Tuesday, December 16, 2008

United Kingdom of America?

Andrew Sullivan, on Caroline Kennedy filling Hillary Clinton's Senate seat:
I just hurled. Kennedy is not as dumb, crass or as uneducated as Sarah Palin. But she is less qualified to be a Senator than Palin. I am so sick of this nepotism. What are we, some kind of neo-monarchy? Clinton got her seat because of nepotism and now Kennedy gets it be the same methods.

The news shows are so full of celeb-worship that this is what dominates the idiocy. Maybe the news is so universally bad that such thoughts as this serve as an elixir for our troubles. Yecchh. Still, the more I see of this, the more I want to hurl much like Andrew. Spare a thought for someone like him, who left England to escape monarchical idiocy.

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