Scum Round-Up

From some crappy web-load (via b&s) telling information, which we've emphasized:

It was a great few days for yours truly to make peace with some ideological foes. On the plane out to Los Angeles, who do I bump into but Bill Bennett and his wife, cordial and respectful as ever? On the way back, I kid you not, Andrew Breitbart was in the seat next to me. We've never met, but we've emailed over the years. He's hot-headed and a bundle of bearish energy and nerves. But we had a blast on the plane, with him sharing his latest pop music obsessions on his iPod with me.

Breitbart is actually a kind of straight gay: loves pop music, hates rock n roll, lost interest in radio music around the time of grunge (as did I) and now believes there's a revival of joyous pop going on. Oh, and, yes, we talked Trig a little. How could we not?

A-yup. They hate the rock&roll, but joyous popdisposable pap rah rah rah! Why would anyone over 12 be interested in lowest common denominator "radio music," pre or post grunge? And would anyone be willing to wager that Sullivan encountered these vicious creeps anywhere but in first class? Didn't think so. 1%, baby!

Do read b&s Ben on the larger context. Apparently the personal isn't political, or vice-versa, either. As far as we're concerned, scum is scum, no matter how much weak & shallow music for 'tweens & perpetually adolescent dance club denizens they like. What's ol' Bill Bennett think about popular music, we wonder? "Not virtuous," probably.

In other Sullivan news, he continues his "God is love" bullshit:

That the universe loves us.

Of course. No clearer indication of "love" than birth, suffering & death. The universe really cares. A lot. And while the imaginary whatever-it-is can't & shouldn't be anthropomorphized, it may be gawd "trying to tell him something," per the title of his "Aren't Mr. & Mrs. Bill Bennett & Andrew Breitbart just swell folks?" item.

Why can't these idiots accept the random meaninglessness of their petty existences? Or at least keep their personality disorders to themselves?

And more Breitbart bull, as well.