Tuesday, June 19, 2007
(8:05 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred: John Leonard
I hate that no matter how much I shake up the ketchup bottle, there's always that little bit of water that comes out. I hate this because I hate it when bread gets wet.I hate it when I mistype a shortcut key and accidentally fire up some long-buried feature of Word that takes forever to start.
I hate it when good liberals do their duty of critiquing people to their left. The ritual disavowal of Michael Moore every time one of his movies comes out is great -- even though he's producing films that will be seen by millions and that have messages like "George W. Bush is an awful president and shouldn't be reelected" or "We should have universal health care." It's like they're living in a fantasy world where cold, dispassionate presentation of the facts wouldn't be shouted down by the right -- i.e., like they've never heard of Chomsky, for instance, whom they incidentally also loudly disown at every opportunity. Maybe, maybe one way to combat the rightward shift in this country would be for good moderate liberals not to constantly criticize people further to the left -- to resist the temptation to present themselves as "serious" and "honest even when it hurts."
When you've duly hated, go express your love.
