Thanks for you excellent work, pod'nah. I printed this one out. I become a better writer; a vehicle of ideas; a better contender in the Arena of the War of Ideas, every time we manage to get together. 
...Like the arrival of hail, the CBS debacle is the final indicator of eminent demise from a storm that has ripened in conditions of degenerating perfection... the meeting of fruit and rot in a celebration of violent putrifaction with Dan as it's worm. The enemy-without finds our very existence, repugnant. Likewise, the enemy-within detests humanity and it's perceived global impact while thriving on human ignorance. It despises wealth and a free-market economy. It diminishes the primacy of individual identity and subordinates choice to prescription. The enemy-within surrenders the conviction of leadership to the consensus of collective approval. It undermines the mandate for decisive action by incessant challenge. It superimposes an ambition for political power over the necessity for national security. It indulges fear, suspicion, hyperbole, rage, and malfeasance as means to its ends; blinding it to the consequences of those actions, and its own collusion with monsters.
Thanks for you excellent work, pod'nah. I printed this one out. I become a better writer; a vehicle of ideas; a better contender in the Arena of the War of Ideas, every time we manage to get together.
I grew up in Texas in Callahan Co. just a few miles from Baird. I watched many of those west Texas storms brew on the horizon, but nothing like the current storm of lies and deception brewing there now. That isn't a slam at the city of Baird or the nice folks of Baird, just the one rotten apple in the barrel. At least CBS put Baird on the map.
BTTT