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Every time I try to write about something, something else intrudes that is even worse. Whether it's the wholesale looting of the American treasury & infrastructure, the revelations that the United States supports advocates torture & unlimited detention w/o charge of even American citizens, or the idea that if one does not agree with & wholeheartedly support the idea that "if the president does it, that means it's not illegal", one is by definition someone who 'hates America' and 'loves the terrorists', I am so appalled by what is going on around me I find it impossible to write about such things.

Of course, as always, something even uglier lurks around the corner. Assuming there is an election next November, one that is not stolen, and a Democrat, probably Obama, takes the White House next January, will it all change? Change in the sense that suddenly the rule of law matters once again, that the press has an obligation to confront? That we will see endless investigations in Congress & in the press of the slightest Democratic transgressions, real or imagined, after all the current Republicans are safely pardoned and ensconced in their think tanks & executive boardrooms? Remember, once upon a time, Phil Gramm was a Democrat...

I made a commitment when I started this weblog, a commitment I intend to keep, at least for now.