Denial, apparently, is a river in San Fransciso

Nancy Pelosi: We Won Last Night



Catch that forced smile? Sure sign of confidence, don't you think?

Denial, apparently, is a river in San Fransisco. Wonder what water the rest of the Democratic Party is drinking, this morning?

Distilled by power, I'm sure.

The most honest kind, of course.

Or maybe that's just another lie we tell ourselves. Just like all the rest.

Coffee-shop foreign policy

I'm pretty sure I should have been a rock star, at this point.

I'm just thoroughly disgusted by the cowardice of most "grown-ups," at this point.

As liberal peoples all-too-quietly celebrate one of the most important events of the 20th century - the fall of the Berlin Wall - and as a I read all this nonsense about China as some kind of serious autocratic alternative to Western liberal democracy I just want to scream at these shitheads, "The Founders' courage was wasted on you stupid fucks."

Cowardice in the West is what embolden these shitheads. In China. In Zimbabwe. In North Korea. In Iran. In Cuba. And all over the world.

Cowards need to learn the courtesy to shut the fuck up if you aren't going to stand squarely behind people with more courage who challenge these regimes on principle, not as a matter of easy pontification.

Anyone who rationalizes these regimes deserves to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed at their hands, just to make sure they still hold the same opinion, once their done.

And if they don't think that's a fair test, perhaps they might want to rethink their cowardice.

Or perhaps they might want a more intimate knowledge of their favored coffee-shop foreign policy.

Getting by with a little help from our friends

It's becoming a trend. An encouraging one.

Iran police, protesters clash at U.S. Embassy rally

Progress doesn't depend on power. Quite the opposite. Progress generally happens despite and at the expense of those in power.

Because becoming responsible for our own lives and one another does not and should not depend on power, ideally.

And that is the direction of liberal progress. Whether governments and their supporters want to face that fact or not.