{All writers write crap sometimes.  I'll temporarily hold off on deleting this immature embarrassing late night ramble.}


Washington, D.C., is weird, weird, maybe, and maybe in the same way, as Ancient Rome. Surprise surprise.

A further surprise: Washington, D.C., runs on arrogance. It is run by people (Capitol Hill stuff, I mean) who think highly and unquestioningly about themselves, who size you up and use you for whatever you can be used for. Charm is a weapon, yes, of theirs, but also their innate grasp of where you fit into the economy.

Now that is all well and fine and to be perfectly expected, but there is one small problem. The arrogance of holding, or pretending to hold, power gives rise 100% of the time to equally cold and arrogant people wanting their share, and more, of power. One form of arrogance begets another, and so on. The Tea Party is only the latest example of the long line of the Robbespierre-like arrogant back and forth.

How many Washington people ever step out of the cycle? How many ever acknowledge arrogance as a systemic endemic problem? How many are willing not just to point the finger at the next guy, and like old Dick Nixon try to 'screw him.'

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry teaches him of his limitations." Yeah, old JFK said something like that once, not long before he went to Dallas.

But that's something you might know only if you watched stuff like Public Television (or were insane enough to search through the most obscure blogs.) And the Tea Party, as you know...

We all end up in nursing homes, listening to the guy in the next bed having a dialog with himself. "You shut up. No, you shut up." Back and forth.