Denver: Love! Peace! Justice!

[Update: Gateway Pundit has a much better (and funner) video here!]

When I was ten, I wondered about the people who ran around in blue jeans and bare feet, preaching “peace and love” while calling cops “pigs”, calling their parents “bourgeouis” and labeling anyone who disagreed with their style as “clydes,” or “fags” (back then – at least in my neighborhood – you didn’t have to be gay to be called a “fag;” a “fag” was simply an uncool person. When I was ten, I was frequently called a “fag” by people cooler and more peaceful and loving than I).

Now, I’m fifty, and I still wonder about these people who chant, “peace, love, and justice” while behaving in ways that have nothing to do with those words, who live for the shout-down, who have different definitions of privacy, depending on who wants it, and who seem to operate on a philosophy of “free speech for me, not for thee.”

They co-opted and distorted the term “liberal” but their behavior is anything but. There is still this sense of perpetual adolescence.

But give Malkin credit – she’s one cool customer, and a gutsy babe. I don’t know if I could have ignored his provocations without trying raising my hand to umm…gently but soundly push his face out of mine.

Sigh. This is why I stay home.

There is an awful lot of showboating and distracting stuff to keep track of. I’d stick to Pajamas Media for the convention stuff, but if you also want to keep track of regular news and election stories that may have more meaning and impact on your real life while the shenanigans in Denver is covered and over-covered, I’d go with Instapundit, because Glenn Reynolds knows how to pick the juiciest and ripest stories.

And look, amid all the goofball distractions, let’s not forget, people are wrapping explosives around themselves and trying to kill other people.

Me…I’m back at work struggling to write a book review that should have taken me an hour.