It’s official: neo-neocon is taking a vacation!
A short one; I plan to return to blogging either this Sunday or Monday. But I’m going away today, and get this: I will not be taking my computer with me! I intend to have a relaxing time, and maybe I won’t even look at the news for a while, who knows?
So the two essays for today that are posted below will have to do you for the next couple of days. And then there’s always the voluminous archives. Have a good weekend, everybody.
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely
August 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
And about time too! Think not of the O-Man and eat many, many Jello molds as you watch the Tango Ballet.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
if you’re heading our way, please do let me know.
have a pleasant break, the Fall is coming - and it doesn’t look easy!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
last month i was in indonesia… three weeks of no computers, news, etc… (ok, just a smidgeon in one hotel for a half hour when i was in jakarta. it was obama telling me how much of a paradise it was and is).
it was GREAT!!!! got to do that more often…
in the past we got back to life by going camping and communing with nature.
now we get back to life by disconnecting the feeder lines that keep us from being in the real world.
nice to see someone calibrating their systems to the real world again!
August 14th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Enjoy! Just returned from a week away & for first time since I’ve had a notebook (a very long time), didn’t take it with me. And, guess what? No withdrawal symptoms. It WAS relaxing. (Disclosure: Did use another computer to peek at your webpage, but then decided I could catch up reading when I returned home. And I did)
Great decision! Have lots of fun!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I’ll be in The Berkshires for Labor Day Week.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Good for you, neo - unplug and relax, and we’ll try not to clutter up the place too much while you’re gone!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Congrats on being able to unplug from technology - many can’t
August 15th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Oh. Hi. I was just actually doing some research on a very interesting and enlightening subject, when I sort of, of uh…. stepped in… this thing. I think I will go wipe off my shoe now.
Lady, I know it’s hard to hear, but your disaffection with “liberals” tells more about you than them. Maybe they were just idiots, you know? There’s a lot of room to have a variety of opinions in this world and I would hazard the guess that you were never of particular opinion. I would guess that you were simply opinionated then, and you are obviously opinionated now.
I sincerely hope that you are not practicing any craft in which people’s emotional health is involved. It’s good for you to be over here in an echo chamber.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Welcome back, Neo. It was a pleasure meeting you last week at the tango event and I commend you on this thoughtful blog. Your conversion story is most interesting and my own is largely parallel. Intellectually, 9/11 caused me to flush away all those years of grad school and campus relativism; time, I thought, to draw the line and make a stand. I’d stand to your left in a phalanx any day.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Have a nice weekend, Neo.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hey flywheel,
Speaking of echo chambers: things getting a little boring over at DailyKos?
I think I speak for many of us when I say: Bite Me.
August 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Fly doesn’t have a skull, which is why he thinks he isn’t in an echo chamber.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:13 am
To Sloan: Rarely there, compadre. I take a lot in (and I’m probably twice as old as you are). I make up my own mind, mostly. I’m emotional, I admit, but I don’t think that everyone who votes differently than I do is some sort of personification of evil, or of my darkest fears. I actually believe that many of the conservatives I encounter have good hearts, sometimes they just have trouble setting them free. Some of my best friends are conservatives. Really. They think in a “scientific’ way, are good people, help others. When it comes to emotion, feeling, they have a little trouble. It seems that their unfelt feelings translate themselves into political opinions. I am their gadfly.
To Ymarsakar: Got a skull, a very good one, and I don’t hear an echo here, wouldn’t want one if I found it. And if you hadn’t gotten confused and thought you were a spine donor, we might have ourselves a conversation.