TNR Discovers ConservativesThose of us
in the movement may have a little difficulty recognizing ourselves.
Here's a fairly amusing article
about conservative dating.
With its polls, events, and forums, ConservativeMatch provides such embattled conservatives the chance to get together and engage on the topic of their alienation. The most charming manifestation of this sentiment is a movement on the site to refer to Democrats as "Vichi-crats." In the ConservativeMatch imagination, conservatives--even if they control every branch of the government--will always represent the underground Gaullist resistance to the liberals' sellout Vichy.That's rather interesting, because at least in the blogosphere the term Vichycrats is pretty much reserved for
Lefty bloggers discussing Joe Lieberman; the idea is that
Democrats are collaborating with
the Nazis.
Sadly, the article on Conservative Cuisine is subscriber-only, since the title and synopsis sounded intriguing:
Spam-a-Lot by Kelly Alexander
The stultifying blandness of conservative cuisine.Who knew?
