Let me get the pleasantries out of the way quickly. I've been lurking here for a few months now, really enjoy the quality of writing and discussion here, finally decided it was time to quit splashing around in the shallow end and jump in. So here goes with my first diary.
My wife and I were having a discussion the other day about the current state of affairs in the US, and something really jumped out at me. There were a lot of parallels to the old story of the tortoise and the hare. In the past, however, we were usually the tortoise, but these days, we seem to be the hare. Follow me over the fold to see if this analogy is going to hold up to more scrutiny.
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