This country had conservatism on a lock for well on decades. Even during liberal presidencies like John F. Kennedy's, Martin Luther King Jr. was invited through the back door and effectively told that there were much more important issues at hand than that of the Negro. When Democrats won, they usually did so by putting out a Southern bumpkin like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.

It's becoming really intolerable to talk politics. I used to do it really, really easily. Maybe it was the drugs I was on. Maybe it was my weird brain. Maybe it was my youth. Who really knows?

Dagblog is one of the only places I really feel comfortable talking about public issues anymore. Everywhere else has a touch of the immature with a big dose of the psychotic. On Facebook, I made the error of posting something I knew would bait the right wingers I still have on my friends list - I said that, if Ayn Rand were still alive and living in New York (where she wrote most of her books) today, she'd be "running out of town on a government subsidized bus while telling the rest of the city to drown."