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The Flatland Chronicles for Thursday, July 6
JOURNAL: THE DEATH OF KEN LAY. Wow, I deplored the Enron mess as much as anyone and I am SO sorry for its victims, but I am really upset by some of the initial writings of my fellow non-Republicans concerning the death of Ken Lay. I don't often bother, but I even went so far as to post a comment to that effect at HuffPo. As somebody else remarked, it's a bit much to start dancing on his grave before he is even IN it. I get upset when it's the people on my own team who are causing me dismay and disgust.
It gets you down, you know? I am all about being a proud liberal and being thankful that I have the good sense and decency to be a Democrat, so I don't need all this.
Meanwhile, my mom (now in her late seventies) is once again battling those who neglect the U.S. flag. Last year, she more or less shamed her local P.O. into replacing a battered flag, but now another flag outside a federal building is all frayed and ratty, and they let it stay that way all through the 4th of July instead of replacing it as she (and some other people) requested. She first notified the powers that be at the relevant business; they chose to ignore her complaint. (My brothers and I could have told them that the ignore-her-and-she'll-go-away-tactic wasn't going to work) So she has been telephoning her local paper (it's a small town), her representative (on whose assistant she hung up because she was getting nowhere), and everyone else she can think of. "It's a DAMN SHAME," she told me indignantly.
So, you know, GO MOM! I ended up feeling quite sorry for the person who failed to heed her initial complaint. In the immortal words of Aimee Mann, "It's not going to stop/till you wise up."
Anyway: today's offerings--
Digest for July 6
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THE DEATH OF KEN LAY: LET THE UNSEEMLY GLOATING AND PIOUS MORALIZING BEGIN! OR, WHEN GOOD DEMOCRATS BEHAVE LIKE BAD REPUBLICANS. See above. Guys, the poor guy can't be more down than dead. Let's not dance on his grave before he is even in it. In Versus.
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[FICTION-BLOGGING] JAY DREAMING BELIEVER: "I felt today that the spirit of Jay was giving me the encouragement I needed to take a stand." She's drawing a line in the sand at work; if his photo goes, so does she. Plus some much-needed bonding with her daughter over the cuteness of her life-sized stand-alone Jay poster. In The Church of the Over-Invested Fangirl.
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