Bedrock & Paradox

Times Select is gone, yeah! Many were the occasions when I thought about dropping coin on that function, and while I don’t regret waiting, it’s fun to flip through backlogs of David Brooks.

I do think they could do a bit better, seeing that the photos make everyone but Maureen Dowd look like a geek.

I still look forward to the continuation of the presidential election, and at the same time fear the old pitfalls of our political system reappearing. Everytime I’ve heard Harry Read on the news in the last month, I lament a valuable political mind set only to finding new ways to twist the knife in the side of the White House. I worry that “my party” (by default) will loose the advantage handed to it by circumstance in political manueavering. I have faith in the intelligence of the public consciousness at large, and I think that overall that entity knows that a problem like Iraq is not as simple as “get out, now”. Bush’s flippancy in entering the war in the first place is echoed, from the other side of the coin, by the Democrat’s use of it as political fodder. Our country is getting deeper into a hole, and it is at least in part the fault of both “sides” of the issue.

Despite all this, a return of Clintonian intellectualism is comforting. Mistakes with which I am more familiar, and comfortable.