No confirmation, but rumor has it that either Laura or the dog have had enough of 43’s pomp and smirkin’ stance re the war. My bet: it’s the dog. If true, that will leave him with only the other and a few flagrantly alive die-hard big sticks in Congress. 43 has not yet learned that pomp and righteous indignation, even from the Right side of the aisle, doesn’t confer upon him the moral high ground. If the double-breasted, wing-tipped Theocrats understood this, they would meow as loudly for the thousands of human embryos destroyed daily so their loving but challenged wives could experience giving birth to silver-spoon babies produced with one of few modern (post Magna Carta) developments they recognize without equivocation called in vitro fertilization. But you know, spores fans, I wax long in the tooth with this rant, first because I believe what I said and I’ve wanted to say it and B., because I needed to connect some dots to the groovy title which came to me four days ago, and I’ve carried with me since like a newly minted silver dollar: just had to share it with the rest of the wild — okay, world.
Finished the assignment but won’t see a penny for two weeks. Ameren has given me a week and a half for action to keep my heat connected, I took myself off the sub teacher roster for a week so I could concentrate on the writing, so I have no pay for teaching down the pipeline, so it seems that just when I think I’ve stepped out of the muck, I walk into a low-hanging tree branch. Go figgir.
Finally, I wanted to see and hear a man I respect without equivocation, whom I like a lot, but whom I wish would be a senator. So I stayed home and watched his appearance on ABC. The Springfield announcer — don’t remember her name — referred to “former senator and presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson” . . . . . I wanted to weep. I expect that kind of historical perspective on WQNA, but not on a network affiliate. Someone at the station should find an Illinois Blue Book from the 50s and learn that babe a thang or tew about prefessionalism behind the microscope — make that microphone.
