Not Quite YET........

The anal truth of the matter is that 2010 is NOT the beginning of a new decade, but instead is the beginning of the final year of THIS decade, the "oughts" as we have been calling them. So, you see, technically, the next decade will not actually begin until the first of 2011. You've all jumped the gun. I'll join all of you in welcoming in the new decade when it actually begins, but for now, I am just hoping that the crash and burn which was 2009 will not turn into the collapse of civilization which will surely occur if Republicans continue to obstruct every common sense effort we put into repairing the damage that their party and Cheney's puppet DUBYA inflicted on this once powerful country of ours. Oh, sure, we can kill the villain of the day from an aerial drone thousands of miles away, but we can't keep hard working, honest, and bent-over-and-screwed Americans employed or in their homes. The power structure of YESTERDAY continues to spew vitriol at our not-quite-white-enough President, despite the fact that so far he has demonstrated a grace under pressure that would have destroyed any of his lily-white predecessors, save perhaps Kennedy, and could actually advance this country into the 21st century (at last) if only the party of NO would just go home and suck their thumbs. I am not holding my breath this year expecting any miraculous improvements, because government of the democratic persuasion advances like stop-and-go traffic rather than the freeway we would dearly love to be driving on. And, until we as Americans stop eating our young, we will steadily head the way of the Roman Empire, rotting from within.

Happy New Year.