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Monday, December 31, 2012
Meta-Post: Life Choices
I started Duck and Cover in August 2006, which means that I have now spent almost 6.5 years willfully inflicting a daily psychic wound on myself by reading Mallard Fillmore.
When I started, and for the first few years, I was usually taken aback by the audacity of Mallard Fillmore's rampant mendacity. It angered me, much as 6 years of Republican mendacity on the national stage angered me. And I wanted to correct the falsehoods and require that discourse be fact-based. In some extremely small way, it was my protest against President Bush and his cronies.
But for the past year or so, the task has become much more boring, much more pedestrian. Which is not to say that Mallard Fillmore (and those for whom he carries water) are any less mendacious. Probably they are more so. And that is not to say that their discourse is more fact-based. Probably it is less so.
But, frankly, I don't think Mallard Fillmore is actually trying anymore. Mallard Fillmore itself has become an empty husk. Where once it was rage-filled and self-righteous, now it simply repeats, in the most plodding terms imaginable, whatever is currently in a loop on Fox, Drudge, Townhall, or Breitbart.
There's barely any actual anger in Mallard Fillmore anymore...whether over the ginned up outrage or over the fact that no one is allowing themselves to be ginned up. Sure, the words are there, but it's just a pantomime. It's too tiring, I think, for Mallard Fillmore to generate anger and outrage knowing no one feeds on it anymore. Mallard Fillmore has become pathetic (though not pitiable).
Perhaps it's because 6 years of this have inoculated me to Right Wing faux outrage in a way that it seems (I hope) the nation and the media writ large are growing weary of and inoculated against as well. (Witness the impotent fury of the Right Wing over Benghazi while everyone else ignored them.) My tendency, now, is less outrage or desire to de-bunk falsehood and more of a bored shrug. It's The Boy Who Cried Wolf for the 21st Century.
In any event, all of that is to say that I am thinking of ceasing to update the blog. If Mallard Fillmore isn't going to try anymore, then why should I? Why not use the time each day I spend on this blog for something actually useful? And why not return to that blissful pre-2006 state when I never read Mallard Fillmore? Barely even knew it existed?
That said, if someone were interested in taking over, I would certainly entertain that. Just let me know in the comments!
When I started, and for the first few years, I was usually taken aback by the audacity of Mallard Fillmore's rampant mendacity. It angered me, much as 6 years of Republican mendacity on the national stage angered me. And I wanted to correct the falsehoods and require that discourse be fact-based. In some extremely small way, it was my protest against President Bush and his cronies.
But for the past year or so, the task has become much more boring, much more pedestrian. Which is not to say that Mallard Fillmore (and those for whom he carries water) are any less mendacious. Probably they are more so. And that is not to say that their discourse is more fact-based. Probably it is less so.
But, frankly, I don't think Mallard Fillmore is actually trying anymore. Mallard Fillmore itself has become an empty husk. Where once it was rage-filled and self-righteous, now it simply repeats, in the most plodding terms imaginable, whatever is currently in a loop on Fox, Drudge, Townhall, or Breitbart.
There's barely any actual anger in Mallard Fillmore anymore...whether over the ginned up outrage or over the fact that no one is allowing themselves to be ginned up. Sure, the words are there, but it's just a pantomime. It's too tiring, I think, for Mallard Fillmore to generate anger and outrage knowing no one feeds on it anymore. Mallard Fillmore has become pathetic (though not pitiable).
Perhaps it's because 6 years of this have inoculated me to Right Wing faux outrage in a way that it seems (I hope) the nation and the media writ large are growing weary of and inoculated against as well. (Witness the impotent fury of the Right Wing over Benghazi while everyone else ignored them.) My tendency, now, is less outrage or desire to de-bunk falsehood and more of a bored shrug. It's The Boy Who Cried Wolf for the 21st Century.
