With this I mourn Molly Ivins.
The world has few enough smart people, and far too few of them come from Texas.
When my brain finally started growing in, her words helped me come to terms with politics.
Why her? Why Ann Richards? Why the good and not the evil?
Howl at the moon. Mourn the sharp-witted and brilliant.
In an age when and country where the President sounds like "Mater" from Pixar's "Cars" and the smart men he "defeated" sound like college professors, we needed brave voices like Molly's. Who will stand up and be the next H. L. Mencken heir?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Time
"And then one day you'll find
Ten years have gone behind you.
No one told you when to run,
You missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older.
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death."
Roger Waters/Pink Floyd said that in 1973, and it resonates with me today. But it's 20 years, or more.
Where the FUCK did the time go? How the FUCK did I get here? Why the FUCK didn't I ... ?
Where's Chris Doty?
"Nobody said it was going to be fun. At least nobody said it to me."
- Richard (The Big Chill)
Ten years have gone behind you.
No one told you when to run,
You missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older.
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death."
Roger Waters/Pink Floyd said that in 1973, and it resonates with me today. But it's 20 years, or more.
Where the FUCK did the time go? How the FUCK did I get here? Why the FUCK didn't I ... ?
Where's Chris Doty?
"Nobody said it was going to be fun. At least nobody said it to me."
- Richard (The Big Chill)
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Washington Chess
Has anyone else made the connection between John Negroponte's move to #2 at State and Dick Cheney's forthcoming resignation?
Here's what I expect to happen:
1. Dark Lord Cheney resigns for "health reasons."
2. Bush preemptively pardons him.
3. Condi moves to VP, the third Bush "impeachment-protection Vice President" (including Quayle).
4. Negroponte gets Secretary of State.
Watch for it before too much longer.
Here's what I expect to happen:
1. Dark Lord Cheney resigns for "health reasons."
2. Bush preemptively pardons him.
3. Condi moves to VP, the third Bush "impeachment-protection Vice President" (including Quayle).
4. Negroponte gets Secretary of State.
Watch for it before too much longer.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Forks in the Road
Maybe it's because I'm sitting here at age 45 watching the kids in the tub, but while watching "The Devil Wears Prada" (with frequent pauses to deal with assorted domestic crises) this New Years Evening I had another epiphany regarding how things might be different. If I'd had the vision to follow my bliss to RIT and avoid being sent to Mount Vernon Nazarene College I might be shooting fashion in Paris instead. Or had I come back from Japan and sent a blind letter to the Smithsonian HR office... But either of those would have resulted in three fewer marriages and four fewer children. Hmmm.
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