Not Done Opening...

Quote of the day

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:42:35 GMT

Remember this before you go all snark attack on the new parents in your lives...

"The common misconception of childless, alcohol-imbibing party guests and cyber-ether baby-haters alike is that parents blabber constantly out of some arrogance or indulgent desire to show off their great kids and their perfect parenthood. Nothing could be further from the truth. We parents have so little now; the children have taken so much. We just have nothing left to say. We sometimes hear ourselves and know how we must sound to others, and we feel great shame. Our children have broken us and turned us into single-subject simpletons. They've accomplished this feat in what is supposed to be the prime of our intellectual life."
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/12/04/traister_parenting_makes_me_dumb?source=newsletter

Unedited rant (not a poem)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:02 GMT

I see every mind in my generation dissected,
Splayed out in HTML, each detail laid bare,
Twittered and spat out, partially digested,
Read and ignored, dis-punctuated,
Unimpressed,
Utterly devoid of mystery.

I see them laughing in upper case consonants,
Cursing in Absentia,
Commenting commenting commenting
Always,
Opinions made in haste,
Expressed in links to more eloquent voices,
And answered with
STFU.

I see millions of cameras
Voluntarily trained on each personal train wreck,
Each major crime or minor infraction,
Eagerly soaking in humanity,
Alienated from its creator,
Sending his voices, receiving his messages,
Affirming his context.

I see friends reunited and houses divided,
Couches sit vacant save the vagrants, miscreants,
Children and dogs that still watch with both eyes that
Flickering fickle oracle of entertainment and diversion.
Desks contain us all, sustain us, enthralled, by this
Face in the mirror hewn from our peers’ reflections,
Monetized and analyzed by unseen teams.

The Nielsons are dead as the Cleavers-
Even The Simpsons are old news, past their prime;
Time for shows is reduced as we skim over commercials,
Sped up but still selling, and there’s not even time to pee
Without those ads, nor time to discuss without the specter of the show
Hanging over each word in paused agony
As you try to speed through that last dialogue before
We hit PLAY.

Pay day. V Day. Friday. Saturday.
Work day. Week day. May day.
No way. My way. All day.

Every day.

Ba dum dum DUMB!

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:41:06 GMT

"On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted "You lie!" at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants. "The supporters of the government takeover of healthcare and liberals who want to give healthcare to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan," Wilson said the next day in a campaign fundraising video.

However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants' healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250 million annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants. The program has been extended through 2009 and there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to make it permanent."

These are the ironies that make the reasonable person inside of me weep.

Weekends well spent...

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:21:31 GMT

To finish a single task,
Is not too much to ask,
But it is easier said than done.
Saturday's efforts paid dividends on Sunday,
When there was time to play
With my son.
Watching him slipping and sliding on river rocks,
Watching my father do the same thing,
And marveling at how
Much of this world
We've all managed
To preserve,
To not totally fuck up;
To see the smile my wife
Shares
With my son.
It all rests on this pinhead,
Where we dance,
Impossibly defying gravity
And inertia,
Spinning and laughing
While we can.
As the stars slowly burn out,
And the rivers dry up,
As the ideas get recycled,
It is important to see these things as they are.
It is important to be greedy with this love.
To soak in it until we are wrinkled and pruned.
We may be running out of parking places,
But there will always be room to dance.

Much ado about Socialism, considering this...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:24:49 GMT

"To review: With 22,000 Americans dying each year because they lack health insurance, Congress is considering universal health care legislation financed by a surcharge on income above $280,000 -- that is, a levy almost exclusively on 1-percenters. This surtax would graze just 5 percent of small businesses and would recoup only part of the $700 billion the 1-percenters received from the Bush tax cuts. In fact, it is so miniscule, those making $1 million annually would pay just $9,000 more in taxes every year -- or nine-tenths of 1 percent of their 12-month haul."

Not since 1929 have the super wealthy had it so good. I forgot to link the source on this, but it was on alternet.com I think.

Fantastic!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:12:39 GMT

http://vimeo.com/5732745

Don't tell me there is no magic left...

Quote of the day!

