Mothers still control the country
First off, I want to congratulate Maureen Dowd on an excellent burn of President Bush in her column yesterday. The article was about Cindy Sheehan, the woman keeping vigil outside of Dubya's Crawford Ranch, demanding a meeting with the President to discuss the war in Iraq and the reason her son had to die. The line that made me cackle was "If only her husband were an undercover CIA operative, the Bushies could out him."
No doubt everyone reading this blog entry is familiar with Sheehan's story, so I won't really expound on it much here. All I really want to say is, it all comes down to the mothers. You see, it turns out that mothers don't like it when bad stuff happens to their sons and daughters. And every now and then, they get pissed off and decide to do something about it.
Case in point, though certainly not the only one: 25 years ago, no one seemed to give a flying damn about drunk driving. Then Cari Lightner got killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. Candace Lightner, her mother, formed MADD, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The bottom line is, there is nothing more terrifying and willful than an angry mother. Sometimes I wonder what the outcome would be if we sent a whole bunch of mothers to the Middle East. Fewer casualties, more milk and cookies? Even bastards like Osama and Saddam can only take so much finger-wagging.
God bless mothers everywhere.
Song lyric of the day:
"Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today"
- Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
No doubt everyone reading this blog entry is familiar with Sheehan's story, so I won't really expound on it much here. All I really want to say is, it all comes down to the mothers. You see, it turns out that mothers don't like it when bad stuff happens to their sons and daughters. And every now and then, they get pissed off and decide to do something about it.
Case in point, though certainly not the only one: 25 years ago, no one seemed to give a flying damn about drunk driving. Then Cari Lightner got killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. Candace Lightner, her mother, formed MADD, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The bottom line is, there is nothing more terrifying and willful than an angry mother. Sometimes I wonder what the outcome would be if we sent a whole bunch of mothers to the Middle East. Fewer casualties, more milk and cookies? Even bastards like Osama and Saddam can only take so much finger-wagging.
God bless mothers everywhere.
Song lyric of the day:
"Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today"
- Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
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