Our Pied Piper Rocks
America has a rat problem. And it’s gotten to the point that we’d be glad to have a Pied Piper. In case you’ve forgotten, the Pied Piper is the weird little dude with the colorful kicks who goes to towns, plays his pipe and thereby eradicates rats. What are our rats? Well, like Hamelin, there’s quite an infestation of them including, but not limited to, market uncertainty, worsened by an energy crisis, coupled with the terrorists who just don’t like us, and then there’s those social movements clashing right in our very streets. And that’s not even considering all the baby rats (or are they fetuses?) still in gestation! Just the thought makes you want to hop on the nearest stool and shriek.
So when the Piper came to town and offers a way to get rid of the rats, it gave much hope for the first time in a long time. “You mean, you can just play those pipes and they’ll simply leave?” they gush. “That’s quite right,” he platituded. I mean, gosh, you can just vote for him, he’ll redistribute the wealth, there will be no poor to feel guilty about! If we just vote for him, he’ll play his pipes and the terrorists will abandon their bombs and dance in the street; if we just vote for him, we won’t have to worry about that old Second Amendment either!
So what happens when he replaces the free market with an alternative? When we simply stop ‘picking fights’ with the terrorists? What if we make every interest group say one nice thing about the other side? The result will be utter chaos. We’d have twice the rats. Worse rats! And what if the Piper is unhappy when we don’t pay?
And so it is that we’re thrilled about this fix; we’re little mindful of who this piper is and what happens when his ideology undermines civilization as we’ve know it. Worse, what happens when our children follow our mindless example and themselves become entranced by the Piper, never to be seen again? Mindless, chestless children never to be seen again. Oh won’t that be quite a rat! Won’t we wish for yesterday as we finally descend the church steps, dazed and in utter bewilderment.
Golly, let me see now. Is the "Pied Piper"
a) Barak Obama
b) Barak Obama
c) Not really (wink, wink) Barak Obama because legal interns at VR don't get involved in partisan political commentary even though its perfectly legal to do so with 501(c)(3) money.
Posted by: donsherfick | June 28, 2008 at 09:25 AM
The audacity of empty hope, a celebrity that can raise all our dreams and propel the bad people to become good. Not going to happen, and sophomoric at best, manipulative at worst.
Posted by: daltonsbriefs | June 28, 2008 at 05:42 PM
The audacity of empty hope, a celebrity that can raise all our dreams and propel the bad people to become good. Not going to happen, and sophomoric at best, manipulative at worst.
Posted by: daltonsbriefs | June 28, 2008 at 05:42 PM
The audacity of empty hope, a celebrity that can raise all our dreams and propel the bad people to become good. Not going to happen, and sophomoric at best, manipulative at worst.
Posted by: daltonsbriefs | June 28, 2008 at 05:42 PM