In any event, all of that is to say that I am thinking of ceasing to update the blog. If Mallard Fillmore isn't going to try anymore, then why should I? Why not use the time each day I spend on this blog for something actually useful? And why not return to that blissful pre-2006 state when I never read Mallard Fillmore? Barely even knew it existed?
That said, if someone were interested in taking over, I would certainly entertain that. Just let me know in the comments!
Those damned Rates
What's Mallard raving about today?
Notre Dame
OK, Mallard...what's your solution? What's going on now is simply the Free Market at work. College Football is a huge business, with the lure of Pro Football even bigger. So the focus is on Football, not academics.
Are you proposing some sort of Nanny State solution in which the law decides who can play football and who can't, based on factors other than their capability to play football?
Because, other than to gripe about something that has a thinly veiled racist element to it, I have no idea what your point is.
Notre Dame
OK, Mallard...what's your solution? What's going on now is simply the Free Market at work. College Football is a huge business, with the lure of Pro Football even bigger. So the focus is on Football, not academics.
Are you proposing some sort of Nanny State solution in which the law decides who can play football and who can't, based on factors other than their capability to play football?
Because, other than to gripe about something that has a thinly veiled racist element to it, I have no idea what your point is.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
That damned Mask
What's Mallard raving about today?
Republicans
There's so much wrong with this, I hardly no where to focus. But I'll start with the fact that there are no elections in 2013, you moron.
Have at the rest in the comments.
Republicans
There's so much wrong with this, I hardly no where to focus. But I'll start with the fact that there are no elections in 2013, you moron.
Have at the rest in the comments.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
That damned Blame
What's Mallard raving about today?
Hurricane Sandy
Poor persecuted Teabaggers! How will they survive all the mean old people in the world?
Hurricane Sandy
Poor persecuted Teabaggers! How will they survive all the mean old people in the world?
Friday, December 28, 2012
That damned Shark
What's Mallard raving about today?
Sharks, Libya
"And if only the electorate had voted the way that dude over at Unskewed Polls said they would, we would totally have won this election!"
Alas, reality has a well-known Liberal bias.
Sharks, Libya
"And if only the electorate had voted the way that dude over at Unskewed Polls said they would, we would totally have won this election!"
Alas, reality has a well-known Liberal bias.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
That damned Rematch
What's Mallard raving about today?
Mitt Romney, President Obama, Candy Crowley
What's fascinating here is the glimpse into the fantasy world Mallard Fillmore inhabits. A world in which, had Candy Crowley not pointed out a fact, Mitt Romney would have won the election.
It's precisely that completely nuance-less, Black-and-White thinking that makes Republicans so stupid and dangerous at the same time.
Mitt Romney, President Obama, Candy Crowley
What's fascinating here is the glimpse into the fantasy world Mallard Fillmore inhabits. A world in which, had Candy Crowley not pointed out a fact, Mitt Romney would have won the election.
It's precisely that completely nuance-less, Black-and-White thinking that makes Republicans so stupid and dangerous at the same time.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
That damned Trial
What's Mallard raving about today?
George Zimmerman, The Media
This from someone who recently screamed that the Media just did not scream loud enough about the Right Wing nontroversy over Benghazi.
George Zimmerman, The Media
This from someone who recently screamed that the Media just did not scream loud enough about the Right Wing nontroversy over Benghazi.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
That damned News
What's Mallard raving about today?
Joe Biden
Yeah, uh. no.
Republican positions are funnier than the 47% of dead-enders who still believe in them realize. And Joe Biden was using that fact to wipe the floor with the "intellectual giant" of the Republican movement, otherwise known as the guy who, unlike most people, didn't outgrow Atlas Shrugged.
Joe Biden
Yeah, uh. no.
Republican positions are funnier than the 47% of dead-enders who still believe in them realize. And Joe Biden was using that fact to wipe the floor with the "intellectual giant" of the Republican movement, otherwise known as the guy who, unlike most people, didn't outgrow Atlas Shrugged.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Merry Christmas
As usual, I will give Mallard latitude for this, though timing for that one headline is deeply unfortunate.
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