Putting Skillz

One of the regulars who showed me around Delaveaga yesterday was a female doctoral student in Environmental Studies at UC-Santa Cruz named Stacy, an ardent and un-shrill The Hillary supporter, who makes the argument that the sexist attacks on The Hillary by the media and Obama and Obama surrogates and supporters are so prevalent as to be invisible. Stacy didn't go as far as this blogger, who likened The Hillary's treatment to domestic violence, and when I asked Stacy about that comparison she said that's why she didn't read political blogs. (I told her I blog, I gave her the address; she said she might look, but don't count on it, and she certainly wouldn't comment.)

The point of my post yesterday was that I see The Hillary as genderless, that I'm completely anti-CLINTON INC, that it could be the Clinton's parakeet running for president, and as long as Mark Penn and Terry McAuliffe and James Carville and Geraldine Ferraro and every other CLINTON INC executive and major $$$-contributor believed in their bought-and-sold hearts that the parakeet was entitled, nay, ordained to be president, I'm anti-that fricking parakeet. Posting a picture of Elton John in a yellow pantsuit was snark but not sexist: he's as genderless as The Hillary, his "music" as cynical as CLINTON INC's politics.

Stacy said she'll vote for Obama begrudgingly if he's the nominee, though she'll donate no money and volunteer no time, and challenged me to make the same claim about The Hillary, and I.... 

I keep saying to myself Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas, Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas. Stacy said it may not be sexist to hate The Hillary, but it is sexist to vote for - or not vote against - someone who will add two more pigs to the Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas train if The Hillary is the nominee.

Which is blackmail, of course. Regardless which candidate. Whether or not as cynical as Elton John's "music" is the question.

That I'm a rube is beyond dispute.

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• But shit like this doesn't help.
• But shit like this doesn't help, adding, it's not sexist to tell her to go and it's not sexist if she wants to stay.
• But shit like this doesn't help, adding, release your tax returns, you gender-neutral corporate spokesperson.
• But shit like this doesn't help.
• But shit like this doesn't help.
• James Carville on servility and fealty above national interest.
• Shameless self-promotion.
• Soft-totalitarianism of the American elite.
• Morality, justice, and life-destroyed.
• Sadr's revolt and the myth of the surge.
• Sheesh.
• If you just remove the word "success..."
• On torture and McCain.
• Meta meta meta. Adding, I'm reading Human Smoke now, wish I'd been reading it when the conversation was on.
• Two-legged dog walks upright.
• Radioactive cat arrested on I-5!
• I will read this, adding, Midnight's Children is still one of my five favorite novels ever.
• The end of the world starts in Switzerland.
• Friday Hope Blogging (weekly, the most beautiful post in the world).
• Meet your new overlords.

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Stacy, btw, threw a 77, and didn't miss a putt from 50 feet and in. She'd set up, rock once, laser her aviar dead center, no hyzer, no arc, zing and ching.

I'd volunteer for The Hillary - I'd wear a The Hillary button! - in exchange for Stacy's putting skillz. I've got your cynical servility and fealty above national interest.

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And no, I didn't forget.

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I suppose I could watch it on my laptop, but it's my last night of vacation and my last night in San Francisco.

I'll watch the Pachuca game Tuesday night and be at RFK a week from today for Toronto and the Wednesday after that for Pachuca.