Listen: I know what I posted last evening was terribly cryptic. Well, it HAD it be. I have so much spleen to vent on so many issues, and the spectres of Libel and Slander never lurk far from my keyboard when I am in Full Vinegar Mode. (Hence the suppression of the first piece I composed.) I promise the Adminstrator (a person I visualize as being a black-hooded figure, with axe at the ready to execute careless Bloggers and their slurs against recognizable fellow humans) that I shall be more circumspect from here on, hiding my actionable depictions in labyrinthine sarcasm. (I am no stranger to such methods--it was a favorite device of mine to write letters to the editor that NOBODY COULD POSSIBLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND.)

I am starting to weigh the whole Howard Dean versus Dennis Kucinich issue again--apparently Kucinich has made an impressive showing at certain venues lately, thus causing me to reevaluate his chances. Would it be terribly wrong of me to support BOTH candidates until it becomes clear which one has a prayer? Sue and I plan to send checks to both campaigns. Both Dean and Kucinich would be wonderful presidents--much better than the trigger-happy pseudo-cowboy who seems determined to dismantle this country and sell it for scrap. Kucinich is a true idealist, and his group backs him with zeal. His retro-New Deal plan might inspire those who feel we are headed for a retro-Depression. (If only we could bring back that MUSIC--if we are going to have another Depression, we need music like Rich Conaty plays on "The Big Broadcast.") Maybe Kucinich will keep us from getting Depressed.

But we like Dean as well--he is not so much our second choice as another FIRST choice. So, whichever. We will just have to deal with our ambivalence.