comments

1. Josh Weichhand on August 31st, 2010 at 6:13 pm

   I’ll be honest, folks. I’m moving from frustration to exasperation to downright fear.

   Daryl, Cindy, Amy and Deron; tell me your thoughts. You live in the crazy year-round.

2. Deron Bauman on August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 pm

   yeah, it’s tough. right now I am listening to Obama speak about Iraq and realizing how strongly I feel he needs to address the country in a way that shows he is in control and intends to move forward; he needs to speak and lead publicly. I may not be articulating clearly what it is I think he needs to do, but I know he needs to do it! right now the only conversation is between imbeciles and lunatics. we have to take that back and it has to start with him.

3. Daryl Scroggins on August 31st, 2010 at 7:56 pm

   Josh–yes, I know the fear you speak of. I dislike that feeling I get when it seems that change for the worse is a rough beast slouching near, in the quiet at the edges of blather and shouts of rage. It’s the irrational–and I don’t mean the good kind one finds in quirky art. It’s the art of argumentation swallowing its own tail. It’s cutting off the hand that pulls you from the whirlpool, causing you and the helper to fall in. Like Deron says, we need for Obama to do what Edward Murrow did to Joe McCarthy. But I’m afraid to say that in order for that to work today, more people would need to be able to understand what it means to be ashamed of ignorance.

4. Cindy Scroggins on August 31st, 2010 at 9:51 pm

   Oh, Josh. It’s true–we live smack in the middle of the crazy. Such proximity provides both a heightened sense of perspective and a heightened sense of fear. It makes me want to fight.

   Our country (and the world) has seen this level of frightening stupidity before. History is filled with movements led by manipulative zealots and madmen, and they’ve never lacked for enthusiastic followers. But truly great people (Gandhi, Martin Luther King) also come along and help us to move beyond the hateful.

   I don’t see a lot of greatness right now, but I’m not giving up on it. I do know we all need to continue to speak out.

5. Doc on September 1st, 2010 at 5:23 am

   …more people would need to be able to understand what it means to be ashamed of ignorance.

   Scarily sad, but too fucking true.

6. Valerie on September 1st, 2010 at 7:59 am

   … this country was founded on debt about 12M – if remember correctly..our personal liberties have come at a great cost. Too Bad we don’t have another “Louisanna Purchase”..to bail us out.

   We do need another “Industrial Revolution”.. to jump start this eco ~ for sure!!

7. Deron Bauman on September 1st, 2010 at 8:36 am

   I always think it’s fun to figure out where our debt has come from.

Leave a Reply