Peggums Bipolar Disorder

It's been awhile since I've mocked the dolphin lady. I knew something had gone right these last six months. But she's back with a vengence. Her sabbatical depriving seniors of their money to elect the man who deprived them of their money has not sharpened her writing skills, as today's all over the map column reveals.

First, Nooners describes euphamistically an upper class "key party".

Second, even Noonan cannot help but say that "Let the Eagle Soar" is an awful piece of gruel:

whoever picked the music for the inaugural ceremony itself--modern megachurch hymns, music that sounds like what they'd use for the quiet middle section of a Pixar animated film--was . . . lame.

And then, shockingly, Peggy didn't like Bush's speech:

The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike. Rhetorically, it veered from high-class boilerplate to strong and simple sentences, but it was not pedestrian. George W. Bush's second inaugural will no doubt prove historic because it carried a punch, asserting an agenda so sweeping that an observer quipped that by the end he would not have been surprised if the president had announced we were going to colonize Mars.

Peggy, he already promised to colonize mars.

Somewhere, when the champagne wears off, Nooners will realize that while Bush talked about freedom and liberty, he spoke before an armed guard that a Romanian Dictator wishes he'd have had. While he talked about other oppressors, protesters were hearded behind barricades and doused with pepper spray, and all but ignored yet villified for their effort. Repression takes many forms and the current political climate of this country is full of such soft-forms of repression. I'm sure you never miss the Fox Morning Zoo Crew and you know very well that is the case each and every fucking day on that show as douchebag after douchebag waves their proverbial blackshirt in our faces.

Liberty abroad cannot be imposed by a repressive state from within. But the Republicans, especially the Bush Administration has treated 9/11 like Hitler treated the Reichstag fire and no amount of liquor or battery use can take that fact away.