It’s About Making Babies!

Robert Stacy McCain writes a political blog, The Other McCain, focused on conservative issues. Or at least, he used to be focused on issues.

Like many Americans, Stacy McCain has little time for the empty and deliberately deceptive words of Democratic Party and organized union leaders, or the empty and ignorant words of POTUS Barack Hussein Obama. Like many frustrated conservatives, he is also disillusioned at the atrociously unconservative actions of the Republican party in recent years.

The Other McCain, up until a few months ago, was good reading. His analysis of the current “economic stimulus” approach is simple. “It won’t work.” He uses that phrase at least daily. And it’s true. He does still link to some very good blogs, including the conservative issues Day By Day cartoon site.

Then came the Five Rules.

Now he is focusing on “a million hits in a year”, a measure of number of people that visit his blog. “Make enemies”, “Show babe pictures”. Gack.

This in-between-positions journalist has become Jerry Springer.

There is still the good reporting, the conservative opinion. But many of his posts are polluted with disparagements of others. None of the Biblical “Hate the sin, not the sinner” stuff here – it has become “Sling mud, because mud sticks and might draw a crowd.”

So long, Stacy. It had been good to know you. Say, “Hey!” to your crazy cousin John for me.

NML writes today on Baggage Reclaim about the perils of lending money to try to fix, maintain, or save a bad relationship. As The Other McCain says about Obama’s Spend til it Hurts and Tax until we ruin it all plan: It won’t work.

I thought I remembered Benjamin Franklin commenting about “Neither a lender nor a borrower be, lest a loan lose both itself and friend.” When I tried to confirm the quote – Google.com took me to .. Shakespeare. Act 1, Scene III, of Hamlet.

So I read Act 1, Scene iii, of Hamlet. And wow. Ophelia seems smitten by Lord Hamlet – and it seems mutual. Yet Hamlet is destined to rule his state – Denmark – and likely needs to endure a marriage of state, rather than follow his heart. So Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, then her father, Polonius, give mostly the same advice. And the advice is eerily similar to Baggage Reclaim’s advice about avoiding Emotionally Unavailable Men:

.. Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place
May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmaster’d importunity.
Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire.

If he speaks sweet words, you may hear more of worth than is really there. If you believe the words of love, you will surely be disappointed when he never carries through. And make your decisions about worth, value, and character before you allow yourself to be sidetracked by lust.

Read this whole scene – it stands alone quite nicely as a warning about “words of love”, and also the father’s advice to his son ending with “to thine own self be true.” Good stuff.

Words of Love

Words of Love, by the Mamas and the Papas

Mama Cass belts this one out just fine – words of love won’t get you where you want to go any more. The song is a satire – you are expected to buy her attention with lavish trips and other gewgaws. “Summer of Love” my aching foot.

The real message has to be – pick your mate in cold blood. Choose to invest your life with someone worthy of your hopes and dreams and values. Make the evaluation of the richness of his emotional life, the uprightness of his character, first. Then consider whether he is compassionate, passionate, and pleasant to be with. Hint – the intent is to be with him for 10, 30, 50 years or more. That takes someone with more life skills than winning bed partners.