On Utopia

Thomas Moore wrote a book about a place, an island in The New World, considered to be close to ideal, he called his island Utopia, Greek, literally translated as 'Not Place'. In honour of Utopia I give you a recent political cartoon, used without permission, but here is a link to the cartoonist's website, I am sure that promo for Mr. Zyglis will offset any loss incurred by my reprint here.

Sigh. If only!

And from the dystopic world we do live in a stock photo from somewhere in the United States.

Little wonder there is an obesity epidemic in the United States.

So here is the thing about the survey that just ended. Suppose you are a conservative Republican who actually thinks the Bush administration is doing a good job. Chances are you are holding your nose and gritting your teeth on the though of John McCain, you are also a rare commodity in this day and age who probably doesn't much care for my politics. Now suppose you are a progressive of pretty much any stripe, you most like think that the current President (and Vice President) is responsible for any number of crimes and ought to be impeached. Well if you do a rapid one two punch, impeach both Bush and Chenney then the next president of the United States by the laws of presidential secession is the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, a democrat from the great state of California (mostly great because Californians vote Democrat in federal matters, has San Francisco and Carmel by the Sea.)

There's a reason I voted for Pelosi, not Obama, sure I'd love to be able to say, President Barrack Hussein Obama, first president elected since Bill Clinton in 1996, but I sure wouldn't mind saying George Walker Bush, first president impeached since Andrew Johnson (also a Republican, just like Richard Nixon). Oh well, in 181 days someone else will have their hands on the red button and we can all breath a sigh of relief. (Just imagine, if Bush was president in October of '62, now that is scary.)