Amusing Myself into a PVS

So, I'm doing that thing I said I would try to stop doing. I'm letting my mind wander aimlessly about, looking stupid things up on Wiki and YouTube.

I did get a whole chapter finished of a novel I've been thinking about, and have worked my way through about a third of the next one. I've got a bit of British legislation to look at and do something with for the Interim next month, and a whole book on stem cell research and ethics waiting there, dangling a cheque in front of me like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

And what am I doing?

Looking up "latte-drinkers" on Wiki. As in, "grey-ponytailed, Volvo-drivin', New York Times readin', Vermont-dwellin', cheese-eatin', limp-wristed..."

As in: "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs."

You've got to say it with the best approximation of a Texas accent you can manage, (London-dwellin', Eton n' Oxford-Graduatin', silver-spoon chewin', Harrods-shoppin', Darjeeling-slurpin' folk are exempt of course.)

Heh, I like the Wiki thing on "Liberal Elites." Of course, it's all really just a manifestation of the lower classes trying to climb up into places not meant for them. Envy, really. They or their parents now I suppose, were born in the wrong stratum and had to, ahem, earn their way to the top of academe, the only place that would have them.

The culture of envy and whineyness they have created to replace the old order has just proved that the old order was the better one. People who know their place, do not spend their lives endlessly carping about the advantages of others. And do not try to create an "elite" class for themselves.

Wiki has links to the terms

smoked salmon liberal
Latte liberal
chardonnay socialist
BBC-Guardian axis
salon communist
limousine liberal - a term for a wealthy liberal person who claims to have a deep concern for the poor, but is not actually directly engaged with them on a day to day basis. The term can also carry the connotation of expressing concern for the poor but not spending any considerable portion of one's personal time, effort, or wealth to help them.