Thank god you weren't on my dissertation committee, or I'd have to start the blog yet again -- and only a few hours after ending it.
But seriously, doesn't this sort of empowering game just make you feel more sharply your lack of power? Imagine how pathetic we'd have thought anti-Clinton google bombers four or five years ago?
It is a game, and I have no illusions about my lack of power. I feel it pretty sharply every time I see that George Bush is still President. I must say I think this is a bit different from the "miserable failure" game in that it's at least a clever twist on the "unelectability" of various Democrats and it's not quite as paritsan as "miserable failure."
It's a twist in another respect as well. Google bombing Bush as 'miserable failure' presumably wasn't supposed to be what makes him a miserable failure, even in part. But this new game might help a teeny tiny bit in rendering 'unelectable' true.
So I'll grant you it's not quite as pathetic as the earlier game.
Yes, he's unelectable. It doesn't take much intelligence to know that.
Posted by A politically astute canine | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:38 PM
Um, does google index blog comments?
Posted by Mithras | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:45 PM
It does indeed.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:46 PM
Thank god you weren't on my dissertation committee, or I'd have to start the blog yet again -- and only a few hours after ending it.
But seriously, doesn't this sort of empowering game just make you feel more sharply your lack of power? Imagine how pathetic we'd have thought anti-Clinton google bombers four or five years ago?
Posted by Ted H. | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:12 PM
It is a game, and I have no illusions about my lack of power. I feel it pretty sharply every time I see that George Bush is still President. I must say I think this is a bit different from the "miserable failure" game in that it's at least a clever twist on the "unelectability" of various Democrats and it's not quite as paritsan as "miserable failure."
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:21 PM
It's a twist in another respect as well. Google bombing Bush as 'miserable failure' presumably wasn't supposed to be what makes him a miserable failure, even in part. But this new game might help a teeny tiny bit in rendering 'unelectable' true.
So I'll grant you it's not quite as pathetic as the earlier game.
Posted by Ted H. | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:55 PM
Ok, we agree!
I have modest argumentative aims.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:57 PM