I Would Like To Be A Polyglot.

I End Up Liking Politicians, Both Left And Right, Who Talk About Political Matters As If They Are Addressing A Bunch Of Adults, As If They Are Capable Of Handling Both Complexity And Emotional Responsibility.

Ridding Iraq Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. That Was The Whole Idea, Right? That‘s Why We Went. I Am Reluctant To Let That Fact Disappear Down The Memory Hole, Because If — As The War Ends, Or At Least Starts To End — If, At This Time, The History Of The War Is Written As Us Going There To Topple The Regime Of A Bad Man When That Frankly Isn‘t Why Were Told That We Were Going There — Aren‘t We Still At Risk Of Making This Horrific Mistake Again? And, Aren‘t We Letting The People Who Foisted The Wmd Idea On Us, Not Many Years Ago, Aren‘t We Sort Of Letting Them Get Away With It?

We Do Not Need To Endorse That [agains Muslims]type Of Activity Nor Should We.

One Of The Manifestations Of Depression For Me Is That I Lose My Will. And I Thereby Lose My Ability To Focus. I Don't Think I'll Ever Have The Day-to-day Consistency In My Performance That Something Like This American Life Has. If I'm Not Depressed And I'm On And I Can Focus And I Can Think Through Something Hard And Without Interruption And Without Existential Emptiness That Comes From Depression, That Gives Me - Not Mania. But I Exalt. I Exalt In Not Being Depressed.

We All Now Have To Decide Whether We`re Comfortable Using This Word, Weather Fascism Is Too Over The Top To Use In This Context Of Our Politics Right Now In Our Country Or Whether It Helps Because It`s Accurate, To Basically Describe This As America`s Sir Oswald Mosley Moment.