April 21 and April 28 are two Saturdays that rather perfectly typify the divided America.  On April 21, in Houston, Texas, the nation could observe on placid channels such as C-SPAN the memorial service for First Lady Barbara Bush.  On April 28, Americans could observe the secular homily of fire and brimstone skewering the Republican presidential administration.  The highest of American Idealism contrasts with the ever lower calls to Jacobin depravity. Barbara Bush's most famous rhetorical foray was perhaps her 1990 commencement speech at Wellesley College.  Bush, like so many potential Republican icons before and after her, was vigorously protested by students at the college – demanding that her quaint wife status as first lady be dismissed in favor of a known liberal commodity, Alice Walker.  Despite fierce protests against her, Bush showed up and exuded the grace that was admired beyond the day that she...(Read Full Article)