Permafrost

Billy Beck nails the real cause of the malaise that is destroying America in "Permafrost"

It mystifies a thinking man: how does anyone believe that it can be resurrected through what the chattering Right has in mind? To hear these simple people swoon over electoral prospects regularly into the future as far as the eye can see is to know truly pathetic and tragic times. They think that freedom consists in choosing their own masters.

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This will never be voted away, and the idea that there is something valuable afoot in this threadbare charade in Massachusetts is as appalling a thing as anyone ever knew.

...to understand that the snow will never melt in your remaining lifetime.

Read the whole thing. It's short.

Few commentators in the Blogosphere -- or anywhere else for that matter -- have the depth of knowledge and understanding of the ultimate importance of principles as Billy Beck. Even fewer are as unabashed about saying so. It may embarrass him for me to say this but the man is a treasure.