ME (reading aloud, to my companion): Walker is not above the law and will go to prison.
CHALKING MAN (to me): It's true! John Doe!
ME (to the chalking man): Live the fantasy. (To my companion:) The madness of Madison.
One hour earlier — about a block from there — we walked past a man who was lying supine on a low concrete wall. Eyes closed, he intoned repeatedly:
I am a good slave
Free to a good owner
I will obey my master
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I hope Garage enjoyed his day out!
A free slave? That might be the very definition of "you get what you pay for."
I always associate chalk drawings with insightful commentary.
Best one I ever saw was "Mrs. Leery is a mean old lady," back in second grade, under a stick figure of a witch ridng a broom. I didn't notice at the time that her name was misspelled.
Like the investigation itself, the Salon article is filled with innuendo and nothing else.
You really have some serious headcases up there in Wisconsin.
From Hitler to irrelevant.
Villian!
Chip S. said...
I always associate chalk drawings with insightful commentary
I always associate chalk drawings with little children. Sounds about right for the mindset of liberals...
Let them have their art, for they have nothing else.
Althouse should have informed the man asking to be enslaved that that sort of thing was outlawed, due to the efforts of "evil" Republicans.
What do you expect? Grim law professors?
What I expect is pretty much what's in the pic.
What I'd consider sane would be people enjoying a beautiful day w/o being consumed by politics--especially politics that's thoroughly played out.
"What fun! Walker is irrelevant; he's just the excuse for the fun and imagination."
Why is it fun to lust for someone to go to prison?
I see a lot of that from liberals. It's not pretty. It's the sort of thing liberals once abhorred -- the use of the criminal law for political persecution.
Would you think it fun if people wrote on the sidewalk of their desire to see you in prison?
I remember when liberals had very high standards about using criminal law to achieve political goals.
As for fun, I'm having my fun here.
Aww c'mon, Leslyn. You don't really see the Professor as "grim," do you?
I remember when liberals had very high standards about using criminal law to achieve political goals.
Sadly, I don't remember that. I guess, at 37, I'm not old enough.
I would think the guy writing on the street hoping for the Governor's imprisonment is grim, not the Professor.
It's the sort of thing liberals once abhorred -- the use of the criminal law for political persecution.
And the sort of thing they are unable to recognize about themselves. Ironic being how much smarter they consider themselves to be.
Althouse: I remember when liberals had very high standards about using criminal law to achieve political goals.
Palladian: Sadly, I don't remember that. I guess, at 37, I'm not old enough.
You'll see those standards expressed whenever liberals are in power and conservatives try using criminal law against them.
Can you imagine being the sort of person who thinks that gibbering about politicians is fun and imaginative?
Palladian: Can you imagine being the sort of person who thinks that gibbering about politicians is fun and imaginative?
I'm a commenter on Althouse's blog, so yes.
The key difference is chalk, Jason.
Also, here we titter rather than gibber.
This State Street in Madison. The city has had a huge uptick in violent crime and the curmudgeon mayor is focused on cabs cruising State Street, which they are not supposed to do. Someone should give him a fucking fiddle.
It's the sort of thing liberals once abhorred -- the use of the criminal law for political persecution.
There has already been one felony conviction, and a plea deal. Three more are going through the court system right now. Was that persecution? Conservatives think this DA was supposed to just look away at what he found even when laws were broken? So much for the law and order party.
Poor garage. It's really been a tough year for him, and I don't think it's going to be getting any better.
Palladian, I told Garage where he can get Nathans hot dogs. He should get some joy out of that. The poor guy is like those Jap soldiers on deserted islands still fighting WW2 in the 1950's.
ah hahaha, leslyn. Good one.
Seriously, you think it's necessary to be inside in order to go online? Do you use a dial-up modem to connect via your landline?
I'm losing track, but wasn't the indictment supposed to come through during the week of the election? Wasn't the imminency a legit reason for voting against Scott Walker?
Oh, I forgot to answer your question, leslyn...
What are you doing here?
Taking a couple of minutes out of a pleasant day to mock leftards like, um, well...
Time now to get up out of my chair, shut down my Dell Dimension, and go outside.
It's too stinking hot to go outside.
So do you own a slave now?
In my world, asking to be some stranger's slave has entirely different connotations.
Poor garage. It's really been a tough year for him, and I don't think it's going to be getting any better.
I'm sure you would relish the thought of me having a tough year, bcuz that's what floats your boat, but actually, it's been another good year for me personally.
Glad it's been a good year for you garage, but your game in here has seriously suffered. I was in Madison a couple of weeks ago, I looked for this sort of thing and couldn't find any. So we went out on the lake instead.
"So do you own a slave now?"
