Jeez, that's an imposing wall of type MB. Yes, it is an imposing wall …or deposing to a certain extent although it won’t be seen as such ..or ..well, it is what it is …ya just get to attempting to form an idea …& noodles after noodles it becomes. There certainly are more succinct ways of saying things, yes. But that in’t me, Eddie.

I do not think that because I think that Ron Paul is an ideologue and a lightweight that I have somehow given up on ideas or learning or have somehow become narrow minded. And i don't see how that interferes with a sense of compassion, curiosity, etc. Ed. Sir. Like a ruthless assassin you cut down anything & everything you see no value in yourself…& you’re not always correct. Read your own stuff. I mean, I suppose that’s the hipster intellect …or something. But I dig your point of view more often than not---for going on a decade now. So…there’s the fair trade-off.

Read the report of last night's Republican debate in the NYT this morning and you tell me where a single fucking worthwhile idea resides with any of those dopes. And yes, Ron Paul was there. I can’t argue with that logic. BUT it’s difficult to hear the humanist above the din of the pooh-pooh and the harrumphic pshaw of big banking gentlemen of gluttony innit? & so the liberated soul in search of the lost chord has to assign some accord to all the ducks in the doughboy may that it be we see that one watertight little yellow belly got the golden prize button affixed & loose the pigeons fly. & of the nuts in the chock-a-block, the good doc arouses my tentative curiosity to even a mere degree ..my dime from a dollar’s worth at least. So be it.

I don't think that using Ross Perot as an example of an antidote to our political malaise is an effective argument. That cat was bat-shit crazy ... Bat shit crazy is somehow a tick or two better than Uncle Thomas Guide Figurehead to the Banking Combine, Chief Bromden.

And how did poor Patti Smith get mixed up in all this? She was expendable. ((How’s that for bolting the door & shuttering the windows without even a hint of respect for any other viewpoint on the matter than my own one in 700 million singular tastes?))

I’d stand shoulder-to-shoulder ‘side U, Ed, in a protest that YOU felt strongly about because I’ve had sufficient time to realize you’re a righteous & working-class kinda noble kinda guy of means & compassion, & I’d hike with you too, because I think I could listen to you talk (or breathe) but we don’t see eye-to-eye on this one. I mean, I’m just silly enough politically to respect and appreciate Bernie Sanders with my dime. I’m what naïve, unsophisticated, a reader of pulp fiction, a noodler of far too many noodles with a screw loose, or a guy with a view slightly askew of yours…& so bolt the door?