My fifteen year old son starts blogging and settles this age old question: Who would win a fight: Nessie or Dracula?

I love you L.D.!

(more at Middlebrow…)

My mother bought it and it lives in my memory like an evil dream. It was lemon yellow and made of polyester that would not die. It was a leisure suit for boys and it could not be destroyed.

At last I outgrew it, but it could have lasted forever looking just as lemony with orange glowing buttons. It lives still in my memory, but I may recover with some fashion therapy. What it could do was throw off little pills of itself. . . each an indestructible piece of itself that could not be detached from the whole without destroying it. But if you did cut it off carefully with a clever tool that K-Tel would sell you on late night television, the pill would glow on its own in the waste can. You can be sure that all the leisure suit pills in the world still exist buried out of sight in the dumps of the world.

It is a frightening thought.

It has become fashionable on the blog-o-sphere to call Mr. Ned Lamont, slayer of Jewish Senators, an empty suit of clothes.

And there is some virtue in it, for Ned Lamont is an empty suit filled with the hot air blown his way by Michael Moore, the Daily Kos, and whatever leftist tripe he still remembers from college days. His thoughts are not just undigested, for he seems to lack the internal mental organs needed to digest thought, but almost random. If his wine-and-cheese crowd friends suddenly supported the War, Ned Lamont would support it with a change so intellectually effortless that it would be nearly impossible to notice it.

That is not what is interesting about Ned Lamont since Ted Kennedy has spent a lifetime without thinking for himself the scion of a rich family who pretends to have made it on his own. Half the Democrat Senate consists of rich white men who are sorry for being rich, white, and male in a superior self-satisfied way.

No instead what is frightening about Lamont is his potential staying power. His naive views are ugly, in a world where anti-Semites run nations they are even dangerous, but come packaged in a sunny exterior that appears capable of discharging little mental pills into our political system for decades.

He is young and has the rich kid health and confidence that means he can go forever. Send Lamont to the Senate this time and we may see him there for the rest of our lives. . . slowly evolving into the Teddy Kennedy of the twenty-first century.

He is Leisure Suit Lamont and he may live forever in the Senate.

Below is one pill discharged from the leisure suit mind of Ned Lamont. . . with my comments in italics. Long after his Michael Moore/Daily Kos creed will have been utterly out grown by the body politic, he will go on glowing in the Senate discharging his fuzzy warm wisdom to us.

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One of the oddest notions now alive on the ‘net is that Evangelicals support Jewish persons because they want to bring on the End Times. Says the leftist hater of Evangelicals to obvious evidence of Evangelical love of all things Jewish, “You cannot give Evangelicals credit for their support of Israel, because they really want all Jews to become Christians or die at the end of the world that Evangelicals are hoping to trigger.”

Now this is just a lie, or at best guilt by association, but it is the kind of lie that leads a great many Americans to dislike their religious neighbor. “Those Evangelicals are all Ned Flanders! So weird and such clever anti-Semites, pretending to love Israel and Jews so that they can kill them!” While figures like Flanders are funny, and often deflate Christian wind bags, such stereotypes become harmful when they are almost the only media image of Evangelicals . . . and then slander is mixed into this pop culture version of forty percent of the population: Evangelicals are shallow and scary!
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U.S. Lags Behind Europe, Japan in Acceptance of Evolution
Thursday, August 10, 2006

. . . as usual my comments are in italics.

The following is a delightful Fox story shot through with evidence that those arguing for Darwin still don’t get it. They keep trying the same “our opponents are stupid” and “mainstream religion is for Darwin” arguments. . . but have made little progress.