DAILY TOL: Tree of Liberty

Thomas joins us today and should be posting his first submission shortly. He’s our first new Author invited based on a submission and facebook link. Watch out folks, he’s not a Republican or a Democrat. As you’ll see shortly, he considers himself a CommonSensican™

Mark your calendars because today I am coining a new term that will soon sweep the nation.  I’ve coined terms in the past only to see them widely adopted without acknowledgement.  No more…I’m planting my verbiage flag today.

Bubbleheads

These creatures come in two primary varieties, Professional and Amateur.  Each of those varieties have a two minor variants, Democrat and Republican.

I don’t so much mind the professional bubbleheads because their job tends to make them that way.  Limbaugh, Hannity, Mathews, Olbermann, Maddow…bubbleheads all.  In short, they live in their ideological bubbles surrounded by like-minded bubbleheads all constantly nodding to each other.  I guess that really makes them Bobblehead Bubbleheads.

It’s when you and I join the Bobblehead-Bubblehead ranks that I really get irked.  Are we that intellectually lazy that we have to tune in for someone else to give us our opinions.  “Oh, thinking is just too hard,” we must be saying to ourselves, “Let me tune in to Chris Mathews for some spot-on analysis of the issues.”  What’s the point, folks.  Can you not predict what Chris “Obama makes a thrill go up my leg” Mathews will say about any issue?

Free your mind, Neo.  I swear, if I ever run for office…and God help you all if I do…I would hold regular Opposition Townhall Meetings, where the price of admission is to completely disagree with what I believe.  If we truly want to move our country forward, we first must have vigorous debates.  In times like these, the most intellectually honest of us should be seeking ideological whiplash by reading about an issue first in the Weekly Standard and then Daily Kos.  Watching it first with Olbermann and then with Hannity.

If you are a liberal, put down the Chris Mathews crack pipe a minute, take a long pull off the Sean Hannity pipe and see if you feel like your head is about to explode.  If it does, that’s good, it means your brain still works and you can stop being such a bubblehead.  Use these professional bubbleheads to challenge your assumptions not validate them because such validation is a foregone conclusion and turns your brain to jelly.

Check out the clip below where Chris Mathews couldn’t control himself for even 30 seconds when Bobby Jindal came out to deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s address to congress.  He just had to exclaim, “Oh, God…”  I’m pretty sure Mr. Mathews wasn’t actually being visitied by God which leads me to say, “Mr. Mathews…you, sir, are a Bubblehead.”

I mentioned that our first Author would be joining us shortly once he figured out the nom de plume that best fit his personal and writing style.  Please welcome, Patrick Henry, he is about as fiery as Abigail, but has promised to exercise self-restraint.

As for Abigail, after this past week’s news, she is still trying to calm down enough to post without me having to moderate her writing…probably not good if I have to moderate one of our editors

I’ll be one of the Editors here at Daily Tol and hopefully will be able to help this community grow in both breadth and vibrancy.  Tol has shared some of the initial site traffic and it’s interesting to see from what parts of the country our first visitors arrive.  One of the interesting things we are going to try and do is encourage micro-threaded comments.  On many sites you have discussion threads and you have post comments.  Here we will be trying out nested comments attached to each post.  Hopefully that will encourage more comments and make reading those comments easier.

I understand that most of our visitors are currently “lurkers” waiting to see if they want to participate.  Dip a toe in; we would love to hear from you.

With my next post, I am going to start what I hope will be a weekly question.  These questions will be open ended and likely provocative.  Over time, I hope folks will contribute ideas for future topics and participate heavily in the comments sections associated with each question.  Look for the first question shortly.

~TJ

Today, Abigail Adams joins the DailyTol.  I’m sure we will she will provide many interesting perspectives to our nascent community.  Welcome, Abigail!!