Wankers, Unite!
By Mitch Berg
The frothy jags that bring you “Cucking Stool” have a mission for you!
What if all the religious conservatives and the other self-appointed dispensers of truth who huff and puff daily from the moral high ground were really moral and ethical midgets?
Hm. In other words, “what if people who stand for moral standards have human frailties and flaws, and are imperfect – sometimes flagrantly so?”
I guess the answer would be “They’re human. Get a life”.
Limited capacity thinkers?
[cheap shot on] then they’d be leftybloggers [/cheap shot off]
This could be big, boys and girls. Really big.
What could be big really big, you ask?
And now, a small cadre of Minnesota bloggers is preparing to prove it. It will probably start off as just a sprinkle;
…followed by a muted dripping and a flush, I’m guessing…
then it will rain harder, and finally all of collected grime of empty moralisms will be washed away. Or something like that. It should be fun.
Fun, huh?
Hm. No, like most Twin Cities Leftyblogger efforts, it will probably turn out to be an embarassment. Twin Cities’ leftybloggers, for all of their sturm und drang, have tended to be generals in the bedroom and whores on the battlefield; big talkers and little doers. As “journalists”, they’re proven themselves (so far) incapable of covering a one car crash. As “investigators”, they’ve embarassed themselves. While some of them are excellent (and some are friends of mine), their collective track record so far is a weary “STF What?”
So bring that “little cadre” on.
In order that the blooming of the thousand flowers can be collected, Spot suggests using a Technorati tag and/or category “judgmentalism”
Alternatively, I’d suggest “wankers gone wild”, “cheap imitations of blogs that matter”, “monkeys flinging poo”, or “Junior’s First Attempt at Electronic Activism”.
We had the beginnings of a much better discussion about social conservatism (or, if you’re hopelessly dramatic, “Judgementalism”) over on one of Andy Birkey’s posts at MinMon.
July 27th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Oh no! Could it be true? Am I a “moral and ethical midget”? Could all of these “principles” I’ve adopted be nothing more than ephemera? Am I really lost in the morass of grey-shaded nuance, never to find a solid ground?
I may have to vote for this before I vote against it. But then, that all depends on what the meaning of “Is” is.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
The cuckingstool post has been up since early Thursday afternoon.
No comments, no trackbacks.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Of course. It’s a small cadre.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Maybe he used to write for the Washington Post when they said “Christian conservatives tend to be unintelligent and easily lead”.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:03 am
I can never understand why the hell people care if others are religious and/or conservative? You’d think they’d just go on their merry, morality-free way and have a good time! But no….something gets under their skin about it and whatever “it” is, it prickles a quite a bit….
July 27th, 2007 at 9:56 am
I almost made a post about it yesterday… however, I still have no earthly clue as to what in the flamming hootie-hoo the guy is talking about.
However, I’m still amused to see the kinds of posts Spot wishes he wrote… talk about aiming low.
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
[…] Friday, we noted that Cucking Stool, the City Pages’ “Best Leftyblog” for 2006 (and thus either the most overrated blog in the Twin Cities or the most cursed one) hinted at smack to be laid down…eventually. By…someone. About…something: a small cadre of Minnesota bloggers is preparing to prove it. It will probably start off as just a sprinkle; then it will rain harder, and finally all of the collected grime of empty moralisms will be washed away. Or something like that. It should be fun. […]