In Which Your Humble Blogger just puts out in pixels what's been racing through the midnight mind.
In Which Your Humble Blogger could well be wrong about the difference between Now and Then, but I think it's different.
In Which Your Humble Blogger also thinks its interesting that people in the US don't think of the US as a normal country, really, but many pretend is it one anyway.
In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn't reference Jenny Holzer enough, really.
In Which Your Humble Blogger has no ideas for what might change the issue at its root, or if that change would make things better or worse.
In Which Your Humble Blogger has no good ideas, and very few bad ones.
In Which Your Humble Blogger was writing this before Afghanistan fell, so the bit about where everyone’s attention is has already turned out to be wrong. The rest will be wrong later.
In Which Your Humble Blogger kinda assumes that Party Leaders still respond to somewhat-ordinary incentives and disincentives, and so is probably wrong.
In Which Your Humble Blogger is aware that precedent is unlikely to mean anything to the next fascist President, but might to the next one that just ordinarily bad.
In Which Your Humble Blogger is feeling politically frustrated and sad, which isn't really new.