Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
  -- Daniel Webster



Friday, March 07, 2003 :::
 

The article Lily discusses, in the entry Dean just linked to, includes this:

[I]t's hard to stop talking about [Stewart] because she's a Rorschach test, an inkblot for Americans to interpret as threat or validation, inspiration or rebuke. She tells us something about our society and, in particular, about the unresolved question of what women are or should be.

The way this analogy is used strikes me as odd -- an inkblot test doesn't tell us anything about "society", it tells us something about the person interpreting the inkblot.

Lily goes on to say:

It may not be your scene, but I beg you — if it's not, please spare us all this bitter kvetching.

That's my attitude toward Martha Stewart (or was until a few weeks ago) -- it's not my thing, so I'll ignore her. The last few weeks, I've heard her on the radio Sunday morning for a couple minutes at a time with somewhat interesting material, most of it having to do with pretty things, though one was about the differences between black bears and grizzlies (I never did figure out why she was dealing with that). So now I ignore her unless I happen to catch her on the radio, in which case I tend to listen (though I don't tend to remember).

To conclude, I'll add that I'm glad that there are people out there who cook better than I do.


::: posted by Steven at 6:38 PM


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