One for the Missus and Her Sisters
A quote from Peggy Noonan (oh the appropriateness) reminds me of the wimmen in my life:
... she jumbles up so many cultural categories,
because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way,
because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist;
because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it;
because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — ... she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
Tip o' the Banana to David the Monkey . And a passionate smooch for my wife.
Wry...when your comment gets to 3000 characters, you can't go back and edit.I tried. So - my half-written sentence on the 2nd Amendment (where I was cut-off in mid-flow) ought to read that, "having read the historical references on Wiki, I would have to go along with it."
Sigh. if the cursor had reappeared, I would have edited out the extraneous Star Trek reference, and sounded happenin and on-the-ball...
Mibbee.
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because she's a lady! like me! and gosh, my little lady brain can't be bothered to worry about things like the fact that her political history in no way indicates that she is ready lead this country should her elderly running mate win and then croak. all's i know is she didn't abort her disabled child, and as a lady, i identify with that!
ugh.
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Um, no... I can't say that "her political history in no way indicates that she is ready lead this country should her elderly running mate win and then croak. all's i know is she didn't abort her disabled child" is why I am reminded of the wimmen in my life.
It's the part in boldface.
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Wry, this is a fine tribute to yer ither half, and her sisters. I have had to turn my back on my effete and rarified "Yale Gender Studies" sisters, but have not yet achieved the levels of practical merit which would allow me to be awarded a place in the sorority of "normal American feminists" as the article describes. I am not good at reloading thangs. But - I did attempt to remove a broken and fit a new toilet seat, prior to a visit from the Minister's wife, yestreen. Although the fittings resisted my force, the attempt was there. And - today I rescued a large fledgeling wood pigeon from a cat, carried him a mile into town (the other mums would not touch him) got a box, called the animal welfare peeps, carried him home, plus two heavy bags of shopping. He is now living under a shrub in my garden, until he takes flight.
Do I qualify for a a mooseburger? These sound big. Yum!
(Waves to Dr Bob and her sistahs)
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