16 February 2012

Not "class warfare" when kindergartners do it (?)


¡Much-esteemed Kiddiemaster Katz!

Paddy McTammany, a.k.a. / d.b.a "the present keyboard," has been at little perplexed at the approach adopted by your freelordship, an’ by the Employin’ Corporation, an’ presumably the Venerable Funders of the E. C., to demolishin’ the latest generation of the Serene House of K*nn*dy.

One does not expect avowed selfservatives to come out swingin’ *against* DNA-based superiorities. To be sure, there is a lot of hereditary deadwood here in the _selva oscura_, this Veil of Tares behind which even Sin can never be entirely self-made. [*] Paddy’s impression, however, is that the Whight Guard of all previous periods has preferred to hush these unfortunate paradigm-challengers up, almost as if they were high-wellborn damsels in fœtal distress. ’Twere silly to expect your freelordship (an’ the E.C., an’ the V. F. of the E.C.) to go out of the way to hush up Kennedy Tertius, but I surely there are lots of other unwhightousnesses about that person for Hooverville an’ Rio Limbaugh an’ Talk Radio 1200 to feast on.

As to the general principle, or weekly standard, or neocriterion, or whatever, of this question, Paddy has put it in the title of my scribble.

I trust your freelordship appreciates how a casual tuner-in might conceivably get the imperssion from this morning’s freelordly an’ kiddiamgisterial agitprop that we got at least a _Klassenkämpfchen_ goin’ on whight here in Charles River City.

Happy days.
--JHM

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[*] Paddy rehearses the above pious viennasausage strictly on an "as is" basis, neither endorsing nor actively thinking, at the moment, of suing for _defamatio generis humanis_.

(( St. Elizabeth of H*rv*rdy, by the way, is especially edifying on the topic of non-selfmadeness, or ¿maybe call it ‘anautopoësis’? ))

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