The Dancing Monkey Needs a Road Trip

Over at the Washington Monthly's "Political Animal," Ed Kilgore -- who earlier today gave me my band name of the day: "Declining Honkitude" -- put this little gem at the end of his report on the CPAC agenda:

Even at a deadly serious conference aimed at taking back America from secular-socialists, there has to be some socializing. Fortunately, for the single set, TheTeaParty.net is hosting a presentation on “Conservative Dating.” Check out this description:

Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod, that would be amazing.  Especially in light of the actual description.

Learn everything from how to avoid scaring away your own personal Dagny Taggart in the first five minutes of the conversation, to whether Tea Partiers and Occupiers can share something more than a dislike for bailouts.

For those who are wondering, Dagny Taggart is the protagonist (in the strictest sense of the world) and author insert of Atlas Shrugged.

Note, too, the implication that it will be a workshop for men, since the goal is to "avoid scaring away" and the object in question is a female.  I so wish I was in Washington, DC RIGHT NOW.

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Actually, when I think about it, the implications of that little description are utterly terrifying.

I have never actually read Atlas Shrugged.  I have, however, been involved in discussion of the book and read snippets of a couple of the sex scenes.  They are not so much "sex scenes" as "rape scenes."  And they're a special variety of rape wherein getting completely sexually dominated in a not-particularly-consensual sort of way by a great captain of industry causes Dagny Taggart to respect and/or fall in love with said man.

So, yeah, I'm kind of hoping that the first tip to "avoid scaring away your own personal Dagny Taggart" is, "Don't be the sort of guy who says he's looking for a Dagny Taggart."

Otherwise...ugh.

Comments

[Michael Mock]

Oh-my-nonexistent-God. Please, please tell me you're going to grab a plane ticket and fly in for this. Please.

[Geds]

I believe CPAC starts today. Or reasonably close enough to "today" that airfare will be "really friggin' expensive." Also, I'm guessing CPAC costs money to attend.

And I've got a...thing...that I really, really have to do.