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:33:33 GMT

"If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity there is nothing else to do but produce babies... Don't think I am saying this in a lighter vein. I am serious... Eighty percent of population growth can be reduced through TV."
-- Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's Health and Family Welfare minister

(memo to self: stop paying for cable and turn off that damned noise box tonight)

Unanswered questions that I find depressing

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:04:22 GMT

Why isn't the FBI breaking down the doors of the commercial and investment banks and grabbing computers so as to preserve incendiary e-mails that will most definitely implicate executives? Why are managements that caused this still in their jobs and still receiving bonuses? Are the bonuses paid to the folks at AIG that caused its collapse nothing more than hush money? How can the rating agencies still be in business? Why don't we make one arrest and lean on the bankster to see if he will fold like the cheap suit that he is and name other conspirators? The FBI spends more time investigating $2,000 drug buys than they have to date investigating the biggest heist in the history of the world: $40 trillion, that's trillion with a T, that's 40 million bags each containing $1 million.
--David Talbott
--http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/22/economic_crisis_part_one/

Obama: Hiding our own torture photos is kinda hypocritical

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:26:42 GMT

From Glenn Greenwald's column in Salon today...

"It would be one thing for the Obama administration to argue that there is no value in releasing torture photos specifically, and in investigating and imposing accountability for past abuses generally, if there were consensus among Americans that torture is wrong, barbaric and -- as Ronald Reagan put it (hypocritically but still emphatically) -- "an abhorrent practice" justifiable by "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever." But we have the opposite of that consensus: we have an ongoing debate over torture that is fluid, vibrant and far from settled, with half the population embracing the twisted and morally depraved pro-torture position. For that reason, to suppress evidence of what our torture actually looks like and the brutality it entails -- particularly graphic evidence -- is to make it easier for that pro-torture position to thrive, just as it would have been easier for the Iranian Government to slaughter protesters with impunity if they had succeeded in suppressing the images of what they were doing (it was this same dynamic that led the Israeli Army to defy its own Supreme Court and forcibly block reporters and photographers from entering Gaza and which caused the embedded American press to suppress images of the massive civilian deaths which their protectors, the U.S. military, was causing in Iraq)."

Dick Cheney quote of the year

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:33:28 GMT

I copied this right off of Doonesbury's site.

"You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it."
-- Dick Cheney, on Richard Clarke

"Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack" (5/3/01)

"Bin Ladin's Networks' Plans Advancing" (5/26/01)

"Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent" (6/23/01)

"Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats" (6/25/01)

"Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks" (6/30/01)

"Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays" (7/02/01)

-- subject lines of Richard Clarke emails to Bush Administration prior to 9/11/01

The Fox News Debate

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:48:12 GMT

I was talking to a friend about the relative bias of the major cable news networks, and I kept asserting that the right-leaning media, particularly Fox News, tends to be more ridiculous in their arguments against people they disagree with than say, CNN is. I allowed that stations like MSNBC show obvious bias too. I just think that Fox News, for whatever reason, keeps making itself look stupid. Hannity is the worst offender here in my opinion. I couldn't find a great example while we discussed it, but then I saw this this morning, and I thought it was a perfect example. Is this really worth harping on?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-mustard-obamamay11,0,1652607.story

Dijon mustard is elitist? I just thought it was tasty. Also, since when did ketchup become a masculine condiment? I just feel like the people making these statements live in an entirely different world than I do.

We are 99 percent bacteria!

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:26:26 GMT

And bacterium talk amongst each other... and we've cracked their code... and we will have them working for us quite soon...

AMAZING science lecture from the TED...

http://digg.com/d1oFG6

So what to post

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:27:36 GMT

This is now a redundant blog, as it seems anything cool gets posted to me Facebook these days... However, I am not ready to get rid of this either. What a tangled mess of websites I have! I'm afraid to go to MySpace again, as I'm sure it's become an overgrown jungle during my extended absence.

Maybe I'll just post song fragments from my newish band which isn't quite a band yet, Downstem.

