Jay Adler has a must-read post over at Sad Red Earth entitled ”From the People Who Brought You Richard Nixon & George W. Bush.” Here’s a snippet, but do click over and read the rest:
Who has a shorter memory than the perpetual loser? Over and over the perpetual loser performs the same self-defeating act. Again and again, the loser fails, and failing, finds cause for failure in the inadequacy of others. Charlie Brown runs, as he has run countless times before, for the football Lucy holds to the ground, and which she withdraws yet again, at the ultimate instant, just before Charlie’s flailing kick. Upending himself, he falls to the ground, and cries out in despair, “How long, O Lord.”
Lucy, analyzing Charlie’s unknowing allusion to scripture, offers the final verdict.
“All your life, Charlie Brown. All your life.”
And you thought Peanuts was all sweetness and Christmas specials. Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I was perusing the transcript of one of Presidential spokesperson Jay Carney’s press briefings where he was asked about the Keystone XL pipeline. I got a lot of signals that he was about to reject the pipeline so I posted a piece called 
