The sun is rising. Perhaps the Ode can be read read as a service in reverence to a natural life? If you do not have a 1926, R.J. Cook publisher's translation, it can be found on the holy Google black list 'liberal' book.

Open and leaf via the pages and read at eye level. Leave a thumb-print at the mid-bind 'thread' mark section.

~*~ read to a friend. read to a Red Breast Robbin. read into our soul. yesterday, I watched one male red bird observe hundreds of red breast 'winged' creatures hop from a distance. Wing-words that I certainly could not decipher seemed to flow from the lonely male bird. I did notice 'we' both watched with an...amazement.

Ode on a Grecian Urn--- Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst ye' express a flowery tail more sweetly t'an our rhyme; What leaf-fringed legend haunts about my shape of deities or mortal, or of both...

(You got to read the whole...I'm skipping.)

continue:...What mad pursuits? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?...

...Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

...More happy loose! more happy, happy love!

...*'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--- that is all

Ye know on earth, an all ye need to know.'*

Enough.

A wish a happy day. We deserve to be happy. O, happy day in spite of the authoritarian base...

I grew up in the forties and fifties and right-wingers then were known as "the lunatic fringe," you know, the ones who thought putting fluoride in drinking water was a communist conspiracy. While we were all out smoking grass and communing with nature they got hold of the keys to the asylum and headed for DC where they are now acting out their delusions of paranoia and grandeur.

I had to smile at the March excellent 'thought' by meta data.

Meta data wrote of the RWA mind as hard to reason with. Meta data mentioned "how difficult it is to speak with a RWA, you either sink into the morass of their distortions, or change the topic to fishing or something."

Amen. Then I thought about Paul's mention of pulling a hen's tooth...I could not add a wiser and more pleasant analogy...but on Sunday's I often go to a rainbow trout stocked lake...It's like trying to let a snagged fish off the hook trying desperately to Not cut the trout's lips or pull a wisdom molars out with a # 10 rusty whale hook? or something.

Perhaps the RWA's dentist extracted their 'wisdom' molars? It's humanly possible. or, just brush and floss bugs bunnies bucked teeth with fluoride tooth paste before you give a RWA bunny a kiss?

Who will come over to my 18 X 20 hemlock guest-house shack where I live alone and please

mentor me about how to 'cut and paste? I am going to read a Wa/Po comic section and throw the Cotton Candy Tooth-Rag into a 'lake of fire' if news-articles scribes try to lie to 'we people.' okay.

correction: a misspelled love earlier. Loose Love? yea! Ah! have hope and joy anyway. Where can I find Ms Ricky Lee Jones? dial..1- 800 - e-com. spirit-two-heehaw-2-2-o. okay? me know how to use a cell phone. Seriously. Throw cell phones in a lake. Sue Law-crook-Firm of Peter Angelos. Watch Oriole Birds and do not go to the ball park. Stay away from authoritarian crazies. I must visit those cute little baby chick-peeps I gave my grandaughters yesterday. She plays with peeps 12-hours a day. "Pa Pa--O, there so cute," she says to me a tillion times (no hyperbole?) over and over, non-stop. Yes. No stop loving. okay.

I just finished reading the MYDD article linked to in the Greenwald post.

One little point - if the typical RWA typically submits to authority, then what explains the Clinton years?

WT sed:The problem with folks like Michael Ledeen and Glenn Reynolds isn't that they're authoritarians per se, it's that they're stark raving mad...

I don't know if they are mad, but their positions are inconsistent, contradictory, unreasoned, illogical. Arguing with them, or the trolls here, is like arguing with a random numbers generator. GG can point out their inconsistencies, hypocracy, dishonesty, etc., until the cows come home. They will not change. The trolls here will not change.

Regarding the trolls who habitually comment here, arguing with them is a waste of time. They comment here because they enjoy the fuss. The contrariness of the activity is what amuses them. But in the many months I've observed this space, I have not seen any growth or positive outcome from arguing with these individuals. It is all just sniping and snapping, leading to nothing.

Shooter- The truly wonderful part is the Altemeyer categories describing most of humanity.

Liberal - You haven't read it at all. Otherwise you wouldn't make that mistake. You're simply picking up on the name.

Very true, so I've read all of Rosenberg's comments for this thread. Sorry, no changes in my critique. This is just another, more academic sounding version of "liberals are smarter than conservatives." Yet for all the laudatory language of how a four dimensional solution is superior to a two dimensional solution, no solution is offered at all. It's just another political broadside bashing conservatives. Or perhaps it's so nuanced that we "lower beings" and the enemy for that matter just don't recognize "solutions" when offered. Heh.

And that brings up the inherent problem with nuance. If the enemy doesn't respond to it, what good is it? The current case in point being Iran's telling the UN to get lost regarding their nuclear program. What else do the cognitively superior have to offer? Sending Pelosi to legitimize the power that invaded Lebanon and killed it's political opponents? No wonder the Iranians let the Brits go. They see who is winning and it's not us.

Is it superior to surrender the field of battle while losing? Fundamentalists won't care, they will have won. Meanwhile, the superior intellects haven't come up with anything better to address our problems than "Run Away!". You can put lipstick on the proverbial pig, but it still won't make muslim grocery store clerks in Minnesota scan packages of pork. LOL.