i don't get

the economy, so how can I decide who has the better plan? I can't. I have to trust. I can't.

The one thing polliticians can count on is that I'm unreliable.

Just saw the most interesting bit on Rachel Maddow. A conservative think tanker was just on, and after say that he doesn't like the attitude and behaivor of the Republican party for the last 8 years, and that Maddow's show is the equivelance of the McCain/Palin crowds.

I suppose I can understand what he means, but as usual, the republican is wrong.

He claimed her humor, satire is unadult and sets a low tone or something. Humor. The core we peel from.

Maddow's so good. Never over the line, using humor and satire to point out political issues, not mean, doesn't parse or exergerate or outright lie as I've seen elsewhere.

Humor is based on truth or it's worthless, stupid jokes. That's why good comedy is powerful. It shows us us, gets our attention, explains thigs in easily understandable ways.

It's probably why people get so mad when they're the brunt.

They can eat the children.

Satire of a magnificiant sort. Johanathan Swift, I think. Wrote Gulliver's Travels (make an effort to read it. Fabulous and not anything close to the Disney cartoon.) When the English were starving the Irish, he wrote an essay which suggested that the Irish could eat their children if they're so hungry. He was Irish, I believe. He wrote it to the English.

Humor. Cuts to the core, makes the point, is remembered.

But I understand the think tanker's frustration with the level of Republican discourse. It's lethally unenlightening and often dishonest.
Usually.