vacation,” said the president of the chamber of commerce in Bismarck, the state capital.
(Where are the U.S.’s Millionaires?)
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“The remarks made in this essay do not represent scholarly research. They are intended as topical stimulations for conversation among intelligent and informed people.” (Gerhart Niemeyer)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 