@georgeob1,
Quote:In any event few or none of them reached the degree of intrusive partisanship which Blatham issues against the U.S. A., it's politics, people and traditions, on almost hourly basis.
I am completely flabbershmoodled by how much you miss in what I write or include here, george. There have been many times I have wondered, seriously, which of us is actually more fond of America: its politics, its people and its traditions.
Let's start with Randy Newman. I'm not sure you even know who this guy is. And he is an international treasure. And boy is he a creature of America. I'm not sure at all how many Americans working in the arts I have brought into this thread, lauding what they are up to and, I think, implying pretty explicitly that these Americans are exceptionally worthy of attention because of delight they give us - delights given worldwide. And then there's the writers. Almost every one of these I bring here as worthy are Americans.
I get on with people quite easily and tend to love folks wherever I am. I've spent a lot of time in the US, surely 100 times over the border - to ski, to visit, to marry...and I lived there for a decade. I loved it. We'll just skip the swirling-eye-ball nuttiness easily found in Texas but I got on with Texans just fine. Both my wives are Americans, both still dear friends, both have come to visit me up here over the last year. And I visit them and love their families (now my families). My daughter has dual citizenship, has lived in the US for more than 2 years and she's presently in Austin with an American engineer who is courting her. So that's the me and the American people thing you mentioned.
Traditions? You got a lot of really good ones and a lot of really bad ones. I can have both those thoughts in my mind at the same time.
Politics? As one of my witty (they both are) wives said to me one time she caught me masturbating, "Ay, there's the rub".
The US has its huge clodhopper foot all over the ******* world. There's a national myth, held by some, that America deserves, in fact is morally obligated, to dominate everybody else and spread its goodness and superior wisdoms. I'm not on board.
And conservatism is moving in a direction (it started in a bad place with Burke and is heading fast for the right field fence) which makes me want to kick it in the nuts. There's a reason why American humorists (and look what America has produced in humorists! but this is true with humorists everywhere) they are almost all liberals. Almost no exceptions. There's something in that which tells us quite clearly that conservatives are dangerous people.
Quote:I don't doubt that the frequency and intensity of his stuff has inspired other to imitate him. I would like to see less of it.
That you would like to see "less of it" has been understood here for some time. Unless you can enlist the aid of Rick Perry for a state-wide, all at the same time mass prayer (because apparently God is getting deaf) you may not get your desire.
