The life of a writer....

If you can enlarge the strip, you will get the joke. I was listening to a man, don't recall who he was . He was a progressive. One of the points he made was that the media has been hi-jacked

by Capitalist. And, as he pointed out, Capitalism will eventually eat its young. He didn't put it exactly like that, but that is in essence what he meant. I think Carl Marx put it this way,"Capitalism will hang itself by the very rope it sold to the perpertrators." That too is not an exact quote, but it is close enough. Consummerism is going to be the downfall of Democracy. Every time you buy something at Wall-Mart, you help put a Mom and Pop store out of business.

And Wall-Mart cares little if they sell you merchandixe painted with lead paint, or if they sell you toothpaste made with anti-freeze.

I can tell you that Rush Limbaugh is not really all that entertaining. Nor are any of his clones. Right Wing rhetoric is about as boring as it can get.

How often have I yearned for the good old days when huksters were really on the air; Long John Nebel, Jean Shepherd, Arthur Godfrey. These men knew how to sell and how to be entertaining. Of course, you knew they were huksters. It was no secret. They did not wrap their ideas around an ideology and try to push their thinking off on you. How I long for those days.