Anne Applebaum takes on this years most fashionable smear: 'elite'.
When Ginni Thomas tells a cheering crowd of Virginia Tea Partyers that "we are ruled by an elite that thinks it knows better than we know" who, or what, does she want to put in its place? Young imagined a revolution (led, interestingly, by the wives of the high-IQ elites) and a classless society to follow. Unfortunately, this idea has been tried before, and let's just agree that it wasn't an overwhelming success.
I'm personally somewhat baffled by how 'elite' came to be such a dirty word. The Navy SEALS for example, are an elite fighting unit. Would we prefer they be a fighting unit of Average Joes?
Kyrgyzstan manages to become the the first central Asian country to pull off a free election. . However, their name remains bafflingly difficult to spell. Unfortunately, it appears that one of the parties with the strongest showing in the polls is....well, opposed to their Constitution.
More fun from North Korea! Turns out Kim Jong Il's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, isn't really down with dynastic succession. He's also quite happy to NOT go back to North Korea, thankyuhverymuch.
Some quick fun facts about Kim Jong-nam:
1) His fall from grace involved an attempt to sneak into Tokyo Disneyland with a fake passport.
2) I think he looks remarkably like an Asian Michael Moore.
A pretty crazy person talks about a really crazy person. Paladinos sometime political adviser Roger Stone (who intriguingly sports a large back tattoo of Richard Nixon), is apparently baffled by Paladinos latest rants.
Stone was at a loss to explain Paladino’s anti-gay remarks. “I wasn’t a party to it, and I don’t agree with it,” said Stone, who is perhaps best known for his claim—denied by Spitzer—that the then-governor wore black socks while trysting with call girls.
Hey, bring on the political craziness. Why not? Just a few more weeks of this left before I don't get to talk about this madness.
Interestingly, Stone is also managing the gubernatorial campaign of Eliot Spitzer madam Kristin Davis who is running on the Anti-Prohibition ticket. Frankly, the platforms are ones I can get behind.
And the morning is done. So just one more.....
I can think of worse name changes. Ochocinco anyone?
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