The Far Kingdom     March 22, 2013

            The far faction of the right offers America mighty alternatives to the current administration’s pseudo-populism:  character assassination, conspiracy fantasies, Dickensian austerity, and single-minded self righteousness.  You do what you think is best.  I’ll just let them drape themselves with fringe and hunker around the dim fires of talk radio, B.S.T.V., and other less mentionable places.  You know, where the “N” word is never spoken but energizes all the ridiculous rhetoric that calls our President everything from a Nazi to a Communist to the anti-Christ.  Clearly he means a great deal to these statesmen-like beacons of reason.  They, who also coin clownish criticisms of Pelosi and Reed, but never “spend a penny” on the really disgusting among congressional bigots and obstructionists.

            Obama certainly hasn’t been a perfect president.  Name one who has!  But gotcha politics have so hindered government that many wonder about the wisdom of the two-party system.  Sadly, while factions are busy fighting each other, big banks, tax cheats, corporations, polluters and lobbyists are running away with our wealth and our future.  So if you listen to poison purveyors for any other reason that to keep from falling to sleep, you may be part of the problem. 

Around here, we believe that in order for us ordinary folks to succeed, Right and Left have to come together in the middle.  It’s a damned nasty thought, but we have to march together to keep from getting screwed…more.  It might even help our grandkids!    

UPDATE:  Dear U.S. Postal Service        March 22, 2013

            Congress has decreed that the USPS may not discontinue Saturday delivery.  While that may make some remotely rural constituents happy, it is overshadowed by the ridiculous congressional requirement that the Postal Service must fund its retirement program SEVENTY FIVE YEARS IN ADVANCE.  The untold truth is that lots of wealthy city folks will become even wealthier if the USPS fails and its huge package revenue goes to private vendors.  They have apparently purchased the allegiance of congress, or this stupid requirement would never have passed in 2006, nor would it have subsequently survived.  This should adequately show everyone that besides Postal executives, the only people less qualified to make the Service succeed have been elected to congress.