I just have one correction: I think what the woman said was “your **narcissistic** ego gratification.” Redundant perhaps, but also a little more insulting. It’s stayed with me ever since.

What a lovely piece this is. It does what blogs do best: it contextualizes the news of the day into a human shape. It extends our understanding. It massages yet another iteration of bad news into the hope of a blessing.

It’s important to note that this might be what we would look to national syndicated coumnists to provide. But, seemingly, they can’t. They’re too much a product of media that must pay obeisance to corporate masters, structured along the lines of money rather than people. Isn’t it interesting that someone like Sheehan, who espouses values nearly every one of us shares, can be so easily marginalized? And how there seems to be no way of saying so within our “official” media? There’s one thing you can say about the Rove-bots out there: they know how to control a message. And most of us don’t even feel manipulated in the process!

If there is hope for us, that hope resides in people like Sheehan, and, yes, Goldbard, who do their work from some inner center, and whose work isn’t warped around the needs of our culture’s Great Attractors: money, power, hegemony.

So: Thank You. Again.