The Coming Year

This was a post meant to be posted on 1-2-05, but for some reason remained in draft form. Like a new Hemingway "novel" cobbled together from drafts or a new Sinatra recording discovered in the dusty vault, here tis:
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Loyal Opposition hopes your New Year's Celebrations went off without a hitch, either literal or figurative--unless, of course, you intended to become hitched and did so, or began the process with full cognizant function. Hopefully by now the hangovers have dissipated. Hopefully by now we all can begin to forget Ashlee Simpson's presence on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Hopefully, by now, we can turn our attention to the pressing matters before us not involving "pretending that Uncle Rich from Syosset isn't in reality an alcoholic who fathered a mulatto baby with a Jamaican crack whore who lives in the Bronx."

How does this year bode for the members of the Reality-Based Coalition? Is that proper English? Isn't it annoying when people say "That doesn't bode well for us" instead of "Wow, we're really screwed!" Bode" isn't really a noun or a verb or an adjective. Loyal Opposition wants to eliminate it from English usage, even though its usage is perfectly grammatically acceptable. So, Loyal asks the question again:

How screwed are the members of the Reality-Based Coalition?

To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, in the long run we're all screwed.

But let's look at what is on the horizon in terms of the problems actually facing this great, stupid, stupid nation and the approaches the Bush administration is likely to take.

Foreign Policy: Well, Iraq is still in throes of a civil war, insurgency, foreign-supported terrorist influx, rough adjustment to freedom and democracy. Loyal isn't quite sure if none, one, or all apply. Odds are, the Bush administration isn't either. One thing they're sure of is that Iraq is NOT suffering from the effects of a tsunami, and so they're not getting any of the $3.49 (Cheney needed a penny for one of his new loafers) we've allocated for the 40 or so countries that have been pulverized. To think that, all along, the true WMD was nature. Loyal Opposition takes back whatever aspersions L.O. may have cast on Bush's environmental policy. It was just another way of keeping us safe by trying to take that evildoer out of commission.

Out of concern for the folks whose brains cannot process long posts, stay tuned for the rest.