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Shotgunfreude (n.) - 1. Delight experienced at the unraveling of antidemocratic forces.
2. Thoughts of a pro-democracy Minnesota attorney.
Portmanteau of "shotgun-incident-related schadenfreude."
see e.g. The Imperial (Vice) Presidency: "The shooting could hardly be a better metaphor for Cheney. It neatly packages his faulty judgment, insularity and arrogance in a story that is not cataclysmic on its own terms but will prove hard to forget."
P.S. hot tip: "schadenfreude" doesn't have anything to do with Freud. Nor does Shotgunfreude.great blogs from other attorneys:
great blogs from philosophers, economists, journalists, policy-ists, historians, secularists, etc.:
- reality-based community
- brad delong
- obsidian wings/hilzoy & co.
- hullabaloo/digby & co.
- dan froomkin / white house watch
- andrew cohen / bench conference
- majikthise
- skippy the bush kangaroo
- the daily doubter
- atheist ethicist
- secular outpost
- leiter reports
- bookninja
- bookslut
- judge a book by its cover
- smart bitches trashy books
- political animal
- liberalism without cynicism
- vox baby
- ezra klein
- philosoraptor
- accuser
- informed comment
- and yes, i do take it personally
- gentlebreezes (but not gentle treatment of gop corruption)
great blogs from scientists:
great blogs 'n stuff from minnesota:
all over the board:
- huff-po
- bottle of blog
- voxmia
- the left coaster
- just one minute
- battlepanda
- lance mannion
- orcinus
- dadahead
- poor man institute
- kung fu monkey
- volokh conspiracy
- greg mankiw
- becker hearts posner
- balloon juice
- andrew sullivan
- jane galt
- michael totten
- candide's notebooks
- cold desert
- eric umansky
- harry's place
- the fix
words:
about shotgunfreude:
I work as an attorney at a private firm. I started blogging out of frustration with the Republican government's anti-American, anti-science, anti-democratic agenda. It was Cheney shooting his lawyer buddy in the face, and trying to be secretive about it afterward (as with everything), that finally convinced me, these guys are doomed to go down in flames, and this is too great not to make fun of them on the way down. I experienced shotgun incident related schadenfreude. Thus, "shotgunfreude".
democracy:
labels:
- republican betrayal of america (64)
- the u.s. constitution (15)
- journalistic failure (13)
- american heroes (11)
- george w. bush (9)
- science (9)
- shotgunfreude images (8)
- glenn greenwald (7)
- house of representatives (7)
- revolt of traditional conservatives (7)
- alberto gonzales (6)
- business (6)
- dick cheney (6)
- russ feingold (6)
- barack obama (5)
- diversion (5)
- foreign policy (5)
- illegal warrantless domestic spying (5)
- impeachment (5)
- iraq (5)
- senate (5)
- amy klobuchar (4)
- john kline (4)
- milquetoast democrats (4)
- minnesota blogs (4)
- pseudoscience (4)
- cenk uygur (3)
- journalistic success (3)
- dictators (2)
- george will (2)
- jack balkin (2)
- john dean (2)
- john mccain (2)
- karl rove (2)
- patents (2)
- scooter libby (2)
- trademarks (2)
- truthiness (2)
- unelectable republicans (2)
- waffling on torture (2)
- atheism (1)
- economic policy (1)
- environment (1)
- military commissions (1)
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1 comment:
I must admit, this is the first empty post I ever came upon and "read".
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