Let's get small

Well, with the election mostly over, I've had time to get back to thinking. My other priorities had been sitting quietly, patiently, taking orders even, while my social conscience and consciousness held court in my effort to help defeat the impostor president. We fought the good fight, and that was our downfall: we played fair, presented evidence and empirical support, and they responded with spin, propaganda, and threats. It's apparently not over yet, and I'm glad of that, but seeing as how I'm in Kansas, and the trouble is in Ohio, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Florida, I came to the conclusion that this issue is pretty much out of my hands.

I started this blogthing as an email habit- I thought too much US-related news was only being covered in less-prominent international news sources, and I wanted my friends to know. As the election approached, I focused on Kerry because the mainstream US press wasn't giving him fair time, or fairly representing his record. Alas, it wasn't about facts at all. Silly me!

Damn the elections. They provide such a seductive story-line. So reassuring, so convincing, that we continue to look for storylines in the news after the big show is over, but The News is not a story in the storybook sense, so there's almost never any real resolution. Enron? 911 investigation (don't even show me the Warren Report Jr.)? Valerie Plame? Diebold? You get the idea.

"There is only one thing bigger than a very big thing, and that is a thing so very small that it can be seen and understood. " -Sinclair Lewis.