Still the Same

I swear, I've been right here before
I see, the same characters and plots
It's a, tipping point you're looking for,
Is there, Something new in store,
No motion, just emotions that are moving me to
Stop here in my tracks

I
Haven't changed
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision

You tweet the same things, over and over,
I scream the same things right back, my voice cracks,
We cry together, Lie that we're changing,
It's here where we've always been fading
To black, say we're gonna get
Better one day but

I
Haven't changed
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision

Inertia is only broken through force,
Of course, off course, circling back,
Until our tracks overlap, our gums flap,
To no one but ourselves and

I'm
Still the same
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision
I
Haven't changed
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision

Here I am at the next door,
Just like the one before,
But, Something is happening,
Unraveling I feel I'm giving up
Lifting up with the winds
And then I open up my eyes realize that

I'm
Still the same
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision
I
Haven't changed
And you're to blame
For all the
Indecision

Healthcare Questions

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:43:54 GMT

This editorial is full of questions I'd like someone to ask all those people who think they are so conservative that they can't stomach national healthcare. Are we getting ripped off in a "free market" this badly? Really?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/03/09/healthcare/

Seriously

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:07:15 GMT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/who-keeps-screwing-us-ove_b_166438.html

This stimulus package just lost all its teeth, and the new administration just deflated a whole lot in my eyes. Seriously. This was a stand that needed to be taken. LEt Wall Street and the banks walk away if they want Call their bluff... DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY MORE MONEY!

Funny editorial

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:56:28 GMT

"Confined to its own phantom zone of crazy, there's only so much harm this can do. After all, Limbaugh's puffy melon has been bombarded with a mountain of hillbilly heroin large enough to crush God. But I wish I could report that this was wholly the product of Limbaugh's condition. It's also a theory that was also repeated by Donald Luskin: a seriously wrongheaded economist and, go figure, former economic adviser to Senator John McCain."

Pretty interesting. Not my normal reading, but the headline was simply too compelling not to click on... The above quote is where I lost it. To those still listening to these guys: is it really this bad?

What a great day for politics

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:53:12 GMT

The New Deal worked, despite what THEY are telling you...
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/02/the_new_deal_worked/

All THOSE bloggers are increasingly shrill and hopeless... it is showing... http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2009/02/02/obama_simpson/

And Ronald Reagan was not a great president... he WAS a forgetful one, and a popular one, but he didn't do half of what he is credited with doing these days by the likes of Hannity and Rusch...

It's been a while, but I am still here, rambling and shambling on

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:30:11 GMT

I was born thirty years ago today and promptly named Nathan Paul Isenhardt. After an entirely pleasant and remarkably wholesome childhood I went on to christen my adolescent self as Not Done Opening. It is a moniker that has served me well, all the way to the present. I still feel as though the world is constantly new all over again, each day the sun rises. I might not be the most open-minded dude on the planet, but I like to think I'm still trying to open my eyes rather than squint in some jaded glance off into the horizon. I will not be jaded. I will not be sad. I will be opening, all the days of my life. There is nothing to fear in vulnerability, and sunburns come with fun under the sun. I bought the ticket, and I'm taking the ride.

I'm thankful for my family, my son and wife, my blood, but also, my confidantes, my friends. I like to think I give them back as much as they give me, and whether it is true or not, I intend to keep striving for that goal. In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Some will wonder at having a birthday so close to Christmas. I must admit, it can be a melancholy feeling, almost like taking time out to celebrate your birthday is an imposition on Christmas. It breaks the momentum one might get in the ramping up to Christmas that now starts in July sometime after Independence Day. That being said, people are usually ready to party at this time of year, and my God, the candies and cookies available are always top-notch. There is also the possibility of combining one's Christmas list with one's birthday list which can make for some pretty lavish gifts as one grows up. So I like my Christmas birthday just fine.

More importantly, I love having a birthday on (or near, depending on your calendar) the winter solstice. It is the shortest day, and the longest night, and that suits me better and better each year. I like the night-life. I like to boogie. (not really).

30 years is twice as long as it takes to make a damn fine Scotch. Thirty years is long enough to barely remeber Reagan not being able to remember, but not long enough to remember disco. 30 years is a blink of an eye, and it's my whole life as well. It's long enough to destroy and rebuild one's credit, but not long enough to say one is old. It is long enough to know that if you're not done opening by now, you probably never will be. Cheers!

"American Idiot" was not just a catchy song

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:59:31 GMT

America the Illiterate
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/
Posted on Nov 10, 2008

By Chris Hedges

We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.

