It was the Sage of Baltimore, H. L.
Mencken (sorry, Buck) who once offered “(d)emocracy is the theory
that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and
hard.” There’s not a single part of that observation that doesn’t make me
smile, especially while reading recent news dispatches.
I’m not sure what the good people of Richmond did to
deserve Joseph Morrissey (does being the capital of the
Confederate States of America still count?) but if he never wins a(nother)
race, Joe is their horse (sorry Bentley). I guess apathy and ignorance are
their own reward.
Please. Put aside your revulsion and look past, if only
for a moment, that Joey has the same moral intelligence of something you might
scrape off your shoe with a stick. This is truly an American Love Affair.
It’s almost heart-warming, especially
in light of the generation gap in voter participation to read about the success
of a 57 year-old man in getting through to someone forty years his junior.
And not just through,
if you follow both the preposition and the proposition. Her unborn child will
be so fortunate to have a father and a grand-father in the same person. Perhaps
they can take turns using the walker as both may need it at about the same
time.
Somewhere Anthony
Weiner is sitting on a stoop of a double-wide in a trailer park in upstate New York, looking at pictures on
his cell phone and muttering ‘I coulda been a contenduh.’ Buck up, Tony-take a
page out of Joe’s book. And speaking of books, Vladimir
Nabokov may soon enjoy a resurgence of popularity, at least in one
zip code.
-bill kenny
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