Neanderpundit

Thinks of Bloggers as the New Fourth Estate.

Would that this were true. It was to a certain extent during the Bush presidency/candidacy, before the Left got their claws into it, but the number of people that read conservative blogs hoping to change from mindless liberal drones to free thinking libertarian/conservatives is… well, small.

I don’t write to change people’s minds. Conservative blogging will always be an echo chamber, and that’s not going to change. The average liberal idiot is not swayed by facts, or he would not be a liberal in the first place. I write to vent and- hopefully- to make people giggle. More than that I cannot hope for.

So I have to repeat here what I’ve blasted at poor Pascal so many times in IM:

You will never reach enough people to make a difference.
Even if you could you can never change their minds, for they have none, for all practical purposes.
All the time you spend blogging, your enemies and the enemies of freedom are working diligently to encase you in a coccoon of burocracy
You have been allowed blogging and ownership of weapons to give you a false sense of security. Once the rest of the net is in place, and it’s being spun as I type, those pale comforts will be removed too, and with hardly a whimper.

But, don’t pay any attention to me. Keep ‘believing” you can change the world with your words.

I didn’t get to see the movie when it was out, and frankly, though I am a big fan of the Coen brothers, having the Dude be Rooster Cogburn and Matt Damon be LeBoef, just was a recipe for suck that I was unwilling to drop $15 on,

And then I saw it in the rummage bin at Walmart. For $5.

So I bought it, and watched it tonight.

This is a lot damned better movie than I expected, and frankly, Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon show off some incredible acting chops. I’m a tiny bit annoyed I didn’t see it on the bigscreen, but for $5, and for being able to see it now, anytime I want?

Well worth it. And nicely done, Messr’s Coen.

has wandered off the reservation for some time now, and I am unrepentantly jealous.

Some times, though, he puts down the bottle and chases off the broads, wipes himself down, and knocks one out of the park.

yes, other people write the same thing. But when they do, it sounds like the 1912 overture played on a Kazoo. When Vman says this it’s like F Scott Fitzgerald speaking.