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Home Front: Politix
Lileks: a suggested cure for Palin Derangement Syndrome
2008-09-18
Anything in the Sarah-Palin-is-the-fifth-horsewoman-of-the-apocalypse-and-hence-rides-sidesaddle department? Well, there's this from the New Yorker:

There are two kinds of folks: Élites and Regulars. Why people love Sarah Palin is, she is a Regular. . .

Where was I? Ah, ye: I hate Élites. Which is why, whenever I am having brain surgery, or eye surgery, which is sometimes necessary due to all my non-blinking, I always hire some random Regular guy, with shaking hands if possible, who is also a drunk, scared of the sight of blood, and harbors a secret dislike for me.
Posted by:Mike

#8  Try this for the article link.
Posted by: Mike   2008-09-18 17:51  

#7  Not sure what the article Title links to, but the article text is here.

And drink more water.... Probably bottled, snobbish water.


Posted by: DLR   2008-09-18 16:30  

#6  The Gobbler is not about nostalgia, it's about quality motels in the upper midwest.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-09-18 11:51  

#5  He's a brilliant writer but he insists on writing about quirky food and nostalgic stuff. Come on James. Edit and retask some old articles into a book. You'd compete with Dave Barry if you did that.

Brilliant writer.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-09-18 11:28  

#4  The New Yorker writer is dishonest cause he plays a game with the usage of the word elite intentionally confusing the use as a descriptive of functionality than respond to it as a descriptive of political identification. In the political environment elite has nothing to do with quality as with perception.

Elites believe they’re entitled to power. Regulars believe power is a responsibility.
Elites believe that they’re exempted from the laws and principles they believe should be impose upon other [“for their own good”]. Regulars actually buy into the concept of equality before the law, that no citizen is fundamentally better than another unless that individual demonstrates by his/her own actions that they should not be.
Elites believe that position, birth, or other descriptive entitle them to privilege. Regulars believe you earn your position in life regardless of circumstances that put you there.
Elites believe that education is triumphant. Regulars believe that there are just as many SOBs with degrees as there are without them.

No where in this descriptive is there any mention of social economic geographic color race or creed as an adjectival modifier.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-18 09:15  

#3  Article link doesn't give similar text.
Posted by: 3dc   2008-09-18 08:36  

#2  James is awesome.
Posted by: newc   2008-09-18 08:19  

#1  She's insane. Literally insane.
Posted by: Parabellum   2008-09-18 07:21  

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