I just want to come out of semi-retirement to give everybody a group hug... I am at once saddened but very happy for Meteor Blade's announcement today that he is stepping down... it will leave a huge early morning hole in my heart, but I know enough of him from his writing that he has taken his involvement to another plane in the real world... he is my hero, and we should all strive to follow his example.
This comes, unfortunately, at a time when we all have every right to feel down after coming up short in Wisconsin. I say to you... feel sad, but... make it only bittersweet melancholy, relish it, and steel yourselves for the battle ahead... with the faith that even the reddest of our brothers will eventually see reason... it will happen... but it largely depends upon us if it occurs too late...
To promote a bit of catharsis, I will leave you with a song from my adolescence. I get a bit of goose flesh when I drag the lyrics into the year 2011 with the sad triangulations of red vs blue and whatnot:
Crystal Blue Persuasion
Tommy James and the Shondells
Look over yonder what do you see
The sun is a-risin' most definitely
A new day is comin' people are changin'
Ain't it beautiful crystal blue persuasion
Better get ready gonna see the light
Love, love is the answer and that's all right
So don't you give up now so easy to find
Just look to your soul and open your mind
Crystal blue persuasion, mm-hmm
It's a new vibration
Crystal blue persuasion, crystal
Blue persuasion
Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
Every green field and every town
All of his children every nation
There'll be peace and good brotherhood
Crystal blue persuasion
Crystal blue persuasion.....
I am both saddened and proud that I will be an official Badger in October. You better believe that I will cast my new vote... no matter the obstacles thrown in my way... to overthrow the the entire concept of Fitzwalkerstan.
Despite new job responsibilities, I daresay that Scott Walker will rue the day that I first used Photoshop...
Feel Good, my beloved DKos... it will get better... you have no idea!