Pushing past the burnout.
I think the length and disappointments (at least for us Conservatives) of this political season has taken a toll on all of us. For the past few weeks I haven't been watching the news or going to any of my traditional web sites as much as I had been because, frankly, I'm burnout. I am, like many of you I'm sure, just so tired of the lies, the baby kissing, the lies, the ass kissing, the lies... and the disingenuous spin about how the lies that these politicians are telling us aren't really lies at all but just a demonstration as to how us rubes and peons out here in flyover country don't really "Get" what those in the Gentry all understand to be true.
Despite my political burnout, I decided to go out to Townhall.com the past few days and see what I may have been missing. Not that I needed to really "catch up" on anything - politics is too much like Daytime Soap Operas; just jump back in, watch, and in a relatively short time you'll have no trouble knowing who is sleeping with whom, who's dying of an incurable disease, which character has come back from the grave, and who stabbed who in the back. You know... same shit, different day!
Anyway, I'm glad I did decide to visit there, because I got to read two of my favorite columnists: Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell. I appreciate and enjoy Professor Williams mainly because I have had the pleasure of hearing him as a substitute host when Rush Limbaugh is out, and Thomas Sowell because... as we here at TBR have often said, he is one of the smartest and wisest people in the world.
Enjoy:
Political Loathsomeness - Walter E. Williams
A Living Lie - Thomas Sowell
