On Memorial Day, the morning shift DJ on KALX threw an excerpt from President St. Ronald Reagan's first Inaugural Address into the mix. He thoroughly denounced deficit spending before he started doing just that. The Republicans made fun of Senator John Kerry for "flip-flopping." It's only bad when a Democrat does it. Double standards can be so convenient. Life is so much easier when your theology is extrapolated from the novels of Ayn S. Rand.
On Thursday, June 2, 2011, liberal talk show host Mike Malloy was aghast at the fact that folks from the Food Not Bombs organization had been arrested in Orland Florida for feeding the homeless. To him, there was a massive amount of irony involved in compassionate conservative Christians passing the law that was broken.
Malloy has made references to George Orwell's novel, 1984, but he has obviously failed to master the basic concept of double think. Mike, baby, when ya going to learn? If thine enemy strikes thee, turn the other cheek . . . then commit war crimes!
Ayn S. Rand, in Atlas Shrugged (was Atlas a nihilist?), wrote: "Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions." Didn't Capt. Queeg use logic to prove conclusively that there was another key?
If you don't think that arresting people who think they are Jesus doing the loaves and fishes routine isn't a rational move to protect the public interest, then there's no hope for you. Hunger is eternal. Is there a final solution to the problem of hungry homeless people? Isn't removing the symptoms (from view) the same as curing the disease?
Now the disk jockey will play: "Faithful Forever," "I Poured My Heart into a Song," "Over the Rainbow," and "Wishing" (all of which were nominated for the Best Song Oscar - in 1939). We have to go use the time machine to buy some Tono-Bungay. Have a "Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothin' he don't mean" type week.
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