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One Last BJ for the Road?
A website called 90days90reasons.com went online this summer, after the writer Dave Eggers got worried about the diminishing enthusiasm for Barack Obama among people like him. Eggers is a hipster, I guess you’d call him. He lives in San Francisco. He’s best known as the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a long, funny, clever, and annoying memoir, which was published, like Barack Obama’s less funny and less annoying memoir, when its author was scarcely pushing 30. Kids grow up so quickly these days. The memoir’s immense commercial success, along with the popularity of a magazine he edits, led the New York Times to call Eggers “the magnetic center of a literary counterestablishment.”
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Normally when the Times calls a fellow a magnetic center of a counterestablishment, you’ll find him cuddling snoozily in the lap of the Times or some other establishment enterprise, a plump purring pussycat, defanged and declawed. Even so, on Eggers’s pro-Obama website, glimmers of independent thinking flash here and there. For one thing, several contributors aren’t very pro-Obama.
“Has he failed?” asks one, who lives in New York. “Sure he has.”
“There’s no whitewashing the fact that his presidency hasn’t been a green one,” writes another, who also lives in New York.
Still another, an Indian, who lives in Seattle, writes: “I tried to think of one great thing Obama has done for Indians. And I couldn’t think of one damn thing.”
Eggers himself acknowledged the problem in the website’s manifesto, called “The Opening Salvo.” The ambivalence among “progressives” is what drove him to start the website in August.
Left Coast Dan
October 15th, 2012
Hipster is not a real job.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/10/hipster-not-real-job/3563/
Stranded in Sonoma
October 15th, 2012
BWAHAhahahahahahaha!
BWAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
This koolaidian has it bad. As conservatives, we understand that not all Republicans share every one of our concerns. Some RINOs are more interested in achieving concensus rather than doing what is right. But this libtard actually believes that Barry cares about his marriage and his family. And that somehow, his family life is real.
Wow. Just, wow.
Yes, that Molly Shannon.
So “openess” is the new “gayness.” The fact that 0bama recieved a transparency award and kept the press away from the ceremony means…0bama is still the most “open” preezy. And since Ms. Shannon has just told us that open=gay, then yes, Barack 0bama is the most “open” preezy we’ve ever had! Hope we don’t have another. Ever.
pissedpatriot30
October 15th, 2012
The BJ thing caught my eye… then it lost me after I started reading it…. what can I say….