Stupidity Fatigue-JON CARROLL nails it again

If you do not read him you realy should. Not only is he a lefty, a gradfather and a terminal cat lover (pooties!) he can be a really passionate writer. I read him piece tonight and it struck a chord in me. I will quote 3 paragraphs below the fold that seem to express some of my feelings today. please share the love to Mr Carroll, he can't be all bad if he likes cats!

After the FISA deal (hear that sound? that's Gonzo lighting a match to use on the Constitution again) and the taking off the table things they have no right to remove, I got so deressed with Reid once more rolling over for the PNAC party. In any case here is what I see myself going through today;

But all was not copacetic, even there. Three people told me, in the nicest possible way, that while they agreed with the many critical things I had said about the Bush administration, prolonged repetition of that kind of negative rhetoric was not useful.

In other words: We've had enough schadenfreude in the past year. We have seen the mighty fall, or at least resign. We have grasped the nature of the idiocy. What the hell do we do about it? Where do we go from here? You gotta plan, big boy?

I had been toying with the same idea. You've heard of compassion fatigue? I think we have stupidity fatigue. Yet one more administration hack does one more laughably inept or corrupt thing - at first you get mad, and then you want to get beyond the mad. The problems will be there long after the hacks have left town. Yes! Positive thinking! Solutions! And then some fresh outrage comes along, and it's just too awful not to write about - and so it goes.

"Two White Guys Sitting Around Talking,"

•  Tips for da Mutt

  n/t

  by tony the American Mutt on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 01:02:01 AM PDT

•  Who is Jon Carroll?

  You say "we should read him." Link?
  Is he the author of the blockquote in your diary? It says it's what you're going thru today, so are they your thoughts or Carroll's?

  by MyBrainWorks on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 04:52:08 AM PDT

  •  Don't ask!!

    My idea of hell is eternity in a small room with Bush reading me old Jon Carroll columns.
    Its a big day for jon when he can get the neighbor lady to tie his pigtail when his wife's out of town.
    And his 6897 columns on his cat over the last 20 years may have been just a little overdone.
    How about mondegrons: words that sound like each other? Carrolls favorite topic after his cat, he's written hundreds of columns about that too.
    Glad someone finds him intersting--I think he's been there so long only because he's kidnapped Phil Bronstein's dog.

    by exlrrp on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 07:40:02 AM PDT