Its half past spring, what spring cleaning have you done?  I still see a dozen posts from the "guess what I read in the headlines yesterday" category.  Um.. Actually, I read the headlines myself and so you don't need to tell me what you more or less remember that some bl-undit regurgitated from the headlines.

Be thoughtful.  Or, at least be witty.

Dang, if you can't do that, please be inscrutable or use creative poor grammar and spelling.

Last option... Be quiet.

"Better," as Lincoln is said to have said, "to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Apparently, the self publishing blogosphere needs the Lincoln editor.

July 4th is coming up.  I challenge you all to AVOID trite posts about patriotism.  Its fine to love your country and all, but the other team has spent the last half-century turning patriotism into Xenophobic nationalism, so it is hard to discuss this topic without sounding stupid, trite, or like a Xenophobic nationalist.  There will be plenty of paid fools to make those mistakes, try to discuss something else, such as fairies (mid-summer comes quick on the heels of July 4... check your calendar).

August will be totally boring, even Congress goes home.  Here, let me give you the news now... Universal Health Care will not be passed and signed into law before Congress goes home and Sotomayor will not yet be confirmed.  Republicans will continue to be acting like asses.  The bright spot will be that Franken is finally seated, but we will have plenty of Democratic senators screwing things up.  Now, please, don't get bent out of shape when that comes to pass.  It is already true.  It has always been true.

Now calm down and think about something creative to post about.

On the front page of TPM at this hour (6 pm on the 3rd of June, you can no longer put a permalink to front page articles (thanks to comment, here is permalink) there is a comment from a reader (these comments are selected by the editors, they do not post every one they get....) which ends with... "if all we wanted was recycled, conventional baby boomers wisdom devoid of any observation or original thought?"

I was actually somewhat sympathetic with the earlier part of the message, but I have noticed a growing tendency to attack members of my generation.  I am offended.  Has TPM selected the boomers as their target for discrimination?