at least I don't look crazy...

So, for all 2 and a half of you who are just joining us and don't know, I'm a conservative.

Whaaaaaaaaaaa??

And as such, I've been paying fairly close attention to the potential 2012 presidential nominees popping up in the Republican party.  My obvious choice: Herman Cain

The face of victory.

Unlike anyone else running, he's not a dyed in the wool politician who has been born and bred to schmooze and please, but a successful business man who has strong Christian and Conservative beliefs and doesn't give a sh*t what people think. And did I mention he's the CEO of a pizza company?

According to the Associative Property, this man's foot also loves Herman Cain.

But this post is not about the HurriCAIN (see what I did there?), it's about Michele Bachmann.

Now, I have nothing against Michele Bachmann.  I like her and her politics well enough, I just like Herman Cain better.  What I don't like, however, is liberals and the media leading a witch hunt against her like they did to Palin in 2008.  I'm not sure what it is about strong Conservative women that seems to terrify the supposedly progressive, women's-rights-lovin' left, but whenever a woman starts to gain momentum in any party other than the Democratic one, they go out of their way to make her look as bad, stupid, or crazy as possible...

Clearly this woman cannot be president...look at how badly she photographs!

As a student of Political Science who has studied numerous forms of government, I can tell you that the true key to success in politics and leadership is being photogenic.  Your political and educational background mean nothing because, if you're photogenic, all the answers will magically pop into your head as you need them (such is the life of a beautiful person). So CLEARLY Michele Bachmann is not to be trusted because, damn it, she looks straight up crazy in that Newsweek photo!

The face of a psychopath

Now, as a person who's never taken a bad picture in her life...

I can totally empathize with everone who's terrified by Bachmann's crazy picture because normal people obviously never take bad pictures. 

Another thing is the constant meltdowns that liberals seem to suffer whenever a Conservative makes a mistake.  Obama is allowed to think we have 57 states, but God help Michele Bachmann if she thinks she can get away with EVER mistakenly misstating a fact. 

Better luck next time, amigo!

I can't say I'm surprised by it because, honestly, when your only candidate has proven himself to be utterly inept at leading the country, creating jobs, or helping the economy, what choice do you have but to demonize and undermine your opponents until they look crazy?  Because at the end of the day, it's not about who would make a better leader, it's about who's going to look better on the cover of Vanity Fair...because that's what America's really about, isn't it?

candidly your's,

mjl.

i hate philosophy.

it's stupid. easily the biggest waste of time ever passed off as a subject in school. the logic behind it is grotesquely circular and, at the end of it all, utterly useless because, hey, it's all relative, right?


"And now that you've spent the last 10 weeks meitculously studying, theorizing, and debating this topic in order to arrive at your well thought out conclusion, you should know that it doesn't mean sh*t...Enjoy your summer!"

i mean, i can embrace it for the fact that, yes, it absolutely brings up a lot of important questions and ideas that should be considered and debated, but at the end of the day, it's all for naught because if you adhere to the principles of philosophy (namely the philosophical ideal of relativity), then everyone's right and the entire debate was a waste of time.

by adhering to their own principles, philosphers devalue their own beliefs. if everything's relative, then the opinions they've arrived at after, perhaps, years of study, debate and analysis are no more valid than this lady's...


The Plato of our generation
it's infuriating. what's the point of asking these important questions if any conclusions or opinions derived from the philosophical debates surrounding them are debunked by the very nature of philosophy itself? answer: there isn't one.

there are no definitive statements. there are no answers. there is no truth. it is a "love of wisdom" only so much as its followers love to consider themselves wise based solely on the fact that they've created an illusion of life for themselves in which they've made it impossible to be proven wrong. but refusal to accept your falsities and misconceptions as such does not make them correct, and it sure as hell doesn't make you wise. it makes you that annoying kid on the playground who would stick his fingers in his ears and say "NAH NAH NAH NAH NOT LISTENING!!" when you politely tried to explain it was your turn to ride on the swings. you know...the one you wanted to punch in the face...

According to Metaphysical Philosophy, you may not even exist, so it can't be your turn! Neener neener neeeeeener!

sooooo, yeah. i'm pretty much over this bull. after this quarter's political philosophy class, i don't plan on ever returning to this subject ever again because, frankly, even talking about it for this long is making me want to pull my hair out.

and let's face it...i'm nothing without my hair.

......or am i?......

mjl.