Crank Radio

AS anyone who knows me will tell you, and like many a liberal during the eight years of the Boy Emperor, I had a very grimn view of the American republic. Especially, I was grieved by people like Rush limbaugh and Ann Colter, who are not just conservative, which would be respectable enough, but simply mean-spirited and bloated with darkness. I don't have much use for the self-serving pundits on Fox News, either, and when I heard Sean Hannaty in one of his addled rants or his friend the grackle-voiced Mark Levin, I would grind my teeth down to the gums.

But now, in these Golden Years, I listen to these guys and I LAUGH. They fulminate, thunder and burble their threadbare lies and I chortle because just a few years ago they were talking seriously about a permanent Republican majority in both House and Senate. But now? They're clowns, out of power and out of favor if not out of air time. Obama has welcomed a delegation of LGBTG folks into the White House, Al Franken has won the Senate seat in Minnesota, it's the Fourth of July and all is well. God bless America!