Feeling mildly slighted by Devilstower in this otherwise excellent piece on small town values, I’ve been here at the ranch, mentally composing my first diary entry—a defense of traditional rural values and a case for Barack Obama as the champion of traditional American values.
With increasing frustration as I tried to cram the issues of modern politics into this idyllic metaphor, I finally came to realize that I hear so much bullshit these days I can’t possibly wade through it all: our food is poisonous, our natural resources are wasted, our financial system is floating on worthless derivative paper, our schools and health are failing, Orwellian Newspeak masquerades as balance, our military tortures prisoners, our treasury is insolvent and our Judiciary is enslaved.
Whew.
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