Joe has been kind enough to allow me one more day to post after his return from his grueling weekend journey (boy, I’m glad I don’t have his job…). I would like to thank Joe for the opportunity he gave me to guest-post here. Unfortunately, this has been far from my best work, but I try to remember the words of Jean Giraudoux, "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
On my weblog Random Fate I often ask questions that I strive not to suggest answers to but instead ask for readers to think about it beyond their first reaction. One such case has arisen today from something I read on Pennywit.com, where he asks a question that I believe has very broad implications.
I have requested of my readers to not trust their immediate, knee-jerk emotional response, but instead to think about the issue raised in The Washington Post article quoted. I will repeat the question posed by Pennywit, phrased slightly differently:
Is this really how we want our government to work?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.