Beiden, Smashing Pumpkins, Werewolves
Jeremy Clarkson said: “Nowadays people wear their stupidity like a badge of honor. Knowing how to play chess will get your head kicked off. Reading a book with no pictures in it will cause there to be no friend requests on your Facebook page.”
Jeremy was speaking about Great Britain in his piece written for the Online Times.
It would be very easy with a few changes to make this a piece about the United States. I wouldn’t do that since, look what happened to Joe Biden after he plagiarized a speech that had been given by the head of the British Labour Party. We rewarded Beiden with the Vice Presidency.
Someone recently labeled us the United States of Entertainment. That is not far from the truth. Quiz people about any aspect of our nation’s beginnings or governing documents and 9 out of 10 times a vacant stare will be the answer given. Question the origins of The Smashing Pumpkins alternative rock band and you are more likely to get an answer than if you asked about the origins of the Constitution of the United States.
We are about to get a Health Bill with which no one fully agrees with and no one has yet read. Our legislators ignore the pleas of those who are worried about their actions. They recognize that much of America now like Great Britain wear their stupidity as a badge of honor (honour in Britain). In a different time the peasants would be storming the halls of governance with burning torches and pitchforks as in the old Frankenstein movies. Those Transylvanians knew when to take action when medical practices created a monster.
This administration is patching spare parts of specious reasoning together and calling it Change. There is no question that there is change. The only thing lacking in D.C. is the cry of The Werewolf.. That cry of the wolf might be the task of Olympia Snow at midnight when the Heath Plan Changes are enacted. Lon Chaney isn’t needed to play the parts of the horror show that is being scripted these days. Nancy, Harry and Rahm have won the parts. The only thing lacking is Abbott and Costello to show up and provide comic relief. No relief of any kind is on the horizon and comic relief is not in the talent pool of this administration’s drama team.
The population is too busy with Smashing Pumpkins to (figuratively speaking) take to the street with pitchforks and flaming torches demanding that voices of reason be heard.
I guess I found the answer. It may be that reason and interest has been lost from our national character or at best we are simply sleeping through this act of the play.
Meantime the Springsteen shows sell out in minutes, months before their performance?
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