You got me on a technicality with the Haiku, but mine was a “hillbilly haiku”, no such rules.

As far as radical ideology, I agree with you 100%, all I’m saying is when will the back and forth ever end, at some point somebody has to be the bigger person. Haven’t you ever let someone win while they were losing just to get it over with?

To right good haiku
means being in a moment
as fleeting as this.

I don’t insist on the five-seven-five syllable pattern, because I think it’s awkward in English, although I use it if I can make it work. What makes haiku distinctive is using the three-line pattern to capture a moment in time.

I disagree strongly. Radical ideology is the major cause of the really bad stuff going on in the world today. The Middle East is in turmoil because of Islamic extremism, and there are plenty of people in this country who are determined to drag America down the same path for the sake of their own brand of extremism. Holding one’s tongue (or keyboarding fingers, as it were) about extremism for the sake of some half-assed notion of “fairness” or “balance” or “tolerance” amounts to stepping aside and letting wolves eat your children.

But it’s been a real tough year in the “Kept Man” business…

(Still workin at it, though…)

How about some hillbilly haiku:

Hillbilly Haiku#8

The 4 P’s: Productivity, Profits, Promises, Promotion.

Productivity = No more being comfortable

As soon as you get comfortable, we will find someone more productive.

Profits= A goal that can always be exceeded.

Just when you think you are profitable, it most likely won’t be enough.

Promises= If you have attempted to be productive and profitable,

You may have promised too much, depends who you work for.

All of the above are good reasons to either quit the job you have now, or ask for a promotion.

The past tense of read is read, not red, right?

Your hard work is appreciated. I heard your appeal.

However, let me remind everyone that the point of working with Democrats is to EVENTUALLY make them more responsive to our ideas and values. Before the 2006 midterms I wrote one post after another saying that the problems with the Dems would not be fixed by one election, but obtaining a Democratic Party majority was an essential first baby step toward fixing those problems.

Just over six months ago the new Congress began with a very small Dem majority. Now people are saying “the Dems still aren’t the party I want them to be, so let’s give up.”

But the political culture has been screwed up for several years. In truth, it seems we barely got the Vietnam/Watergate era over with before the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy took hold when Reagan became President. That’s a long time. This is not going to get fixed overnight.

If we’re going to fix the political problems and heal the political culture in this nation, there is no choice but to take over one of the two major parties and use them to enact our agenda. The other party is spoken for, so Dems are all we’ve got. (I assume I don’t have to give you the lecture about why third parties are for losers.)

Shrewd investors know that the best time to buy a stock is when it’s in the toilet, and they also know that this is precisely when it is psychologically most difficult to do so. This style of investing is known as contrarianism, and it is psychologically difficult.

In similar fashion, Republicans of yore invested heavily in party infrastructure back when it looked like Goldwater was an idiot, their party was hopelessly out of favor and had been for decades, and that Liberalism would surely rule Forever.

We must do the same, even though it is psychologically difficult for us rank and file to do so at the present time, precisely because the Democratic Congress presently looks like bumbling idiots and we fear Conservativism will rule forever.