Saturday, July 18, 2009
LONG TIME NO SEE
I've been taking one of the longest breaks ever from my blog. There have been lots of reasons for this. I've been preoccupied at work and and with other non-work pastimes, and it's summer, so there's plenty to do away from the computer. But more important, I've tried (unsuccessfully) to turn my attention away from "the big world." Watching the unrelenting disaster as our so-called leaders have applied precisely the wrong prescription to the maladies that afflict our society has been so horrifying that it's been frankly unhealthy for me to pay too much attention to the world. But I can't turn away. Like creeping past the scene of a terrible road accident, I feel terrible for doing what everyone else is doing -- slowing to stare at the blood -- but I do it anyway. As I commented to some friends the other day, if you made this stuff up in a novel, it wouldn't be credible: No government could be so corrupt and incompetent, especially one that had come to power on a critique of corruption and incompetence. But it's really that bad -- and getting worse every day.
So, let's see ... with that theme for an inaugural post returning to blogging, let's take a look at a few illustrations of just how absurdly bad things are:
Get it?
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:31 AM
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