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“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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Cue Dennis Leary “Voices in My Head”.
I don’t know if any of you remember the blogger Cathy Seipp, who passed away from cancer in 2007, but she was on a show with this knob when he went off on her–yelling, leaning in, being intimidating, the whole set. Wow, what guts, he treated a petite female cancer patient to a threat display. There was a situation which called for a chasmatician.*
Where have you gone, Chasmatic
A nation turns its’ lonely eyes to you (woo woo woo)”
*chas•ma•ti•cian (chăs-mə-tĭsh′ən)
noun
A person skilled or learned in punching people in the mouth who rate it.
Yes, the “Maverick” McCain exhibited even more volcanic eruptions in his lifelong burial of MIA’s.
Chasmatician, wow. High standard. Fitting tribute for that Spiller of Soup.
I was telling someone about Chasmatic just the other day. He is missed.