Things To Come

Mike McGinn wants to be mayor of Seattle, and in the process, people are going to get a close-up and personal look at Sierra Club politics. It's about the worst thing that could have happened to the Sierra Club.

I say that as one with an heirloom fondness for the Sierra Club, but increasing questions as to how much of my life I would want them to control. More and more I'm thinking it would be, like, None.

People have wondered for a long time why we get old and die. Right now I'm leaning towards the "build-up of toxins" train of thought.

Dick Cheney and Jack Kennedy

John F. Kennedy famously read the NYT in ten minutes every morning. Of course, he used a trick- his knowledge that the NYT, aside from leaning far to the right, was simply a mish-mash of the conventionall knowledge from unattribued sources. Knowing the topic, Kennedy could synopsize the story as though he'd read it.

Cheney operated in much the same way. Having learned that almost everyone around him was poorly educated and almost brain-dead, he easily bullied and manipulated them, confident in their inferiority. Almost nobody felt sure enough of themselves to contradict him or quit in disgust.

That's the secret of the upper classes. They're stupid and got their positions the old fashioned way- their fathers called in favors. And a giant among them is, for better or worse, a giant.

From A Friend In Colorado

Me- Bad Blogger

Yes, I never post- here. But you can google me! And if you do, you'll find my salty comments at the blogs of much better bloggers! It's like me, with substance.

And this was a good post, right?

Crying 'Fire' in a Crowded Theater

For thirty years reforming marijuana prohibition was not the kind of liberalization that could be allowed to people like you or me. So our "leaders" screamed hysterically about the dangers of pot, causing the deaths of millions and the imprisonment of tens of millions.

But it was easy enough to repeal the banking regulations that kept this country prosperous between 1945 and 1980. Wham, bam, and thank you ma'am, and our prosperity flew out the window and into the Swiss bank accounts of 1% of our population.

I try to keep my faith in what we call "democracy" but it ain't easy.

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