There's a lazy tendency to slander the past when something happens in the present. In today's New York Times David Carr writes that the firing of Don Imus for his racist remarks is a "sign of the times."
Mr. Imus is an old-school radio guy caught in a very modern media paradigm. When he started 30 years ago, if he made the same kind of remark, it would have floated off into the ether — the Federal Communications Commission, if it received complaints, might have taken notice, but few others.
It's a match made in heaven. One wonders if they know each other? A commenter on the latter, one "Big Billy" asks a good question:
What if a pair of opposing hypocrits (where one says one thing and doesw [sic] the other, and the other says the other and does the one thing) team up? As a human, I find it impossible to constantly avoid hypocrasy [sic], so why not pair up and embrace out hypocritical natures, and then we can really progress, right? My partner will do my work for me while I do his work for him. We will both get our jobs done while approaching more exagerated extremes.
But then again, we're probably better off if you just call me an idiot too.
In this our quest, for the ultimate blog brevity I then leave it to you, dear eater, to draw your own excursions. For it is a black and white world, with the Author sitting f'evern top (ever'n especially whilst claiming the bottom!) and we was only ever kiddin', once Hugh challenged e to a duel.
A duel, e says! At dawn, no less. E dunno, somehow "be offended, but say so" just don't 'ave the same ring to it. An' sometimes it be da fools who call idiots, "idiots" best.
In lieu of a proper explanation of where this blog comes from, where it's going, and all the rest, just thought I'd share the list of names that we considered for this blog, in order of appearance from first to last. Spent a long sunday indeed sifting these out of the LS email archives.
Long Sunday
Bottleneck
Rogues
Voyous
Por Ahora
For Now
For
Now, Voyous
Voyous (for now)
Northwest
Klippot
The Rhineland
Intelligencer
Novel Disseisin
'tis Maria's Hand
Persistent Critique
Condorcet Paradox
Plan O
Beagleton
Condorcet
Hapax Legomenon
Log Rhythms
Beacon Fires
Night-Fancies
Black Bubble
99 Problems
Brown Rainbow
Triumph Over Mastery
Noble Rot
Bupkiss
Bupkus
Passages
Bizarre Conceit
Condorcet's Complaint
Sunday Falls
Un Coup De Des
All the Names
Oui Monsieur oui vous êtes mort
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