A reader writes:
What the hell does hathetic mean? If you do a Google search for the word, it just comes back with your blog. I thought it was a typo the first time, but then you used it again. Please post a definition!
Hathos, a noun. Hathetic, an adjective. Coined by Alex Heard. Meaning: something so unpleasant you can’t help but be riveted by it. As in Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, Hugh Hewitt and the smell of one’s own farts.
A reader comments on this weirder-than-usual Romney quote:
Romney’s optimism is indeed loopy, but I am not sure how "super-Mormon" it is. After all, Mormons believe that God handed a new revelation to Joseph Smith less than two centuries ago. What does Romney think is going to happen in the next ten years that would match that?
Or a country – one of many such stories:
After being kidnapped three times in his native Colombia, my partner was denied asylum after his case was pending 6 years in the United States. He left Christmas Day. Although he learned English, and got a GED just to become acculturated (holds a Master’s degree), we don’t want him here. Bad immigrant I guess. Can’t imagine what a good one might be, though. But unlike everyone else who has been highlighted in the “America won’t let us live here” series, I’m not so sad about leaving and joining him there. America is not who she claims to be. Regular readers of your blog will understand. I don’t hate my country. I love it. But for what it promises, not what it has become.
Sad when an American is embracing a Third World country because it offers greater liberty and opportunity. I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
He’s not. Here’s a site devoted to love exiles, denied the right to marry and thereby immigrate.
Clinton’s is here.
Iowa Independent sees a wave building:
The national media and pollsters don’t live where I do (Carroll, Iowa). When the story is told on Thursday night, the narrative will be a remarkable one: Obama will cobble together western Iowa counties with ivory towered college towns and eastern cities within the shadow of his Illinois. What’s more, while he is running a tight race with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. John Edwards with traditional voters, Obama will pull ahead with new people, not just the young, but the never-before caucus-goers. I see their faces in the crowds. They are the woman I went to high school with who stunned me by appearing, waving a Barack Obama sign, no less, at one of his events in Carroll. Surely, she must have an "American Idol" re-run to watch, I thought. No, she’s caucusing for Obama.
Here’s another reason Obama will do well in western Iowa (and win the whole thing): Democrats listen to their Republican friends and family. They know who has the best shot against the Republicans in a general election — an instinct a recent Zogby Poll bears out by showing Obama beating all GOP presidential candidates.
Almost funny its so shameless:
I guess it’s because of the polls, but it looks like Hillary’s trying to trick us into believing she is, in actuality, Barack Obama. Twenty minutes after Ben Smith posted that she’d stolen the "Fired up, ready to go" line, Howard Wolfson went on Hardball and said that the great thing about Iowa was that Iowans were getting a chance to "check under the hood…kick the tires." Chris Matthews told him with a smirk, "You stole that line directly from Obama."
They’re like my high school students, staring at their neighbor’s test and hoping we can’t see their eyeballs.
When you have no inner core, it’s sometimes easier to borrow others’. God knows her husband did.
The latest poll puts him at 37 with Romney at 31. Yay! If Romney loses in his neighboring state, it really looks lame.
He can still make you laugh. And, yes, I will read his book when I get a second. Least I can do after he trashed mine.
