“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Friday, August 06, 2004

AGN Headlie of the Day

The Panhandle Truth Squad would like to express our sympathy to William H. "Buddy" Seewald this morning. It's a unique pain to toil on an editorial for the Globe-News only to have the editors slap a misleading healdine on it.

One of Seewald's main points was that the political conventions-- from both sides of the aisle-- are not as suspenseful as they once were. The carefully-crafted pep rallies are neither substantive nor entertaining. Seewald did use the recent Democratic convention as an example, but his point was larger.

The AGN headlie turned this argument into a direct criticism of Democrats alone: "Dems' smooze-fest more like snooze-fest."

This has happened before.

Liberals who dare to write guest columns or letters to the editors of the Globe-News find themselves in a tempestous microcosm of the Republican panhandle. Do those of us panhandlian progressives who were raised Christian remember our Bible School? The story of Daniel in the Lions' Den?

SPACEDARK