Must read - great points here, link to Hal Crowther article in....

[NRaleighLiberal]

the Independent, a lefty free paper in the RTP NC area.

http://indyweek.com/durham/2004-10-27/hal.html

Article is called The Homecoming

Part of the first paragraph -

"With the world watching anxiously, and often with horror, Americans have flailed and fumbled our way to the end of one of the most critical presidential campaigns in the nation's history. Apparently the strategy was to bury the electorate under such a landslide of irrelevancy, pseudodrama, mischief and misdirection that bewildered voters would slip into mental gridlock and obey some Pavlovian command as simple as a road sign. Macbeth's idiot never told a tale that seemed to signify so little. To keep your head in such a rout of reason, you have to ignore nine-tenths of the media menu and somehow view the whole carnival from a great distance", ...(snip) -

check the link and read it all - I am sure most if not all of us resonate (or is it Resignate!) with his points...

[NJCher]

1. resignate

that's what Chimpy will be doing real soon.




Cher

[shraby]

2. With Trembling Fingers..another Hal Crowther article

and one of the best. It was written right after the info about Abu Ghraib came out.

<http://www.populist.com/04.10.crowther.html>