As my
eyebrows grow longer then the hair on my head I find myself pining away with
Andy Rooney type thoughts. Random
firings of my synapsis that trigger observations on life and the world I see
around me.
I see that bastion
of deep liberal thought, MSNBC, is pushing a newly released book that shows
definitively that it is the Republicans that have caused this vast rift in
civil discourse. Funny how if a liberal
says something, whether they have factual data to back it up or not it must be
true. But what I remember is political
incivility to the degree we have it today really began with the 2000 election
of George Bush where the Democratic candidate refused to concede the election
until every hanging chad was counted and the Supreme Court made a ruling. This led to such cooperative positions as How American Elections
Became a Criminal Enterprise, and the creation of Move-On dot Org. And of course the fact that President Clinton
lied to the public and Congress about Monica Lewinski and the Republican’s
attempted to hold him accountable in the late 1990’s is really just the
Republican’s creating an ugly civil discourse, unlike the civility shown Nixon
during his terms? 
Why is it
that the Boston Red Sox are condemned to playing ½ a season of good
baseball? They can’t seem to put a whole
year together to save their lives.
Either they start out strong and sputter at the end, or they start out
in the basement and climb up to the top for the playoffs. Or like last year, they stink in the
beginning, dominate all summer long, and then tank the month of September.
When did it
become necessary to intimidate advertisers because you disagree with the program
they advertise on? If enough people stop
listening to the program then that would end the advertising. But wait!
Isn’t that the free market at work, and that would mean you don’t get
your way if more people disagree with your view than agree. No, obviously a commercial enterprise must
bend to the will of the elites who know what is best for America, free speech in America is way overrated anyway.
I am, I think,
1/16 Tuscarora Indian on my maternal grandfather’s side. That makes me twice as much Indian as Ms. Warren
but since I’ve never associated with the tribe, I’ve never claimed the status
of a Native American. When your looking
for an edge I guess you will grasp at any straw, and then have to learn to tap
dance when you’re called out on it.
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