Letters to the Editor
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Their own reality
to the point that they have created their own reality or ability to see the “truth” nobody else can.
The more I observe of the human condition the more convinced I am that we are all "creating our own realities" as we go and that our world would look very different if our vision of it weren't filtered through the story-lines that we use to divide the world up into managable chunks. The main difference I see between so called Liberals and Conservatives is the degree to which those story-lines include the viewpoints of people who are outside of one's own self-identification.
Stated more simply, it is the total lack of empathy for outsiders which is driving the conservative movement in this country. I'm thinking and hoping that most people have had quite enough.
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The Crackpot Formerly Known as Dick Cheney
Yeah. My hope is that he can hang on to just enough sanity so that he's ruled fit for trial.
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Paul,
So, now you see young Grasshopper!
But seriously, there is a difference in kind between different cultural systems. There are open systems, with the finest examplar being science. These are systems that assume doubt, and build tranformation/revolution into themselves. And there are closed systems: see any religion. In these cases, all essential truth is assumed known. Any empirical evidence is judged solely in light of its conformance to ideology, so anything simply confirms the system.
Most "philosophical" systems, systems that come from introspection or revelations (two sides of the same coin), have that problem. Conservatism, by its nature, assumes the primacy of tradition and authority, so by its very own definition is closed.
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It's good luck to leave your hat in the Salon, right?
My chores are complete.
Who was that contemptuous # ten drunk who yelled at me earlier? "Don't let the barn door wacko yuze'arse on the way out?" huh! I left the door open for the Neonate barn animals to come in/out, and to and fro, as usual.
I tried to not slam the screen door shut. Neocon Neurons think-tank-cell groups stink. There is no doubt about that if you have survived to this moment in America. Words fail me when I conjure a image of unsavory Dick's ilk. It's not a benevolent thought I entertain, but, it's more like a unmentionable something in a purification stage. I'd say, do not, do not, don't serve dry-pure 100% distilled alcohol in Lowe's, Haliburton, Home-deport, or k-mart stores anymore.
A Raj-martini on the holy Moses-rock is okay, but no where here in the Salon...por favour, please serve.! ?
Lately, or is it just me, no comment, it's look-in' like unsmooth nasty disposition manifestations...here...Ah! I remember, I came back Visa the back door look-in' for my 'good luck' hat. Woe, a life can be as one day condensed into one moment, it's said. It's been said by many 'commenter's' in multitude of ways/a'de-various fashions, we see here. 'We wake, we suffer, we hobble, we eat, we____ who knows where and what else (?) and at sundown the curtain drops/falls...The Night does come. Life is a day. Each day is a mini death, then, and have no doubt about 'it,' we all take a WILD WEST ride into the sunset. A plunge into the unknown, as Mr resident' suggested, I even agree---Then, we are no more...' Be ready if it's the 'real wild' west, figurative, or WHATEVER... Dark critters do haunt the air. When all the vague surmise has ended, and a soul ascends/descends, a candle's flickers. A candle light in the dark seems to whisper a 'riddle' and shines the brightest, and very clearly...if prepared and ready, at Life's end... Then, it's over!?... I guess we gotta' wait to find out? Now, if that guy who said, 'Hope the the Salon door slam and wacky 'ya...'on your way out is still here...
...I say, 'Life, as we understand 'it,'...It might be true, we did not choose it, we here...Comma, coma, or we can mend 'it,'...or...we can ruin 'it,'...or...we can mend 'it,'...or...we can take 'it,'...or...Ah!
We only surmise we have a say when we get to say a howdy or a hearty farewell.' Death may answer the questions we fiddle and debate with here in the terrestrial? To argue and try to convince me/you the difference between a barn and a Salon is useless. Now, door is to be open/shut? Toilet seat, up/down? Who cares?
When does happy hour begin here? Who's turn to buy-shot-rounds? I am non-repentant 'bout coming back for a double-shot of a batch of imported distilled # Ten-brand gin. I'll pick up my straw hat and leave when I will damn get kicked-out, for cussing or something. This tavern is a goof hacky-barroom.
It's a public square. Any one can crawl here. I'm convinced. IF 'evil' King Herod, Kimball, or aOreilly yuze talkin' 'bout here, is present, I wish to invite 'umzinto night's fresh air to talk about who is brain-jar-jugged? Who gout's brain snake-rattles clunking sounds disturbing our calm? We come and go and say farewell. Scram! okay. Where is my hat and please lead me to the damn swinging door? O, is it a damn rightly/loosely, lefty/ nutty, sage/fool, or wise/idiot? I forget.
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and here
I thought that Martin Bormann would be much older by now.
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At 12:12 Glenn said...
I apologize Glenn, for slobbering like a 'rightly.'.!.?.
It was that dark mood you inspired in the original post. Can I blame someone? I blame me. The "senior administration official," indeed, is dark. You are a candle flickering bright in the dark. Benevolent.
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Dan Ackroyd, where are you?
I kind of wish Dan Ackroyd was young enough to play a demented Cheney on SNL. Alas.
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How can reporters be required to do anything?
When did anybody from the government get the right to "require" any reporter to do anything? When did it become standard for government to automatically be considered "anonymous" at all times, even when releasing public press releases? And why in hades are the media buying into this crap? What will the white house do, cut off Newsweek? The New York Times? If they do, will anybody actually lose anything worthwhile? The American media seem to have decided that they are dependent on the government for their stories, instead of the government being dependent on them to get the story out. This must stop. When you get to the point that the vice-president of the United States can hold a press conference, discussing what he thinks and what he said, and still be considered anonymous, it's just gone too far. There is no excuse for anonymity here. He certainly doesn't need protection for anything he is saying.