Truthout has a great article about how being a liberal these days is like being a Sox fan: the grinding sense of… well… doom.
It’s all there, in the way the players aren’t quite up to par, in the way the TV pundits smirk. In the way the US votes against human rights treaties. and the fact that everybody knows Bush lied in order to go to war and the secret reports on The Great Tragedy.
“Everybody knows that the ship is sinking, everybody knows that the captain lied… Everybody knows that the game is rotten, old black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton for your ribbons and bows, and everybody knows. Everybody knows, that’s how it goes…. “
Secretly Ironic 