Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even. . .cocoon for long periods of time, away from televisions and computers, to spare oneself the exquisite torture of an American Presidential Election.
~George Orwell and Marie Walden
Am I happy Obama won? Yes. Do I think he'll bring significant change? No. The tender-hearted idealist in me is buried under mountains of rhetoric, hyperbole and outright bullshit.
I'm emerging slowly, squinting at the sun, trying to find Pollyanna. 
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Rocky Mountain medicine
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Thank you Marie for the comment on ...the left side of my brain.
I loved this blog and the pictures. We are recovering political purist trying to find our way. Like you, I am a Pollyanna. Why else would I be a liberal...a conservative would never see the possibilities.
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