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ash describes a mental game she invented to her friend. The “Kos” she refers to is the popular liberal website Daily Kos. “Diaries” are essays participants may post on Kos.
I was telling ashlover how, about 30 years ago, I went to an Alfred Hitchcock movie the first few minutes of which involved a car chase scene down a mountain highway.
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John Dickerson is a fairly well-known journalist for the online publication Slate. When he wrote an essay praising conservatives for criticizing other conservatives (not exactly courageous, in that it coincided with George Bush’s rapidly declining approval), it occurred to ash that his giving them credit for making the same arguments liberals had been all along was based on a defective proposition. In fact, while liberals were much quicker to recognize truths, Dickerson penalized them because he assigned them ulterior motives fellow conservatives wouldn’t have.
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ash had a real blast writing this one. She loves to amuse herself:
I didn’t even look until after I had replied to the query. My response was automatic and uncensored. “Would you like a free State Journal-Register?” Chuckle. “No, thanks.” Then I turned to the speaker as he flinched, stationed in front of a grocery cart by the fresh vegetables and sale-priced poultry, stacked with the day’s edition.* Poor working stiff; his job level precluded his complicity in the paper’s diminished value yet demanded his frontline exposure to the consequential humiliation.
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Times do change. ash no longer reads Coulter – anywhere, at any time – and can hardly believe she once did. Here’s a snap shot of the situation just before the 04 election:
Brilliant aristocrat George Will remarked contemporaneously that he couldn’t stop writing columns about Campaign Finance Reform, or, as he saw it, the death of free speech. Yet, as the issue receded and he approached the pitfalls of a one-topic commentary, he eventually did stop.