Today

Hello. It's snowing (I love it seeing I don't have to drive anywhere) and NPR is talking to someone about Naropa University and Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg, and I'm contemplating finishing my Eventide book today (what a luxury to be able to read if I want to and decide to just ignore my to-do list), while always in the back of my mind I'm wondering how this country is going to survive more than 3 more years of Dubya. A story in the morning paper about the release of 50,000 pages of Nixon's papers quotes him (Nixon) as instructing his staff that he was going to say one thing and do the opposite, like from now on--this brought to mind Dubya talking about how the Democrats are distorting his reasons for the Iraq invasion. I think he grew up thinking that lying was normal. I've always presumed he could pass a lie detector test because that's the way he thinks and operates and has probably done all his life.