
Driftglass (deity) has posted an update to the "
seven obscene things you can't say on television" and each one of them, in my opinion, should be stitched to a sampler and mailed to Wolf Blitzer's mother.
But the big news is that some Netroots Nationalists (ooh do I have to pull a
Skippy and remind everyone forever that
yes, I coined that phrase)...
...because I like it....
Are pulling back on the obscenities? Because as
The New York Fucking Times quotes one (emphasis mine):
Digby Parton, who writes on Hullabaloo.com, said she initially thought of her blog as an ephemeral form of conversation among friends and used vulgarities freely. But now she is read by a substantially wider circle and has cleaned up her language.
“I don’t use the same amount of profanity,” she said. “We’re taken much more seriously as a political force,” and she has a stronger sense that her words are “out there for posterity.”
Now I bow to the great writing of Digby as much as any of us do, she's a godmother to so many and far be it from a nobody like myself to...
Posterity? Fuck that, Digby.
What is posterity? The dry spot you wiggle toward after sleeping with the enemy? Sheeit.
I don't care if you blog the word "fuck" or not. Those kind of choices are made by writers all the time, and the right choice is what works for what you're writing.
But I do care, very much, where the blogs go and what they represent. There are two political parties in this country, folks: "inside the Beltway" and "outside the Beltway."
I am a proud outside the beltway rabblerouser.
Chris Mathews? Wolf Blitzer? Markos? To which party do they belong these days?
Make your fucking choice and if your motivation is how you so want to be "taken seriously as a political force" by Party Number One?
Count.
Me.
Out.
Because I know what "taken seriously as a political force" means.
It means certain bloggers of a certain Technorati profile were part of a four minute daily conference call with Terry fucking McCauliffe two months ago.
I am not trying to be superior here, it's just not where you will ever find me. Not because I'd have to clean up my act (I mean, Terry's DTs wouldn't allow him to remember
me fucking him let alone saying "fuck" on the phone), but because I refuse to become part of
the power structure that continues to fuck this country.And when we all wake up to a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House and it turns out that all of them have decided that four or five more years in Iraq is the least we can do, and that it would be "counterproductive" to prosecute the Bush Administration war criminals who, let's face it, suffered enough on Election Day 2008, poor things, onward and upward, "Move On" indeed...
...because while right now it's our turn to "govern" it will someday be our turn to go back to the fermentation of our safe, lucrative, respectable DC think tank. If our friends from across the aisle need help with packing or cab fare we're only too happy to reciprocate. The door will revolve again, friends, bon voyage...
I don't want to be the one who has to analyze all o' dat without the word "fuck" by my side. For posterity.
P.S. Okay I just hadda make another sampler: