Long Time Gone

Republicans, Dadaists Declare War On Art WASHINGTON, DC-Citing the "proliferation of immoral and offensive material throughout America's museums and schools," and waving placards emblazoned with agit-prop fotocollage reading, "diE KUnst ISt tOT, DadA ubEr aLLes" ("Art is dead, dada...

As much as I enjoy "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC, he'll be out of a job if a Democrat is elected president because he'll have no more fodder against to rail each night. [Title of this post is play on his pet name for rival Bill O'Reilly, "Bill-O"]

Maybe I like Obama too much to vote for him. I will quickly grow tired of listening to Hilary speak, though, and she'll be all-too-easy fodder for the Radical Right ("Radically Wrong"?). My boy Obama looks uncomfortable in the one commercial of his in which I've seen him, which tells me he's not comfortable as a sell-out.

Wesley Clark is such a cutie! I wonder what he looked like as a young man. And there's something slightly socially awkward about him that is either endearing or a little unsettling, I'm not sure which. I believe he's the general who did not receive a single demerit during his time at West Point. Either impressive or a little creepy. He was so not cut out to run for president, he seemed a bit stiff and cardboard-like in front of the cameras, but he's clearly a very competent, bright, and well-respected man.

"And, action!" I feel like little has changed, except for a decade+ time warp, since OJ's first courtroom circus. Even his current girlfriend looks eerily like Nicole Brown Simpson. Yes, attorney Johnny Cochran has ascended to the big courtroom in the sky, and Judge Ito has probably retired to somewhere near a golf course in South Florida, but Kato Kaelin was all cued up and ready to go on "Nancy Grace" tonight. None other than a completely re-vamped Marcia Clark was seated in the Las Vegas courtroom today, whom I would not have recognized had not numerous news anchors pointed her out. Someone even tracked down Christopher Darden outside a courtroom near to wherever he lives now (undoubtedly an "undisclosed location"--or it should be).

How strange to look back at 9/11 (MSNBC re-broadcast the events of that morning in real time, and I was oddly drawn to it)and see it as a time of innocence, given where we are today and how much more we know now than we knew then. Of course, it was at the same time a day of shattered innocence and a broken national conciousness.