So, Paul O'Neil is ratting out the current administration as lying weasels. They in turn claim O'Neil is obviously bitter, and possibly irrational.
Dean is the frontrunner in a race that hasn't had a vote cast, and has great herds of people who will not be running in 30 days attempting to drag him down.
Iraq is either getting better or getting worse, and no one is really sure whether they can tell the difference. Certain people are proclaimed to be not serious because they are said to want to cut and run from Iraq, even though they don't, but the accusers are planning to turn Iraq over to a non-existent Iraqi government this summer, to make things look better before the election, but they are serious people, not those other guys.
The economy is improving because people stopped looking for work. The stock market is up almost exactly the same amount as the dollar is down.
And the media is apparently eternally bored with everything.
People spend a lot of time arguing about whether things are getting better or getting worse, and who gets the credit or the blame.
But no one seems to be discussing the glaring fact that all of this stuff that makes up modern American public interaction is mostly just crap. By that I mean it's not very competent, and doesn't have qualities that would define it as having value.
Crap movies, crap TV, crap media, crap politicians, crap jobs, crap products of every variety imaginable, obviously pale lies in defense of weak policies backed by facile theories and promoted by clueless employees that just do as they are told.
What the hell are people fighting with each other for? Winner gets to be king of the Wal-Mart parking lot RV nation? Money? Well, the dollar just ain't what it used to be.
The United States is starting to smell like an old widowers apartment.
Posted by dglynn at January 13, 2004 12:28 AM