Puffin’s Place

I’ll be returning to this blog regularly very shortly, but did want to jump in for a couple of quick thoughts.

Reading Christpher Hitchens’ God is Not Great recently and want to share a delicious last line: “We have first to transcend our prehistory, and escape the gnarled hands which reach out to drag us back to the catacombs and the reeking altars and the guilty pleasures of subjection and abjection.”

Secondly, a thought directed at Obama backers now glued to media conspiracy hokum and muttering darkly about the President’s performance: He is doing precisely what he said he would do if elected, and we elected him. We knew he was inexperienced in the ways of Washington, and we elected him. We knew Congress to be largely ungovernable when it actually moves at all. We knew the country to be in a mess the proportions of which we could only guess.

Hoe about we let this chap we voted for, supported, and believed in have a chance. Who has the temerity to expect Obama in 50 days to undo the grotesqueries of the past eight years?

Speaking of which, Good on GWB for not taking pot shots at the President. Best to leave that to the media who sustains its 24/7 by hacking plots and intentional evil out of the drab tapestry of indifference, unintelligence, and the capacity to move straight ahead only in moments of feeling absurd.