This is my tribute to Doc Nebula and his Dream Research Project, pulp role-playing... sci-fi... thing. And because I'm bored. So very, very bored...
Monaco - 1964
Fighting off her tears of shame and torment, the Princess struggled against the taunt nylon cords binding her to the doorknob of the ornate liquor cabinet.
One good development may emerge from the silly, obnoxiously covered sex scandal surrounding the South Carolina governor and his Argentine paramour: As his home-state newspaper publishes his embarrassing PG-13 puppy-love confessions via email, some may wonder why The State sat on these aching, treacly bon-mots since December.
And, as TPM Muckraker points out today, they may wonder why the rest of the American media - so sure about terror threats and emerging crises in every two-bit hamlet across the globe - had been so snookered so long. Gov. Mark Sanford was... somewhere with his feet up, writing. He was... bare-ass hiking on the Appalachian Trail. He was... oops... soul-kissing away his career.
Maybe the media will level with us about their tendency to prop up those in power long after the rest of the country has pinned a clothespin on its collective nose over obvious shortfalls and exposed dastardy. And maybe it'll chat about its tendency to champion specious causes for motives unclear... or, even sinister.
If zeitgeist - that atmosphere of a particular time - burned oxygen like all transient life here on the planet, it would be breathing hard today, fighting for air amid a cloud of poisonous bubbles puffing up to spread spiritual corrosion as they pop.
As violence that's shaken Iran since elections 10 days ago begins to taper off, and streets in the nation's major cities cool into uneasy quiet, perhaps some of the overheated rhetoric calling for the U.S. to do something - anything - more than we've done thus far may crust over, as well.
Whether at a family reunion, a town hall meeting, or in diplomatic debates broadcast internationally, it's easy to determine when a wrong door has been opened, when attention has stumbed upon common anathema - deliberately ignored topics of outrage denied, of past embarrassment or current crimes, of universal shame.
Everyone shuts up - or is shut up. Everything quiets down. Everyone tries, again, to forget.
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