“. . . the crisis in Washington today stems from a man intellectually and temperamentally unequipped to rise to the challenge. Most of us sense that when, decades from now, the story of this administration comes out, it will be one of ordinary incompetence, of rigid and incurious people overwhelmed by events in a world they don't dare look around and see.” The Little Man by Garrison KeillorIf you think Garrison's just a woofin, see Patti's The Bad Smell of the Budget. and Is This Who We Really Are? and "The Politics of Science"
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Garrison Keillor is a perhaps the most important voice in the country today. Virgil is a close second.
orin. you are right of course. garrison and virgil are informed, thoughtful and brave americans, the kind we need more of. makes me proud to be an american.
orin and bruce-
you two truly recognize the best we have. where would this country be without brave, courageous patriots like virgil and garrison. where are the other brave americans who will tell the public that the emperor has no clothes. you go virgil!
look, virgil is a great guy but this is not about him but rather how mediocre our current leadership happens to be. Oh, but if only we had a person of Virgil's caliber -- one who is intelligent, with integrity and a selfless concern for the welfare of the governed, moderate in his bevavior and learned in the arts and humanities, the type of politician that plato might envision. but alas, i digress we are stuck with dick and georgie.
Bruce:
Virgil and I have had our differences, but I was with ye at Bannockburn, and if you're at his side, so am I. All our leaders from the Bush-Cheney Chicken Hawks to the lilly livered Democrats who forsake their duty to keep their jobs, could learn from us. As the Bard later quoted ye:
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!. . .
Freeman stand, or freeman fa'? . .
By oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
I'll be proud to serve with ye again and even with Virgil the Irishman for the cause.
Pat:
I'm unworthy to be called brave by you, but thank you. I feel like I've been joined by Cuchulainn himself.
Angel:
I’m especially honored by your support. You’ve always set such high standards for those that you befriend. Thank you.
Orin:
I didn't know who you were until I saw Angel's post. Let's get together and throw some ice back in the machine for old time's sake.
Angus:
Thanks to Scotland's finest. I apologize if I've treated you baaaadly.
I, thanks to Angel, now know who you are too, Orin. I grieved while you spent 6 solid weeks with her in a Holiday Inn. You treated me like a virus. She finally got smart, dumped you, and married one of my best friends and defenders. As a sage recently suggested in a different context, you “might want to take a look at Proverbs 26:27. (King James Version)”
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