There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.

The illiterate rarely vote, and when they do vote they do so without the ability to make decisions based on textual information. American political campaigns, which have learned to speak in the comforting epistemology of images, eschew real ideas and policy for cheap slogans and reassuring personal narratives. Political propaganda now masquerades as ideology. Political campaigns have become an experience. They do not require cognitive or self-critical skills. They are designed to ignite pseudo-religious feelings of euphoria, empowerment and collective salvation. Campaigns that succeed are carefully constructed psychological instruments that manipulate fickle public moods, emotions and impulses, many of which are subliminal. They create a public ecstasy that annuls individuality and fosters a state of mindlessness. They thrust us into an eternal present. They cater to a nation that now lives in a state of permanent amnesia. It is style and story, not content or history or reality, which inform our politics and our lives. We prefer happy illusions. And it works because so much of the American electorate, including those who should know better, blindly cast ballots for slogans, smiles, the cheerful family tableaux, narratives and the perceived sincerity and the attractiveness of candidates. We confuse how we feel with knowledge.

The illiterate and semi-literate, once the campaigns are over, remain powerless. They still cannot protect their children from dysfunctional public schools. They still cannot understand predatory loan deals, the intricacies of mortgage papers, credit card agreements and equity lines of credit that drive them into foreclosures and bankruptcies. They still struggle with the most basic chores of daily life from reading instructions on medicine bottles to filling out bank forms, car loan documents and unemployment benefit and insurance papers. They watch helplessly and without comprehension as hundreds of thousands of jobs are shed. They are hostages to brands. Brands come with images and slogans. Images and slogans are all they understand. Many eat at fast food restaurants not only because it is cheap but because they can order from pictures rather than menus. And those who serve them, also semi-literate or illiterate, punch in orders on cash registers whose keys are marked with symbols and pictures. This is our brave new world.

Political leaders in our post-literate society no longer need to be competent, sincere or honest. They only need to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a narrative. The reality of the narrative is irrelevant. It can be completely at odds with the facts. The consistency and emotional appeal of the story are paramount. The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. We ask to be indulged and entertained by clichés, stereotypes and mythic narratives that tell us we can be whomever we want to be, that we live in the greatest country on Earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities and that our glorious future is preordained, either because of our attributes as Americans or because we are blessed by God or both.

The ability to magnify these simple and childish lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives these lies the aura of an uncontested truth. We are repeatedly fed words or phrases like yes we can, maverick, change, pro-life, hope or war on terror. It feels good not to think. All we have to do is visualize what we want, believe in ourselves and summon those hidden inner resources, whether divine or national, that make the world conform to our desires. Reality is never an impediment to our advancement.

The Princeton Review analyzed the transcripts of the Gore-Bush debates, the Clinton-Bush-Perot debates of 1992, the Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960 and the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. It reviewed these transcripts using a standard vocabulary test that indicates the minimum educational standard needed for a reader to grasp the text. During the 2000 debates, George W. Bush spoke at a sixth-grade level (6.7) and Al Gore at a seventh-grade level (7.6). In the 1992 debates, Bill Clinton spoke at a seventh-grade level (7.6), while George H.W. Bush spoke at a sixth-grade level (6.8), as did H. Ross Perot (6.3). In the debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the candidates spoke in language used by 10th-graders. In the debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas the scores were respectively 11.2 and 12.0. In short, today’s political rhetoric is designed to be comprehensible to a 10-year-old child or an adult with a sixth-grade reading level. It is fitted to this level of comprehension because most Americans speak, think and are entertained at this level. This is why serious film and theater and other serious artistic expression, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of American society. Voltaire was the most famous man of the 18th century. Today the most famous “person” is Mickey Mouse.

In our post-literate world, because ideas are inaccessible, there is a need for constant stimulus. News, political debate, theater, art and books are judged not on the power of their ideas but on their ability to entertain. Cultural products that force us to examine ourselves and our society are condemned as elitist and impenetrable. Hannah Arendt (http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/arendt.htm ) warned that the marketization of culture leads to its degradation, that this marketization creates a new celebrity class of intellectuals who, although well read and informed themselves, see their role in society as persuading the masses that “Hamlet” can be as entertaining as “The Lion King” and perhaps as educational. “Culture,” she wrote, “is being destroyed in order to yield entertainment.”

