Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Dayhoff: The Tentacle - The 100 percenters and the seethers

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Kevin E. Dayhoff

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3960

Now that Maryland’s primary election is over and the general election is only six-plus weeks away, I only have one question left for some candidates and single issues interest groups: Is there anyone left you can annoy – friends, family, poisonous reptiles?

I have come to an age in which I do not want to wish my life away. I am not quite to the age where I avoid buying green bananas, but I am at a point where I have redoubled my efforts to enjoy and appreciate each and every day I have left on this planet.

I suspended those thoughts for the last few of weeks and have prayed that September 14 would come and go quickly.

By the time you read this, Maryland’s primary election will be history. For many, yesterday could not have come soon enough.

For others who study the day-to-day comings and goings of political candidates and what passes as a general discourse on current issues, the weeks and months leading up to yesterday’s primary were one giant headache.

Every election cycle ebbs and flows to the degree with which various people with the IQ of a desk chair and the warmth of a water moccasin engage in certain passions.

Some elections are more civil than others, but so far this election season is best described as an evolutionary breakthrough in ugliness. The threshold of my amazement has been moved once again.

It may be time that we collectively consider bringing back the monarchy... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3960

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