Roots

Looking at recent entries via ThinkProgress, 4 just within this past week, we acknowledge non-rocker Joe Walsh (R-Splitsville) for his HIGHpocrisy.  Happy MNF to another season.

Laugh or cry?

We were only going to link to the funny; we need to smile once in awhile.  But then we could not help ourselves, so here's the sad.  What bothers me is how certain this author makes it seem.  J knows as well as I do, that enough idiots vote in this country to make the sad a reality. 50 million chose McCain-Palin, willingly!  So if there are enough dumass, sums of bitches out there to pick another kit-shicking Texas moron and even dumber Quitter Queen (the new batshade ticket that would literally hit the self-destruct button), that would be as good a time as any to get out.  I have not seen the new Planet of the Apes movie, but maybe that Caesar chimp can run as an independent in 2016?  On a happier note, there won't be much of a country left to lead if all this comes to pass.

and, Scariest

We interrupt our new-found call to action with a depressing analysis (one man's opinion) of the current state of our nation and its democratically-elected leader.  Hey, we've been there: we said 'lover, not fighter', we bought the rope-a-dope style before, benefit of the doubt and all that.  We would still vote for someone smart over someone we can have a beer with, but we can do better.  Let's keep moving, let's change the system so one day, we can show them both what real 'progress' looks like.

On Wisconsin post-script, to turn a phrase: lament the 'playahs', hate the game.

Tinkers to Evers to

no Chance. 

[Modern-day, turned from Taibbi to Rich to Krugman; see our earlier posts.]

Maybe the small sliver of 'hope' remaining here is that enough of us are 'fired up' to find a viable 3rd-party candidate who can restore democracy to its rightful place among humanity's greatest achievements, right up there with fire and TiVo.

Back to the well

We don't check HuffPo anymore, not since the AOL 'merger'.  But occasionally, if something there is linked to something in blogs we do read, we can take a gander.  For example, this.  Agree or disagree? 

We've written plenty in our headier, naive days, about expectations; about how maybe we refused to see what Rachel Maddow and others may have seen all along (Obama as corporate centrist, moderate, etc.); look where we came from to where we are; what Bush hath wrought (he enabled Obama's victory).  We've talked about making history, albeit too briefly, and we've commented on America being an empire in decline.  I guess at this point who cares whether we're right or wrong? 

It's not easy being a leader, globally or in your everyday life.  Like anything, you need to work at it; you need practice and patience to get better at something.  'You fight the fights you can win'; or, 'You fight the fights that need fighting'.  Time to take a stand, set a goal, and get r done.  See you out there.

Scarier?

Just a different kind of scary, but it only matters to those who still cling to seemingly outdated notions of social justice and fundamental fairness ... like us.

Holy Bachshade (June 2011 ed.)

Scary, scary.  What more can we say?