Have I Mentioned That the Other Fact of Human Nature Is That Human Beings Will Do Almost Anything They See Someone Else Do and Someone Will Do Almost Anything?

Good friend Paleo Jay Dirty Old Arra 101 Bama sends news of gross lack of justice in Vermont. Think on this: one of the most honest to principles progressives I know is pissed a person is unjustly denied the opportunity to go fight in a war the progressive detests.

I know how he feels. I once rode in the backseat of a hurtling jeep doing 85 up 495 along the Delaware River while the driver, a pragmatic progressive, turned his head 180 degrees from traffic to scream at me for worrying about Tea Partiers' civil liberties.

This, brothers and sisters, is the motherfucking root and motherfucking dead-end and motherfucking gift of our motherfucking rubity.

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Robert Hass

I'm not going to go all classical on you, but between Planet's big recital this coming weekend when she's playing fucking Mozart and I need get fucking Mozart out of my head, plus my general mood, here, have one more: