The Cycle

Addressing the Record or Lack thereof ?
Laws bite, unfortunately they take more than one party. 

"Out of step with the best" poetry.*

* insert at best
C3-PO? / FOX ROMANTIC U.S.

Hard to Believe

... Stephen Colbert will testify before congress "in character". But then politicians are always in character, whether they have any or not.** At first my doubt was cast on the source of the claim, but given the nature of events and recent dialogues, it just might work.[*]

[Speaking of working and character, not just being "in character"...this is the other hand. See update.]

[*] just to be clear for the "romantic"*** class(read idealist/radicals): I am saying that for some the Colbert character may get a message across, but for America it is results for which President Obama is working. The "Hard to believe"'s aside.
[**] lame yet balanced segue/pun
[***] or Pawns-or-Kings who think they know better/in disguise(mostly on the Right)

Post Romaticus

The Shelley Game ?

Pax Roman tic us?

Ayn Rand had a brilliant intellect.  Possibly on the scale of Wittgenstein or maybe Mary Shelley or one* of her creations.

[*-2] : A. , B. Two Birds , C. Hard to Believe ,  D. "if I were dictator" , [eh?] FOX ROMANTIC U.S.
[-5].,  R.I.P. [ow]

Reference italics mbedded images. VOX bruticus?

FOX ROMANTIC U.S.

BORROW WITS [?]

For some people the Laffer Curve doesn't ring a bell.

To paraphrase my own poetry of about 50 or more years ago circa FP(fridge post early '60s).

 

Funny,

money,

honey,

bunny.

 

I guess I was an economist and didn't know it.

Ate of 3?

re:FRus prism ? ?

W T F?

X & Y Chromo Somes / Under the Table?

 

 

Or visi goths ?

 

 





"if I were dictator"

Blair loses job. But as far as President of Europe, Blair
"...is increasingly willing to put himself forward for the job if it comes with real powers to intervene in defence and trade affairs."

As far as U.S. and a third party?
"The lesser of two evils...is still evil."

Yeah but, if the lesser is the loser, the greater evil wins. Therefore does it make sense that with Edwards out, and Nader supported Edwards, and with McCain in(?) and Ron Paul is against the war, that there be a Paul/Nader ticket?

Is there another kind of politics or reality?

I'll have to check and get back to you.

[Let me just say that having read 3 of the links here and part of the fourth, I am back to you. My reliance was mostly on the gist I presumed from a quick glance at the articles and maybe where I already wanted to go. I'm not disappointed in where it took me but the pieces are a bit heavy for my fare. In fact the last is a little bit romantic in a horror sort of way, which draws me back to another intersecting thought. The roots of Romanticism in literature being the French Revolution and its libertarianism and egalitarianism. I must also note the hope for goodness in humanity and the scepticism of rationality. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus, comes to mind. A more balanced approach is what I would suggest. Meanwhile I finished another loose end or article not even in this loop. "We are the World" in The Nation takes a look at two books on our place in the world. How ironic that realism was offered as an opposite to the Zeitgist of ideas.]
[2-4-08: undated brackets are same day updates, here I footnote the two books that "We are the World" reviews. A Case for Goliath and A New Deal for the World. What a deal! And harkening back to Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. A word comes to mind: academic. Some are less than academic, but all can become academic, if we don't make the connections of the varied fields.]

Two Birds

Under No Illusions...
or dot com or one stone.
There is no rejoicing in the FOX and the Badger** events, or Beck's* and Walker's travails.

* see FOX under "up"
**recall/recounts
[nor one flock]

[PAST THREE POSTS: Postal and back again.]

[UPDATES]
Friday April 08, 2011
[The Test of Post Links or Leaps.(See under stone above)]
[To parse later: "the world's best hope"..."idealists and pragmatists"..."that the world would improve"..."dissipated in the Romantic"..."secular missionaries"..."the imperial age"..."continued to enlarge". "These then are the antecedents." "Does the U.S. indeed occupy..." "Is it merely our superior military..."

It is unfortunate that the political discourse these days dictates that you can't love your country if you don't believe in its exceptionalism. Such oversimplification is one of the reasons why national campaigns focus on symbolic language instead of substantive problems and the alternative plans candidates propose to resolve them sensibly.

Exceptionalism seems to mean, "We lead, others follow." Instead, let's try: In spite of our commanding power, we lead judiciously by consulting with allies and seeking widely agreed-upon solutions to international crises. Can't America be unique among nations without dictating? That seems to be the true articulation of President Obama’s view of the contested term

speaking of one beak]
[Drawing the line.]

Blue Badge of Perry

OK, I must first thank Rachel Maddow. 
Under "a plea of not guilty". 
To pun on Red Badge of Courage,
there is an inversion of sorts.
I must next thank Acme Coyote.* 




Let alone Dawn Key[!] ~


[~]Or Moon E-tunes.
Re:ep 


* The New Wave ,
And now a few words... ,
FOX ROMANTIC U.S.