Chilly morning; Autumn officially hasn't begun, yet, but it's here. No Indian Summer, it seems. Just a dive into Fall.
I cranked out 3000 words yesterday, marching on toward my goal. Only 50,000 more to go, give or take. I've got new ideas in line behind the piece I'm working, vying for attention, but I'm being a trooper and getting this one done, first. That always happens -- a new idea is like "Look at me! Look at me!" But I stick it out, give'em a number, and make'em wait in line. Have to do that, to get anything done.
I'm a little angsty going into the Fall -- just trying to juggle a lot of plates, wondering what's going to happen in the elections, whether the country will opt for Republican Lite (the Democrats) or Republican Extreme (the Tea Party cadres). That's the truth of the choices we have -- today's Democrats are like yesterday's Republicans (seriously, their patron saint, Reagan, would have been drummed out of today's GOP for being a raging liberal and a traitor, since he actually worked with Democrats). And today's Democrats would have FDR, Truman, LBJ (and, hell, even JFK) spinning in their graves with the weak tea they offer. The Democrats actually did have a mandate for change, and wouldn't run on it. Obama's feckless pursuit of "bipartisanship" bought him exactly nothing, since the Tea Party hate him because he's black, and the GOP lined up against him because they wanted to deny him any victories at all. Sigh.
We need more political parties, truly. That's the real fix for the stalemate. Competition. But it's not coming in this election.
