unfathomable lack of foresight

What is up with the Republicans in the house?!  They are most definitely cutting their noses to spite their faces.  I guess they are just comfortable with the role of looser.  Seriously, instead of extending the payroll taxes a mere two months like their semi-intelligent counterparts in the Senate agreed to, they rather remain in the limelight of a circus whose big tent is sure to collapse over their stupid heads. It is almost unbelievable.

somewhat lonelier

The world seems a little lonelier today that fellow atheist Christopher Hitchens finally lost his battle with cancer and its complications.  For months I’ve been meaning to send him a fan letter thanking him for being so outspoken on the subject of god; a welcome voice in this country so garrulous with what often sounds like meaningless blather on the subject of (a Christian) god.  I guess I lost my chance.

Today, while swimming and thinking that I would never again hear his beautifully accented eloquent English prose vehemently and humorously denouncing or praising this or that, I thought of how final, regardless of one’s legacy, death really is. 

I’ll miss his voice.

delicious irony

What was it that Marx said?  History always repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce...  ...something like that...  

As much as I hate to see the stock market gyrate every time Angela Merkel says something, it is actually funny, not as in "Hah hah", to think of the fate of Europe depending on Germany.  How on earth did they fuck this up?

As the dust settles, a cold new Europe with Germany in charge will emerge

not quite

Dear President Obama, 

You're no Teddy Roosevelt.  That idiot Palin wasn't when "her" media started invoking his name in conjunction with hers; and, most definitely, neither are you.  

...Ghad may this election season end soon!