On the Sestak thing. Republicans want an inquiry to see if the law was broken; they think it was. Democrats deny it's needed and let's just move on dot org. If this happened with a Republican administration in power, we'd have just the same little drama, but with sides switched. The tribal game of gotcha! which is built in to party politics.
Reverend Barry Hussein O on the oil spill: "As I said yesterday, every day that this leak continues is an assault on the people of the Gulf Coast region, their livelihoods, and the natural bounty that belongs to all of us," Obama said. "It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole."
God, what effing BS. Logorrhea. Where's Calvin Coolidge when you need him?
Sun is out again today. Fifth day in a row. Nice.
I miss my car. I hope they throw the book at the drunk who totalled it.
I've seen a few episodes of History Channel's America: The Story of Us. Despite pedestrian writing, I like the take. Fundamentally positive and celebratory; something rare these days. Interesting focus sometimes on items and people not normally at the center. It would be a great intro for kids who are clueless and just take for granted what are in fact astonishing achievements.
Having gotten in touch with my inner racist during my NY trip, I wonder if all those Third World people will ever think of America's story as their story, if they will ever think of themselves as "us" in continuity with all the others who went before them and if that possible "us" will be anything someone like me would recognize.
Took another look at the FTM transgender YouTube section. They all look like 12 year olds and sound the same. Basic response from me: boredom.
Conservatives unblinkingly take for granted the whole ineradicable array of human passions and make political and other arrangements (religion, family, community) to deal with them as best they can. Liberals are horrified by the very existence of the baser passions, project them onto their enemies, and try to overcome, repress and eradicate even their initial appearance, in the service of "evolving" the race.
We know how that turns out, Robespierre.
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