October 31, 2006

It's Your Party, and You'll Cry If You Want to

By Selwyn Duke
To still the siren of the heart and defer to the head is to seldom be wrongly led. So many wrong things feel so right.  'You know, I really told my brother—in—law off the other day and, boy, did it feel good.'  Of course, what has changed?  Your brother—in—law is still the pain he always was.  One change, though, is that now your family politics has descended into the abyss. This occurs to me when I hear my political soulmates talk of sitting on their hands this election cycle.  I hear pundits and plebeians both make pronouncements about how we have to 'clean house' and teach the straying Republican Party a lesson.  'Why, we'll show 'em!  Take us for granted, will you!' Now, perhaps my grasp of the principles of hygiene is flawed, but my understanding is that you can't clean a house by replacing the dust with toxic waste.  So, let's see if we can learn a lesson here today. I'm as disappointed in the liberal...(Read Full Article)