I spend a lot of time thinking about badassitude – the way true badasses carry, exhibit and display their badassedness.  Sometimes it is a trick finding true and pure badassitude because you have to make judgments at 2 levels – a) that the dude or dudette is a badass and b) that the dude or dudette has any badassitude. The two judgments are remotely related but mostly not. A badass can have so little badassitude that it would be within reason to describe him or her as a punkass!

A punkass is anyone with zero or no badassitude except that the punkass tends mostly to be a pretender. Not only does a punkass not have any badassitude, a punkass for the most part pretends to have badassitude. And a punkass tends to lie (this is the first indicator of a punkass – lying). A punkass tends to pretend that all the badassitude that is contrary to their punkassedness does not exist.

Imagine, for lack of a better description, a politician whose public positions have become untenable. The one thing long term politicians have learned to do rather well, is to ignore the existence of new or contrary information and persist, however ridiculous it sounds, on espousing a ridiculously untenable (fictional) position in spite of the evidence. Side note – Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine twisting in the wind, trying to explain her completely fictional pronouncements about events surrounding Abdul Mutallab’s arrest et al was exemplary in the display of punkassitude.

On this blog and to be fair, if we are going to talk about badassitude, we have to similarly examine the depravity, sadness, failure, no account sorryness, lying, dishonesty etc., that describes the opposite and that opposite is punkassitude. So we should assume, as we go forward that if we rule that one has exhibited complete badassitude fail, then by the same token, or by implication, they must have achieved close to total punkassitude.

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