I stopped blogging for the last half year. I just got involved with other things, especially starting a business, and I felt like I needed the break. It’s a new year, the Divine Comedy continues, and its time to start up again. So many things have happened that would be impossible to create in fiction as they would be too far-fetched.
Americans are so frightened that a Jew putting on tefillin on an airliner is seen as a suicide bomber fumbling with detonating wires driving the crew to make a precautionary landing to disarm the terrorist. Take that Osama!
This President, who has been the target of truly bizarre and irrational attacks by the Tea Party movement among others, has decided to outdo those tea-baggers by trying to organize his own lynch mob to go get the bankers. We know he’s too intelligent to believe what he’s saying, so he must be feeling very desperate to sink so low so fast. The market took one look and promptly dropped a few hundred points.
The Congressional Democrats (is the right metaphor for them “circular firing squad” or “circle jerk”?) have really outdone themselves this time. Or rather convinced even their most diehard supporters that they can’t in fact do anything. That may be better than letting the Republicans do what they want to do, but in our “Do something, even if it’s wrong” culture, it’s a losing brand.
