I can’t believe you don’t have anycomments on this yet! Maybe it’s because I scooped the Skipper on this on my blog. But then again, Malkin had it before all of us…
Cool illustration.
I started to comment about 1600 EDT, and then my ISP went erratic. Getting to be a regular weekend thing with them.
So I’ll try again.
“There may be a lot of hidden distress and unpleasantness in the liberal mind”
Profound!
Only an egghead could have any doubt!
The rest of us discover it through everyday experience. Every time one of these putrid specimens opens his mouth, it is like taking the lid off a miasmic, festering cesspool, in which ideology floats like feces.
Do you want confirmation, eggheads? Then put on your intellectual HAZMAT suits and try wading through the fetid swamp you will find at online booby hatches like DU and Kos! Take the decomposing waste at the value it presents! You will find plenty to write dissertations about, have no fear!
I like the imagery. Reminds me of a quote:
It is allowed that senates and great councils are often troubled with
redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humors, with many diseases of the
head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous
contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right;
with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumors full of
fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations, with canine appetites and
crudeness of digestion, besides many others needless to mention.
-- Swift *Gulliver’s Travels*
Good shot, Marty! Glad to know we’re on the same wavelength.
The key to these specimens is easily found. Almost without exception, they know they are losers, failures, lost, adrift, futureless. They despise themselves for it. But they are also in frantic, even hysterical denial.
Thus their self-despisal is reflected outward at anyone who reminds them of their own state of being. They hate, and they hate, and then they hate some more, always with a beautiful consistency and catholicity. And that is the dead giveaway.
The tragedy, of course, is how needless it all is. Almost invariably, these specimens themselves are the only barriers to their own success. But so long as they recoil from identifying the barriers, and seek refuge in blaming everyone else for the existence of those barriers, they will remain lost.