Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I agree, Ken,
>
> & enjoy the occasional rant when it works
>
> but sadly the only sanity saved at this point is yours, not those whose
> sanity is in question.
Under the spreading nutsoid tree....
I was perfectly okay yesterday morning until I read Weinberger's
accretion of horror stories. It reminded me in sheer weight of detail
of the one time I went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in DC: the sheer
weight of those names sledgehammered me. Same with this recitation of
what we have brought to Iraq. NOTHING of Weinberger's--even his
exposure of that snake-oil salesman Chögyam Trungpa's Naropa humiliation
and money machine--or the essay on Kampuchea has ever made me quite so
angry at my own country.
Writing it didn't even make me feel better or save my "sanity." Is
momentary relief the purpose of autoeroticism, even if it's political?
It didn't help. The only thing I got out of it was my first blog entry
in ages; it was even more over-the-top than what I sent to the list. It
is perhaps magical thinking to believe that any of us can stop a runaway
train. No matter; everything this morning was where I left it. I
didn't know until this morning that GWB had delivered his State of the
Union address last night. Would hearing it have made me feel better?
Ken
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