A Few Reasonable Words

Life is quite busy for me these days here in Lubbock, so blogging has been moved to the back-burner. I still check in here regularly and wish I could post more often, but I've never earned a cent from blogging and the demands and depredations of the real world are paramount.

While I've been away, the insane, newly-minted leftist blogger Charles Johnson, when not accusing Glenn Beck of murdering rubber frogs, is continuing his one-man jihad against Robert Stacy McCain. There really isn't much more I can say about Johnson that I didn't say in my previous entry, other than in addition to being a crashing bore, Johnson is also a liar and a hypocrite as recently demonstrated by conservative Australian blogger Tim Blair.

What is it with these ignorant, arrogant self-styled bi-coastal types who presume to declare that anyone who does not conform to their tastes and preferences is just an idiotic hillbilly? I'm probably more educated, experienced, and well-traveled than about ninety percent of those fools, but because I choose to live in West Texas rather than in some crime-ridden urban rat-hole, I must be the second coming of Jimmy Swaggart. When I tell such people that I spent four years of my life living in Tokyo - which has a metropolitan area more populous than New York City and Los Angeles combined - that usually shuts them up...at least for a few seconds.

Speaking of idiots, nothing is more demonstrative of the moral corruption of this country's self-styled liberal elite than the pathetic paeans of brainless Hollywood celebrities on behalf of disgraced, perverted movie director/rapist Roman Polanski. In a column posted yesterday at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg said it best:

His defenders don’t care. They are above and beyond bourgeois notions of morality, even legality.

And that’s the main reason I am grateful for this controversy. It is a dye marker, “lighting up” a whole archipelago of morally wretched people. With their time, their money, and their craft, these very people routinely lecture America about what is right and wrong. It’s good to know that at the most fundamental level, they have no idea what they’re talking about.

Indeed they do not, which is why I have never and will never respect this country's entertainment industry. With very few exceptions, they are a parasite class upon American society, self-important jumped-up circus clowns deserving of little more than contempt from those of us who toil through life at more honest and respectable, if less lucrative trades.

Update:

Thanks for the link, Stacy!