One reason it is good to get out of the Beltway bubble is that you really do appreciate how much of a bubble it is when you sit in a bar or pizza parlor somewhere out in Real America, and someone you know pops up on CNN, and no one pays much attention. Or when they do, they shrug their shoulders and go back to their conversation about substitute* Coined by the immortal Andrew Ferguson to describe Gergen’s physiognomy.chefsrefs. No one says, “Oh, quiet–David Gergen is coming on!”
"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Friday, September 28, 2012
Limited appeal of a goggle-eyed melon head*
One of the funniest lines I’ve read this week appears in a post by Steve Hayward at Powerline on the energy of the grassroots vs. the nail-biting GOP elite:
A term I've come across recently is Gang of 500.
ReplyDeleteAs in, 500 people watch and react to each other and the rest of us are stuck with them?
*counting lampposts*