Bye bye...

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I haven't been saying much in politics lately. If you glance at the Pumpkins posts, this makes sense; I generally only allow myself to post while at work, and I've spent all my posting time on Batman and on my confessional soul.

But if you've been following, this has actually been a pretty momentous week, for the U.S. at least. Domestic automakers, and General Motors may witness on the horizon a crisis of new Chinese exports. If this is true, than they sealed their fate decades ago; the Reagans and Bushes sold them out, but then they'd already sold themselves out. The Supreme Court just agreed that WalMart has as much right to your backyard as you do, so longs as the likes of Mayor Daley or Mayor Williamson (a tenuous comparison, I admit) agree. But let us at least offer a moment of silence for Sandra Day O'Connor who may historically be as big a deal as who Michael Moore christined "Saint Jeffords." And then our president gets up in front of everybody to make a presentation of his own invention. The problem with the Nazi/America comparisons is that they're not true. The problem is that the fact that our policies honestly are less evil than most of the worlds' is a foil against the fact that we could be much better than we are.

And that's that.

PS. Listen to Pink Floyd, but remember that you're an American, after all. Yes, you.

PPS. Listen to Bruce Springstein, then sigh and say, "oh well, at least..."

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