Awestruck

Again from The Cunning Realist: We'll see where this goes. So far the reaction has been underwhelming. I'm beginning to think if we learned tomorrow that an asteroid was about to destroy the planet, the story would come in a sleepy third to Paris Hilton and breaking news on Beijing's air quality. If Suskind's revelation elicits little more than a national and congressional yawn, Thomas Mann probably explained it best: The market woman who demanded in a dry tone "one hundred billion" mark for a single egg had lost during inflation her ability to be amazed at anything. Since that time nothing was so mad or so atrocious that it could have caused any awe in people anymore. Again, inflation is simply a symbol for any period of profound institutional failure to which the public becomes inured. We all know what national, socialistic, workers' Party Mann was talking about, right? And how the German Nation did not respond to the horrors of it all. Well,...I am not sure how to say this. The threads of my thoughts seem to float like shining webs in the morning dew. Here goes: Never, never, never in my life did I ever expect to see an American Veteran who had bravely served his country to be as thoroughly disrespected as was John Kerry in the presidential election of 2004. And by the Republican Party, of all people! Never! If power tends to corrupt, observe the absolute corruption of the Republican Party. I always thought we were sort of entering an era when one had to be a veteran to even be able to run for preseident; a veteran and rich. Then I saw even serving one's country can be turned to compost. Brave soldiers, men and women, would never treat each other in that manner. They may disagree greatly, but they would never stoop to doing what that miserable group of carpetbaggers and scallywags, under the direction of Rove, the "lardass" leader, did to a fellow soldier or sailor.