Watching The Debate This Afternoon

Sure Enough, As Merger Has Followed Merger, Journalism Has Been Driven Further Down The Hierarchy Of Values In The Huge Conglomerates That Dominate What We See, Read And Hear. And To Feed The Profit Margins Journalism Has Been Directed To Other Priorities Than "the News We Need To Know To Keep Our Freedoms"

They're Counting On Your Patriotism To Distract You From Their Plunder. They're Counting On You To Be Standing At Attention With Your Hand Over Your Heart, Pledging Allegiance To The Flag, While They Pick Your Pocket!

Theology Asserts Propositions That Cannot Be Proven True; Ideologues Hold Stoutly To A Worldview Despite Being Contradicted By What Is Generally Accepted As Reality. When Ideology And Theology Couple, Their Offspring Are Not Always Bad But They Are Always Blind. And There Is The Danger: Voters And Politicians Alike, Oblivious To The Facts.

I Hear An Almost Inaudible But Pervasive Discontent With The Price We Pay For Our Current Materialism. And I Hear A Fluttering Of Hope That There Might Be More To Life Than Bread And Circuses.

Lyndon Johnson Was Thirteen Of The Most Interesting And Difficult Men I Ever Met. He Could Be As Couth As He Was Uncouth, As Magnanimous As Malicious, At Times Proud And Sensitive, At Times Paranoid And Darkly Uneasy With Himself. Freud Would Have Had A Field Day With Him.