This is totally about blogging and how it can help keep you out of trouble, and not about any particular current topic or issue. So, contrast and compare two comments. A Breathless Intertubes Report! That sort of well, uh, didn’t pan out in the actual polls. I’m not picking on JA, I’m just reminding everyone that it’s easy believe the hype, but if there were a simple way to create a “revolution” at the polls it would’ve been done by now.

A different problem here, one that I think really plagues us as progressives. “Life is unfair!” is not the opening line I use to pick up girls or get jobs. And, it distracts our energies from the issue at hand. You make no friends when you essentially lie about ’how bad’ it is for you, and how hard you have to work, when it’s not and you don’t. Or, you do, but so does everyone else. Life is unfair, and thus women and Democrats must stick to pure truth, because even slight misrepresentation comes back to bite us (and never them) on the ass later.

Again I feel like stressing that this is a banana republic now, and when you take developments that way, it all makes a kind of sense. Schlockmeister King introduced me to the saying long ago, “if you can’t afford the game or the zoo, go see a politician!” America is too broke to entertain itself with elephants and circuses these days, so this is what we get instead. Still, real live baboons and actually talented clowns are more interesting, or at least that seem that way to me.