“There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect,” Arendt wrote, “but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.”

The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality. They lack the capacity to search for truth and cope rationally with our mounting social and economic ills. They seek clarity, entertainment and order. They are willing to use force to impose this clarity on others, especially those who do not speak as they speak and think as they think. All the traditional tools of democracies, including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate, are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them.

As we descend into a devastating economic crisis, one that Barack Obama cannot halt, there will be tens of millions of Americans who will be ruthlessly thrust aside. As their houses are foreclosed, as their jobs are lost, as they are forced to declare bankruptcy and watch their communities collapse, they will retreat even further into irrational fantasy. They will be led toward glittering and self-destructive illusions by our modern Pied Pipers—our corporate advertisers, our charlatan preachers, our television news celebrities, our self-help gurus, our entertainment industry and our political demagogues—who will offer increasingly absurd forms of escapism.

The core values of our open society, the ability to think for oneself, to draw independent conclusions, to express dissent when judgment and common sense indicate something is wrong, to be self-critical, to challenge authority, to understand historical facts, to separate truth from lies, to advocate for change and to acknowledge that there are other views, different ways of being, that are morally and socially acceptable, are dying. Obama used hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funds to appeal to and manipulate this illiteracy and irrationalism to his advantage, but these forces will prove to be his most deadly nemesis once they collide with the awful reality that awaits us.

More on this here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/28/us-education-election-obama-bush-mccain/print

Mike Lester is a hack

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:23:15 GMT

And income taxes equal socialism.

I've been saying this for years, and people rightfully called me a simplifying idealist.

Changing the existing tax structure is doing just that, nothing more. As long as people are willing to ok any form of a progressive tax, we'll be more socialist than if we went to a flat one or whatever.

McCain is just as socialist. They just have different targets for tax increases and decreases.

Lester needs to find his funny again.

And Joe the Plumber is no John Galt.

http://www.comics.com/editoons/lester/

Pants-off Dance-off!

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:52:09 GMT

Obama vs. McCain, and we officially can no longer trust our own eyes, at least, if we squint a bit...
http://www.break.com/index/unbelievable-mccain-vs-obama-dance-off.html

Linkies!

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:21:03 GMT

Are you wondering how much the Mellon bank is getting paid to do the books for the bailout purchase of all those toxic assets? You probably are now, but there is currently no way to know, since the Treasury Department is redacting items on official public documents. This is troubling.
http://www.propublica.org/article/why-are-docs-from-the-bailout-being-redacted-1022/

OOOOOOO pretty...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/lighting_up_the_night.html

Chinese Democracy? Worth a listen, but overall, meh...
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2008/10/guns-n-roses-re.html

Man, I hate zealots, but these people scare me more. I wonder if they realize how stupid they are? (Obama stuff)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwjlUMoLVvA

Wait...this picture of Palin, it make my brain hurt...
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7592/originalhw8.jpg

Batman and Superman should never exist in the same universe...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1884973

SPIDER!!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml

Colin Powell is relevant again?

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:01:38 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_c5bbvmqc

Suck on the truth McCain.

Worst interviews with McCain supporters yet...

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:28:21 GMT

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/mccainpalin-supporters-let-their-rac

My head just exploded...

A tax increase is not the same as socialism

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:48:50 GMT

Jabbering jockeys shock well,
With misinformation or lies...

Has it been so long since Bush dropped the rates?
A return to their previous states,
Is hardly a call for socialism, although,
Considering the outstanding national debt,
And the muck we find ourselves mired in,
We're all wired in through IRAs and 401ks and
Doomsday predictions
Anyway
So yap away about how much more you'll pay,
Yap away about hypothetical lost jobs,
Salary decreases and such,
Yap away, like dogs
Barking into a storm.
Maybe it makes you feel better,
Since you don't know any better,
But mark these words:
The DOW will rise with corporate tax rates,
As it always has,
And the rich will stay in America where the food is good,
There's fireworks on the fourth of July,
And the tax rates are incrementally higher.