My old pal Buzzy came up to me at a party the other day.<\/p>\n
“I’m remodeling my kitchen!”, he exclaimed, showing me a bunch of cabinets and appliances from an Ikea catalog.\u00a0 All very tasteful…<\/p>\n
…well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n
I looked at Buzzy for a moment.\u00a0 He’s a well-meaning sort, but he’s got his issues.\u00a0 One of his issues is “context”.\u00a0 I can think of two examples.<\/p>\n
One of them; he doesn’t own a house.\u00a0 He lives in a tent.\u00a0 He has no “kitchen” to remodel, other than a camp mess kit and a Smokey Joe.<\/p>\n
“Aren’t you getting ahead of yourself?”\u00a0 I asked.<\/p>\n
“Nah” he said.\u00a0 “I wanna have this plan done before my wife can plan it”.<\/p>\n
Buzzy is also a liberal – a big DFLer.\u00a0 Two years ago he was badgering all of us about the need to withdraw from Iraq.\u00a0 When news broke that the Administration and the Iraqi government were on the brink of a deal, he jumped up and down, whooping and hollering like his team had just won on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me<\/em>: “Hah!” he yelled.\u00a0 “I was calling for this withdrawal two years ago<\/em>!”<\/p>\n “But”, his friends counsel, “two years ago, the situation in Iraq was horrible, and the war looked lost.\u00a0 Today, it looks nearly over.\u00a0 Withdrawing two years ago would have been irresponsible, would have had economic impacts around the world that’d make today’s oil price surge look like the good ol’ days, and would have led to staggering loss of life in Iraq.\u00a0 Withdrawing today – well, the mission is looking pretty much accomplished”. “Two years ago; wrong time.\u00a0 Today; right time”.<\/p>\n He stands some more.\u00a0 And some more. “Chimpy McBushither Halliburton Butterfly Ballot Wide Stance 9\/11 was an inside job!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My old pal Buzzy came up to me at a party the other day. “I’m remodeling my kitchen!”, he exclaimed, showing me a bunch of cabinets and appliances from an Ikea catalog.\u00a0 All very tasteful… …well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I looked at Buzzy for a moment.\u00a0 He’s a well-meaning sort, but he’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe stood there, eyes darting back and forth between us.<\/p>\n
\nHis other friends moved on to another subject, before he chimed in.<\/p>\n