the red and the blue

Right, a tautology would be an honest man does not  tell lies, and a false tautology would be just because a man tells a lot of lies that doesn't mean he isn't honest.  Just common sense really, but a nice word and it kind of marks the spot where you are getting into circular logic.  That Theissan article appeared in the Trib yesterday even though he is a NYT columnist..  WTF?  Well that's the way it works these days.  In the good old days you could look forward to seeing say George Will every Wednesday.  Anymore you get whoever the paper picks out of the grab bag, and since they never pick the same guy very often they are all strangers, so it's not like hearing the opinion of somebody you know. 

George Will is well-known at the moment  because he has urged voters to vote for democrats to rid the nation of the current pestilence.  I never liked the guy because he was quite conservative, but I always read him because he had something to say, he wasn't just reading from the talking points.  Anymore columnists seem to divide into two camps each one parroting the party line.

The thing is way back when I was reading the fat tabloid Sun-Times on the bus to Gage Park both parties were made up of liberals and conservatives.  It seemed a little odd to me at the time, shouldn't all the conservatives be in one and all the liberals in the other, shouldn't political parties have ideologies like in Europe?  It seemed more logical.  Be careful what you wish for.

I'm going to back to LBJ and the voting rights act.  He said at the time that he knew he was losing the south for democrats, and so it came to pass.  Those southern dems were loathsome racists, so there was no great loss.  Well except for votes, which now all went to the republicans.  This was quickly noted by sly Tricky Dick with his southern strategy, which abandoned the liberal reps in the northeast, ceding that region to the dems, and in the present day we have only a few blue dogs among the dems.  On the moderate side we thought  we had Collins and Murkowski, but  now it appears there is only Murkowski.


I would have thought that Beagles, understanding tautology, would have turned his back on the Three in One, but those trinitarians are hard nuts to crack, as the Arians learned much to their regret on the battlefield fifteen hundred years ago.