vive le rude

I'd like to once again kick you to The Rude Pundit, who has been gloriously rude, a true inspiration, for four years now. As a small hat tip to myself, most of what he says about Preznit Fuck-the-Poor-Get-Me-Some-Mercenaries' veto of SCHIP echoes my own thoughts on the matter. By the way, though, it just occurred to me that perhaps companies like Blackwater exist because they are the preznit's wet dream: getting obscenely rich off the back of working class Americans, shooting brown people with big guns and not one damn bit of blowback. Had Blackwater existed in the 70's, maybe Bush would have gone to Vietnam, after all.

The Rude Pundit, responding to the "why do this at all, when the world is going to end?" question, says: "It's a question that plagues the practitioners of bloggery, whether it's "working" or "useful." The Rude Pundit has long subscribed to the notion that "preaching to the converted" is its own reward. Hell, it's pretty much what preachers do, with the occasional soul added to the ranks of the saved. The converted deserve to have their fires fanned and their genitals turned on. And if the Rude Pundit articulates a rage that sometimes can only come out as "Oooh, I hate those fuckers so," then all the better."