TheNextReport

(Written October 3, 2013) The brown shirts and the white sheets take over Washington! The key question: why would so-called mainstream Republicans be so eager to obey the commands of a small group of radicals? The last election made it clear that black, women, Latino and other minorities were not interested in what the GOP was selling. So what does the Tea Party arm of the GOP do to make its appeal more inclusive? It shuts down the government in protest of the President's healthcare initiative. Smart move for those who believe the public will swallow anything if it is repeated enough. The truth is GOP leaders have been seeing their party and its message becoming a political anachronism and are willing to swing wildly until they hits something. The suspicion that Speaker John Boehner finds his political leadership skills at the bottom of a scotch glass is becoming more apparent. The threat of engaging in violence, sometimes mistakenly referred to by this group as civil disobe...

Yes, I know. In reality it is all arbitrary, this New Years crap. It's a new year every moment, depending upon where you start from. This linear time thing just provokes more questions, for which there are no apparent answers, yet we still persist in asking them because... that is what we must do. My wife and son are in the next room singing songs in Basque, a language that has no apparent antecedent, from a people whose origins are unknown, a bloodline that apparently runs as an ancient tangent to the rest of what we call the human race. So we continue on in the world of what is apparent, with joy and trembling at the wonder of it all.