I Was Sailing From Tedium To Apathy

Politicians, Please, Think Of Yourselves! Move To Help Terri Schiavo, And No One Will Be Mad At You, And You'll Keep A Human Being Alive.

No News Conferences? Interviews Now Only With Friendly Journalists? You Can't Be President Or Vice President And Govern In That Style, As A Sequestered Figure. This Has Been Mr. Bush's Style The Past Few Years, And See Where It Got Us. You Must Address America In Its Entirety, Not As A Sliver Or A Series Of Slivers But As A Full And Whole Entity, A Great Nation Trying To Hold Together. When You Don't, When You Play Only To Your Little Piece, You Contribute To Its Fracturing.

There Should Be A Name For This, For The Process Whereby One Knows One Is Being Yanked And Concedes It Has Been Done Successfully - That One Is Grateful To Have Been Spun. In The Theater, It Is Called The Willing Suspension Of Disbelief. That's What Allows The Play To Make An Impact On The Audience: They Have To Be Able To Make Believe That What's Happening On The Stage Is Really Happening. Maybe To A Degree It Is A Requirement For All Political Participation, All Effective Political Communication, Too.

At Some Point, Don't Voters Start To See All Of Public Life As One Big Polluted River? And If They Do, Don't They Stop Saying Things Like "that's A Busted Tire Floating By" And "that's An Old Shoe"?

What Is In The Air There In Washington, What Is In The Water? What Is Wrong With Them? This Is Not A Rhetorical Question. I Think It Is Unspoken Question No.1 As Americans Look At So Many Of The Individuals In Our Government. What Is Wrong With Them?