Stories

Don't blog angry, they say. But when you don't go through your feeds for three or four days, and then hit them all at once, it's hard not to overreact. And to think I thought this time last year that we might avoid some of the culture wars this time around…

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“Once there was a brilliant man who emerged from difficult circumstances to find great success. By combining fearsome intelligence with remarkable empathy, he made huge numbers of his disenchanted fellow citizens care about working to better their country. But one thing stood in his way: the massive political machine that had squatted in the nation's capitol for the last eight years, chewing up and spitting out with unrelenting viciousness those who had dared to challenge it. And at the helm of the machine, a once-mighty warrior, fallen from grace and corrupted in his very attempts to defeat the powers of darkness. Can our hero avoid a similar fate?”

Hey! That sounds like it could be a pretty good movie.

“Once there was a true hero, a man who had survived incredible pain for the sake of his country, and who had spent the rest of his life following his conscience, even when it cost him. Now, as he sees a young and unproven rhetorician offering cheap fixes for difficult times, phantom solutions that would endanger the people that our hero would give anything to protect, he must summon his strength and return one last time to lead his nation to the righteous victory that can only come through perseverance and principle. Can he inspire the courage of his people? Or will they fall for the tricks of his clever opponent?”

Oh, that one sounds good, too.

“Once there were some people with some pretty strong beliefs about the way the world should work. And then there were some other people who believed different things, for different reasons. And then there were also some other people who didn't really belong to either group. But they still had to live in the same country, so they made some compromises and got on with their lives.”

BORING.