This will sound odd, I admit that....

Last night after watching the latest glorious Dr. Who ep, "School Reunion", I was a bit weepy and overly emotional. It just so happened that TCM was running a Bette Davis day and playing "Dark Victory" so of course I had to record it. By the end I was an absolute sobbing wreck, just couldn't stop crying. DV always makes me weepy, but I just lost it last night. And you know what? All that crying and nose blowing effectively finished clearing out my sinuses! I've got a little residual soreness today but no pressure! Bette Davis has cured me! :)

I'm celebrating today with an "all fruit" Jamba smoothie which is to die for.

I Can't Hear You

Digby's full of ranty goodness today:

The entire DC establishment went stark raving bonkers for eight years, followed by nearly five years of a kind of courtier sycophancy we haven't seen since Louis XVI. I do not know the explanation for why this happened, although I have my suspicions. (The question brings out almost as many possibilities as "why did we invade Iraq?") But it happened. I saw it with my own eyes. Now they decide that something's gone wrong?

Are we "louder" now? Certainly. We were veritably silent before. But the entire rightwing media infrastructure still spews out its disgusting bile on a daily basis. perhaps the sound of it has become so familiar to those who live and work in Washington that they no longer hear it. To those of us in the "fever swamp" it is a little alarming. On 6/6/06, Ann Coulter will release her new book about liberals called "Godless." This is on the heels of Ramesh Ponnuru's new one called "The Party of Death." Hannity's last book was called "Deliver us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism".

You see, the real difference between the Right blogoshpere and the Left is that the Left blogosphere is angry at the ideology and governance of the Republican party and the media who report on it. We believe the political press has been complicit where it has not been weak and we are taking our complaint directly to them, loudly and in no uncertain terms. It's angry and vitriolic, but it's political.

The right blogosphere, on the other hand, is no longer outraged at the Democratic party. They think they are clowns --- they can barely get off a good Teddy Kennedy joke before nodding off. And except for the war correspondents whom they believe are cowardly and are refusing to report the good news in Iraq, the energy has gone out of their liberal media critique. But, make no mistake, they are still very, very angry --- at rank and file Americans like me.

The gripe on the right side is that "liberals" literally shouldn't exist. We are Godless, death-loving traitors whose very existence is a blight on the American way of life. They don't hate our leadership. They hate us personally.

This post by Thomas Crown at RedState sums it up nicely, I think:

"I repeat: Should the entire American Left fall over dead tomorrow, I would rejoice, and order pizza to celebrate. They are not my countrymen; they are animals who happen to walk upright and make noises that approximate speech. They are below human. I look forward to seeing each and every one in Hell."

The media sees only the Left these days because the Right has moved on to greener pastures.

Wow

I forgot to link to this yesterday, but I highly recommend taking a look at Professor Juan Cole beating Christopher Hitchen like a red headed stepchild while simultaneously producing one of the most intelligent anti-war pieces in ages. Wow, a guy who actually understands both the Arabic language and culture actually commenting intelligently on our run up to yet another pointless, wasteful, stupid war with Iran...wasn't there a time when such folks would be called upon to offer their opinions in the mainstream media, and perhaps even on presidential committees of some sort? Those were the good old days...

We are not going to let you have a war against Iran. So sit down and shut up, American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and American Heritage Institute, and this institute and that institute, and cable "news", and government "spokesmen", and all the pundit-ferrets you pay millions to make business for the American military-industrial complex and Big Oil. We don't give a rat's ass what Ahmadinejad thinks about European history or what pissant speech the little shit gives.