As much as I hate the process, the presidential campaign is compelling. After all, whoever gets through this gets a chance to run a great nation right at the moment in history when it looks like it has “Fall of Rome II: The Wrath of the Con” written all over it. Why someone would want the job, I don’t know, but one of these players will be our next President.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Happy Talk
Watching coverage of the Iowa caucuses, and the speeches each candidate is obliged to give the cameras, I am reminded of an old-timey American tradition. No, it has nothing to do with great leaders of the past; their stately images seem long gone. The process reminds me much more of the Golden Age of Cartoons, from the 1930s.
Cold and Warm
The morning starts with darkness all around us, a cold and unfriendly darkness that makes the warm dreamworld of bed hard to leave behind. There is no indication that we have to get up other than the clock. Nature tells us to snuggle down like bunnies under the porch, but the electromechanical whirl of time says we must get up. It must be obeyed.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 