My very first blog entry ("The State of the Union Speech Is Tonight")

[SteppingRazor]

  I posted my first blog entry over ay myspace.com today. I'm very proud. :toast:

The State of the Union speech is tonight
Current mood: quixotic
Category: News and Politics

Why take up an hour and a half or more, and force these overpaid rats in Congress to do a standing ovation every five minutes? The State of the Union can easily be summed up in three words: mean and stupid.

Almost the entire country has turned mean, stupid, or mean-stupid, and we are all poorer for it. Most of us are convinced that the obliteration of Iraq is a just and good thing, and George W. Bush's approval rating stands at an unbelievable 42 percent. In any sane, well-informed world, he would already have been tarred, feathered, and catapulted into the Potomac.

And yet I, and many others like me, will sit at a bar tonight, or perhaps in their homes, or wherever else they can commiserate with like-minded souls, and try to wrap their minds around the fact that, in this century, the Post-American Century, the great journalist H.L. Mencken's grim prophesy, written in the July 26, 1920 edition of the Baltimore Sun, has finally come to pass:

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

Res ipsa loquitor. We all get what we deserve.

[satya]

1. Congrats! You write well; keep it up. We need more voices like yours.nt

[SteppingRazor]

2. Thanks! I'm going to try to update at least every weekday...

Though I imagine I may slip into laziness here and there