Comments on: Dad Tells It on the Mountain

By: Ominous Rabbit

Ominous Rabbit — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:15:37 +0000

Hallelujah! Sing it, at the top of your lungs! Out proud, out loud!

The bastards seem to have forgotten that we’re the people who got them into office. And their stupid decisions (or lack thereof) are rendering the best parts of this place null and void.

Blargh.

By: Carol Park

Carol Park — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:52:32 +0000

Amen. Enough with these “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (“Then let them eat brioche.”)idiots. When I think of the Health Care debacle, the 5 Justices supporting Corporations as citizens with a right to vote with money, topped with UAV drones killing Afghan citizens (women and children) – just for starters – my head hurts and I want to pack my bag. To where? Where is the Revolution? Why aren’t people in the streets? Are we too busy, too apathetic, too tired? I sign online petition after petition – to no avail. It’s just one big cluster fuck. Sorry, I’m perturbed.
Loved your response, Charles. Anger – great motivator.
Haven’t read “Death Becomes Us” yet – will.
Let the love and light in.

By: Ominous Rabbit

Ominous Rabbit — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:15:43 +0000

Seriously, and Amen, sister! Tell it on the mountain! Raise your voice to the sky!

By: Ominous Rabbit

Ominous Rabbit — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:14:50 +0000

Curmudgeon! You old crank! No, I think the state of education is part and parcel of the medical debate; education for the wealthy and everyone else can fend for themselves. Medical coverage for the wealthy, and everyone else can just eat it.

When did we lose the ear of our government? Why are we just shouting into the void? Everyone knows it’s a shambles but no-one seems to be willing to take a chance on something new. It’s all duct-tape and baling wire as usual, until the whole contraption will fall apart in a huge explosion and we are all pulled down with it.

By: Sarah Irvine

Sarah Irvine — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:01 +0000

Well, Charles, I can only sputter alongside you. If it were not for my government-run and excellent supplemental insurance, I would indeed be bankrupt after two $50,000 surgeries within the past few years. Where is the love? For each other in our communities? When did it become politically expedient to be mean-spirited and short-sighted? Grumble, grumble, sputter, sputter.

By: Dad

Dad — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:52:23 +0000

Dear Q, Thanks for disseminating my rant to all the loyal followers of the vaguely menacing bunny. I did feel the need to get some stuff off my chest after I read through the comments on your piece via The Nervous Breakdown. It seemed to me that much of it was just ill-considered, badly parsed and totally unsupported knee-jerk opinion–nothing I would have been able to give a passing grade to as an essay exam or term paper topic, back in the day when such things still mattered to me. I’m not sure if these perceived deficiencies in reasoning are properly ascribed to the authors, or more appropriately blamed on the abysmal state of education, at every level, in the USA. I’m surprised that no one has publicly stated something that seems apparent to me, namely that it is in the interest of our power-grubbing political entities to ensure that, unlike the Jeffersonian model of an educated citizenry able to make soundly reasoned judgments on their own, the goal is to keep the electorate as ignorant and stupid as possible so they can be more easily hoodwinked. This is the true intent of NCLB (No Child Left Behind), to make sure that every child remains as dumb as every other child. Or is this just my inner curmudgeon rising gasping and sputtering to the surface? Love, Dad