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August 22, 2005

The Rise and Fall of Texas Stardust

Greyhawk

Hugh Hewitt, in an excellent (and broader than this quote) essay on blogs right and left:

First, let us now praise Day by Day's Chris Muir, the funniest and sharpest three panel political cartoonist at work in America today. Muir's timeliness and productivity have created a large audience for him online, which is growing wider and wider as new blog consumers arrive in record numbers. Many bloggers routinely cite or even carry the Muir strip of the day (an innovation I first noticed at Captain's Quarters), and Muir's popularity further strengthens the center-right blogosphere's vast humor advantage over the relentlessly profane, vulgar and snarling left. With James Lileks, Scrappleface, Fraters, and ProteinWisdom also at work on a near daily basis, Muir makes the center-right's funny folks the blogosphere's Globetrotters to the left's Washington Generals. It is a very great thing to have the advantage in the humor corner. Ask Joe Lieberman about his 2000 debate with the Dick Cheney. The left has to pretend to like Ted Rall. The center-right gets the real thing.

(Hewitt also notes that snarling, profanity, and vulgarity are not absent from the Right.)

But his point is valid - and amplified by another aspect of right-wing parody. All too often, yesterday's Scrappleface post becomes today's news - and this week it happened again. As Wizbang notes here.

Scrapple Face, 17 Aug:

Just a mile from President George Bush's Texas ranch, America's favorite protest-mom, Cindy Sheehan, today got a surprise visit from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Country Joe McDonald and several members of Sly and the Family Stone.

The impromptu Woodstock reunion was sponsored by the Democrat National Committee and Coca-Cola

The Washington Post, today:

They are stardust, and in Texas

Folk singer Joan Baez gave a free concert Sunday night for a crowd of 500.
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"It's kind of like if Woodstock was really organized," said Chris Voigt, 51, an architect from Fort Worth who was volunteering in the spacious kitchen tent, scraping a frittata pan. "The war's over. Somebody needs to tell Bush."

Well, there's certainly one recent war that's over, but for some the 60's live on.

No word on whether Joan dreamed she saw Casey Sheehan last night, alive as you or me.

The Tehran Times and World Socialist Website have more.

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August 22, 2005

The Rise and Fall of Texas Stardust