"¡Mama, Mama, I've been [jugged]!"

Dear Dr. Bones,

Or, should the Muses and you do not care for that title, Bones, ¿How about "The Jug is Up" to stick over the following little _trouvée_?, which I accidentally spotted just now whilst admiring oneself from atop the Great Blue Hill :

Massachusetts Liberal Observations on politics, the media and life in Massachusetts and beyond from the left side of the road Thursday, October 27, 2011 A change is gonna come The Massachusetts Democratic Party just got a whole lot more unified for 2012. No knock down drag out Senate primary or redistricting fights. Now it's a simple goal: defeat Scott Brown. It was the equivalent of a political earthquake yesterday afternoon with the tandem stories that Alan Khazei was taking his hat out of the Senate primary ring and John Olver was retiring after 20 years in Congress. Gone like that was a divisive game of musical chairs that would have pitted two of the state's 10 incumbent liberal Democratic House members against each other -- the rumble being Olver and his sprawling 1st District against Jim McGovern and his Worcester-based constituency. Pundits have noted the 1st, based on population, could easily run from the New York border to Worcester. Now that will be the home base for Springfield's Richard Neal. And a potentially disruptive fight between Olver and McGovern avoided. And it's all over except for the shouting in the Democratic primary or the right to face Scott Brown. With all due respect to Tom Conroy, Marisa DeFranco, James Coyne King and Herb Robinson, they have even less of a chance of halting the ... *** JUGGERNAUT **** than Khazei did. Not that the novice candidate would not have benefited from a primary to sharpen her campaign skills. While Warren appears to have made a smooth transition to public campaigning, it has not been without hiccups that the GOP has been quick to pounce on. A major gaffe (quick, it's Ben Cherington, not Theo Epstein) could be deadly. But the dynamic of this race changed mightily from the moment she entered and a potentially divisive primary with Khazei slinging arrows had the potential for more harm than good. So now there's only one face on the dartboard in Democratic State Party headquarters and the occupants won't be able to emulate Will Rogers famous line: "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" Look out Scotto . Labels: 2012, Alan Khazei, Congress, Elizabeth Warren, John Olver, redistricting, US Senate posted by Outraged Liberal | 5:00 AM 0 Comments:

This e-comrade has a better sense of humor than most. He runs a butterfly--several butterflies, actually, plus maybe a moth or two--down with his lady friend's steamroller five seconds after announcing that *he*, the murder-vehicle artist, is the party ‘outraged’. I like that plan a lot better than I would like a perpetual early November of bared treason, and weeping wimpery, and bleeding heartfeltness, and compassionate Kant, BUT . . .

. . . if one is going to present oneself in e-veryday life as "Massachusetts Liberal" working out of a virtuous McMansion gazeteered as http://baystateliberal.blogspot.com, it might be well if one looked a little more like the rest of the good volks whose Boy Poster one has unilaterally nominated and unanimously elected oneself to be. In fact, was *eye* a Redneck Massochist, eye do believe eye would start mumblin’ at this point darkly ’bout maybe takin' pserious steps [1] to repel infringement of patent and/or copywhight.

We will, I trust, have Massa Liberal around to shoot at regularly, so let me cut straight to the steamroller. As you see, I have ventured to add a little EMPHASIS to the above-swiped. *J*U*G*G*E*R*N*A*U*T* is enough by itself to be the _plat du jour_ for Day One over _chez Massa_.

If you have read all my scribbling more faithfully than it merits, sir, you will know I have deployed not only the ‘J’-word itself about St. Elizabeth of H*rv*rdy [2], but ‘jugged’ as well. Maybe I also borrowed Mr. Bentham's ‘juggical’, Dr. Alzheimer refuses to either confirm or deny. Anyhow, the late apotheosis of Her Beatitude struck me as a distinctly juggiform human event well before I met my _trouvée_.

At this point it would be natural to modestly announce "Great minds think alike" and go back to sleep until spring, except that Massa Liberal and Eye do not in fact see altogether I-2-I. Specifically, M.L. is the first agitpropper I have ever run into who does not think there is even the faintest far-off cloud of disapproval hanging over the word ‘Juggernaut’. Why, ¡it might as well be ‘steamroller’ or ‘Panopticon’ or ‘runcible’ for all he cares!

Beseiged as we good guys are by ravenin’ Republicanines just over every border, it is likely enough that that is the direction in which our English is ultimately headed. What surprises me is not that the vernacular should go to the dogs in this respect, but only that our own Big Juggie should get up so early in the mornin’ an’ that he should march off to join the poachers without any farewell or notice given.

Worse, no sooner does one learn that Big Juggie has defected at all, than one finds him back gnawin' at one’s figurative leg exactly as a respectable cloth-coat-Republican cur would gnaw, warnin' one like a not-so-nice cop on the _Deweyplatz_, "You might as well come quiet." [3]

Well, Dr. Bones, you can work out from these presents how quiet I, at least, propose to come.

Happy days.



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(( That little exuberance strikes me as so remarkable, Dr. Bones, that I want to hang a framed copy of it in "the smallest room of my house" so I can always find it "behind me" without difficulty. Massa Liberal probably thinks he is the hardest-nosed overseer on any political plantation inside I-495, maybe even east of the Berkshires, but he pales by comparison with the real Charlie McCoy . No surprise there. ))

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[2] The iconography, I am told, is unlikely to be reality-based.

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[3] To be exact, Juggie barked at me--with his mouth full, I am sorry to say-- that I "just got a whole lot more unified for 2012." _Et vide supra passim_ for a good deal more to the same effect.

Now, "with all due respect" (as Juggie further barked, though not at me) I take a little exception to this effect, because it seems to imply there is some real danger I might be too I.Q.-challenged to notice when I have just been jugged.