"Alone Again Or" - Calexico (Cover of a song by "Love" back from the summer of love.)
Speaking of which, who have you curb stomped today?
It's hard to keep up with all of the right wing thuggery -- I was suggesting to a journalist friend of mine the other night that the Joe Miller campaign's "arrest" and handcuffing of a reporter might be worthy of a column of condemnation. She looked at me like I was insane -- what is there to say about it was her response. Mmmm -- I don't know -- I guess it's an utterly routine event when private security goons hired by a likely to be U.S. Senator detain and handcuff a journalist covering a campaign event. And the fact that one of those security guards is an active duty member of the armed forces. Well, I guess that just makes it even more unremarkable.
I am at the point where I can't wait for the mid-terms to be over. I just want to see the damage done and think about where it leaves us. I feel like there isn't much more to be said. I think it's incredibly important that people go out and vote against this right wing madness, but my hopes are fairly minimal at the moment.
Sorry for my total lack of presence. I have been in Louisville, Memphis, Nashville and Chicago over the last sixteen days and am heading to Tampa on Friday. I am barely keeping my head above water, personally and professionally -- the fact that there is nothing much good to write about isn't helping either.
One good aspect to all of the airplane travel is that it gave me a chance to read Andrew Bacevitch's "Washington Rules" about which more later -- I highly recommend that everyone pick up a copy and give it a read. It's a really important, compelling, and well constructed argument against the sixty-plus year Washington consensus in favor of military violence as a means of solving foreign policy issues.
What's of interest to you today?
