Conceding

I know I said I was going to pretend it wasn't happening, but then I went to the post office to buy stamps and forgot it was Dead President Day and so now I have to share at least a few items.

The Daily Southtown is my favorite Chicago newspaper right now because it had two headlines, with equal prominence and font size. One said "R&B Legend Ray Charles dies at 73" and the other said "Many still troubled by Reagan's legacy".

I read a couple articles in the Sun-Times during lunch about the funeral and his life and based on some quotes mixed with my conspiracy theorist mind, I now suspect that Reagan actually died in the year 2000 and they've been holding off since then. One of his pallbearers, Merv Griffin(!?), said that since 2000 he no longer saw Ronald when regularly visiting the Reagan home. I'm just saying.

Indirectly related, all week I've been thinking about the end of "Death and the Maiden", both the movie and the play, when Paulina goes off on her well-meaning but immobile husband who keeps begging her to show mercy and take the high road against her torturer and persecutors in general and she goes ballistic. "Why does it always have to be people like me who have to sacrifice? Why are we always the ones who have to make concessions when something has to be conceded? Why always me who has to bite her tongue, why?… What do we lose by killing one of them?"

When I grow up, I want to be Wise.

Don't tell bowdownza, but I'm posting AGAIN about Reagan.

( From the text of the article: Whites have long been more enamored of style than substance, of fiction than fact, of fantasy than reality. It’s why we have clung so tenaciously to the utterly preposterous version of our national history peddled by textbooks for so long; and it’s why we get so angry when anyone tries to offer a correction. )

I know I've post a million times today, but I've also cleaned out both of my inboxes and completed all of the accounting paperwork for the week. And there's still an hour left in the day to finish my filing. Who am I, all of the sudden? Oh yeah, someone getting ready to fly the coop.