You know, clearly slavery is horribly wrong and evil, etc. etc.
BUT... seeing that guy made me contemplate how awful it would be to have a slave. What if someone implored you to take him on as a slave? That was his preference. Wouldn't it be awful?
Years ago, when my younger son was a child, he gave me, as a Christmas present, a certificate entitling me to have him as a slave for one day.
I still have the certificate. Much as I would like to have some chores done, the idea of commanding them from a slavedriver position is just so unsavory. Even as a joke.
"In my world, asking to be some stranger's slave has entirely different connotations."
Like Mr. Slave on "South Park"?
This guy was relatively young, wearing shorts, and had a lot of tattoos and piercings.
This guy was relatively young, wearing shorts, and had a lot of tattoos and piercings.
Were they leather shorts?
Dude needs to learn how to spell "villain" properly.
Union educated speller?
I wonder what would happen if you commanded the slave guy to clean up the picture drawn by the chalk guy.
You know the slavery thing must be in the more recent DNC playbooks as it shows up nt he weirdestplaces.
There's a video out there of some guy cursing Allen West (in front of kids, from what I can figure out) and he is questioned by the videographer... and he starts talking about slavery.
What?
ANd I can't remember them all, but it seems like that is the pattern these days. Sort of like when "gravitas" showed up in all the Dem / lefty comments and speeches back in one of the Bush elections. Weird.
So what is the love affair with the left for the slavery meme all of a sudden? (The guy above was nonplussed when informed that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Not to mention that the Dems were more opposed to the Civil Rights Act than the Republicans. Ask Algore.)
Got your panties in a wad over slavery? Go to Somalia and the Sudan and do something about it.
Someone should set the slave guy to doing chores, telling him that he is to continue working until he emancipates himself. Probably would not take long for him to decide that freedom is pretty cool.
I have had the same sense of mental vertigo about liberals' attachment to principle that Ann describes.
The most appallingly bigoted things that I ever hear (racism; homophobia; sexism; prejudice against Jews, evangelical Christians, and Mormons) come from the mouths of self-identified liberals/progressives. Liberals once argued that equality before the law meant the equal application of legal processes, and now liberals want to ignore laws that get in the way of what they want. Liberals once argued that the First Amendment requires us to allow Nazis to parade in Skokie, but now they talk about using law and regulation to force Fox News off cable systems and throw Rupert Murdoch into jail.
Liberalism/progressivism has become a hollow shell. Principle seems to have lost out to tribalism--i.e., cheering for your team, right or wrong. And the team's only real cause is winning the power to tell other people how they must live. I think that's why some liberals envy Communist China's leaders and why others want to control the size of your soft drink.
@ Jason (the commenter)
"You'll see those standards expressed whenever liberals are in power and conservatives try using criminal law against them."
You mean like when liberals actually break the law?
*gasp* how rude!
These people need to stay indoors in the hot weather. It really plays havoc with minds that are shaky, to begin with.
leslyn said...
Love, love, love the chalk drawing! What fun! Walker is irrelevant; he's just the excuse for the fun and imagination.
Can't wait to hear leslyn as President Walker is inaugurated.
For his second term.
Palladian said...
I remember when liberals had very high standards about using criminal law to achieve political goals.
Sadly, I don't remember that. I guess, at 37, I'm not old enough.
Way before your time.
Try the Kennedy Administration.
Freeman Hunt: Someone should set the slave guy to doing chores, telling him that he is to continue working until he emancipates himself. Probably would not take long for him to decide that freedom is pretty cool.
Knowing the type, I have a feeling it would be very hard to get him to do any actual work.
Graffiti artists (whether working in temporary or permanent media) never can spell. Our resident Maoists at UC/Berkeley (the folks behind Revolution Books) were prolific of graffiti, but they misspelled something every time. If you're going to "light a prairie fire for revolution," it's as well to be able to spell "prairie." And similarly, here, if you're going to call out "villains," it does help if you can spell "villain."
Someone meaner than I would probably say that this is what you get out of a unionized public education system. But I wouldn't do that.
Leslyn, if you become a performance artist, I've got a loft in Soho for you.
@ MDT Someone meaner than I would probably say that this is what you get out of a unionized public education system. But I wouldn't do that.
I already did. So did someone else.
;-)
"garage mahal said...
There has already been one felony conviction..."
Seriously dude you going there again?
"Really, though, I think Walker has too much baggage to be anything other than a stalking horse for the Republican Party."
-- If Obama wins reelection with a larger margin than he initially won with, I'm going to say he has too much baggage too.
"leslyn said...
Why not? It ain't over 'til it's over, and it ain't over."
Actually I was referring to the felony conviction...
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