For the Tim Gunn worshippers in the audience...

We knew he was a superhero.

I win at minesweeper.

SIX SECONDS! It only took me SIX SECONDS to beat beginner minesweeper!

Special Comment

I don't care, I'm going to keep pointing you guys at links to my new boyfriend.  This one is perhaps the most personally insulting to Shrub yet.  Also, he accuses the RNC of being the biggest terrorists in the United States, which I can't say I really disagree with.

Democracy as Calvinball

A quote from Seyla Benhabib:

Democratic debate is like a ball game where there is no umpire to definitively interpret the rules of the game and their application.  Rather, in the game of democracy the rules o the game, no less than their interpretation and even the position of the umpire, are essentially contestable.  But contestation means neither the complete abrogation of these rules nor silence about them.  When basic rights and liberties are violated, the game of democracy is suspended and becomes either martial rule, civil war, or dictatorship; when democratic politics is in full session the debate about the meaning of these rights, what they do ro do not entitle us to, their scope and enforcement, is what politics is all about (84).^*

Democracy is like Calvinball, people.  Endlessly up for debate.  Also probably safer if we all wear masks.

*Benhabib, Seyla.  1995.  "Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the LIberal Tradition, and Jürgen Habermas.  Pp. 65-99 in Joan B. Landes, ed., Feminism, the Private and the Public.  New York: Oxford University Press.